Chapter Summaries

The White Phoenix Team made a triumphant Professional League debut, defeating the Jiangnan Youth Team two to zero in Conquest Mode. Their victory impressed rivals and supporters alike, while Bai Xiaowen’s growing strength drew attention from several powerful figures.

• Bai Xiaowen selected Cecilia as the White Phoenix Team’s first contestant, and she defeated Diao Yihui after surviving his ambush and overwhelming him with a barrage of arrows.
• Li Shuyi defeated Zhang Feng, then Bai Xiaowen’s summoned creatures killed Wei Bing, securing the White Phoenix Team’s three points and the match.
• Ouyang Heng complained about the Jiangnan Youth Team’s loss as Wu Chaojie and Qi Ruifeng discussed Bai Xiaowen’s level and the White Phoenix Team’s strength.
• At Jingwu Guild headquarters, Wu Guangzong and other players dismissed the White Phoenix Team’s prospects, but Wu Chonglian warned them not to underestimate Bai Xiaowen.
• Qiao Rui’s parents celebrated her debut, and her father learned that the family was interested in Li Shuyi’s advancement to a Hero Class.
• Bai Xiaowen’s victory boosted sales of his Spirit Channeling Prince template and drew the attention of friends and enemies, while Super God Guild celebrated the result.

Li Beihai scolded the Super God Guild's main team after their poor performance and vowed to arrange practice matches against Bai Xiaowen's team. During the White Phoenix Team's November break, Qiao Rui offered a B-Tier Spirit Realm Ticket from her family, and Bai Xiaowen agreed to accept it in exchange for giving the Qiao Faction first chance to buy any tradable Hero Class advancement item.

• Li Beihai berated Nie Kong and the Super God Guild's main team, then demanded that they climb out of the division's bottom ten.
• Nie Kong blamed Old Demon's retirement for weakening the team, while Li Beihai promised to arrange practice matches against the White Phoenix Team.
• Bai Xiaowen proposed exploring the Spirit Realm during the team's November break, but his World Fame draw yielded only Psionic Points.
• Qiao Rui told the team that her father offered them a B-Tier Spirit Realm Ticket in return for the Qiao Faction's first chance to buy any tradable Hero Class advancement item.
• Bai Xiaowen agreed to accept Qiao Rui's family's ticket, with the understanding that the agreement would not apply to Bind on Pickup items.

Bai Xiaowen and the White Phoenix Squad entered a martial arts plane using the Qiao Family’s Spirit Realm Ticket. After weighing their two elevated entry identities, they chose Waterbreak Manor, leaving the Elite Tier challenge quest and their arrival in the plane ahead.

• The Qiao Family delivered Bai Xiaowen a B-Tier Spirit Realm Ticket, and Bai Xiaowen entered the plane with Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, Han Xu, and the two White Eagles.
• The Spirit Realm Rules granted Bai Xiaowen two elevated entry identity draws and announced that choosing one would generate an Elite Tier challenge quest.
• Bai Xiaowen identified the plane as a martial arts world and explained that its fighters used inner cultivation to enhance their abilities.
• Bai Xiaowen judged the Flower Sect’s unorthodox reputation a disadvantage and agreed with the others to choose the righteous Waterbreak Manor identity.

Bai Xiaowen and the White Phoenix Squad entered the Swordsong Plane as survivors of Waterbreak Manor’s massacre and began searching for the killers. They uncovered a taunting clue, buried the dead, and traveled to Luanzhou City to seek information while maintaining their assigned identities.

• Bai Xiaowen, Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, and Han Xu entered the Swordsong Plane with identities tied to the destroyed Waterbreak Manor and hurried toward its burning ruins.
• Bai Xiaowen and Han Xu found Bai Hanjiang’s body and discovered the bloody message, “One Sword Cleaves the River—an empty reputation,” alongside a skull pierced by a sword.
• The four buried the twenty-four dead from Waterbreak Manor and left town to avoid drawing attention while grieving in public.
• Bai Xiaowen and his teammates sold their horses in Luanzhou City, had mourning clothes made, and went to the Grand White Tower restaurant.
• Bai Xiaowen told Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, and Han Xu they could sit with him, and Li Shuyi accepted the offer.

The White Phoenix Squad discovered that Bai Hanjiang had been killed by the Blood God Palace and received a main quest to join the siege and kill a renowned figure. At Grand White Tower, they witnessed Ying Jianfan defeat Yan the Boss and fight three Boundless Sword Sect elders, while Bai Xiaowen analyzed the Sword Song Plane’s deadly emphasis on martial technique.

• Bai Xiaowen told Qiao Rui, Han Xu, and Li Shuyi about Bai Hanjiang’s corpse and the blood-written message at Waterbreak Manor.
• Yan the Boss claimed the Blood God Palace had killed Bai Hanjiang, and mention of the Demon-Slaying Assembly activated the White Phoenix Squad’s quest to join the siege and kill a renowned figure.
• Ying Jianfan severed the fingers of Yan the Boss’s companion, pinned the other companion’s hands with chopsticks, and cut off Yan the Boss’s hands after defeating his Rock-Splitting Fist.
• Ying Jianfan killed the two companions and prepared to finish Yan the Boss, but a dart and the arrival of Changsun Ming, Zhan Yan, and Wu Ang interrupted him.
• Ying Jianfan fought the three level 8 Boundless Sword Swordsmen, while Bai Xiaowen used Insight and explained to his teammates how technique and low durability shaped combat in the Sword Song Plane.

Bai Xiaowen and his companions joined the Boundless Sword Sect elders in confronting Ying Jianfan over the Waterbreak Manor massacre, but Ying Jianfan escaped after using Thousand Shadows, Hundred Strikes. Bai Xiaowen persuaded the elders that he and his companions were survivors of Waterbreak Manor and asked where the coming Demon-Slaying Assembly would take place.

• Bai Xiaowen explained how total qi, maximum output, and qi recovery worked before the group discussed whether Ying Jianfan had massacred Waterbreak Manor.
• Bai Xiaowen publicly accused Ying Jianfan of killing the White Family, and the Boundless Sword Sect elders challenged him over the massacre.
• Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, Han Xu, and Bai Xiaowen joined the elders in attacking Ying Jianfan, while Gu Zhen ambushed him from behind and wounded his arm.
• Ying Jianfan used Thousand Shadows, Hundred Strikes to confuse his opponents, then escaped through the roof with his qi-powered lightness technique.
• Bai Xiaowen told the elders that he and his companions had survived the massacre because they had been outside the city, and asked when and where the Demon-Slaying Assembly would be held.

Bai Xiaowen learned about the Demon-Slaying Assembly and the Four Paragons while traveling with Boundless Sword Sect elders toward Blood God Peak. He concluded that at least two factions had participated in the massacre at Waterbreak Manor, leaving the identity of the killers unresolved.

• Changsun Ming explained that the Demon-Slaying Assembly was a scheduled duel at Yanshan Blood God Peak, where the Seven Sects Alliance planned to destroy the Blood God Palace.
• Wu Ang described the Four Paragons: the Ming King, Yin Fei Wei Siqin, Ling Duxu, and the Mad Monk; Changsun Ming and Zhan Yan praised Boundless Zhenren as their sect master's equal.
• Changsun Ming invited Bai Xiaowen to travel with the Boundless Sword Sect elders, and Bai Xiaowen agreed.
• Bai Xiaowen told Qiao Rui that he had spared Ying Jianfan because killing him offered little benefit and he was probably not the murderer they sought.
• Bai Xiaowen reasoned that at least two groups had taken part in the Waterbreak Manor massacre because one group left a blood-written message while another set a fire to conceal evidence.

Bai Xiaowen reasoned that Ying Jianfan probably was not behind the White Clan massacre, and the White Phoenix Squad traveled with the Boundless Sword Sect toward Blood God Peak. At Ten Thousand Snakes Valley, they found the Wisdom Sword Sect and Thunderfire Hall surrounded by snake controllers, and the Boundless Sword Sect attacked to help them.

• Bai Xiaowen argued that the S-Tier quest difficulty made it unlikely Ying Jianfan was the massacre's mastermind, while Li Shuyi suggested someone might have framed him.
• The White Phoenix Squad joined the Boundless Sword Sect's elite disciples and traveled north toward the Blood God Palace's territory.
• The group encountered a battlefield where Ten Thousand Snakes Valley's controllers used venomous snakes to surround the Wisdom Sword Sect and Thunderfire Hall.
• Changsun Ming identified the Boundless Sword Sect as reinforcements, and a Thunderfire Hall fighter explained that killing the snake controllers would break their formation.
• The Boundless Sword Sect elders and disciples charged the white-robed snake controllers, who responded by ordering the Poison Mist Formation.

The Boundless Sword Sect was trapped by Ten Thousand Snakes Valley’s Poison Mist Formation, and Bai Xiaowen revealed his summoned creatures to break through it. Butcher’s poison and recovery let him kill the snakes in large numbers while resisting their venom.

• Ten Thousand Snakes Valley’s snakes sprayed poison mist, forcing the Boundless Sword Sect disciples to retreat and use internal energy to resist and purge the toxin.
• Changsun Ming asked Qiao Rui to disrupt the Snake Formation with her flute, but she declined.
• Bai Xiaowen said the formation was easy to handle and summoned Butcher, Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldiers, and his other creatures.
• He Xiyuan criticized Bai Xiaowen’s summons as sinister and weak, but Bai Xiaowen advanced with his companions behind Butcher.
• Butcher activated Rotting Toxin, killing the snakes around him while shrugging off their poison and recovering from the damage.

Bai Xiaowen’s White Phoenix Squad fought Ten Thousand Snakes Valley’s leaders, Chu Zhongheng and Nie Jing, while the Boundless Sword Sect and other allies struggled to break through the Snake Formation. After Bai Xiaowen killed the flute-playing snake handlers and disrupted the formation, Chu Zhongheng was worn down by the Butcher and Rageclaw, while Li Shuyi and Delifa gained the upper hand against Nie Jing as reinforcements closed in.

• Changsun Ming led the Boundless Sword Sect disciples after the White Phoenix Squad, but a Snake Formation separated them.
• Bai Xiaowen refused to retreat, and Chu Zhongheng opened a path through the snakes to lure the squad toward him and Nie Jing.
• Chu Zhongheng’s Blood River Grand Handprint knocked the Butcher back, while Nie Jing wounded Li Shuyi with his Fierce Strike Saber Technique.
• Bai Xiaowen killed the snake handlers with his Desert Eagle, disrupting the Snake Formation and allowing the allied sects to advance.
• The Butcher’s Rotting Toxin weakened Chu Zhongheng, and Bai Xiaowen’s Binding Talisman and Rageclaw helped exhaust his internal force.
• Li Shuyi and Delifa coordinated against Nie Jing, with Li Shuyi using Blood Drain to match his strength as the battle continued.

Bai Xiaowen’s group killed Chu Zhongheng and wounded Nie Jing, but Poison-Hand Guanyin, Ji Mingjue, arrived and poisoned the gathered sect experts. Bai Xiaowen’s team showed no signs of poison, so he told them to pretend they had collapsed.

• Bai Xiaowen’s group killed Chu Zhongheng after Butcher broke his leg, while Li Shuyi and the others wounded Nie Jing and blocked his escape.
• Poison-Hand Guanyin, Ji Mingjue, arrived and used her flute to gather the snakes around the fighters.
• Ji Mingjue demanded thirteen lives in exchange for sparing the survivors, and Lei Qing challenged her threat.
• Ji Mingjue revealed that she had poisoned the gathered disciples and sect elders, who collapsed one after another.
• Bai Xiaowen checked his team’s status, found no one poisoned, and told them through the Team Channel to lie down and pretend.

Poison-Hand Guanyin Ji Mingjue tried to make the poisoned Righteous Alliance members betray one another by threatening Tu Mengjiao, but Bai Xiaowen launched a surprise attack with Li Shuyi and Han Xu. Ji Mingjue broke free of Qiao Rui’s control and escaped the opening assault, leaving the fight underway.

• Ji Mingjue offered to spare the survivors if they identified who had killed Chu Zhongheng and the twelve snake servants, while Wu Ang refused to betray anyone.
• Ji Mingjue threatened Tu Mengjiao with her golden-ringed snake, and He Xiyuan offered to name the murderer before Wu Ang slapped him.
• Bai Xiaowen suddenly fired his Desert Eagle at Ji Mingjue as Li Shuyi, Han Xu, and Bai Xiaowen’s summoned creatures attacked.
• Qiao Rui trapped Ji Mingjue with Mind Cage, but Ji Mingjue dispelled the control by striking her own Divine Court acupoint with internal power.
• Gold Bracelet and the giant python blocked Li Shuyi’s assault, giving Ji Mingjue time to retreat.

Bai Xiaowen and the White Phoenix Squad defeated Poison-Hand Guanyin Ji Mingjue’s poison attacks and drove her away, then collected their battle rewards. The chapter ended with Bai Xiaowen examining the valuable Silverflow Robe from Chu Zhongheng’s treasure chest.

• Bai Xiaowen and Rageclaw killed the wounded Nie Jing, then the White Phoenix Squad fought Poison-Hand Guanyin after discovering her Qi-Reversal Powder could not affect them.
• Poison-Hand Guanyin’s needles and Seven Illusions Mirage failed against Butcher, who absorbed her attacks and struck her while the Squad supported him.
• The Three Sects Alliance fighters recovered as the Qi-Reversal Powder wore off, and Poison-Hand Guanyin retreated with her snakes into the neighboring valley.
• Bai Xiaowen collected two Golden Treasure Chests, received thanks from the martial artists, and let He Xiyuan’s apology stand while Gu Zhen still ordered him to accept punishment.
• Butcher began eating Nie Jing’s corpse, frightening the gathered disciples, and the group continued onward.
• Bai Xiaowen opened the chests and assigned the Hundred Barbarian Boots to Qiao Rui; he admired the Silverflow Robe’s attributes and defensive skill.

Bai Xiaowen sorted the equipment recovered from the battle and spoke with Tu Mengjiao before two Boundless Sword Sect elders asked about Waterbreak Manor's swordsmanship. He learned that his ancestor Bai Jingyan had been a legendary swordsman, leaving him to reconsider what he knew of the Broken Water Sword Technique.

• Bai Xiaowen placed the Silverflow Robe in Shared Storage Space and decided the team would consider giving it to Li Shuyi after enhancement.
• Bai Xiaowen examined the Scorching Iron Blade and an erotic scroll from Nie Jing's treasure chest, deciding to store the scroll and wait before assigning the weapon.
• Tu Mengjiao approached Bai Xiaowen, apologized for his father's death, and left when he asked to be alone.
• Gu Zhen thanked Bai Xiaowen for fighting the fiends and asked why he relied on a hand crossbow instead of Waterbreak Manor's swordsmanship.
• Changsun Ming told Bai Xiaowen that his ancestor Bai Jingyan had been a renowned sword grandmaster who once defeated a Boundless Sword Sect master.

Bai Xiaowen learned that mastering the Broken Water Sword Technique required understanding its intent, then left the sects’ forces and went alone to the White Clan’s ancestral shrine. After retrieving an old portrait, he encountered a mysterious woman bathing in a cold pool and turned to find her standing naked before him.

• Changsun Ming and Gu Zhen explained the difference between forms-based and intent-based martial arts and suggested Bai Hanjiang had failed to grasp the Broken Water Sword Intent.
• Bai Xiaowen claimed his father had left something important in the White Clan’s ancestral tombs, then used filial duty as an excuse to leave the three sects’ march toward Blood God Peak.
• After parting from the sects, Bai Xiaowen told Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, and Han Xu that the supposed message from his father was fabricated and assigned them roles in a trap.
• At dusk, Bai Xiaowen entered a hidden ancestral shrine, performed the rites, and took down its ruined portrait.
• Bai Xiaowen heard splashing at the cold pool and saw a beautiful woman bathing there.
• The woman noticed Bai Xiaowen, ordered him to turn around, and he found her standing naked as she wiped herself dry.

Bai Xiaowen escaped a mysterious woman’s attention by pretending to hang himself, then continued his plan in the Yan Mountains. Changsun Ming, Gu Zhen, and He Xiyuan confronted him over the ancestral portrait, and he used it to halt their attack and challenge Changsun Ming about the Waterbreak Manor massacre.

• Bai Xiaowen suspected the mysterious woman was Yin Fei Wei Siqin, but pretended to hang himself, and she left without discovering the ruse.
• After the woman departed, Bai Xiaowen freed himself and continued through the Yan Mountains with the damaged portrait of the White Family ancestor.
• Changsun Ming, Gu Zhen, and He Xiyuan found Bai Xiaowen and demanded the item his father had mentioned.
• When the three fighters attacked, Bai Xiaowen threatened to tear the portrait, forcing them to stop.
• Bai Xiaowen accused Changsun Ming of killing the people at Waterbreak Manor and setting the fire, but Changsun Ming blamed Ying Jianfan and his Sword Bone mark.

Bai Xiaowen revealed that Changsun Ming, Gu Zhen, and He Xiyuan had murdered his family after Ying Jianfan left Waterbreak Manor, and he destroyed the false clue they wanted. When the expected Three Sects Alliance reinforcements failed to arrive, Bai Xiaowen summoned Li Shuyi and Han Xu as his fallback, and the fight began.

• Bai Xiaowen explained that Ying Jianfan had challenged his father first, while Changsun Ming and his companions arrived afterward, tortured his father for the Broken Water Sword Technique, and burned Waterbreak Manor to hide their tracks.
• Changsun Ming and He Xiyuan argued over whether the damaged painting held a secret manual, and Bai Xiaowen shattered it.
• Bai Xiaowen claimed allies from the Three Sects Alliance were on their way, but his mental perception revealed they had not arrived.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Li Shuyi and Han Xu, whom he had secretly arranged to wait nearby while Qiao Rui went to seek reinforcements.
• Changsun Ming, Gu Zhen, and He Xiyuan attacked Bai Xiaowen and his companions, planning to blame their deaths on Blood God Palace.
• Li Shuyi charged in with both swords as Han Xu followed under Cover, and Bai Xiaowen summoned the Butcher to strike at He Xiyuan.

Bai Xiaowen and his allies fought He Xiyuan, Changsun Ming, and Gu Zhen, using poison and Frost Shard attacks to weaken the martial artists. Changsun Ming reached Bai Xiaowen but was slowed and badly injured by the frost as he launched a weakened sword assault.

• He Xiyuan’s attacks barely wounded Butcher, while the Rotting Toxin slowed He Xiyuan’s inner energy and movement.
• Li Shuyi fought Changsun Ming, and Han Xu supported her with his shield as Bai Xiaowen began firing Frost Shards from his wand.
• Changsun Ming recognized that Bai Xiaowen had to remain still while casting and threw a steel dart to interrupt him, but Bai Xiaowen endured the hit and cast again.
• Bai Xiaowen used Multi-Shard to strike Changsun Ming with two Frost Shards, reducing him to below half health and disrupting his inner energy.
• Changsun Ming reached Bai Xiaowen and attacked with a flurry of sword strikes, though his frost-slowed inner energy had weakened his assault.

Bai Xiaowen killed Changsun Ming and He Xiyuan, but Gu Zhen escaped after a mysterious woman surnamed Gu injured the White Eagles and prevented the pursuit. She urged Bai Xiaowen to join Blood God Palace and told him to find her at Heart-Cleansing Pool; afterward, Bai Xiaowen worried that Qiao Rui had not returned from seeking the Three Sects Alliance.

• Bai Xiaowen used Lightning Strike to paralyze Changsun Ming, then killed him with a strength-enhanced punch and completed the main quest objective to kill a well-known figure.
• Gu Zhen fled, while Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures, Li Shuyi, and Han Xu pursued the others; He Xiyuan was slowed by Rotting Toxin and killed, but Li Shuyi and Han Xu could not catch Gu Zhen.
• A mysterious woman in white shot needles that temporarily immobilized Yi-Yi and Er-Er, then revealed that she had stopped Bai Xiaowen because he had deceived her during their earlier encounter.
• The woman identified herself as Miss Gu and offered Bai Xiaowen protection from Ji Mingjue if he joined Blood God Palace, but Bai Xiaowen said he needed time to think.
• Miss Gu left after telling Bai Xiaowen to find her at Heart-Cleansing Pool, and Bai Xiaowen decided to leave once the White Eagles recovered because he feared something had happened to Qiao Rui.

Bai Xiaowen and his companions hid as a gathering of martial artists discovered Changsun Ming and He Xiyuan’s mutilated bodies and blamed Bai Wen for their deaths. With Gu Zhen turning the crowd against them and Qiao Rui still captive, Bai Xiaowen decided they had to meet the woman in white surnamed Gu, while Wild Dog Daoist followed their scent toward their hiding place.

• Bai Xiaowen sensed a large group approaching and hid with Li Shuyi and Han Xu after realizing Qiao Rui was not among them.
• Wild Dog Daoist discovered the freshly buried remains of Changsun Ming and He Xiyuan, and Gu Zhen identified them as his sect members.
• Gu Zhen and Wild Dog Daoist accused Bai Wen of killing and desecrating the two men, inciting the martial artists to demand vengeance.
• Bai Xiaowen refused to reveal themselves, saying they first needed proof that Gu Zhen and his accomplices had slaughtered a household.
• Bai Xiaowen decided they had to meet the woman in white surnamed Gu because Qiao Rui remained in the Blood God Palace’s hands.
• Wild Dog Daoist smelled living people nearby and began tracking the hidden White Phoenix Squad.