Chapter Summaries

Deng Yuchun used an Emperor Artifact to fight four opponents while the Southern Continent Divine Gate attacked the Dao Gu Tribe. When Liu Yuntian nearly killed Lin Bai, Old Turtle gave him the Celestial God Puppet, and Lin Bai unleashed its power in a sword strike that left Liu Yuntian terrified.

• Deng Yuchun challenged Su Yonghe, Su Yongfei, Su Wusi, and Yan Long together, using his Emperor Artifact to hold them off.
• Golden Ring Matriarch and the others attacked Gu Qi and the Dao Gu Tribe, while Liu Yuntian struck Lin Bai and blasted him to the ground.
• Lin Bai called on Old Turtle, who gave him a bronze token bearing the words "Celestial God Puppet."
• Lin Bai infused the token with spiritual power, and it transformed into armor that absorbed his strength and let him retreat five thousand meters in an instant.
• Gu Qi explained that the puppet could concentrate Lin Bai's spiritual power into a devastating strike, so Lin Bai gathered his power onto his blade and slashed at Liu Yuntian, who turned pale with terror.

Lin Bai used the Celestial God Puppet Armor to fight Liu Yuntian, Golden Ring Matriarch, and the bald old man, but Deng Yuchun overpowered him with an Emperor Artifact. As Deng Yuchun demanded Lin Bai’s treasures, Old Turtle intervened and prepared to face him.

• Lin Bai’s puppet armor amplified his attack, letting him drive Liu Yuntian back and fight off Golden Ring Matriarch and the bald old man.
• Deng Yuchun defeated Su Yongfei, Su Yonghe, Su Wusi, and Yan Long with the Feathered Skyreach Gauntlet, then turned on Lin Bai after learning he had the Cosmic Beast Taming Art and Dragon Slaying Skill.
• Lin Bai clashed with Deng Yuchun, but Deng Yuchun’s Emperor Artifact sent him flying and injured him.
• Gu Qi sent three golden-armored Talisman Soldiers at Deng Yuchun, who destroyed them with a single blow.
• Old Turtle flew down from Bao’er’s head, told Lin Bai to leave Deng Yuchun to him, and faced Deng Yuchun as the latter struck at him.

Old Turtle revealed the Dao Gu Tribe’s puppet foundations beneath the sea of flowers and summoned an army of powerful puppets. Deng Yuchun was surrounded and left facing the Bronze Guardian and countless puppets.

• Old Turtle called forth the golden- and silver-armored automatons from beneath the sea of flowers, and they attacked Deng Yuchun with Sword Pavilion Tribe techniques.
• Gu Qi recognized the automatons as the Dao Gu Tribe’s puppets and explained that the tribe had refined puppets to wield techniques its members could not use themselves.
• Old Turtle summoned the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and countless other puppets from underground.
• Old Turtle called the Quasi-Dao Realm Bronze Guardian to the sea of flowers and stood atop its head as Deng Yuchun found himself surrounded.
• Deng Yuchun questioned how Old Turtle could control so many Dao Gu Tribe puppets at once.

Old Turtle explained how the Dao Gu Tribe’s Human School Puppet Art let him control every puppet and revealed that the Dragon Tomb itself was a giant puppet capable of killing Dao Realm experts. He then set the buried puppets on everyone present, and the Bronze Guardian struck Deng Yuchun down.

• Gu Qi and Deng Yuchun questioned how Old Turtle had summoned all the Dao Gu Tribe’s hidden puppets, and Old Turtle explained that their Human School puppets shared a Puppet Heart.
• Old Turtle revealed that the Dragon Tomb was a gigantic puppet with a Bronze Coffin as its heart and enough power to kill Dao Realm experts, though it required too many resources to activate.
• Old Turtle warned that the puppets alone could annihilate the gathered martial artists and ordered them to attack everyone present.
• The puppets sprang into motion and attacked the martial artists from the Earth Emperor Tribe, the Sword Pavilion Tribe, and the Southern Continent Divine Gate.
• The Bronze Guardian struck Deng Yuchun with the Vajra Sword, sending him flying a thousand meters and leaving him bleeding and terrified.

Old Turtle’s puppets drove the Southern Continent Divine Gate, Earth Emperor Tribe, and Sword Pavilion Tribe from the Dragon Tomb, leaving the Dao Gu Tribe in control. Gu Qi left to clear treasure seekers from the ancestral land with the Bronze Guardian, while Ye Suxin, Lin Bai, Old Turtle, and Bao'er remained behind.

• Old Turtle sent his puppets to attack the gathered martial artists, killing and injuring many as Deng Yuchun fought the Quasi-Dao Realm Bronze Guardian.
• Deng Yuchun ordered the Southern Continent Divine Gate to withdraw, and Liu Yuntian threatened Lin Bai before leaving.
• Yan Long and the Earth Emperor Tribe departed after warning Gu Qi that the Dao Gu Tribe’s restored lineage would draw attacks; Su Wusi and Su Yongfei then led the Sword Pavilion Tribe away.
• Old Turtle told Gu Qi to drive out or kill the remaining treasure seekers in the ancestral land before news of the Dao Gu Tribe’s return spread.
• Old Turtle gave Gu Qi the token controlling the Bronze Guardian, and Gu Qi led the Dao Gu Tribe out of the Dragon Tomb.

Old Turtle revealed that he and Bao'er came from the Spirit Realm, explaining how his master's death, the Dragon Tomb, and his sealing by Primal Fiend were connected. Bao'er remained in the tomb to undergo the dragon race's inheritance rituals, which could take months or years, while Lin Bai entrusted her to Old Turtle.

• Lin Bai deduced that Old Turtle and the divine dragon had come from the Spirit Realm and that the Dao Gu Tribe had built the Dragon Tomb in exchange for learning the Puppet Art.
• Old Turtle revealed that Bao'er was his master's daughter, that his master had brought her to the Barren Ancient Continent to escape the Giant God Race, and that he had taught the Puppet Art to the Dao Gu Tribe in return for the tomb.
• Old Turtle explained that Primal Fiend had ambushed and sealed him after he went to the Eastern Continent to search for Bao'er.
• Old Turtle said Bao'er had to remain in the Dragon Tomb for inheritance rituals that would take two or three months at the earliest and two or three years at the longest.
• Lin Bai said he could entrust Bao'er to Old Turtle, who recognized that Lin Bai had come to the Dragon Tomb because he was worried about her.

Lin Bai received a Dragon Blood Pearl from Old Turtle and used it to break through to the Apex Realm in the flower-sea ruins. He emerged as one of the Barren Ancient Continent’s top powerhouses.

• Old Turtle explained that he had trapped the Bronze Coffin in a puppet, but did not know what lay inside it.
• Old Turtle gave Lin Bai a Dragon Blood Pearl made from his master's blood and said it could help Lin Bai reach the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai absorbed the pearl’s power and began cultivating beneath the Jade Platform while Ye Suxin watched and Bao'er ate pills.
• After seven days, Lin Bai's power surged, and he spent more than three hours breaking through the Apex Realm bottleneck.
• Lin Bai opened his eyes with Apex Realm cultivation and entered the ranks of the Barren Ancient Continent's top powerhouses.

Lin Bai reached the Apex Realm and stayed in the Dragon Tomb with Bao'er while the Dao Gu Tribe restored order and reclaimed its Dao inheritance. The Southern Continent Ancestral Temple declared that a great calamity was approaching and each tribe must fend for itself, leaving the tribes divided over whether to attack the Dao Gu Tribe.

• Lin Bai reached the Apex Realm, learned to teleport, and heeded Old Turtle's warning that the Barren Ancient Continent held hidden powers, including a Dao Realm expert.
• Lin Bai stayed in the Dragon Tomb for half a month, caring for Bao'er and restoring the sea of flowers while the Dao Gu Tribe drove intruders from the Seven Stars Mountain Range.
• After news spread that the Dao Gu Tribe had reclaimed its Dao inheritance, the patriarchs of Southern Continent's great tribes gathered outside the Southern Continent Ancestral Temple to learn its position.
• Shangguan Cun announced that the Eternal Tablet read, “The great calamity approaches; each must fend for himself,” then sealed the Ancestral Temple.
• The Earth Emperor Tribe's patriarch argued against attacking the Dao Gu Tribe, while the Sword Pavilion Tribe's patriarch vowed to summon Southern Continent's martial artists to discuss its annihilation.
• Yan Long asked whether the Earth Emperor Tribe would act, and its patriarch said he wanted to understand the Eternal Tablet's warning more than pursue the Dao Gu Tribe.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin left the Dragon Tomb and traveled toward Fire Lotus Mountain, while the Poison God Family pursued Ye Suxin for killing Xia Qiu. The chapter ended with nine Poison God Family elders confronting them and demanding Ye Suxin be taken to the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave.

• After Lin Bai and Ye Suxin left the Dragon Tomb, Gu Qi asked Old Turtle about his connection to the Dao Gu Tribe, and Old Turtle revealed that he had taught the tribe its Puppet Art.
• Lin Bai found Lin Ye and brought him aboard the spirit boat, then told Ye Suxin they were heading to Fire Lotus Mountain before he returned to the Eastern Continent or went to the Central Sacred Nation.
• Xiao Yu led nine Poison God Family elders toward Fire Lotus Mountain after learning Ye Suxin had left the Dragon Tomb, confident their poison could help them capture her.
• Seven days into the journey, Ye Suxin spotted the approaching elders, and Lin Bai joined her on deck as the nine men blocked their spirit boat.
• Xiao Yu accused Ye Suxin of killing Xia Qiu and threatened to take her to the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, while Lin Bai stepped in to protect his fiancée.

The Poison God Family confronted Lin Bai and demanded that Ye Suxin return with them over Xia Qiu’s death, which she denied knowing about. Lin Bai fought to protect her, but Rock Heart Worms struck him with explosive red liquid, leaving him badly battered as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yu and the Poison God Family elders demanded that Ye Suxin come with them to answer for Xia Qiu’s death, while Lin Bai refused to hand her over without evidence.
• Ye Suxin told Lin Bai she had not killed Xia Qiu and had not even known he was dead.
• Xiao Yu ordered the elders to seize Ye Suxin and kill anyone who resisted, so Lin Bai told Lin Ye to protect her and drove the attackers back with his sword.
• A Poison God Family elder attacked Lin Bai with Rock Heart Worms that sprayed explosive red liquid, blasting him and leaving him in a sorry state.

Lin Bai killed Tang Ba, a third-level Apex Realm elder of the Poison God Family, after surviving the Rock Heart Worms. He then defended Ye Suxin and fought the family’s eight elders, killing another elder as the battle continued.

• Lin Bai destroyed the Rock Heart Worms with Three-Colored Divine Lightning and killed Tang Ba with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai split the ruined spirit boat and rescued Ye Suxin from Wu Sun’s attack, while Lin Ye lay critically injured.
• The Poison God Family’s eight elders targeted Lin Bai, but he refused Ye Suxin’s offer to surrender herself and left two flying swords to protect her.
• Lin Bai charged the eight elders, used the Invincible Sword Art to raise his cultivation to the second level of the Apex Realm, and cleaved one elder in half.

Lin Bai fought the Poison God Family’s elders, using his Three-Colored Divine Lightning and swordsmanship to destroy their poisonous insects and kill two elders while injuring Xiao Yu. With their life-bound poisons failing to break through, Xiao Yu ordered the elders to unleash Poison Burial, and the chapter ended as the insects around Lin Bai exploded and a deadly aura closed in.

• Lin Bai killed Zhou Xiao as the Poison God Family’s elders attacked him with their life-bound poisons.
• Lin Bai used Three-Colored Divine Lightning and his sword to destroy swarms of poisonous insects while charging at the elders.
• Lin Bai killed two more elders and struck Xiao Yu, forcing Wu Sun to warn that the fight was costing them too many lives.
• Xiao Yu persuaded Wu Sun and the remaining elders to sacrifice their life-bound poisons with their trump card, Poison Burial.
• The elders and the poisonous insects surrounding Lin Bai exploded, and Lin Bai sensed a dense aura of death.

Lin Bai used the Five Thunder Righteous Method to shatter the Poison God Family's deadly poisonous mist and kill three elders, but Xiao Yu knocked Ye Suxin unconscious and carried her away. Lin Bai was left trapped by the mist as he watched them escape.

• The six Poison God Family elders combined their venomous insects and poisons into a deadly mist that trapped Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai summoned three kinds of divine lightning and used the Five Thunder Righteous Method to split the poison mist and kill three elders, leaving another gravely wounded.
• Wu Sun and Xiao Yu decided to hold Lin Bai back and take Ye Suxin away.
• Wu Sun formed the remaining poisonous mist into a dragon and sent it at Lin Bai, who struck it with lightning.
• Xiao Yu hit Ye Suxin in the neck, knocked her unconscious, and carried her away as Lin Bai roared in fury.

Lin Bai learned that Xiao Yu had taken Ye Suxin to Jiangshan City, killed Wu Sun, and set off to pursue them. In Jiangshan City, Ye Suxin woke and warned Xiao Yu that Lin Bai would kill him if he did not take her to the Poison God Family quickly.

• Lin Bai broke through Wu Sun's poisonous fog, caught him as he tried to flee, and forced him to reveal that Xiao Yu had taken Ye Suxin to Jiangshan City.
• Lin Bai killed Wu Sun, checked a map, and flew toward Jiangshan City, despite it lying opposite Fire Lotus Mountain.
• Xiao Yu used a Spirit Travel Worm to reach Jiangshan City with Ye Suxin, then settled at an inn and began recovering from his injuries.
• When Xiao Yu tried to contact Wu Sun late that night, Ye Suxin revealed that she had awakened and said Wu Sun was likely dead.
• Ye Suxin warned Xiao Yu to take her to the Poison God Family quickly before Lin Bai arrived and killed him.

In Jiangshan City, Ye Suxin told Xiao Yu she intended to destroy the Poison God Family, while warning that Lin Bai was coming and Wu Sun was likely dead. Lin Bai reached the city before dawn, uncovered a watcher’s location for the person he sought, and headed toward West City Rouge Alley.

• Ye Suxin urged Xiao Yu to take her to the Poison God Family, revealed that she had killed Xia Qiu to draw Lin Bai into action, and declared her plan to destroy the family.
• Xiao Yu failed to reach Wu Sun, then contacted the Ninth Elder and asked him to come to Jiangshan City; Ye Suxin warned the elder would arrive too late.
• Lin Bai flew to Jiangshan City with his Sword Control Art and entered through the southern gate before dawn.
• A martial artist reported Lin Bai’s arrival to his Alliance Leader, who said the Poison God Family specifically wanted Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai caught the martial artist watching him, crushed his shoulder until he revealed West City Rouge Alley, and left him alive as he headed there.

Lin Bai entered Rouge Alley to reach Ye Suxin, who was being held there with Xiao Yu, and discovered that the Great River Sect and the Myriad Mountains Alliance had been enlisted to stop him. After killing a Great River Sect woman who attacked him, Lin Bai continued toward the tower as the sect’s fighters confronted him.

• Xiao Yu told Ye Suxin that the Great River Sect and the Myriad Mountains Alliance controlled Rouge Alley and questioned whether Lin Bai could rescue her.
• Lin Bai arrived in Rouge Alley and spotted Ye Suxin and Xiao Yu on the tower at its far end.
• A Great River Sect woman offered to mediate and urged Lin Bai to stop, but Lin Bai ignored her and continued forward.
• The woman attacked Lin Bai from behind with a short sword, and Lin Bai countered by killing her with his wooden sword.
• A burly Great River Sect man confronted Lin Bai over the killing, and Lin Bai challenged him to fight or get out of his way.

Lin Bai refused to back down in Rouge Alley and killed the Great River Sect and Myriad Mountains Alliance fighters who confronted him. The two forces sent thousands of martial artists to attack, and Lin Bai plunged into their ranks as dawn approached.

• Lin Bai killed a burly Great River Sect man with his wooden sword and continued down the street.
• A Myriad Mountains Alliance man tried to warn Lin Bai about disrupting business, but Lin Bai killed him and challenged both forces to attack.
• The Great River Sect and Myriad Mountains Alliance leaders ordered their fighters to kill Lin Bai, sending thousands of martial artists into the street.
• Lin Bai rejected an offer to turn back and have his expenses covered, then met the charging fighters with flying swords, Three-Colored Divine Lightning, and his wooden sword.
• Lin Bai’s flying swords and sword strikes killed dozens of martial artists as he fought his way into the crowd.

Lin Bai fought his way through the Great River Sect and Myriad Mountains Alliance martial artists in Rouge Alley, killing Elder Qin Wen and unleashing the Five Thunder Righteous Method against thousands of attackers. After hundreds died and the survivors were gravely wounded, he walked forward as the crowd fled from him.

• Lin Bai cut down the attackers around him with his wooden sword and flying swords.
• Elder Qin Wen attacked Lin Bai with a massive handprint, but Lin Bai destroyed it and struck him with a sword ray.
• Lin Bai’s flying swords pierced and killed Elder Qin Wen, causing the surrounding martial artists to retreat.
• An Apex Realm powerhouse of the Myriad Mountains Alliance rallied the crowd, and thousands charged Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai summoned three whirlpools of divine lightning and used the Five Thunder Righteous Method, killing hundreds and severely injuring the survivors.
• The remaining martial artists abandoned their attack as Lin Bai walked over the corpses through Rouge Alley.

Lin Bai cleared the path to the tower after the Great River Sect and Myriad Mountains Alliance withdrew rather than risk their foundations. As he attacked Xiao Yu, Ye Suxin suddenly ordered him to stop, leaving the wooden sword a hair’s breadth from Xiao Yu’s eye.

• Lin Bai’s divine lightning killed hundreds of martial artists, and the Great River Sect and Myriad Mountains Alliance leaders decided to withdraw to protect their forces.
• The martial artists retreated into the pavilions, leaving Lin Bai an open path to the tower.
• Ye Suxin explained that the two forces had withdrawn to avoid being swallowed by Jiangshan City’s other powers, while Xiao Yu threatened to poison the city and begged her to save him.
• Xiao Yu told Ye Suxin that the Poison God Family’s Ninth Elder was near the Sword Pavilion Tribe and would need at least a day and night to reach Jiangshan City.
• Lin Bai launched three swords at Xiao Yu, but Ye Suxin shouted for him to stop, and he halted with his wooden sword at Xiao Yu’s eye.

Lin Bai rescued Ye Suxin from the Poison God Family and spared Xiao Yu so he could help clear her name. At Dewdrop Villa, Lin Bai confessed his love and promised Ye Suxin he would never leave her alone.

• Ye Suxin stopped Lin Bai from killing Xiao Yu, and Lin Bai agreed to keep him alive because he might help resolve the conflict with the Poison God Family.
• Lin Bai planted Sword Qi in Xiao Yu, then left Jiangshan City with Ye Suxin and Xiao Yu to meet Lin Ye.
• Lin Bai sealed Xiao Yu's cultivation at Dewdrop Villa and left Lin Ye to guard him.
• Lin Bai asked Ye Suxin if she was all right, and she said she had trusted him to rescue her.
• Lin Bai admitted that his guilt had first brought him to Ye Suxin but that he later understood he loved her.
• Lin Bai promised Ye Suxin he would always stand by her, saying he had thought he was going to lose her again.