Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai left for Lingnan after sensing that his endangered clone had nearly lost its life, while Bai Xiaoxiao prepared the Divine Martial Nation to intervene there. The chapter left Bai Xiaoxiao ordering Chu Jiangliu to conquer the Flying Cloud Dynasty within three months and move the capital south.

• Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao he was going to Lingnan to find his clone and promised to seek the complete Inverted Yin-Yang Formation to revive Suxin.
• Lin Bai visited Suxin in the Ten Thousand Mountains, then left for Lingnan after reaffirming his resolve to avenge her and their child.
• Bai Xiaoxiao learned that Lin Bai had departed and ordered Chu Jiangliu to station his legion at Sword King's Tomb.
• Bai Xiaoxiao placed the Divine Guards under Chu Jiangliu's command and ordered him to conquer the Flying Cloud Dynasty within three months so the Divine Martial Nation could move its capital south and enter Lingnan.

Lin Bai survived an assassination attempt only because the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect arrived, but his shattered heart meridian left him beyond recovery. He took the Three-Month Life-Extending Pill, saying three months would be enough and that someone should arrive by then.

• Five experts, including Dong Qian and Ye Jianjun, attacked Lin Bai and left him with shattered meridians and a severed heart meridian.
• Sui An and Gui Jing arrived with the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's peak masters, driving the attackers away and carrying Lin Bai back to the sect.
• The Sect Leader Sword Reverent learned that Lin Bai could not be healed, and the sect obtained a Three-Month Life-Extending Pill to keep him alive temporarily.
• Lin Bai swallowed the pill and told the Sect Leader Sword Reverent that three months would be enough because someone should arrive by then.
• A terrifying rumor about Lin Bai began spreading through the lands south of the mountain.

Su Xianmei and the Lord of the Forbidden City investigated the ambush that left Lin Bai near death, while Lin Bai’s friends and allies gathered at the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect. Su Xianmei learned the names of the five attackers and ordered the information sent to the sect.

• Su Xianmei mobilized the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s intelligence network and went to Purple Gold City to discuss the rumors about Lin Bai with Su Yanhua and Xun Zhizang.
• Su Yanhua and Xun Zhizang contacted ten old friends in Dongzhou and warned them that Lin Duo’s descendant might be dying.
• Zhang Jianxing, Lin Anyang, Ling Luo, Young Master Qian Shui, Wine Immortal, Zhuo Lian, and Jing Shu visited Lin Bai at the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Two months later, Su Xianmei arrived at the sect and received the identities of the five people who had ambushed Dongfang Bai: Dong Qian, Ye Jianjun’s clone, Elder Xuanhuo, Yan Lin, and Bai Yan.
• Su Xianmei ordered the intelligence sent to the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.

Lin Bai’s clone returned to Small Spirit Creek, reunited with Lin Bai, and transferred its memories before dying and restoring his martial souls and cultivation. As the three-month deadline arrived, Lin Bai prepared to confront Ye Jianjun, while the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect gathered outside believing Dongfang Bai had died.

• Su Xianmei told Lin Bai that the five people who attacked him had been identified, then stayed with him as the three-month deadline approached.
• Lin Bai asked everyone except Su Xianmei to leave, and his white-robed Original Self arrived at the bamboo house.
• Lin Bai absorbed his clone’s memories; before dying, the clone warned him that Ye Jianjun was alive and could create Blood Shadow Demon Body clones.
• The clone turned to ash, returning Lin Bai’s martial souls and Five Elements Divine Pill, though its death left Lin Bai gravely exhausted.
• Su Xianmei named Ye Jianjun, Dong Qian, Elder Xuanhuo, Yan Lin, and Bai Yan as the attackers, and Lin Bai asked her to help find Ye Jianjun’s clones.
• The three-month deadline arrived, and the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect gathered to see Dongfang Bai off while Zhang Jianxing mourned alone.

Lin Bai returned to the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect after his clone’s apparent death, recovered his strength, and received the second volume of the Reaching Heaven Sword Art. He revealed his true name and his purpose to the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators.

• Lin Bai emerged with Su Xianmei, told the Sect Leader Sword Reverent that her pills had restored his meridians, and was welcomed by his friends and fellow disciples.
• Lin Bai watched Ye Jianjun depart with killing intent as word of his return spread and enraged the seven major sects that had tried to kill him.
• Lin Bai sent Zhang Jianxing, Young Master Qian Shui, Wine Immortal, and Su Xianmei on their way, then repaired the cracks in his Five Elements Divine Pill and stabilized his cultivation at the peak of the first stage of the Yang God Realm.
• Gui Jing gave Lin Bai the second volume of the Reaching Heaven Sword Art on the Sect Leader Sword Reverent’s orders and urged him to remain inside the sect.
• Lin Bai told the Immortal Cave Mountain Seventy-Two Sword Cultivators that his name was Lin Bai, not Dongfang Bai, and that he had come to the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect to kill Ye Jianjun.

Lin Bai told the seventy-two sword cultivators of Immortal Cave Mountain to leave him so they would not be caught up in his conflict with Ye Jianjun and the Six Fiends of Lingnan, but they vowed to stand by him. He decided to wait for Su to uncover Ye Jianjun’s clones and true body, while turning his attention to the other enemies who had attacked him.

• Lin Bai warned Nie Xiong, Luo Xuan, Lei Yizhe, Li Chou, and the other sword cultivators that his identity would make them targets, and urged them to sever ties with him.
• The seventy-two sword cultivators refused to abandon Lin Bai and pledged to follow his orders through any danger.
• Lin Bai explained that he would not attack Ye Jianjun again until he knew how many clones Ye Jianjun had and where his true body was, and said he had asked Sister Su to investigate.
• Lin Bai named Elder Xuanhuo, Blade Master Leng Hai, Yan Lin, and Dong Qian as enemies he intended to confront, and Nie Xiong revealed that Elder Xuanhuo planned to seize the Heavenly Saint Fruit in the Beiyang Dynasty.

Luo Xuan explained the struggle over the Beiyang Divine Tree’s Heavenly Saint Fruits, and Lin Bai agreed to help the Luo Clan seize them. Lin Bai, Luo Xuan, Nie Xiong, and Li Chou left the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and entered the Beiyang Dynasty, where Elder Xuanhuo had already arrived.

• Luo Xuan revealed that the Burning Heart Sect claimed most of the Heavenly Saint Fruits, leaving the Beiyang imperial clan and Four Great Clans with little.
• Luo Xuan asked Lin Bai to help the Luo Clan seize the fruit, and Lin Bai agreed after learning Elder Xuanhuo was involved.
• Luo Xuan’s clan confirmed that Elder Xuanhuo had reached the Beiyang capital and agreed to split the recovered fruit evenly with Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai chose Luo Xuan, Nie Xiong, and Li Chou to accompany him, while he directed the other disciples to train or search for Ten Thousand Demons Valley.
• Lin Bai and his companions left the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect, and several days later crossed from the Litian Dynasty into the Beiyang Dynasty.

Lin Bai arrived in Luo Family City with Luo Xuan and was welcomed by Luo Xuan’s father, Luo Tianyou, ahead of the struggle for the Heavenly Saint Fruit. The banquet turned tense when Luo Yu questioned Lin Bai’s place in the contest and his share of the fruit.

• Luo Xuan led Lin Bai, Nie Xiong, and Li Chou into Luo Family City, where the Luo Family held authority.
• Luo Tianyou welcomed the group to his manor and hosted a banquet for Lin Bai.
• Luo Tianyou toasted Lin Bai for rescuing Luo Xuan and asked him to assist the Luo Family in the struggle for the Heavenly Saint Fruit.
• Luo Yu objected to using a precious contest slot for Lin Bai and complained about splitting the Heavenly Saint Fruit with him.
• Luo Xuan rebuked Luo Yu and apologized to Lin Bai for his clansman’s disrespect.

Luo Yu challenged Lin Bai's place in the Heavenly Saint Fruit competition and revealed that his master, East Ripple Sword Sect Elder Ma Ritain, was behind his objections. The nine other candidates accepted Lin Bai's participation, and Nie Xiong challenged Luo Yu to a spar.

• Luo Xuan and Luo Tianyou tried to stop Luo Yu from insulting Lin Bai, but Lin Bai invited him to finish speaking.
• Luo Yu mocked Lin Bai's cultivation and claimed that he had defeated a Purple-Robed Inner Disciple of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Lin Bai asked the nine other candidates whether they agreed to his participation, and they nervously voiced their support.
• Luo Yu argued that his fourth-level Yang God Realm master should compete instead and introduced him as East Ripple Sword Sect Elder Ma Ritain.
• Ma Ritain confirmed Luo Yu's claim, and Nie Xiong identified himself as a Purple-Robed Disciple and challenged Luo Yu to a spar.

Luo Yu insulted the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and challenged Nie Xiong, prompting Lin Bai to let the duel proceed. Nie Xiong overwhelmed Luo Yu with one sword, but Lin Bai intervened before the blow could hit him.

• Luo Yu accepted Nie Xiong's challenge and claimed he had defeated a stronger Purple Robe Disciple from the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Luo Yu praised the East Ripple Sword Sect and mocked the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect, enraging Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai ordered Nie Xiong to show Luo Yu the strength of a Purple Robe Disciple, and the two began their spar in the courtyard.
• Nie Xiong's sword overwhelmed Luo Yu, who called for Ma Ritain to save him as Luo Xuan begged Nie Xiong to show mercy.
• Lin Bai flicked a streak of sword light that shattered Nie Xiong's Sword Qi before it struck Luo Yu.

Lin Bai confronted Ma Ritain after Nie Xiong defeated Luo Yu, and the two sword sects’ representatives traded insults until Lin Bai challenged the East Ripple Sword Sect elder. The chapter ended with Lin Bai and Ma Ritain facing off in midair, ready to fight.

• Lin Bai shattered Nie Xiong’s Sword Qi before it could kill Luo Yu, then ordered Nie Xiong to return to his seat.
• Lin Bai questioned Luo Yu about his insults against the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and accused Ma Ritain of teaching him those words.
• Ma Ritain defended Luo Yu and rebuked Lin Bai, who responded by calling him a lump of shit.
• Ma Ritain insulted the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect, prompting Nie Xiong, Luo Xuan, and Li Chou to threaten him while Luo Tianyou tried to calm them.
• Lin Bai challenged Ma Ritain to pay in blood for his words, and the two flew outside to face each other in midair.

Lin Bai defeated Ma Ritain in their sword fight and forced him to reveal that Luo Yu’s supposed victory over a Reaching Heaven Sword Sect Purple Robe Disciple had been staged. The Luo Family learned how Ma Ritain had manipulated them and resolved to correct its conduct.

• Ma Ritain attacked Lin Bai with sword techniques, but Lin Bai powered up with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and defeated him with his king-grade sword techniques.
• Wounded and facing Lin Bai’s demon sword, Ma Ritain begged for his life and explained that he had arranged for an old friend disguised as a Purple Robe Disciple to lose to Luo Yu.
• Luo Tianyou and Luo Yu were shocked to learn the truth, while Luo Yu collapsed after realizing his celebrated victory had been fabricated.
• Nie Xiong warned Luo Xuan that the Luo Family could face trouble if other Purple Robe Disciples heard Luo Yu’s earlier boasts.
• Luo Xuan thanked Nie Xiong and promised to have Luo Tianyou set the family’s conduct in order.

After the Luo Family agreed to help Lin Bai pursue the Heavenly Saint Fruit at the Beiyang Divine Tree, Lin Bai traveled there with Luo Xuan, Nie Xiong, and the family’s martial artists. At Beiyang Divine Mountain, he spotted Elder Xuanhuo, who intended to kill him.

• After Lin Bai defeated Ma Ritain, Luo Tianyou punished Luo Yu and purged corrupt influences from the Luo Family, while Ma Ritain fled Luo Family City.
• Luo Xuan told Lin Bai that the Luo Family would split the Heavenly Saint Fruit with him and that Elder Xuanhuo would lead the Burning Heart Sect’s expedition.
• Lin Bai asked Nie Xiong to alert other sword cultivators to watch for Blade Master Leng Hai, Yan Lin, and Dong Qian, whom Lin Bai planned to confront himself.
• Lin Bai traveled with the Luo Family’s martial artists to Beiyang Divine Mountain, where the other clans, the imperial family, and the Burning Heart Sect were waiting.
• Elder Xuanhuo recognized Lin Bai and resolved to kill him, while Lin Bai noticed the elder’s killing intent and followed Luo Tianxuan to the meeting place.

Luo Tianxuan and the other factions entered the formation around Beiyang Divine Mountain and raced to harvest the Heavenly Saint Fruits from the Beiyang Divine Tree. After the fruit was nearly exhausted, Luo Tianxuan found an overlooked cluster, but Third Prince attacked him and claimed the tree for the imperial clan.

• Third Prince and the leaders of the Four Great Clans used their formation keys to open a gate, and Luo Tianxuan led Lin Bai and eight other guards through it.
• Luo Tianxuan assigned the guards to protect him while he picked Heavenly Saint Fruits, and the factions began harvesting the fruit with metal-attributed swords.
• The factions picked nearly all the fruit, with the imperial clan and Burning Heart Sect taking the largest shares while Luo Tianxuan obtained a little over one hundred and fifty.
• Luo Tianxuan found more than fifty Heavenly Saint Fruits on an overlooked eastern branch, but Lin Bai pulled him away from Third Prince's attack.
• Third Prince descended with the imperial clan's martial artists, told Luo Tianxuan to leave, and claimed the Beiyang Divine Tree for the imperial clan.

The Luo family clashed with the Beiyang Dynasty's forces over the remaining Heavenly Saint Fruits, and Lin Bai intervened after Luo Tianxuan was injured. Lin Bai struck down Chen Kui and rushed to help, but Chen Kui unleashed his Martial Soul Secret Method and engulfed him in blood-colored rays.

• The Third Prince demanded that Luo Tianxuan hand over the Heavenly Saint Fruits, and both sides began fighting when Luo Tianxuan refused.
• Luo Tianxuan fought the Third Prince while the Luo family's other martial artists engaged the nine Beiyang guards.
• Chen Kui attacked Lin Bai, who searched for the Burning Heart Sect while dodging his blows.
• After Luo Tianxuan was injured, Lin Bai defeated Chen Kui with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and charged toward the Third Prince.
• Chen Kui rose again and used Bloodied Shadow of the Masses to engulf Lin Bai in blood-colored rays, leaving Luo Tianxuan fearing Lin Bai had died.

Lin Bai used the Nether Palace to kill Chen Kui and severely wound the Third Prince, then fought the prince while Luo Tianxuan went to collect the Heavenly Saint Fruit. Lin Bai killed the Third Prince despite Elder Xuanhuo’s attack and took his Storage Bag, which held more than three hundred Heavenly Saint Fruits.

• Lin Bai survived Chen Kui’s Martial Soul Secret Method and used the Nether Palace and Book of Life and Death to weaken him before slaying him.
• Lin Bai erased Zhang Qian, the Third Prince’s true name, from the Book of Life and Death, severely injuring him.
• Lin Bai told Luo Tianxuan to collect the Heavenly Saint Fruit while he attacked the Third Prince with his sword arts.
• The Third Prince begged Lin Bai to spare him and called for Elder Xuanhuo, but Lin Bai pierced his throat while shielding himself from Elder Xuanhuo’s attack.
• Lin Bai took the Third Prince’s Storage Bag and found more than three hundred Heavenly Saint Fruits inside.

After killing the Third Prince, Lin Bai fought Elder Xuanhuo, who demanded the Third Prince’s Storage Bag and attacked with the Burning Heart Sect’s Blazing Art. Lin Bai transformed into a hundred-zhang giant and badly wounded Elder Xuanhuo, who called on arriving Burning Heart Sect disciples to kill him.

• Lin Bai survived Elder Xuanhuo’s flame attack and refused to surrender the Third Prince’s Storage Bag.
• Elder Xuanhuo attacked Lin Bai with Blazing Art: Dragon Sun, and Lin Bai countered with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art.
• Elder Xuanhuo struck Lin Bai with Blazing Art: Fusion Divine Sword, sending him flying and burning his chest.
• Lin Bai transformed into a hundred-zhang giant and used Blood Sea Seven Steps to shatter Elder Xuanhuo’s blazing sun and send him flying.
• Lin Bai smashed through Elder Xuanhuo’s flame shield and badly injured him with a punch.
• Burning Heart Sect disciples arrived, and Elder Xuanhuo ordered them to kill Lin Bai.

Lin Bai killed Elder Xuanhuo and the warriors of the Burning Heart Sect and Beiyang Dynasty atop the Beiyang Divine Tree, then gave the seized Heavenly Saint Fruits to Luo Tianxuan. The Luo family left with more than a thousand fruits and headed back before trouble could arise.

• Elder Xuanhuo urged the Burning Heart Sect warriors and Azure Blood Marquis's Beiyang forces to attack Lin Bai in exchange for Heavenly Saint Fruits.
• Lin Bai killed the charging warriors, including Azure Blood Marquis, then crushed Elder Xuanhuo with a punch.
• Lin Bai handed Luo Tianxuan the Heavenly Saint Fruits taken from the Third Prince's and Elder Xuanhuo's Storage Bags.
• Luo Tianxuan and the others searched the Beiyang Divine Tree and counted more than a thousand Heavenly Saint Fruits for the Luo family and Lin Bai to share.
• Luo Tianxuan led Lin Bai and the Luo family aboard a spirit boat and left the Beiyang Divine Tree.

Lin Bai divided the Heaven Saint Fruits with the Luo Family, arranged for some to be refined into pills for the seventy-two sword cultivators, and traveled to the Zhao Dynasty to find Yan Lin. On the way to Sky Citadel City, he consumed three hundred fruits and broke through to the second stage of the Yang God Realm, but lamented the Devouring Sword Soul’s immense demands.

• Luo Tianyou gave Lin Bai five hundred and thirty Heaven Saint Fruits and a hundred million spirit stones, and Lin Bai asked the Luo Family to refine two hundred and thirty fruits into pills for the seventy-two sword cultivators of Immortal Cave Mountain.
• Lin Bai declined to return to the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect, where the Burning Heart Sect’s Sect Master and three Grand Elders were waiting, and set out for the Zhao Dynasty with Nie Xiong and Li Chou to find Yan Lin.
• Lin Bai considered whether Zhao Hansheng had returned to the Zhao Dynasty, then continued toward Sky Citadel City.
• During the journey, Lin Bai swallowed three hundred Heaven Saint Fruits and broke through to the second stage of the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Bai reflected that the Devouring Sword Soul required vast resources for each breakthrough and that its users were driven to slaughter to obtain them.

Lin Bai arrived in Sky Citadel City with Nie Xiong and Li Chou to attend the Lu Family’s banquet celebrating Lu Si’s Emperor Grade Martial Soul and his recruitment by the Celestial Net Sect. As Lu Si prepared to leave for the sect as a potential Holy Son, he spotted Yuan Feng and ordered the Lu Family Butler to arrange for him to pursue her.

• Nie Xiong congratulated Lin Bai on reaching the second level of the Yang God Realm, and Lin Bai promised not to abandon his followers while he remained in Lingnan.
• Nie Xiong told Lin Bai that Lu Si had awakened an Emperor Grade Martial Soul and had been accepted as a personal disciple by Yan Lin of the Celestial Net Sect.
• Lin Bai, Nie Xiong, and Li Chou arrived at Sky Citadel City and headed to the Lu Family’s crowded banquet.
• Yan Lin announced that he would train Lu Si and do his best to secure him the Celestial Net Sect’s Holy Son position.
• Lu Si left the banquet and, after seeing Yuan Feng outside the Lu Family, told the Lu Family Butler to arrange for him to pursue her.