Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai defeated Xin Danqing with one sword, then sent Yi Wang flying when Ding Wulai summoned him to stop Lin Bai from joining the Profound Heaven Sect. Wang Jin still refused to approve Lin Bai’s entry, so Lin Bai prepared to continue fighting.

• Xin Danqing entered the arena at Ding Wulai’s request and challenged Lin Bai to kneel or be crippled.
• Lin Bai defeated Xin Danqing with a single sword and held his blade to Xin Danqing’s throat.
• Ding Wulai summoned Yi Wang, who arrived and confronted Lin Bai in the arena.
• Lin Bai struck Yi Wang with one sword, sending him flying and making the onlookers realize Lin Bai had been holding back.
• Lin Bai asked Wang Jin if he now qualified to join the Profound Heaven Sect, but Wang Jin said he still did not.
• Lin Bai said they should continue since Wang Jin still considered him unqualified.

Lin Bai defeated Yi Wang and then overwhelmed Gu Jian with a single sword strike, forcing him to admit defeat. As Ding Wulai grew more desperate, Li Moyun entered the arena to challenge Lin Bai.

• Yu Qinglin and Li Mo recognized that Lin Bai was still concealing some of his strength after Yi Wang's defeat.
• Ding Wulai summoned more than a dozen powerful inner disciples with Sound Transmission Talismans.
• Gu Jian entered the arena and attacked Lin Bai with late-stage Earth Intent, but Lin Bai wounded him with the Rain God Slash.
• Lin Bai rushed Gu Jian and stopped his sword three inches from Gu Jian's throat after Gu Jian admitted defeat.
• Li Moyun leaped into the arena to challenge Lin Bai, and Ding Wulai warned him not to be careless.

Lin Bai defeated a succession of Yang God Realm challengers at Combat Arena Peak and demanded that Ding Wulai send someone stronger. With the invited experts too afraid to face him, Ding Wulai called Senior Brother Gu Yuan for help.

• Li Moyun used the Violet Rainbow Divine Fist Imprint, but Lin Bai shattered his attack and forced him to admit defeat.
• Lin Bai told Ding Wulai to send a seventh-layer Yang God Realm fighter, then swiftly defeated Zhou Dongyi before he could finish introducing himself.
• Senior Sister Cang Lan attacked Lin Bai, but he shattered her palm strike and sent her flying with one sword.
• After the invited experts refused to challenge Lin Bai, Ding Wulai used a Sound Transmission Talisman to summon Senior Brother Gu Yuan, startling Xin Danqing, Cang Lan, and Li Moyun.

After Lin Bai defeated a succession of sixth-level Yang God Realm fighters, Ding Wulai brought Gu Yuan, one of the Profound Heaven Ten Elites, to face him. The chapter ended with Lin Bai realizing Gu Yuan had reached the peak of the ninth level of the Yang God Realm and was one of the sect’s elite experts.

• Ding Wulai summoned Gu Yuan to settle his family’s favor and challenge Lin Bai after the sixth-level fighters had lost.
• Gu Yuan arrived, and the martial artists on Combat Arena Peak saluted him as one of the Profound Heaven Ten Elites.
• Ding Wulai explained that Lin Bai had defeated Zhou Dongyi, Senior Sister Cang Lan, Li Moyun, and the other sixth-level experts.
• Gu Yuan agreed to fight Lin Bai and entered the arena, while Jian Xuan worried about the matchup.
• Gu Yuan’s spiritual power revealed his peak ninth-level Yang God Realm cultivation, and Lin Bai recognized him as one of the Profound Heaven Ten Elites.

Lin Bai fought Gu Yuan, one of the Profound Heaven Ten Elites, after learning Gu Yuan had agreed to help the Ding Family in exchange for a favor. Gu Yuan offered Lin Bai three attacks first, and Lin Bai wounded him with a combination of the Four Gods Sword Slash and the Single Word Sword Art.

• Gu Yuan’s late-stage Earth Intent shattered Lin Bai’s Four Gods Sword Slash, then he questioned why Lin Bai had not joined the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Lin Bai explained that Ding Wulai had blocked his qualification and arranged repeated fights against him; Gu Yuan said he had only agreed to help the Ding Family repay a favor.
• Gu Yuan let Lin Bai attack three times before retaliating, and Lin Bai’s first strike failed to break through his defenses.
• Lin Bai used the second volume of the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to unleash the Four Gods Sword Slash, then followed with the Single Word Sword Art as his third attack.
• Gu Yuan dodged Lin Bai’s strike to the throat but was pierced through the abdomen, shocking the watching martial artists.

Lin Bai lost his duel with Gu Yuan but proved strong enough to enter the Profound Heaven Sect as an inner disciple. After Gu Yuan compelled Wang Jin to grant Lin Bai admission, Ding Wulai left in fury and vowed revenge.

• Lin Bai pierced Gu Yuan's abdomen with his sword, but Gu Yuan healed and struck Lin Bai with the king-grade technique Human Realm Shatterer, defeating him.
• Gu Yuan praised Lin Bai's strength and declared that he qualified to enter the Profound Heaven Sect as an inner disciple.
• Gu Yuan pressured Wang Jin to approve Lin Bai's admission, and Wang Jin inscribed the qualification onto Lin Bai's token.
• Lin Bai thanked Gu Yuan, who departed after advising him to cultivate diligently.
• Ding Wulai left Combat Arena Peak with his followers, threatening Lin Bai, Jian Xuan, and Gu Yuan.

Lin Bai settled into his new residence in the Profound Heaven Sect and recovered from his injuries, then learned that he would have to challenge the Profound Heaven Ten Elites to earn an apprenticeship qualification for the Eastern Continent Academy. He rejected Jian Xuan’s suggestion to wait until next year and resolved to raise his cultivation enough to compete in three months.

• Jian Xuan helped Lin Bai complete his entry procedures and choose a residence in the East Lake Mountain Range.
• Lin Bai activated his residence’s formation and healed his injuries over three days.
• Jian Xuan told Lin Bai that the top ten in the Profound Heaven Sect’s martial competition in three months would earn apprenticeship qualifications for the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Jian Xuan explained that the Profound Heaven Ten Elites were mostly at the Great Perfection of the Yang God Realm and suggested waiting until next year to challenge them.
• Lin Bai decided he could not wait because he needed to find Lan Ling and learn what had happened to Lin Duo, so he resolved to raise his cultivation and compete this year.

Jian Xuan told Lin Bai about the Profound Heaven Sect’s cultivation resources and proposed that they team up to take missions. After studying Long Lingxiao’s Dragon Slaying manual, Lin Bai set aside sword training to focus on raising his cultivation and headed for the Cultivation Tower.

• Jian Xuan described the Cultivation Tower and Mission Hall missions, then suggested that he and Lin Bai work together to earn resources and prepare for the Apprentice Qualification Battle.
• Lin Bai decided he needed to raise his strength before the battle in three months and opened Long Lingxiao’s Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai found more than a billion spirit stones and the Dragon Slaying secret manual, which contained three sword moves and Long Lingxiao’s cultivation insights.
• Lin Bai studied the manual for three days and learned that the three moves grew in power from lower-grade to high-grade King Grade Martial Skills.
• After half a month of struggling to cultivate the first move, Lin Bai chose to prioritize his cultivation and set out for the Cultivation Tower.

Lin Bai went to the Cultivation Tower and chose an upper-grade cultivation room, only to have Zhang Qilin claim it and mock his cultivation level. Lin Bai refused to yield and revealed that he had ten billion spirit stones, leaving Shi Chuan and Zhang Qilin stunned.

• Lin Bai learned that the Cultivation Tower's upper-grade rooms cost one hundred million spirit stones per day and asked Shi Chuan to take him to one.
• Shi Chuan showed Lin Bai an available upper-grade cultivation room on the tower's highest floor.
• Zhang Qilin arrived with Xue Fei and claimed the room so she could cultivate before a breakthrough.
• Lin Bai initially prepared to use the other available room, but Zhang Qilin and Xue Fei mocked him for being at the fourth stage of the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Bai returned to claim the room and declared that ten billion spirit stones were nothing to him, astonishing Shi Chuan and Zhang Qilin.

Lin Bai claimed the last premium cultivation room from Zhang Qilin, then spent spirit stones to cultivate inside while Zhang Qilin waited outside for a chance to retaliate. Ding Wulai arrived and offered Zhang Qilin Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder, leaving him stunned.

• Lin Bai and Zhang Qilin competed for the last premium cultivation room, but Lin Bai entered after refusing Zhang Qilin's offer of fifty million spirit stones and outbidding him with one hundred million.
• Lin Bai activated the cultivation room with spirit stones and began cultivating, finding its spiritual energy ten times denser than outside.
• Zhang Qilin waited outside for ten days and vowed to make Lin Bai pay when he emerged.
• Ding Wulai told Zhang Qilin he could take revenge without waiting and handed him a bottle of Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder, which terrified Zhang Qilin.

Ding Wulai persuaded Zhang Qilin to use forbidden Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder against Lin Bai, while secretly sealing Lin Bai inside his cultivation room. Lin Bai broke through to the fifth level of the Yang God Realm but discovered the poison and became trapped as Zhang Qilin waited outside.

• Ding Wulai reminded Zhang Qilin that Lin Bai had wounded Gu Yuan and taunted him into using Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder to force Lin Bai from his cultivation room.
• Lin Bai cultivated for a month, advanced to the fifth level of the Yang God Realm, and worried he would not grow strong enough for the Apprentice Qualification Battle.
• Lin Bai sensed poison in the room and tried to leave, but found the door sealed; he recognized Ding Wulai's voice outside.
• Zhang Qilin released Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder into Lin Bai's room, unaware that Ding Wulai had sealed the door and intended to have Zhang Qilin take the blame.

Lin Bai escaped the poisoned training chamber and defeated Zhang Qilin, Ding Wulai, and their hired martial artists. He trapped them all inside the chamber with the Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder, leaving them to face the trap they had prepared for him.

• Zhang Qilin and Ding Wulai taunted Lin Bai outside his training chamber, where poison was growing stronger inside him.
• Lin Bai broke through the door’s formation with his demon sword and emerged from the chamber.
• Zhang Qilin sent more than a dozen martial artists to attack Lin Bai, but Lin Bai sent them flying with one sword strike.
• Ding Wulai and Zhang Qilin attacked Lin Bai together, but his Single Word Sword Art defeated them both.
• Lin Bai threw the attackers, Ding Wulai, and Zhang Qilin into the training chamber and sealed the door with its formation restored.
• Ding Wulai and Zhang Qilin panicked when they realized the chamber contained Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder and could not be opened.

Lin Bai trapped Ding Wulai in a cultivation room filled with Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder after letting Zhang Qilin and his followers escape. Ding Wulai called for his brother, and Ding Xian-lai arrived at the Cultivation Tower as Lin Bai faced him.

• Ding Wulai revealed that the sealed cultivation room could only be opened from outside and told Lin Bai the formation’s incantation and hand seals.
• Lin Bai opened the door for Zhang Qilin and his followers, then kicked Ding Wulai back inside and sealed him in with the poison.
• As the Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder began destroying his dantian and divine core, Ding Wulai used a Sound Transmission Talisman to summon his big brother.
• Ding Xian-lai emerged from seclusion and arrived above the Cultivation Tower, drawing startled reactions from the gathered martial artists.
• Lin Bai turned toward Ding Xian-lai as Zhang Qilin and his followers recognized the renowned member of the Profound Heaven Ten Elites.

Ding Xian-lai rescued Ding Wulai from the Cultivation Tower and ordered Ye Xiao and Ye Xun to seize Lin Bai over the alleged poisoning. Lin Bai fought back against the two ninth-level Yang God Realm experts, and the chapter ended as Jian Xuan arrived and Lin Bai unleashed his Slaughter Intent.

• Ding Xian-lai opened the restricted cultivation room and carried out the trembling Ding Wulai, who accused Lin Bai of poisoning him.
• Ding Xian-lai ordered Ye Xiao and Ye Xun to cripple Lin Bai and take him to the Hall of Law Enforcement.
• Ye Xiao and Ye Xun attacked Lin Bai from both sides, and Lin Bai countered with his sword arts while suffering wounds.
• Jian Xuan arrived at the Cultivation Tower and stepped in beside Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai told Jian Xuan not to interfere and released a powerful Slaughter Intent across the Cultivation Tower.

Lin Bai faced Ding Xian-lai’s accusation that he had poisoned Ding Wulai with Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder, while Jian Xuan stood by him. The Profound Heaven Sect’s Sect Master arrived to hear both sides, and Lin Bai maintained that Ding Wulai had planted the poison himself.

• Ding Xian-lai accused Lin Bai of poisoning Ding Wulai and ordered Ye Xiao and Ye Xun to cripple him.
• Lin Bai prepared to fight, and Jian Xuan joined him, pledging to stand with him against Ding Xian-lai’s forces.
• The Profound Heaven Sect’s Sect Master arrived and asked Ding Xian-lai and Lin Bai to explain what had happened.
• Lin Bai told the Sect Master that Ding Wulai had planted the poison and that Lin Bai had tossed him into the poisoned cultivation room after catching him sealing the door.
• Lin Bai confronted Ding Xian-lai over refusing to hear his explanation, and the two men faced each other with killing intent.

Lin Bai and Ding Xian-lai clashed over the poisoning in the Cultivation Tower until an Image Recording Pearl revealed Zhang Qilin had planted the poison on Ding Wulai’s orders. Ding Xian-lai attacked Zhang Qilin to silence him, then left with Ding Wulai after challenging Lin Bai to the Apprentice Qualification Battle.

• Ding Xian-lai accused Lin Bai of poisoning Ding Wulai and ordered Ye Xiao and Ye Xun to deal with him.
• Lin Bai and Ding Xian-lai nearly fought, but the Sect Master persuaded them to settle their dispute at the Apprentice Qualification Battle.
• The Sect Master played an Image Recording Pearl that showed Zhang Qilin planting Nine Suns Qi Dissolving Powder in the Cultivation Tower.
• Zhang Qilin confessed that Ding Wulai had ordered him to poison the formation and tried to produce another Image Recording Pearl as proof.
• Ding Xian-lai struck Zhang Qilin, left him barely alive, and crushed the evidence he carried.
• Ding Xian-lai left with Ding Wulai after threatening Lin Bai and challenging him to attend the Apprentice Qualification Battle.

After Ding Xian-lai nearly killed Zhang Qilin, the Sect Master and Grand Elder discussed how to curb the Ding Family’s influence. The Grand Elder revealed that Lin Bai ranked far above Ding Xian-lai on the Eastern Continent Records, leaving the Sect Master astonished by Lin Bai’s talents.

• Ding Xian-lai struck Zhang Qilin and left him near death before departing with Ding Wulai, and the Sect Master carried Zhang Qilin to the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder stabilized Zhang Qilin but said his shattered dantian and divine pill might be impossible to repair.
• The Sect Master and Grand Elder discussed the Ding Family’s growing influence and the difficulty of challenging Ding Xian-lai before the Apprentice Qualification Battle.
• The Sect Master told the Grand Elder that Lin Bai had vowed to defeat Ding Xian-lai, and the Grand Elder gave him the Eastern Continent Records.
• The Sect Master discovered that Lin Bai ranked five hundred and fifth, ahead of Ding Xian-lai, and read the record’s account of Lin Bai’s soul, intents, sword arts, and abilities.

The Sect Master and Grand Elder decided to recruit Lin Bai to help counter the Ding Family, while Lin Bai learned that Ding Xian-lai was backed by the Profound Heaven Sect’s Death Reversal Realm ancestor. Gu Yuan brought Lin Bai to meet the Sect Master, who summoned him for a reason he had yet to reveal.

• The Grand Elder urged the Sect Master to offer Lin Bai resources if he agreed to defeat Ding Xian-lai in the Apprentice Qualification Battle, and they resolved to keep more Ding Family martial artists from entering the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai told Jian Xuan about the Cultivation Tower incident and asked why Ding Xian-lai showed no fear of the Sect Master.
• Jian Xuan explained that the Profound Heaven Sect’s Death Reversal Realm ancestor belonged to the Ding Family and personally guided Ding Xian-lai.
• Gu Yuan arrived at Lin Bai’s palace and said the Sect Master wanted to see him for reasons unrelated to the Cultivation Tower incident.
• Lin Bai followed Gu Yuan to the Sect Master’s palace, where the Sect Master and Grand Elder were waiting with three young men, and asked why he had been summoned.

The Profound Heaven Sect’s Sect Master and Grand Elder offered Lin Bai powerful resources to cultivate him in exchange for defeating Ding Xian-lai in the Apprentice Qualification Battle. When Lin Bai questioned why the sect wanted to sabotage one of its own elite disciples, the Grand Elder hinted at hidden conflict within the sect.

• The Grand Elder apologized to Lin Bai for Zhang Qilin’s attempt to harm him and thanked him for the matter’s resolution.
• The Sect Master introduced Lei Chong, Chai Ming, and Chen Yiran as members of the Profound Heaven Ten Elites, alongside Gu Yuan.
• The Grand Elder and Sect Master offered Lin Bai full support, including access to the Profound Heaven Spirit Pool, a Yang God Pill, and any martial technique in the sect.
• The Sect Master asked Lin Bai to defeat Ding Xian-lai in the Apprentice Qualification Battle and ideally cripple him so he could not attend the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai questioned why the sect wanted to target its own disciple, and the Grand Elder warned that hidden forces stirred beneath the Profound Heaven Sect’s calm surface.

The Sect Master and Grand Elder explained that the Ding Family had taken control of the Profound Heaven Sect after its injured Death Reversal Realm Old Ancestor sought refuge there. They asked Lin Bai to cripple Ding Xian-lai and keep him from entering the Eastern Continent Academy, but Lin Bai left undecided, wary of provoking Old Ancestor Ding.

• The Sect Master revealed that Old Ancestor Ding had arrived in the Profound Heaven Domain more than a decade earlier, gravely wounded and powerful enough to force the Profound Heaven Sect to shelter him and his clan.
• The Sect Master explained that the Ding Family had seized influence within the Profound Heaven Sect and would likely absorb it if Old Ancestor Ding recovered.
• The Grand Elder said the Ding Family needed Ding Xian-lai to enter the Eastern Continent Academy and find resources to heal Old Ancestor Ding, so they wanted Lin Bai to stop him in the Apprentice Qualification Battle.
• Lin Bai said he needed to consider the request because crippling Ding Xian-lai could draw the anger of a Death Reversal Realm expert.
• The Sect Master and Grand Elder gave Lin Bai Sound Transmission Talismans and told him to contact them with his decision before the battle in one month.