Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai reached Dragon Mountain and searched its many branching paths for a way forward, fighting the iron puppets hidden in caves along the way. He discovered an inscription outlining a sequence of trials, while an unidentified voice outside the cave complained about being lost on the mountain.

• Lin Bai cut through the mist, escaped the pursuing steel spiders, and reached Dragon Mountain, where he found a warning written in dragon blood.
• Ye Suxin led Snake King and Wolf King across the mountain and entered the Dragon Tomb before Lin Bai arrived.
• Lin Bai chose a branching path and defeated the iron puppet concealed in an Iron Box at the cave’s end, then repeated the process on several other paths.
• Lin Bai opened an Iron Box that revealed the words “The sea of suffering has no shore; turn back, and the shore is there!” followed by an inscription describing Dragon Mountain’s trials.
• A voice outside Lin Bai’s cave complained that it had walked more than a dozen paths and was still going in circles.

Lin Bai found a message inside an Iron Box in a Dragon Mountain cave, then encountered Su Shaoyou and the Sword Pavilion Tribe. When Su Shaoyou demanded the treasure and his elders attacked, Lin Bai used the Invincible Sword Art to match their cultivation and prepared to fight them.

• Lin Bai memorized the writing inside an Iron Box and pulled it into his grasp when Su Shaoyou's group approached the cave.
• Su Shaoyou demanded the Iron Box, and Lin Bai handed him the empty box before trying to leave.
• Su Shaoyou accused Lin Bai of hiding the treasure in his Storage Bag and ordered two Apex Realm elders to seize it.
• Lin Bai used the Invincible Sword Art's first and second layers to raise his cultivation to the Second Level of the Apex Realm and send both elders flying.
• The elders refused to let Lin Bai pass, and Lin Bai threatened to kill them.

Lin Bai defeated the Sword Pavilion Tribe’s elders and worked out how Dragon Mountain’s ancient roads led to the Dragon Tomb. He reached a choice between the Path of Life and the Path of Death, but had not yet chosen.

• Lin Bai wounded the two Sword Pavilion Tribe elders, but they blocked him long enough for Su Shaoyou and his companions to escape.
• Lin Bai killed the two elders with the Dragon Slayer Returning Sea Art, then abandoned his search for Su Shaoyou when he found the ancient roads empty.
• Lin Bai realized that Dragon Mountain’s network of ancient roads formed the shape of a divine tree and that choosing east at each fork led to one of four routes into the Dragon Tomb.
• Lin Bai followed the eastern route into a cave and descended through a dark passage beneath Dragon Mountain.
• Lin Bai found two passages labeled Path of Life and Path of Death and paused before choosing one.

Lin Bai chose the Death tunnel, believing it would lead to the dragon corpse and the Dao Gu Tribe’s trials. Meanwhile, Ye Suxin, Bai Qing, and Snake King waited by the Bronze Guardian and discussed Lin Bai’s arrival and the hidden strength of the continent’s super forces.

• Lin Bai rejected the Survival tunnel and entered the Death tunnel, reasoning that it likely led to the dragon corpse and the Dao Gu Tribe’s dangers.
• Lin Bai killed a small snake in the passage and continued downward.
• Bai Qing questioned Ye Suxin’s plan and doubted that Lin Bai could destroy the Poison God Family.
• Snake King sensed a sword cultivator approaching, and Ye Suxin suspected it was Lin Bai.
• Ye Suxin explained that super forces concealed powerful experts across four tiers, from Authority Realm Experts to Ancestors.

Lin Bai reunited with Ye Suxin in the cavern beneath Dragon Mountain, where a Bronze Guardian blocked the passage that the Dao Gu Tribe had taken toward the dragon corpse. When Lin Bai approached it, the guardian attacked and revealed strength at the Quasi-Dao Realm, leaving him injured and the way forward guarded by a formidable foe.

• Ye Suxin told Lin Bai she had followed Bai Qing and the others into the cavern after fleeing an attack by an Apex Realm expert.
• Ye Suxin explained that the Dao Gu Tribe's martial artists had passed the Bronze Guardian and entered a concealed passage where the dragon corpse might lie.
• Lin Bai approached the Bronze Guardian despite Ye Suxin and Bai Qing's warning that it awakened when anyone drew near.
• When Lin Bai took another step forward, the Bronze Guardian awakened, and the murals around the cavern shone and seemed to come alive.
• The Bronze Guardian struck Lin Bai with its Vajra Sword, broke through his Three-Colored Divine Lightning shield, and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Lin Bai recognized the guardian's power as Quasi-Dao Realm and realized the Dao Gu Tribe had stationed it to guard the dragon corpse.

Lin Bai, Bai Qing, and Ye Suxin waited before a powerful Bronze Guardian, hoping other warriors would arrive and help them reach the passage beyond it. When the Sword Pavilion Tribe arrived, Su Yonghe refused to cooperate and ordered Su Sha to kill Lin Bai, leaving the chapter with Lin Bai and Su Sha clashing.

• Lin Bai, Bai Qing, and Ye Suxin decided to wait for reinforcements while Lin Bai healed his injuries.
• More than thirty Sword Pavilion Tribe warriors entered the cave, including Su Yonghe and Su Shaoyou, who recognized Lin Bai as the man who had killed two elders.
• Su Yonghe refused to join forces against the Bronze Guardian and declared that Lin Bai would pay for killing the elders.
• Su Yonghe ordered Su Sha to kill Lin Bai and instructed the warriors to spare Ye Suxin for Su Shaoyou.
• Su Sha attacked with a Supreme Martial Spirit Tool, and Lin Bai fought back with his wooden sword.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin used the Bronze Guardian to distract the Sword Pavilion Tribe and escaped through the passage to the place where the dragon corpse was buried. Lin Bai recognized that the next stage of the ancient paths was to command the dragon to return.

• Lin Bai drew Su Sha toward the Bronze Guardian, which killed Su Sha with its Vajra Mace.
• Ye Suxin and Bai Qing slipped past the guardian while Su Yonghe and the Sword Pavilion Tribe elders fought it; the guardian killed or injured many of them.
• Lin Bai taunted Su Yonghe and entered the passage with Ye Suxin as Bai Qing went ahead.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin reached the final place where the dragon corpse was buried.
• Lin Bai recited the stages of the ancient paths and identified commanding the dragon to return as the next step.

Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Bai Qing entered the final chamber and discovered a sea of glowing flowers, a Bronze Coffin, and a suspended dragon corpse. When Su Shaoyou and the Su family warriors arrived, deadly Soul-Burning Fireflies emerged from the flowers, leaving the survivors trapped among them.

• Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Bai Qing slipped past the Bronze Guardian and entered the underground chamber.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin found a vast sea of luminous flowers, a nine-story Jade Platform with a Bronze Coffin, and a suspended dragon corpse.
• Su Shaoyou, Su Qian, and Su Chang pursued Lin Bai, and Su Qian's attack knocked him into the sea of flowers.
• Soul-Burning Fireflies rose from the flowers, and one burrowed into Su Chang and burned him to ash.
• Ye Suxin explained that the fireflies turned blood or spiritual power into flames, while Lin Bai used his flying swords and Three-Colored Divine Lightning to protect himself and Ye Suxin.

Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, Bai Qing, and the Sword Pavilion Tribe reached the Bronze Coffin at the heart of the tomb after Bai Qing collected the Soul-Burning Fireflies. The coffin bore Primordial Era patterns, and Lin Bai recognized them from a fragmented memory as the group prepared to open it.

• Bai Qing used a secret technique to collect all the Soul-Burning Fireflies while Lin Bai warned Ye Suxin to protect herself and vowed to avenge her if anyone took her away.
• Su Qian threatened Lin Bai, but Su Shaoyou persuaded him to postpone their fight until the Sword Pavilion Tribe had secured the tomb’s treasures.
• Su Qian led the group toward the Bronze Coffin on the Jade Platform, and Lin Bai and Ye Suxin followed after noting the coffin’s position at the heart of the tomb.
• Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, Bai Qing, Su Qian, and Su Shaoyou examined the coffin’s ancient patterns, and Bai Qing and Ye Suxin identified them as possibly dating to before the Primordial Era.
• Lin Bai recalled seeing the same patterns on a coffin in fragmented memories absorbed by his Devouring Sword Soul, while Su Shaoyou proposed that they open the coffin and divide its treasures by their own abilities.

Lin Bai recognized the Bronze Coffin from a vision in the Dragon Pool and warned Ye Suxin that opening it could bring a deadly calamity. Su Qian forced the coffin open anyway, and its nine-colored light annihilated him as an ethereal voice began to chant.

• Bai Qing left the group, saying she had come for the Soul-Burning Fireflies and wanted no part in opening the Bronze Coffin.
• Lin Bai recalled seeing the same coffin in a Dragon Pool vision, where wounded warriors opened it, looked terrified, and fled, so he pulled Ye Suxin away and warned her not to open it.
• Su Shaoshao and Su Qian tried to open the Bronze Coffin, and Su Qian used a secret art to force a crack into it despite warnings from voices above the sea of flowers.
• Nine-colored light burst from the coffin and turned Su Qian into ash, while Lin Bai and Ye Suxin watched in horror.
• An ethereal voice drifted through the sea of flowers, chanting about chaos, the void, and three thousand Gods and Devils.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin witnessed a sealed Bronze Coffin unleash a terrifying light and heard a mysterious voice before the Dao Gu Tribe and Old Turtle appeared. Lin Bai reunited with Bao'er, who complained that Old Turtle had kept her hungry, while Old Turtle defended itself by recounting the trouble caused by her enormous appetite.

• A Nine-Colored Divine Light annihilated Su Qian as a mysterious voice spoke from the Bronze Coffin, then Old Turtle landed on it and shut the lid.
• Ye Suxin guessed that the coffin held the primordial ancestors who opened the Barren Ancient Continent, and Lin Bai saw that the Dao Gu Tribe had reappeared around it.
• Lin Bai spotted Old Turtle and found Bao'er perched between the horns of a dragon corpse.
• Bao'er flew into Lin Bai's arms and cried that Old Turtle would not let her eat, prompting Lin Bai to angrily confront it.
• Old Turtle denied mistreating Bao'er and described her vast consumption of spiritual pills and how he stole the Dustless Divine Sense Flower from the Sword Pavilion Tribe, whose experts left sword marks on his shell.

Lin Bai reunited with Bao'er and learned that her enormous appetite had led her to eat the Sword Pavilion Tribe's Dustless Divine Sense Flower. He then faced Gu Hongliang's demand for the Dao Gu Tribe's missing treasures, which Old Turtle admitted he had taken, while Su Shaoyou warned Lin Bai not to return them.

• Old Turtle revealed that Bao'er had eaten the Sword Pavilion Tribe's Dustless Divine Sense Flower, and Bao'er explained that she had been hungry and thought it was pretty.
• Old Turtle complained that Bao'er consumed vast quantities of spirit pills, while Lin Bai took her back into his care and gave her the pills he had left.
• Bao'er shared a steamed bun from Gu Xiang with Lin Bai, who thanked Gu Xiang and promised to repay her kindness.
• Gu Hongliang demanded the Dao Gu Tribe's missing treasures and inherited secret arts, and Old Turtle admitted he had taken them for Bao'er to use as toys.
• Su Shaoyou warned Lin Bai that returning the Dao Gu Tribe's inheritance would make him an enemy of Southern Continent's martial artists and the Central Sacred Nation.

Lin Bai recovered the Dao Gu Tribe’s inheritance secret art from Old Turtle and learned that it contained extensive puppet-making techniques. Gu Xiang pleaded for its return while Su Shaoyou threatened him, as powerful figures raced toward the group.

• Su Shaoyou warned Lin Bai not to make an enemy of the Central Sacred Nation, but Lin Bai dismissed his threat and asked Old Turtle about the stolen treasure.
• Gu Xiang pleaded with Lin Bai to return the Dao Gu Tribe’s inheritance secret art, while Su Shaoyou secretly sent a message asking Su Yongfei for help.
• Su Yongfei left his fight with Gu Qi to rush into the Dragon Tomb, and Yan Long followed him while accusing the Sword Pavilion Tribe of seeking control over Southern Continent’s treasures and inheritances.
• Gu Qi realized the others had found the inheritance secret art and flew toward the depths of the Dragon Tomb with his three clay figures.
• Old Turtle spat out the ancient scroll, and Lin Bai opened it to find puppet-refining instructions, including methods for making Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise puppet beasts.
• Lin Bai put away the scroll, and Gu Xiang urgently begged him to return it as Su Shaoyou warned that doing so would make him an enemy of Southern Continent’s warriors and the Central Sacred Nation.

Lin Bai returned Puppet Art and a book revealing the truth behind the Dao Gu Tribe’s ruined foundations to Gu Qi, despite demands from the Sword Pavilion Tribe and the Earth Emperor Tribe. As the tribes faced off, Gu Qi refused to surrender his recovered inheritance and vowed that the Dao Gu Tribe would fight.

• Su Shaoyou demanded that Lin Bai hand Puppet Art to the Sword Pavilion Tribe, while Gu Hongliang warned that doing so would endanger the southern lands.
• Su Yongfei, Gu Qi, Yan Long, and other tribal experts arrived and each pressed Lin Bai to give their tribe the inheritance scroll.
• Old Turtle promised to protect Lin Bai, who questioned Yan Long and Su Yongfei about how their tribes would respond if he refused them.
• Lin Bai gave Gu Qi the inheritance scroll and a book explaining that the Central Sacred Nation had used the Dao Gu Tribe as a pawn.
• After reading the book, Gu Qi thanked Lin Bai and reclaimed the inheritance, while Su Yongfei threatened them and Yan Long urged Gu Qi to destroy Puppet Art.
• Gu Qi refused to surrender or destroy the Dao Gu Tribe’s inheritance and declared that his tribe would see the conflict through to the end.

Su Tingzong arrived at the Dragon Tomb and challenged Lin Bai, while the Sword Pavilion Tribe and Earth Emperor Tribe attacked the Dao Gu Tribe. The chapter left Lin Bai and Su Tingzong facing off as the larger battle raged nearby.

• Gu Qi refused to back down, and Su Yongfei ordered the Sword Pavilion Tribe to attack the Dao Gu Tribe.
• Yan Long said the Earth Emperor Tribe would only target those carrying the inheritance secret art and would not fight Lin Bai.
• Su Tingzong and Su Wusi arrived, and Su Tingzong volunteered to face Lin Bai while the elders attacked the Dao Gu Tribe.
• Lin Bai set Bao'er down with Ye Suxin and drew his wooden sword to meet Su Tingzong.
• Su Yongfei, Yan Long, Su Yonghe, and Yan Ji led their forces into battle against the Dao Gu Tribe as Lin Bai and Su Tingzong prepared to fight.

Lin Bai fought Su Tingzong, who wielded the Rakshasa Sword, and easily countered his signature techniques. After breaking through from the Death Reversal Realm to the Apex Realm, Su Tingzong unleashed his newfound power and vowed to defeat Lin Bai.

• Su Tingzong revealed the Rakshasa Sword, another King Grade Spirit Artifact from True Monarch of Myriad Treasures, and challenged Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai blocked Su Tingzong’s Abyssal Phantom Sword and destroyed his Nine Divine Dragon Slashes with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation.
• Su Tingzong struggled to accept that Lin Bai had surpassed him and broke through from the Death Reversal Realm to the Apex Realm.
• Su Tingzong struck Lin Bai with a casual strand of Sword Qi, knocking him back three steps.
• Su Tingzong explained that losing to Lin Bai had helped him overcome his pride and break through, then vowed to reclaim what he had lost by defeating Lin Bai.

Lin Bai defeated Su Tingzong again, despite Su Tingzong’s breakthrough to the Apex Realm. Su Tingzong lay defeated in the ruins, unable to accept that he had lost.

• Su Tingzong attacked Lin Bai with the Rakshasa Sword, and they fought fiercely while Ye Suxin assured Old Turtle that Lin Bai would win.
• Bao'er asked Ye Suxin about her mother and what “Auntie” meant, but Old Turtle interrupted her questions.
• Lin Bai told Su Tingzong he had had enough fun and used Dragon Slayer Returning Sea Art to strike him in the chest.
• Su Tingzong knocked away Lin Bai’s flying swords, only to be hit by Lin Bai’s Nine Intents as One: Exterminate the Immortals.
• Lin Bai left Su Tingzong grievously wounded and unable to stand, and Su Tingzong insisted that he could not lose.

Lin Bai defeated Su Tingzong and intervened when Yan Ji attacked Gu Xiang, insisting he owed her for giving his daughter two steamed buns. Yan Ji agreed to spare Gu Xiang, but Su Yongfei rejected the truce and charged at Lin Bai and Gu Xiang.

• Lin Bai knocked Su Tingzong down, and Su Wusi rescued him and urged him to keep pursuing his ambition to defeat Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai saw Yan Ji defeat Gu Xiang and stopped him from striking the final blow.
• Lin Bai said he would protect Gu Xiang because she had once given his daughter two steamed buns.
• Yan Ji agreed to spare Gu Xiang, but Su Yongfei declared that the Sword Pavilion Tribe would kill Lin Bai and Gu Xiang.
• Su Yongfei broke away from the battle with Gu Qi and charged at Lin Bai and Gu Xiang.

Gu Qi took Su Yongfei’s sword to protect Lin Bai, who chose to stand with the Dao Gu Tribe rather than leave. As the Sword Pavilion Tribe and Earth Emperor Tribe refused to let the tribe reclaim its legacy, Deng Yuchun and more than thirty Southern Continent Divine Gate experts arrived to claim its inherited secret art.

• Gu Qi blocked Su Yongfei’s sword, was gravely wounded, and urged Lin Bai to leave so the Dao Gu Tribe could face the conflict alone.
• Lin Bai refused to abandon Gu Qi and argued that the Dao Gu Tribe had suffered punishment for tens of thousands of years and that its enemies feared its return to power.
• Yan Long explained that an old imperial edict from the Central Sacred Nation still condemned the Dao Gu Tribe, while the Earth Emperor Tribe and Sword Pavilion Tribe demanded its inherited secret art or destruction.
• Gu Qi vowed that the Dao Gu Tribe would one day use Talisman Soldiers to strike at the Central Sacred Nation.
• Deng Yuchun led more than thirty Southern Continent Divine Gate Apex Realm experts, including five peak Apex Realm cultivators, out of the passageway and announced that his group wanted the Dao Gu Tribe’s inherited secret art.

Deng Yuchun led the Southern Continent Divine Gate into the sea of flowers and confronted the Sword Pavilion Tribe, revealing that his Feathered Skyreach Gauntlet was an Emperor Artifact. He demanded that Gu Qi surrender the Dao Gu Tribe’s puppet secret art, and the chapter ended as the Golden Ring Matriarch prepared to settle her grudge with the Sword Pavilion Tribe.

• Deng Yuchun arrived with more than thirty Apex Realm martial artists, including Liu Yuntian, and accused the Sword Pavilion Tribe of coveting treasures and secret arts across the Southern Continent.
• Su Yongfei attacked Deng Yuchun, but Deng repelled him with a palm, revealing the Emperor Artifact Feathered Skyreach Gauntlet.
• Deng asked Gu Qi to entrust the Dao Gu Tribe’s puppet secret art to the Southern Continent Divine Gate, but Gu Qi refused and vowed to destroy it rather than let it fall into hostile hands.
• Deng threatened to kill everyone and take the secret art, then sent Su Yongfei flying again when he attacked.
• The Golden Ring Matriarch blocked Su Yonghe with her Vajra Divine Rings and revealed her blood feud with the Sword Pavilion Tribe.