Chapter Summaries

Xing Yun and Hu Meier followed an old man to inspect a Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Formation, but his courtyard concealed a trap. The women were ensnared in a tattered fishing net by a sinister old woman.

• Xing Yun spotted the old man's Formation Flags and recognized them as a valuable Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• The old man said the Formation Disc was with a friend, and Xing Yun and Hu Meier agreed to follow him to see it.
• Xing Yun and Hu Meier waited outside the residence while the old man entered, then opened the gate when he failed to return.
• Xing Yun noticed the old woman's fishing net had disappeared and warned Hu Meier that they were trapped.
• Hu Meier tried to flee with Xing Yun, but the tattered net dropped over them and the old woman revealed herself.

Granny Yu and the old man captured Xing Yun and Hu Meier and fled west, while Mu Bai pursued them using Hu Meier's hairpin. His desperate use of medicinal pills triggered a three-colored realm embryo, but he collapsed after losing the hairpin's signal and could no longer find the women.

• The old man and Granny Yu trapped Xing Yun and Hu Meier in a tattered Fishing Net, disguised themselves, and carried the women west from the marketplace.
• Mu Bai and Chang Feng discovered the capture, and Mu Bai used Hu Meier's Twin Phoenix Facing the Sun Pearl Hairpin to track the kidnappers west.
• Mu Bai repeatedly shifted through the void in pursuit, then swallowed large quantities of medicinal pills when his strength ran out.
• The powers of Mu Bai's body, soul, and mind erupted and formed a three-colored realm embryo in his dantian.
• Mu Bai sensed the other hairpin's signal disappear, roared for Xing Yun, and collapsed from exhaustion.

Mu Bai tracked down Elders Yu and Lu, the abductors of Xing Yun and Hu Meier, and forced the old man to reveal that the Eastern Nether Tribe had arranged their capture. He learned the two women were likely taken to the Kunling Sect as gifts, and his fury turned toward the tribe.

• Mu Bai regained some strength and pursued Xing Yun westward until he found the disguised Elders Yu and Lu.
• Elders Yu and Lu used the Thousand-Segment Long Whip to teleport away, but Mu Bai repeatedly caught up with them and interrupted their escape.
• After Elders Yu and Lu claimed to have eaten Xing Yun and Hu Meier, they attacked Mu Bai with a bone dragon and a tattered fishing net.
• Mu Bai escaped underground, crippled Granny Yu, then trapped the old man with the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net and beat him until he confessed.
• The old man revealed that the Eastern Nether Tribe had hired them to abduct the women, who were likely being taken to the Kunling Sect in exchange for protection.
• Mu Bai vowed to put the Eastern Nether Tribe to the blade and roared in rage.

Mu Bai tortured Elders Yu and Lu while pursuing his enemies, as Du Xiang brought Xing Yun and Hu Meier to the Kunling Sect to seek its protection for the Eastern Nether Great Tribe. Bai An accepted the tribe as a subordinate force, and Bai Yu and Hao Feng were assigned to protect it.

• Mu Bai shattered Elders Yu and Lu's Inner Worlds, hooked them through their shoulder blades, and dragged them westward.
• Du Xiang brought Xing Yun and Hu Meier to the Kunling Sect, where he and his clansmen were guided inside by a disciple surnamed Wang.
• Du Zhong hoped to join the Kunling Sect, while the tribe's younger members envied his opportunity.
• Bai An led Du Xiang and Du Zhong to Kunling Hall, where Hundred Virtues agreed to take in the Eastern Nether Tribe under Bai An's authority.
• Hundred Virtues assigned Bai Yu and Hao Feng to protect the Eastern Nether Tribe.

Mu Bai pursued Du Xiang and the Eastern Nether Great Tribe after learning Xing Yun and Hu Meier had been handed to the Kunling Sect. Sect Master Hundred Virtues stopped the clash by offering Mu Bai a place in the sect and setting terms for the tribe’s protection.

• Hundred Virtues accepted Bai Yu and Hao Feng’s offer to protect the Eastern Nether Great Tribe, while Bai An took Xing Yun and Hu Meier into his Mustard Seed Bag.
• Mu Bai flew west with the broken bodies of Elders Yu and Lu, then confronted the Kunling Sect’s Soul Boat and demanded the women’s release.
• Bai Yu and Hao Feng blocked Mu Bai from attacking Du Xiang, and the three prepared to fight until Hundred Virtues intervened.
• Hundred Virtues offered to return Xing Yun and Hu Meier and admit Mu Bai to the Kunling Sect if he won first place in its tournament.
• When Mu Bai rejected the offer, Hundred Virtues promised not to interfere if Mu Bai could someday break through Bai Yu and Hao Feng’s protection.

Mu Bai traveled with the Kunling Sect back to Tianmu Mountain and entered the final battles, where he faced Rao Lin. The arrival of Qian Hao, the Qianyuan Sacred Land's thirteenth sacred son, interrupted the fights.

• Mu Bai accepted Hundred Virtues' offer to travel with the Kunling Sect, and Bai An released and hosted Xing Yun and Hu Meier.
• Hundred Virtues brought the Kunling Sect back to Tianmu Mountain, where Rao Xing and Lu Ping challenged the sect's return.
• Mu Bai learned that Mu Lan and the others had left, then entered the final battles against Rao Lin while Ling Jinyu fought Lu Ping.
• Rao Lin's Human Emperor Battle Halberd forced Mu Bai to prepare to draw the Star Sword.
• Two Yinglong arrived pulling Qian Hao's golden war chariot, halting both battles as the spectators watched.

Qian Hao arrived in the Eastern Ridge and tried to force Mu Bai and Rao Lin into a fight, provoking the Kunling Sect and Lu Shaofang of the Primordial Soul Sacred Land. When Qian Hao blocked Mu Bai from reaching Xing Yun and Hu Meier, Mu Bai attacked him, and the confrontation escalated into a clash involving the Yinglong sword and Qian Hao’s rainbow phoenix fan.

• Qian Hao insulted the Eastern Ridge prodigies and ordered his elder to seize Mu Bai and Rao Lin, but Rao Jinchuan intervened with the Human Emperor Battle Halberd.
• Lu Shaofang arrived and challenged Qian Hao, then agreed to wager an Ancestral Dragon Scale against Qian Hao’s Zhuzhao Flame on the outcome of Mu Bai and Rao Lin’s fight.
• Qian Hao ordered Mu Bai and Rao Lin to fight, and Rao Lin attacked the Yinglong formed from Qian Hao’s sword.
• Bai An brought Xing Yun and Hu Meier to Tianmu Mountain, and Qian Hao demanded that Hundred Virtues send them to him before flying to intercept them.
• Mu Bai attacked Qian Hao when he blocked his way to the women, and Qian Hao’s feather fan transformed into a rainbow phoenix.
• Rao Lin broke off his fight with the Yinglong to confront the rainbow phoenix and try to rescue its soul, while Mu Bai turned back to fight the pursuing Yinglong.

Qian Hao insulted the Eastern Ridge cultivators and fought Mu Bai and Rao Lin, but they eventually overwhelmed him after Rao Lin and Mu Bai landed powerful attacks. The Qianyuan Sacred Land’s elders and the other factions’ elders joined the conflict, and Qian Hao was restored unharmed by his black-robed protector’s time-and-space laws.

• Qian Hao taunted Mu Bai and Rao Lin, then struck them from behind and sent them flying with a single move.
• Ling Jinyu and Lu Ming tried to join the fight, but their sect elders stopped them from intervening.
• Rao Lin used the Human Emperor Stone Inscription to damage the Yinglong soul, while Mu Bai struck Qian Hao with Gu Chen's One Sword and forced him back.
• The Qian Slaves attacked Mu Bai and Rao Lin, prompting Lu Shaofang’s men to intervene; Rao Jinchuan then clashed with the gray-robed Qian Slave, while Bai Ying attacked Rao Jinchuan.
• Mu Bai and Rao Lin beat Qian Hao as the crowd cheered, but the black-robed Qian Slave used time-and-space laws to make their blows miss and restore Qian Hao’s appearance.

Qian Hao and the Qian Slaves crushed the Eastern Ridge cultivators, slaughtering the Jialan Sect and torturing Mu Bai after Rao Jinchuan escaped with Rao Lin. As Qian Hao threatened Xing Yun and the others, Mu Bai began to detonate himself, hoping to take Qian Hao with him.

• Qian Hao had the Qian Slave restrain Mu Bai and Rao Lin, then beat and humiliated them until Rao Jinchuan shattered the space restriction by detonating his Soul Treasure.
• Rao Jinchuan teleported away with Rao Lin while Mu Bai remained captured, and Qian Hao ordered Tianmu Mountain sealed and the Jialan Sect members surrounded.
• The Qian Slaves beheaded more than three thousand Jialan Sect members, including Rao Xing and Rainbow Phoenix, while the Eastern Ridge cultivators watched helplessly.
• Qian Hao insulted the assembled cultivators and threatened Xing Yun, Hu Meier, and Ling Jinyu, then stabbed Mu Bai and vowed to make him watch as he abused them.
• Mu Bai roared about the Tribe and chose to detonate himself, regretting that he had not personally avenged it.

Mu Bai survived the destruction of his nascent realm, and Xing Mu discovered the Flying Immortal Scripture in his Divine Palace and brought him to the Star Great Tribe. The tribe’s secret Immortal lineage and Mu Bai’s uncertain recovery became the focus as Xing Mu returned home without Xing Yun, who had been abducted by the Qianyuan Sacred Land.

• Mu Bai detonated his nascent realm, leaving himself and Qian Hao gravely wounded, while the Qian Slaves fled with Qian Hao and Lu Shaofang departed with the sacred land forces.
• Ling Jinyu was taken back to the Mysterious Maiden Sect, while Mu Bai’s ruined body remained alone on Tianmu Mountain until Xing Mu found him.
• Xing Mu sensed Soul Power in Mu Bai and discovered the Flying Immortal Scripture in his Divine Palace, then placed Mu Bai in his Mustard Seed Bag rather than risk taking the Golden Book.
• The Star Great Tribe’s secret ancestry as descendants of the upper-realm Immortal Race was revealed, and Xing Mu resolved to save Mu Bai and carried him toward the tribe’s island.
• Xing Mu returned to the Star Great Tribe without Xing Yun, prompting Xing Hui to ask where she was, and laid Mu Bai on a couch beneath the starlight.

Xing Mu treated the unconscious Mu Bai while restraining Xing Hui from attempting a reckless rescue of Xing Yun. He concealed Mu Bai and sealed off the Star Great Tribe, and the chapter ended with the tribe celebrating a New Year while Mu Bai remained unconscious.

• Xing Mu used formations and plant essence to sustain Mu Bai, then slapped Xing Hui when he tried to attack Mu Bai and set off to rescue Xing Yun.
• Xing Mu ordered the tribesmen to imprison Xing Hui, then consulted Clan Patriarch Xing Yang about the tribe's next steps.
• Xing Yang advised Xing Mu to keep Mu Bai's presence secret, and Xing Mu forbade the island's tribesmen from leaving for six months.
• As the seasons passed, Xing Mu had Mu Bai carried to the sea cliffs, but Mu Bai remained unconscious through the winter.
• The Star Great Tribe celebrated the New Year and the children who had inscribed their Soul Marks, while Xing Yun's parents and Xing Hui continued to miss her.

Mu Bai slowly recovered from his devastating injuries as his Five Elements cultivation rebuilt his body and transformed his Inner World. By the time his wounds healed, Xing Mu marveled at his potential but grieved for Xing Yun, who had also suffered in the calamity.

• At the New Year fireworks, Mu Bai's Five Elements essence began rebuilding his shattered body, and Xing Mu restrained him when the pain made him claw at his wounds.
• Over the following months, Mu Bai's organs and flesh regrew while he remained unconscious, and his agonized cries gradually faded.
• Mu Bai experienced hazy visions of battles, worshippers, a towering peak, and a woman calling him her husband.
• Mu Bai regained self-awareness as his Five Elements organs and abdominal wounds fully formed, though his Five Elements Inner Core was exhausted.
• Mu Bai's embryonic Inner World evolved into a chaotic, expanding world, astonishing Xing Mu, who reflected on Mu Bai's potential and mourned Xing Yun.

Du Xiang and the Eastern Nether Great Tribe attacked Star Island after Xing Mu refused to surrender Mu Bai. Xing Yang rescued Xing Mu into the Star Great Formation, while Du Xiang and Du Lang argued over their assault and Du Xiang led his faction to seek another way through the barrier.

• Du Xiang demanded that Xing Mu hand over the surviving remnant of the Haibei Tribe and threatened to slaughter Star Island; Xing Mu refused and cursed him over Xing Yun.
• Xing Mu used the Star Disk to unleash the Star Great Formation's power, but Du Lang deflected the attack and fought Xing Mu with his spiked club.
• Xing Yang emerged from the formation, broke Du Xiang's attack, and pulled Xing Mu back inside, where they decided to rely on the formation rather than fight head-on.
• Du Xiang ordered the Eastern Nether Great Tribe to kill everyone and bombard the Star Great Formation with Soul Crystal Cannons, but the Light Screen held.
• Du Xiang and Du Lang argued over the cost of firing the cannons and the Kunling Sect's support; Du Lang ordered the bombardment to continue.
• Du Xiang led his faction toward Star Island's northern side to try to breach the Light Screen by another means.

The Star Great Tribe launched a surprise attack on the Eastern Nether Great Tribe while its forces were divided, destroying their Divine Wind Boat. Du Xiang and Du Lang then counterattacked, gravely wounding Xing Yang and Xing Mu as the Star cultivators tried to retreat to their formation.

• Du Xiang questioned the value of wasting soul crystals on attacks that could not break the Star Great Formation, while Du Lang ordered the bombardment to continue.
• Concerned that the formation’s soul crystal supply would run out, Xing Yang and Xing Mu led thousands of cultivators out to attack Du Lang’s group.
• Du Lang fled with Du Zhong, and Xing Yang and Xing Mu redirected their assault toward the Divine Wind Boat, eventually breaking its defenses and splitting the vessel apart.
• Du Xiang arrived furious, and Du Lang joined the battle as Xing Mu held him off while Xing Yang attacked Du Xiang.
• Du Xiang exploded Xing Yang’s Golden Python trap, destroying Xing Yang’s shield and blowing off one of his arms.
• As Xing Mu tried to retreat, Du Xiang blocked his way and Du Lang struck him from behind, leaving him gravely wounded.

Mu Bai revealed that he had recovered and began taking revenge on the Eastern Nether Great Tribe at Star Island. He left Du Xiang alive after beating him down, declaring that his first three blows honored the souls of his fallen clansmen.

• Xing Hui fought Du Lang with the Star Fork and the Star Great Formation, but both men were forced back by their clash.
• Xing Hui’s clansmen made way for the Eastern Nether Great Tribe to attack Mu Bai, who lay motionless on a reef while recalling his guilt over Xing Yun and Hu Meier’s deaths.
• Du Lang sent a terrified cultivator to kill Mu Bai, but Mu Bai rose, killed him with a Metal-Origin White Ray, and ordered Xing Hui to seal the formation.
• Du Xiang accused Mu Bai of bluffing, then transformed into a giant and attacked him with a treasured longsword.
• Mu Bai repeatedly knocked Du Xiang down, then announced that his first three blows were kowtows to heaven for his clansmen’s souls.
• Du Xiang, dazed and bleeding, swung his sword wildly and blasted the surrounding reefs.

Mu Bai overwhelmed the Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s leaders, but Du Xiang used the tribe’s Ancestral Spirit Netherfire to launch a dangerous counterattack. Mu Bai drove off the Netherfire, and Du Xiang gathered its power for another assault.

• Mu Bai used Du Lang to disrupt Du Xiang’s sword attacks, then wounded Du Xiang and severed his left arm with the sword Jade Spring.
• Mu Bai struck Du Lang’s Inner World and hurled its land, mountains, and rivers at Du Xiang, while Du Lang and Du Xiang suffered severe injuries.
• Du Lang tried to escape with Du Zhong, but Mu Bai severed Du Lang’s other arm and kicked Du Zhong into the clouds.
• Du Xiang ordered more than ten Xiu Zun to offer their Netherfire, combining it with his own to form a spear that froze and wounded Mu Bai.
• Mu Bai expelled the Netherfire with Ding Fire and Yi Wood, and Du Xiang intensified the spear’s chill before summoning a vast vortex with his attack.

Mu Bai defeated Du Xiang and Du Lang, crippled the Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s fighters, and began taking revenge for the destruction of the Haibei Tribe. With nearly a thousand tribespeople surrounded, Mu Bai declared that none of them would survive.

• Du Xiang trapped Mu Bai in a freezing hurricane, but Mu Bai emerged unharmed from the Void Beast’s self-contained world.
• Mu Bai stabbed Du Xiang’s Inner World with the Azure Spring longsword, destroyed Du Xiang’s Split Soul, and stopped him from detonating his Divine Palace.
• Mu Bai summoned the Origin Water Chiru, which devoured the netherfire Soul Spirits of a dozen Eastern Nether Great Tribe Xiu Zun and reduced their realms.
• Mu Bai sent his three Soul Spirits to surround the tribe’s nearly thousand members, while he crippled Du Lang and confronted Du Xiang over the slaughter of the Haibei Tribe.
• Mu Bai cut off Du Xiang’s tongue, hooked him with a chain, and told Du Lang that no one in the Eastern Nether Tribe would live.

Mu Bai terrorized the Eastern Nether Great Tribe as he tortured its leaders and forced them to name those responsible for slaughtering the Haibei Tribe. After Du Zhong rallied the clansmen to fight, Mu Bai faced their charge, determined to avenge his tribe.

• Mu Bai dragged the mutilated Du Xiang and Du Lang before the Eastern Nether Great Tribe and snapped Du Yin's neck, leaving him alive to curse.
• Mu Bai threatened Du Zhong until Du Lang named Du Long as another participant in the massacre of the Haibei Tribe.
• Mu Bai hooked Du Long and tortured him with White Ray, a Healing Pill, and mushroom powder until he went mad.
• Xing Yang and Xing Mu arrived, and Xing Yang urged Xing Mu to guide Mu Bai away from an evil path.
• Du Zhong and the Eastern Nether Great Tribe charged at Mu Bai, who raised his sword and vowed to kill them all if they could not kill him.

Mu Bai slaughtered the Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s forces in a frenzy to avenge his people, killing Du Zhong and Du Lang before forcing the survivors to their knees. When members of the Star Great Tribe pleaded for mercy, Mu Bai killed the kneeling cultivators as well.

• Mu Bai charged through the Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s fighters, killing Du Zhong with a sword stroke to the neck.
• Du Lang tried to reach Du Zhong, but Mu Bai killed him as he lunged for revenge.
• Mu Bai continued fighting despite his wounds, using Metal-Origin White Rays to kill dozens of attackers and drive the survivors into retreat.
• The remaining Eastern Nether Great Tribe cultivators knelt and begged Mu Bai to spare them, while people from the Star Great Tribe urged him to stop.
• Mu Bai roared that there would be no forgiveness and killed the kneeling cultivators with hundreds of Metal-Origin White Rays.

After avenging the Haibei Tribe, Mu Bai returned Xing Yuan’s remains to the Star Great Tribe and set out for the Eastern Nether Great Tribe. He arrived with over a thousand corpses and faced the tribe’s terrified survivors, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Mu Bai celebrated his revenge against Du Xiang, then gave Xing Mu and Xing Yang Xing Yuan’s Jade Slip and ashes.
• Xing Mu, Xing Yang, the Star Great Tribe, and Du Xiang mourned Xing Yuan and their lost loved ones; Du Xiang died after kneeling in grief.
• The Star Great Tribe buried Xing Yuan, and Mu Bai left despite his wounds, dragging the corpses of more than a thousand Eastern Nether Great Tribe clansmen toward their home.
• Cultivators followed Mu Bai and learned that he had destroyed the Eastern Nether Great Tribe in revenge for its extermination of the Haibei Tribe.
• Mu Bai arrived above the Eastern Nether Great Tribe, whose remaining elders, women, and children had gathered behind its protective array, and paused without attacking.