Chapter Summaries

After recovering from severe injuries in Ji Family City, Lin Bai accompanied Di Hong to deliver the newly forged armor for Di Hong’s daughter, Ji Qingqing. Di Hong’s smile faded when Lin Bai asked why she did not live with him.

• Di Hong brought Lin Bai and the others safely back to Ji Family City and distributed healing pills among them.
• Lin Bai shut himself in a guest room and used the Five Elements Scripture and healing pills to treat his injuries.
• After ten days of recovery, Lin Bai met Di Hong, who invited him to see the armor forged for Ji Qingqing.
• Lin Bai joined Di Hong and the others, then asked why Ji Qingqing did not live with her father.
• Di Hong looked awkward, and Third Brother Yang and the others reacted unhappily to Lin Bai’s question.

Di Hong brought Lin Bai to the Ji family's main residence to see his daughter Ji Qingqing, whom the family had trained apart from him. When Ji Qingqing arrived with other aristocratic disciples, Lin Bai saw that she treated Di Hong coldly and that her companions looked down on him.

• Di Hong explained that Ji Qingqing lived in the Ji family's main residence because the Lineage valued her martial talent, while he lived in the western city with Third Brother Yang and the others.
• Di Hong registered at the Affairs Hall and gave Ji Longjun a Storage Bag so he would arrange a meeting with Ji Qingqing.
• Di Hong offered to have Lin Bai travel to the Eastern Continent Academy with the Ji family's martial artists, but Lin Bai hesitated because he preferred to travel freely.
• Ji Longjun announced that Ji Qingqing and the others had finished seclusion, and five young aristocratic disciples entered the rear hall.
• Di Hong greeted Ji Qingqing, but one of the young men stopped him and scolded him for approaching a higher-ranking clan member, leaving Lin Bai to recognize the estrangement between father and daughter.

Di Hong tried to give Ji Qingqing armor he had risked his life to obtain, but she rejected it and treated him coldly. Three days later, Lin Bai’s injuries had healed, and he found Di Hong drinking alone beneath the moon.

• Ji Yanglin and the other Ji Family youths scolded Di Hong for approaching Ji Qingqing, who refused the armor he had prepared for her.
• Third Brother Yang revealed Di Hong’s efforts and injuries, and Ji Qingqing agreed to let Lin Bai travel with the Ji Family to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ji Qingqing told Lin Bai the Ji Family would leave in five days, but Lin Bai said he could travel there on his own.
• Di Hong returned to his residence with the rejected armor while Third Brother Yang and the others angrily defended him.
• Lin Bai cultivated until his injuries healed, then found Di Hong drinking alone beneath the moon and went to speak with him.

Di Hong told Lin Bai how he had met and married Ji Qingqing’s mother, who later died protecting him from the Li clan, and asked Lin Bai to watch over Ji Qingqing at the Eastern Continent Academy. Lin Bai agreed to travel with the Ji clan’s warriors and promised to return Di Hong’s armor to Ji Qingqing, though he remained troubled by her behavior.

• Di Hong recounted how Ji Qingqing’s mother gave up her chance to attend the Eastern Continent Academy to be with him, then died protecting him from the Li clan when Qingqing was nine.
• Di Hong explained that Ji Qingqing had endured scorn from the Ji clan after her mother’s death and asked Lin Bai to protect her on the journey to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Di Hong offered Lin Bai armor he had made for Ji Qingqing and knelt to plead with him to accept the task.
• Lin Bai agreed to travel with the Ji clan’s warriors and said he would give the armor to Ji Qingqing once they arrived.
• Lin Bai parted from Di Hong the next morning, then reflected that he had agreed because Di Hong had once saved his life and had made a father’s plea.

Lin Bai joined the Ji family’s group traveling to Eastern Continent Academy, where he planned to take the disciple selection examination. After Ji Qingqing warned him about the deadly competition and mocked his cultivation, Lin Bai predicted that arrogant disciples from prestigious clans would be the first to die.

• Di Hong and the others met Lin Bai and accompanied him to Ji Family City’s central square for the departure.
• Ji Qingqing introduced Lin Bai to Elder Ji Longyuan, who allowed him to travel with the Ji family to Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ji Qingqing warned Lin Bai not to expect the Ji family’s help during the examination, while Ji Yanglin mocked him for traveling with them.
• Ji Qingqing showed Lin Bai his room on the spirit boat and cautioned him about the powerful competitors and deadly examination.
• Lin Bai dismissed Ji Qingqing’s warning and said that arrogant disciples from prestigious clans would be the first group to die.

Lin Bai recovered aboard the Ji Family’s spirit boat and considered the threats posed by Di Huo and Old Ancestor Ding, as well as his plans to find Lan Ling and investigate the Life-Death Curse Seal. The boat stopped at Cloud Firmament Mountain to meet the other five great families, where their elders began exchanging greetings and barbs.

• Lin Bai recovered from his injuries, confirmed that the Life-Death Curse Seal had vanished, and resolved to investigate its origins after reaching the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai learned from Ji Qingqing that the Ji Family’s spirit boat had stopped at Cloud Firmament Mountain to meet the other five families traveling to the academy.
• Lin Bai saw the spirit boats of the Li, Zhang, Yun, Long, and Zhao Families and observed the hostility between the Ji and Li Families.
• Li Leng accused Ji Longyuan of arriving late, but Ji Longyuan denied it, and Zhao Feiyun clarified that the Ji Family had arrived on time.

At the gathering of the six great families, Lin Bai dismissed their celebrated young prodigies and their Eastern Continent Records rankings as unimpressive. He did not know he himself ranked five hundred and fifth, though his current strength could push him much higher.

• Zhao Feiyun praised Ji Yanglin and Ji Qingqing, and Ji Longyuan named the promising disciples of the other great families.
• The young prodigies exchanged challenging looks as Lin Bai surveyed them and called them passable.
• Ji Qingqing warned Lin Bai not to provoke the prodigies, but he argued that their rankings and strength were insufficient for the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ji Qingqing revealed that she ranked five hundred and seventieth, and Lin Bai said anyone outside the top hundred was merely an ant.
• Lin Bai remained unaware that he ranked five hundred and fifth, and the chapter noted that his stronger cultivation could improve his position by hundreds of places.

Lin Bai cultivated aboard the Ji family's spirit vessel as the six great lineages traveled toward the Eastern Continent Academy. On Pengshi Island, the Gray-Robed Old Man learned Lin Bai had survived and was headed to the Academy, then killed the experts who had told him and sent Qiu Lin to pursue Lin Bai.

• The six great lineages departed together for the Eastern Continent Academy, and Lin Bai returned to his room to cultivate toward the seventh level of the Yang God Realm.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man arrived on Pengshi Island and asked its Life Extinction Realm experts to identify Lin Bai.
• A Li family expert recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Ji family's party and reported that he had killed twenty-nine Li family martial artists with two flying swords.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man confirmed Lin Bai had survived the spatial upheaval and learned that he had left for the Eastern Continent Academy ten days earlier.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man killed the gathered experts, warned Qiu Lin to kill Lin Bai before he joined the Academy, and departed for the Divine-Demon Sea.
• The six great lineages suppressed news of the killings after learning a Death Reversal Realm expert was responsible.

Lin Bai broke through to the seventh level of the Yang God Realm as the Ji family’s spirit ship approached the Sea of Gods and Demons. He arrived at its edge with the other candidates, where an enormous spirit ship from an unknown domain passed by.

• Lin Bai broke through to the early stage of the seventh level of the Yang God Realm and considered how he might fare against the Eastern Continent’s peerless prodigies.
• Ji Qingqing told Lin Bai that the spirit ship was in the Jianghai Domain and would reach the Sea of Gods and Demons before arriving at Exiled Immortal City the following day.
• The six great lineages’ spirit ships reached the Jianghai Domain’s border, and Lin Bai and the other candidates came onto the decks to look at the sea.
• Ji Yanglin insulted Lin Bai and told him to keep away from Ji Qingqing, but Lin Bai’s stare frightened him before Lin Bai walked off to drink.
• Ji Yanglin accused Lin Bai of trying to curry favor with the Ji family as the group from the Great Spirit Domain was mocked by people aboard a massive, lavish spirit ship that flew past.

The Divine Dragon Spirit Boat from the Divine Dragon Domain arrived above the Great Spirit Domain’s ships, and Zhang Yi challenged its young martial artists. After Zhang Yi’s companions taunted them, Ji Yanglin accepted the challenge, despite Lin Bai’s doubts about the consequences.

• A golden Divine Dragon Spirit Boat appeared above the Great Spirit Domain’s ships, aweing Lin Bai and the others with its imposing aura.
• Zhang Yi descended from the Divine Dragon Spirit Boat and announced that he wanted to test the Great Spirit Domain’s geniuses.
• Zhao Feiyun tried to defer the challenge until the Apprentice Qualification Battle in Exiled Immortal City.
• The Divine Dragon Domain’s martial artists mocked the Great Spirit Domain, and Zhang Yi promised to provide healing pills for anyone injured.
• Lin Bai predicted that the challenge could crush the Great Spirit Domain’s fighters’ confidence, but Ji Yanglin accepted it anyway.

Ji Yanglin accepted Zhang Yi’s challenge despite the elders’ concerns and was defeated, then attacked again and was badly injured. Zhang Yi’s overwhelming aura revealed the gulf between them, while Lin Bai wondered why Zhang Yi had prolonged the fight.

• Ji Yanglin agreed to fight the Divine Dragon Domain’s Zhang Yi, and Zhao Feiyun reluctantly allowed the challenge.
• Ji Yanglin introduced himself as an Eastern Continent Records prodigy ranked 890th and attacked Zhang Yi.
• After exchanging hundreds of blows, Zhang Yi punched Ji Yanglin back onto the spirit vessel and offered him Heaven Nourishing Spirit Liquid as an apology.
• Ji Yanglin ignored the elders’ orders and charged again, so Zhang Yi released a terrifying aura that sent him flying and left him severely injured.
• Lin Bai observed that Zhang Yi could have won in three moves and wondered why he had stretched the fight beyond three hundred.

Zhang Yi defeated one prodigy after another from the Great Spirit Domain, prolonging each fight for hundreds of moves before winning. As Ji Qingqing prepared to challenge him, Lin Bai warned that she was no match for Zhang Yi, drawing the attention of the assembled martial artists.

• Long Xuan challenged Zhang Yi and lost after five hundred moves, despite the Great Spirit Domain’s confidence that he could win.
• Li Shengqi fought Zhang Yi for seven hundred moves before admitting defeat.
• Yun Yihe and then Zhao Hailan challenged Zhang Yi, losing after nine hundred and eleven hundred moves, respectively.
• Zhang Yi called on Ji Qingqing to fight, and Zhao Hailan urged her to attack while Zhang Yi was exhausted.
• Lin Bai told Ji Qingqing not to embarrass herself because she could not defeat Zhang Yi, causing the Great Spirit Domain’s martial artists to turn their attention toward him.

Lin Bai warned Ji Qingqing that Zhang Yi had been deliberately prolonging his fights to lure the Great Spirit Domain’s prodigies into challenging him. Despite Lin Bai estimating her chance of victory at less than twenty percent, Ji Qingqing stepped forward because she could not bear to disappoint the watching martial artists.

• Lin Bai told Ji Qingqing she was no match for Zhang Yi, then explained that Zhang Yi’s increasingly long fights showed he was pretending to win narrowly and baiting more challengers.
• Zhao Hailan, Yun Yihe, and Ji Qingqing recognized that Lin Bai’s explanation made sense, while Zhao Hailan noted they were already trapped between fighting and refusing to fight.
• Ji Qingqing asked Lin Bai her odds, and he estimated them at less than twenty percent.
• Ji Qingqing left the spirit vessel, saying she would not retreat or disappoint the martial artists watching her.

Ji Qingqing fought Zhang Yi in a contest between the Great Spirit Domain and the Divine Dragon Domain, revealing her swordsmanship after Lin Bai expected her to lose. The chapter ended with Ji Qingqing pressing her attack after Lin Bai judged her chances had risen to seventy percent.

• Ji Qingqing challenged Zhang Yi, while Bai Dongfeng noted that their Eastern Continent Records rankings were close and their match would depend on combat experience.
• After thirty moves, Zhang Yi acknowledged Ji Qingqing's strength and revealed that he ranked five hundred and fifty-fifth, while Ji Qingqing disclosed her five hundred and seventieth ranking.
• Zhang Yi unleashed his full strength and declared Ji Qingqing would lose, leading Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai to believe the outcome was decided.
• Ji Qingqing drew her sword, unleashed late-stage Gale Wind Intent, and struck through Zhang Yi's attacks, sending him flying with sword wounds.
• Ji Qingqing asked Lin Bai how likely she was to win, and after he answered seventy percent, she charged at Zhang Yi with her sword aimed at his throat.

Ji Qingqing and Zhang Yi traded blows as Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai guided them from their respective Spirit Boats, turning the duel into a contest of tactical advice. When both fighters faced potentially fatal attacks, Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai intervened, appearing between them in midair.

• Ji Qingqing initially drove Zhang Yi back, but Bai Dongfeng called out her weaknesses and guided Zhang Yi to wound her abdomen and break her left leg.
• Lin Bai began directing Ji Qingqing's sword strikes, helping her pierce Zhang Yi's shoulder and sever three of his fingers when he attacked from behind.
• Bai Dongfeng ordered Zhang Yi to attack Ji Qingqing's shoulder, while Lin Bai told her to let the blow land and thrust at Zhang Yi's heart.
• Bai Dongfeng knocked Ji Qingqing's sword away from Zhang Yi's chest, and Lin Bai deflected Zhang Yi's fist away from Ji Qingqing.
• Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai appeared in midair before the bloodied fighters and exchanged a glance.

Lin Bai confronted Bai Dongfeng for interfering in Zhang Yi and Ji Qingqing’s sparring match, then accepted Bai Dongfeng’s challenge to force an apology. After enduring Bai Dongfeng’s attacks unharmed, Lin Bai launched a powerful sword strike, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Bai Dongfeng accused Lin Bai of inciting Ji Qingqing to nearly kill Zhang Yi, and Lin Bai condemned Bai Dongfeng for interfering in their spar.
• Bai Dongfeng refused to apologize unless Lin Bai defeated him, and Lin Bai accepted the challenge.
• Bai Dongfeng struck Lin Bai with a punch, but Lin Bai blocked it with four streams of Sword Qi.
• Bai Dongfeng unleashed his King Grade Martial Skill, Chaotic Divine Fist, but Lin Bai emerged unharmed.
• Lin Bai declared that he would now make his move and attacked Bai Dongfeng with the Single Word Sword Art, One Horizontal, One Vertical.

Lin Bai defeated Bai Dongfeng and nearly killed him after he refused to apologize, but Senior Zuo Hao rescued Bai and apologized on behalf of the Divine Dragon Domain. Lin Bai learned about spirit liquid and received a warning to be careful in Exiled Immortal City, as the Divine Dragon Spirit Boat entered the Sea of Gods and Demons.

• Lin Bai defeated Bai Dongfeng and demanded that he kneel and admit his mistake, but Bai refused, so Lin Bai moved to kill him.
• Senior Zuo Hao rescued Bai Dongfeng, rebuked him for underestimating Lin Bai, and apologized to the Great Spirit Domain's martial artists.
• Zuo Hao gave Lin Bai ten jin of spirit liquid and explained that it was a valuable currency and source of spiritual power.
• Zhao Feiyun recognized Lin Bai as number five hundred and fifth on the Eastern Continent Records and recited the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's high evaluation of his sword talent.
• Zuo Hao warned Lin Bai to be careful when martial artists from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain entered Exiled Immortal City, then returned to the Divine Dragon Spirit Boat.
• The Divine Dragon Spirit Boat sailed into the Sea of Gods and Demons, while Lin Bai returned to the Ji family's deck with the spirit liquid.

After Ji Yanglin demanded Lin Bai’s spirit liquid, Yun Yihe, Zhao Hailan, and Ji Qingqing opposed him and defended Lin Bai’s claim to it. Ji Yanglin left in anger, while Ji Longyuan reflected that the Yun and Zhao families had gained worthy successors but the Ji family remained in trouble.

• Ji Yanglin claimed that the spirit liquid Lin Bai had brought back belonged to the Great Spirit Domain and demanded that Lin Bai leave it behind.
• Lin Bai set the jade bottle in midair and said Ji Yanglin could have it, prompting Ji Yanglin to smugly approach it.
• Yun Yihe threatened war between the Yun and Ji families if Ji Yanglin took the bottle, and his family backed his command.
• Zhao Hailan joined Yun Yihe in defending Lin Bai and declared that the Zhao family would oppose anyone who took the spirit liquid.
• Zhao Feiyun recognized Zhao Hailan’s authority as young master, while Ji Qingqing warned Ji Yanglin not to force her to act.
• Ji Yanglin abandoned the spirit liquid and left angrily, and Ji Longyuan lamented that the Ji family lacked successors like Yun Yihe and Zhao Hailan.

Lin Bai accepted the spirit liquid from Ji Qingqing, Yun Yihe, and Zhao Hailan, then discovered that his Devouring Sword Soul could refine it like demon blood and advance his cultivation. As the Ji family’s spirit vessel reached Exiled Immortal City, Ji Qingqing avoided explaining her strained relationship with her father, Di Hong.

• Ji Qingqing, Yun Yihe, and Zhao Hailan gave Lin Bai the spirit liquid as thanks for defending the Great Spirit Domain’s dignity.
• Lin Bai used his Devouring Sword Soul to refine all ten jin of spirit liquid and found that it boosted his cultivation much like demon blood.
• Lin Bai watched spirit vessels from across Eastern Continent converge on Exiled Immortal City and spoke with Ji Qingqing about why he had traveled with the Ji family.
• Lin Bai told Ji Qingqing that she still cared about her father, Di Hong, but she insisted that he did not deserve her concern and walked away.
• The Ji family’s spirit vessel arrived at Exiled Immortal City.

Lin Bai learned that his father, Lin Duo, had once defeated the Eastern Continent’s prodigies so decisively that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain was later ostracized and lost its recruitment qualifications. When Li Tiankui insulted the abandoned manor, Lin Bai declared it his homeland and confronted him.

• Wen Jia led the Great Spirit Domain martial artists through Exiled Immortal City and explained that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s manor had been abandoned.
• Wen Jia said Lin Duo had provoked the Eastern Continent’s prodigies, defeated them, and left the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s martial artists facing years of persecution.
• Lin Bai realized the notorious sword cultivator was his father and reflected that Lin Duo had been even more arrogant than he was.
• Li Tiankui and four companions mocked the Myriad Kingdoms Domain and damaged its manor while Wen Jia urged the group onward.
• Lin Bai stayed behind, called the manor his home, and challenged Li Tiankui after hearing him threaten the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s people.