Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai fought to kill the defeated Ding Xian-lai, but Old Ancestor Ding intervened with a phantom body and repeatedly knocked Lin Bai back. Lin Bai used a shattered King Grade Spirit Artifact to destroy the incarnation, leaving Ding Xian-lai without protection.

• Old Ancestor Ding appeared above the Battlefield Secret Realm and stopped Lin Bai from killing Ding Xian-lai.
• Old Ancestor Ding advised Ding Xian-lai to learn from his defeat, and Ding Xian-lai accepted the guidance and vowed to seek revenge on Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai attacked Ding Xian-lai again, but Old Ancestor Ding's incarnation shattered his blade and sent him flying.
• Lin Bai turned his sword against Old Ancestor Ding, then drew a shattered King Grade Spirit Artifact staff.
• Lin Bai swung the staff and obliterated Old Ancestor Ding's phantom body, leaving Ding Xian-lai shocked and unprotected.

Lin Bai killed Ding Xian-lai in the Battlefield Secret Realm, avenging Jian Xuan and provoking Old Ancestor Ding, who waited outside to take revenge. After recovering most of his injuries, Lin Bai prepared to leave the realm, where Old Ancestor Ding was waiting for him.

• Lin Bai killed Ding Xian-lai with a sword strike after Old Ancestor Ding's avatar was destroyed.
• Old Ancestor Ding learned of Ding Xian-lai's death and vowed to kill Lin Bai, then went to wait for the Battlefield Secret Realm to open.
• Lin Bai collected the dead martial artists' Storage Bags and used their healing pills to recover inside the realm.
• Old Ancestor Ding ordered the Sect Master to open the realm after an hour and watched as the other martial artists emerged without Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai recovered seventy to eighty percent of his injuries, stood up, and looked toward the Wormhole Passage.

Lin Bai used Million-Li Teleportation Talismans to escape Old Ancestor Ding, who relentlessly tracked him using his martial soul. After a month of pursuit, Lin Bai spent his final talisman and stopped in a valley, exhausted and unable to flee again.

• Lin Bai emerged from the Wormhole Passage and escaped Old Ancestor Ding's attack with a Million-Li Teleportation Talisman.
• Old Ancestor Ding pursued Lin Bai to a mountain range a million li away and tracked him again after Lin Bai teleported a second time.
• Lin Bai repeatedly used his talismans and flying sword to flee, but Old Ancestor Ding kept catching up by following his martial soul.
• After a month of pursuit, Lin Bai arrived in a valley in the Profound Heaven Domain with only one talisman left.
• Lin Bai used his last Million-Li Teleportation Talisman, then sat cross-legged in the valley instead of continuing to flee.

Old Ancestor Ding caught up with Lin Bai using his Heavenly Wolf Martial Soul Secret Method, Wolf's Thousand-Li Journey, and defeated him despite Lin Bai's attacks. He placed a Life-Death Curse Seal on Lin Bai and activated its death curse, leaving Lin Bai screaming in agony.

• Lin Bai stopped in a valley to recover, but Old Ancestor Ding tracked him down again.
• Old Ancestor Ding revealed that his Heaven Grade Nine Heavenly Wolf Martial Soul had granted him Wolf's Thousand-Li Journey, which could lock onto a target's aura across millions of li.
• Old Ancestor Ding attacked Lin Bai over Ding Xian-lai's death, and Lin Bai's sword arts failed to overcome the vast gap in their strength.
• Old Ancestor Ding struck Lin Bai with a black light that formed a Life-Death Curse Seal on his chest.
• Old Ancestor Ding activated the death curse, inflicting repeated bone-eroding pain on Lin Bai as he curled up and screamed.

Old Ancestor Ding tormented Lin Bai with the Life-Death Curse Seal and forced him to seek healing medicine at the Eastern Continent Academy in exchange for his freedom. Lin Bai agreed to buy time, and Old Ancestor Ding brought him back to the Profound Heaven Sect to join the academy-bound group.

• Old Ancestor Ding repeatedly activated the Life-Death Curse Seal, leaving Lin Bai badly injured and warning him that he could not remove it himself.
• Old Ancestor Ding ordered Lin Bai to find healing spiritual medicine at the Eastern Continent Academy, promising to remove the seal and clear the Ding Family’s grudge if Lin Bai succeeded.
• Lin Bai agreed but secretly planned to find a way to break the seal at the academy.
• Old Ancestor Ding killed more than a dozen attacking Zhang Family martial artists with a glance and carried Lin Bai to the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Old Ancestor Ding dropped Lin Bai into the Sect Master's main hall and ordered him to join the group going to the Eastern Continent Academy, shocking the Sect Master, Grand Elder, Gu Yuan, Lei Chong, and Chai Ming.
• Lin Bai vowed to make Old Ancestor Ding repay his suffering and to find a way to undo the Life-Death Curse Seal.

Old Ancestor Ding told the eight Emerald Flames that he had sent Lin Bai to the Eastern Continent Academy under the Life-Death Curse Seal’s control, while Lin Bai investigated the seal and discovered his flying sword frightened it. Lin Bai entered the Sword Formation Tower and found a new formation on its second level.

• Old Ancestor Ding revealed that Ding Xian-lai was dead and that he had used the Life-Death Curse Seal to send Lin Bai to the Eastern Continent Academy for the Life-Death Demon Sect.
• The eight Emerald Flames warned Old Ancestor Ding that the seal could expose the sect and ordered him to kill Lin Bai if he escaped control or learned the truth.
• Five days later, Lin Bai recovered from his injuries and found that the Life-Death Curse Seal reacted fearfully to his flying sword.
• Lin Bai entered the Sword Formation Tower and reached its second level, where he discovered the Taiji Dual Polarity Formation.

Lin Bai learned the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation could break the Life-Death Curse Seal and went to the Gu family to forge a second flying sword. After half a month of refining in the Earth Fire Dragon Vein, the forging process was still underway.

• Lin Bai memorized the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and decided to forge another flying sword to free himself from Old Ancestor Ding's control.
• Lin Bai chose Immaculate Divine Iron as the main material and asked Gu Yuan for access to a place suitable for refining artifacts.
• Gu Yuan brought Lin Bai to the Gu family's ancestral grounds, where the patriarch agreed to let him use the Earth Fire Dragon Vein.
• Lin Bai entered the hottest part of the Earth Fire Dragon Vein and began forging his second flying sword with Immaculate Divine Iron and thousands of other divine irons.
• Half a month passed as Lin Bai continued smelting and shaping the materials in the blazing stone chamber.

Lin Bai emerged from the Gu Clan’s Earth Fire Dragon Vein after spending fifteen days refining a second flying sword, then prepared to travel to the Eastern Continent Academy. At the Profound Heaven Sect’s departure gathering, Ding Huo threatened him with the Life-Death Curse Seal.

• Gu Yuan found Lin Bai unharmed as he came out of the stone chamber, and told him the group would leave for the Eastern Continent Academy the next day.
• Lin Bai thanked the Gu Clan’s patriarch and elders before returning to the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Lin Bai named his newly refined sword the Immaculate Flying Sword, bonded his soul to it, and practiced the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation.
• The Sect Master gathered the ten disciples chosen to travel to the Eastern Continent Academy, including Lin Bai, Gu Yuan, and Ding Huo.
• Ding Huo told Lin Bai that the Ancestor had sent him to watch Lin Bai and threatened to disperse the Life Seal; Lin Bai ignored him.

Lin Bai traveled with the Profound Heaven Sect disciples toward the Eastern Continent Academy and learned about the Eastern Mountain Domain and the Academy's location on the Sea of Gods and Demons. The chapter ended when a man came looking for Lin Xiaoqing.

• Grand Elder led Lin Bai and the other disciples out of the Profound Heaven Domain aboard a spirit boat bound for the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ding Huo warned Lin Bai that his life depended on the Life-Death Curse Seal, and Lin Bai decided to wait until they left the Flying Dragon Domain before severing it.
• A month later, the spirit boat reached the Eastern Mountain Domain, where Gu Yuan and the others visited Lin Bai with Lin Xiaoqing.
• Gu Yuan, Chai Ming, and Lei Chong explained the Nine Great Domains and told Lin Bai that the Eastern Continent Academy stood on the Sea of Gods and Demons.
• A man knocked on Lin Bai's door and demanded that Lin Xiaoqing come out.

Lin Bai protected Lin Xiaoqing from Ding Huo’s harassment, then began using his flying swords to remove the Life-Death Curse Seal. Ding Huo gained Old Ancestor Ding’s permission to activate the seal as a warning, unaware that Lin Bai was already destroying it.

• Ding Huo tried to make Lin Xiaoqing dance and grab her, but Lin Bai intervened and drove him away.
• Lin Xiaoqing apologized to Lin Bai, and Gu Yuan, Lin Xiaoqing, Chai Ming, and Lei Chong returned to their rooms.
• Lin Bai used the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to split the Life-Death Curse Seal and began destroying its spreading black qi.
• Ding Huo told Old Ancestor Ding that Lin Bai had threatened revenge, and Old Ancestor Ding authorized him to activate the seal but warned him to deactivate it within five days.
• Ding Huo promised Old Ancestor Ding that he would only teach Lin Bai a lesson and would not kill him.

Ding Huo came to Lin Bai’s residence to punish him and threaten Lin Xiaoqing, but Lin Bai was meditating while removing the Life-Death Curse Seal. The chapter left Ding Huo stunned after Lin Bai revealed that he had already removed it.

• Ding Huo ran into Lin Xiaoqing and Gu Yuan on his way to Lin Bai’s residence and told them he planned to settle accounts with Lin Bai.
• Ding Huo smashed Lin Bai’s protected door and found him meditating, while Gu Yuan and the others rushed in to defend him.
• Ding Huo threatened Lin Xiaoqing and demanded that she go with him, but Gu Yuan intervened and refused to let him harm her or Lin Bai.
• Ding Huo demanded that Lin Bai kneel and apologize, then tried to activate the Life-Death Curse Seal inside him.
• Lin Bai opened his eyes and revealed that he had removed the Life-Death Curse Seal, leaving Ding Huo disbelieving.

Lin Bai confirmed that he had removed the Life-Death Curse Seal and attacked Ding Huo before he could alert Old Ancestor Ding. Emerald Flames engulfed Ding Huo, and when they faded, he rose with eerie green eyes, prompting Lin Bai to suspect that he was no longer himself.

• Lin Bai tested Ding Huo's hand seal several times and confirmed that the Life-Death Curse Seal had been completely removed.
• When Ding Huo tried to use a Sound Transmission Talisman to contact Old Ancestor Ding, Lin Bai grabbed him and warned that he would seek revenge on the ancestor once he was strong enough.
• Ding Huo broke free and tried to flee, so Lin Bai used his flying swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to strike him down.
• Emerald Flames erupted around Ding Huo and burned him as he cried out that the ancestor had doomed him.
• After the flames sank into his body, Ding Huo rose with green eyes and an unfamiliar aura, and Lin Bai asked who he was.

Lin Bai fought Ding Huo, whose power had surged to the Life Extinction Realm, while the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation's flying swords protected him. Ding Huo admitted he was not the real Ding Huo and prepared a devastating punch as the Grand Elder refused to intervene.

• Ding Huo ambushed Lin Bai, but the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation's Defensive Formation blocked his punch.
• Lin Bai counterattacked with the Four Gods Sword Slash and raised his cultivation with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art, but Ding Huo shattered his Sword Qi and drove the battle into the clouds.
• Ding Huo admitted he was not Ding Huo and said Lin Bai had to die for breaking free of the Life-Death Curse Seal.
• The Grand Elder arrived at the shattered spirit boat but refused to intervene, hoping either Lin Bai or Ding Huo would be killed.
• Ding Huo unleashed an aura that reached the Life Extinction Realm and punched toward Lin Bai with overwhelming force.

After Ding Huo gravely wounded Lin Bai, Lin Bai fled across the sky for three days and reached Looking North City, where he escaped through a teleportation array bound for Great Spirit Domain. Ding Huo arrived too late to stop the teleportation and nearly shattered the array.

• Ding Huo shattered Lin Bai's defenses with a punch, but Lin Bai used his two flying swords to flee while badly injured.
• Ding Huo pursued Lin Bai for three days and three nights, while the Grand Elder, Gu Yuan, and the others watched without intervening.
• Lin Bai spotted Looking North City and learned that its teleportation array was about to send travelers to Great Spirit Domain.
• Lin Bai paid one hundred thousand spirit stones and entered the array just as Ding Huo reached the plaza.
• Ding Huo struck the array and nearly shattered it, but Lin Bai had already been teleported away.

Qiu Lin revealed that he had taken over Ding Huo’s body after Lin Bai broke the Life-Death Curse Seal, and he and Old Ancestor Ding made plans to hunt Lin Bai. Lin Bai escaped a collapsing spatial wormhole but was struck by black lightning and fell unconscious in an unknown place.

• Qiu Lin told Old Ancestor Ding that Lin Bai had broken the Life-Death Curse Seal and escaped toward Pengshi Island in the Great Spirit Domain.
• Qiu Lin and Old Ancestor Ding agreed to pursue Lin Bai separately, with Qiu Lin following the Profound Heaven Sect’s group and Old Ancestor Ding heading to the Great Spirit Domain.
• Lin Bai realized Ding Huo’s strike had destabilized the spatial wormhole and that he could no longer reach his intended destination.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword toward an irregular teleportation point, but black lightning struck him and knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Bai escaped the wormhole as it shattered and fell from the sky toward an unknown stretch of land.

Lin Bai fell from a black lightning vortex into the Celestial Peak Mountain Range in the Great Spirit Domain, where Di Hong and his companions found him. After waking, Lin Bai took their healing pills and absorbed the blood of their slain beast while learning where he had landed.

• Di Hong and his companions killed a Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast to obtain armor for their young lady’s Eastern Continent Academy examination.
• A vortex of black lightning appeared overhead and dropped the severely injured Lin Bai into the mountain range.
• Di Hong approached Lin Bai, but Lin Bai’s flying swords threatened him until Di Hong backed away and Lin Bai regained consciousness.
• Di Hong offered Lin Bai healing pills, which Lin Bai took before absorbing the beast’s blood to heal himself.
• Di Hong told Lin Bai they were in the Great Spirit Domain’s Celestial Peak Mountain Range and asked how he had emerged from the black lightning passage.

Lin Bai explained that a damaged spatial wormhole had forced him to escape before reaching his destination, leaving him badly injured. Di Hong invited him to recover at the Ji Family’s home, and Lin Bai accepted as the group prepared to return to the Celestial Peak Mountain Range.

• Lin Bai told Di Hong that a teleportation wormhole from Looking North City had begun to collapse, forcing him to escape through black lightning.
• Di Hong offered Lin Bai a place to heal at his Lineage near the Celestial Peak Mountain Range, and Lin Bai accepted.
• Third Brother Yang collected the giant beast’s corpse, while Lin Bai apologized for absorbing its demon blood and Di Hong told him not to worry about it.
• Third Brother Yang explained that Di Hong had spent three months searching for a Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast to make armor for his daughter Qingqing, who was about to enter the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai thought of his missing father, Lin Duo, and resolved to reach the Eastern Continent Academy and find him.

Di Hong’s monster-hunting team was ambushed by Third Master Li and the Li family, who demanded the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast. Di Hong and his companions were defeated, leaving the beast’s whereabouts and Lin Bai’s next move unresolved.

• Di Hong and Lin Bai encountered Third Master Li and more than twenty Li family martial artists as they left the Celestial Peak Mountain Range.
• Third Brother Yang explained that the Ji and Li families competed for control of the mountain range, and Third Master Li tried to recruit Di Hong before demanding his beast.
• Di Hong refused to surrender the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast, so Third Master Li ordered his martial artists to attack.
• Di Hong told Third Brother Yang to take Lin Bai away, but Third Master Li blocked their escape and Third Brother Yang joined the fight.
• The Li family overwhelmed Di Hong’s wounded team, and Third Master Li demanded to know where the beast was.

Di Hong and his companions were forced to surrender the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast to Third Master Li, who then ordered their cultivation crippled. Lin Bai intervened with his flying swords, but Third Master Li attacked him, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Third Master Li threatened Di Hong's group and tortured Third Brother Yang to make them hand over the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast.
• Di Hong reluctantly ordered Third Brother Yang to give up the beast's corpse to save the others.
• After receiving the corpse, Third Master Li ordered his men to cripple Di Hong and his companions despite promising to let them leave alive.
• Lin Bai struck the Li family warriors with two flying swords and told Third Master Li to leave.
• Third Master Li demanded Lin Bai's swords and lunged at him, while Di Hong and Third Brother Yang feared Lin Bai would be killed.

Lin Bai used his two flying swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to kill Third Master Li and the Li Family martial artists. Badly wounded after the fight, he left the Celestial Peak Mountain Range with Di Hong and Yang San.

• Third Master Li attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai's flying swords struck him back and pierced his palm.
• Third Master Li demanded Lin Bai's swords in exchange for the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast, so Lin Bai unleashed the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and sent his swords after him.
• Lin Bai trapped Third Master Li and the Li Family martial artists in the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation, then activated the Slaughter Formation after Third Master Li broke free.
• The flying swords killed the remaining Li Family martial artists and chased down Third Master Li, cleaving him to death.
• Lin Bai's injuries worsened, so Di Hong supported him while Yang San retrieved the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast, and they hurried back to the Ji Family.