Chapter Summaries

Mu Bai warned Lu Ling that the lull in the fighting concealed a coming attack, and she prepared the defenses along the Jialan Defense Line. When the immense beast tide arrived, Lu Ling ordered a general assault, leaving the armies locked in a decisive battle.

• Ling Jinyu asked Mu Bai for pills, but he said he had given all his supplies to the Spirit Taming Sect's troops; Qin Xiang then provoked Mu Bai into a fight, and Zuo Lin attacked Qin Xiang before Zhou Detai intervened.
• After half a month of scattered assaults, Mu Bai warned Lu Ling that a major beast attack was approaching, and she ordered the sects to reinforce supplies and repair the defenses.
• The cultivators prepared for battle as the armies waited through several quiet days, until a vast beast tide appeared on the horizon.
• Lu Ling ordered the Soul Crystal Cannons to fire, and Soul Boats, soul cultivators, and Xiu Zun cultivators attacked the advancing beasts.
• Lu Ling commanded the sect armies to charge into the beast tide, beginning the decisive battle.

Mu Bai led the Blade Formation through the beast horde, rescued exhausted Second Level cultivators, and helped destroy a herd of Brown-Earth Savage Elephants with fire. Although Jiayu Fort's army had halted the beast tide, a gong ordered the cultivators to abandon the Jialan Defense Line, leaving Mu Bai's experts to debate whether to cover the retreat.

• Mu Bai led the Dagger Formation into the beast horde and used his Divine Crow to carry several hundred exhausted Second Level cultivators back to the city before returning to the front.
• Ling Jinyu joined Mu Bai, and the two helped their formation hunt the strongest beasts as the fighting continued.
• Mu Bai ordered Ling Jinyu to fetch Fire Oil, then she and Mu Bai set a herd of Brown-Earth Savage Elephants ablaze with fire attacks.
• The cultivator army gained control of the battlefield, but a gong signaled a retreat and Dao Zun Lu Ling confirmed the order.
• Mu Bai told Ling Jinyu and the cultivators to board their Soul Boats, while the experts in his Blade Formation insisted on staying to cover the army's retreat.

Mu Bai and nearly a thousand cultivators stayed behind at Jiayu Fort to cover the army’s retreat, then used the Heaven-Piercing Cannon to devastate the Beast Race’s forces before withdrawing north. At Sunset Glow Peak, the survivors formed the Righteous Alliance, and their journey toward the Lingze Defense Line was interrupted by the arrival of Jialan City’s army.

• Zhong Yue rallied cultivators to hold the line with Mu Bai, and their force swelled as they covered the retreat until only three hundred remained.
• Mu Bai led the survivors to the Heaven-Piercing Cannon, charged it with ten million Soul Crystals, and fired a blast that shattered countless Fierce Beasts and opened a path north.
• The three hundred survivors rested at Sunset Glow Peak, where Mu Bai recorded their sacrifice and the place later became known as Three Hundred Heroes Peak.
• Zhong Yue proposed an alliance for righteousness, and the cultivators formed the Righteous Alliance with Mu Bai as leader and Zhong Yue and Zuo Lin as executive Elders.
• As the alliance traveled north, more than a thousand Soul Boats arrived from behind, carrying Jialan City’s defending army led by Yuan Zun Rao Xing.

Mu Bai joined Rao Xing’s central army as the leader of a new Discipline Enforcement Army, while Chen Shichong struggled with the family oath that barred him from entering the Xiu Zun realm. After Mu Bai’s imagined duel exposed his despair, Chen Jianli stopped Chen Shichong from taking his own life and promised to find a way.

• Chang Feng brought Mu Bai and his companions to meet Rao Xing, who appointed Mu Bai Military Governor of the Discipline Enforcement Army and assigned him three hundred warriors and twenty thousand disciples.
• The beast tide threatened the Lingze Dike Wall, forcing hundreds of millions of refugees to flee north as the Northern Plains prepared for the danger.
• Chen Shichong’s talent allowed him to enter the Xiu Zun realm, but his family’s oath limited the Chen Household to two Xiu Zun, leaving him unable to advance while his father and uncle remained in the realm.
• Drunk on Lin Yuan Peak, Chen Shichong imagined fighting Mu Bai and despaired when he could not overcome Mu Bai’s Xiu Zun strength.
• Chen Shichong tried to cut his throat, but Chen Jianli knocked away the Autumn Sun Sword, held his son as he wept, and promised they would find a way.

Mu Bai enforced military discipline at the Lingze Defense Line after the Eastern Nether Great Tribe and the White Wolf Tribe clashed over a soul crystal vein. He used Yuan Zun Rao Xing’s Discipline Enforcement Token to stop Du Xiang and began punishing the Eastern Nether Great Tribe, leaving the fate of the three scouts unresolved.

• Mu Bai led the Lingze Defense Line Discipline Enforcement Army as factions and low morale threatened the defense.
• Three Eastern Nether Great Tribe clansmen found a soul crystal vein near the White Wolf Tribe’s camp, and Du Xiang secretly sent his people to mine it.
• The White Wolf Tribe caught the Eastern Nether Great Tribe mining, and the tribes fought, killing several people while Wu Tai and Du Xiang injured each other.
• Mu Bai arrived and stopped the fighting, but Du Xiang tried to kill him until Wu Tai blocked the attack.
• Mu Bai showed the Discipline Enforcement Token, compelling Du Xiang and both tribes to stand down.
• Mu Bai accused the Eastern Nether Great Tribe of violating military discipline and called the three clansmen who had left camp to step forward for punishment.

Mu Bai used the Discipline Enforcement Army to force Du Xiang’s Eastern Nether Great Tribe to mine the soul crystal vein under threat of execution. After the tribe suffered losses and humiliation, Du Xiang sought the Kunling Sect’s protection and secured Bai An’s promise to kill Mu Bai if an opportunity arose.

• Du Xiang killed the three tribesmen and tried to leave, but Mu Bai ordered the Eastern Nether Tribe to mine the soul crystal vein and surrender its yield.
• Du Xiang attacked Mu Bai, but ten thousand Discipline Enforcement Army soldiers arrived and surrounded both tribes, forcing Du Xiang to submit.
• Mu Bai stripped Du Xiang’s tribesmen of their defensive duties and ordered them to mine until the vein was exhausted, while declaring his intent to destroy the Eastern Nether Great Tribe.
• Wu Tai abandoned his claim to the mine and returned to camp, while despair drove more than ten Eastern Nether tribesmen to take their own lives.
• Du Xiang approached the Kunling Sect for help, gave Bai An ten thousand high-grade soul crystals, and received a promise that Bai An would kill Mu Bai if the chance came.

Mu Bai visited the Kunling Sect’s western-front headquarters to meet its disciplinary elder and secure cooperation with the joint disciplinary army. Elder Bai An refused to take Mu Bai seriously and insulted the three hundred righteous warriors, leaving Mu Bai and Zuo Lin openly at odds with him.

• Mu Bai accepted Zhong Yue’s advice to visit the Kunling Sect and left him in charge of the disciplinary army’s affairs.
• Mu Bai and Zuo Lin were stopped at the Kunling Sect camp, but Mu Bai used the Golden Book and military disciplinary code to make the guards let them enter.
• Bai An waited for Mu Bai to pay his respects, then accused the disciplinary army of taking bribes and questioned Mu Bai’s qualifications.
• Bai An dismissed the story of the three hundred righteous warriors, and Zuo Lin and Mu Bai mocked him in response.
• Bai An became furious but hesitated to attack Mu Bai and Zuo Lin because the disciplinary army had been established jointly by the three super sects.

Mu Bai used Zuo Lin’s victory over Bai Quan to force Bai An to acknowledge his authority to enforce military discipline, though Bai An resolved to kill him later. After receiving word of trouble at the Discipline Enforcement Army, Mu Bai vowed to seek justice at Purple Sun Fort for his fallen comrades.

• Mu Bai challenged Bai An’s junior brother Bai Quan to face Zuo Lin, who defeated him despite Bai Quan’s greater cultivation.
• After Bai Quan attacked Zuo Lin from behind, Mu Bai blocked Bai An’s strike and invoked Yuan Zun Rao Xing’s orders to prevent further violence.
• Bai An conceded that Mu Bai could deal with any Kunling Sect disciples who disrupted military discipline, and Mu Bai left with Zuo Lin.
• Mu Bai warned Zuo Lin against provoking disputes, then hurried back to the Discipline Enforcement Army after receiving an urgent message.
• The righteous warriors demanded justice, and Mu Bai vowed to go to Purple Sun Fort while ordering Zuo Lin to manage the camp and forbidding the others to follow.

Mu Bai entered Purple Sun Fort and joined a tavern full of fighters waiting for the Hundred Dragon Sect Heir, only for the arrival of two silver-masked strangers to trigger a deadly battle. As the strongest combatants clashed, Mu Bai recognized the Fox-Faced Bat and saw the beautiful faces beneath the strangers’ masks.

• Mu Bai arrived at a tavern in Purple Sun Fort, where sixteen people waited in tense silence.
• Mo Tieshan and Purple Orchid warned Mu Bai about the danger, while Purple Orchid said she had endured eight nights to claim the Black Plank Axe.
• Two silver-masked figures entered, doors and windows slammed shut, and the tavern’s occupants drew their soul soldiers.
• Mo Tieshan attacked Mu Bai, who parried with wine bowls; Mu Bai then recognized the hunchbacked old man as the Fox-Faced Bat.
• Purple Orchid killed Mo Tieshan, while the Black and White Twin Snakes killed two fighters and battled the silver-masked figures.
• Mu Bai used the Divine Spring’s penetrating sight and saw two beautiful faces beneath the silver masks.

Mu Bai and the other Dragon Guard candidates were forced to fight under Bai Long’s command, but the arrival of Bai Yu and Hao Feng turned the battle against him. Mu Bai nearly killed Bai Long, who escaped through the skylight toward Purple Sun Fort.

• Two silver-masked men killed the Black and White Snakes, but Bai Long emerged and ordered the fighting to continue until the Nine Dragon Guards were decided.
• Bai Long shot at the green-clad cultivator, and Mu Bai intervened before turning his Twin Fish Sword against Bai Long.
• The silver-masked men revealed themselves as Hao Feng and Bai Yu, and they fought Bai Long’s Dragon Guards while Mu Bai attacked Bai Long.
• Zhong Yue and Fox-Faced Bat joined Mu Bai, while most of the remaining candidates refused to help Bai Long.
• Mu Bai traded more than a hundred moves with Bai Long and wounded him, as Hao Feng and Bai Yu killed several Dragon Guards.
• Bai Long used an array seal to blast open the doors and windows, then escaped through the skylight toward the military encampment at Purple Sun Fort.

Mu Bai killed Bai Long despite Bai Yu and Hao Feng trying to stop him, then restrained his allies and the approaching Kunling Sect army from escalating the clash. His Discipline Enforcement Army gained authority across the Lingze Defense Line, and after Mu Bai returned to the central defense line, Wu Meng looked forward to seeing him again.

• Mu Bai pursued Bai Long and killed him with the Twin Fish Sword, then took his head as an offering to the dead.
• The Fox-Faced Bat revealed his Demon Transformation strength, while Zuo Lin and Zhong Yue arrived with three hundred righteous warriors.
• Hao Feng halted the Kunling Sect army with a sword trench, and Mu Bai led his warriors away with Bai Long's head.
• The Fox-Faced Bat declined to join the war and left after Mu Bai invited him to visit Mu Lan Pavilion.
• The Three Great Super Sects gave Mu Bai command of all three Discipline Enforcement Armies, and the three hundred righteous warriors became Hundred Guards.
• Mu Bai returned to the central defense line, where Du Xiang resented him and Wu Meng was eager to see him again.

Wu Meng confessed her long-held love to Mu Bai, but he rejected her because he could not forgive the White Wolf Tribe for standing by during his tribe’s massacre. After Wu Meng fled into the forest, Mu Bai received an arrow-borne message saying she had been taken and directing him to the Hundred-Li Maple-Red Forest.

• Xing Yun learned that Mu Bai was at the Lingze Defense Line and worried over the Divine Seal he had placed on her mind and spirit.
• Wu Meng visited Mu Bai and revealed that she had recognized his identity years earlier because she remembered him buying a hairpin for another girl.
• Mu Bai confronted Wu Meng over the White Wolf Tribe’s failure to protect his tribe, and Wu Meng embraced him and offered to spend her life making amends.
• Mu Bai refused Wu Meng’s offer, cut the silk handkerchief she had left him, and ordered her to leave.
• Wu Meng ran from Mu Bai’s tent and wandered distraught into the mountain forest, unaware that someone was following her.
• An arrow pierced Mu Bai’s tent with a message telling him to come to the Hundred-Li Maple-Red Forest if he wanted to save Wu Meng.

Mu Bai killed the green-eyed old man and four masked fighters at the rendezvous, but Wu Meng was nowhere to be found. In the forest, Ox-Head and Horse-Face attacked Wu Meng, and Xing Yun arrived to protect her just as Horse-Face lunged at Xing Yun.

• Mu Bai confronted the green-eyed old man, killed him with the Twin Fish Sword, and challenged the four masked figures.
• The four masked fighters attacked Mu Bai together, but he killed all of them with a single rapid assault.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face cornered Wu Meng in the forest and tried to overpower her for her Spirit-Gathering Pearl.
• Ox-Head used a Spirit-Breaking Needle to shatter Wu Meng's protective screen, and Horse-Face stopped her from taking her own life.
• Xing Yun followed Wu Meng into the forest, broke through the concealment formation, and confronted the two attackers.
• Horse-Face leaped toward Xing Yun, intending to take her instead.

Xing Yun and Wu Meng fought off Horse-Face and Ox-Head while Mu Bai raced to help them, but Lu Ming intercepted him and forced him into a duel. Mu Bai defeated Lu Ming and continued on, only to arrive after the masked men had escaped on a concealed flying carpet.

• Xing Yun held off Horse-Face while Wu Meng gained the upper hand against Ox-Head, and the two masked men retreated together as they considered fleeing.
• Mu Bai sensed the fight through Xing Yun's Mind-Spirit Imprint and hurried toward the women, but Lu Ming blocked his way and challenged him.
• Mu Bai shattered Lu Ming's Thousand-Stele Soul-Suppressing Hand and defeated him, then left Lu Ming behind and flew on.
• Horse-Face pressed Xing Yun while Wu Meng's Spirit-Gathering Pearl began to fade, but the masked men spotted Mu Bai approaching.
• Ox-Head summoned a black silk flying carpet, and he and Horse-Face escaped before Mu Bai arrived; Xing Yun decided to ask her Clan Patriarch to make her one.

Mu Bai stopped Ox-Head and Horse-Face from harming Wu Meng and Xing Yun, then killed Horse-Face after he attacked, accepting a sword wound in the process. As Mu Bai healed, Xing Yun demanded he marry her and stayed in his tent, while Wu Meng’s feelings for him remained clear.

• Mu Bai used his perception to uncover Ox-Head and Horse-Face, killing Ox-Head with the Twin Fish Sword.
• Mu Bai ordered Horse-Face to remove his mask, recognized him as a Hundred Guards officer, and killed him when he attacked with a Soul Sword.
• Mu Bai said he had repaid Horse-Face’s past righteousness, while Xing Yun condemned his talk of loyalty and escorted Wu Meng back to camp.
• At first light, Xing Yun confronted Mu Bai about the Divine Seal; he erased the brand, but she demanded that he marry her.
• Xing Yun gave Mu Bai the supreme-grade Wound-Healing Pill Wu Meng had sent, and Mu Bai took it to heal his chest wound.
• Xing Yun teased Mu Bai about refusing Wu Meng and settled in his tent while he closed his eyes to recover.

Mu Bai accidentally struck Xing Yun while meditating and used his Vital Qi and Phoenix Spirit Qi to save her. After she recovered enough to tease him, he left her in the tent to rest as he returned to his duties.

• Xing Yun tried to get Mu Bai's attention, and his reflexive palm strike sent her flying from the tent with severe injuries.
• Mu Bai carried Xing Yun back inside, treated her with a Wound-Healing Pill, and infused her with wood-attribute Vital Qi and Phoenix Spirit Qi to restore her vitality.
• Mu Bai asked a female cultivator to change Xing Yun into clean clothes and went to look over the Southern Marsh and the Lingze Defense Line.
• Xing Yun awoke wearing Mu Bai's robe and teased him about her appearance and whether he had ever watched her change.
• Mu Bai told Xing Yun to rest for several days and left the tent; Xing Yun, feeling tired, drifted back to sleep.

Mu Bai and Xing Yun were ambushed by Du Xiang and two hired Xiu Zun while exploring the Southern Marsh, then escaped using Xing Yun’s formation treasures. They hid beneath the Black Silk Flying Carpet as Du Xiang searched nearby, convinced they were still close.

• Mu Bai and Xing Yun flew through the peaceful Southern Marsh and discussed how the paths of humans and beasts could coexist in harmony.
• Du Xiang appeared with two mid-stage Xiu Zun and attacked Mu Bai, who protected Xing Yun with Chang Feng’s Jade Talisman and fought back with the Twin Fish Sword.
• The two hired Xiu Zun joined Du Xiang against Mu Bai, forcing him to break free and escape with Xing Yun on the Black Silk Flying Carpet.
• Xing Yun activated the carpet’s Flying Formation, then concealed them with Formation Flags and a Formation Disc when their pursuers caught up.
• Mu Bai and Xing Yun hid close together beneath the carpet while Du Xiang searched the surrounding area with his Divine Sense and guessed they were nearby.

Mu Bai and Xing Yun evaded Du Xiang and continued south toward the Beast Race army, but a diving bird drove them into a pool and into the realm of a Bathing Spring Fish. Xing Yun broke through its illusions while Mu Bai remained unconscious, and a desire-filled stranger appeared before her.

• Du Xiang gave up searching for Mu Bai and flew back toward the Lingze Dike Wall with his two companions.
• Mu Bai and Xing Yun emerged from hiding and continued south, stopping when they sensed the Beast Race army nearby.
• A vicious bird attacked, and Mu Bai grabbed Xing Yun as they plunged into a deep pool.
• Xing Yun woke in a strange realm, dispelled its illusions with her star power, and realized they were trapped in a Bathing Spring Fish's world.
• With Mu Bai unconscious, Xing Yun fought off the creature's tentacles until a handsome man in pink robes approached and urged her to fulfill her desire.

Xing Yun and Mu Bai escaped Yuyusheng’s Spring-Bathing Realm and survived a Pterosaur attack with his intervention. After Yuyusheng killed the beast and sent them away, Xing Yun and Mu Bai reunited in a kiss, embarrassed but alive.

• Xing Yun resisted Yuyusheng’s enchantment and wounded herself, prompting him to release her and Mu Bai beside an emerald pool as a Pterosaur appeared.
• Mu Bai carried the unconscious Xing Yun underwater, where the Pterosaur tore his arm and pursued them into the pool.
• Xing Yun shielded Mu Bai from the Pterosaur’s talons, and Mu Bai severed them before retreating deeper into the pool.
• Mu Bai encountered Yuyusheng again, rejected his offer of protection, and tried to fight the Pterosaur after it pierced his chest.
• Yuyusheng restrained Mu Bai, killed the Pterosaur, and sent him and Xing Yun away, urging Mu Bai to cherish her.
• Xing Yun awoke as they fell, kissed Mu Bai, and the two landed safely together, blushing with embarrassment.

Mu Bai and Xing Yun reunited in a kiss just as the beast tide attacked the Lingze Defense Line. Mu Bai helped organize the defenders, and the chapter ended as the human army opened fire on the approaching beasts.

• Mu Bai clasped Xing Yun's hands, confessed his devotion, and kissed her, despite worrying about his two wives at home.
• The beast tide surged from the Jialan Embankment Wall, and Mu Bai carried Xing Yun toward the Lingze Defense Line while warning Chang Feng and Lu Ling.
• Mu Bai ordered the Discipline Enforcement Army to oversee the defenses and execute anyone who fled, while Xing Yun returned to the Star Tribe's encampment.
• Demon-transformed beasts attacked the wall and broke its cannons and formations, drawing the Human Race's Dao Zun into battle in the sky.
• Mu Bai recognized the Dao Zun battle as mental interference, and the cultivators recovered when horns sounded; Rao Xing then ordered the cannons and crossbows to fire.
• The defenders blasted the oncoming beasts, while the deep water before the wall blocked many low-ranking beasts and reduced the tide's threat.