Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai fought through the slaughter at Withered Mountain Ridge, secured a Blue Token, and searched for a Core Token to enter the Wind God Sect ruins freely. After learning Kong Fang was battling Liu Liang over one, Lin Bai went to help him.

• Ye Suxin and Lin Zier abandoned their search for Lin Bai and led their groups to seek disciple tokens and the Martial Intent Monument.
• Lin Bai guided scattered Sword Alliance members toward the Wind God Sect and caught a Blue Token thrown into the crowd.
• Lin Bai killed a fifth-level Earth Martial Realm martial artist with his Divine Dragon Arm, frightening off the other challengers.
• Lin Bai reunited with Li Jianxing, Wang Hao, and Sun Qian, then learned Kong Fang was fighting Liu Liang for a Core Token.
• Lin Bai headed toward Kong Fang as the exhausted Kong Fang faced Liu Liang’s demand to surrender the Core Token.

Kong Fang gave Lin Bai the two Core Martial Tokens while besieged by Liu Liang and other ninth-level Earth Martial Realm martial artists. Lin Bai escaped the attackers, leaving Kong Fang with one token and drawing Liu Liang and Ye Suxin after him toward the Wind God Sect ruins.

• Lin Bai approached the battle and urged Kong Fang to throw him the two Purple Tokens, which Kong Fang did as he broke out of the encirclement.
• Lin Bai caught the tokens and fled, while Liu Liang abandoned Kong Fang to chase him; Lin Bai blocked Liu Liang's fist with a sword strike but was wounded.
• Ye Suxin attacked Lin Bai from ahead, and Lin Bai clashed with her as Liu Liang pursued him from behind.
• Kong Fang caught up, and Lin Bai gave him one Purple Token and told him to enter the ruins while Lin Bai made his own escape.
• Lin Bai challenged Liu Liang and Ye Suxin to pursue him to the Wind God Sect ruins, then used the completed Qilin Step to race away as both chased him.

Lin Bai escaped his pursuers and entered the Wind God Sect ruins, where he found a map that could lead him to the sect’s treasures. After killing a martial artist who tried to rob him, he headed for the Spirit Herb Garden.

• Lin Bai cut down the martial artists blocking his escape, and Bai Xiaoxiao intervened to hold off Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, and Liu Liang while he fled.
• Lin Bai passed through the Mountain Protection Formation using a core martial artist’s disciple token and entered the Wind God Sect ruins.
• Lin Bai found a beast-hide map in a Storage Bag beside a skeleton and used it to locate the Spirit Herb Garden.
• A fifth-stage Earth Martial Realm martial artist tried to rob Lin Bai, but Lin Bai killed him and took his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai flew toward the Spirit Herb Garden, hoping to find Myriad Year Spirit Herbs.

Bai Xiaoxiao tried to kill Lin Zier but was stopped by Zhao Xiansheng, who kept her occupied with a chess game. Meanwhile, Lin Bai entered the Spirit Herb Garden, where he learned the Divine Alliance was searching for him and challenged them to come find him.

• Lin Zier threatened Bai Xiaoxiao, and Ye Suxin ordered the Divine Alliance martial artists to scatter through the Wind God Sect ruins and search for Lin Bai.
• Bai Xiaoxiao attacked Lin Zier, but Zhao Xiansheng displaced her to a mountain peak and invited her to play chess so she could not interfere.
• Zhao Xiansheng revealed through his conversation with Bai Xiaoxiao that he wanted to keep her from helping Lin Bai and limit the imperial family's gains in the ruins.
• Lin Bai found Divine Alliance followers collecting herbs in the Spirit Herb Garden and learned they had been ordered to watch for him.
• Lin Bai struck a young martial artist and told him to inform the Divine Alliance that Lin Bai was waiting for them.

Lin Bai searched the Spirit Herb Garden and found a ten-thousand-year-old Gilded Ancient Divine Tree, a supreme metal-attribute spirit herb he could use to cultivate the Golden Spirit Vortex. As martial artists began fighting over their harvests, Lin Bai killed an attacker and tried to leave, but Qin Yu ordered him to surrender his Storage Bag.

• Lin Bai collected the surviving spirit herbs in the garden, then used his sword intent to discover a hidden stone chamber containing the Gilded Ancient Divine Tree.
• Lin Bai took the tree, recognized that it would help him cultivate the Golden Spirit Vortex, and decided to leave the garden.
• After the martial artists finished gathering herbs, they began attacking one another and robbing their opponents of their Storage Bags.
• A martial artist tried to rob Lin Bai as he left, but Lin Bai killed him with a single strike of his sword.
• Qin Yu of Azure Cloud Terrace Palace robbed the surrounding martial artists and then confronted Lin Bai, demanding his Storage Bag.

Lin Bai defeated Qin Yu after he tried to seize Lin Bai’s Storage Bag, then stopped short of killing him when Qin Yu offered information about the Wind God Sect’s treasures. The chapter ended with Lin Bai learning where two treasures were kept and hearing about a tower that could accelerate cultivation time.

• Qin Yu blocked Lin Bai and demanded his Storage Bag, but Lin Bai refused and fought back.
• Qin Yu attacked with the Icefire Fist, but Lin Bai shattered it with the Surging Wind Swordplay and held his sword at Qin Yu’s throat.
• Qin Yu offered information about the Wind God Sect’s supreme treasures in exchange for his life, and Lin Bai forced him to reveal it.
• Qin Yu said the Wind God Art and Martial Intent Monument were in the Martial Arts Pavilion, and Lin Bai became eager to find the monument.
• Qin Yu revealed that the Time Cultivation Tower could let someone cultivate for a year while only one day passed outside, then asked Lin Bai to spare him.

Lin Bai learned that the Wind God Art and Martial Intent Monument were in the Wind God Sect's Martial Arts Pavilion, while the Time Cultivation Tower lay in the core region. After killing Qin Yu, Lin Bai reached the ruined Martial Arts Pavilion and prepared to search for the treasures before heading to the tower.

• Qin Yu told Lin Bai where the Wind God Sect's treasures were and handed over his Storage Bag, which fired poison arrows at Lin Bai when he opened it.
• Lin Bai blocked the arrows with his sword intent, pursued Qin Yu, and killed him after Qin Yu attacked with Icefire Fist.
• Lin Bai left the Spirit Herb Garden and headed toward the inner sect, while the martial artists there lamented that powerful disciples had arrived to claim the treasures.
• Lin Bai found the ruined Martial Arts Pavilion and confirmed its location on the map, then approached it to search for the Martial Intent Monument before going to the Time Cultivation Tower.

Lin Bai entered the Wind God Sect's Martial Arts Pavilion ruins and followed the other martial artists into its trial grounds. There, Liu Liang explained how to challenge a mechanical puppet, while Lin Zier searched the crowd for someone who had not appeared.

• Lin Bai searched the gathered martial artists for Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, and Liu Liang while pretending to dig through the ruins.
• A martial artist uncovered the entrance to the pavilion, and Lin Bai rushed inside before the three leaders could discover him.
• Lin Bai and the other martial artists reached a trial ground sealed by a formation, where Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, and Liu Liang joined the crowd.
• Liu Liang explained that challengers had to ask the mechanical puppet to open the trial ground, and the puppet transformed from a wooden log.
• The puppet pulled a Rogue Cultivator into the trial, while Lin Zier searched the crowd and thought that her intended target had not come.

Lin Bai observed the Wind God Sect’s trial grounds, where an Automaton Puppet awarded martial skills suited to each challenger’s performance. After several martial artists tested the trial, Liu Liang entered and began battling hundreds of puppets.

• Lin Bai concealed his intent toward Lin Zier and watched a Rogue Cultivator begin the trial against Automaton Puppets.
• The Rogue Cultivator defeated three puppets before conceding, earning the Earth Grade Two martial skill Cloud Dispelling Palm.
• The Automaton Puppet showed the Rogue Cultivator a separate exit, while eager martial artists crowded to take their turns.
• Lin Bai recognized that the trial assessed each challenger’s needs and provided an appropriate martial skill, and he praised the Wind God Sect’s system.
• After hours of trials and a steady flow of visitors, Liu Liang entered the grounds and unleashed the Blazing Fire Art against hundreds of Automaton Puppets.

Liu Liang reached a total of one hundred puppets and chose the chance to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument instead of a sixth-grade Earth Grade martial skill. Ye Suxin then entered the trial and unleashed her army of demonic beasts, including the powerful Three-Headed Dragonhawk.

• Liu Liang used his Flame Beast Martial Soul to destroy two more puppets, bringing his total to one hundred before reaching his limit.
• The mechanical man offered Liu Liang a sixth-grade Earth Grade offensive martial skill or an opportunity to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument, with the Wind God Art promised if he comprehended Martial Intent Power.
• Liu Liang chose to wait for the Martial Intent Monument opportunity, while the other disciples learned that his performance had earned him the chance.
• Ye Suxin entered the trial arena and asked what was required to qualify for the Martial Intent Monument, but the mechanical man told her to display her talent and combat power.
• Ye Suxin opened her Beast-Taming Pouch, releasing more than a hundred demonic beasts, including her ninth-stage Earth Martial Realm Three-Headed Dragonhawk.

Ye Suxin cleared the trial arena with her demonic beasts, while Lin Zier was excused from the trial because of her exceptional martial soul. Lin Bai then stepped forward to begin his own trial as Ye Suxin and Lin Zier fixed him with killing looks.

• Ye Suxin sent her demonic beasts through the arena, passed the trial, and was told to join Liu Liang later to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument.
• Liu Liang invited Ye Suxin to admire plum blossoms, but she rejected him and said she would return to the Spirit Sword Sect.
• Lin Zier entered the arena and was excused from the trial after the mechanism warrior recognized her fifth-grade Heaven-level Saintly Dao martial soul.
• Liu Liang resented Lin Zier's proud contempt as she joined him and Ye Suxin among those qualified to comprehend the Wind God Art.
• Lin Bai stepped forward and asked the mechanism warrior to open the trial arena, drawing killing looks from Ye Suxin and Lin Zier.

Lin Bai entered the trial arena and faced threats from Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, and Liu Liang, then began the puppet test to prove his strength. He quickly destroyed fifteen puppets and vowed to surpass Liu Liang’s score of one hundred.

• Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, and Liu Liang threatened Lin Bai, who dismissed them and challenged their ability to catch him.
• Liu Liang demanded that the mechanism man expel Lin Bai, but the mechanism man allowed him to take the test.
• Lin Bai began the trial and discovered the puppets were stronger than him, each at the fifth level of the Earth Martial Realm.
• Lin Bai destroyed three puppets with one sword strike, then used Qilin Step to cut down more than a dozen others.
• Lin Bai told Liu Liang he would kill one hundred puppets to prove himself and charged into the crowd of puppets.

Lin Bai surpassed Liu Liang’s puppet-slaying record and continued fighting, revealing that he still had strength after killing more than a hundred puppets. He left Liu Liang furious and warned him and Lin Zier that they were not worthy of standing beside him.

• Lin Bai killed one hundred puppets, tying Liu Liang’s record, then destroyed three more and surpassed it.
• Liu Liang conceded that Lin Bai had earned the qualification to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument, but claimed his lead would only be temporary.
• Lin Bai rejected Liu Liang’s claim of superiority and charged back into the puppets to demonstrate his strength.
• Lin Bai used Wind Silence to kill the puppets around him, bringing his total to one hundred and fifteen.
• Liu Liang accused Lin Bai of using pills, but Lin Bai denied needing them and declared that Liu Liang and Lin Zier would never catch up to him.

Lin Bai was denied access to the Martial Intent Monument because the puppet judged his Yellow Rank One Martial Soul insufficient, and the crowd mocked him. Enraged, he continued the trial and annihilated more than a hundred puppets with one sword, then demanded to know whether he had earned qualification.

• The puppet offered Lin Bai a Profound Grade Five movement technique instead of qualification to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument.
• The puppet explained that Lin Bai's Yellow Rank One Martial Soul made his displayed talent insufficient, prompting Liu Liang and the other martial artists to ridicule him.
• Lin Bai refused to leave and asked the puppet to continue the test despite its warning that he was unlikely to gain approval.
• As the crowd laughed, Lin Bai unleashed the fourth stance of Surging Wind Swordplay and destroyed more than a hundred charging puppets with one strike.
• The arena fell silent, and Lin Bai angrily demanded that the puppet declare whether he was qualified.

Lin Bai unleashed overwhelming sword techniques against the trial puppets, proving his strength to the martial artists who had mocked him. After he slaughtered a thousand more puppets with sword intent, the puppet mechanism declared him qualified to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument, and Lin Bai stood apart from the others.

• Lin Bai killed more than four hundred puppets with two powerful forms of Surging Wind Swordplay and demanded to know if that was enough.
• The Sword Alliance martial artists cheered Lin Bai, while Ye Suxin recognized that he was revealing his true strength.
• Lin Bai used the sixth form of Surging Wind Swordplay to kill more than five hundred puppets and carve a deep trench through the trial grounds.
• When another thousand puppets appeared, Lin Bai vowed to keep killing until the mechanism was satisfied, then beheaded them all with his sword intent.
• The puppet mechanism declared Lin Bai qualified to comprehend the Martial Intent Monument, and the watching martial artists stared at him in disbelief.
• Li Jianxing witnessed Lin Bai's strength and declared that the Sword Alliance would rise; Lin Bai then stood alone, keeping his distance from Ye Suxin, Lin Zier, and Liu Liang.

Lin Bai and the other qualified martial artists followed the mechanism man to the Wind God Sect’s last and most powerful Martial Intent Monument, which held Feng Lingzi’s Gentle Sword. Liu Liang entered first to attempt comprehension, while the others waited to see whether he would gain its recognition.

• Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, Liu Liang, Li Jianxing, and Lin Bai followed the mechanism man through a hidden passage to the Martial Intent Monument grounds, where he allowed the unsuccessful challengers to observe.
• Liu Liang and Ye Suxin threatened Lin Bai, but Lin Zier declared that Lin Bai’s life was hers; Lin Bai then urged Li Jianxing to take the Sword Alliance away after comprehending the monument.
• The mechanism man explained that the Wind God Sect’s other monuments had been taken, then revealed a hidden chamber containing a thirty-meter black monument inscribed with Feng Lingzi’s Gentle Sword.
• The mechanism man set the rules for one-hour attempts, and Liu Liang volunteered to go first.
• The mechanism man opened the formation, Liu Liang felt the monument’s powerful Martial Dao Will, and he entered the chamber as the others speculated about what he might achieve.

Liu Liang failed to see the Wind God Art but comprehended first-order Martial Intent, then threatened Ye Suxin and Lin Bai. Ye Suxin also failed to comprehend the monument, and Lin Zier stepped forward next.

• Liu Liang was injured when the monument's restriction drew his mind into a storm-filled world, so he shifted his effort to comprehending its Martial Dao Will.
• Liu Liang comprehended initial-stage first-order Martial Intent and boasted that he would reach the Divine Core Realm or surpass it.
• Liu Liang threatened Ye Suxin and Lin Bai, while Lin Bai dismissed his challenge.
• Ye Suxin spent an hour before the Wind God Art monument but gained nothing and was pulled out by the mechanism man.
• Lin Zier sneered at Liu Liang and silently walked toward the stone monument.

Lin Zier and Li Jianxing comprehended Martial Dao Will from the Martial Intent Monument but could not pierce its defensive formation. Lin Bai also failed to break through the formation, but his Devouring Sword Soul stirred and brought a mysterious soul skill into his mind.

• Lin Zier quickly comprehended Martial Dao Will, then failed to pierce the monument's formation with her spiritual power and was pulled from the chamber.
• Li Jianxing comprehended Martial Dao Will and left without attempting to break the formation.
• Lin Bai approached the monument despite the martial artists' mockery and tried to pierce its formation with his spiritual power.
• The formation repelled Lin Bai's spiritual power and made him spit blood, but his Devouring Sword Soul trembled and sent him the scripture for the Soul Skill: Restriction Break.

Lin Bai awakened the Restriction Break Martial Soul Secret Method and used it to shatter the formation protecting the Wind God Art stone stele. He entered an illusion where Feng Lingzi demonstrated the Gentle Sword, then began returning from the vision after the sword nearly cut his throat.

• Lin Bai discovered that his Devouring Sword Soul had granted him the Restriction Break secret method, which could shatter formations and restrictions.
• Lin Bai used Restriction Break to destroy the stone stele's formation, shocking the puppet and prompting the onlookers to accuse him of cheating.
• The words on the stele drew Lin Bai's mind into an illusion beside a lake, where he met the young Feng Lingzi.
• Feng Lingzi explained that the breeze had inspired him to comprehend the Gentle Sword and said he would demonstrate it once.
• Feng Lingzi's gentle sword nearly slashed Lin Bai's throat, and Lin Bai's mind began withdrawing from the stele.

Lin Bai comprehended part of Gentle Sword, received the Wind God Art, and used a hidden passage to evade the martial artists waiting to ambush him. As he headed for the Time Cultivation Tower, a crowd discovered him and charged in pursuit, demanding the Wind God Art.

• Lin Bai recovered from the White-Robed Youth’s sword strike, then spent an hour comprehending part of Gentle Sword.
• The puppet gave Lin Bai the Wind God Art and revealed a hidden passage after the other martial artists left the Martial Arts Pavilion.
• Lin Bai told Li Jianxing to lead the Sword Alliance’s martial artists out of the ruins and warned him that he could escape on his own.
• Lin Bai took the hidden passage toward the core region and planned to cultivate in the Time Cultivation Tower.
• A large group of martial artists spotted Lin Bai near the core region and charged after him, shouting for him to hand over the Wind God Art.