Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai visited the Purple Robe Pavilion to find sword arts suited to Rainstorm Intent and Slaughter Intent. He chose Sun-Swallowing Sword Art and learned that creating his own sword art might be the only way to wield Slaughter Intent.

• Lin Bai decided to search the Purple Robe Pavilion for sword arts suited to Rainstorm Intent and Slaughter Intent.
• The white-robed old man recognized Lin Bai’s progress with Azure Wood Divine Lightning and showed him sword arts suited to Rainstorm Intent.
• Lin Bai chose Sun-Swallowing Sword Art, a difficult art that cost a hundred million Contribution Points.
• The white-robed old man told Lin Bai that Lin Duo had created Dragon Slaying, the only sword art in Lingnan suited to Slaughter Intent, and that the Azure Dragon Empire possessed it.
• The white-robed old man urged Lin Bai to create his own sword art, and Lin Bai thanked him for the guidance.

Lin Bai secretly left the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect for Haijie City, resolved to create a sword art suited to his Slaughter Intent. Meanwhile, Shui Zhong told the Demon Lord that Dongfang Bai had left the sect, and Demon Saint Hantian was sent to kill him as Ten Thousand Demons Valley chose a new proxy.

• Lin Bai left Small Spirit Creek and secretly departed for Haijie City without telling Sword Reverent.
• Shui Zhong reported to the Demon Lord and the Thirty-Six Demon Saints that Dongfang Bai had left the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect for the Lin Hai Dynasty.
• The Demon Lord ordered Demon Saint Hantian to go to Haijie City and kill Dongfang Bai.
• Shui Zhong suggested a new Lineage to replace the Zhu Family as Ten Thousand Demons Valley's proxy, and the Demon Lord made his choice.
• Shui Zhong left the Underground Palace and reflected that Demon Saint Hantian might succeed where he had failed to kill Dongfang Bai.

Lin Bai left the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and traveled toward the Lin Hai Dynasty, learning that Mangshan Ridge was plagued by bandits. After meeting the wounded survivor Fang Jin, Lin Bai agreed to return with him to Mangshan Town and seek a trade guild caravan to Haijie City.

• Lin Bai traveled from the Litian Dynasty’s border into Mangshan Ridge on his way to the Lin Hai Dynasty.
• Lin Bai encountered wounded martial artists fleeing bandits and learned their leader was in the Yang God Realm.
• Fang Jin explained that Mangshan Ridge was ungoverned and advised Lin Bai to travel with a trade guild caravan.
• Lin Bai introduced himself as Dongfang and agreed to accompany Fang Jin to Mangshan Town to find a caravan bound for Haijie City.

Lin Bai and Fang Jin arrived in Mangshan Town and sought passage to Haijie City by joining a merchant convoy. They found the Silver Moon Merchant Guild recruiting guards, where Gao Rui was set to test applicants with a single sword strike.

• Fang Jin explained that merchant guilds recruited guards to protect their convoys from bandits in Mangshan Ridge.
• Lin Bai and Fang Jin went to the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's recruitment site after learning it was offering three million spirit stones for the escort to Haijie City.
• Steward Zhuo Yi said the guild had lost more than seventy experts to bandits and would accept anyone who could withstand Gao Rui's sword strike.
• Gao Rui identified himself as a Core Disciple of the True Martial Sword Sect, frightening Fang Jin and the other applicants while Lin Bai remained calm.

Gao Rui tested martial artists seeking to join the guard squad, defeating them with a single sword and insulting the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect. Lin Bai advised Fang Jin how to counter Gao Rui’s attack, and Fang Jin passed the test, leaving Lin Bai displeased with Gao Rui’s arrogance.

• A soldier from the Litian Dynasty’s Imperial City Patrol Battalion challenged Gao Rui and lost when Gao Rui pierced his axe and stopped his sword at the man’s throat.
• Lin Bai told Fang Jin that he could pass by attacking Gao Rui’s abdomen as Gao Rui struck, forcing him to withdraw his sword and defend.
• After defeating more martial artists, Gao Rui insulted the crowd and claimed the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s disciples were inferior, angering Lin Bai.
• Fang Jin followed Lin Bai’s advice and forced Gao Rui to knock aside his sword; Butler Zhuo Yi stopped Gao Rui from attacking again and admitted Fang Jin to the guard squad.
• Lin Bai condemned Gao Rui’s conduct and thought the arrogant disciples of the True Martial Sword Sect deserved a lesson.

After discovering the flaw in Gao Rui’s swordsmanship, Fang Jin and many martial artists passed the trial, but Gao Rui changed his sword paths to stop further challengers. Lin Bai stepped forward despite his low cultivation and, with a casual sword-finger strike, sent Gao Rui flying, leaving Butler Zhuo Yi astonished.

• Fang Jin exposed the flaw in Gao Rui’s swordsmanship, and other martial artists used it to pass the trial.
• After fifteen challengers passed, Gao Rui changed his sword paths and began defeating those who tried to exploit the flaw.
• Fang Jin urged Lin Bai to take his turn, and Lin Bai challenged Gao Rui despite Butler Zhuo Yi’s doubts about his cultivation.
• Gao Rui unleashed a powerful sword strike at Lin Bai, who pierced through its sword aura and sent him flying with a sword-finger strike.

Lin Bai defeated Gao Rui and joined the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s escort on its journey from Mangshan Town to Haijie City. As the spirit vessel entered Mangshan Ridge, Fang Jin warned Lin Bai to watch for bandits, and they went to the deck to keep an eye out.

• Lin Bai sent Gao Rui flying with a finger, then stopped him from attacking and warned him that he would die within three moves in a real fight.
• Butler Zhuo Yi accepted Lin Bai as one of the recruited guards and led the warriors aboard the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s spirit vessel, warning them to stay off the third level.
• Butler Zhuo Yi learned that the eldest young miss feared enemies from within the Silver Moon Merchant Guild and the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild might prevent her from reaching Haijie City alive.
• Three hours later, the spirit vessel departed Mangshan Town and headed through Mangshan Ridge toward the Qilin Dynasty.
• Fang Jin warned Lin Bai that bandits might attack in Mangshan Ridge, and they went to the deck to look for danger.

As the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's spirit boat crossed Mangshan Ridge, Lin Bai sensed that a Black-Robed Warrior on a giantwood had no intention of attacking and persuaded the guild to leave him alone. After the warrior let them pass, Lin Bai told Fang Jin that a Yang God Realm expert was aboard the boat.

• Gao Rui and Butler Zhuo Yi warned the guards that the guild had previously lost more than seventy experts in an ambush at Mangshan Ridge.
• Lin Bai spotted a Black-Robed Warrior atop a giantwood and sensed no killing intent, but Gao Rui urged the guild to attack first.
• Butler Zhuo Yi chose to heed a woman's order from the third level and continue onward without attacking unless necessary.
• The Black-Robed Warrior watched the spirit boat pass without making a move, and Butler Zhuo Yi acknowledged Lin Bai had been right.
• Lin Bai explained to Fang Jin that the woman aboard the spirit boat was an expert at the Yang God Realm.

As the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s spirit boat neared the Qilin Dynasty, Lin Bai sensed that the seemingly helpless Song Zi was hiding murderous intent. The group rescued her despite his warning and hurried out of Mangshan Ridge, leaving Lin Bai and Fang Jin wary of what lay ahead.

• Lin Bai and Fang Jin saw a sea of flames and corpses across the route through Mangshan Ridge, where Song Zi begged the Silver Moon Merchant Guild to save her.
• Song Zi claimed that villains had attacked her husband and her lineage’s experts, leaving her gravely injured and the only survivor.
• Lin Bai warned Butler Zhuo Yi that Song Zi harbored ill intent, but Gao Rui dismissed his concern and urged the guild to rescue her.
• Butler Zhuo Yi sent Gao Rui to bring Song Zi aboard, then ordered the spirit boat to leave Mangshan Ridge quickly.
• Lin Bai warned Fang Jin to stay alert, and Fang Jin agreed as the spirit boat sped away.

Lin Bai studied sword-creation insights during the spirit boat’s journey and tried to develop a sword technique that could wield all his Intents. He discovered that his Aurora, Rainstorm, and Slaughter Intents violently repelled one another, leaving him injured and searching for a balance between them.

• Lin Bai and Fang Jin reached the borders of Mangshan Ridge without encountering danger, and Lin Bai wondered whether Song Zi had truly been a trap.
• Lin Bai returned to his room and studied more than a hundred thousand books and Jade Slips about creating sword techniques.
• Lin Bai decided to seek a sword technique that could unleash the power of all his Intents, rather than making a separate technique for each one.
• After more than twenty days of study, Lin Bai solidified his three Intents into storms and injured himself when he tried to merge Aurora Intent with Rainstorm Intent.
• Lin Bai raised all three Intents on the Demon Sword to full power, but their clash blasted him away and further cracked the sword.
• Lin Bai concluded that he needed to find a point of balance between the three Intents to create a powerful sword technique.

Lin Bai, injured by the backlash from clashing Intents, met Yue Qing, the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s eldest miss, who recognized him as the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s Sword Paragon Dongfang Bai. Yue Qing privately offered him a sword cultivator’s insight from the Sword God Family, and Lin Bai was startled to learn it came from a cultivator nearing the Sword God level.

• Lin Bai began healing his injuries, and Yue Qing and Butler Zhuo Yi came to his room.
• Yue Qing identified Lin Bai as Dongfang Bai after recognizing his image and sensing his powerful sword intent and three clashing Intents.
• Yue Qing dismissed Butler Zhuo Yi and invited Lin Bai to share wine, then removed her veil and asked about the clash of Intents.
• Yue Qing offered Lin Bai an ancient insight left by a Sword God Family cultivator who had nearly reached the Sword God level.
• Lin Bai’s eyes lit up when Yue Qing revealed the source of the sword insight.

Yue Qing gave Lin Bai a quasi-Sword God’s cultivation insights, and their final teaching helped him fuse his Aurora, Torrential Rain, and Slaughter sword intents into a new power. After testing the devastating sword against a mountain, Lin Bai named it Slaying Immortals and returned with Yue Qing to hear her request.

• Yue Qing presented Lin Bai with a book of insights left by a quasi-Sword God, and Lin Bai read it carefully.
• Lin Bai realized that he needed to control the sword with his heart, then fused his three sword intents without rejection or backlash.
• Lin Bai unleashed his new sword across the mountain range, shattering a mountain and carving sword scars across ten thousand miles.
• Yue Qing praised Lin Bai’s comprehension and admitted she had secretly cultivated the Sword Dao while pretending otherwise.
• Lin Bai accepted the insights as a gift, teased Yue Qing about favoring him, and agreed to hear her request aboard the spirit boat.
• Yue Qing asked about Lin Bai’s sword, and Lin Bai named it Slaying Immortals while declining to say whether it came from the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.

Lin Bai agreed to help Yue Qing three times in exchange for the ancient text and gave her three strands of his Sword Qi as tokens. As the spirit vessel continued toward Haijie City, Yue Qing prepared to confront those who had wronged her family and asked her people to investigate Lin Bai’s Immortal Execution sword technique.

• Lin Bai accepted Yue Qing’s offer to act for her three times, provided her requests did not violate his principles, and gave her three strands of Sword Qi.
• Yue Qing asked Lin Bai to conceal his identity, and he agreed to go by Dongfang during their journey to Haijie City.
• Butler Zhuo Yi learned that Yue Qing had secured Lin Bai’s help and recalled how Qi Xuan had demanded she become his concubine before he would assist her.
• Yue Qing told Zhuo Yi to investigate whether the Litian Dynasty had a sword technique called Immortal Execution.
• Yue Qing vowed to stop her second uncle from taking the Silver Moon Merchant Guild presidency and to settle her father’s grudge with him.

Lin Bai refined his self-created Zhu Xian sword art and learned why Yue Qing had been summoned back to Haijie City. Yue Qing faced pressure from Yue Zheng to marry the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild's Young Master Qian, and her return could put her in grave danger.

• Lin Bai spent five days refining Zhu Xian until the sword art began to take shape.
• Fang Jin and Lu Ao visited Lin Bai and told him the spirit vessel would reach Haijie City in a few days.
• Lu Ao explained that Yue Qing had left the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's headquarters to manage its poorly performing eastern branch and had made its sales surpass the other branches.
• Lu Ao said Yue Zheng had proposed marrying Yue Qing to Young Master Qian to ally with the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild, but Yue Qing had refused.
• Lu Ao revealed that the guild president had died and Yue Zheng had summoned Yue Qing home to discuss the succession, leaving her vulnerable to his demands.

Lin Bai analyzed the danger Yue Qing faced if she returned to the Silver Moon Merchant Guild, then intervened when Song Zi attacked Lu Ao aboard the ship. Song Zi’s unexpected strength forced Lin Bai back one step, and Gao Rui challenged him afterward.

• Lu Ao suggested the old president’s poisoning and death before Yue Qing’s term ended might be connected to Yue Zheng, and Lin Bai reasoned Yue Qing could either marry the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild’s Young Master Qian or be killed as Yue Zheng’s rival.
• Lin Bai, Fang Jin, and Lu Ao went to the deck, where Gao Rui defeated a sword cultivator in a brutal sparring match and boasted about his strength.
• Lu Ao insulted Gao Rui and Song Zi, prompting Song Zi to attack him with a powerful palm strike.
• Lin Bai stepped in and struck Song Zi with a finger, sending her flying while he was forced back one step.
• Song Zi asked Gao Rui to stand up for her, and Gao Rui challenged Lin Bai over his intervention.

Lin Bai confronted Gao Rui after Song Zi’s attack nearly killed Lu Ao, then defeated Gao Rui’s sword technique and nearly killed him before Song Zi secretly intervened. Butler Zhuo Yi stopped the fight as the spirit boat neared Limitless Peak, but Gao Rui vowed to take revenge after they reached Haijie City.

• Lin Bai challenged Gao Rui’s claim that Song Zi had only intended to teach Lu Ao a lesson, and Gao Rui attacked Lin Bai with his sword.
• Lin Bai blocked Gao Rui’s attack with a finger and shattered his sword technique with a sword of condensed Qi.
• Lin Bai used the Aurora Intent to drive Gao Rui back and aimed a lethal strike at his throat, but Song Zi secretly destroyed the Qi sword and saved him.
• Gao Rui prepared to attack again, but Song Zi tried to calm him and Butler Zhuo Yi ordered everyone to stop fighting as they approached Limitless Peak.
• Gao Rui threatened Lin Bai and Lu Ao after they left the spirit boat, and Lin Bai dismissed his threat before returning to the cabin.

Song Zi reported to Young Master Yuehua that Yue Qing’s spirit ship was nearing Limitless Peak, and learned that Yuehua planned to force Yue Qing to accept his father Yue Zheng’s marriage arrangement or kill her. As Yue Qing approached Haijie City, she anticipated a deadly struggle over the Silver Moon Merchant Guild.

• Song Zi helped the injured Gao Rui return to his room, then secretly contacted Young Master Yuehua with a Shadow Transmission Compass.
• Song Zi reported that Yue Qing’s followers had been killed in Mangshan Ridge, that Gao Rui was under her influence, and that Dongfang was the only other notable fighter aboard the spirit ship.
• Young Master Yuehua told Song Zi to keep acting as an inside agent while he went to Limitless Peak to demand that Yue Qing marry the Young Master of the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild; he threatened to kill her if she refused.
• Yue Qing and Butler Zhuo Yi saw Limitless Peak ahead and discussed their return to Haijie City after four years.
• Yue Qing resolved to prevent Yue Zheng from taking control of the Silver Moon Merchant Guild her father had built.

Yue Qing agreed to meet Yue Hua at the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s manor on Limitless Peak, knowing the gathering was a trap meant to prevent her return to Haijie City. Butler Zhuo Yi asked Lin Bai to rescue her if trouble broke out, and Lin Bai agreed.

• Yue Qing received Yue Hua’s message and agreed to meet him at the manor on Limitless Peak before traveling with him to Haijie City.
• Yue Qing told Zhuo Yi she believed Yue Hua’s invitation was a Feast at Hongmen and ordered him to alert Dongfang.
• Zhuo Yi warned Lin Bai that Yue Qing might be in danger and asked him to remember his agreement with her.
• Zhuo Yi knelt and begged Lin Bai to rescue Yue Qing if the manor gathering turned violent.
• Lin Bai promised to save Yue Qing and watched Zhuo Yi go from room to room to brief the guards and martial artists.

Lin Bai and the Guardians arrived with Yue Qing at the Silver Moon Merchant Guild estate, where Yue Hua welcomed her and pressed her to marry the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild's Young Master Qian. Yue Qing refused, while Lin Bai sensed a thousand experts lying in ambush around the estate.

• Yue Hua greeted Yue Qing at the estate and hosted a lavish banquet for her and the Guardians.
• Lu Ao told Lin Bai and Fang Jin that the plainly dressed Li Zong was a powerful Guardian who wielded the Life-Seeking Sword.
• Lin Bai used his Slaughter Intent to detect at least a thousand experts hidden throughout the estate.
• Yue Qing asked about her father's remains, and Yue Hua said they were being kept in an ice coffin until after the Divine Weapon Banquet.
• Yue Hua urged Yue Qing to marry Young Master Qian, but she refused and doubted her father had wanted the match.
• Yue Hua proposed that Yue Qing rest and return to Haijie City with him the next morning.

Yue Hua left Limitless Peak after arranging a covert attack on Yue Qing and those accompanying her. When assassins struck, Lin Bai fought them off and headed for Yue Qing’s residence, leaving Lu Ao and Fang Jin to escape as Li Zong appeared in his path.

• Yue Hua departed for Haijie City after telling Lang Ning and Li Zong to carry out his plans, then reported to his father that Yue Qing had rejected their arrangements.
• Lin Bai sensed blood and killing intent in the estate, then killed a black-clad assassin who attacked him through the window.
• Lin Bai, Lu Ao, and Fang Jin fought off more than thirty peak Yin Saint Realm attackers in the courtyard.
• Lin Bai urged Lu Ao and Fang Jin to flee while he went to protect Yue Qing, citing his promise to Butler Zhuo Yi.
• As Lin Bai crossed the rooftops toward Yue Qing, Li Zong appeared and confronted him, but Lin Bai continued toward her residence.