Chapter Summaries

Zhao Yue exposed the Poison God Family’s history of abducting and sealing talented children, and Xu Jiang admitted her accusation was true. The family handed over 209 children from the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, while Zhao Yue departed vowing to return and destroy it.

• Zhao Yue revealed that the Poison God Family’s second head had ordered the slaughter of tribes and martial artists to seize gifted children, who became known as Third Generation Disciples.
• Xu Jiang admitted Zhao Yue’s account was true, leaving San Le, Bai Qing, and Li Wen devastated as they walked away from the Poison God Family.
• Zhao Yue demanded that the Poison God Family hand over the children sealed on the hundred-and-eighth level of the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, and Old Man Lone Boat promised to prevent further deaths if it complied.
• Xu Jiang agreed, and Yu Ru brought out 209 ice blocks containing children and handed them to Zhao Yue.
• Xu Jiang ordered the outsiders to leave and threatened to release the Yin-Yang Fish, while Zhao Yue vowed to return and destroy the Poison God Family.

After the battle at the Poison God Family, Zhao Yue left with the Demon Sect, while Lin Bai and his allies departed to recover. Half a month later, Lin Bai met Zhang Jianxing and Dugu Yun at the Dao Gu Tribe.

• Lin Bai ordered A Ning and Yin Jiuling to let Zhao Yue go, then warned her to return Ye Suxin within a year or he would kill her.
• Black Heaven Old Ancestor accepted that the first matter of his transaction with Lin Bai was complete, and Yin Jiuling carried the Azure Gourd back to the Burial River.
• Gu Qi took the wounded Lin Bai and his companions to the Dao Gu Tribe, while Li Jiugе stayed behind with Gu Daozhi.
• Gu Daozhi called the conflict with the Poison God Family a misunderstanding, and the Eastern Continent Academy and Southern Province Divine Gate departed.
• Xu Jiang ordered the Poison God Family to clean up the battlefield and seal its mountain gates.
• After half a month of healing, Lin Bai met Zhang Jianxing and Dugu Yun, and Zhang Jianxing said he planned to travel across the Barren Ancient Continent.

Dugu Yun revealed that Old Man Lone Boat had arranged for him to leave the Barren Ancient Continent to pursue the Dao Realm. Old Man Lone Boat then explained that Lin Bai’s attack on the Poison God Family could have provoked its powerful ancestors in the Celestial God Tomb, where many experts from the continent’s super forces were trapped.

• Dugu Yun told Lin Bai that he was Old Man Lone Boat’s personal disciple and would soon leave the Barren Ancient Continent to seek a faster path to the Dao Realm.
• Dugu Yun sent Lin Bai to meet Old Man Lone Boat, Lan Ling, and Feng Lingzi at the mountaintop.
• Old Man Lone Boat warned Lin Bai that destroying the Poison God Family would have brought retaliation against him and Eastern Continent.
• Old Man Lone Boat explained that the Poison God Family had more than a hundred Dao Realm ancestors in the Celestial God Tomb, a vast battlefield beyond the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Lan Ling told Lin Bai that the continent’s super forces had ancestors exploring the Celestial God Tomb, where entering was easy but escaping was extremely difficult.

Lin Bai learned that powerful experts from the Poison God Family and other forces might return from the Celestial God Tomb, and Old Man Lone Boat warned him to consider the hidden strength behind ancient powers. After Old Man Lone Boat departed, Lin Bai revealed that attacking the Poison God Family had been a trial run for his preparations against the Central Sacred Nation.

• Old Man Lone Boat warned Lin Bai that the Poison God Family could summon experts from the Celestial God Tomb and cautioned him against failing to uproot powerful enemies.
• Old Man Lone Boat left to help pacify the Poison God Family, then sent Zhang Jianxing to the Central Province to seek a spar with Lin Bai and ordered Dugu Yun to prepare for the Celestial God Tomb.
• Lan Ling introduced Lin Bai to Feng Lingzi, and Lin Bai apologized for hiding his identity.
• Lin Bai told Lan Ling and Feng Lingzi that his attack on the Poison God Family tested his plans against the Central Sacred Nation and revealed the danger posed by the Celestial God Tomb.
• Feng Lingzi approved of Lin Bai's actions and praised him as teachable.

After the Poison God Family’s defeat, Lan Ling warned Lin Bai that Southern Province was likely to descend into chaos and urged him to think carefully before acting. Lan Ling and Feng Lingzi left the province, while Lin Bai returned to the Dao Gu Tribe and heard how the fighting had spread.

• Lan Ling told Lin Bai that the Crown Prince’s forces had killed three Army Marquises sent by the Seventeenth Prince and wiped out most of their troops.
• Lan Ling explained that the Crown Prince had used the attack to intimidate wavering Army Marquises, and warned that Southern Province might erupt into chaos within months.
• Lan Ling urged Lin Bai to leave Southern Province soon and to avoid acting recklessly again.
• Lan Ling departed for the Eastern Continent with Lan Yuxin, while Feng Lingzi left to travel around the Central Sacred Nation and seek work as an Imperial Advisor.
• Lin Bai returned to the Dao Gu Tribe and heard reports of the Poison God Family’s losses, the rise of the Southern Province Divine Gate, and widespread fighting among the province’s tribes.

Lin Bai learned that the Poison God Family, Sword Pavilion Tribe, and Earth Emperor Tribe had been badly weakened, leaving Southern Province engulfed in conflict and upheaval. Old Turtle agreed that the Dao Gu Tribe would join the struggle to reshape the province’s balance of power, but ordered Gu Qi to spare tribes that submitted.

• Lin Bai arrived at the Dao Gu Tribe’s main hall and learned from Gu Qi that the Poison God Family, the Sword Pavilion Tribe, and the Earth Emperor Tribe had suffered severe losses.
• Gu Qi explained that the Southern Province Divine Gate and other tribes were exploiting the weakened powers, spreading fighting across Southern Province and prompting more groups to seek the Dao Gu Tribe’s aid or alliance.
• Gu Qi asked what the Dao Gu Tribe should do, and Old Turtle invited Lin Bai to share his view, noting that Lin Bai’s actions had helped trigger the turmoil.
• Old Turtle decided that the Dao Gu Tribe would fight to change the balance of power in Southern Province, and said he and Bao'er would remain there.
• Old Turtle ordered Gu Qi not to kill indiscriminately and to spare tribes that submitted, and Gu Qi agreed.

Lin Bai confronted Old Turtle over keeping Bao'er from leaving with him and warned that he would kill him if he harmed her. Later, Shangguan Cun delivered a cryptic prophecy from the Eternal Tablet about rising killing intent, calamity, and the Giant God, leaving Lin Bai to wonder what it meant.

• Lin Bai recognized that Old Turtle did not want Bao'er to leave the Dao Gu Tribe with him, and Old Turtle said Bao'er could return to Lin Bai when she was older.
• Lin Bai admitted that Bao'er might be safer with Old Turtle, then warned him that he would kill him if he ever harmed her.
• After Lin Bai left the main hall, Old Turtle muttered that the Giant God Race must have had a reason for trying to eradicate the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Shangguan Cun shared wine with Lin Bai and explained that Southern Province's calamity had begun with the struggle for the throne and could not be prevented.
• Shangguan Cun delivered the Eternal Tablet's message: “When killing intent rises, calamity draws near; when the Giant God descends, all living beings cannot escape,” then departed without explaining it.

Lin Bai received Bai Xiaoxiao’s urgent message that Blood Demons were emerging from Divine Relic Ridge and immediately returned to Eastern Continent with his companions. After hearing how the creatures had appeared and the seal was weakening, he identified them as Blood Demons afflicted by the Burial God Curse.

• Gu Xiang delivered Bai Xiaoxiao’s secret Jade Slip, which ordered Lin Bai to return at once because Blood Demons were running rampant at Divine Relic Ridge.
• Lin Bai departed the Dao Gu Tribe with Hu Qi, Yin Jiuling, Lin Ye, and A Ning, leaving Bao’er behind as Zhuo Lian led them toward Eastern Continent.
• Bao’er learned that Lin Bai had left and tearfully called after her father while Old Turtle suspected trouble had arisen in Eastern Continent.
• Aboard the spirit vessel, Zhuo Lian told Lin Bai that monsters had emerged from Divine Relic Ridge after treasure seekers vanished and that the seal containing countless creatures was breaking down.
• Lin Bai identified the monsters as Blood Demons afflicted by the Burial God Curse.

Lin Bai returned to East Continent and hurried to Divine Relic Ridge, where Blood Demons threatened to break through an ancient seal. He arrived, ordered the area secured, and went with his companions to inspect the breach.

• Lin Bai explained that Blood Demons arose from the cursed blood of dead members of the Giant God Race and learned that their numbers at Divine Relic Ridge could not be estimated.
• Lin Bai reunited with his Sword Devil and Giant God Race clones, merged them into himself, and redirected the spirit ship toward Divine Relic Ridge.
• Lin Bai returned to East Continent and reached Divine Relic Ridge with more than seventy sword cultivators, who reported that the seal could hold for only two or three months.
• Lin Bai ordered the Divine Martial Sword God Battalion to surround Divine Relic Ridge and instructed the sword cultivators to hunt escaped Blood Demons.
• Nie Xiong led Lin Bai, Yin Jiuling, A Ning, Hu Qi, and Lin Ye to the crack where the Blood Demons had escaped.

Lin Bai and his companions descended into a fissure on Divine Relic Ridge and discovered a vast underground world teeming with Blood Demons. They found more than seven million in one chamber, and Lin Bai suspected that many more remained.

• Nie Xiong told Lin Bai that thirty-seven fissures had appeared across Divine Relic Ridge and that his earlier descent had found no bottom.
• Lin Bai entered the fissure, followed by Yin Jiuling, A Ning, and Hu Qi, while Nie Xiong and Lin Ye waited above.
• Yin Jiuling summoned white flames to pierce the strange darkness, and the four descended to an underground palace passageway.
• Lin Bai killed a Blood Demon, and Yin Jiuling sensed countless more creatures ahead.
• The four discovered a huge underground chamber filled with Blood Demons, and Hu Qi's compass indicated that more than seven million were gathered there.

Lin Bai and his companions followed a path opened by the Blood Demons to their leader, who revealed the headless Giant God's corpse and the scale of his forces. The Blood Demon King warned Lin Bai that Blood Demons were born to exterminate the Heaven Swallowing Race, but said he would not kill him yet because Qing He's seal was about to vanish.

• Lin Bai identified nine pillars of Giant God's blood crystals and concluded that the Giant God's corpse lay elsewhere in the Blood Demons' territory.
• The Blood Demons discovered Lin Bai, Yin Jiuling, Hu Qi, and A Ning, and their leader invited Lin Bai and Yin Jiuling to meet him.
• Lin Bai and his companions followed the Blood Demons through the underground passages to a vast chamber filled with blood pillars and countless Blood Demons surrounding the headless Giant God's corpse.
• The Blood Demon King introduced himself and explained that Blood Demons inherited the Giant God's power and had developed intelligence.
• The Blood Demon King declared that Blood Demons were born to exterminate the Heaven Swallowing Race, then revealed that his forces numbered about two hundred million, including roughly one hundred Dao Realm Blood Demons.
• The Blood Demon King said he would not kill Lin Bai yet because Qing He's seal was about to vanish, and claimed that his forces would soon dominate the world.

Lin Bai learned that the Blood Demon King wanted the Divine Creation Palace in exchange for sparing him and his companions after the Blood Demons broke free. He returned to Divine Relic Ridge and arranged for Giant God Bone fragments for Yin Jiuling, then went to meet Emperor Xiao.

• The Blood Demon King offered to spare Lin Bai and his companions if Lin Bai brought him the Divine Creation Palace, but refused Yin Jiuling’s request for a Giant God Bone fragment.
• Lin Bai rejected the Blood Demon King’s demand and led his companions back to Divine Relic Ridge, where he revealed that the Divine Creation Palace was with Emperor Xiao of the Divine Martial Nation.
• Yin Jiuling explained that he needed Giant God Bone fragments to perform a forbidden technique that could help in a battle.
• Lin Bai told Nie Xiong to retrieve Giant God Bone fragments from Lin Bai’s Tomb and deliver them to Yin Jiuling.
• Lin Bai and his companions headed to the Five Peaks, Nine Academies to meet Emperor Xiao.

Lin Bai met with Bai Xiaoxiao and the Divine Martial Nation’s commanders to discuss the Blood Demons emerging from Divine Relic Ridge. With the nation’s strongest armies gathered there and its borders exposed, Lin Bai proposed sealing the Blood Demons again and revealed that the Blood Demon King had pointed him toward the Divine Creation Palace.

• Lin Bai arrived at Five Peaks, Nine Academies, where the soldiers greeted him as the Sword King, and Chu Jiangliu escorted him to Bai Xiaoxiao.
• Bai Xiaoxiao dismissed the officials and told Lin Bai that the seal at Divine Relic Ridge was weakening and the Blood Demons might soon emerge.
• Bai Xiaoxiao listed the nearly one hundred million troops she had brought, and Lin Bai warned that leaving the Divine Martial Nation’s borders exposed could invite an attack from the Great Wu Dynasty.
• Lin Bai said exterminating the vast number of Blood Demons was unrealistic and proposed sealing them again instead.
• Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao that the Blood Demon King had given him a promising choice: the Divine Creation Palace.

Lin Bai entered the Divine Creation Palace and found another remnant of Qing He, who revealed a weapon that could destroy the Blood Demons but would devastate Divine Relic Ridge and the surrounding region. Qing He explained that the Blood Demons grew beyond control after the Crimson Immortal Sect refused to exterminate them, leaving Lin Bai with a drastic solution to consider.

• Lin Bai took the Divine Creation Palace token from Bai Xiaoxiao and entered the palace to search for a way to deal with the Blood Demons.
• The Fisherman led Lin Bai to a sealed gate that only a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race could open.
• Lin Bai opened the gate and encountered another remnant soul of Qing He, who said he had only three hours before he vanished.
• Qing He gave Lin Bai his Martial Soul, the Heaven Swallowing Dragon Serpent, and said it could destroy the Blood Demons by devouring Divine Relic Ridge and the surrounding tens of millions of miles.
• Qing He explained that the Crimson Immortal Sect had once been strong enough to eradicate the Blood Demons but refused, allowing them to multiply beyond control.

Lin Bai learned that Qing He's Heaven Swallowing Dragon Serpent could exterminate the Blood Demons, but only if he unleashed it atop the Giant God's remains and escaped its devastating reach within ten breaths. He returned to Divine Relic Ridge with the weapon and began planning the dangerous operation with his allies, who had nearly two months before the Blood Demons broke through the seal.

• Qing He explained that his Heaven Swallowing Dragon Serpent could destroy the Blood Demons only when released atop the Giant God's remains, and that Lin Bai would have ten breaths to escape its reach.
• Before his remnant soul vanished, Qing He apologized for bringing the Blood Demons to the Barren Ancient Continent, and Lin Bai accepted his apology on the continent's behalf.
• Lin Bai stored the Heaven Swallowing Dragon Serpent and left the Divine Creation Palace with the Old Fisherman's help.
• Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao, Yin Jiuling, Hu Qi, A Ning, Chu Jiangliu, and the others that he had found a way to exterminate the Blood Demons.
• A Ning, Hu Qi, and Chu Jiangliu warned that reaching the Giant God's remains and evacuating the troops and Lin Bai within ten breaths would be nearly impossible, while Bai Xiaoxiao offered to sacrifice troops.
• Lin Bai called for careful planning and noted that the Blood Demons needed nearly two months to break through the seal.

The Divine Martial Nation evacuated the lands around Divine Relic Ridge as Blood Demons repeatedly broke through their seal, leaving Bai Xiaoxiao to reinforce the ridge while accepting the risk of a Great Wu Dynasty invasion. In Lingnan, Lin Bai learned that Heavenly Treasure Pavilion had no escape talisman capable of carrying someone tens of millions of miles, with only one month left to find a solution.

• The Skyguard Legion closed the road to Divine Relic Ridge and ordered martial artists and nearby settlements to evacuate.
• A scout reported that tens of thousands of Blood Demons had escaped through the seventy-fifth breach, and Bai Xiaoxiao ordered Chu Jiangliu to contain them.
• Bai Xiaoxiao sent marquises to defend the borders against the Great Wu Dynasty and approved Chu Jiangliu's prepared death warriors.
• Lin Bai asked Heavenly Treasure Pavilion for an escape talisman that could carry someone tens of millions of miles, but its maid said none existed and the available million-mile talisman would take two months to arrive.
• Lin Bai rejected the slower escape talismans and demanded another solution, saying only one month remained.

Lin Bai learned that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion held Million-Li Blood Teleportation Talismans and bought all eleven. On Divine Relic Ridge, Yin Jiuling used Giant God Bone powder to prepare a calamity, while Hu Qi explained the ancient Calamity Dao.

• The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion maid told Lin Bai that Million-Li Blood Teleportation Talismans could transport someone a million li at the cost of vital blood.
• Lin Bai bought all eleven Million-Li Blood Teleportation Talismans held by the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain.
• On Divine Relic Ridge, Yin Jiuling used powder from the Giant God Bone to prepare a calamity that could target blood demons.
• Hu Qi explained that the ancient Calamity Dao involved taking a spirit, fixing a calamity, and making those marked by it suffer its punishment.
• Yin Jiuling said that the Talismaster Dao, Calamity Dao, Formation Dao, and Blade Dao had declined as martial artists came to revere only the Martial Dao.

A Ning, Yin Jiuling, and Hu Qi reaffirmed their loyalty to Lin Bai despite knowing he belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race, and A Ning predicted Lin Bai would have to become the Barren Ancient Continent’s public enemy to survive. Lin Bai returned and gathered the Divine Martial Nation’s forces to plan an assault on the Blood Demon’s defenses beneath Divine Relic Ridge.

• Hu Qi raised concerns about Lin Bai’s Heaven Swallowing Race identity, but Yin Jiuling, A Ning, and Hu Qi vowed they would not betray him.
• A Ning revealed that he had met Lin Bai more than ten years earlier and said Lin Bai would have to become the enemy of every martial artist on the Barren Ancient Continent to survive.
• Nie Xiong summoned everyone to the main hall, where Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao met with Yin Jiuling, Hu Qi, A Ning, and the Divine Martial Nation’s Army Marquises.
• Bai Xiaoxiao placed the Dragon Legion, Skyguard Legion, Dragon Tattoo Imperial Guards, Chu Family Army, and Divine Martial Sword God Battalion under Lin Bai’s command.
• Lin Bai explained that the human martial artists could enter the underground world beneath Divine Relic Ridge and would need to break through five lines of Blood Demon defenses to reach the Giant God’s bones.

Lin Bai assigned the armies to breach the first four lines of defense at Divine Relic Ridge, with strict withdrawal deadlines, while he planned to enter the fifth line alone. After Lin Bai revealed that he would escape using Million-Li Blood Escape Talismans, Bai Xiaoxiao reluctantly approved the plan and the armies began preparing for an operation three days later.

• Lin Bai assigned the Chu Family Army, the Skyguard Legion, and the Dragon Legion to break through the first three lines of defense and withdraw within set time limits, using the Skyguard Legion’s Heaven Defense Warships.
• Yin Jiuling volunteered to break through the fourth line of defense, and Lin Bai said Hu Qi, A Ning, and he would help before Yin Jiuling withdrew.
• Bai Xiaoxiao challenged Lin Bai over how he would escape the fifth line, and Lin Bai showed her his Million-Li Blood Escape Talismans.
• Lin Bai ordered the Divine Martial Nation’s army to prepare for the operation three days later, and Bai Xiaoxiao directed Chu Jiangliu to mobilize the forces.

Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao shared a farewell beneath the moon before the Divine Martial Nation’s army prepared to attack the blood demons. Lin Bai led the advance into the fissure at Divine Relic Ridge, where the Chu Family Army launched the first assault to open a path through the enemy’s defenses.

• Bai Xiaoxiao recalled her earlier days with Lin Bai and begged him to leave the Barren Ancient Continent with her, but Lin Bai promised this would be his last dangerous mission.
• Three days later, tens of millions of Divine Martial Nation soldiers gathered at the fissure in Divine Relic Ridge under Lin Bai’s command.
• Lin Bai learned that Chu Jiangliu had secretly sent Bai Xiaoxiao far away after Lin Bai drugged her wine so she would not stay behind.
• Lin Bai, Yin Jiuling, Hu Qi, A Ning, and the army entered the fissure and reached the first defensive line in the underground world.
• Chu Jiangliu ordered the Chu Family Army to charge, and the soldiers clashed with the blood demons in a fierce battle.