Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin learned that the bald old man and his companions belonged to the Southern Continent Divine Gate, which sought the Dragon Slaying Skill and the Cosmic Beast Taming Art. After Lin Bai refused to join them, they surrounded him and prepared to attack.

• The bald old man showed Lin Bai an Image Recording Pearl of his battle with Nine Serpent and accused him of obtaining the Beast Taming Ancestor's inheritance and the Dragon Slaying Skill.
• The bald old man invited Lin Bai to join the Celestial Mystery Tribe and revealed that the tribe served the Southern Continent Divine Gate.
• Ye Suxin explained the Divine Gate's origins as remnants of tribes that worshiped Primordial Behemoths and described how the Poison God Family had once defeated their plans.
• Lin Bai refused to join the Divine Gate and warned the bald old man that its identity could be exposed.
• The bald old man, Liu Yuan, Ye Jing, and Qin Yijun surrounded Lin Bai and Ye Suxin, declaring that they would take the Dragon Slaying Skill and the Cosmic Beast Taming Art.
• Lin Bai challenged the bald old man's strength, pointing out that he was only at the sixth level of the Apex Realm.

Lin Bai fought off the Celestial Mystery Tribe martial artists surrounding him and faced their sixth-stage Apex Realm elder. He used the Invincible Sword Art to reach the first stage of the Apex Realm and barely blocked the elder’s casual strike, leaving their battle poised to continue.

• Lin Bai placed Ye Suxin under Lin Ye’s protection as the Celestial Mystery Tribe martial artists surrounded them.
• The irritable woman, Ye Jing, and Liu Yuan attacked Lin Bai together, but he pierced Liu Yuan’s arm and slashed half of Ye Jing’s face.
• Lin Bai caught the irritable woman’s punch and moved to strike her, but the bald old man intervened and rescued her.
• The bald old man attacked Lin Bai, who activated the Invincible Sword Art to reach the first stage of the Apex Realm and narrowly withstand the blow.

Lin Bai lured the bald old man away from the passenger ship to avoid risking Ye Suxin and the others, while Lin Ye fought the enemies left behind. Ye Suxin sent Nine Serpent after Lin Bai, and the colossal beast raced across the Man Wu River to aid him.

• Lin Bai decided not to use the higher levels of the Invincible Sword Art because they could badly damage his body, and he led the bald old man away from the passenger ship.
• The bald old man ordered Liu Yuan, Scholar Ye Jing, and the irritable woman to kill Ye Suxin and Lin Ye before pursuing Lin Bai.
• Lin Ye struck Scholar Ye Jing with a punch, then fought all three attackers when they charged him together.
• The Snake King offered to help Lin Bai, but Ye Suxin refused and said she had another helper in mind.
• Ye Suxin sent Nine Serpent into the Man Wu River, and it emerged as a gigantic beast and surged toward Lin Bai.

Lin Bai escaped the bald old man by leading him into the path of the Primordial Behemoth Nine Serpent, then returned to the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion ship. There, he saw Liu Yuan gravely injure Ye Suxin as she joined Lin Ye’s fight, and his eyes turned blood-red.

• The bald old man struck Lin Bai with Square-Inch Palm and demanded that he hand over Dragon Slaying Skill and Cosmic Beast Taming Art.
• Lin Bai spotted Nine Serpent approaching, lured the bald old man toward it, and escaped on a flying sword while Nine Serpent chased the old man.
• Lin Bai returned to the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion ship as Lin Ye and Liu Yuan fought, while the warriors aboard watched and complained.
• Ye Suxin joined the battle to help Lin Ye, but Liu Yuan struck her down and left her barely clinging to life.
• Lin Bai saw Ye Suxin fall and flew into a rage.

Lin Bai returned to the passenger ship and killed Liu Yuan, Ye Jing, Qin Yijun, and more than twenty Southern Continent Divine Gate martial artists with one sword. He escaped to the Sun Moon Tribe with Ye Suxin and Lin Ye, while the battered bald old man set off to inform Liu Yuntian; Lin Bai then examined Ye Suxin and suddenly frowned.

• Lin Bai found Ye Suxin injured, gave her healing pills, and told Lin Ye to rest while he faced Liu Yuan and the other Divine Gate martial artists.
• Lin Bai unleashed Nine Intents as One—Zhu Xian, killing Qin Yijun, Ye Jing, Liu Yuan, and more than twenty martial artists with a single sword.
• Lin Bai learned that the Apex Realm pursuer was delayed by the Primordial Behemoth Nine Serpent, then carried Ye Suxin off the ship with Lin Ye and headed for shore.
• The bald old man arrived at the passenger ship, learned of Liu Yuan's death, and left to report it to Liu Yuntian.
• At an inn in the Sun Moon Tribe, Lin Bai examined Ye Suxin's superficial injuries and suddenly furrowed his brows.

Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye traveled from the Sun Moon Tribe to the Seven Stars Mountain Range after learning that a Dragon Tomb had appeared there. They reached the glowing summit, where martial artists from across the Southern Continent were searching for the tomb’s hidden entrance.

• Lin Bai sensed that Ye Suxin’s soul remained weak despite the many soul-healing medicines she had taken, but she reassured him and concealed her concern.
• Lin Bai used a map to decide that they could travel directly from the Sun Moon Tribe to the Seven Stars Mountain Range without detouring to the Dao Gu Tribe.
• After resting for five days, Lin Bai took Ye Suxin and Lin Ye toward the Seven Stars Mountain Range, whose Dragon Tomb had drawn martial artists from across the Southern Continent.
• Lin Bai’s group arrived at the crowded range and followed the seven-colored glow to its highest peak.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin found no obvious tomb entrance on the summit and watched as other martial artists tried various methods to locate it.

Lin Bai studied the Seven Stars Mountain Range while the gathered martial artists remained unable to find the Dragon Tomb’s entrance. After rebuffing Su Shaoyou’s advances toward Ye Suxin, Lin Bai said he had found a clue and left with her, while Su Shaoyou decided to follow them.

• Impatient martial artists discussed their failed searches, including Su Yongfei’s attempt to cut open the ground and other tribes’ methods for locating the Dragon Tomb.
• Lin Bai surveyed the Seven Stars Mountain Range but initially noticed nothing unusual, while Ye Suxin asked what he thought.
• Su Shaoyou introduced himself to Ye Suxin and invited her to visit nearby scenery, then learned she was Lin Bai’s fiancée.
• Lin Bai told Su Shaoyou to get lost, took Ye Suxin’s hand, and said he had found a clue to the Dragon Tomb’s entrance.
• Su Shaoyou stopped his servant from pursuing Lin Bai and ordered the Sword Pavilion Tribe’s group to follow them and see whether Lin Bai could find the entrance.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin searched the Seven Stars Mountain Range for the source of the Dragon Qi and followed Lin Bai’s Dragon Eye Flying Sword to a dark forest. There, Ye Suxin identified the blackened landscape as the aftermath of the Poison God Family’s Hell’s Tour.

• Lin Bai explained that the multicolored light gathered on the range’s highest peak because of the terrain, and reasoned that Dragon Qi had leaked from a damaged Dragon Tomb entrance elsewhere.
• Lin Bai sent his Dragon Eye Flying Sword ahead, and he, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye followed it to a dark forest.
• Lin Bai spotted bodies scattered across the black earth and recognized that the victims had recently come seeking treasure.
• Ye Suxin entered the darkened area and identified it as the aftermath of Hell’s Tour, a poison used by the Poison God Family.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin found Dao Gu Tribe martial artists dead from Hell's Tour, then were blamed and pursued by the tribe. As they searched for the Dragon Tomb entrance, they encountered Yan Ji and Bai Qing.

• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin found corpses poisoned by Hell's Tour and identified the dead as members of the Dao Gu Tribe.
• A group of Dao Gu Tribe martial artists accused Lin Bai and Ye Suxin of killing their people and attacked them.
• Lin Bai denied the accusation, offered the Storage Bags for inspection, then carried Ye Suxin onward when the old man refused to listen.
• The Dao Gu Tribe group chased Lin Bai and Ye Suxin through the Dark Forest as they searched for the Dragon Tomb entrance.
• Lin Bai recognized Yan Ji beneath a giant ancient tree, while Ye Suxin recognized the white-clad Bai Qing.

Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, Yan Ji, and Bai Qing gathered at the old tree that marked the Dragon Tomb’s entrance, where a hidden formation blocked the way in. As the Dao Gu Tribe’s experts moved to seize them, the entrance opened and Bai Qing entered first.

• Lin Bai met Yan Ji and Bai Qing at the old tree, and Ye Suxin recognized Bai Qing but denied that they had met before.
• Yan Ji revealed that the tree was the Dragon Tomb’s entrance and demonstrated that an invisible formation destroyed anything that approached it.
• Bai Qing explained that the Dao Gu Tribe had tried to break the formation, causing Dragon Qi to leak out, and admitted that he had killed Dao Gu Tribe martial artists.
• The Dao Gu Tribe’s experts arrived and accused Lin Bai and the others of killing their people, while Yan Ji accused the tribe of hiding its discovery of the Dragon Tomb.
• A dark gate appeared in the old tree, insects flew into Bai Qing’s Beast-Taming Pouch, and Bai Qing stepped through the gate.

Bai Qing opened the Dragon Tomb, and Lin Bai, Yan Ji, the Dao Gu Tribe, and Su Shaoyou's group entered its vast inner grounds. At the central stele, the Dao Gu Tribe revealed its connection to the tomb, and Gu Hongliang invoked the tribe's ancestors against Bai Qing.

• Bai Qing used his Ten Thousand Spirits Flying Mosquitoes to open the black gate, and Yan Ji, Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, Lin Ye, and the Dao Gu Tribe's martial artists entered the Dragon Tomb.
• Su Shaoyou and his companions arrived, notified his father, and followed the others through the gate.
• Lin Bai and his companions emerged into a vast plaza beneath a green crescent moon and found ancient, crumbling palaces beyond it.
• The groups gathered around a central stone stele bearing the words "Dao Gu Tribe," and Yan Ji questioned the tribe's connection to the Dragon Tomb.
• Gu Hongliang admitted the Dragon Tomb was connected to the Dao Gu Tribe, then cut his palm and called on the tribe's ancestors to kill Bai Qing.

Gu Hongliang activated the Dragon Tomb’s stone stele, raising a vast army of Talisman Soldiers and revealing the Dao Gu Tribe’s plan to reclaim its ancestral land. As the warriors struggled against the regenerating soldiers, reinforcements from the Earth Emperor and Sword Pavilion Tribes arrived.

• Gu Hongliang activated the stone stele with his blood, causing hundreds of thousands of Talisman Soldiers to rise from the square.
• Gu Hongliang declared that the Dao Gu Tribe would restore its lineage and ordered the Talisman Soldiers to kill the other warriors.
• Lin Bai learned from Ye Suxin that the soldiers could only be destroyed when their moving Talisman Seals formed complete patterns, and he shattered one at that moment.
• Yan Ji and Su Shaoyou retreated as the warriors found the Talisman Soldiers too numerous and difficult to defeat.
• Warriors led by the Earth Emperor Tribe and Sword Pavilion Tribe arrived, including Yan Long and Su Yongfei.

Yan Long and Su Yongfei explained that the Dao Gu Tribe had been destroyed and sealed because it used living people to create Talisman Soldiers. As the tribe’s ancestral land reopened, its clan leader Gu Qi arrived, determined to reclaim the lost traditions and angrily rejecting warnings from the other tribes.

• Yan Ji and Su Shaoyou told Yan Long and Su Yongfei what had happened at the ancestral land, and the two leaders arrived with their tribes’ experts.
• Yan Long revealed that the Dao Gu Tribe’s Puppet Art had once made it famous, but its use of living people to create Talisman Soldiers had brought down the Central Sacred Nation and Southern Continent’s warriors.
• Yan Long warned Gu Hongliang that the Dao Gu Tribe would be destroyed if it tried to revive its former glory, while Su Yongfei confirmed the tribe’s crimes from the Sword Pavilion Tribe’s records.
• Gu Qi arrived with thousands of Dao Gu Tribe experts, landed atop the stone stele, and celebrated the reopening of the ancestral land and its traditions.
• Gu Qi lashed out at Su Yongfei after he warned the clan leader not to lead the tribe toward destruction.

Gu Qi fought Yan Long and Su Yongfei to protect the Dao Gu Tribe’s effort to reclaim its Dao lineage, while the other factions raced into the mountains. Lin Bai and Ye Suxin entered the Dragon Tomb, where Liu Yuntian spotted Lin Bai and vowed revenge.

• Gu Qi sent Gu Hongliang, Gu Xiang, and the other Dao Gu Tribe elders into the mountains to retrieve the tribe’s Dao lineage while he stayed behind to fight.
• Yan Long and Su Yongfei joined forces against Gu Qi, who commanded the Talisman Soldiers to attack them.
• Bai Qing, Yan Ji, and Su Shaoyou led their allies toward the mountains, while Su Yongfei secretly told Su Shaoyou to seize the Dao Gu Tribe’s Puppet Art.
• Lin Bai told Ye Suxin he intended to find two old friends inside the Dragon Tomb, and she insisted on going with him; Lin Ye joined them.
• The Snake King and Wolf King followed their Sect Master deeper into the tomb, while Liu Yuntian saw Lin Bai and vowed to skin him and pull out his tendons.

Lin Bai fought through the Dragon Tomb’s Talisman Soldiers as Gu Qi summoned Golden Armor War Gods, but Liu Yuntian attacked him to avenge Liu Yuan and Ye Suxin was struck and disappeared. Yan Ji told Lin Bai that Ye Suxin had headed toward the mountains while someone pursued her, so Lin Bai rushed after her and vowed to destroy the Southern Continent Divine Gate if she was harmed.

• Gu Qi summoned three Golden Armor War Gods to attack Yan Long and Su Yongfei, while another blocked the route into the mountains.
• Liu Yuntian revealed that he was Liu Yuan’s father and attacked Lin Bai, blasting him away despite the Three-Colored Divine Lightning protecting him.
• Ye Suxin shielded Lin Bai from Liu Yuntian’s next palm strike and was knocked into the clay figures, where she vanished from sight.
• Lin Bai searched the plaza for Ye Suxin while Liu Yuntian headed toward the mountains and Lin Ye followed him.
• Yan Ji told Lin Bai that Ye Suxin had gone toward the mountains while someone pursued her, and Lin Bai hurried after her.

Lin Bai searched the Dao Gu Tribe’s ancestral land for Ye Suxin and joined Yan Ji’s group on their way to a towering structure thought to hold the tribe’s Puppet Art. Lin Bai broke through the tower’s formation and entered alone, while the formation sealed itself behind him.

• Ye Suxin told the Snake King and Wolf King that she planned to enter the Dragon Tomb first and search for Bai Qing.
• Lin Bai searched the mountain palaces for Ye Suxin but found neither her nor useful treasures.
• Yan Ji reassured Lin Bai that Ye Suxin was likely safe and invited him to search the ancestral land’s core region with the Earth Emperor Tribe martial artists.
• Lin Bai and Yan Ji’s group reached a nine-story tower that Yan Ji suspected held the Dao Gu Tribe’s Puppet Art.
• Lin Bai used Martial Soul Secret Method—Break the Restriction to tear open the tower’s formation and enter before it healed.

Lin Bai searched the Dao Gu Tower and found that its upper floors held the Dao Gu Tribe’s cultivation insights and a record of its dealings with the Crown Prince of the Central Sacred Nation. The record revealed how a marriage alliance drew the tribe into a succession struggle involving powerful forces across the Barren Ancient Continent.

• Lin Bai climbed through the Dao Gu Tower’s floors, finding old books, ruined pills, and Supreme Martial Spirit Tools.
• Lin Bai collected the Dao Gu Tribe’s cultivation insights from the eighth floor and found a blank-covered book in a treasure box on the ninth.
• Lin Bai read that the Dao Gu Tribe formed a marriage alliance with the Crown Prince of the Central Sacred Nation, whose daughter later became pregnant by the tribe’s young chieftain.
• Lin Bai learned that the tribe was pressured into supporting the Crown Prince in his bid for the throne after the Old Emperor’s approaching death became known.
• Lin Bai read that the Seventh Prince had support from major forces across the continents, including the Buddha Land, the Eastern Continent Academy, the Sword God Family, and the Wealth God Family.

Lin Bai read the Dao Gu Tribe’s ancient record and learned that the Central Sacred Nation had used the succession struggle to destroy the tribe after it backed the Crown Prince. The record pointed to the dragon corpse as the hiding place of the tribe’s puppet arts, leaving Lin Bai searching for the true treasure vault.

• Lin Bai read that the Seventh Prince won the succession struggle with support from powerful forces across the Five Continents, while the Crown Prince and his allies were destroyed.
• Lin Bai learned that the new emperor condemned the Dao Gu Tribe, which sealed its ancestral land and hid its puppet arts inside a dragon corpse to preserve its bloodline.
• The ancient record stated that the Dao Gu Tribe had never refined Talisman Soldiers from living humans and that the accusation had been a pretext for its destruction.
• Lin Bai put the ancient text into his Storage Bag and recalled that the War God Palace had also vanished because of a succession struggle.
• Lin Bai concluded that the place he had found was not the Dao Gu Tribe’s true treasure vault and wondered where its dragon corpse and treasures were hidden.

Lin Bai left the Dao Gu Tribe’s tower, discovered it was only a decoy, and fought off martial artists who tried to seize its supposed treasure. Meanwhile, Ye Suxin followed Su Shaoyou through the mountains in hopes of reaching the real treasure vault before Lin Bai found her.

• Lin Bai left the tower and told Yan Ji that it held no major treasures, then separated from the Earth Emperor Tribe to avoid implicating them.
• More than a dozen martial artists attacked Lin Bai for the treasure, and he killed them with a single sword strike.
• Ye Suxin explained to Snake King that the tower was a decoy and that the Dao Gu Tribe’s true inheritance must be hidden elsewhere.
• Ye Suxin spotted Su Shaoyou leading Sword Pavilion Tribe experts through the mountains and ordered Snake King and Wolf King to follow them.
• Ye Suxin said she needed to hurry because Lin Bai might soon find her.

Lin Bai and Lin Ye reached the gray mist beyond the Dao Gu Tribe’s ancestral-land mountains, which Lin Bai believed marked the Dragon Tomb. After encountering a deadly steel-spider puppet and realizing the mist trapped him in a formation, Lin Bai used a Martial Soul secret technique to try to break through.

• Lin Bai met Lin Ye in the mountains, told him he had not found Ye Suxin, and led him toward the region beyond the peaks.
• Lin Bai identified the gray, misty world as the likely Dragon Tomb after martial artists entered it and screamed in danger.
• Lin Bai left Lin Ye behind and entered the mist, where he found scattered corpses and was attacked by a steel-spider puppet.
• Lin Bai clashed with the powerful puppet, then fled rather than continue fighting it.
• After flying for half an hour and realizing he was circling inside a formation, Lin Bai invoked the Martial Soul Secret Method—Break the Restriction.