Recaps

Lin Bai took Xia Song's flute divine weapon, forced him to cooperate in collecting the Eighteen Levels Palace, and sealed him inside the Soul Refining Banner, where Xia Song recognized Yue Shuang. When pursuers arrived and grew suspicious of Lin Bai, he blocked a ghost cultivator's attack, exposing his strength and provoking the group to confront him.

• Lin Bai gave Xia Song's flute divine weapon to the Crow and secured Xia Song's help collecting the Eighteen Levels Palace in exchange for sparing his life and the lives of any ghost cultivators who submitted.
• Lin Bai confined Xia Song in the Soul Refining Banner, where Xia Song recognized Yue Shuang and the Crow warned him not to harm or expose her.
• A group of martial artists and ghost cultivators arrived searching for Xia Song, and Lin Bai tried to leave without drawing their attention.
• When a ghost cultivator attacked Lin Bai, he cut apart the ghostly strike with his Demon Sword, revealing that he was stronger than an ordinary Quasi-Dao Realm martial artist.
• The others blocked Lin Bai's path, and he coldly warned them that they were courting death.

Lin Bai faced five Five Tribulation Dao Realm experts who sought a treasure, then defeated the two ghost cultivators and the Three-Headed Mastiff with his divine lightning and sword. The two Tianyi City martial artists withdrew, leaving Lin Bai to wonder what the Human Race's chain of interests meant.

• Two Tianyi City martial artists, two ghost cultivators, and a demon surrounded Lin Bai and demanded the treasure.
• Lin Bai used Five-Colored Divine Lightning to badly injure one ghost cultivator and kill the other.
• Lin Bai dodged the Three-Headed Mastiff’s attacks, severed one of its heads, then split its body with his sword.
• The injured ghost cultivator died, and Lin Bai refined the three Dao Fruits into nourishment for his fourth God Seal.
• The Tianyi City martial artists decided not to fight Lin Bai and left, while Lin Bai wondered about the Human Race’s chain of interests.

Lin Bai reached the fourth level of the Eighteen Levels Palace to claim its treasure and found Tiger, a powerful ghost cultivator, daring all three paths to challenge him. The Crow revealed that Tiger’s black boulder was an ordinary stone and guessed the real treasure was on Tiger himself.

• Lin Bai left the third level after deciding his strength could contend with Five Tribulation Dao Realm cultivators, then traveled to the fourth level with Xia Song and the Crow.
• Xia Song warned Lin Bai that Tiger was cruel, bloodthirsty, and difficult to control, so Lin Bai decided to find him and use force if necessary.
• Xia Song led Lin Bai to Ping Tian Cliff, where Tiger stood on a platform and challenged anyone seeking the treasure to defeat him.
• Lin Bai heard that Tiger had beaten challengers from the human, demon, and ghost paths, while rival factions waited for powerful reinforcements to return.
• Lin Bai questioned whether Tiger’s black boulder was the treasure, and the Crow identified it as an ordinary stone and suspected the real treasure was on Tiger.

Lin Bai challenged Tiger on the fourth level after learning that the black stone was a decoy and demanded the real treasure. He defeated Tiger with his sword and Divine Lightning, then cornered him as Tiger worried that the three Ghost Emperors would still kill him.

• Lin Bai rejected Xia Song’s offer to search for the hidden treasure and stepped onto the platform to confront Tiger.
• Tiger mocked Lin Bai and pointed to the black stone, but Lin Bai’s sword strike forced him back and stunned the watching cultivators.
• Lin Bai used Five Elements Divine Lightning to blast Tiger away and scorch his palms, then defeated his ghostly assault with another sword attack.
• Tiger fled and claimed he had handed over the treasure, but Lin Bai stopped him and demanded the real treasure instead of the stone.
• Xia Song emerged from the Soul Refining Banner and offered to plead for Tiger, while Tiger feared the three Ghost Emperors would kill him anyway.
• Lin Bai promised to protect Tiger even if the three Ghost Emperors came, and Tiger declared that the Eighteen Levels Palace was about to change hands.

Lin Bai learned that the ninth level held the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, a rare fire spiritual treasure, but its guardian was the powerful Corpse King. He set off for the ninth level to claim it despite the danger.

• Tiger accepted Lin Bai's offer of allegiance and handed over a divine weapon sword, which Lin Bai gave to the Crow.
• Lin Bai passed through the fifth level and learned from Tiger that the ninth level held the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, which could nurture a divine weapon into a Dao Divine Weapon.
• Tiger and Xia Song warned Lin Bai that the ninth level was guarded by the Corpse King, a Five Tribulation Dao Realm cultivator who had fought the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor to a draw.
• The Crow speculated that the Corpse King's body might belong to a Dao Lord who had hunted the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Lin Bai chose to skip the remaining lower levels and head straight to the ninth level.

Lin Bai secretly went to Dead Island to assess the Corpse King and watched him overwhelm the Peacock Clan. The Corpse King noticed Lin Bai, leaving a direct confrontation looming.

• Lin Bai arrived at the ninth level, saw many injured cultivators on Life Island, and quietly crossed to Dead Island.
• Lin Bai followed the Crow’s directions to a mountain range where the Peacock Clan was battling the Corpse King.
• The Crow identified the Corpse King’s remains as belonging to someone who had cultivated the Celestial Crystal Body, a powerful treasure physique from the Spirit World.
• The Corpse King endured the Peacock Clan’s attacks, killed several fighters, and sent the surviving experts fleeing.
• The Corpse King spotted Lin Bai, ate a Peacock Clan fighter’s heart, and smiled at him while the Crow commented on the meal.

After watching the Corpse King defeat the Peacock Clan and slaughter other challengers, Lin Bai concluded that his powerful Celestial Crystal Clan body made him nearly impossible to overcome alone. A Three-Way Assembly was called on Life Island, and Lin Bai headed there to hear what the human, demon, and ghost paths would decide.

• The Corpse King defeated the Peacock Clan's experts and left after grinning at Lin Bai, who chose not to pursue him.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow how to deal with the Corpse King, and the Crow said only the three Ghost Emperors might suppress him; Lin Bai resolved to find another way to obtain the Mystic Fire Dao Aura.
• The Corpse King wandered across Dead Island and killed nearly everyone who challenged him, while the ninth-level powers failed to agree on a joint plan.
• Lin Bai watched the Corpse King defeat prepared Demon Race fighters from Great Snow Mountain and considered using his flying swords, Five Elements Divine Lightning, and the Bright Moon Sword.
• Tianyi City martial artists told Lin Bai that the Three-Way Assembly was being held on Life Island, so he flew there to learn what the three paths would decide.

Lin Bai arrived at a gathering of human, demon, and ghost cultivators to discuss joining forces against Corpse King and seizing his treasure. Long Han proposed taking the treasure first and fighting over it afterward, a plan Lin Bai viewed as quenching thirst with poison.

• Lin Bai entered the valley and observed the human faction led by Xu Shui, alongside the gathered demon and ghost forces.
• Long Han stepped forward and proposed that the three factions unite to defeat Corpse King and seize his treasure.
• Ji Tai asked how the factions would divide the treasure, and Long Han suggested they fight over it after taking it from Corpse King.
• Xu Shui accused the demons of waiting for the humans and ghosts to weaken themselves before offering an alliance.
• Lin Bai judged Long Han’s proposal to be quenching thirst with poison.

Lin Bai watched the humans and ghost cultivators accept Long Han’s proposal to join the Demon Race in attacking the Corpse King for the Mystic Fire Dao Aura. After the factions prepared their plans and the humans reaffirmed their interest pact, Lin Bai and the others headed to Dead Island for the decisive battle.

• Long Han proposed that the humans, Demon Race, and ghost cultivators cooperate to seize the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, and Xu Shui and Ji Tai agreed on behalf of their factions.
• The three factions planned an attack in which the Demon Race would restrain the Corpse King, the ghost cultivators would launch sneak attacks, and the humans would mount the fierce assault using the Star Plucking Pavilion’s Command Talisman.
• Xu Shui told the human martial artists that they must keep the treasure out of the Demon Race’s and ghost cultivators’ hands, and Luo Wei and the Nangong Family’s sword cultivators upheld the human interest pact.
• Lin Bai stayed on Life Island to recover and considered the pact’s origins while Tianyi City, the Demon Race, and the ghost cultivators gathered information and prepared.
• Three days later, Lin Bai received word to go to Dead Island and followed the human group across the Sky Bridge as the other factions arrived for the decisive battle.

Lin Bai joined the alliance surrounding the Corpse King, despite Xu Shui warning him that the battle could be fatal. The trap sprang, but the Corpse King proved devastatingly strong, and the humans, ghost cultivators, and Demon Race entered the formation together as Lin Bai sensed something was wrong.

• Xu Shui urged Lin Bai to leave the battlefield, but Lin Bai said he would stay back and protect himself.
• Long Han arrived with the Corpse King pursuing the Demon Race, and the Corpse King tore through the fleeing demons.
• Xu Shui activated the Ten Thousand Thunder Demon Subjugation Formation, trapping the Corpse King inside its lightning perimeter.
• The ghost cultivators attacked, but the Corpse King destroyed them with a swipe of his claw.
• Long Han and Luo Wei argued over who should join the fight, until the Ji Lineage elder ordered the humans and Demon Race into the formation.
• Lin Bai followed the others into the formation to pursue the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, though he felt uneasy about the Corpse King.

Lin Bai and the allied human, demon, and ghost cultivators attacked the Corpse King, but he slaughtered them with overwhelming ease. Xu Shui’s strongest divine thunder failed to injure him, leaving the alliance facing a disastrous defeat.

• Luo Wei, the Nangong Lineage, and other cultivators joined the assault on the Corpse King, while Lin Bai sensed a powerful urge to flee before forcing himself to attack.
• The Corpse King vanished and killed demons and Nangong Lineage cultivators with his claws, then scattered ghost cultivators with green mist that pierced Ji Tai’s defenses.
• Long Han and Ji Tai demanded that Xu Shui unleash his divine thunder, and Xu Shui struck the Corpse King with the thunder formation’s strongest bolt.
• Lin Bai sensed that the thunder had not weakened the Corpse King, who emerged unharmed and killed another group of cultivators.
• The Crow and Lin Bai recognized that the Celestial Crystal Body was exceptionally difficult to counter within the Celestial God Tomb.

Lin Bai used divine lightning against the Corpse King, then narrowly escaped death by striking with the Bright Moon Sword and seizing the Mystic Fire Dao Aura. He fled as Long Han, Ji Tai, and the Corpse King pursued him.

• The Corpse King slaughtered the cultivators who had not escaped, then attacked Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai combined his flying swords with divine lightning and pierced the Corpse King's chest, but the wounds quickly healed.
• As the Corpse King cornered Lin Bai, the Crow urged him to use the Bright Moon Sword.
• Lin Bai cleaved the Corpse King in half and captured the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, but the Corpse King began reviving.
• Lin Bai fled with the Mystic Fire Dao Aura as Long Han and Ji Tai pursued him, while the Corpse King also set off after him.

After failing to kill the Corpse King, Lin Bai fled with the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, but his Dao Divine Weapon drew the other factions after him. Ghost cultivator Ji Tai attacked first, and Lin Bai’s divine lightning overwhelmed him—though Ji Tai survived behind a golden shield.

• Lin Bai and the crow escaped the Corpse King's territory, and Lin Bai decided to head for the tenth level as the human, demon, and ghost cultivators pursued him.
• Ji Tai caught up with Lin Bai and demanded the Dao Divine Weapon and Mystic Fire Dao Aura.
• Lin Bai mocked Ji Tai for fleeing from the Corpse King, and Ji Tai attacked him with arrows of ghost mist.
• Lin Bai struck Ji Tai with the Thunder Seal, using divine lightning to scatter his Soul Body and flatten the surrounding mountains.
• Ji Tai emerged from the ruins protected by golden light, revealing that he had survived Lin Bai's attack.

Lin Bai faced Ghost Cultivator Ji Tai, Long Han, and a gathering of powerful demons over the Mystic Fire Dao Aura and the Dao Divine Weapon. Xu Shui and a Nangong sword cultivator sided with Lin Bai, but Long Han summoned the Nine Fiends of Tongxin Mountain, leaving the human alliance outnumbered.

• Ghost Cultivator Ji Tai used a lightning talisman from the Star Plucking Pavilion to resist Lin Bai's divine lightning and demanded that Lin Bai surrender one of his two treasures.
• Lin Bai revealed that Long Han had been hiding nearby, and Long Han appeared from the mountains.
• Xu Shui and a sword cultivator from the Nangong Lineage arrived, with Xu Shui declaring that he would protect Lin Bai.
• Xu Shui challenged Long Han and Ji Tai with a lightning talisman, while the Nangong sword cultivator urged Lin Bai not to let the treasures fall to the Demon Race or Ghost Cultivators.
• Long Han summoned eight powerful demons and revealed that he had joined them as the Ninth Fiend of Tongxin Mountain.
• One of the demons stepped forward and greeted Xu Shui.

Long Han revealed that the Eight Fiends of Tongxin Mountain had been waiting in ambush to seize the Mystic Fire Dao Aura and Dao Divine Weapon, and Xiong Jiang demanded that Lin Bai surrender them. Lin Bai fled with seven demons in pursuit while Xu Shui and the Nanguong Lineage sword cultivator fought to hold off the others, leaving Lin Bai deciding whether to kill his pursuers.

• Xiong Jiang recognized the treasures Lin Bai possessed and threatened to take them, while Xu Shui realized Long Han had planned to use the Eight Fiends as a hidden trump card.
• Xiong Jiang and the Songtian Scholar prepared to fight Xu Shui and the Nanguong Lineage sword cultivator, and the latter warned Lin Bai that the situation was dangerous.
• Lin Bai refused to surrender the treasures and flew away, prompting Xiong Jiang to send seven demons, including Long Han, after him.
• Xu Shui used a lightning talisman against the Songtian Scholar, while the Nanguong Lineage sword cultivator attacked Xiong Jiang, beginning a fierce battle.
• As the seven demons pursued him, Lin Bai wondered whether to kill them, weighing the time it would take against the risk of attracting more enemies.

Lin Bai fled the Seven Fiends of Tongxin Mountain, avoiding their attacks as he searched for the passage to the tenth level. He reached it only to find the Corpse King blocking the way, with the Seven Fiends closing in behind him.

• Lin Bai decided to avoid fighting the Seven Fiends and used his sword flight to escape their pursuit.
• Madam Yue tried to slow Lin Bai with her seduction technique, but his perfected sword heart severed it.
• The Seven Fiends sent Old Tree’s roots and vines after Lin Bai, but he evaded their attacks and continued flying.
• Lin Bai asked Tiger and Xia Song where the passage to the tenth level was, then changed course toward it.
• Lin Bai arrived at the passage and found the Corpse King waiting there as the Seven Fiends caught up behind him.

Lin Bai escaped the Corpse King and seven demons by giving the Mystic Fire Dao Aura to the Crow and throwing him into their path. The Crow led his pursuers on a chase across the ninth level, where the Corpse King eventually killed four of the demons, while Lin Bai reached the tenth level.

• Lin Bai realized the Corpse King blocked his way forward while seven demons pursued him from behind, and he decided to find another way out rather than reveal the Devouring Sword Soul.
• Lin Bai handed the Mystic Fire Dao Aura to the Crow, threw him away from the passage, and used the distraction to enter the tenth level.
• The seven demons and the Corpse King chased the Crow, who repeatedly evaded them with his escape techniques.
• The Crow disappeared in a forested mountain after leading his pursuers across the ninth level.
• The Corpse King and the seven demons fought after losing the Crow, and only three demons escaped while four died.
• The Corpse King continued wandering through the ninth level.

After escaping the ninth level, Lin Bai recovered the Mystic Fire Dao Aura from the crow and went to Dead Island to search for Shan Xiao. Tong Wuji and his Tong family tried to seize Lin Bai’s treasures, and Lin Bai fled as cultivators from all three paths pursued him.

• Lin Bai met the crow on Life Island and traded a promise of one hundred million Vermillion Bird Pills for the Mystic Fire Dao Aura.
• Lin Bai sealed the Mystic Fire Dao Aura in a treasure box, rested, and went to Dead Island to search for Shan Xiao.
• Tong Wuji and the Tong family surrounded Lin Bai and demanded the Mystic Fire Dao Aura and a Dao Divine Weapon.
• Lin Bai tossed Tong Wuji an empty treasure box and escaped while the Tong family chased him.
• Lin Bai saw ghost cultivators searching the island for him, and the crow explained that his treasures had made him a target.

Lin Bai encountered Gu Citian on the Tenth Level, where the Gu Family had gathered after hearing that Lin Bai took the Ninth Level’s treasures. Gu Citian warned him that the Demon Race and ghost cultivators had sealed the lower exits and human factions were also seeking him, leaving Lin Bai to continue upward rather than remain on the Tenth Level.

• Lin Bai spotted Gu Citian among the Gu Family martial artists gathered on a mountaintop and secretly approached him.
• Gu Citian lamented that the Gu Family’s elders kept him under protection, then recognized Lin Bai as the Quasi-Dao Realm martial artist who had taken the Mystic Fire Dao Aura and Dao Divine Weapon.
• Gu Citian apologized because Elder Gu He had connected Lin Bai to the theft, but Lin Bai said he did not mind.
• Gu Citian told Lin Bai that the Demon Race and ghost cultivators had sealed the lower nine levels’ exits and that human factions were also looking for him.
• Lin Bai decided he had no need to leave the Eighteen Levels Palace yet, but concluded that the Tenth Level was no longer safe.

Lin Bai learned that human cultivators and the Demon Race were hunting him for his Dao Divine Weapon, so he decided to travel directly to the Eighteenth Level. On the Seventeenth Level, he asked the Crow to find a route onward, despite the danger posed by Fuling Dao Lord’s remnant soul.

• Gu Citian warned Lin Bai that human cultivators would keep pursuing him through the Eighteen Levels Palace, then promised not to reveal their meeting.
• Lin Bai told Gu Citian he was leaving, but secretly decided to head for the Eighteenth Level instead of stopping on the Eleventh.
• Lin Bai used the teleportation passages to travel upward through the levels, with Tiger and Xia Song guiding him and helping him avoid ghost cultivators.
• On the Seventeenth Level, Lin Bai learned there was no known passage to the Eighteenth Level and sent Tiger and Xia Song back into the Soul Refining Banner.
• The Crow warned Lin Bai that Fuling Dao Lord’s remnant soul guarded the Eighteenth Level, but Lin Bai told it to find a way onward and said he could handle the danger.

Lin Bai entered the eighteenth level of the Fuling Pagoda and confronted Fuling Dao Lord's remnant soul to claim control of the pagoda. He used the Devouring Sword Soul to defeat the remnant soul, and the Crow later came to ask whether it was dead.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul while the Crow located the entrance to the eighteenth level in a seaside cave.
• Lin Bai met Fuling Dao Lord's remnant soul and demanded control of the Fuling Pagoda.
• Fuling Dao Lord's remnant soul attacked Lin Bai with flames, but Lin Bai absorbed them with the Devouring Sword Soul.
• The remnant soul recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race and begged him to spare it.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Devouring Sword Soul and spent roughly fifteen minutes devouring the remnant soul.
• The Crow flew over and asked Lin Bai whether the remnant soul was dead.

Lin Bai began refining the Fuling Pagoda after the crow found no trace of the remnant soul. Meanwhile, a Giant God tracking the Devouring Clan discovered the sealed Barren Ancient Continent, inspected it, and continued toward the Celestial God Tomb.

• Lin Bai asked the crow to check whether the remnant soul had survived, and the crow found no trace of it and passed him the method for controlling the Fuling Pagoda.
• Lin Bai sat down to refine the Fuling Pagoda while the crow sensed a Giant God striding through the Chaotic Void toward the source of the vanished devouring power.
• The Giant God noticed the World Sealing Formation around the Barren Ancient Continent and pushed his face through it to inspect the world.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Jian Ruohan met the Giant God's gaze without bowing, while martial artists across the continent trembled and Yin Jiuling and Lin Bai's Giant God Race clone went unnoticed.
• After a quarter-hour, the Giant God withdrew, sent his findings to the Giant God Race, and continued toward the Celestial God Tomb.

Lin Bai awakened and imprinted the Fuling Pagoda, drawing the three Ghost Emperors and their forces to surround it. He remained trapped inside, while the Crow warned him that the Giant God was approaching the Celestial God Tomb and withheld further details until Lin Bai escaped.

• Lin Bai awakened the Fuling Pagoda’s spiritual nature as he refined it, and the three Ghost Emperors sensed its power.
• The three Ghost Emperors failed to subdue the Fuling Pagoda and ordered ghost cultivators to surround it, trapping the cultivators who fled from inside.
• Lin Bai left a spiritual imprint on the Fuling Pagoda but did not finish refining it, intending to continue after leaving the Azure Ruins Battlefield.
• The Crow told Lin Bai that the three Ghost Emperors had surrounded the pagoda and that the Giant God was heading toward the Celestial God Tomb.
• The Crow advised Lin Bai to keep the entrance closed while he devised a way to escape.

After refining the Fuling Pagoda, Lin Bai confronted the Corpse King and offered him a year of freedom in exchange for help drawing the three Ghost Emperors' attention. The Corpse King accepted the deal, though he remained wary of Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai sensed that the Corpse King was the strongest ghost cultivator still inside the Fuling Pagoda and went to meet him.
• The Corpse King attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai evaded him and used the pagoda to suppress him.
• Lin Bai released the Corpse King and asked him to distract the three Ghost Emperors so Lin Bai could escape.
• The Corpse King demanded freedom, and Lin Bai offered to release him after ten years, then shortened the deal to one year.
• The Corpse King agreed to help for a year but warned Lin Bai that he did not trust him.

Lin Bai emerged from Fuling Pagoda after refining it and faced the three Ghost Emperors, who demanded that he hand it over. He summoned Corpse King to stand beside him, leaving the Ghost Emperors shocked.

• Lin Bai prepared to leave Fuling Pagoda and rejected the Crow's warning that his plan was not foolproof.
• The three Ghost Emperors waited outside Fuling Pagoda while the human, demon, and ghost cultivators remained trapped in a nearby canyon.
• Lin Bai emerged holding the shrunken Fuling Pagoda, and Gu Citian recognized him from the canyon.
• Icy-faced Ghost Emperor and Netherworld Ghost Emperor offered Lin Bai rewards for Fuling Pagoda, while Rakshasa Ghost Emperor urged them to kill him.
• Lin Bai refused to surrender Fuling Pagoda and brought Corpse King out of the pagoda, startling the three Ghost Emperors.