Chapter Summaries

After refining the Dragon Tiger Great Pill, Lin Baichuan and the Mystic Battle Squad prepared to report to the base, where they discovered that the Demon Suppression Army had sealed the exits amid a growing crisis. The chapter left them heading toward the training ground as Lin Baichuan learned that a powerful clan elder had been killed for trying to leave the Underground Abyss.

• Tie Zhan reached the peak of the Second-Rank Qi Transforming Realm, while Meng Zikun, Hou Wanshan, Liang Feipeng, Yun Feiyu, and Luo Xiaoyan advanced to the Third-Rank Qi Gathering Realm.
• Lin Baichuan told the Mystic Battle Squad that the reporting deadline had arrived, and they set out for the training ground.
• The squad noticed that people throughout the base looked fearful and tense, and Tie Zhan suspected that a major war might be approaching.
• Lin Baichuan used his spiritual perception to learn that the Demon Suppression Army had locked down the base and sealed both passages out of the Underground Abyss.
• A First Rank Pill Condensing Realm elder was killed by a Demon Suppression Army expert after trying to take his clan's talented disciples away and injuring a soldier.

Lin Baichuan and the Mystic Battle Squad arrived at a gathering of Special Operations Squads as rumors spread about an impending decisive battle. They encountered the formidable Ten Directions Squad led by Wei He, whose hidden power Lin Baichuan suspected came from a powerful treasure.

• Lin Baichuan used his spiritual will to learn about recent events and hurried with Tie Zhan to the parade ground.
• Other squads discussed the Mystic Battle Squad's losses and doubted its strength, while Meng Zikun and Hou Wanshan defended their squad through voice transmission.
• Lin Baichuan sensed a powerful group approaching the parade ground.
• Wei He and the Ten Directions Squad arrived riding Howling Moon Snow Wolves, drawing attention for their strength and captured mounts.
• Tie Zhan explained Wei He's reputation and the Ten Directions Squad's power, and Lin Baichuan sensed a concealed force within Wei He that might be a treasure.

Lin Baichuan clashed with Wei He after the Ten Directions Squad arrived, then watched as the Demon Suppression Army’s top three squads entered the training ground. He learned that Battle Heaven, Giant Axe, and Bright Light consisted entirely of First Rank Pill Condensing cultivators and had powerful inherited lineages.

• Wei He probed Lin Baichuan with his spiritual will, but Lin Baichuan shattered it with his saber intent and injured him.
• Wei He ordered a subordinate to investigate Lin Baichuan and the Mystic Battle Squad.
• Nearly ten thousand Demon Suppression Army elites gathered at the training ground as Lin Baichuan meditated with his squad.
• Battle Heaven, Giant Axe, and Bright Light arrived together, drawing attention as the army’s top three Special Operations Squads.
• Tie Zhan told Lin Baichuan that the three squads had complete inheritances, recruited members internally, and came from powerful backgrounds.

Lin Baichuan assessed the three most powerful special operations squads and promised to help the Mystic Battle Squad grow through a new points-based system for earning pills and other resources. The chapter left him preparing to bind the squad to his leadership by supplying rare items that members could obtain only through him.

• Lin Baichuan sized up the three leading squads, noticed their mutual hostility, and kept the Mystic Battle Squad apart from the gathering.
• Meng Zikun envied the leading squads, while Tie Zhan and Hou Wanshan argued that keeping a low profile mattered more than fame.
• Lin Baichuan promised the Mystic Battle Squad a steady supply of pills if its members obeyed his orders.
• Lin Baichuan announced a system in which squad members would earn points through missions and exchanged spoils, then trade those points for pills and other resources.
• Lin Baichuan reasoned that the system would reward effort and make his subordinates rely on him for rare pills and spiritual artifacts.

Lin Baichuan established a points-based system for the Mystic Battle Squad before Thirteenth Commander Li Kuiyang announced that the human forces were losing ground in Burial God Abyss. The recruits learned they were being gathered as reinforcements for a perilous battle over a spiritual treasure that could determine control of the Underground Abyss.

• Lin Baichuan laid out rules for earning and spending points, and Tie Zhan and the others welcomed the system as a fair way to obtain cultivation resources.
• A bell sounded, and Li Kuiyang appeared on the platform; Tie Zhan explained that he was a commander who had surpassed the Physical Realm.
• Lin Baichuan recognized Li Kuiyang's overwhelming strength and resolved to reach and surpass his level.
• Li Kuiyang announced that the decisive battle against the Demon and Monster Races would take place in Burial God Abyss, where a spiritual treasure could determine control of the Underground Abyss.
• Li Kuiyang warned that the humans were at a disadvantage and that the Demon and Monster Races could invade their world if they seized the treasure.
• The recruits realized they were being sent as reinforcements to Burial God Abyss, and panic spread as they considered the danger.

The Demon Suppression Army prepared to return to Burial God Abyss after Li Kuiyang explained that most squads would target the fiends’ conventional forces and elite squads, while First Rank fighters would enter the core battlefield. Lin Baichuan gave the Mystic Battle Squad pills and placed Tie Zhan in command before Li Kuiyang ordered everyone to depart.

• Li Kuiyang told the assembled squads that they would fight the fiends’ conventional troops and elite squads, while Ninth Stage Soldier Rank forces would be handled by others.
• Li Kuiyang gave the troops one hour to recover before leading them to Burial God Abyss.
• Lin Baichuan gave Tie Zhan more than a dozen medicinal pill bottles and instructed him to command the Mystic Battle Squad in the outer regions.
• Lin Baichuan warned the squad not to pursue merit recklessly and told them to obey Tie Zhan while he entered the core battlefield.
• The squads meditated to prepare for battle, and Li Kuiyang returned to the platform and ordered everyone to leave for Burial God Abyss.

Humanity's forces assembled outside Burial God Abyss and launched an assault as the Demon and Monster Races reinforced their defenses. Lin Baichuan joined the First Rank Pill Condensing Realm cultivators, determined to seize the Earth Origin Pearl.

• Li Kuiyang led more than ten thousand Special Operations Squad soldiers and over thirty thousand Fourth-Rank-and-above cultivators toward Burial God Abyss while a second army gathered to face the enemy's regular corps.
• Lin Baichuan sensed the abyss's vastly intensified Killing Intent and the powerful demon and monster forces waiting outside it.
• Li Kuiyang ordered the army into Burial God Abyss, where Lin Baichuan and his companions found the Blood Fiend Qi more than ten times stronger than before.
• Two Golden Core True Persons arrived and called the First Rank Pill Condensing Realm cultivators to join them.
• Lin Baichuan warned Tie Zhan to proceed cautiously and watch for infiltrators, then declared he would seize the Earth Origin Pearl and joined the First Rank cultivators.

Lin Baichuan and over a thousand First Rank Pill Condensing Realm experts reached the Earth Origin Pearl, where humans and demons and monsters clashed. As the pearl began transforming, Lin Baichuan moved to enter the pit and claim it, but a Devil Race expert intercepted him.

• Lin Baichuan followed the armored Golden Core True Person and more than a thousand First Rank experts through Burial God Abyss to its core.
• The group found human experts facing a vast demon and monster army, with both sides focused on the Earth Origin Pearl beneath the pit.
• The demons and monsters attacked the arriving human reinforcements, and the two sides unleashed powerful fighters and battle formations.
• Lin Baichuan sensed that the Earth Origin Pearl was changing and trying to break free of its seals.
• Lin Baichuan moved toward the pit to claim the pearl, but a Devil Race expert attacked him with a skeletal phantom.

Lin Baichuan killed a peak Ninth Stage Soldier Rank Devil Race powerhouse with one punch, then became the target of a massive enemy formation. As the Soul Annihilation Killing Array charged, Lin Baichuan unleashed his Saber Domain and swung a devastating slash at the army.

• Lin Baichuan killed the Devil Race powerhouse guarding the Earth Origin Pearl with Brute Ox Tramples the Heavens.
• The Demon and Monster Races singled Lin Baichuan out as a threat and formed the Soul Annihilation Killing Array with ten powerhouses and over ten thousand elites.
• The human fighters recognized the array's danger and feared Lin Baichuan would be unable to evade its attack on his spiritual will.
• Lin Baichuan dismissed the array as ineffective against his spiritual will and Half-step Saber Domain.
• Lin Baichuan drew on the powers of the five elements and Wind Thunder Power, then brought his saber down in a slash toward the charging army.

Lin Baichuan shattered the demons and devils’ Soul Annihilation Grinding Disk and slaughtered thousands of their troops, forcing the survivors to retreat. Bao Wuyan and Shadow then attacked him together, and Lin Baichuan met Bao Wuyan’s charge with a saber strike.

• Lin Baichuan broke the phantom Soul Annihilation Grinding Disk with his peak saber strike, tearing through the demon and devil army and killing two Ninth Stage Soldier Rank experts.
• Lin Baichuan charged into the army and cut down thousands with his Blood Shadow Battle Saber and Half-step Saber Domain.
• After more than six thousand demons and devils had died, the remaining troops panicked and retreated.
• Bao Wuyan and Shadow, two peak Ninth Stage Soldier Rank experts, attacked Lin Baichuan, while a human expert shouted a warning and tried to help.
• Lin Baichuan laughed off the threat and slashed at Bao Wuyan as the blood leopard charged toward him.

Lin Baichuan killed the Demon Race prodigy Bao Wuyan and drove the Devil Race prodigy Shadow to flee with a forbidden Blood Escape Technique. As Shadow tried to escape the battlefield, a sharp edge pierced his heart from behind.

• Lin Baichuan struck Bao Wuyan with his Blood Shadow Saber Technique, grievously wounding him.
• Lin Baichuan attacked again and carved Bao Wuyan down to a skeleton, killing him.
• Shadow emerged from concealment and attacked Lin Baichuan, but Lin Baichuan's Saber Domain forced him back.
• Shadow used an ink-black pearl to block Lin Baichuan's strike, then consumed half his Essence Blood to escape with the Blood Escape Technique.
• Lin Baichuan tracked Shadow's flight, and a sharp edge swept from behind and pierced Shadow's heart.

Lin Baichuan killed Shadow with a single arrow, then faced a charge by hundreds of thousands of demon and monster soldiers seeking to stop him from reaching the Earth Origin Pearl. He shattered their ranks with volleys of arrows and charged into the army himself.

• Lin Baichuan shot Shadow through the heart, killing him after defeating Bao Wuyan.
• The demon and monster forces resolved to trap Lin Baichuan with their army, while human forces mobilized to protect and support him.
• Hundreds of thousands of demon and monster soldiers charged in formation, sending a Soul Annihilation Grinding Disk toward the humans.
• Lin Baichuan fired ten volleys of thirty-six arrows, killing over ten thousand soldiers and weakening the enemy formation.
• Lin Baichuan stepped into the demon and monster army and charged forward.

Lin Baichuan led the human experts through the demon and monster army, then seized and refined the Earth Origin Pearl. Its power drove his cultivation and Martial Dao True Intent forward as he attempted to condense a Ninth Rank Golden Core.

• Lin Baichuan charged through the demon and monster army, then joined more than two thousand human experts and used his Half-step Saber Domain to form a battle formation.
• The human force smashed through the enemy ranks, triggering a rout and plunging the battlefield into chaos.
• Lin Baichuan entered the deep pit, tore through the Earth Origin Pearl's energy barrier, and drew the pearl into his body to refine it.
• Lin Baichuan used the pearl's energy and the system to advance his Five Elements Golden Bell Shield and Martial Dao True Intent, solidifying his saber domain into a complete domain.
• The Earth Origin Pearl fused with Lin Baichuan's solid pill, which expanded and contracted eighty-one times before exploding into rampant True Essence.
• Lin Baichuan formed the Five Elements Golden Bell and began compressing the True Essence to condense a Ninth Rank Golden Core.

Lin Baichuan refined the Earth Origin Pearl and formed a Ninth Rank Golden Core, then rose from the pit as the Demon and Monster army unleashed a massive blood-sacrifice attack against him. The human forces fled, believing he was doomed.

• Lin Baichuan completed his breakthrough, forming a Ninth Rank Golden Core and merging the Earth Origin Pearl into it.
• Lin Baichuan checked his Attribute Panel and saw that his Saber Domain had advanced, his strength had surged, and his merit points were gone.
• Lin Baichuan vowed to destroy the Demon and Monster army and shot out of the deep pit.
• A Devil Race expert ordered the soldiers to sacrifice themselves and kill Lin Baichuan to reclaim the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Hundreds of thousands of Demon and Monster soldiers unleashed a combined attack, while the human camp retreated and feared Lin Baichuan would die.

Lin Baichuan shattered the blood-sacrificed Demon and Monster army’s strongest attack and joined the human counteroffensive. He then revealed that he had already refined the Earth Origin Pearl and began mobilizing the power of the entire Burial God Abyss.

• Hundreds of thousands of demons and monsters blood-sacrificed themselves and launched their strongest strike at Lin Baichuan.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed a river of Blade Qi that cut through the attack and devastated the Demon and Monster army.
• A Golden Core True Person ordered the human experts to form battle formations and charge the scattered enemy forces.
• Lin Baichuan entered the army alone, killing demons and monsters with his blade domain as they realized he had to be stopped before he left with the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Lin Baichuan rose above the battlefield, declared that the demons and monsters would perish, and used the Earth Origin Pearl to summon the power of the entire Burial God Abyss.

Lin Baichuan used the power of the Burial God Abyss and the Earth Origin Pearl to annihilate the Demon and Monster army, despite their desperate mass self-destruction. After the battlefield fell silent, he checked his system and discovered he had earned 1.227 million merit points.

• Lin Baichuan unleashed a thousand blades that slaughtered tens of thousands of Demon and Monster soldiers while the Human race experts joined the attack.
• The surviving Demons and Monsters began self-destructing, forcing the Human race fighters to retreat from the spreading blasts.
• Lin Baichuan summoned a giant blood-red hand that suppressed the explosions and killed every remaining Demon and Monster.
• Lin Baichuan checked his system panel and saw that his merit had risen to 1.227 million points.

After refining the Earth Origin Pearl, Lin Baichuan discovered that the system gave him far fewer merit points for killing demons and monsters, but he resolved to take control of the Underground Abyss and purge its enemies. When some human experts challenged his authority and demanded the pearl, Lin Baichuan attacked their leader to make an example of him.

• Lin Baichuan checked the system and found that killing demons and monsters earned him about one-tenth as many merit points as before, but he decided to make up the difference by killing more enemies.
• Lin Baichuan resolved to use his control of the Underground Abyss to eliminate the demons and monsters there and eventually open a path for the human race into the Demon World.
• The human experts gathered around Lin Baichuan, and some secretly resented him for obtaining the Earth Origin Pearl while others sought to befriend him.
• Lin Baichuan urged everyone to pursue the remaining demon and monster forces in the Burial God Abyss, and many publicly supported his leadership.
• Several experts argued that the Earth Origin Pearl belonged to the Demon Suppression Army and questioned Lin Baichuan’s right to lead them.
• Lin Baichuan identified the middle-aged Golden Core True Person leading the dissent and unleashed a raging dragon of Blade Qi at him.

Lin Baichuan killed a Golden Core True Person who challenged his authority, then ordered the assembled cultivators to follow him against a demon reinforcement force. He knew the Earth Origin Pearl had made him a target and resolved to break beyond the Physical Realm so he could safely wield its full power.

• Lin Baichuan flayed a Golden Core True Person alive, took his fifth-grade Golden Core, and declared him a demon spy who had disrupted the army's morale.
• The assembled cultivators secretly discussed enduring Lin Baichuan's rule until they could leave the Underground Abyss and find a way to take the Earth Origin Pearl from him.
• Lin Baichuan challenged anyone who rejected his command to step forward, but no one accepted, so he ordered everyone to obey him.
• Lin Baichuan led several thousand First Rank Pill Condensing experts to intercept a demon reinforcement force containing more than a thousand Ninth Stage Soldier Rank demons.
• Lin Baichuan reflected that he needed to break beyond the Physical Realm to withstand the Earth Origin Pearl's power and protect it from those who coveted it.

After Lin Baichuan and the human forces exterminated every demon in Burial God Abyss, he assessed his five million merit points and planned to use his unbroken-through cultivation to lure out his enemies. He arranged the spoils and promised his Mystic Battle Squad ample pills, while Yan Yunxiao asked whether they should leave.

• Lin Baichuan checked his status and found his merit had reached 5.192 million after ten days of slaughter.
• Lin Baichuan decided to delay a breakthrough so he could draw out and eliminate those coveting the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Tie Zhan reported that the battlefield had been cleared, and Lin Baichuan ordered the spoils divided among himself, the authorities, and the army according to merit.
• Meng Zikun and the other Mystic Battle Squad members celebrated their gains and planned to use Dragon Tiger Great Pills to advance their cultivation.
• Lin Baichuan assured the Mystic Battle Squad that he had enough pills for them and kept their supply secret from outsiders.
• Yan Yunxiao asked Lin Baichuan whether they should leave now that Burial God Abyss had been cleared of demons.

Yan Yunxiao warned Lin Baichuan that the Great Yi Sect could use a secret art to target his Earth Origin Pearl, while openly steering him toward conflict with the sect. Lin kept secret that the pearl had fused with his golden core and set out to leave Burial God Abyss with the Mystic Battle Squad.

• Yan Yunxiao appeared before Lin Baichuan and sent Tie Zhan and the others away, then warned Lin that the Great Yi Sect's Heavenly Evolution Sky Covering Art could sever his connection to an unrefined treasure.
• Lin Baichuan realized Yan Yunxiao was trying to use him against the Great Yi Sect, though he hid that the Earth Origin Pearl had fused with his golden core.
• Yan Yunxiao argued that the Great Yi Sect would target Lin regardless and said Lin's victory over them would be repayment enough for the warning.
• Lin Baichuan decided to leave Burial God Abyss and dismissed Yan Yunxiao's concern that the Great Yi Sect's allies were waiting outside.
• Lin Baichuan traveled a thousand zhang to rejoin the Mystic Battle Squad, confident in his own strength.