Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai severed both of Qi Xuan’s arms despite Sui An’s attempt to intervene. Gui Jing then delivered the Sect Leader Sword Reverent’s order stripping Qi Xuan of his Sword Paragon position and demoting Chen Ruhai.

• Lin Bai ignored Qi Xuan’s threats and cut off both of his arms, stopping only after Sui An told him to stop.
• Sui An confronted Lin Bai, but the seventy-two sword cultivators of Immortal Cave Mountain stood by Lin Bai and refused to leave his side.
• Gui Jing arrived and announced that the Sect Leader Sword Reverent had abolished Qi Xuan’s Sword Paragon position and demoted him to a Purple-Robed Inner Disciple.
• Gui Jing announced that Chen Ruhai had been stripped of his Peak Elder position and demoted to an Inner Elder.

Gui Jing announced severe punishments for Qi Xuan and Elder Chen, then took Lin Bai to Sword Reverent Peak to face the Sect Leader Sword Reverent. As the Sword Reverent unleashed his overwhelming sword intent, an unnamed elder decided to use Qi Xuan to help kill Lin Bai.

• Gui Jing stripped Qi Xuan of the Sword Paragon title, abolished Elder Chen's Peak Elder's Peak, and summoned Lin Bai to Sword Reverent Peak.
• Nie Xiong, Luo Xuan, and the other Immortal Cave Mountain disciples pleaded for leniency, while Lin Bai told them not to worry and ordered Meng Chunrui to return Li Chou's sword.
• Gui Jing brought Lin Bai to Sword Reverent Hall, where the Sect Leader Sword Reverent rose and pressed Lin Bai with his powerful sword intent.
• An elder watched the Sword Reverent's display, decided he would need to kill Lin Bai himself, and headed to the Qi Faction to approach Qi Xuan.

Lin Bai defended his actions to the Sect Leader Sword Reverent, who sent him to Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven while secretly giving him access to the sealed Single Word Sword Art. After Sui An emerged from seclusion, the Sect Leader Sword Reverent discussed Lin Bai’s resemblance to his own younger self and revealed his suspicion that someone in the sect’s upper ranks was colluding with Ten Thousand Demons Valley.

• Lin Bai showed the Sect Leader Sword Reverent Demon Saint Hantian’s corpse and defended killing Hantian and severing Qi Xuan’s arms.
• The Sect Leader Sword Reverent accused Lin Bai of disrespect and ordered Gui Jing to lock him in Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven.
• After Lin Bai and Gui Jing left, the Sect Leader Sword Reverent revealed that the grotto-heaven held the King Grade Martial Skill Single Word Sword Art.
• Sui An emerged from seclusion, and he and the Sect Leader Sword Reverent shared wine while discussing Lin Bai’s defiant nature and the Sect Leader’s violent past.
• The Sect Leader Sword Reverent told Sui An that he suspected someone among the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s upper echelons was secretly colluding with Ten Thousand Demons Valley.

Senior Gui Jing brought Lin Bai to Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven and left him there with a bracelet that could guide him out. After a month in the consuming darkness, Lin Bai began practicing his sword techniques and glimpsed a fleeting sword mark.

• Senior Gui Jing explained that Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven was a forbidden prison where people could lose their way, gave Lin Bai a bracelet, and said he would likely be released in two or three months.
• Senior Gui Jing told Lin Bai that a former prisoner had left insights into the King Grade Martial Skill Single Word Sword Art in the grotto-heaven, then Lin Bai entered and Senior Gui Jing departed.
• Lin Bai found that the darkness swallowed the light of his Demon Sword and reasoned that Sect Leader Sword Reverent had sent him there to cultivate and seek the sword art insights.
• After spending a month surrounded by darkness, Lin Bai practiced all the sword techniques he knew.
• Lin Bai noticed a black sword mark flash through the darkness and stopped to search for it.

Lin Bai comprehended the Single Word Sword Art while training in the Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven, then left after Gui Jing summoned him. Gui Jing told him that they would soon travel to Starry Sky City for the Myriad Stars Secret Realm, where Ye Jianjun would also be present.

• Lin Bai used Aurora Intent to reveal sword scars in the darkness and realized the Single Word Sword Art reduced basic swordsmanship to its simplest form.
• Lin Bai learned the art’s three techniques—One Horizontal, One Vertical, and One Horizontal, One Vertical—and spent half a month honing them.
• Lin Bai assessed his improved strength and concluded that he could now defeat powerful Yang God Realm opponents with his sword arts and other trump cards.
• Gui Jing guided Lin Bai out of the Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven and told him to rest before their departure in five days.
• Gui Jing revealed that Ye Jianjun, Ling Luo, and Lin Anyang would join the experts from the seven supreme sects at the Myriad Stars Secret Realm, and Lin Bai focused on Ye Jianjun.

Gui Jing explained that Myriad Stars Secret Realm was a dangerous ancient battlefield and a vital place for Lin Bai to find blood crystals and break through to the Yang God Realm. A flashback revealed Qi Xuan’s fury that Lin Bai had been sent to Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven, followed by the arrival of Ninth Peak Elder Shui Zhong.

• Gui Jing told Lin Bai that Sect Leader Sword Reverent expected him to break through to the Yang God Realm in Myriad Stars Secret Realm or face another year in Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven.
• Gui Jing explained that the seven peerless sects controlled Myriad Stars Secret Realm, where blood crystals and other ancient treasures could be found, and urged Lin Bai to focus on advancing his cultivation.
• Lin Bai asked who had fought in the ancient battlefield, but Gui Jing refused to answer and sent him back to prepare.
• Two months earlier, Qi Xuan learned that Lin Bai had been imprisoned in Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven and realized that the punishment could give him a chance to comprehend a King Grade Martial Skill.
• Qi Xuan vowed to kill Lin Bai after he came out, but Ninth Peak Elder Shui Zhong entered the room and warned that Qi Xuan might not be able to defeat him.

Shui Zhong offered to replace Qi Xuan’s severed arms with powerful limbs and promised Ten Thousand Demons Valley’s support in making him Sword Reverent if he pledged allegiance. Qi Xuan accepted, and Shui Zhong planned for him to confront Dongfang Bai in the Myriad Stars Secret Realm two months later.

• Shui Zhong told Qi Xuan he could restore his arms and increase his strength with a pair of mysterious, powerful arms.
• Shui Zhong revealed that he served Ten Thousand Demons Valley and asked Qi Xuan to pledge allegiance in exchange for support in claiming the Sword Reverent position.
• Qi Xuan agreed to serve Ten Thousand Demons Valley and asked what Shui Zhong wanted him to do.
• Shui Zhong said Qi Xuan would enter the Myriad Stars Secret Realm in two months, where he could fight Dongfang Bai after Dongfang Bai left Eternal Darkness Grotto-Heaven.
• Shui Zhong hinted that Ten Thousand Demons Valley had a separate objective in the secret realm and said Qi Xuan would learn about it later.

Lin Bai learned that Ten Thousand Demons Valley might send experts into the Myriad Stars Secret Realm and traveled with Immortal Cave Mountain’s sword cultivators to Starry Sky City. The seven major sects’ spirit boats converged over the Wild Heaven Mountain Range as the secret realm’s opening drew near.

• Lin Bai returned to Small Spirit Creek, reunited with Nie Xiong and the other sword cultivators, and ordered them to prepare to depart for Starry Sky City in five days.
• Nie Xiong told Lin Bai that Ten Thousand Demons Valley might send experts into the secret realm, and Lin Bai hoped to settle matters with Crushing Mountain Demon Saint there.
• Lin Bai studied the secret realm’s history and learned that outsiders sometimes entered by stealing sect disciples’ tokens and identities.
• Lin Bai and sixty-nine Immortal Cave Mountain sword cultivators traveled by spirit boat through several dynasties and arrived safely in the Southern Chu Dynasty.
• Lin Bai saw spirit boats bearing the banners of all seven major sects converge over the Wild Heaven Mountain Range as Southern Chu residents watched in awe.

Lin Bai discovered Holy Seal Sect disciples terrorizing a small town and attacking the Zhang Clan’s women. He arrived as the disciples seized the clan head’s daughter and wife, and his killing intent rose.

• Lin Bai saw a town burning as Holy Seal Sect disciples used their Yin Saint Realm power to terrorize its people.
• Lin Bai and Nie Xiong descended into the town and found the disciples threatening the Zhang Clan.
• The Zhang Clan head pleaded for his family’s safety and offered the clan’s spirit stones.
• Senior Brother Wei grabbed the Zhang Clan head’s daughter while another disciple seized her mother.
• Lin Bai and the Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators of Immortal Cave Mountain watched in fury as the women cried for help.

Lin Bai and the Immortal Cave Mountain Sword Cultivators intervened when Holy Seal Sect disciples threatened the Zhang Clan and tried to seize Zhang Linxiang. After Senior Brother Wei summoned over a thousand reinforcements, Lin Bai ordered his companions to kill them all.

• Lin Bai approved the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators’ intervention, and Nie Xiong and Luo Xuan rescued Zhang Linxiang and her mother from Senior Brother Wei.
• Nie Xiong assured Zhang Yunqi that the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect would protect the Zhang Clan, while Senior Brother Wei threatened the Sword Cultivators and revealed his ties to Wei Tianjun.
• Senior Brother Wei ordered a Sound Transmission Talisman sent, and more than a thousand Holy Seal Sect disciples arrived to support him.
• Lin Bai ordered the Immortal Cave Mountain Sword Cultivators to kill them all, and they prepared to attack the gathered Holy Seal Sect disciples.

Lin Bai confronted Senior Brother Wei and ordered the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators to attack the Holy Seal Sect disciples at the Zhang Clan residence. After the sword cultivators slaughtered most of them, Lin Bai identified himself and challenged the Holy Seal Sect's Holy Son to seek revenge.

• Lin Bai emerged from the spirit boat and stood unharmed when Senior Brother Wei's attack exploded before him.
• At Lin Bai's command, Nie Xiong led the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators into battle against the Holy Seal Sect disciples.
• The sword cultivators killed more than two-thirds of the Holy Seal Sect's force in a short time, prompting Senior Brother Wei to recognize them.
• Senior Brother Wei realized the white-robed man was Dongfang Bai, the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's Sword Paragon, and threatened him with his elder brother, the Holy Seal Sect's Holy Son.
• Lin Bai told Senior Brother Wei to invite his elder brother to seek revenge, and Nie Xiong pierced Senior Brother Wei's throat with his sword.
• Nearly all the Holy Seal Sect disciples were slaughtered, while a few fled the town.

Lin Bai and the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators left Azure Town after warning the Zhang Clan to flee the Southern Chu Dynasty, then continued toward Starry Sky City. They arrived at the city, where guide Chen Jin recognized Lin Bai as the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s Sword Paragon and led the group inside.

• Lin Bai told the Zhang Clan Head to take the Holy Seal Sect disciples’ Storage Bags and leave the Southern Chu Dynasty to escape retaliation.
• The Zhang Clan Head vowed to depart, while Zhang Linxiang said she would become a sword cultivator like Lin Bai.
• Nie Xiong apologized for drawing Lin Bai into conflict with the Holy Seal Sect, but Lin Bai said he faced stronger enemies and had no fear of its Saint, Wei Tianjun.
• The spirit boat reached Starry Sky City, and Nie Xiong explained the city’s location, its Demon Race inhabitants, and its passage to the Myriad Stars Secret Realm.
• Guide Chen Jin inspected the group’s Identity Tokens, recognized Lin Bai as the Sword Paragon, and led Lin Bai and the others into Starry Sky City.

Lin Bai arrived in Starry Sky City with the Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators of Immortal Cave Mountain and learned that Ye Jianqiu and Jian Ruohan had become the East Ripple Sword Sect’s Holy Son and Holy Daughter. The chapter ended with Chen Jin guiding Lin Bai to his residence after hearing that Lin Bai had killed more than a thousand Holy Seal Sect disciples, including Wei Tianjun’s younger brother.

• Chen Jin explained which districts housed the seven major sects and told Lin Bai that more than one hundred thousand Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciples and thirty thousand East Ripple Sword Sect disciples had gathered in East City.
• Lin Bai learned that Ye Jianqiu was the East Ripple Sword Sect’s Holy Son and wondered whether Jian Ruohan and Dugu Yun had also come to Starry Sky City.
• Chen Jin revealed that Jian Ruohan was the East Ripple Sword Sect’s Holy Daughter, renowned for her swordsmanship and icy aura.
• Nie Xiong said he wanted to meet the East Ripple Sword Sect’s Holy Son and Holy Daughter, while Chen Jin noted that other sects’ Holy Sons and Holy Daughters would soon arrive.
• Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciples discussed Lin Bai killing more than a thousand Holy Seal Sect disciples, including Wei Tianjun’s younger brother, and Chen Jin reacted in shock.
• Chen Jin took Lin Bai to his residence, explained that the Myriad Stars Secret Realm would open in half a month, and left after Nie Xiong gave him spirit stones.

Lin Bai settled into Starry Sky City and waited for the Myriad Stars Secret Realm to open, while the seven major sects gathered their leaders and disciples. After deadly sparring began in the city, the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators restored the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s reputation and became famous across the sects.

• Lin Bai inspected his residence, recalled old acquaintances Jian Ruohan and Ye Jianqiu, and resolved to settle accounts with Ye Jianjun before meditating until the secret realm opened.
• Senior figures from the seven major sects discussed which Holy Sons, Holy Daughters, and other geniuses had arrived, and agreed to guard Starry Sky City against trouble.
• A Holy Seal Sect elder demanded an explanation for Dongfang Bai killing more than a thousand of its disciples, but the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect dismissed the deaths as a scuffle between juniors.
• Disciples from the seven major sects began sparring in a central-square arena, and deaths during the bouts stirred hostility between the sects.
• The Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators defeated challengers from the other sects and gained a reputation as the strongest Yin Saints beneath the Yang God Realm.

Shui Zhong arranged for the Ten Thousand Demons Valley to kill the martial artists defeated by the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators and frame the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect. As Lin Bai realized the sword cultivators were being targeted, Burning Heart Sect Holy Son Yang Changdong arrived to confront them.

• Nie Xiong defeated another opponent, while Shui Zhong and Qi Xuan discussed the threat posed by the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators.
• Shui Zhong ordered Qi Xuan to secretly kill everyone who had fought the seventy-two sword cultivators, using wounds that looked like hidden Sword Qi.
• The dead martial artists were blamed on the seventy-two sword cultivators, and rumors of their supposed treachery spread through Starry Sky City.
• Nie Xiong and the others told Lin Bai about the deaths, and Lin Bai concluded that someone was framing them.
• Yang Changdong, the Burning Heart Sect's Holy Son, arrived above their residences and angrily demanded that the seventy-two sword cultivators come out.

Yang Changdong accused the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators of secretly killing Burning Heart Sect disciples and demanded their deaths, while Qi Xuan turned Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciples against them. Nie Xiong declared his innocence and tried to slit his throat, but a cold snort interrupted him.

• Yang Changdong brought nearly ten thousand Burning Heart Sect disciples to surround the residence and accused the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators of killing seventeen disciples with hidden Sword Qi.
• Nie Xiong denied the charge and said someone had framed them, but Qi Xuan arrived and urged the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect to disown and expel them.
• Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciples condemned the seventy-two, leaving Nie Xiong and his companions devastated as some of them spat blood.
• Nie Xiong said he would kill himself to prove his innocence and keep the dispute from implicating his sect, then drew his sword toward his throat.
• An overbearing cold snort rang across East City just as Nie Xiong swung his sword.

Lin Bai stopped Nie Xiong from killing himself and defended the Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators of Immortal Cave Mountain against Yang Changdong’s accusations. After humiliating Qi Xuan and driving him away, Lin Bai faced Yang Changdong, who recognized him as the Sword Paragon and a Prodigy-level Genius.

• Lin Bai stopped Nie Xiong from attempting suicide and rebuked him for trying to prove his innocence by dying.
• Lin Bai told Yang Changdong that the Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators had not hidden Sword Qi or killed the seven major sects’ disciples, then ordered him to leave.
• Qi Xuan accused Lin Bai of shielding the cultivators, but Lin Bai invoked his status as Sword Paragon and forced Qi Xuan to salute before driving him away.
• As he left, Qi Xuan vowed to kill Lin Bai in the Myriad Stars Secret Realm, and Lin Bai suspected he was connected to the incident.
• Yang Changdong recognized Lin Bai as Dongfang Bai, Sword Paragon of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and one of Lingnan’s nine Prodigy-level Geniuses.

Lin Bai faced Yang Changdong and Yu Liang as they challenged him over the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators. Ye Jianqiu and Jian Ruohan arrived, and Lin Bai was shaken by Jian Ruohan’s ghostlike transformation, resolving to find out who had done this to her.

• Yang Changdong challenged Lin Bai, but Lin Bai dismissed him and refused to abandon the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators.
• Yu Liang arrived with the Heavenly Blade Sect disciples, condemned the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s assassination, and challenged Lin Bai as well.
• Ye Jianqiu and Jian Ruohan appeared behind Lin Bai, and Ye Jianqiu rebuked Lin Bai for staring at the East Ripple Sword Sect’s Holy Daughter.
• Lin Bai recognized Jian Ruohan and was stunned by her white hair, white pupils, and deathly aura, though she still carried Startled Dream.
• Lin Bai recalled how Jian Ruohan had supported him and silently vowed to kill whoever had transformed her, while Jian Ruohan showed a faint glimmer of recognition before confusion returned.

Lin Bai faced seven Holy Son-level martial artists in East City after they accused the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators of secretly killing their disciples. He refused to step aside and prepared to fight them all at once.

• Ye Jianqiu and Jian Ruohan arrived and demanded justice for the East Ripple Sword Sect disciples who had died from concealed sword qi.
• Yan Tuo and Mi Rong of the Celestial Net Sect joined Yang Changdong, Ye Jianqiu, Jian Ruohan, and Yu Liang in confronting Lin Bai.
• Wei Tianjun of the Holy Seal Sect arrived and said he had come both to seek justice for his sect's dead disciples and to avenge Azure Town.
• Lin Bai denied that the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators had killed anyone secretly, but the seven Holy Son-level disciples rejected his explanation and demanded he stand aside.
• Lin Bai refused, drew his Demon Sword, summoned his flying sword, and challenged all seven to attack together.

Lin Bai faced seven powerful opponents in East City, but Jian Ruohan attacked him over the flying sword she recognized before Zhang Jianxing intervened. Lin Bai and Zhang Jianxing joined forces as the wielders of the Demonic Duo Swords, and a battle against their assembled enemies was about to begin.

• Lin Bai refused to give Jian Ruohan the flying sword, and she wounded him with her frost power before attacking with Jingmeng.
• Zhang Jianxing arrived and struck Jian Ruohan’s sword aside, but Lin Bai blocked his follow-up attack and warned him not to hurt her.
• Zhang Jianxing joined Lin Bai and declared that he had come to help him, provoking the Saint-Son-level martial artists with insults.
• Lin Bai apologized for involving Zhang Jianxing, who asked him to pay for three days and nights of wine at the Serene Heart Tavern.
• Lin Bai and Zhang Jianxing stood together as the Demonic Duo Swords, while Yan Tuo, Wei Tianjun, and the others surrounded them and prepared to fight.