Recaps

Ming Jin entered the Holy Lord's Ancient Road and used his Demon Eyes to inspect its layered formations and restrictions as he advanced. Though the road's increasing weight began to burden him, he believed its known obstacles could not stop him, while the elders watched from the starting point.

• Ming Jin surveyed the mountains of animated bones before turning his attention to the Holy Lord's Ancient Road.
• Ming Jin activated the Seven Paths Scripture and stepped onto the road, triggering its formations and restrictions.
• Ming Jin used his Demon Eyes to identify visible runes, hidden restrictions, and an anti-air formation woven into the road.
• Ming Jin continued forward as the weight on his shoulders increased with each step, reaching a point where it felt like he carried a mountain.
• Shi Renshan noted that the road's first half was relatively easy and that its middle and rear sections held the real difficulty.
• Luo Yuanjing and the Four Gloom Demon Palace elders watched Ming Jin advance and said the road's formations seemed unable to stop him.

Lin Bai struggled along the Holy Lord's Ancient Road under crushing gravity and discovered that its paving bricks concealed a deadly formation. The formation unleashed countless golden strands of Sword Qi, leaving him dodging for his life as he searched for a way through.

• Lin Bai endured the Ancient Road's immense gravity, which strained his body and threatened to crush his organs.
• Lin Bai dodged a sudden strike that slashed his back and used his Demon Eyes to trace it to a shifting stone brick.
• Lin Bai considered the mausoleum's possible defenses, then recognized that the bricks triggered the attack when another golden strand nearly cut him.
• Lin Bai faced a barrage of golden strands from the Ancient Road's formations and realized they were Sword Qi transformed into threads.
• Lin Bai used his Demon Eyes to find gaps and evade the Sword Qi, but the strands continued to fill the road.

Lin Bai endured the Myriad Swords Sharp Metal Formation on Holy Lord's Ancient Road while the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace elders watched and assessed his strength. When the sword silk showed no sign of stopping and the poisoned ground blocked his escape, Lin Bai unleashed the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to break the prohibition.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing and Shi Renshan watched Lin Bai reach the middle section without defensive treasures, and Shi Renshan acknowledged Lin Bai's formidable cultivation and body refinement.
• The Myriad Swords Sharp Metal Formation activated, sending golden sword silk at Lin Bai, who evaded it with Sword Control Art and Void Evasion Art.
• After dodging for a quarter of an hour, Lin Bai realized the formation's power was not fading and wondered what sustained it.
• Lin Bai avoided the poisonous ground beside the road, then landed and released black sharp light across his body.
• Lin Bai stomped the ground and sent black ripples toward the end of the road, using the Devouring Heaven Dao Method—Break the Prohibition.

Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to suppress the arrays and restrictions on Holy Lord's Ancient Road, revealing an ability recorded as belonging to the Holy Lord. The Four Gloom Demon Palace's elders and onlookers became more convinced that Lin Bai was the Holy Lord's reincarnation as he continued along the road.

• Lin Bai released black ripples that suppressed the arrays and restrictions on Holy Lord's Ancient Road, making the golden sword radiance vanish.
• Qi Yuanfu, Luo Yuanjing, Yao Daogu, and the other elders recognized Lin Bai's restriction-breaking ability as one attributed to the Holy Lord in ancient texts.
• Lin Bai walked forward without the road's pressure or attacks, while martial artists throughout Four Gloom City reacted in shock.
• Lin Bai heard a clicking sound, stopped, and scanned his surroundings with his Demon Eyes.
• Stone bricks on Holy Lord's Ancient Road sank and then resurfaced with armored soldiers holding weapons.

Lin Bai and Tong Yun were trapped on Holy Lord's Ancient Road by hundreds of powerful Automaton Puppets guarding the route to Holy Lord's Mausoleum. As the puppets closed in and Lin Bai’s defenses began to fail, he chose to break through toward the mausoleum.

• Lin Bai saw armored soldiers emerge from stone slabs and recognized them as Automaton Puppets guarding both ends of Holy Lord's Ancient Road.
• The Automaton Puppets attacked Tong Yun and Lin Bai with coordinated melee strikes and volleys of fire arrows, overwhelming their defenses.
• Tong Yun dodged the first attack, but the puppets’ blades stopped just short of striking her.
• Lin Bai realized he could not defeat the puppets head-on and fixed his sights on Holy Lord's Mausoleum.
• Lin Bai broke out toward the mausoleum as twenty to thirty armed puppets charged after him.

Shi Dian entered the Sacred Hall and was mistaken for a disciple of the Lin Bai Immortal Sect, prompting its hostile guardian to trap him inside. The stone gate closed, leaving him three days to light the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp or remain there forever as a lingering soul.

• Shi Dian entered the Sacred Hall, where white mist revealed more than a thousand lingering souls and a woman warned him to leave before she counted to three.
• The woman recognized the Chaotic Seven Elements Sword Formation and accused Shi Dian of being a disciple of the Lin Bai Immortal Sect; Shi Dian denied it and explained that he had come from a minor world.
• The woman finished counting, the stone gate closed, and she ordered the lingering souls to attack Shi Dian.
• Shi Dian activated the Chaotic Seven Elements Sword Formation as the souls charged, while he worried most about the woman and the four coffins.
• Outside the hall, Saint Elder Yao Daogu, Shi Renshan, Zhao Fengxia, Liu Yi, and Luo Yuanjing watched the projection and concluded that Shi Dian had three days to light the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp or become a heroic spirit.

Lin Bai fought the Swallowing Heaven Pythons and the swarming souls inside the Sacred Hall, using his Azure Lotus Sword-armaments and Taiyi inheritance to break through their attacks. After the danger vanished, he heard a coffin open and watched a deathly woman emerge from the seventh coffin.

• The nine Swallowing Heaven Python souls spewed corrosive black mist, forcing Lin Bai to retreat as it spread across the Sacred Hall.
• Lin Bai attacked the pythons with the Reverse Five Elements Sword Formation, then used the Jia Yunyuan Art and his sword-armaments to batter their soul bodies.
• The pythons struck Lin Bai and the souls swarmed over him, but he shattered the attackers with Taiyi Divine Intent and summoned his four Azure Lotus Sword-armaments to hold the remaining souls back.
• Lin Bai used the Alarming Seal to crush the black mist and suppress the Swallowing Heaven Pythons, while a white-vapor finger shattered his Taiyi Divine Intent mountain.
• The surviving pythons, souls, and mists vanished, and Lin Bai heard strange noises from the seventh coffin.
• A jade hand pushed open the coffin lid, and a deathly woman rose from inside; Jia Yun recognized her and paid his respects.

Gu Jing confronted Lin Bai in the Sacred Hall, explaining that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had forced her onto the Holy Lord’s Ancient Road. Lin Bai recognized her as a prodigy and, despite suspecting she was the Holy Lord’s reincarnation, let her leave rather than kill her.

• Gu Jing emerged from her coffin, and Lin Bai recognized her as the Goddess of the Second Divine Hall from a hundred thousand years ago.
• Gu Jing prepared to fight with her weapons but admitted she could not overcome the enormous difference in cultivation between them.
• Gu Jing explained that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had forced her to break through the Holy Lord’s Ancient Road or remain imprisoned in Four Gloom City.
• Lin Bai asked whether Gu Jing had proof that she was the Holy Lord’s reincarnation, and Gu Jing described the circumstances that had brought her there.
• Lin Bai decided she could not bring herself to kill a prodigy and allowed Gu Jing to leave, warning her not to return.

Lin Bai explained that Gu Jing had separated her soul from her body through the Immortality Art after the Four Gloom Demon Palace fell into crisis a hundred thousand years ago. He led Gu Jing and Wen Wei through the Eternal Mausoleum to see a juvenile Four-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus, which would need another hundred thousand years to mature.

• Lin Bai refrained from asking about the past, and the woman returned to her coffin before appearing again as an ethereal spirit.
• Gu Jing explained that the spirit was her soul and the figure in the coffin was her physical body, and that they would need to reunite to become whole.
• Lin Bai said the Four Gloom Demon Palace had split apart under attack and that, near death, he had chosen to separate his soul from his body rather than wait to die.
• Wen Wei shut down the mausoleum's formations and mechanisms, then led Gu Jing through a hidden passage toward the Holy Lord's resting place.
• Gu Jing and Wen Wei reached a vast chamber, where Gu Jing saw a Four-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus growing in a pool.
• Lin Bai said the lotus was still immature and needed another hundred thousand years before it could be used as medicine.

Lin Bai and Gu Jing learned that the Devil Realm’s places of absolute danger formed around divine medicines that drew Great Mystic Art Users seeking to prolong their lives. Shou Yuan revealed that the Burial Earth held unknown medicines and remained unexplored even by the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, while Gu Jing considered the Four-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus and the Holy Lord’s past expedition.

• Lin Bai stared at the Nine-Colored Immortalizing Lotus as Gu Jing asked why the Devil Realm had four places of absolute danger.
• Shou Yuan explained that Great Mystic Art Users gathered in regions where divine medicines grew, and that their presence and natural laws made those regions dangerous.
• Shou Yuan identified the Burial Earth, Ten Thousand Layer Mountain, Land Beyond the Heavens, and Ancient Battlefield as places where divine medicines grew, including the Sun Moon Divine Flower and Heaven and Earth Purple Core Marrow.
• Shou Yuan said divine medicines could not be transplanted and that the Holy Lord had warned the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace not to enter a deep region of the Burial Earth before becoming immortal.
• Gu Jing shared rumors that the Holy Lord had brought a Heavenly Treasure from the Burial Earth and that it helped lead to the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s destruction, then looked at the Four-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus.

Lin Bai learned that the ancient wars had left the Heaven Swallowing Race hunted despite its strongest members ascending, and Gu Jing warned him that the current conflict was driven by powerful outsiders seeking divine medicines. The chapter left Lin Bai aware that the Nine-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus and similar treasures were drawing experts into the Demon Realm.

• Lin Bai recalled the three great wars and wondered why the Giant God Race continued hunting the Heaven Swallowing Race even after its members reached the Tribulation Realm or ascended.
• Gu Jing told Lin Bai that the Holy Lord had shared his despair and urged him to keep cultivating, while explaining that the reason for the ancient grudge remained hidden.
• Gu Jing reminded Lin Bai that the coming battle would be more complicated than he expected, and Lin Bai noted that experts from the Spirit World and the Demon Realm had arrived.
• Gu Jing explained that the Demon Realm, the Spirit World, and the Demon Realm sought to conquer one another for divine medicines such as the Nine-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus, which could extend life by ten thousand years.

Gu Jing explained that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was rushing to reappear before the Sun Moon Divine Flower matured and drew powerful old monsters to the Burial Earth. She warned Lin Bai that experts from all four realms would soon converge on Nine Underworlds City, and that the Divine Medicine War was about to begin again.

• Gu Jing told Lin Bai that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had held back forces to guard against experts from the Spirit Realm and Demon Realm seeking divine medicine amid the Devil Realm’s turmoil.
• Gu Jing explained that outsiders would eventually discover the Burial Earth and realize that Nine Underworlds City lay beside it, forcing the Demon Palace to act before the divine medicine matured.
• Gu Jing revealed that the Sun Moon Divine Flower in the Sea of Mist was nearing maturity and that old monsters there, including Corpse Old Demon, had begun awakening.
• Lin Bai recounted his encounter with Corpse Old Demon, and Gu Jing said he had survived because the demon had not wanted to leave his true body or expend power before the great battle.
• Gu Jing predicted that old monsters from the Spirit Realm, Demon Realm, and Devil Realm would find Nine Underworlds City within months or years, while Lin Bai considered how they might be influencing the war.
• Gu Jing explained that forces such as the Devil Realm’s Demon Tower tracked divine medicine across the realms and predicted that several medicines would mature in the next ten thousand years, beginning a new Divine Medicine War.

Lin Bai brought Gu Jing through the Holy Lord's Mausoleum to meet the Holy Lord and warned her about the dangerous Eternal Night Ancient Lamp. As they discussed the Divine Medicine War and the need to grow stronger, Gu Jing began paying respects at the altar and stopped mid-sentence.

• Lin Bai told Gu Jing that the Divine Medicine War had begun and that Great Mystic Art Users were its entry ticket.
• Lin Bai led Gu Jing through the mausoleum's passages and past its dangerous formations to a palace built atop a nine-level foundation.
• Gu Jing examined the palace's dragon statues, altar offerings, and enormous coffin as she followed Lin Bai inside.
• Lin Bai warned Gu Jing that the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp, once a Supreme Divine Weapon, could drain her essence blood and kill her.
• Gu Jing lit incense, began paying respects to the Holy Lord, and froze after addressing the Holy Lord and an elder brother.

Lin Bai ignited the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp, suppressing cultivation and disabling arrays throughout Nine Underworlds City before its power faded. As he recovered in the Holy Lord's Mausoleum, Corpse Old Demon and forces from the mist sea confronted Four Gloom Demon Palace over the lamp and the Sun Moon Divine Flower.

• Lin Bai ignited the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp, whose darkness disabled the city's arrays and prevented martial artists from using their cultivation or spiritual power.
• Shi Renshan announced that Lin Bai had completed the trial and become Four Gloom Demon Palace's imperial heir, while an Eternal Elder told the city to remain calm.
• Corpse Old Demon attacked the Holy Lord's Mausoleum with a palm of black mist and demanded that the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp be lent to him.
• Zhu Zhiyun shattered the black-mist palm and warned Corpse Old Demon to return to the mist sea, while Shi Renshan said the palace would not fight the mist sea over the Sun Moon Divine Flower.
• Lin Bai stopped supplying his vital essence to the lamp, and its power faded; Gu Jing advised him to recover in the mausoleum as the mist sea's black mist began surging again.

Lin Bai told Gu Jing how the Holy Lord and the Four Gloom Demon Palace discovered Liu Wuchen and two other beings in the Mist Sea, including Corpse Old Demon, whose corpse and remnant soul had cultivated into new beings. Gu Jing explained that lighting the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp had alerted the Mist Sea’s three old monsters, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Gu Jing asked Lin Bai about his injuries, and he said he had not recovered but sensed that the vital energy of heaven and earth had suddenly been drained away.
• Gu Jing said she had just lit the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp and that the three old monsters of the Mist Sea had noticed it.
• Lin Bai explained that the Four Gloom Demon Palace and the Holy Lord had entered the Burial Earth and discovered that Liu Wuchen was in the Mist Sea, seeking the Sun Moon Divine Flower to extend his life.
• Lin Bai said the Holy Lord and the Four Gloom Demon Palace later found a corpse and a remnant soul that had cultivated into powerful new beings.
• Lin Bai explained that the Holy Lord had fought and sealed the corpse and soul in the Mist Sea, which accounted for Corpse Old Demon's hatred of him.

Lin Bai explained how a martial artist surnamed Mo had entered the Sea of Mist and fought its corpse and soul, while Gu Jing wondered why the Three Demons wanted to borrow the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp. Lin Bai left the matter of the Sea of Mist to the Four Gloom Demon Palace.

• Lin Bai speculated that the Holy Lord and the Nine Divine Sons had tried to seize the Sun Moon Divine Flower before sealing the corpse and soul in the Sea of Mist.
• Gu Jing recounted that a powerful martial artist surnamed Mo had entered the Burial Earth decades of thousands of years ago seeking divine medicine and eventually reached the Sea of Mist.
• The corpse and soul joined forces against Mo, and the three became locked in a delicate balance that lasted for tens of thousands of years.
• Lin Bai said the Three Demons might be seeking extra strength for the crisis ahead, but questioned whether they truly wanted to borrow the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp.
• Lin Bai declined to intervene and said the Four Gloom Demon Palace should handle the Sea of Mist crisis.

Lin Bai told Gu Jing that the Four Gloom Demon Palace could not influence the Divine Medicine War and explained how the pursuit of great power would leave her isolated from loved ones. After a cultivator from beyond entered the Burial Earth, Lin Bai and Gu Jing left the Holy Lord's Mausoleum, with Gu Jing still uncertain which side the Four Gloom Demon Palace should support.

• Lin Bai sensed a disturbance in the Burial Earth, and Gu Jing explained that a cultivator from beyond had torn through the spatial barrier and entered.
• Gu Jing asked what stance the Four Gloom Demon Palace would take in the Divine Medicine War, and Lin Bai said it was too weak to affect the conflict.
• Lin Bai warned Gu Jing that even a million disciples would be like ants before great divine ability experts, and that rising in cultivation meant watching family and friends die.
• Gu Jing said she had no choice but to move forward if she wanted to avoid a dead end, and Lin Bai urged her to keep advancing despite the loneliness ahead.
• Lin Bai and Gu Jing left the Holy Lord's Mausoleum as Gu Jing remained conflicted about the Four Gloom Demon Palace's place in the coming war.

Gu Jing left Holy Lord's Ancient Road after learning that even ascending to immortality would not solve the Giant God Race's predicament, and the Four Gloom Demon Palace welcomed her back with elaborate honors for Lin Bai. The palace reopened an exclusive ascending-to-immortality cultivation ground for Lin Bai, while Gu Jing accepted her new position as an elder.

• Gu Jing and Lin Bai discussed the idea of an entire race ascending, and Gu Jing warned that she would reveal more secrets only when Lin Bai was strong enough.
• Xiao Dong opened Holy Lord's Ancient Road's stone gate and told Gu Jing he would control its formations, restrictions, and Automaton Puppets so she could pass safely.
• Gu Jing walked through Holy Lord's Ancient Road and returned to the starting point, where Saint Elder Giant God Race and the Eternal Elders paid their respects to Lin Bai.
• Giant God Race declared Gu Jing an elder of the Four Gloom Demon Palace for lighting the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp and led her back to Four Gloom City.
• The Four Gloom Demon Palace reopened the ascending-to-immortality ground and raised a suspended palace above the Four Divine Halls as Lin Bai's exclusive cultivation ground.

Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing told Lin Bai how the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s lost treasures had helped create powerful sects and explained why its elders could only restore the palace before passing authority to the next generation. Lin Bai remained reluctant to embrace his role as Imperial Heir as news of his succession spread across the Devil Realm.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing explained that many treasures held by the Devil Realm Eastern Region’s top sects had been stolen from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace during its destruction.
• Luo Yuanjing said he and the other elders had nearly exhausted their strength restoring the palace and were nearing the later years of their lives.
• Luo Yuanjing told Lin Bai that the elders hoped to reclaim the palace’s former standing, while leaving its future plans and lost territories to Lin Bai’s generation.
• Lin Bai admitted that he had joined the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace under pressure and had little sense of belonging, but Luo Yuanjing said his Imperial Heir status could not be changed.
• Luo Yuanjing revealed that he had ordered the news of Lin Bai’s succession spread throughout the Devil Realm, where the top sects would fear the palace’s return.

Lin Bai learned that Yan Wenjing of Night God Sect and Xie Lan of Azure Ripple Sect had arrived in Four Gloom City, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators from both the orthodox and devil paths. As Saint Elder Yu Xiaolan showed him the empty Imperial Palace and its hidden cultivation chamber, a watcher beneath the forest realized that the Sun Moon Divine Flower would be harder to seize.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing gave Lin Bai a Jade Slip identifying Yan Wenjing and Xie Lan and congratulating him on becoming the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's Imperial Son.
• Lin Bai asked whether Luo Yuanjing had also been a Saint Elder, and Yu Xiaolan explained that Luo Yuanjing had handed over the position ten thousand years earlier.
• Yu Xiaolan told Lin Bai that attendants would be assigned to monitor him, and Lin Bai accepted the arrangement.
• Lin Bai explored the Imperial Palace and discovered that its stone chamber was covered in runes that gathered pure spiritual energy for cultivation.
• Yu Xiaolan left to meet Yan Wenjing and Xie Lan, while a hidden figure in the forest decided to summon allies because Great Mystic Art Users were gathering in Four Gloom City.

Lin Bai settled into the Imperial Palace and learned from Li Guxian why the Demon Palace had appointed him its lord despite his limited standing in the sect. Their conversation revealed the First Divine Hall’s formidable Daoist Lin Bai and its celebrated God Child, leaving Lin Bai curious to meet the God Child.

• Lin Bai told the Affairs Hall that he did not need the extra maids, then allowed Yu You and the other nine maids to explore and decorate the Imperial Palace.
• Li Guxian visited Lin Bai at the Imperial Palace, where he explained that the Saint Elder had sent Daoist Lin Bai to serve him and monitor him.
• Li Guxian explained that Lin Bai had become Imperial Palace’s lord because the Demon Palace’s ten-thousand-year plan was underway and the First God Child had left on a mission.
• Li Guxian described Daoist Lin Bai’s extraordinary strength and prestige, then introduced the First Divine Hall’s God Child as a dazzling prodigy recognized by nearly all the other Divine Halls.
• Lin Bai said he wanted to meet the First God Child, and Daoist Lin Bai mocked him for thinking he could do so without being frightened.

Yu You tried to persuade Lin Bai to leave Lin Family by warning him against challenging someone above his rank and explaining the Imperial Palace’s cultivation-resource privileges. Lin Bai refused to leave, while Emperor Child considered using the Four Gloom Demon Palace’s resources before departing Nine Underworlds City.

• Yu You warned Lin Bai not to set his sights on Emperor Child and declared her devotion to the First God Child, while Li Guxian teased her about Emperor Child’s maidservants.
• Lin Bai challenged Emperor Child to fight, promising to leave Lin Family regardless of the outcome, but Emperor Child said he was not interested in fighting him.
• Yu You explained that Lin Bai could apply for up to one million immortal jades’ worth of cultivation resources every hundred years as Imperial Palace, subject to the Council of Elders’ review.
• Lin Bai realized that the Four Gloom Demon Palace’s resources could help him advance to the Greater Purity Dao Fruit realm, while Yu You argued that he could borrow the sect’s power before leaving.
• Emperor Child declined to force Lin Bai to leave, and Lin Bai refused to go, leaving Yu You’s attempt to remove him from Lin Family unresolved.

Lin Bai weighed whether to use the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s resources to break through to the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm, knowing the cost could bind him to the palace. Lin Baixian arranged to speak with him privately, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Lin Bai considered staying in Nine Underworlds City for months to break through, but recognized that accepting the palace’s resources could make it impossible to sever ties with it.
• Lin Baixian explained that Lin Bai would need roughly a million immortal jades and that Chu and the Tianshui Sect each had reasons not to provide them easily.
• Lin Bai recalled the Tianshui Sect’s depleted reserves and the scarce resources needed to support his Heaven Swallowing Race cultivation.
• Lin Bai asked Yu You to leave, but Yu You refused Lin Baixian’s request until she warned that exposing the Heaven Swallowing Race’s secret could harm Li Guxian.
• Lin Baixian set up a soundproofing formation and smiled at Lin Bai, who wondered what she was plotting.

Lin Bai confronted Li Guxian after learning that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had uncovered his Heaven Swallowing Race identity, and Lin Baixian argued that the Palace was his best source of cultivation resources. Lin Bai remained concerned about how many people knew his secret and pressed Li Guxian for a direct answer.

• Li Guxian implied that Lin Bai's Heaven Swallowing Race identity had been exposed, prompting him to ask how many people in the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace knew.
• Lin Baixian explained that only the Palace Master, the three Saint Elders, and a small number of Eternal-level elders likely knew about Lin Bai's identity.
• Lin Baixian contrasted the Chu Kingdom's delayed promises and the Tianshui Sect's limited resources with the Four Gloom Demon Palace's ability to provide Lin Bai's cultivation needs.
• Lin Bai recognized that his Heaven Swallowing Race bloodline required immense resources and that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had reason to support him rather than hand him over to the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai asked Li Guxian again how many people in the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace knew his identity.

Lin Bai learned that the Seven Nights Divine Sect had fallen and questioned whether the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s plan was simply to claim its territory. Liu Huan told him there was more to the plan and granted him access to the War Tower’s upper floors, where Lin Bai began reading intelligence from the Northern Region.

• Reports said the Ten Thousand Saints Mountain and Qi Tian Sect delegations left the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s gates but stayed in nearby cities.
• Lin Bai read that the Seven Nights Divine Sect had fallen, its territory was being taken over by the Pure Yang Sect and Phoenix Valley, and its surviving loyalists posed little immediate threat.
• Lin Bai guessed that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace intended to divide the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory among itself and the other powers.
• Liu Huan told Lin Bai that the Demon Palace’s plan went beyond what he had inferred and said the Emperor’s Son could enter the War Tower’s upper floors.
• Lin Bai used his Emperor Child Jade Token to pass the barrier to the sixth floor and found intelligence labeled Northern Region.