Recaps

Wu Shanyu pursued Lin Bai with a Superior-Grade Dao Divine Weapon bow and arrow that pierced Lin Bai's defenses and relentlessly tracked him. Lin Bai refined all his dragon blood to break through three cultivation realms, then struck down and sealed the arrow, leaving it in his grasp.

• Wu Shanyu shot Lin Bai with his Superior-Grade Dao Divine Weapon, piercing his abdomen and shoulder despite Lin Bai's defenses.
• Lin Bai fled with the Sword Control Art, but Wu Shanyu's arrow continued tracking him and he realized he had to confront it.
• Lin Bai refined the dragon blood with the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit while fleeing, raising his cultivation to Peak Seventh-Grade Dao Sovereign.
• Lin Bai used Winter's Chill from the Four Intentions of Extinction to strike the arrow from the air and extinguish most of its spirituality.
• Lin Bai seized the arrow and sealed it with spiritual power, stopping it from moving.

Lin Bai escaped Wu Shanyu after taking the Sun Moon Arrows and stabilized his cultivation after refining the dragon blood from Dragon Blood Mountain. He told Li Yumen and Yi Mei how he had obtained the dragon blood and revealed Su Yue’s betrayal.

• Lin Bai collected Wu Shanyu’s Sun Moon Arrows and escaped, leaving Wu Shanyu unable to track him.
• Wu Shanyu returned to Dragon Blood Mountain empty-handed and forced Su Yue to follow the Heng Province Alliance after Su Yue had betrayed the Lian Province Alliance.
• Lin Bai returned to the mountain stream and entered seclusion to stabilize his cultivation at the peak of the seventh-grade Dao Venerable level.
• Li Yumen and Yi Mei recovered from their injuries while Lin Bai cultivated.
• Lin Bai told Li Yumen and Yi Mei that he had taken all the dragon blood, that Su Yue had betrayed the Lian Province Alliance, and that Wu Shanyu had pursued him with the Heaven Piercing Bow and Sun Moon Arrows.

After learning that Eternal Mountain held three dangerous treasure grounds, Lin Bai chose to enter the Black Demon Forest despite Li Yumen and Yi Mei’s warnings. He left to seek a treasure that could seal the evil ghost pursuing him.

• Li Yumen identified Wu Shanyu’s bow and arrows as the Heaven Piercing Bow and Sun Moon Arrows and recounted how Wu Shanyu had found them.
• Lin Bai asked about the Black Demon Forest, and Li Yumen explained that it was one of three treasure grounds filled with accumulated treasures and powerful martial artists.
• Yi Mei warned Lin Bai that the Black Demon Forest was perilous and urged him to search elsewhere with them, but Lin Bai insisted on going.
• Lin Bai got the forest’s location from Li Yumen, said farewell, and flew away on his sword.
• Yi Mei questioned Li Yumen for letting Lin Bai go, and Li Yumen replied that Lin Bai could not be persuaded and was no ordinary person.

Lin Bai entered the Black Demon Forest to search for its treasures while guarding against the mind-corrupting Black Demon Qi and the Blackfiends within. After witnessing a Blackfiend kill a flying martial artist, he cautiously ventured deeper and found a man in agony beside a creek, who sensed his hidden presence.

• Li Yumen gave Lin Bai a map of the Eternal Trial, and Lin Bai used it to travel to the Black Demon Forest.
• Lin Bai learned that Black Demon Qi corrupted martial artists into powerful Blackfiends that wandered the forest.
• Lin Bai entered the forest on foot and saw a Blackfiend seize a martial artist in midair and tear him in half.
• Lin Bai continued deeper through the forest for five days, avoiding the air and watching for Blackfiends.
• Lin Bai heard a scream and found a trembling martial artist beside a creek, but the man detected Lin Bai and called out to him.

Lin Bai witnessed a fellow Eternal Devil Sect disciple transform into a Black Demon and followed it through the Black Demon Forest to a mountain it guarded. While searching the mountain, he discovered the remains of an ancient pavilion buried beneath the weeds.

• A Senior Brother begged Lin Bai to kill him as Black Demon Qi overtook his body, then transformed into a Black Demon with Dao Immortal-level strength.
• Lin Bai fled the Black Demon’s attack, then followed it from a distance after it wandered through the forest and began circling a mountain.
• After watching the Black Demon for two days, Lin Bai secretly searched the mountain for a treasure but initially found nothing unusual.
• Lin Bai spotted buried pavilion remains halfway up the mountain and uncovered a weathered stone pillar resembling a pavilion’s flying eave.

Lin Bai discovered that a buried structure beneath a mountain in the Black Demon Forest was the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple and tried to open its stone door using the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit. The door’s movement shook the region, drawing black demons and martial artists, and Lin Bai was forced to fight a black demon before he could enter.

• Lin Bai realized the enormous stone structure might be buried beneath the entire mountain and decided to explore it cautiously through an underground passage.
• Lin Bai uncovered a stone doorway and a plaque identifying the structure as the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to push open the stone door, causing the mountain and surrounding earth to shake and alerting nearby martial artists and black demons.
• A black demon entered Lin Bai’s underground passage and attacked him, forcing him to stop opening the door and fight.
• Lin Bai struggled to defeat the black demon and began considering retreating.

Lin Bai lured a powerful Black Demon away from the newly exposed Stone Temple, fought it until it suddenly withdrew, then returned to find martial artists and Black Demons battling over the ruin. Hidden nearby, he recognized several Eternal Devil Sect prodigies among those fighting.

• Lin Bai drew the Black Demon away from the Stone Temple, giving nearby martial artists a chance to approach it, but other Black Demons attacked them and sparked a battle.
• After fleeing tens of thousands of li, Lin Bai turned to fight the Black Demon, wounding it with his sword but failing to kill it.
• The Black Demon abruptly left after seeming to receive a summons, and Lin Bai headed back toward the Stone Temple.
• Lin Bai returned to find hundreds of martial artists fighting Black Demons around the exposed Stone Temple, whose ancient aura suggested it concealed a great treasure.
• Lin Bai hid to observe the battle and spotted Eternal Devil Sect prodigies Wu Shanyu, Di Feng, and Huang Liang among the martial artists.

Lin Bai entered the Stone Temple after a mysterious black-clad martial artist opened its sealed door, then found himself trapped in a boundless darkness. A strange vision showed a Giant God slaughtering a tribe over a newborn before the world changed again, leaving Lin Bai wondering what the Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Path was revealing.

• Lin Bai watched a black-clad figure open the Stone Temple’s stone door, and Wu Shanyu, Huang Liang, Di Feng, Lei Hou, and other experts entered.
• Lin Bai entered the Stone Temple and found himself sealed inside an endless darkness with no visible way back.
• A pool appeared in the darkness, and Lin Bai traveled toward it as mountains, forests, and a tribal settlement emerged around him.
• A newborn’s arrival frightened the villagers, and a Giant God appeared and crushed the tribe and its inhabitants.
• Lin Bai recognized the giant as part of the Giant God Race, then watched the vision disappear and another world replace it.

Lin Bai witnessed a primordial-era grandfather bring a child of the Heaven Swallowing Race to the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, where a mysterious figure in black took the child in. Lin Bai then approached the temple himself, and the figure revealed that he could see him and warned him not to open its door.

• Lin Bai followed an old man and a child through an ancient city and wilderness, learning that the Giant Gods hunted the Heaven Swallowing Race and seeing the primordial world's wonders.
• After years of searching, the grandfather brought the child to a ruined Stone Temple, where a black-clad figure demonstrated the Heaven Swallowing God's power and claimed the child as one of his people.
• The grandfather handed the crying child to the figure, who took him into the temple and made the temple vanish; the grandfather searched for it before leaving in despair.
• Lin Bai approached the temple after it reappeared, and the black-clad figure warned him not to open its door.
• Lin Bai asked the figure who he was and what secrets lay behind the temple and the ancient war, but the chapter ended before he received an answer.

Lin Bai witnessed a memory in which a black-clad master revealed the Devouring Gods’ ancient war against the Giant Gods and showed his disciple the Demon Sword, one of nine sealed supreme treasures. Inside the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, the disciple found a remnant jade fragment and an ancient tome, and the fragment was identified as a key.

• Lin Bai realized he was only a spectator in a memory as a young man asked his black-clad master why he had entered the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple.
• The black-clad master explained that the Devouring Gods had long fought the Giant Gods and that nine ancient temples each sealed a supreme treasure.
• The black-clad master opened the temple and revealed an ancient sword that Lin Bai recognized as the Demon Sword, explaining that its power was sealed.
• The young man entered the temple and found a shattered remnant jade fragment and an ancient tome on a table.
• The young man called the fragment a key, leaving Lin Bai wondering what it unlocked.

Lin Bai witnessed the black-robed Devouring God explain that the Five Elements Scripture could counter the seal on the Heaven Swallowing Race’s supreme treasure and that Devouring Gods could absorb one another’s power. The vision faded, leaving Lin Bai in the empty ancient temple, where he realized the young man had taken the scripture and Demon Sword away.

• The black-robed man revealed that the fragment was one of eighty-one pieces of a key said to uncover the Devouring Gods’ origins and potentially end their war with the Giant Gods.
• The young man recognized the ancient book as the Five Elements Scripture, and the black-robed man explained that cultivating it could balance the seal and unlock the Heaven Swallowing Race’s supreme treasure.
• The black-robed man entrusted the Five Elements Scripture and ancient sword to the young man, explaining that he was dying from injuries suffered fighting the Giant Gods.
• The black-robed man warned that Devouring Gods could absorb one another’s power and gain each other’s Devouring Heaven Dao Methods, so the young man had to beware even his own kin.
• The black-robed man said he would leave a spiritual imprint in the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, then Lin Bai’s vision faded and he found the long table empty.
• Lin Bai realized the young man had likely taken the Five Elements Scripture and Demon Sword down the mountain after the black-robed man died.

Lin Bai learned from the ancient God of Devouring’s imprint about the Heaven Swallowing Race, the Demon Sword, the Five Elements Scripture, and the fragments tied to the war with the Giant God Race. After leaving the empty temple, he resolved to record the race’s secrets so they would not be lost.

• Lin Bai wondered why the first black-clad man had opened the temple door without triggering the spiritual imprint, then reviewed what the imprint had revealed.
• Lin Bai learned that members of the Heaven Swallowing Race could absorb one another’s devouring power, that the Demon Sword’s seal could be loosened with the Five Elements Scripture, and that fragments could end the war with the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai thanked Ling Tianzi for urging him to cultivate the Five Elements Scripture and understood why he had been able to shake the Demon Sword’s seal.
• Lin Bai searched the temple, found no treasures, and bowed to the ancient God of Devouring before leaving.
• Lin Bai resolved to record his cultivation path and the secrets of the Heaven Swallowing Race for future generations.

After leaving the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, Lin Bai was ambushed by the Evil Ghost and fled through the Black Demon Forest. He escaped a simultaneous attack from the Evil Ghost and a Black Demon with his Supreme Avatar, then set out to find Liu Fuyun’s hidden formation and the treasure that could deal with the Evil Ghost.

• Lin Bai left the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple and found that the martial artists and Black Demons had departed.
• The Evil Ghost ambushed Lin Bai, wounded his shoulder, and resumed its pursuit.
• Lin Bai tried to flee the Evil Ghost but ran into a Black Demon, leaving him trapped between the two monsters.
• Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to blast the Evil Ghost away and destroy the Black Demon, then escaped as the Evil Ghost re-formed.
• Lin Bai decided to search for Liu Fuyun’s formation in the Black Demon Forest, while martial artists later arrived and marveled at the sword marks.

Lin Bai entered the Five-Colored Divine Light Formation to find a treasure that could deal with the pursuing evil ghost. He discovered that Liu Fuyun had left a stone mirror for him, and the formation purified the curse mark that let him pass safely.

• Lin Bai followed martial artists to a valley where the Five-Colored Divine Light Formation guarded a treasure left by Liu Fuyun.
• When Lin Bai sensed the evil ghost closing in, he rushed into the formation despite the danger.
• The divine light removed Lin Bai’s curse mark and opened a path through the formation.
• Lin Bai reached a stone cave and read Liu Fuyun’s message explaining that the stone mirror inside could kill or subdue the evil ghost.
• Lin Bai learned that Liu Fuyun had also left a Thousand Mysteries Myriad Treasures Pill on the God Sealing Platform and invited him to visit after returning safely.

Lin Bai obtained the Stone Mirror and used its Five-Colored Divine Light to kill the evil ghost in the valley. He escaped by blending in with a group of martial artists, but five people who recognized him caught up and surrounded him.

• Lin Bai memorized the Stone Mirror’s refining formulas, claimed the mirror, and watched the Five-Colored Divine Light Formation fade away.
• The evil ghost appeared in the valley, and Lin Bai killed it with the Stone Mirror’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Unable to leave through another passage, Lin Bai hid until martial artists entered the valley, then blended in with them and slipped out.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword away from the valley, but five martial artists who had seen him there caught up and surrounded him.

Lin Bai was pursued by five martial artists who believed he had taken the valley’s treasure, and he killed all five when they tried to seize it. The story ended with Lin Bai leaving the ninth-grade Dao Venerable dead after piercing his throat.

• The five martial artists recognized Lin Bai as he left the valley and pursued him, convinced he had taken its treasure.
• Lin Bai stopped and denied having the treasure, but the five drew their weapons and demanded his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai killed Senior Brother Zhang with his three flying swords after Zhang attacked him.
• Lin Bai swiftly slew three more attackers with his swords and a punch, leaving only the ninth-grade Dao Venerable alive.
• Lin Bai used Nine Steps Chasing the Gods Swordplay to pierce the last man’s throat.

After resolving the curse, Lin Bai decided to keep searching the Black Demon Forest for pills and spirit medicines, using his formation-breaking Dao Method to claim hidden treasures. He found and broke a Myriad Beasts Formation, obtaining a Celestial Cry Pill that could help cultivators break through a realm.

• Lin Bai examined the Stone Mirror, recovered, and decided to remain in the Black Demon Forest to seek cultivation-enhancing treasures.
• Lin Bai reasoned that his formation-breaking Dao Method gave him an advantage in finding and claiming sect-hidden treasures.
• Lin Bai searched the western mountains and used his Asura Dharma Eyes to locate a formation concealed near a massive stone.
• Lin Bai shattered the illusion beasts and the Myriad Beasts Formation with a single sword strike.
• Lin Bai took the Celestial Cry Pill, a precious pill capable of helping cultivators in the Dao Venerable, Dao Immortal, and Dao God Realms break through a realm.

Lin Bai left the Black Demon Forest after reaching Eighth Rank Dao Venerable and headed for the God Sealing Platform to seek better treasures. He finally located the vast platform and prepared to explore its rewards.

• Lin Bai decided to save the Celestial Cry Pill while he searched for another pill to reach Ninth Rank Dao Venerable.
• During half a month in the Black Demon Forest, Lin Bai found two pills, a lower-grade Dao Divine Weapon, and the Sun-Moon Water-Fire Dharma Robe; the pills raised his cultivation to Eighth Rank Dao Venerable.
• After three more days without finding another spell formation and nearly losing a battle with a Blackfiend, Lin Bai left the Black Demon Forest for the God Sealing Platform.
• Lin Bai traveled up Eternal Mountain and learned that the God Sealing Platform stood between the fifth and sixth regions, where defeating ten War Automatons earned a random reward.
• Lin Bai found the God Sealing Platform and saw its enormous disk covered in Talisman Seals.

Lin Bai observed the God Sealing Platform’s challenges and learned that its War Automata could kill those who failed to retreat in time. He began his own challenge and recognized the automata’s coordinated assault as military tactics, then dodged their encirclement.

• Lin Bai watched a wounded challenger leave the platform and saw other martial artists pursue him to seize his treasures.
• A ninth-grade Dao Sovereign defeated seven War Automata before they killed him, and Lin Bai realized challengers had to withdraw before they were overwhelmed.
• Lin Bai watched four more challenges: two martial artists defeated ten War Automata and earned treasures, while two died.
• After a challenger withdrew, Lin Bai stepped onto the platform, where its power inspected his Identity Token and Eternal Trial jade token.
• Ten War Automata appeared and attacked Lin Bai in a coordinated pattern; he identified their tactics and dodged their encirclement.

Lin Bai fought ten War Automatons using a Combined Attack Formation on the God Sealing Platform. He destroyed all ten, narrowly surviving a hidden attack from the last one, and received a treasure as his reward.

• The ten War Automatons coordinated their attacks and charged Lin Bai using a Combined Attack Formation.
• Lin Bai used his flying swords, Demon Sword, Five-Colored Divine Lightning, and Five Elements Dao Body to destroy the first War Automaton.
• Lin Bai studied the automatons' relentless attacks and realized he needed to defeat them with decisive blows.
• Lin Bai used Spring's Wild Hope to shred five War Automatons, then teamed up with his flying swords to destroy three more.
• The final War Automaton stabbed Lin Bai in the back, but his Asura Dharma Eyes revealed it, and his Five Elements Divine Lightning shattered its blade.
• Lin Bai killed the last War Automaton and received a treasure from the God Sealing Platform.

Lin Bai defeated the ten War Automatons by discovering that the final one emerged from the void, then received an Ancient White Jade Lotus as his reward. He put it away for future cultivation and was left wondering how the War Automaton had appeared out of thin air.

• Lin Bai rested after defeating the first group of War Automatons and reasoned that the last one to attack was the battle formation’s hidden trump card.
• Lin Bai fought another group of ten War Automatons, using his three flying swords to handle the first nine while searching unsuccessfully for the hidden one with his Asura Dharma Eyes.
• After the other nine War Automatons fell, Lin Bai saw the tenth emerge from the void a thousand meters behind him and killed it with his flying swords.
• Lin Bai received an Ancient White Jade Lotus, whose nine seeds could be used to refine a God Immortal Pill for breaking through to the Dao God Realm.
• Lin Bai examined the spot where the final War Automaton had appeared but found no formation traces and wondered how it had emerged from the void.

Lin Bai studied the patterns on the God Sealing Platform and realized they revealed where the War Automata emerged and how they moved. After using this insight to defeat the third wave, he collected a low-grade Dao Divine Weapon and prepared for the next round.

• Lin Bai searched the God Sealing Platform after defeating twenty War Automata, trying to learn how they appeared.
• Lin Bai recognized the platform’s intricate patterns as Emergence Points and mapped the points within a thousand meters.
• Lin Bai used the Emergence Points to predict the third wave’s movements and defeated all ten War Automata in close combat.
• Lin Bai claimed a low-grade Dao Divine Weapon, then recovered his spiritual power while studying the mapped area.

Lin Bai used his control over the God Sealing Platform’s Emergence Points to predict and defeat the third wave of War Automata, then claimed and refined its pill. He remained at the peak of the Seventh-Rank Dao Venerable realm and prepared to face the next wave, hoping for a pill that could help him break through.

• Lin Bai realized the Emergence Points within his thousand-kilometer radius revealed the War Automata’s movements and attack patterns.
• Lin Bai waited for the War Automata to enter his controlled area, then destroyed all ten in the third round.
• Lin Bai collected and refined the reward pill but did not reach the Eighth-Rank Dao Venerable realm.
• Lin Bai suspected Liu Fuyun had designed the God Sealing Platform and admired his knowledge of formations and warfare.
• Lin Bai studied the Emergence Points again and concluded that one more high-grade pill might let him break through.

Lin Bai continued defeating War Automata on the God Sealing Platform while studying its Emergence Points and developing a spatial-jumping technique. After naming the new art Square Inch Sword Domain, he left with its power still limited by his cultivation.

• Lin Bai defeated twenty-eight groups of War Automata in one day, claiming twenty-eight treasures and drawing the attention of martial artists across the Eternal Trial.
• Lin Bai studied the God Sealing Platform’s Emergence Points and copied them with spiritual power within a thousand-meter radius.
• Lin Bai used the copied points to jump behind a War Automaton and kill it, but the points collapsed after one jump.
• Lin Bai refined the Emergence Points through repeated battles until he could jump several times, then used the technique to kill ten War Automata without being seen.
• Lin Bai named the technique Square Inch Sword Domain, his second self-created Dao Art and Mystic Art after Zhu Xian Sword.

Lin Bai claimed the Thousand Mysteries Myriad Treasures Pill from the God Sealing Platform and used its medicinal power to reach the peak of the Nine-Rank Dao Sovereign realm and advance his Five Elements Dao Body to its third layer. With the platform’s trials apparently over and a crowd waiting outside, he was left to face the consequences of taking its many treasures.

• Lin Bai used his Square Inch Sword Domain to slay War Automatons and collect thirty-seven treasures while raising his cultivation to the peak of the Eight-Rank Dao Sovereign realm.
• Lin Bai spotted the crowds gathered outside the God Sealing Platform and worried they might attack him after he left.
• After defeating two more rounds of War Automatons, Lin Bai found the Thousand Mysteries Myriad Treasures Pill among his fortieth treasure and swallowed it.
• Lin Bai refined the pill’s power to break through to the peak of the Nine-Rank Dao Sovereign realm, then used the remaining medicinal power to advance his Five Elements Dao Body to the Dragonic Blood Qi stage.
• Lin Bai waited half an hour without another War Automaton appearing and concluded that the platform’s challenge had ended, while the onlookers cursed him for consuming the pill.