Chapter Summaries

After absorbing forty thousand blood crystals, Lin Bai broke through into the Yang God Realm and revealed how much stronger he had become. He wounded Wei Tianjun with one sword and fought Yan Tuo to a draw, as Yan Tuo resolved that Lin Bai could not be allowed to live.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb the blood crystals and advanced from the peak of the Yin Saint Realm into the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Anyang offered to help Lin Bai, but Ling Luo recognized that his breakthrough had made him too powerful for anyone present to challenge.
• Lin Bai attacked Wei Tianjun, shattered his Overturning Sea Seal, and wounded him with a single sword.
• Yan Tuo confronted Lin Bai, and their clashes ended in draws that left Yan Tuo wary of Lin Bai's strength.
• Yan Tuo decided Lin Bai must die and gathered the power within him.

Yan Tuo revealed his Emperor Grade Martial Soul, the Nether Palace, and used its Book of Life and Death to attack Lin Bai’s soul. Lin Bai survived and charged toward Yan Tuo with the Immortal-Slaying Strike.

• Yan Tuo summoned the Nether Palace and commanded its evil ghosts to attack Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai fought off the ghosts with the Demonic Sword, but Yan Tuo crossed out Dongfang Bai’s name in the Book of Life and Death, severely injuring him.
• Lin Anyang and Ling Luo tried to rush to Lin Bai as he fell, but he slowly stood back up and revealed that Yan Tuo’s Martial Soul attacked the soul.
• Yan Tuo wrote Dongfang Bai’s name in the Book of Life and Death again as Lin Bai charged at the Nether Palace with the Immortal-Slaying Strike.

Lin Bai defeated Yan Tuo, seized his Nether Palace martial soul, and killed him by crossing his name out of the Book of Life and Death. He then used the Nether Palace to gravely wound Wei Tianjun and sent evil ghosts after him as Luo Yutong rushed to help.

• Lin Bai split Yan Tuo's Nether Palace with a sword and seized Yan Tuo's martial soul.
• Lin Bai summoned the Nether Palace and crossed Yan Tuo's name out of the Book of Life and Death, killing him.
• A Celestial Net Sect elder discovered Yan Tuo's death, while martial artists outside the storm circles reacted in alarm.
• Lin Bai crossed Wei Tianjun's name out of the Book of Life and Death, gravely wounding him with a soul attack.
• Lin Bai sent evil ghosts after Wei Tianjun, and Luo Yutong rushed forward to help him.

Lin Bai defeated Wei Tianjun, Luo Yutong, and Mi Rong after they unleashed their Martial Souls and strongest techniques. The spectators were left fearing that Lin Bai would one day become a power capable of changing the balance of the land of Lingnan.

• Wei Tianjun summoned his Emperor Grade Ninefold Immortal Mountains Martial Soul and attacked Lin Bai, while Luo Yutong and Mi Rong joined the assault with their own Martial Souls.
• Lin Bai shattered Wei Tianjun's Ninefold Immortal Mountains and defeated him with his sword techniques and flying swords.
• Luo Yutong attacked Lin Bai with the Void Seal, but he broke the seal and struck her down.
• Mi Rong tried to refine Lin Bai with her Demon Subduing Talisman, but Lin Bai used the Secret Method of Breaking the Seal to destroy its characters and send her flying.
• The spectators watched Lin Bai defeat all three opponents and feared he would eventually transform the balance of power in Lingnan.

Lin Bai defeated several saint-level geniuses, but Wei Tianjun, Mi Rong, and Luo Yutong escaped with Greater Teleportation Talismans. He then attacked Ye Jianjun, who recognized Lin Bai’s hatred and asked whether he was the Demon Sword Cultivator who had returned from the Nine Underworlds Hell.

• Wei Tianjun, Mi Rong, and Luo Yutong fled Lin Bai using Greater Teleportation Talismans.
• Lin Bai noticed Ye Jianjun reaching for the Storage Bag on the skeleton and used the Book of Life and Death to strike Ye Jianjun’s soul.
• Lin Bai confronted Ye Jianjun, declaring that he could kill him just as he had killed Yan Tuo and the others.
• Lin Anyang and Ling Luo were shocked when Ye Jianjun explained that Lin Bai had joined the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect to find him.
• Ye Jianjun asked Lin Bai whether he was the Demon Sword Cultivator from Eastern Lingnan who had returned from the Nine Underworlds Hell.

Lin Bai’s confrontation with Ye Jianjun revealed that Lin Bai was the sword cultivator Ye Jianjun had helped kill three years earlier. Enraged by Ye Jianjun’s confession about the pregnant woman and child, Lin Bai attacked, but Ye Jianjun’s King Grade sword technique sent him flying.

• Ye Jianjun accused Lin Bai of being the legendary sword cultivator who had destroyed his plans at Divine Relic Ridge.
• Ye Jianjun told Lin Anyang and Ling Luo that he and five others had killed that sword cultivator three years earlier.
• Lin Bai challenged Ye Jianjun to explain the killing and exposed how the six men had used a pregnant woman and her child to threaten him before killing them.
• Ye Jianjun demanded a definite answer about Lin Bai’s identity and drew his sword, while Lin Bai vowed to settle the blood debt.
• Lin Bai launched a fierce attack with his sword arts and flying swords, but Ye Jianjun countered with Wind God Slash and sent Lin Bai flying more than a thousand meters, blood spilling from his mouth.

Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun exchanged their King Grade sword techniques in a devastating duel, with the Ancient God Scripture helping Lin Bai survive the clash and wound Ye Jianjun. Ye Jianjun then drew the Demon Sword and overwhelmed Lin Bai, leaving the fight's outcome uncertain.

• Ye Jianjun used the Four Gods Sword Slash against Lin Bai, who countered with the Single Word Sword Art.
• Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun traded increasingly powerful attacks, and both suffered severe injuries in the storm of sword intent.
• Lin Bai drew on the Ancient God Scripture to heal and charged through the storm, breaking Ye Jianjun's sword and stabbing him through the chest.
• Ye Jianjun revealed that he had the Demon Sword and struck Lin Bai with a slash that sent him flying.

Lin Bai was left near death by Ye Jianjun, but summoned Giant God Power from his original body and regained his strength. He revealed his identity and killed Ye Jianjun, then vowed to avenge Ye Suxin by hunting the remaining enemies.

• Ye Jianjun pressed the wounded Lin Bai to reveal his identity while Lin Bai remembered Ye Suxin’s death.
• Lin Bai’s original body on Divine Relic Ridge sent Giant God Power to his clone after learning it had called for help.
• Lin Bai healed, grew to ten zhang tall, and overwhelmed Ye Jianjun with the Blood Sea Seven Steps and a barrage of punches.
• Lin Bai dispelled the Ghostly Disguise Technique and revealed himself to Ye Jianjun, who recognized him as having returned from hell.
• Lin Bai killed Ye Jianjun and told Ye Suxin that only four enemies remained.

Lin Bai killed Ye Jianjun and discovered a blood-red map hidden in an ancient skeleton’s Storage Bag. After leaving to find the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators, Lin Bai was pursued by Shui Zhong, Qi Xuan, and other Ten Thousand Demons Valley disciples seeking revenge.

• Ye Jianjun’s other self learned that his demonic body had died and hurried toward Starry Sky City.
• Lin Bai took Ye Jianjun’s Demon Sword and thanked Lin Anyang and Ling Luo for their help.
• Lin Bai removed the ancient skeleton’s Storage Bag, revealing a blood-red map that he, Lin Anyang, Ling Luo, and the watching martial artists memorized.
• Lin Bai left to find the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators, fearing they could not defeat Qi Xuan.
• Shui Zhong and Qi Xuan recognized that Lin Bai carried the Demon Sword and led more than twenty Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciples after him to settle their grudge.

Lin Bai confronted Qi Xuan, who had grafted on powerful arms and sought revenge, and defeated him by cutting off both arms again. Qi Xuan then appealed to Shui Zhong, exposing the Ten Thousand Demons Valley’s involvement, and Lin Bai learned Shui Zhong had twice tried to kill him.

• Lin Bai stopped on a mountain and confronted Shui Zhong and the martial artists who had followed him.
• Shui Zhong revealed that Qi Xuan wanted to face Lin Bai, and Qi Xuan attacked with immense power from his grafted arms.
• Lin Bai recognized that Qi Xuan’s arm power was unnatural, then struck him down and severed both arms again.
• Lin Bai criticized Qi Xuan for grafting on someone else’s arms, and Qi Xuan begged Shui Zhong to kill Lin Bai in exchange for serving the Ten Thousand Demons Valley.
• Shui Zhong acknowledged the Ten Thousand Demons Valley’s role and admitted he had tried to kill Lin Bai in Zhu Xian City and outside Haijie City.

Shui Zhong revealed that he had brought more than twenty Ten Thousand Demons Valley Demon Saints into the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect, and they surrounded Lin Bai to avenge their fallen allies and seize his Demon Sword. Lin Bai fought back but was badly injured, leaving him wondering whether he had to borrow Giant God Power from his true body.

• Shui Zhong demanded Lin Bai hand over the Demon Sword, and Lin Bai condemned him for betraying the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Shui Zhong sent more than twenty disguised Demon Saints to attack Lin Bai, while Qi Xuan watched and hoped Lin Bai would die.
• Lin Bai used his Flying Sword, Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation, and several Intent-based techniques to resist the Demon Saints’ assault.
• The Demon Saints overwhelmed Lin Bai, leaving him severely injured after twenty moves as Shui Zhong taunted him to surrender.
• Lin Bai assessed the attackers’ strength and wondered whether he needed to borrow Giant God Power from his true body.

Lin Bai unleashed the Demon Sword’s power against Shui Zhong and the Demon Race Saints, transforming into a white-haired swordsman marked by the Demon Flower. He slaughtered most of the attackers and left Shui Zhong battered and stunned.

• Lin Bai summoned the Demon Sword and gripped it as the Demon Race Saints charged, triggering the Demon Seed to bloom and blasting them back with its sword might.
• Lin Bai appeared white-haired with a blood-red Demon Flower in his eye and killed more than half of the Demon Race Saints with his sword.
• The surviving Demon Race Saints retreated and asked Shui Zhong to fight Lin Bai, while Shui Zhong demanded the Demon Sword and its method of control.
• Shui Zhong attacked with the Sword Yang Art, but Lin Bai shattered his sword gleam with one strike and sent him flying, leaving Shui Zhong shocked.

Lin Bai killed Shui Zhong and Qi Xuan, then relentlessly hunted the fleeing Demon Saints and slaughtered martial artists across the Myriad Stars Secret Realm. After five days of carnage, people throughout the realm feared the white-haired sword demon.

• Lin Bai defeated Shui Zhong, killed him after the Demon Saints fled, and then killed Qi Xuan as Qi Xuan tried to leave.
• Lin Bai pursued Gao Yang, killed him and five Holy Seal Sect elders, and continued flying in search of other fleeing Demon Saints.
• Lin Bai slaughtered a Demon Saint and more than three hundred Burning Heart Sect martial artists in a valley.
• Lin Bai killed thousands of Celestial Net Sect and East Ripple Sword Sect disciples, all one hundred Holy Seal Sect disciples, and hundreds more from several sects.
• Lin Bai's reputation as a white-haired sword demon spread throughout the Myriad Stars Secret Realm over five days.

Lin Bai hunted the remaining Demon Saints in the Myriad Stars Secret Realm, then faced an encirclement of more than three hundred Yang God elders from the seven major sects. As he slaughtered his attackers, Lin Anyang, Ling Luo, and Zhang Jianxing questioned his inhuman change, and Ling Luo attacked him to stop him.

• Lin Bai killed a wounded Demon Saint who had transformed into a giant scorpion, absorbed its blood crystal, and set out to find the last surviving Demon Race member.
• More than three hundred Yang God elders surrounded Lin Bai as he left the cave, while Lin Anyang, Ling Luo, and Zhang Jianxing arrived with Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciples.
• Lin Bai ignored the elders’ demands and killed the martial artists who charged him with a sweep of sword light.
• A fourth-stage Yang God elder of the Burning Heart Sect attacked Lin Bai with the Burning Art, but Lin Bai split the blazing sun and killed him.
• Zhang Jianxing asked Lin Anyang and Ling Luo why Lin Bai seemed like a demon, and a Holy Seal Sect elder urged them to help stop him.
• Lin Bai killed the Holy Seal Sect elder, and Ling Luo, Lin Anyang, and Zhang Jianxing agreed to stop him before Ling Luo struck with Wind God Slash.

Lin Bai lost control to the Demon Sword and slaughtered the martial artists around him until Zhang Jianxing’s master, Old Man Lone Boat, took the sword away. Back in his right mind, Lin Bai learned what had happened and confronted Ye Jianqiu about Jian Ruohan’s whereabouts.

• Ling Luo, Lin Anyang, and Zhang Jianxing joined forces against Lin Bai, but he defeated all three and prepared to kill Zhang Jianxing.
• Zhang Jianxing used a jade talisman to open a passage, and Old Man Lone Boat hooked the Demon Sword away from Lin Bai and warned him about its evil power.
• With the Demon Sword gone, Lin Bai’s demonic nature faded, and he regained his humanity amid the corpses of the martial artists he had killed.
• Lin Bai realized his memories of the past few days were hazy and acknowledged that the Demon Sword and demonic flower had overwhelmed him.
• Zhang Jianxing told Lin Bai that Old Man Lone Boat had taken the sword and invited him to retrieve it at the Thatched Cottage by the Cold River in the Northern Han Dynasty.
• Ye Jianqiu arrived with East Ripple Sword Sect disciples, and Lin Bai demanded to know where Jian Ruohan was.

Lin Bai learned that Jian Ruohan had left after seeing him and struggled with the pain of her departure. After his allies left, he realized his cultivation had advanced and feared that using the Demon Sword again could permanently consume his mind.

• Ye Jianqiu arrived and questioned Lin Bai about his interest in Jian Ruohan before revealing that she had left and that he did not know where she had gone.
• Lin Bai was anguished by Jian Ruohan's departure and remained behind after Ye Jianqiu led the East Ripple Sword Sect away.
• Zhang Jianxing invited Lin Bai to the Sword Hermitage for protection, but Lin Bai refused and accepted that he would face the consequences of killing the seven major sects' experts.
• Lin Anyang and Ling Luo thanked Lin Bai for sparing them from further trouble and departed two days later.
• Lin Bai regulated his qi and discovered he had reached the peak of the first level of the Yang God Realm after his demonic self absorbed blood crystals.
• Lin Bai realized that using the Demon Sword to nourish the demonic flower a third time might make him lose himself forever.

After purging the demonic nature from his body, Lin Bai led the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators out of the Myriad Stars Secret Realm and returned to Starry Sky City. Lin Anyang revealed that Lin Bai had killed many experts from the seven great sects, leaving the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's elders preparing to shield him from their rivals.

• Lin Bai spent several days expelling the demonic nature from his body, and the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators captured Meng Chunrui.
• Three days later, Lin Bai and the cultivators followed the starry path out of the Myriad Stars Secret Realm and returned to Starry Sky City.
• After the secret realm closed, the guarding elders of the seven great sects questioned Lin Anyang and Ling Luo about the deaths of so many experts.
• Lin Anyang told the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's elders that Lin Bai had killed the Saints, Yang God Realm experts, and other powerful martial artists in the secret realm.
• The Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's elders ordered Lin Anyang and Ling Luo to take Lin Bai away while they faced the other sects' elders.

Lin Bai admitted to killing the seven great sects’ Saints and Yang God Realm experts, bringing their elders’ fury upon him. He exposed Qi Xuan and Meng Chunrui as the ones behind the killings in Starry Sky City, then challenged the elders to name his crime for what he had done in the Myriad Stars Secret Realm.

• Lin Anyang urged Lin Bai to leave the plaza before news of the Myriad Stars Secret Realm spread, but Duan Hongyu stopped him and demanded to know whether he had killed the Burning Heart Sect’s Saint and elders.
• Lin Bai admitted killing them, then also confirmed that he had killed Saints and Yang God Realm experts from the Celestial Net Sect, Heavenly Blade Sect, and other great sects.
• The seven sects’ elders threatened Lin Bai, while the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s guardian elders stepped in to protect him.
• Lin Bai called for Meng Chunrui, who confessed that Qi Xuan had killed the disciples in Starry Sky City after Meng found their residences.
• Lin Bai said Qi Xuan had framed him and his fellow disciples, that Qi Xuan was dead, and that the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect would punish Meng Chunrui.
• Duan Hongyu argued that Lin Bai still had to answer for killing the sects’ Saints and Yang God Realm experts in the Myriad Stars Secret Realm, and Lin Bai asked what crime he had committed.

Lin Bai defended his actions in the Myriad Stars Secret Realm, then left Starry Sky City after the rival sects appeared to withdraw. He separated from Nie Xiong and the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators, but a masked pursuer trapped him in flames near the Southern Chu Dynasty border.

• Lin Bai argued that his opponents had attacked him first and that the secret realm was a trial where the strong survived and the weak died.
• The Holy Seal Sect, Heavenly Blade Sect, Celestial Net Sect, and Burning Heart Sect left the plaza, while the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect Grand Elders suspected the rival sects were plotting revenge.
• Lin Bai and the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators rested in Starry Sky City for three days, then departed at dusk.
• Lin Bai parted from Nie Xiong and the seventy-two sword cultivators outside the city so the sects would not target them along with him.
• Three days later, a masked bald man trapped Lin Bai in a fiery cage near the Southern Chu Dynasty border and declared that Lin Bai would die that day.

Lin Bai’s avatar was ambushed by five powerful enemies, including Dong Qian and Ye Jianjun, and was beaten nearly to death. In the Divine Creation Palace, Lin Bai’s true body realized the avatar was about to fall as Bai Xiaoxiao asked what had happened.

• A sixth-level Yang God Realm elder of the Burning Heart Sect attacked Lin Bai with a flaming divine dragon, and Lin Bai’s sword could not break through the flames.
• Dong Qian struck Lin Bai with the Heaven Flipping Seal, then joined three other masked enemies from the Heavenly Blade Sect, the Celestial Net Sect, and Ye Jianjun.
• Ye Jianjun revealed himself as the true body behind the avatar he had left in the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and attacked Lin Bai alongside Dong Qian.
• The five enemies battered Lin Bai, shattering his spine and bones, pulverizing his meridians, and tearing off his left arm despite his Giant God Power.
• Lin Bai’s true body opened his eyes in the Divine Creation Palace and told Bai Xiaoxiao that the avatar was about to fall.