Chapter Summaries

Li Xiao secretly led Li Kuangfeng toward the White Tiger Sect, where their shuttle was ambushed by two men who believed Li Xiao was headed to the Azure Dragon Sect. After Li Xiao killed them—or appeared to—he discovered they had survived and sent Nine Nether Underworld Fire after them.

• Li Xiao split the Li Lineage's forces among the Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger Sects, while tricking Li Kuangfeng into thinking they were headed to the Azure Dragon Sect.
• Two attackers intercepted the White Tiger-bound shuttle, killed many Li Lineage disciples, and searched its rooms for their target.
• Li Xiao emerged and learned the attackers had believed he was going to the Azure Dragon Sect, leading him to suspect a mole in the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao smashed the attackers' shuttle with a palm strike, ordered Li Dan to preserve the fallen disciples' bodies, and continued onward.
• The two attackers revived on the shattered deck, but Li Xiao sensed their survival and sent Nine Nether Underworld Fire toward them.

Li Xiao sent Yingzi and Shadow Killing Pavilion assassins to target the Black Tortoise Holy Son, then arrived at the White Tiger Sect with Li Kuangfeng. Li Kuangfeng reunited with Nangong Meng, greeting her after many years apart.

• Li Xiao ordered Yingzi to infiltrate the Black Tortoise Sect and assassinate its Holy Son.
• Li Xiao told Li Dan that the Shadow Killing Pavilion could handle the mission, and vowed to destroy the Black Tortoise Sect himself if it broke the rules again.
• Li Xiao arrived at the White Tiger Sect, where Nangong Meng and other leaders came out to welcome him.
• Li Kuangfeng discovered the shuttle had gone to the White Tiger Sect instead of the Azure Dragon Sect and argued with Li Xiao.
• Nangong Meng called to Li Kuangfeng, who went down from the shuttle and greeted her after many years apart.

Li Xiao arrived at the White Tiger Sect for Bai Xiaolin’s baptism ceremony, where Nangong Meng welcomed him warmly and Li Kuangfeng fumed at their apparent closeness. Meanwhile, Tang Xuan, inhabiting Bai Xiaolin’s body, planned to kill Li Xiao after completing his scheme with the Holy Envoy.

• Li Xiao greeted Nangong Meng and the White Tiger Sect elders, while Li Kuangfeng watched resentfully as Nangong Meng led him inside.
• Li Dan bantered with Bai Xiaolin, whose body was secretly controlled by Tang Xuan; Tang Xuan resolved to kill Li Xiao after the ceremony.
• Nangong Meng escorted Li Xiao toward the main hall and welcomed his visit as a sign of friendship with the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao told Nangong Meng that he had come to honor her friendship with his grandfather, provoking Li Kuangfeng to threaten him through gritted teeth.

Li Xiao arranged for Li Kuangfeng and Nangong Meng to speak alone, and Li Kuangfeng explained why he had abandoned their youthful promise. Nangong Meng let go of the past, while Li Xiao and Li Dan wandered the White Tiger Sect, joking about the possibility of a new grandmother.

• Li Xiao pulled Li Dan away from the banquet and stopped Li Kuangfeng from leaving, giving him and Nangong Meng a chance to talk.
• Nangong Meng confronted Li Kuangfeng about their past, and he admitted that he had accepted a marriage arranged by his lineage.
• Li Kuangfeng explained how he and Nangong Meng had fallen in love ten thousand years earlier before his family’s marriage alliance separated them.
• Nangong Meng accepted his explanation and said they should leave the past behind, then praised Li Xiao.
• Li Dan complained about missing the food, and Li Xiao scolded him for potentially disrupting Li Kuangfeng’s reunion with Nangong Meng.
• Li Xiao and Li Dan continued exploring the White Tiger Sect, joking that Li Kuangfeng might gain another wife.

Li Xiao noticed the White Tiger Sect’s blood-pool White Tiger Consciousness and warned the Li Lineage disciples to leave before it broke loose. The blood tiger rampaged through White Tiger Hall and confronted Bai Xiaolin, while Li Xiao remained outside the chaos.

• Li Xiao passed a guarded courtyard and recognized that the White Tiger Sect was facing trouble inside.
• The White Tiger Consciousness attacked Bai Jiangbo and the elders, grievously wounding the sect master.
• Li Xiao sent Li Dan to lead the Li Lineage disciples outside the White Tiger Sect’s gates.
• The blood tiger burst into White Tiger Hall and slaughtered amid the guests’ panic.
• Bai Xiaolin confronted the blood tiger and asked why the White Tiger Sect had such a terrifying creature.

Li Xiao confronted the White Tiger's will after it attacked the White Tiger Sect, rescuing Nangong Meng and overpowering the nearly Peak Saint Realm beast. The blood tiger dissipated, leaving the sect members stunned by Li Xiao's strength.

• Two White Tiger Sect elders found Bai Jiangbo and the other elders wounded beside the blood pool, and Bai Jiangbo sent them to find Li Xiao for help.
• The elders admitted they had stopped Li Xiao at the entrance, and Bai Jiangbo ordered them to hurry after him before passing out.
• At the White Tiger Hall, Nangong Meng charged the blood tiger to protect Bai Xiaolin, and Li Xiao arrived and pulled her out of its attack.
• Li Xiao struck the blood tiger, discovered it could regenerate, and then used Nine Nether Underworld Fire to wound it and drive it back.
• Li Xiao pummeled the blood tiger and finished it with a palm strike that made it fade away, while the gathered sect members watched in shock.

After the White Tiger will rampaged through White Tiger Hall, Li Xiao faced survivors who accused the Li Lineage of abandoning them and waiting too long to intervene. He killed the loudest accusers and silenced the rest, while Nangong Meng promised compensation for the losses; the survivors agreed, hoping to leave alive.

• Li Dan led the unharmed Li Lineage disciples into White Tiger Hall, where Li Xiao confirmed that everyone from his lineage had evacuated safely.
• An old man accused the Li Lineage of knowing about the danger and blamed Li Xiao for waiting to act, prompting surviving disciples to echo the accusations.
• Li Xiao killed the old man with a strike and then killed several more people who challenged him.
• Li Xiao warned the survivors not to use moral blackmail against him, and the frightened crowd fell silent.
• Nangong Meng accepted responsibility for the White Tiger Sect's negligence and promised compensation, and the survivors agreed.

After the White Tiger Sect agreed to compensate the visiting factions, Li Xiao’s revelation that Nangong Meng was his grandmother led Bai Jiangbo to accept her relationship with Li Kuangfeng and welcome the Li Lineage as family. Li Xiao left for home with the Li disciples, while Bai Xiaolin went to the blood pool for his baptism and Li Kuangfeng said farewell to Nangong Meng.

• Bai Jiangbo apologized for the White Tiger Sect’s accident and dismissed the visiting factions after they accepted the compensation plan.
• Li Xiao told Bai Jiangbo that the Li Lineage and White Tiger Sect were family because of his grandmother, and Bai Jiangbo realized that Nangong Meng and Li Kuangfeng were connected.
• Bai Jiangbo accepted the family connection, welcomed Li Xiao as his nephew, and agreed to visit the Li Lineage.
• Li Xiao gave Bai Jiangbo bottles of nine-mark pills, then boarded the flying shuttle with Li Dan and the other Li Lineage disciples.
• Bai Xiaolin went to the White Tiger Sect’s blood pool for his baptism, while Li Kuangfeng bade farewell to Nangong Meng and joined the Li Lineage shuttle.

After the White Tiger Sect’s baptism ended early, Tang Xuan seized Bai Xiaolin’s body and obtained the White Tiger Sacred Art. Meanwhile, the Shadow Killing Pavilion failed to kill the Black Tortoise Holy Son, whom Yingzi suspected had been possessed, and launched a surprise attack on ordinary Black Tortoise Sect disciples.

• Tang Xuan entered the White Tiger blood pool in Bai Xiaolin’s body, and Bai Xiaolin received the White Tiger Sacred Art.
• Dozens of Shadow Killing Pavilion assassins attacked the Black Tortoise Holy Son during his baptism, but he escaped with only a cut on his neck.
• The Black Tortoise Holy Son blamed the Shadow Killing Pavilion and Li Xiao, while the sect elders ordered a search and increased patrols.
• Yingzi recovered from the Black Tortoise Holy Son’s palm strike with a Nine-Pattern Origin-Returning Pill, and he and the assassins suspected the Holy Son had been possessed.
• Yingzi led the Shadow Killing Pavilion in a new attack, targeting ordinary Black Tortoise Sect disciples while the sect focused on its Holy Son.

After returning to the Li Lineage, Li Xiao learned that Yingzi had not come back and went to the Black Tortoise Sect to investigate. Yingzi’s raid was trapped when an ancient power sealed the surrounding space, and the Black Tortoise Sect recognized its first ancestor’s protection.

• Li Xiao returned with Li Kuangfeng and assured him that he would keep his affair with Nangong Meng secret.
• Li Xiao learned that Yingzi had not returned and left for the Black Tortoise Sect, fearing the Shadow Killing Pavilion had run into trouble.
• Yingzi and more than a dozen Shadow Killing Pavilion members raided the Black Tortoise Sect, killing dozens of disciples.
• A white-haired old man awakened in the Black Tortoise Sect’s forbidden grounds and rose from its deep pool.
• Black Tortoise Sect elders confronted Yingzi’s group, but the assassins could not escape because someone had sealed the surrounding space.
• Xiao Zhen recognized the light barrier and black tortoise phantom as signs that the Black Tortoise Sect’s first ancestor had appeared.