Chapter Summaries

After rescuing Ye Suxin, Lin Bai comforted her as she confided in him about her lonely, violent past. The next morning, Ye Suxin questioned Xiao Yu about the Floating Pagoda and Mo Qing, learning the artifact had vanished into the Burial River and Mo Qing was in seclusion.

• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin shared an intimate moment as Ye Suxin told him she had once lived without love, family, or friendship.
• Ye Suxin left Lin Bai to recover and went to question Xiao Yu about the Poison God Family’s pursuit of them.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Zhao Yue had used the Floating Pagoda as bait before a tribe took it, and the tribe chief leaped into the Burial River with it when the Poison God Family attacked.
• Xiao Yu told Ye Suxin that the Poison God Family had searched the Burial River for the Floating Pagoda without success.
• Xiao Yu said Mo Qing had returned from the Eastern Continent and entered seclusion until he reached the Apex Realm.

Ye Suxin killed Xiao Yu, and she and Lin Bai set out for the Burial River after deciding to seek the Floating Pagoda. The Ninth Elder revived Xiao Yu briefly with a Soul Gathering Worm, learned where the pair were headed, and pursued them.

• Ye Suxin used Nine Serpent to defeat Xiao Yu and triggered Lin Bai's Sword Qi, destroying his divine elixir and divine soul.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin decided to leave the Southern Continent and travel to the Burial River, taking Lin Ye with them.
• The Ninth Elder found Xiao Yu's corpse at Dewdrop Villa and used a Soul Gathering Worm to revive him briefly.
• Xiao Yu told the Ninth Elder that Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye were heading to the Burial River to seek Zhao Yue's Floating Pagoda.
• The Ninth Elder recognized Lin Bai as the former Saint Son of Eastern Continent and set off after them.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin reached the Burial River and used a compass from Xiao Yu to locate the treasure’s position. Lin Bai descended through the poisonous fog to inspect the river, where he saw murky blue-green water and floating skeletons.

• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin arrived at the Burial River after traveling for nine days, and Ye Suxin explained its deadly poison and the Eternal Tablet found beneath it.
• Ye Suxin revealed that Xiao Yu had given her a map and a Poison God Family compass that could guide them to the treasure.
• Lin Bai activated the compass and piloted the spirit boat in the direction its needle indicated.
• After following the compass for three days, Lin Bai found where its guidance ended and told Ye Suxin to remain aboard while he investigated.
• Lin Bai descended through the poisonous fog while using lightning protection and saw turbid blue-green water with white skeletons surfacing.

Lin Bai searched the Burial River for a treasure and dug through its vast bed of bones until he found a blue spiritual-power barrier. A Black Warrior hidden among the bones attacked him and sent him flying.

• Lin Bai entered the poisoned Burial River while several hundred treasure seekers watched from above.
• Lin Bai reached the riverbed and found countless bones and ruined spirit tools covering it.
• Lin Bai dug deeper through the bones and discovered a blue spiritual-power barrier beneath them.
• A Black Warrior emerged from the bones and attacked Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai struck back with his wooden sword, but the Black Warrior sent him flying and wounded him.

Lin Bai escaped a powerful Black Warrior by breaking through a barrier beneath the Burial River, where he discovered an ancient altar and the lost Soul Refining Art. He found an inscription identifying the skeleton beside the altar as Shi Xiuping, a Grand Elder of the Soul Refining Sect, whose account ended mid-sentence.

• A Black Warrior attacked Lin Bai and drove him back, while Lin Bai realized his spiritual power was nearly exhausted.
• Lin Bai broke through the blue barrier and entered a stone forest beneath the Burial River; the Black Warrior remained outside and called him a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Several thousand Black Warriors appeared around the first Black Warrior as the Burial River shook.
• Lin Bai found an altar, a skeleton, and an ancient Storage Bag containing a Jade Slip with the Soul Refining Art.
• Lin Bai recognized the technique as the lost inheritance of the Soul Refining Sect and read an inscription identifying the skeleton as Shi Xiuping, who had come to the Burial River to cultivate soul-refining techniques.

Lin Bai discovered that the Burial River held countless deathless Black Warriors, including Dao Realm experts, and claimed the Soul Refining Banner left by a Soul Refining Sect senior. As he prepared to leave without finding Suxin’s Floating Pagoda, the Black Warrior patriarch, Black Heaven Old Ancestor, confronted him with murderous intent.

• Lin Bai read a skeletal arm’s account of the Black Warriors’ curse, their strength, and the Soul Refining Sect senior’s efforts to preserve his soul artifact.
• Lin Bai learned that the Soul Refining Sect had been destroyed and took the senior’s Soul Refining Banner, then searched the stone forest for Suxin’s Floating Pagoda without finding it.
• As Lin Bai prepared to leave the protected area, Black Heaven Old Ancestor emerged from the stone forest and revealed himself as the Black Warrior patriarch.
• Black Heaven Old Ancestor recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race and threatened to kill him.

Black Heaven Old Ancestor attacked Lin Bai because he belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race, which his clan blamed for its suffering. Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Soul was suppressed by the Floating Pagoda, so he brought out the Soul Refining Banner to fight back.

• Black Heaven Old Ancestor revealed his hatred for the Heaven Swallowing Race and attacked Lin Bai with Dao Realm power.
• Lin Bai summoned the Devouring Sword Soul, which absorbed Black Heaven Old Ancestor’s attacks and threatened to strike him down.
• Black Heaven Old Ancestor used the Floating Pagoda to suppress the Devouring Sword Soul and launched the pagoda at Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai took out the Soul Refining Banner and sent a vast swarm of smoky skulls toward Black Heaven Old Ancestor.

Lin Bai escaped the Burial River with the Floating Pagoda while Black Heaven Old Ancestor and the Black Warriors tried to stop him. He and Ye Suxin fled to the Great Fish Tribe, where Lin Bai began healing and Ye Suxin studied the pagoda.

• Lin Bai used the Soul Refining Banner's souls to break out of the Burial River and fought off the martial artists waiting above it.
• Lin Bai reached Ye Suxin's spirit boat and gave her the Floating Pagoda before they fled the Burial River.
• Black Heaven Old Ancestor watched Lin Bai escape and vowed that they would meet again.
• After traveling for three days, Lin Bai and Ye Suxin settled in the Great Fish Tribe so he could recover.
• Lin Bai began healing while Ye Suxin studied the Floating Pagoda.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai investigated the Soul Refining Banner he had obtained in the Burial River and discovered it held more than a billion souls of varying strengths. He could command the Black Souls, but the stronger souls resisted him, leaving him determined to master the banner for his future plans.

• Lin Bai recovered from his wounds and concluded that the Black Warriors came from beyond the heavens and could not stray far from the Burial River.
• Lin Bai studied the Soul Refining Technique and entered the Soul-Nurturing Space inside the Soul Refining Banner.
• Lin Bai found more than a billion Black Souls, over ten thousand Silver Souls, and more than a hundred Gold Souls, including one platinum-colored soul near the Quasi-Dao Realm.
• Lin Bai discovered that the Silver Souls and Gold Souls refused to obey him, and he considered whether their awakened consciousness or a mistake in his technique was to blame.
• Lin Bai resolved to master the Soul Refining Banner, hoping it would help him rescue his parents and face the Central Sacred Nation.

Lin Bai worked to awaken the Gold Souls in the Soul Refining Banner before confronting seven Treasure River Alliance warriors who broke into his residence to demand his Burial River treasure. After Lin Bai overwhelmed them, the Alliance Leader appeared aboard the Abyssal Ghost Ship and struck him from above.

• Lin Bai continued trying to awaken the Gold Souls in the Soul Refining Banner, though many remained unwilling to obey him.
• Ye Suxin and Lin Ye joined Lin Bai after they sensed intruders in the residence, and Lin Bai went to investigate.
• Lin Bai confronted seven intruders, who identified themselves as Treasure River Alliance warriors and demanded the treasure he had brought from the Burial River.
• The seven attacked Lin Bai, but he blasted them down with Three-Colored Divine Lightning and approached with his wooden sword.
• The Alliance Leader arrived aboard the Abyssal Ghost Ship, blasted Lin Bai backward, and drew the seven warriors' bows.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin faced the Treasure River Alliance Master, who demanded the treasures they had supposedly dredged from the Burial River and attacked when Lin Bai refused. Lin Bai fought off the Alliance Master's men and confronted him aboard the Abyssal Ghost Ship.

• The Treasure River Alliance Master killed the seven men who had tried to seize the treasure without his permission.
• Lin Bai denied taking any treasures from the Burial River, but the Treasure River Alliance Master ordered his men to kill Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin fought the Treasure River Alliance's attackers while Lin Bai slaughtered the weaker martial artists.
• The Treasure River Alliance Master fired the Abyssal Ghost Ship's ancient cannon at Lin Bai, destroying the residence when Lin Bai dodged.
• At Ye Suxin's urging, Lin Bai flew up to confront the Treasure River Alliance Master and thrust his sword at him.

Lin Bai fought the Treasure River Alliance Master, who used the Abyssal Ghost Ship and its eighteen Asura Cannons to wear him down before attacking in person. Lin Bai gained the upper hand, but the Alliance Master escaped back aboard the ship, and a black-robed old man appeared behind it.

• The Treasure River Alliance Master attacked Lin Bai with the Abyssal Ghost Ship and fired its eighteen Asura Cannons, forcing Lin Bai to dodge and counter with his sword.
• The blasts shattered the clouds above the Great Fish Tribe, whose chief ordered the clansmen to flee to Green Mountain.
• The Treasure River Alliance Master left the ship and attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai’s sword and Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation wounded him.
• The Treasure River Alliance Master retreated to the Abyssal Ghost Ship and aimed its cannons at Lin Bai again.
• Lin Bai noticed a black-robed old man walking toward the ship beneath the full moon, and the Treasure River Alliance Master turned to look.

The Ninth Elder of the Poison God Family arrived at Lin Bai’s residence, killed the Treasure River Alliance Master, and demanded that Ye Suxin return with him over Xia Qiu’s death. Lin Bai refused to let Ye Suxin go unless he could accompany her, but the Ninth Elder said the Poison God Family was caught up in political turmoil.

• The Ninth Elder appeared before Lin Bai and destroyed the Treasure River Alliance Master with a swarm of mosquitoes.
• The Ninth Elder introduced himself as the Poison God Family’s Ninth Elder and explained that Xia Qiu was as important to the family as the Eastern Continent Academy’s Holy Son.
• The Ninth Elder offered to overlook Lin Bai’s killing of Xiao Yu and other elders, but demanded that Ye Suxin return to the Poison God Family for investigation.
• The Ninth Elder said Lin Bai could not accompany Ye Suxin because the Seventeenth Prince’s visit had made the situation politically sensitive.
• Ye Suxin warned Lin Bai that the Seventeenth Prince was seeking the Poison God Family’s support in the struggle for the throne, and Lin Bai refused to let her leave alone.

Lin Bai fought the Ninth Elder of the Poison God Family to give Ye Suxin time to escape, but the elder overwhelmed him despite his powerful sword techniques. Lin Bai then unleashed the Soul Refining Banner to hold the elder back, turning the surroundings into an asura hell.

• The Ninth Elder shattered Lin Bai’s defenses with a single palm strike and sent him vomiting blood.
• Lin Bai ordered Lin Ye to take Ye Suxin away while he confronted the Ninth Elder.
• The Ninth Elder evaded Lin Bai’s sword attacks and broke his World-Extinguishing Sword, then was forced back three steps by Lin Bai’s Dragon Slayer Sword.
• The Ninth Elder struck Lin Bai down and turned to pursue Ye Suxin, but Lin Bai rose and vowed to delay him.
• Lin Bai shook the Soul Refining Banner, releasing black souls that shrouded the world in an asura hell.

Lin Bai escaped the Ninth Elder of the Poison God Family, while Ye Suxin met secretly with the Snake King and Wolf King. Urged to put their plans ahead of her feelings for Lin Bai, Ye Suxin decided to die within the Poison God Family to provoke Lin Bai into attacking it.

• The Ninth Elder destroyed Lin Bai’s black souls, then tracked him using an insect attached to Ye Suxin.
• Ye Suxin and Lin Ye stopped in a forest, where the Snake King and Wolf King told her the Ninth Elder was pursuing her.
• The Snake King explained that Lin Bai’s influence in the Eastern Continent could protect Ye Suxin from the Poison God Family.
• Ye Suxin admitted she had fallen in love with Lin Bai, but the Snake King reminded her that Lin Bai loved Ye Suxin and urged her not to abandon their plans.
• Ye Suxin hardened her resolve and decided to die within the Poison God Family to ignite Lin Bai’s fury.

Ye Suxin let the Poison God Family’s Ninth Elder take her away, while Lin Bai failed to stop him and began pursuing them toward the Poison God Family. Snake King and Wolf King expected Lin Bai’s anger to erupt when he learned the Sect Master had died there.

• Ye Suxin ordered Snake King and Wolf King to withdraw and go to the Poison God Family, then remained behind as the Ninth Elder approached.
• The Ninth Elder explained that a Yin-Yang Parent-Child Worm had let him track Ye Suxin and said he was taking her to the Poison God Family to investigate Xia Qiu’s death.
• Lin Bai arrived, but the Ninth Elder struck him down and flew away with Ye Suxin.
• Lin Bai pursued them for millions of miles without finding them, then returned to the forest the next morning and left with Lin Ye.
• Snake King and Wolf King decided to head to the Poison God Family, expecting Lin Bai to go there and erupt in fury when he learned the Sect Master had died.

After failing to find Ninth Elder and Ye Suxin, Lin Bai returned to Lin Ye and traveled to Du Shan City to reach the Poison God Family. The chapter ended with Lin Bai offering an inn waiter a fortune to find him a way into the dangerous Myriad Poisons Mountain Range, under threat of death if he failed within three days.

• Lin Bai searched for Ninth Elder and Ye Suxin for another day and night, then returned to the forest and reunited with Lin Ye.
• Lin Bai decided to visit the Poison God Family and traveled with Lin Ye to Du Shan City, near the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range.
• Lin Bai and Lin Ye entered Fated Inn, where Lin Ye ate while Lin Bai studied the poisonous mountain range from the window.
• The waiter explained that the Poison God Family's disciples had filled the mountain range with deadly poisonous creatures and that entering without their guidance was perilous.
• Lin Bai offered the waiter five hundred thousand tons of spirit liquid to find a way into the Poison God Family, threatening to kill him if he failed within three days.

Lin Bai asked a shop assistant how he could enter the Poison God Family and learned that Apex Realm cultivators could become guest ministers. He discovered that a banquet hosted by the Seventeenth Prince was drawing experts to Du Shan City as he sought the Poison God Family’s support in the ongoing struggle for the throne.

• Lin Bai asked the shop assistant how to enter the Poison God Family, and the assistant explained the three routes: an invitation, becoming a disciple, or becoming a guest minister.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had Apex Realm cultivation and asked the shop assistant to arrange his entry as a guest minister.
• The shop assistant explained that many Apex Realm experts had recently come to Du Shan City hoping to use the Poison God Family to gain access to the Seventeenth Prince.
• The shop assistant said the Seventeenth Prince had arranged a banquet for Apex Realm experts to recruit the Poison God Family’s divided elders to his faction.
• The shop assistant told Lin Bai that the struggle for the throne had already begun, with the Seventeenth Prince in the Southern Continent and the Crown Prince reportedly in the Eastern Continent.

Lin Bai learned that the Central Sacred Nation’s succession struggle could draw the Eastern and Southern Continents into conflict, then paid to enter the Poison God Family as a guest elder. He joined seventeen other Apex Realm martial artists and prepared to travel with Elder Li to the family, where they would await the Seventeenth Prince’s banquet.

• A waiter told Lin Bai that the Crown Prince was courting the Eastern Continent Academy while the Seventeenth Prince had the Poison God Family’s support, raising the prospect of conflict between the continents.
• Lin Bai paid the waiter one billion spirit liquid for a token and instructions to enter the Poison God Family as a guest elder.
• Lin Bai left Lin Ye at the inn and went to the Cause and Effect gate on Forty-Fourth Street, where he showed his token and entered a courtyard.
• Lin Bai joined seventeen other Apex Realm experts waiting in the courtyard to be taken to the Poison God Family.
• Elder Li arrived, warned the group about dangers in the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range, and said he would register them as guest elders and notify them about the Seventeenth Prince’s banquet.

Lin Bai and the other Apex Realm martial artists traveled with Elder Li toward the Poison God Family, learning that the Green Pills needed to cross the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range were made from the Yin-Yang Fish’s energy. After five hours on the ancient path, they reached the Poison God Family’s mountain palaces.

• Elder Li led Lin Bai and seventeen other Apex Realm martial artists from Du Shan City toward the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range and told them to take Antitoxin Pills.
• When the martial artists questioned the pills, Elder Li revealed they were poison and explained they were needed to survive the mountain range; Xu Li identified them as Green Pills derived from the Yin-Yang Fish.
• Lin Bai and the remaining hesitant martial artists swallowed their Green Pills and followed Elder Li into the mountain range.
• The group traveled through poisonous miasma and past venomous creatures, taking another Green Pill after an hour.
• After about five hours, Lin Bai and the others reached the Poison God Family’s palaces, and Elder Li announced their arrival.