Recaps

Lin Bai fled the Azure Ruins with the Fuling Pagoda while the three Ghost Emperors were held off by the Corpse King. After using one of the Crow’s feathers to hide his aura and evade the pursuing ghost cultivators, Lin Bai escaped into the barren mountains beyond the battlefield.

• Lin Bai ordered the Corpse King to delay the three Ghost Emperors, then flew away with the Fuling Pagoda as ghost cultivators pursued him.
• The Gu family and other practitioners used the weakened blockade to fight their way out of the valley.
• Lin Bai drove back an Eight Tribulation Dao Realm ghost cultivator with Divine Thunder but continued to be attacked as he crossed the central region.
• Lin Bai paid the Crow one hundred million Vermillion Bird Pills for a feather that concealed his aura and escaped the ghost cultivators’ search.
• Lin Bai crossed the outskirts, left the Azure Ruins Battlefield, and disappeared into the surrounding barren mountains.

After escaping the Azure Ruins, Lin Bai recovered in the wilderness and set out to find the Kong Lu Tomb. A Giant God then tore into the Celestial God Tomb, and the Crow revealed that he had come for Lin Bai, who fled to prepare for the coming confrontation.

• Lin Bai spent seven days riding away from the Azure Ruins, then rested for two days to heal and recover his spiritual power.
• Corpse King emerged from the mist, and Lin Bai returned him to the Fuling Pagoda before setting out to find the Kong Lu Tomb.
• The Celestial God Tomb began shaking as a Giant God emerged from a black hole at Cloud Heaven Peak, badly wounded by a sword through his body.
• The Crow told Lin Bai that the Giant God had sensed his Devouring Sword Soul in the Azure Ruins and had come for him.
• Lin Bai fled without using the Devouring Sword Soul and resolved to strengthen himself before the injured Giant God recovered.

A wounded Giant God arrived at the Burial Dragon Abyss and promised its ghost cultivators a path to the Netherworld if they helped him hunt a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race. As He Zong led the ghosts into conflict with Tianyi City, Lin Bai learned that a mysterious flying sword from beyond the heavens had injured the giant.

• The Giant God descended on the Burial Dragon Abyss, where He Zong offered him refuge and asked for guidance to the Netherworld in return for the ghost cultivators’ service.
• The giant gave He Zong and the other ghosts compasses and ordered them to find members of the Heaven Swallowing Race, then settled beside a lake to heal.
• He Zong rallied the Burial Dragon Abyss ghosts, who attacked Tianyi City’s investigators and began spreading across the Celestial God Tomb.
• The giant left He Zong to receive the many experts seeking him, raising He Zong from an outcast to a ruler in the Celestial God Tomb.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow about the giant’s strength and learned that a flying sword from beyond the heavens had pierced and wounded him near the Celestial God Tomb.

Lin Bai traveled to Tianchi City to search for Kong Lu Tomb, guided by the Crow and avoiding the Demon Race’s territory. After renting a room at the Azure Pine Inn and falling asleep from exhaustion, he woke to a strange noise in his room.

• The Crow located Kong Lu Tomb near Tianchi City, between the Boundless Wasteland and the Icefield Snow Mountains.
• Lin Bai chose to head directly to Tianchi City instead of returning to Silver Moon City, wary of attracting attention over his Dao Divine Weapons.
• Lin Bai reached Tianchi City after more than half a month of travel and entered the damaged, quiet city at night.
• Lin Bai paid fifteen thousand Vermillion Bird Pills for a month at the Azure Pine Inn, while the attendant praised the city’s demon-meat delicacies.
• The Crow flew out to search for Kong Lu Tomb, and Lin Bai fell asleep before a strange noise came from inside his room.

Lin Bai woke to Ning Rou trying to frame him for molestation so her accomplices could extort him at the Azure Pine Inn. He drove off the six men who attacked him and blocked Ning Rou as she tried to flee.

• Lin Bai caught Ning Rou undressing beside his bed and recognized her attempt to set him up.
• Ning Rou called for help, and six burly men burst in and accused Lin Bai of molesting her.
• Lin Bai offered the men a chance to leave, but they demanded fifty thousand Vermillion Bird Pills and attacked him.
• Lin Bai used two flying swords and three God Seals to beat the six men and send them fleeing.
• Lin Bai stopped Ning Rou from escaping and rejected her claim that the men had forced her to help.

Lin Bai stopped Ning Rou after she and the inn waiter tried to rob him, then questioned her about the area around Tianchi City and Ziwei Mountain. Her account of a war that had destroyed nearby mountain ranges made Lin Bai suspect Pill Demon had concealed the truth about the Kong Lu Tomb, leaving him bound by his oath to avenge Pill Demon even if the tomb was fake.

• The six burly men fled, while Lin Bai trapped Ning Rou with his flying swords and forced her to explain the scheme she had arranged with the inn waiter.
• Ning Rou told Lin Bai she had lived in Tianchi City for over two hundred years but had never heard of the Fallen Star Mountain Range or Ziwei Mountain.
• Ning Rou recalled that a war ten years earlier had destroyed many mountain ranges near Tianchi City, and Lin Bai considered that the range might have been among them.
• Lin Bai showed Ning Rou a portrait of Pill Demon, but she did not recognize him, so Lin Bai let her leave.
• Lin Bai concluded that Pill Demon had withheld information about the Kong Lu Tomb and wondered whether it existed, but he still had to avenge Pill Demon because he had sworn the Demonic Heart Oath.

Ning Rou reported Lin Bai’s interest in the Fallen Star Mountain Range and Ziwei Mountain to the White-Bearded Elder, who gave her a map and ordered her to pass it to Lin Bai. The next morning, Ning Rou brought the scroll to Lin Bai but demanded a share of whatever he found.

• Ning Rou left Lin Bai’s room and told the White-Bearded Elder that Lin Bai was asking about the Fallen Star Mountain Range, Ziwei Mountain, and Pill Demon Wang Ci.
• The White-Bearded Elder seized Ning Rou until she revealed that Lin Bai was staying at the Azure Pine Inn, then ordered her to deliver him a scroll without revealing their meeting.
• Ning Rou secretly examined the scroll, which showed the outline of a mountain range, before visiting Lin Bai the following morning.
• Ning Rou showed Lin Bai the scroll but held onto it and demanded thirty percent of whatever he obtained on the trip.

Lin Bai negotiated with Ning Rou over a damaged map that could lead to the Kong Lu Tomb, agreeing to travel with her and let them each claim treasures by their own abilities. Three days later, Ning Rou arrived at Tianchi City's East City Gate with about twenty companions, and the group set out for the Fallen Star Mountain Range.

• Ning Rou showed Lin Bai a map with its crucial section torn away and demanded thirty percent of any treasures they found.
• Lin Bai refused to promise a share and instead agreed to take Ning Rou along, while she offered to guide him using the map she had memorized.
• Ning Rou said the map belonged to a martial artist friend who had given it to her after she told him Lin Bai was investigating the Fallen Star Mountain Range.
• Lin Bai realized that Ning Rou's map and the old map from the Pill Demon had to be combined to locate the Kong Lu Tomb in Ziwei Mountain.
• After waiting three days at the inn, Lin Bai met Ning Rou at the East City Gate, where she had gathered roughly twenty martial artists, including a Five Tribulation Dao Realm man.
• Lin Bai and Ning Rou led the group out of Tianchi City toward the Fallen Star Mountain Range.

Lin Bai, Ning Rou, and their companions reached the Icy Valley Mountain Range, the former Fallen Star Mountain Range, and prepared to search for the treasure. Lin Bai kept the map hidden from Ning Rou and led the group into White Cat Snow Beast territory, while Uncle Yuan continued to harbor murderous intentions toward him.

• Lin Bai and the Crow noticed that more than fifty powerful figures had followed them from Tianchi City, but Lin Bai chose to let them trail the group.
• After crossing the ice plains for several days, Ning Rou identified the Icy Valley Mountain Range as their destination and warned the group that the White Cat Snow Beasts lived there.
• Lin Bai recognized the range from the Pill Demon's map as the former Fallen Star Mountain Range, and Ning Rou confirmed its history and the strength of its inhabitants.
• Lin Bai studied his map while hiding its markings from Ning Rou and Uncle Yuan, provoking Uncle Yuan to consider killing him for it.
• Ning Rou stopped Uncle Yuan from attacking Lin Bai, and Lin Bai flew into the mountain range, telling the others to follow if they wanted to find the treasure.

Lin Bai led Ning Rou and her group into the White Cat Snow Beasts’ territory in search of a treasure, despite Uncle Yuan’s warnings. He identified the clan’s Sacred Mountain as the likeliest location and went ahead alone, leaving Ning Rou and the others to decide whether to follow.

• Lin Bai avoided White Cat Snow Beast patrols as he crossed the Icy Valley Mountain Range, while Uncle Yuan warned him not to enter their territory.
• Lin Bai and Ning Rou’s group found the White Cat Snow Beasts’ snowy valley and discovered that the map placed Ziwei Mountain near its single peak, where powerful clan experts were cultivating.
• Uncle Yuan explained that the peak was the clan’s forbidden Sacred Mountain, but Lin Bai said its terrain and formations made it a possible hiding place for the treasure.
• Lin Bai declared that their agreement with Ning Rou was fulfilled and that everyone would rely on themselves, then concealed his presence and approached the Sacred Mountain alone.
• Ning Rou watched Lin Bai infiltrate the territory and asked Uncle Yuan whether the location seemed likely to contain a treasure.

Lin Bai discovered a hidden entrance to Kong Lu's tomb inside the White Cat Snow Beasts' forbidden mountain and entered a dark space with nine roads. Uncle Yuan, Ning Rou, and the White-Bearded Elder followed him inside, leaving them all at the tomb's floating platform.

• Lin Bai entered the forbidden mountain while the Crow searched for Kong Lu's tomb entrance and found a hidden formation in a cave wall.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to open a crack in the wall and stepped into the concealed space.
• Uncle Yuan and Ning Rou arrived as Lin Bai disappeared, but they could not reopen the entrance.
• The White-Bearded Elder appeared, used a luminous pearl to reveal the dark door, and entered after announcing that he had found Kong Lu's tomb.
• Uncle Yuan and Ning Rou followed the White-Bearded Elder through the door and found Lin Bai standing on a floating platform before nine black-stone roads.

Lin Bai and his companions were trapped on a platform in Kong Lu Tomb, where the White-Bearded Elder revealed his history with Wang Ci and warned them about the deadly ancient paths. After the formation released them, the White-Bearded Elder set off with a protective treasure, Uncle Yuan and Ning Rou followed, and Lin Bai chose to go his own way.

• Lin Bai, the White-Bearded Elder, Ning Rou, and Uncle Yuan were caught by Kong Lu’s formation on the platform.
• The White-Bearded Elder confirmed he had once explored Kong Lu Tomb with Wang Ci and explained that eight of the nine ancient paths were deadly.
• After an hour, the formation released them and displayed the warning, “Thorny road, nine deaths and one life!”
• The White-Bearded Elder used a blue-shielding sphere and entered one ancient path.
• Uncle Yuan followed the White-Bearded Elder, and Ning Rou urged Lin Bai to come with them.
• Lin Bai refused to follow and warned Ning Rou that skinning a tiger required the strength to fight one.

Lin Bai deduced that the nine ancient roads on the floating platform were all deadly and that the safe route was the tenth road they had entered by. He followed it into the darkness while Ning Rou and Uncle Yuan suffered injuries clearing the White-Bearded Elder’s path.

• Lin Bai told Ning Rou that bargaining with the White-Bearded Elder required the strength to resist him, then let her choose whether to follow the others.
• The crow could not determine which of the nine ancient roads was safe, and Lin Bai studied the paths until he concluded that their entrance road was the true path of survival.
• Lin Bai retraced the road they had come by, counted thirty steps to the entrance, and found the route continued beyond it without dangerous formations.
• Lin Bai walked onward into the darkness along the safe road, but the stairs stretched on without reaching an end.
• The White-Bearded Elder’s sphere shattered halfway through his route, so he forced Uncle Yuan and Ning Rou to clear the way; both were wounded by the formations.

Lin Bai followed the signs through Kong Lu’s deadly array trial while the Crow warned that they might be traps. After reaching a portal of light, Lin Bai entered the true tomb-palace and saw a Bronze Coffin inside.

• The White-Bearded Elder used up his array-breaking treasures, then forced Ning Rou and Uncle Yuan to lead the way through the ancient path.
• Lin Bai reached a second platform and followed its sign to take the second path from the left, despite the Crow’s warnings.
• At a fork, Lin Bai followed the sign pointing left, then continued obeying signs to turn left, right, or go straight as the Crow grew increasingly confused.
• After enduring the dark passage until he nearly lost his strength, Lin Bai spotted a portal of light at the end of the path.
• Lin Bai checked that the portal was safe, crossed through it, and arrived before a palace where he saw a Bronze Coffin.

Lin Bai followed Kong Lu’s instructions through the tomb and found the Formation Daoist’s remains and treasures. After placing Kong Lu’s bones in the coffin, Lin Bai discovered the Sky-Viewing Mirror showed the White-Bearded Elder, Ning Rou, and Uncle Yuan trapped in a formation, and a scroll pointing toward the Three Thousand Dao Lord’s treasures.

• Lin Bai reached Kong Lu’s palace by following the signs, and found messages praising his obedience and assuring him there were no traps inside.
• Lin Bai discovered Kong Lu’s empty coffin and skeleton, then placed the bones inside and closed the coffin respectfully.
• Three hidden compartments opened, revealing Kong Lu’s formation book, the Sky-Viewing Mirror, and a sheepskin scroll.
• Lin Bai used the Sky-Viewing Mirror to see the White-Bearded Elder, Ning Rou, and Uncle Yuan suffering inside a formation.
• Lin Bai read that the sheepskin scroll concerned the Three Thousand Dao Lord’s treasures and marked the place Kong Lu had failed to find.

Lin Bai learned from Kong Lu’s scroll that Dragon Burial Abyss might conceal the Three Thousand Dao Lords’ treasure, but he chose to leave Kong Lu’s Tomb before deciding whether to investigate. The White-Bearded Elder, Ning Rou, and Uncle Yuan escaped the tomb mansion, badly wounded and nearly out of strength.

• Lin Bai read Kong Lu’s account of searching the Great Snow Mountain and Tianchi City, which identified Dragon Burial Abyss as the remaining possible location of the treasure.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow about Dragon Burial Abyss, and the Crow warned him that countless ghost cultivators lived there and escape could be nearly impossible.
• Lin Bai decided to leave Kong Lu’s Tomb first, stored his findings and the Sky-Viewing Mirror, and exited through a portal of light.
• The White-Bearded Elder, Ning Rou, and Uncle Yuan returned to their cave abode after retreating from the tomb mansion’s formation; Ning Rou and Uncle Yuan collapsed with severe wounds.

The White-Bearded Elder tried to kill Ning Rou, Uncle Yuan, and Lin Bai to conceal the entrance to Kong Lu Tomb, but Lin Bai emerged alive and fought back. Their clash alerted the White Cat Snow Beasts, leaving the cave surrounded as Lin Bai rejected the White-Bearded Elder’s offer to join forces.

• The White-Bearded Elder claimed the treasures from the tomb’s dead ends and decided to kill Ning Rou and Uncle Yuan to protect the entrance’s secret.
• Uncle Yuan begged for his life, but the White-Bearded Elder killed him and then attacked Ning Rou.
• Lin Bai emerged from the stone wall, and the White-Bearded Elder stopped his attack on Ning Rou and turned on Lin Bai.
• The White-Bearded Elder struck Lin Bai, and Lin Bai used his God Seals and weapons to meet the Seven Tribulation Dao Realm attack.
• The clash alerted the White Cat Snow Beasts, whose experts surrounded the cave, and the White-Bearded Elder asked Lin Bai to join forces to escape.
• Lin Bai refused, telling the White-Bearded Elder that he was the one who would not leave and that Lin Bai was prepared to fight the Demon Race.

Lin Bai escaped the White Cat Snow Beasts’ encirclement with Ning Rou after fighting his way out of the stone cave. He left Ning Rou with her guards and flew away, while she prepared to return to Tianchi City.

• Lin Bai refused the White-Bearded Elder’s offer to join forces and carried the wounded Ning Rou out of the cave.
• The White Cat Snow Beasts’ two Seven Tribulation Dao Realm experts attacked Lin Bai and the White-Bearded Elder, and Lin Bai clashed with one of them.
• Lin Bai summoned thunder to scatter his pursuers, broke through the mountain-sealing formation with his Devouring Sword Soul, and escaped with Ning Rou.
• Lin Bai set Ning Rou down in the forest and parted ways with her before flying off.
• Ning Rou summoned her guards and told them to return with her to Tianchi City.

After escaping the snow valley, Lin Bai arrived in Tianyi City and learned that the Dragon Burial Abyss was threatening the city with support from the Giant God Race. He discovered that the wounded Giant God was recuperating in the Dragon Burial Abyss, but the Crow warned that even weakened, the Giant God still possessed at least Dao Lord-level strength.

• Lin Bai left the ice plain and traveled south for half a month before reaching Tianyi City.
• Lin Bai found Tianyi City crowded with cultivators and powers from Silver Moon City and Lingxiao City, who had gathered to support the city against the Dragon Burial Abyss.
• Lin Bai overheard that the Dragon Burial Abyss had demanded Tianyi City's surrender and was relying on a Giant God who had descended from another realm.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow whether the Giant God was still alive, and the Crow said his injuries were severe but would not kill him soon.
• Lin Bai considered the Giant God's weakened state, but the Crow warned that he still had at least Dao Lord-level strength.

Lin Bai learned that the gravely wounded Giant God was hunting him and that avoiding the Dragon Burial Abyss would not keep him safe. He resolved to seek the Three Thousand Dao Lord’s treasure for a way to kill the Giant God, and the Crow agreed to help in exchange for a share of the treasures.

• Lin Bai spent several days weighing whether to abandon the Three Thousand Dao Lord’s treasure because the Giant God, despite his fatal wounds, was a Dao Lord-level threat.
• The Crow warned Lin Bai that the Giant God would hunt him down even if he fled, leaving him with the choice to wait for death or fight.
• Lin Bai decided to outwit the Giant God and seek more weapons at the Dragon Burial Abyss, offering the Crow most of the treasure in exchange for help.
• The Crow agreed to the bargain, and Lin Bai claimed first choice of each treasure and the complete Five Elements Dao Body Chapter scripture.
• The Crow gave Lin Bai a feather-forged black robe that could conceal his aura, explaining that the Giant God could not sense the Devouring Sword Soul through it from beyond a hundred meters.

Tianyi City and the other Human Race factions debated whether to fight Dragon Burial Abyss, but feared provoking the giant god backing the ghost cultivators. They agreed to discover his intentions first and assembled a delegation to visit him at Dragon Burial Abyss.

• Prince Mu and Tong Wuji argued that the Human Race should avoid war until it understood the giant god's intentions.
• The Tianyi City Lord proposed approaching the giant god and winning his support, while warning that the Demon Race was also sending envoys.
• The leaders of Tianyi City, Silver Moon City, and Lingxiao City agreed to send representatives and cautioned them not to provoke the giant god.
• After two or three days of deliberation, the cities chose Fuyang, Tong Wuji, Nangong Qingxuan, Prince Mu, and Prince Yuan to lead a powerful Human Race delegation to Dragon Burial Abyss.

Lin Bai traveled toward Dragon Burial Abyss while concealing his aura, unaware that the human, demon, and ghost factions were gathering there to court the wounded Giant God. After a ghost cultivator identified him and alerted Sha Xun, Lin Bai reached the Hengtian Mountains and prepared to infiltrate Dragon Burial Abyss.

• Lin Bai slipped out of Tianyi City ahead of its human contingent and flew toward Dragon Burial Abyss in a black robe that concealed the Devouring Sword Soul.
• A ghost cultivator secretly followed Lin Bai, identified him as the target sought by the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor, and reported his route to Sha Xun.
• Sha Xun ordered the ghost cultivators to stop Lin Bai in the Hengtian Mountains, but Lin Bai moved too quickly for his pursuer to keep up.
• Lin Bai reached the Hengtian Mountains, rested for two days, and noticed human, demon, and ghost cultivators gathering nearby.
• The Crow observed that the gathered factions hoped to gain the Giant God's favor, while Lin Bai decided to proceed with their plan and infiltrate Dragon Burial Abyss.

Lin Bai was ambushed in the Hengtian Mountains by Ghost King Sha Xun, who demanded one of his Dao Divine Weapons. Lin Bai refused and fought the Thousand Souls Shackling Formation without using the Devouring Sword Soul, leaving Sha Xun to suspect he was holding back for a reason.

• Lin Bai was stopped in the Hengtian Mountains by Ghost King Sha Xun and surrounded by thousands of ghost cultivators.
• Sha Xun revealed that he served the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor and offered to let Lin Bai go if he handed over a Dao Divine Weapon.
• Sha Xun explained that the ghost cultivators had formed the Thousand Souls Shackling Formation to trap Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai refused the deal, drew his demonic sword, and fought the formation’s sinister chains while searching for a way out.
• Lin Bai refrained from using the Devouring Sword Soul because he feared the nearby giant god might sense it, and Sha Xun realized Lin Bai seemed to be holding back.

The human forces reached the Hengtian Mountains and debated whether to investigate the ghost cultivators’ formation. Hong Ding recognized Lin Bai trapped inside, and Tong Wuji revealed that Lin Bai possessed a Dao Divine Weapon, shocking the group.

• Sha Xun controlled the Thousand Souls Shackling Formation as the nearby human forces sensed its sinister aura.
• Fuyang proposed investigating the formation, and Tong Wuji and Prince Mu initially warned against provoking the ghost cultivators.
• Nangong Qingxuan argued that the humans should not appear weak, so Fuyang led the group toward the formation.
• Hong Ding used his Dharma Eye to see Lin Bai trapped inside while Demon Race cultivators watched from the woods.
• Gu He recognized Lin Bai, and Hong Ding said Lin Bai was his friend.
• Tong Wuji announced that Lin Bai possessed a Dao Divine Weapon, startling Fuyang and the others.

Lin Bai remained trapped in the Thousand Souls Shackling Formation while the gathered powers learned he possessed a Dao Divine Weapon. Kong Zhu of the Peacock Clan intervened first, and Fuyang arrived with a host of human experts, leaving Sha Xun facing a powerful coalition.

• Tong Wuji and other cultivators confirmed that Lin Bai had used a Dao Divine Weapon against the Corpse King, and Fuyang decided to help rescue him.
• Lin Bai struggled to escape the formation without revealing the Bright Moon Sword or his Devouring Sword Soul.
• Kong Zhu attacked the formation and demanded that Ghost King Sha Xun release Lin Bai, but Sha Xun refused, citing the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor's order.
• Fuyang arrived with more than ten Nine Tribulation Dao Realm experts, and their combined pressure forced Sha Xun and Kong Zhu to yield ground.