Chapter Summaries

At the Flowing Wine Cups Workshop, Li Bai confronted Linghu Wen after detecting something suspicious about him and the gathering. Linghu Wen revealed his sword and tried to escape, but Li Bai pursued him with his first soul skill, Bring in the Wine!

• Li Bai criticized the poems on display and told Linghu Wen that the poems and the workshop lacked purity.
• Li Bai sensed something wrong about Linghu Wen and the workshop, then demanded to know who he was and why he had infiltrated King's Hall.
• Ming Shiyin and the other scholars realized the danger as Linghu Wen dropped his gentle pretense and admitted Li Bai's senses were keen.
• Linghu Wen drew a jade sword and raced toward the workshop's maze barrier to escape.
• Li Bai vanished with his first soul skill, Bring in the Wine!, and pursued Linghu Wen in a streak of sword light.

Li Bai nearly defeated Linghu Wen, but Linghu Wen used a jade-transformation technique to trap him and cast him into the Emerald Void. Li Bai landed in a floating city he recognized as his hometown, Suiye City.

• Li Bai blocked Linghu Wen's escape, shattered his Jade Zhang barrier, and wounded him with the Green Lotus Sword.
• Linghu Wen tried to tempt Li Bai to join his side and claimed he could offer a gift leading toward the Great Dao.
• When Li Bai moved to kill him, Linghu Wen transformed himself into jade and spread the transformation through the sword to Li Bai.
• The jade energy engulfed Li Bai, who fell through a chaotic Emerald Void and saw collapsing stars, mountains, and rivers.
• Li Bai recognized a floating city as Suiye City before crashing into one of its streets.

Li Bai was trapped in Linghu Wen’s Hometown Dream, where Linghu Wen recreated Suiye City to imprison him in an idealized version of his memories. Outside the illusion, Shangguan Wan’er reported Li Bai’s situation to Wu Zetian as he charged the Jade Dharma Image.

• Li Bai recognized Linghu Wen’s illusion as a vivid recreation of his hometown and spotted Linghu Wen watching from a teahouse.
• As Li Bai charged him, the streets of Suiye City shifted through changing seasons and eras, and Linghu Wen transformed into a colossal Jade Dharma Image.
• Linghu Wen invited Li Bai to remain forever in the peaceful Hometown Dream, but Li Bai rejected the illusion as revolting and drew his Green Lotus Sword.
• The Jade Dharma Image raised its hand to attack, and Li Bai leaped through the shifting streets toward it.
• Shangguan Wan’er reported to Wu Zetian that Linghu Wen had trapped Li Bai inside an emerald-green energy field surrounding Flowing Wine Cups Workshop.

Wu Zetian activated the Eternal Jade Heavenly Palace Array to contain the Jade Fox's expanding dreamscape and ordered an evacuation, buying Li Bai time. Inside the dreamscape, Li Bai was badly wounded when his sword strike was stopped by Linghu Wen's Jade Dharma Image, which began reciting a cryptic truth.

• Shangguan Wan'er reported that the Jade Fox's Emerald Energy Field was expanding as a dreamscape and eroding reality around the Flowing Wine Cups Workshop.
• Wu Zetian ordered Di Renjie to seal off the area, then activated the Eternal Jade Heavenly Palace Array to contain the dreamscape's spread.
• Wu Zetian sent Li Yuanfang and Yun Ying to help evacuate King's Hall disciples, workers, and civilians from the danger zone.
• Li Bai's sword strike hit the Jade Dharma Image's palm and rebounded, leaving him badly injured in the Suiye City dreamscape.
• The Jade Dharma Image looked down at Li Bai and recited, "Heaven and earth are but an inn for all things; time is but a passing traveler through countless generations."

Linghu Wen trapped Li Bai in the Ultimate Beauty Illusion, where he preserved the landscapes and places from Li Bai’s poems as a twisted museum. As Li Bai’s strength failed and Linghu Wen prepared to jadeify him, Li Bai faced the threat of becoming another frozen exhibit.

• Linghu Wen argued that his illusion preserved Li Bai’s hometown and other fleeting beauties forever, but Li Bai rejected the soulless, frozen imitation.
• Li Bai charged Linghu Wen’s Dharma Image, which halted him with invisible force and seized him in a jade giant hand.
• Linghu Wen displayed the Lushan Waterfall, Shu Road, Chang'an, and other poetic landscapes, using their power to strengthen the illusion and suppress Li Bai.
• Linghu Wen slammed Li Bai to the ground, disarmed him, and watched as jadeification spread and Li Bai’s consciousness blurred.
• Linghu Wen prepared to touch Li Bai’s brow with jade light that would freeze his life and soul.

Li Bai broke free of Linghu Wen’s illusion by realizing that his poetry’s landscapes reflected human feelings and lived relationships. He emerged transformed with the Shattered Moon Glazed Sword and challenged the Jade Dharma Image’s understanding of his work.

• Li Bai recalled the people and emotions woven through his life, and his realization awakened his silent sword heart.
• Cracks spread across Li Bai’s jadeified body as the power within him broke free and his consciousness fused memories into a deeper understanding of the mortal world.
• Li Bai summoned the Green Lotus Sword, which transformed into the Shattered Moon Glazed Sword as his jade shell shattered and his silver-white, gold-trimmed robes appeared.
• Li Bai’s presence cracked the emerald illusion, and he told the Jade Dharma Image that his poetry’s mountains, moon, Shu Road, and Milky Way reflected the human heart and its burdens.

Li Bai shattered Linghu Wen’s illusion with the Mortal World Dao Sword, forging his Shattered Moon Sword Heart and attaining godhood. As reality began to return, Lin Jiang received a system reward that raised his Divine Power to Level 14.

• Li Bai rejected Linghu Wen’s motionless vision of ultimate beauty and declared that the true Dao lay in the living mortal world.
• Li Bai unleashed Green Lotus Sword Song—Shattered Moon, sending memory-filled glazed fragments through the illusion’s defenses and striking the Jade Dharma Image.
• The Jade Dharma Image cracked, and the emerald illusion collapsed as Li Bai completed the forging of his Mortal World Sword Heart.
• Outside the East Gate of King's Canyon, Wang Zhaojun withdrew the Winter Domain while Lin Jiang prepared to give instructions about the aftermath.
• Lin Jiang received a system notification that Li Bai had comprehended the Dao and become a god, granting him five Divine Power levels and bringing his total to Level 14.

Lin Jiang recognized Li Taibai’s breakthrough as a source of power for the hall and himself, then led Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Bi Ji toward the Inner Hall. At the ruined workshop, Linghu Wen died after witnessing Li Bai’s final sword, while a Cloud Butterfly mark briefly appeared on Ming Shiyin’s neck as Lin Jiang sensed something amiss.

• Lin Jiang realized that heroes breaking through their limits could strengthen both King’s Hall and his own cultivation, and he praised Li Taibai’s achievement.
• Lin Jiang declared the Beast Tide settled, ordered the defenders to clean the battlefield and tend to the wounded, and invited Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Bi Ji to follow him.
• At the ruined Flowing Wine Cups Workshop, Linghu Wen praised Li Bai’s final sword as supreme beauty before his jade-like body crumbled into dust.
• Di Renjie and the Golden Guard inspected the ruins while Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er reviewed the aftermath.
• A Cloud Butterfly mark flickered beneath Ming Shiyin’s collar, but he mistook the sensation for lingering discomfort and continued helping with the investigation.
• As Lin Jiang walked through the Inner Hall corridor, he paused as if sensing something.

Bi Ji reflected on her first weeks as Lin Jiang’s disciple in the King's Hall, where she discovered new ways of healing and began to feel an unfamiliar attraction to him. She compared her growing trust in Lin Jiang with her distant partnership with Di Tian, leaving her wondering about the feelings stirring within her.

• Lin Jiang accepted Bi Ji, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress as direct disciples, raising his Divine Power to Level 17.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress exchanged techniques with Wang Zhaojun and Zhen Ji, while Bi Ji studied healing and music with Cai Wenji and Yang Yuhuan.
• Bi Ji grew impressed by the King's Hall's varied knowledge and by Lin Jiang's ability to guide its talented members.
• Bi Ji considered her long-standing alliance with Di Tian and recognized she had never felt moved by him.
• Bi Ji found herself thinking of Lin Jiang and felt a new, unfamiliar flutter in her heart.

Bi Ji’s admiration for Lin Jiang developed into romantic feelings, and an awkward accident brought them closer on the Mysterious Machine Pavilion terrace. Their intimacy was interrupted when Crown Prince Xue Qinghe arrived seeking an urgent audience, prompting Lin Jiang to suspect Qian Renxue was involved.

• Bi Ji reflected on her growing, flustered feelings for her master, Lin Jiang, while patrolling in eagle form.
• Lin Jiang teleported to Bi Ji, where an uncontrolled surge of her power drenched him; Bi Ji slipped, and he caught her, shielding her from the fall.
• Bi Ji confessed that she wanted to be with Lin Jiang, and the two became intimate on the terrace.
• A King's Hall soldier interrupted them to announce that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had arrived with an urgent matter.
• Lin Jiang recognized Xue Qinghe’s name and recalled the crown prince’s secret identity as Qian Renxue.

Lin Jiang received Qian Renxue after Spirit Hall's downfall and agreed to take her as his disciple. Qian Renxue pleaded for him to save her grandfather and Spirit Hall, leaving their rescue dependent on Lin Jiang's next move.

• Lin Jiang draped his robe over Bi Ji, kissed her forehead, and sent her to rest before meeting the crown prince.
• Lin Jiang met Xue Qinghe in Listening Tide Pavilion, where Qian Renxue's disguise collapsed and she fell to her knees.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Jiang that Bibi Dong had become a god, killed Golden Crocodile and the worshipers, and left Qian Daoliu's fate unknown.
• Qian Renxue clung to Lin Jiang and begged him to save her grandfather, offering to do anything in return.
• Lin Jiang agreed to take Qian Renxue as his disciple.

Lin Jiang comforted Qian Renxue after accepting her as a direct disciple, then turned his attention toward Bibi Dong. On Sea God Island, Tang Hao brought Tang San and the others to pursue the Sea God Divine Trial, and Tang San vowed to become strong enough to defeat King's Hall.

• Lin Jiang soothed Qian Renxue, promised King's Hall would act against the Evil God, and received divine power for taking her as his direct disciple.
• Lin Jiang decided it was time to meet Bibi Dong, the newly appointed Rakshasa Evil God.
• Tang Hao and his companions reached Sea God Island and found its shore crowded with Soul Masters drawn by the Heavenly Ranking and the Sea God inheritance.
• Tang Hao explained that the Divine Trial judged talent, character, and compatibility with the Sea God, and told Tang San that his gifts could open the trial's gates.
• Tang San recalled the Clear Sky Sect's defeat and Yu Xiaogang's execution, then vowed to grow strong enough to flatten King's Hall and avenge them.
• Tang Hao praised Tang San's resolve and patted him on the shoulder.

Tang San and the Shrek survivors began the Sea God Island trials, where Tang San received the Sea God Nine Trials and stepped onto the Sea God's Light. Meanwhile, Kai and his companions infiltrated Spirit City toward the Pope's Palace, but Xuan Ce's noise exposed them as an upheaval erupted.

• Tang Hao explained the Sea God assessments and urged the Shrek survivors to grow strong enough to face the King's Hall.
• Tang Hao described the Sea God's Light and ordered the group to rest before attempting the preliminary climb.
• The group received their assessments, and Tang San was awarded the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Tang San led the climb up the stone steps while the Sea God's pressure bore down on him and his companions.
• Kai, Hua Mulan, Shou Yue, and Xuan Ce approached the Pope's Palace through the silent streets of Spirit City.
• Xuan Ce stepped on a dead branch, and the noise triggered a violent upheaval.

The Great Wall Guard Army was ambushed by controlled Peak Douluo puppets and Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar, leaving Su Lie badly injured and the battle at a stalemate. As Kai and the others fought to hold their ground, a purple-haired woman appeared on the Pope’s Palace terrace.

• Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo ambushed Kai and Hua Mulan with coordinated attacks, and the pair recognized that both elders were being controlled.
• Shou Yue’s frost-charged shot disrupted Falling Devil Douluo, allowing Xuan Ce to attack him with his Flying Sickle.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar burst from the street and struck Su Lie, sending him crashing through three buildings.
• Kai, Hua Mulan, Shou Yue, and Xuan Ce fought the three Peak Douluo puppets, but their defenses kept the battle at a stalemate.
• A purple-haired woman appeared on the Pope’s Palace terrace and laughed as Kai turned toward her.

Bibi Dong used the Cloud Seal Instrument to intensify the attack on Kai, Hua Mulan, and the Great Wall Guard Army as she prepared to make them sacrifices for her ascension. In Spirit City, Ming Shiyin’s group was ambushed by Qing Luan Douluo, and Pei Qinhu broke through his wind barrier to attack.

• Bibi Dong stalled Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, and Golden Crocodile’s phantoms with the Ink Jade Compass, then drove them into an even more desperate assault.
• Kai and Hua Mulan realized Bibi Dong had anticipated their attack and was stronger than they had expected.
• Bibi Dong unleashed dark purple Evil Power over Pope’s Palace and declared the intruders would become sacrifices after she ascended to godhood.
• Ming Shiyin led Gongsun Li, Pei Qinhu, Yi Xing, and Yang Yuhuan out of a hidden passage, but his Hunyuan Yi warned that they had reached a dead end.
• Qing Luan Douluo attacked the group, and Yi Xing used Chess Formation: Tianyuan to shield Pei Qinhu from his wind blades.
• Gongsun Li distracted Qing Luan Douluo long enough for Pei Qinhu to break the wind barrier and charge at him.

The Yaotian Squad fought Mighty Lion Douluo and Qing Luan Douluo while Ming Shiyin used fate interference to keep the team alive. As the battle stalled and their defenses began to fail, Guang Ling Douluo appeared and froze the battlefield, slowing the flow of Soul Power.

• Mighty Lion Douluo burst through a wall and attacked Yi Xing, who was protected by Yang Yuhuan’s sonic barriers and tried to suppress the attacker with his Chess Formation pieces.
• Ming Shiyin intervened with Yin Yang Flow, Fate Reversal, diverting Mighty Lion Douluo’s punch and assigning Pei Qinhu, Gongsun Li, and Yang Yuhuan to hold the Grand Enshriners back and heal Yi Xing.
• Pei Qinhu fought Mighty Lion Douluo head-on, Gongsun Li disrupted Qing Luan Douluo, and Yang Yuhuan healed Yi Xing as Ming Shiyin strained to maintain his golden net.
• The squad suffered injuries and Yi Xing’s Chess Formation shrank while cracks spread across Ming Shiyin’s net.
• Guang Ling Douluo appeared atop a chimney and spread frost across the battlefield, freezing Soul Power and slowing Pei Qinhu as Mighty Lion Douluo’s fist narrowly missed him.

A mysterious white-robed guqin player intervened in the battle between Ming Shiyin’s group and the three worshippers, giving them a chance to fight back. Meanwhile, Han Xin, Xiang Yu, and Zhang Liang climbed the cliff toward Pope’s Palace, where they sensed Bibi Dong’s evil aura.

• Qing Luan, Mighty Lion, and Guang Ling nearly overwhelmed Ming Shiyin’s group, leaving them close to defeat.
• A white-robed stranger played a guqin from a tower, halting the frost and disrupting the worshippers’ powers.
• Ming Shiyin’s group regained some Soul Power and renewed their effort to break the deadlock.
• Han Xin led Xiang Yu and Zhang Liang up the sheer cliff behind Pope’s Palace to infiltrate and rescue someone.
• Xiang Yu sensed intense fighting and a cold, evil aura within Pope’s Palace, and Zhang Liang identified it as Bibi Dong.

Qian Renxue and the others entered a hidden passage beneath Spirit Hall to reach the Pope's Palace and search for the enshrined elders. They chose the route to the underground storerooms after Zhang Liang detected signs of activity there, and continued toward an eerie, strengthening murmur.

• Zhang Liang explained that The Venerable One had tracked Bibi Dong's rise to the Rakshasa God Position, and said the group should prioritize recovering the Cloud Seal Instrument and finding Qian Daoliu and the other enshriners.
• Han Xin led the group through a concealed emergency passage near the Pope's Palace after Master Mozi's Mechanical Bird surveyed it.
• Xiang Yu sensed a sickening, bloodlike smell in the passage, while Qian Renxue noticed old bloodstains on the walls.
• At a fork, Qian Renxue chose the route to the Tribunal's abandoned prison cells, but Zhang Liang's Word Spirit: Deduction detected faint, chaotic Soul Power toward the storerooms and almost none toward the cells.
• Han Xin decided they should enter through the storerooms first, and the group followed the narrower passage as the foul smell and low murmuring grew stronger.

Xiang Yu and his companions found a sacrificial pool that sent the life force of Spirit Hall members to Bibi Dong, then discovered Qian Daoliu bearing a Rakshasa God's Mark. The corrupted Qian Daoliu turned on the intruders, and his Angel Sacred Sword rose as his Limit Douluo aura erupted.

• Xiang Yu sensed an underground Evil God Sacrifice where Spirit Hall members fed their life force and souls into a pool that sent the power to Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue recognized Qian Daoliu's presence beyond a stone door, but Xiang Yu warned her that something was wrong.
• The group found Qian Daoliu on a stone platform with a Rakshasa God's Mark on his brow and ink-green vortices in his eyes.
• Qian Daoliu welcomed Qian Renxue and condemned Xiang Yu, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, She Long, and Ci Xue as intruders.
• Qian Renxue rejected the corrupted figure as her grandfather, and Qian Daoliu unleashed his Limit Douluo aura and raised the Angel Sacred Sword.

Xiang Yu shielded Qian Renxue from Qian Daoliu’s attack as the corrupted Grand Enshriner summoned the puppet Angel Legion to block their escape. Xiang Yu revealed that Rakshasa Divine Power had remade Qian Daoliu into a puppet, leaving Qian Renxue facing the possibility that her grandfather’s consciousness was trapped within.

• Xiang Yu blocked Qian Daoliu’s sword qi with the City-Breaking Overlord Halberd and ordered Han Xin to take Qian Renxue away.
• Qian Daoliu summoned more than three hundred corrupted Angel Legion members, who sealed the passage and attacked the group.
• She Long and Ci Xue fought the Angel Legion while Zhang Liang raised a barrier at the Stone Chamber entrance.
• Qian Renxue rushed toward Qian Daoliu, begged him to wake up, and fell to her knees under his holy pressure.
• Xiang Yu told Qian Renxue that Rakshasa Divine Power had corrupted Qian Daoliu and that his consciousness might be imprisoned inside the mark.