Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group reached the Godfall Mountains as the Three Great Clans formed an alliance to control entry. When the barrier opened, Lin Bai spotted Ye Jianjun and rushed after him.

• Lin Bai and Tie Haitang waited with Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group while searching for Ye Jianjun, whom Lin Bai believed would come to the Godfall Mountains.
• Sun Ji boasted to the Sun Lineage Patriarch about his plans to kill Dongfang Bai and seize the Demon Sword and Flying Sword.
• The Zhang and Li Lineage Patriarchs persuaded the Sun Lineage Patriarch to join forces against the mercenary groups and Demon Race.
• After the barrier vanished, the Three Great Clans and the Demon Race charged into the Godfall Mountains.
• Lin Bai spotted a black-clad swordsman he recognized as Ye Jianjun and rushed into the mountains after him.

Lin Bai recognized Ye Jianjun’s true body and pursued him into the Godfall Mountains, where the Three Great Clans tried to block outsiders. After killing hundreds of guards with one sword, Lin Bai entered the mountains, and Tie Haitang led the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group after him.

• Lin Bai recognized the black-clad swordsman as Ye Jianjun’s true body and charged toward the Godfall Mountains to kill him.
• Tie Haitang armed herself and led the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group after Lin Bai as the Three Great Clans sealed the entrance.
• Lin Bai killed a Li Clan swordsman who tried to stop him, while the mercenary groups attacked the Three Great Clans’ guards in anger.
• More than one hundred warriors blocked Lin Bai and mocked him after recognizing him as Dongfang Bai.
• Lin Bai used One Horizontal Stroke to kill the warriors blocking his path, including two at the second level of the Yang God Realm, then entered the Godfall Mountains.
• Tie Haitang led the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group through the path Lin Bai had opened, while Yang Qingyun and Gao Lin witnessed his power.

Lin Bai entered the Godfall Mountains and followed a blood-red aura to an underground plaza, where he found a shattered King Grade Spirit Artifact and a battle between the Three Great Clans and the Demon Race. The Three Great Clan Heads asked him for help against the Sea Demon King, while Sun Ji and the Sun Clan Head recognized him and looked at him with killing intent.

• Lin Bai entered the Godfall Mountains and followed the blood-red light into a cave after his Devouring Sword Soul reacted to its aura.
• Lin Bai reached an underground plaza and recognized a long staff embedded there as a shattered King Grade Spirit Artifact.
• The Three Great Clans and the Demon Race fought over the staff, with the Sea Demon King battling the three clan heads and the demons gaining the advantage.
• Lin Bai arrived at the plaza and noticed that Ye Jianjun was absent.
• The Li Clan Head and Zhang Clan Head called on Dongfang Bai to help defeat the demons, while the Sun Clan Head and Sun Ji recognized Lin Bai and turned hostile.

Lin Bai defeated the Sea Demon King in the underground plaza, but the demon escaped before Lin Bai could pursue his search for Ye Jianjun. After Lin Bai claimed a damaged King Grade Spirit Artifact, Sun Ji and the Three Great Clans turned against him to seize his weapons and treasures.

• Lin Bai arrived in the plaza, learned Ye Jianjun had vanished, and faced the Sea Demon King, who attacked him with the Sea-Suppressing Palm.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and his sword techniques to wound the Sea Demon King and sever several of his tentacles.
• The Sea Demon King fled the cavern with the other Demon Race members, and Lin Bai took the damaged King Grade Spirit Artifact staff.
• Sun Ji urged the Clan Heads of the Li and Zhang Clans to kill Lin Bai and divide his treasures, and the three clans agreed to attack.
• Sun Ji launched the Void Seal at Lin Bai, who put away the staff and charged at him with his sword.

Lin Bai killed Sun Ji, the three family heads, and their gathered forces, then told Tie Haitang the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group could take control of the Land of Exile. He headed into a stone cave to kill Ye Jianjun.

• Lin Bai used Rain God Slash to destroy Sun Ji's phantoms, then killed him while the Sun Family Head tried to intervene.
• Lin Bai killed more than ten Yang God Realm experts with his flying sword and beheaded the three family heads with Zhu Xian.
• Lin Bai slaughtered the remaining martial artists and absorbed the blood with his Devouring Sword Soul, nearing the third level of the Yang God Realm.
• Tie Haitang and the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group arrived, and Lin Bai asked them to collect the Storage Bags and said they could become the new overlords of the Land of Exile.
• Lin Bai spotted a stone cave and walked toward it, saying he was going to kill someone.

Lin Bai reached the blood pool beneath the Godfall Mountains and learned from Ye Jianjun that it contained the Blood King's blood. Ye Jianjun recognized Lin Bai, and the two drew their swords for a final battle, with Ye Jianjun wielding the Ghost Sword.

• Lin Bai reached the blood pool, where its vitality formed a dragon that he cut apart with the demon sword.
• Ye Jianjun explained that the pool held the Blood King's blood, left behind after the Blood King was slain twenty years earlier.
• Ye Jianjun recognized Lin Bai as the Sword Immortal from Eastern Lingdong, and Lin Bai dropped his disguise.
• Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun declared their irreconcilable grudges and agreed to settle them in battle.
• Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun drew their swords, and Lin Bai recognized Ye Jianjun's weapon as the Ghost Sword.

Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun fought fiercely inside the Godfall Mountains, where Ye Jianjun used Ghost Sword Luo Xiu and his superior cultivation to overpower Lin Bai. Lin Bai then unleashed the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and turned the battle around, while the Sea Demon King ordered a massive force to seize the blood in the Land of Exile.

• Ye Jianjun revealed Ghost Sword Luo Xiu and blamed Lin Bai for killing his ten clones before attacking him.
• Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun exchanged Wind God Slash, Rain God Slash, and Thunder God Slash, shaking the Godfall Mountains and alarming the martial artists outside.
• The Sea Demon King decided the Godfall Mountains contained Lord Blood King's tomb and ordered a hundred thousand troops from the Myriad Demon Holy Kingdom to seize its demon blood.
• Ye Jianjun overpowered Lin Bai with Lightning God Slash, sending him crashing into a stone wall and spitting blood.
• Lin Bai activated the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and struck Ye Jianjun with One Horizontal and One Vertical, nearly tearing open his chest.

Lin Bai nearly killed Ye Jianjun, but Ye Jianjun revealed his Emperor Grade Martial Soul, the Sword Soul World, and overwhelmed him with enslaved sword-type Martial Souls. As Ye Jianjun prepared to finish him, Lin Bai plunged into the blood pool, leaving his own Martial Soul unseen.

• Lin Bai battered Ye Jianjun with his sword techniques and Nether Palace, then launched the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to kill him.
• Ye Jianjun caught Lin Bai’s flying sword, used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to recover his strength, and revealed his Sword Soul World Martial Soul.
• Ye Jianjun attacked Lin Bai with the Nine Element Sword Box and the Immaculate Sword Soul, explaining that his Martial Soul enslaved other sword-type Martial Souls.
• Ye Jianjun struck Lin Bai down with the Heaven Splitting Sword Soul and sent the Immaculate Sword Soul after him.
• Lin Bai challenged Ye Jianjun to witness his Martial Soul, then tumbled into the blood pool.

Lin Bai absorbed the Blood King's blood pool, reached the third stage of the Yang God Realm, and shattered Ye Jianjun’s Martial Soul before nearly killing him. A powerful elder from the Ye Clan intervened through a spatial rift and attacked Lin Bai, leaving him facing imminent death.

• Lin Bai absorbed all the demonic blood in the pool with the Devouring Sword Soul and advanced to the third stage of the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Bai shattered Ye Jianjun’s Martial Soul, then struck him down until he was barely alive.
• Lin Bai moved to sever Ye Jianjun’s neck, but a spatial rift opened and a Gray-Robed Old Man appeared, seated atop a colossal sword.
• Ye Jianjun called the Gray-Robed Old Man Ninth Granduncle, and the elder condemned Lin Bai for injuring a descendant of the Ye Clan.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man sent transparent swords at Lin Bai, who was pinned in place as the blades closed in.

Yang Ding intervened to stop Ye Qingtian from killing Lin Bai, but Ye Jianjun escaped with his Ninth Granduncle after vowing to take revenge. Lin Bai left the Godfall Mountains badly wounded with Tie Haitang and the others, only to find a massive Demon Race army waiting outside.

• Yang Ding stopped Ye Qingtian's sword attack on Lin Bai, claiming he had been entrusted to save Lin Bai's life.
• Ye Qingtian ended Ye Jianjun's trial and took him through the black hole despite Lin Bai's furious attempts to break free.
• After the black hole vanished, Lin Bai swore to kill Ye Jianjun and later collapsed from his injuries when Tie Haitang asked where Ye Jianjun was.
• Tie Haitang supported Lin Bai as she, Gao Lin, Yang Qing, and the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group left the Godfall Mountains.
• They found the martial artists outside the mountains slaughtered and more than a hundred thousand Demon Race soldiers surrounding the area; Gao Lin identified them as the Blood Soul Legion.

Lin Bai and his companions emerged from the Godfall Mountains to face the Blood Soul Legion, which demanded the relics of Blood King. As the legion attacked, Tie Haitang fought the Sea Demon King and severely wounded him, leaving him calling on Blood Soul King for help.

• Lin Bai saw the Blood Soul Legion led by Blood Soul King and the injured Sea Demon King waiting outside the Godfall Mountains.
• The Sea Demon King demanded Blood King's relics, and Lin Bai revealed that he had refined the entire pool of blood.
• Blood Soul King ordered the Blood Soul Legion to attack, and Tie Haitang urged Lin Bai to watch as she defended him.
• Tie Haitang charged the Sea Demon King with her spear and pierced through his Sea-Suppressing Palm, gravely injuring him.
• The Sea Demon King called on Blood Soul King to intervene.

Lin Bai intervened when Blood Soul King and Sea Demon King nearly killed Tie Haitang, then transformed into a hundred-zhang giant and killed Blood Soul King with one punch. Sea Demon King and the surrounding Demon Race soldiers were left staring in disbelief.

• Blood Soul King and Sea Demon King joined forces against Tie Haitang, and Blood Soul King nearly stabbed her in the neck with a dagger.
• Lin Bai caught the dagger with his hand, despite his severe injuries, and told Tie Haitang to stand down.
• Blood Soul King mocked Lin Bai, who claimed he could kill him with one punch.
• Lin Bai grew into a hundred-zhang giant and smashed Blood Soul King with a single punch.
• Sea Demon King and the nearby Blood Soul Legion soldiers stared in disbelief at Blood Soul King's shattered corpse.

Lin Bai transformed into a giant, killed the Blood Soul King and Sea Demon King, and drove the Blood Soul Legion from the Land of Exile. After recovering and refining a broken King Grade Spirit Artifact, he reunited with Su Xianmei, whose unusually cold expression left him uneasy.

• Lin Bai used his giant form to slaughter the Blood Soul Legion and kill the Blood Soul King and Sea Demon King, forcing the remaining demons to retreat.
• Lin Bai absorbed the battlefield’s blood, reached the peak of the third level of the Yang God Realm, and had Tie Haitang send the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group to collect the spoils.
• Lin Bai recovered at the Dragon Hunt Mercenary Group’s station and refined the broken King Grade Spirit Artifact long staff.
• Tie Haitang told Lin Bai that Su Xianmei had come to see him, and Lin Bai invited her in.
• Lin Bai greeted Su Xianmei and noticed that her face and eyes were unusually cold and solemn.

Lin Bai learned that Zhao Hansheng was in the Northern Han Dynasty’s Icy Peaks, where he planned to seek Blood Ginseng. Su Xianmei explained that the Ice Lineage would hold a martial competition in two months, giving Lin Bai a chance to find Zhao Hansheng there.

• Su Xianmei scolded Lin Bai for putting himself in danger and warned him to be more careful because she and her allies could not always rescue him.
• Su Xianmei recognized Tie Haitang and told her she knew everyone close to Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai said he would finish handling matters in Lingnan before going to Dongzhou and would deal with the remaining four of the Six Fiends of Lingnan.
• Su Xianmei revealed that Zhao Hansheng had gone to the Icy Peaks to search for Blood Ginseng, which could greatly aid his cultivation.
• Su Xianmei said Zhao Hansheng would likely enter the Ice Lineage’s martial competition in two months, where Blood Ginseng would be the prize.
• Su Xianmei explained that the Ice Lineage held the competition under pressure from Northern Han forces and invited martial artists from across Lingnan so those forces would not easily claim the prize.

Su Xianmei explained the Ice Clan’s influence and warned Lin Bai to be cautious around Zhao Hansheng. Lin Bai left Tie Haitang in the Land of Exile and headed for the Northern Han Dynasty, while Tie Haitang resolved to grow stronger.

• Su Xianmei told Lin Bai that the Ice Clan had become the First Clan of Lingnan and warned him that killing Zhao Hansheng could provoke them.
• Su Xianmei said she and Lin Bai could not stop until he found his parents and defeated their powerful enemies, then left the Land of Exile.
• Tie Haitang offered to accompany Lin Bai, but he urged her to stay in the Land of Exile and improve her cultivation.
• Lin Bai gave Tie Haitang a strand of Devouring Sword Qi so Bai Xiaoxiao could recognize it and help her if needed.
• Lin Bai left for the Northern Han Dynasty, and Tie Haitang vowed to become ten times stronger before they met again.

Lin Bai traveled through the Northern Han Dynasty toward the Sword Hermitage, where he hoped to reunite with Zhang Jianxing and retrieve the Demon Sword. He followed the Icy Breath River, whose year-round flow revealed the immense sword intent of Old Man Lone Boat, while Chen Rui and Chen Li headed to the hermitage to seek an audience.

• Lin Bai reached the Icy Breath River and sensed that sword intent kept its waters from freezing.
• Lin Bai followed the riverbank and reflected on how Old Man Lone Boat’s sword intent had surged through the river for more than ten years.
• Lin Bai recalled that he had come to the Sword Hermitage to see Zhang Jianxing and retrieve the Demon Sword that Old Man Lone Boat had taken from him.
• Chen Rui and Chen Li mocked Lin Bai for walking beside the river and doubted that someone below the Sky Realm could become Old Man Lone Boat’s disciple.
• Chen Rui and Chen Li continued toward the Sword Hermitage, determined to meet Old Man Lone Boat or Zhang Jianxing on their fifth visit, while Lin Bai walked downstream toward the hermitage.

Lin Bai reached Sword Hermitage after seven days and was mocked by the young masters gathered there, who assumed his lack of a spirit boat meant he lacked talent. Zhang Jianxing arrived on Old Man Lone Boat’s orders and escorted Lin Bai inside, leaving Chen Rui furious enough to call after them.

• Lin Bai arrived at Sword Hermitage and mistook the visitors’ thatched huts for Old Man Lone Boat’s residence.
• Chen Li and Chen Rui mocked Lin Bai for walking along Icy Breath River and doubted he could become Old Man Lone Boat’s disciple.
• Zhang Jianxing arrived, ignored the assembled young masters, and told Lin Bai that Old Man Lone Boat had sent him to receive him.
• Zhang Jianxing escorted Lin Bai toward Old Man Lone Boat while Chen Li and Chen Rui watched in disbelief.
• Chen Rui called out to stop Zhang Jianxing and Lin Bai.

Zhang Jianxing revealed that the white-robed visitor was Dongfang Bai, explaining why Old Man Lone Boat had agreed to meet him. Dongfang Bai joined Old Man Lone Boat on his fishing boat, where Zhang Jianxing went to warm wine.

• Chen Rui challenged Zhang Jianxing to explain why Old Man Lone Boat would see Dongfang Bai but had refused to meet the nobles who had waited for years.
• Zhang Jianxing identified the white-robed man as Dongfang Bai and cited his reputation, potential, and strength, leaving Chen Rui and the other nobles speechless.
• Zhang Jianxing led Dongfang Bai toward the Sword Hermitage while the nobles stayed behind and kept their distance from Chen Rui and Chen Li.
• Old Man Lone Boat greeted Dongfang Bai from his fishing boat and invited him aboard.
• Old Man Lone Boat continued fishing as Zhang Jianxing went to warm wine for Dongfang Bai.

After drinking Enlightenment Brew, Lin Bai witnessed a vision of the Devouring Sword Soul and gained sudden enlightenment, refining his Zhu Xian Sword to minor mastery. Old Man Lone Boat then caught an enormous azure flood dragon, which threatened to eat him.

• Zhang Jianxing gave Lin Bai a pot of Enlightenment Brew, and Lin Bai drank it while watching Old Man Lone Boat fish.
• Lin Bai saw a vortex devour the world and pour its power into a golden fishing line that shattered stars, then realized the vision revealed the Devouring Sword Soul.
• Lin Bai connected the vision to his Zhu Xian Sword and said the technique had reached minor mastery.
• Old Man Lone Boat hooked and hauled a three-hundred-meter azure flood dragon from Icy Breath River and slammed it onto the riverbank.
• The azure flood dragon roared at Old Man Lone Boat and threatened to eat him.

Old Man Lone Boat caught the Azure Flood Dragon and took a hundred drops of its blood, which he gave to Lin Bai along with the Demon Sword. After Lin Bai and Zhang Jianxing left, Old Man Lone Boat revealed that Lin Bai reminded him of his father, Lin Duo.

• Old Man Lone Boat forced the Azure Flood Dragon to surrender a hundred drops of Divine Dragon Blood and gave them to Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai accepted the blood, hoping it would help him advance to the fourth stage of the Yang God Realm.
• Old Man Lone Boat returned the Demon Sword to Lin Bai and warned him that it could devour his mind and vitality.
• Old Man Lone Boat welcomed Lin Bai to stay at the Sword Hermitage, and Zhang Jianxing took him away to drink in private.
• The Azure Flood Dragon questioned whether Lin Bai would use the Demon Sword, and Old Man Lone Boat said Lin Bai was too much like his father.
• The Azure Flood Dragon recalled that Lin Duo had chased it with a sword and named a technique Dragon Slaying, while Old Man Lone Boat sighed over Lin Duo.