Recaps

Chu Bai won the Immortal Official Examination, returned to Anping County, and joined the Demon-Suppression Office, where he exposed corruption and uncovered child sacrifices to the Three-Bath Lady. After helping defeat the Water Monkey and gaining a divine Fate Pattern, he witnessed the investigation expand into the Lu Household’s crimes.

• Chu Bai killed the Great Demon during the Spirit Realm trial, fought alongside Ji Li to eliminate their rivals, and returned to the final showdown when Judge Li ended the round.
• Chu Bai defeated Ji Li in the Arena final, became the examination champion, and chose a post in Anping County’s Demon-Suppression Office.
• Chu Bai returned home, received his appointment as a Patrol Banner Commander, and investigated a staged fox-demon case that exposed Wang Sanshui’s fraud and led to his execution.
• Chu Bai cultivated for three months before Pang Song asked him to investigate the Second Squad and the strange worship along the Three-Bath River.
• Chu Bai and Pang Song discovered that villagers had offered their children to the Three-Bath Lady, then Chu Bai and Han Xingmo defeated the Water Monkey beneath Ghost-Sorrow Bay.
• Chu Bai gained the Golden Edict, Jade Register Bearing Heaven Fate Pattern, and Zhang Cheng launched an investigation into the Second Squad and the Lu Household.
• Chu Bai learned that the Lu Household had arranged the living sacrifices in exchange for abundant catches, while Hu Hao and Pang Song helped secure evidence and expose the culprits.
• Zhang Cheng ordered an open court trial of the living-sacrifice case and summoned Chu Bai to attend as a witness.

Chu Bai strengthened his squad and cultivation while preparing for the Heavenly Examination, then protected the Brook Water Earl’s damaged seal amid a struggle with prefectural officials. After earning another Excellent assessment, he led an assault on a True Spirit Society outpost, where the fight with Black Sheep continued.

• Chu Bai challenged the Lu Household confession, but Zhang Cheng accepted the Tribute Child Register and ordered the execution of its principal criminals before reorganizing the Demon-Suppression Office around Chu Bai and Pang Song.
• Chu Bai built the Demon-Slaying Squad, uncovered the Fox Spirit and poisoned Locust Tree Spirit in Great Locust Alley, and made the Fox Spirit an equal-contract guardian of the Wu Household while investing the tree as Anping Alley God.
• Chu Bai established a Spirit-Gathering Array at Clearwind Courtyard, improved his cultivation, and earned an Excellent annual assessment with rewards that included the Mountain-Pacifying Platinum.
• Chu Bai fought the Year-End Wraiths threatening Anping County, learned of the dangers surrounding Edict Investitures, and advanced to Qi Refining Seventh Layer while preparing for the Qingzhou Heavenly Examination.
• After the Brook Water Earl’s Divine Ship was destroyed at First-Line Gorge, Chu Bai captured Qi Pan and recovered the damaged Divine Dao Seal, then held his ground against Wei Chuan until Zhang Cheng arrived.
• Qi Pan confessed to working with a hidden faction, but the revived Water Earl had lost his memories, and Anping County held a Welcoming the God Ceremony, and Chu Bai later earned an Excellent assessment for protecting the seal.
• Chu Bai chose the Shadow-Hiding Trace-Erasing Art, strengthened his Five-Element Cycle, and led two hundred guards to attack a True Spirit Society outpost at Chaos Bone Ridge.
• Chu Bai fought Black Sheep, who escaped his initial attacks by binding himself to the Earth Vein and transforming into a huge wooden body, while Feng Qin and Hu Hao pursued the fleeing Rogue Cultivators and their long box.

Chu Bai entered the Azure Nether Realm for the Heavenly Examination, revived the Ridge Vein Mountain God, and led thousands of candidates to safety while breaking through to Foundation Establishment. Though he earned first place and an Azure Ordination, he was exiled to the Far North, where he continued tempering himself and prepared to travel farther north.

• Chu Bai entered the Azure Nether Realm, gathered Azure Nether Pearls, awakened its Land God, and uncovered the corrupted Mountain God beneath the Underground Palace.
• Chu Bai defeated rival cultivators to gather pearls and revived the Ridge Vein Mountain God, while Wu Ziqing and the Beast-Rearing Envoy drove enslaved cultivators and Demon Beasts against the survivors.
• As the realm collapsed, Chu Bai sheltered more than a thousand cultivators in the Underground Palace and raised the Mountain God to defend them against the attacking deities.
• Chu Bai broke through to Foundation Establishment, summoned the Heavenly Ladder, and carried the survivors upward while fighting the Beast-Rearing Envoy, Night Patrol Wandering Deity, and Prison-Suppressing Evil Flood Dragon.
• Chu Bai killed the Beast-Rearing Envoy and Night Patrol Wandering Deity, severed the Prison-Suppressing Evil Flood Dragon, and reached Great Wall Prefecture as the examination’s first-place candidate.
• Zhu Wuji sentenced Chu Bai to walk thirty thousand li into exile in the Far North and work for the Astronomical Bureau, while allowing him to keep his rank and granting him cultivation resources and authority.
• Chu Bai traveled north with Li Dean, endured Falling Star Slope’s gravity and magnetic storm, and created the Geng Metal Body-Forging Art.
• Chu Bai reached Sea Radiance Prefectural City, reunited with Xia Xing, and received provisions, a Frozen Sea chart, and the Xia Family’s Swimming Dragon Water-Splitting Art.

Chu Bai traveled north, refined his arts and treasures, and battled for the Demonic Whale’s origin before crossing into the Far North. After helping the Wu Saint Tribe kill the Blackwater Horned Python, he reached Osmanthus Valley and faced Steel Bone’s invasion.

• Chu Bai bought Mystic Ice at Profound Ice Market, uncovered Starshard Sand, and commissioned Master Iron Hand to forge the Star-River Gold Embryo while learning the Swimming Dragon Water-Splitting Art.
• Chu Bai joined the Four Seas Trade Guild’s caravan, survived an Ice-Boring Arrowfish attack, and mined Meteoric Iron on Cold Crow Island before killing the Gold-Devouring Ant Queen and defeating Black Scorpion’s ambush.
• Chu Bai crossed the Shattered Ice Shelf, defeated Gu Sheng, advanced his Five-Element Arts, and claimed the Eagle-Beak position as cultivators gathered for the Demonic Whale’s breakthrough.
• Chu Bai absorbed Earth Vein Essence and the Demonic Whale’s Purple Abode origin, advanced to Foundation Establishment middle stage, defeated Gu Sheng, and subdued the cultivators who challenged his claim.
• Chu Bai escaped the Sea-Watch Office and defeated Li Hanyan, Tu Meng, and Ruan Liu after they ambushed him, then crossed the Dark Ice Passage and reached the Dark Nether River.
• Chu Bai helped Wu Cang and the Wu Saint Tribe kill the Blackwater Horned Python in exchange for passage and the Heavy Water True Intent Body Tempering Method.
• Chu Bai entered the Blood Plains, killed a Blood Spear Tribe patrol, and presented Wu Cang’s token to the Osmanthus Tribe after learning Steel Bone planned to seize Mu Ling.
• Chu Bai absorbed the sacred tree’s Yi Wood vitality in Osmanthus Valley, then caught Steel Bone’s axe barehanded and wounded a Blood Guard with the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light as the battle began.