Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai asked eight Dao Realm experts to protect the Divine Martial Nation while he traveled to the Celestial God Tomb, offering to open Descent Mountain to martial artists if he defeated the Central Sacred Nation. He proposed making Descent Mountain’s passage one-way to block Spirit World forces, and Old Man Lone Boat considered the plan promising.

• Old Man Lone Boat summoned seven other Dao Realm experts to meet Lin Bai in the valley.
• Lin Bai asked the elders and their forces to secretly protect the Divine Martial Nation during his three-to-five-year absence in the Celestial God Tomb.
• Lin Bai wagered that if he won his conflict with the Central Sacred Nation, the Divine Martial Nation would control the Barren Ancient Continent and open Descent Mountain to Ascendant Realm martial artists.
• The Imperial Advisor and the clay figure warned that the Ancient Immortal Sect and the Zhao Family of the Spirit World posed a greater threat than the Central Sacred Nation.
• Lin Bai proposed altering Descent Mountain’s formation so people could travel from the Barren Ancient Continent to the Spirit World, but not return.
• Old Man Lone Boat said that turning the passage one-way would be a good solution.

Lin Bai tried to persuade the Savage Soul Society's Dao Realm experts to help him by promising to find a way to challenge the Central Sacred Nation and the Ancient Immortal Sect in the Celestial God Tomb. He convinced them that a Spirit Realm expert stood behind him, leaving them hopeful that he could restore their chance to ascend.

• Lin Bai argued that he would seek a way to oppose the Central Sacred Nation and the Ancient Immortal Sect in the Celestial God Tomb, then return to change the Barren Ancient Continent's balance of power.
• Lin Bai reminded the Dao Realm experts that the Savage Soul Society had originally sought to reclaim Descent Mountain and give the continent's warriors the right to ascend to the Spirit Realm.
• When the experts questioned whether they could trust him, Lin Bai recounted his rise and claimed that powers they could not covet and figures they could not fathom had supported him.
• Lin Bai showed the Dao Heart Ring, and the Dao Realm experts sensed that it was a recently forged treasure from the Spirit Realm.
• Lin Bai told the experts that a Spirit Realm expert stood behind him, while privately resolving to apologize to his master for using his reputation as a trump card.

Lin Bai negotiated with several Dao Realm experts for their protection of the Divine Martial Nation and his loved ones while he went to the Celestial God Tomb. The experts agreed to help for three years, leaving the pact’s continuation dependent on Lin Bai’s return and his promise to reopen Descent Mountain.

• The Dao Realm experts weighed whether to support Lin Bai, fearing retaliation from the Ancient Immortal Sect but hoping to reach the Spirit World.
• A shadowy figure asked what Lin Bai wanted from them, and Lin Bai requested protection for the Divine Martial Nation, his parents, relatives, and friends while he was away.
• After the experts objected to a five-year commitment, Lin Bai set the term at three years.
• Old Man Lone Boat announced that the experts would protect Lin Bai’s people for three years and asked him to open Descent Mountain to eligible martial artists if he returned and reclaimed it.
• Lin Bai accepted the agreement and threatened to slaughter everyone on the Barren Ancient Continent if his loved ones and the Divine Martial Nation were gone when he returned.
• Lin Bai asked the experts to leave their Voice Transmission Tokens so Emperor Xiao could contact them.

Lin Bai arranged the Divine Martial Nation’s defenses and said farewell before using his Qualification Token to enter the Celestial God Tomb for three years. The chapter ended with him vanishing into the sky as his companions watched.

• The Dao Realm experts departed, and Old Man Lone Boat reunited with his disciple Lin Duo, revealing their master-disciple relationship to Lin Bai.
• The Imperial Advisor explained that Old Man Lone Boat would stay in the Divine Martial Nation and help protect it, while Lone Boat asked Emperor Xiao for a residence near a deep lake.
• Li Zhengyi explained how Old Man Lone Boat had secretly trained Lin Duo in swordsmanship, and Lin Bai recognized Lone Boat as his grandmaster.
• Su Xianmei returned with the emerald-green gourd and told Lin Bai that the Central Sacred Nation was preparing for action and Ninth Ancestor had gone to the Spirit World.
• Lin Bai gave the gourd containing the Black Warriors and his Giant God Race clone to Bai Xiaoxiao to help defend the Divine Martial Nation.
• Lin Bai bid farewell to his companions, activated the Celestial God Tomb Qualification Token, and was teleported away.

Lin Bai traveled through the Dark Chaos World and arrived in the Celestial God Tomb, where the immense gravity and his violent landing left him badly injured. A group led by Tong Yang surrounded him and declared that he would become their slave.

• Lin Bai spent eighteen days being carried through the Dark Chaos World by the teleportation force before reaching a new world.
• Lin Bai crashed into and destroyed a mountain, then identified the world as the Celestial God Tomb and struggled under its immense gravity.
• Tong Yang and fifteen others approached Lin Bai and asked where he came from.
• Lin Bai introduced himself and revealed that he was from the Barren Ancient Continent, prompting the group to mock him.
• Tong Yang announced that Lin Bai would be his slave and used a net to seal Lin Bai's cultivation power.

Lin Bai was captured by Tong Yang’s group and taken to their camp, where they bound him with a Spirit Binding Ring that drained and stored his spiritual power. He remained trapped among the group’s captives, hiding his strength and waiting for a chance to act.

• Tong Yang’s group sealed Lin Bai’s power with a great net, and Ling Ru took his Immaculate Flying Sword while Tong Yang kept the Dragon Eye Flying Sword.
• Jia You took Lin Bai’s Storage Bag, but Tong Yang could not open its seal and dragged Lin Bai through the forest.
• Tong Yang brought Lin Bai to a secluded camp where more than twenty martial artists held captured people as slaves.
• The camp’s martial artists put a Spirit Binding Ring around Lin Bai’s neck, and it absorbed his spiritual power when he tried to circulate it.
• Jia You explained that the rings stored captives’ spiritual power so their captors could use it later.

Lin Bai was imprisoned in a lightning-net cave in the Blackwood Forest Sea, where Shen Shuyao explained that their captors likely planned to sell them to the notorious Pill Demon. He learned about the forest and the Pill Demon’s human-sacrifice alchemy, but remained trapped with the other prisoners.

• Jia You put a Spirit Binding Ring on Lin Bai and locked him in a cave sealed by a lethal lightning net.
• Lin Bai met Li Qiu and learned that the ring drained spiritual power and that Li Qiu had been imprisoned for a month.
• Shen Shuyao said their captors probably intended to sell them to the Pill Demon, who used living martial artists to refine pills.
• Lin Bai learned that Shen Shuyao was born in the Celestial God Tomb and that they were in the perilous Blackwood Forest Sea.
• Shen Shuyao explained that the Pill Demon had fled Silver Moon City after his human-sacrifice alchemy was exposed and had continued refining demonic pills in the forest.

Lin Bai learned that Tong Yang had captured him and his companions to trade them to Pill Demon for Rakshasa Pills. He discovered a way to damage his Spirit Binding Ring as Tong Yang prepared to take the captives to Skywind Cliff in two days.

• Lin Bai learned that Pill Demon had offered Rakshasa Pills for martial artists and would trade publicly at Skywind Cliff in three months, explaining why Tong Yang had captured his group.
• A prisoner warned Lin Bai that Tong Yang's camp held three Dao Realm experts and more than thirty Quasi-Dao Realm martial artists, and Li Qiu feared they were doomed.
• Lin Bai secretly flooded his Spirit Binding Ring with spiritual power until it cracked, discovering the ring's limit and believing it could no longer restrain him.
• Tong Yang's group captured more prisoners, bringing the total in the stone prison to forty-two, while Lin Bai remained the weakest and least conspicuous captive.
• Tong Yang told Jia You that five days remained before the trade and that they would leave for Skywind Cliff the day after their final day of searching; Lin Bai realized they would depart soon.

Lin Bai broke his Spirit Binding Ring and defeated Jia You and three Quasi-Dao Realm martial artists. He freed the other prisoners, giving them a chance to escape as their spiritual power returned.

• At dawn, Lin Bai watched Tong Yang leave the camp with a Dao Realm expert while Jia You arrived to replace the prisoners' Spirit Binding Rings.
• Lin Bai overloaded his Spirit Binding Ring with spiritual power until it cracked, then shattered it and regained his strength.
• Lin Bai struck Jia You and the three Quasi-Dao Realm martial artists with Five-Colored Divine Lightning, then wounded them with Three Thousand Lightning Annihilations.
• Lin Bai used three-colored lightning to shatter the Spirit Binding Rings of the other prisoners, including the cold, aloof woman and Shen Shuyao.
• The freed prisoners recovered their spiritual power and prepared to charge out.

Lin Bai escaped Tong Yang’s camp by releasing the prisoners and using the resulting battle as a distraction, while Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao followed him into the Blackwood Forest Sea. After Lin Bai struggled against the Celestial God Tomb’s gravity, Gu Rong offered to teach him how to adapt if he promised to protect them.

• After their spiritual power returned, the prisoners killed three Quasi-Dao Realm guards, while Jia You escaped and raised the alarm.
• More than forty escaped prisoners attacked the camp’s guards, giving Lin Bai a chance to flee; Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao realized his plan and followed him.
• Lin Bai tried to lose the two women in the forest, then stopped and demanded to know why they were following him.
• After running a hundred miles, Lin Bai collapsed against a tree, weakened by his injuries and the unfamiliar gravity.
• Gu Rong offered Lin Bai a way to adapt to the gravity in exchange for his protection, and explained that she had recognized how carefully he had planned the escape.

Lin Bai agreed to protect Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao in exchange for help adapting to the Celestial God Tomb, and they set out to find Fish-Dragon Grass. They reached a chilling, ominous swamp where Shen Shuyao believed the herb might grow.

• Gu Rong deduced that Lin Bai had waited to break the Spirit Binding Rings until enough prisoners could distract the camp’s martial artists and help him escape.
• Lin Bai agreed to do his best to protect Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao, and Gu Rong told him that Fish-Dragon Grass could help him adapt to the tomb’s environment and gravity.
• Shen Shuyao offered to find Fish-Dragon Grass and explained that it grew where extreme cold met extreme heat.
• Shen Shuyao judged that a cold pool lay nine hundred li east, so Gu Rong, Shen Shuyao, and Lin Bai traveled through the forest toward it.
• The three reached a freezing, decayed swamp, and Lin Bai stepped forward despite the danger while Shen Shuyao remained unsure whether Fish-Dragon Grass grew there.

Lin Bai retrieved the Fish-Dragon Grass from a cold pool and awakened the Flood Dragon Serpent lurking beneath it. His Five Thunder Righteous Method failed to harm the beast, which swallowed him whole.

• Lin Bai crossed the cold pool and plucked the Fish-Dragon Grass while Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao waited on the bank.
• Lin Bai saw the colossal creature beneath the pool awaken and freeze under its blood-red gaze.
• Gu Rong recognized the creature as the Flood Dragon Serpent, and she and Shen Shuyao began retreating rather than risk fighting it.
• Lin Bai tried to escape and struck the Flood Dragon Serpent with the Five Thunder Righteous Method, but its horn absorbed the lightning.
• The Flood Dragon Serpent struck Lin Bai with its tongue, coiled him up, and swallowed him.

Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao watched the Flood Dragon Serpent swallow Lin Bai and fled rather than risk saving him. Trapped inside the serpent, Lin Bai unleashed his Devouring Sword Soul, regained his strength by consuming its flesh, and began advancing in cultivation as the serpent screamed beneath the Cold Pool.

• Gu Rong pulled Shen Shuyao away from the Cold Pool after the Flood Dragon Serpent swallowed Lin Bai and dove underwater.
• Gu Rong refused Shen Shuyao’s attempt to save Lin Bai, warning that the serpent was too powerful, and led her away.
• Lin Bai struggled inside the serpent as its crushing force broke his bones, while his remaining spiritual power and Five Thunder Righteous Method failed to damage it.
• Lin Bai released his Devouring Sword Soul, which tore through the serpent’s flesh and restored his spiritual power.
• The Flood Dragon Serpent thrashed and screamed as Lin Bai’s cultivation rose from the seventh stage of the Apex Realm toward the eighth stage.
• Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao heard the serpent’s cries but fled farther away, still believing Lin Bai could not defeat it.

Lin Bai survived being swallowed by the Flood Dragon Serpent and devoured it from within, breaking through to the Apex Realm ninth-layer peak. After eating the Fish-Dragon Grass and claiming the serpent’s lightning-absorbing horn, he recovered and set out to confront Tong Yang.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to kill the Flood Dragon Serpent and advance from the Apex Realm seventh layer to the ninth-layer peak.
• Lin Bai emerged from the cold pool, found Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao gone, and ate the Fish-Dragon Grass to overcome the local gravity.
• Lin Bai returned to the pool, cut off the serpent’s horn, and collected its scales and bone fragments.
• Lin Bai tested the horn and discovered that it absorbed his Five-Colored Divine Lightning without damage.
• After resting for three days and recovering, Lin Bai left his hiding place and declared that he would take back what belonged to him from Tong Yang.

Tong Yang discovered that most of his prisoners had escaped and ordered his camp to head for Skywind Cliff to trade the remaining captives for Rakshasa Pills. Lin Bai found the camp abandoned and set out after Tong Yang, hoping to recover his belongings and flying swords.

• Tong Yang learned from Jia You that Lin Bai had shattered his Spirit Binding Ring and freed the prisoners, costing him more than thirty captives.
• Tong Yang blamed Yan Geng for failing to guard the prisoners, then ordered Yan Geng to stay at his side and Long Gang to lead the camp toward Skywind Cliff with the remaining captives.
• Lin Bai searched the deserted camp and realized Tong Yang had taken his Storage Bag, demon sword, and two flying swords with him.
• Lin Bai reasoned that Tong Yang would go to Skywind Cliff to exchange his remaining prisoners for Rakshasa Pills, and left the camp to pursue him.

Lin Bai was ambushed in the Blackwood Forest Sea by a warrior seeking the horn he carried. He killed the attacker with Five-Colored Divine Lightning and learned the route to Skywind Cliff, along with the horn’s origin and a map of the forest.

• After leaving Tong Yang's camp, Lin Bai traveled through the Blackwood Forest Sea and dodged poisoned arrows fired from concealment.
• Lin Bai found the attacker’s hiding place and struck a tree with the horn, forcing the man to flee into the forest.
• Lin Bai used the horn as bait, seized the attacker when he reached for it, and crippled him with Five-Colored Divine Lightning.
• Lin Bai used Soul Search on the dying man, killing him and taking his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai learned the route to Skywind Cliff, found a map of the Blackwood Forest Sea in the Storage Bag, and discovered the horn’s origin.

After learning the Flood Dragon Serpent's horn could weaken tribulation lightning, Lin Bai realized it was a rare treasure that could aid his future breakthrough into the Dao Realm. He decided to keep it hidden rather than use it openly as a weapon.

• Lin Bai learned that Dao Realm martial artists faced ten deadly lightning tribulations and that a martial artist's Martial Soul affected their chances of surviving.
• Lin Bai learned about four ways to withstand tribulation lightning, including using special treasures such as the Flood Dragon Serpent's horn.
• Lin Bai discovered that Vermillion Bird Pills served as currency in the Celestial God Tomb and that the horn was worth one hundred thousand pills in Silver Moon City.
• Lin Bai recalled killing the Flood Dragon Serpent with the Devouring Sword Soul and decided to keep its horn to help him face future tribulations.
• Lin Bai decided not to carry the horn openly, fearing that other martial artists would try to take it.

Lin Bai learned more about the Dao Realm Tribulation, examined his spoils, and set out for Skywind Cliff. There, Young Master Tong prepared to reclaim the Pill Demon’s treasures as martial artists gathered for the promised Rakshasa Pill exchange.

• Lin Bai worried that his Yellow Rank One Martial Soul would make surviving the Dao Realm Tribulation difficult, then wrapped the Flood Dragon Serpent horn and sorted through his spoils.
• Lin Bai identified the Vermillion Bird Pills, swallowed one, and kept the rest as currency; he discarded the arrow weapons and used the map to locate Skywind Cliff.
• Lin Bai set off toward Skywind Cliff, expecting to arrive around noon the next day.
• Young Master Tong watched martial artists gather at Skywind Cliff and discussed with his old attendant how many might attack the Pill Demon rather than exchange for Rakshasa Pills.
• Young Master Tong said the Tong family would reclaim the Pill Demon’s treasures, which he believed came from a certain place along with the Rakshasa Pill formula.

Lin Bai waited at Skywind Cliff to find Tong Yang while martial artists gathered to trade captives for Rakshasa Pills. Pill Demon arrived at noon and opened a passage for the exchanges, just as a large group led by a young master confronted him.

• Lin Bai searched for Tong Yang, then waited near Skywind Cliff for the trade to begin.
• Two martial artists tried to capture Lin Bai, but he killed them with Five-Colored Divine Lightning.
• Other martial artists saw the corpses beneath Lin Bai's tree and stopped targeting him.
• Pill Demon arrived at noon, opened a passage in Skywind Cliff, and directed traders to exchange their captives through puppets inside.
• Several hundred martial artists led by a graceful young master approached through the clouds and shouted Pill Demon's name.

Tong Liang attacked Pill Demon at Skywind Cliff, but Pill Demon escaped into a cave and invited the martial artists to trade for Rakshasa Pills. Lin Bai followed Tong Yang into the cave, while Pill Demon watched the intruders and prepared to make the Tong family suffer, despite nearing death.

• Tong Liang arrived with hundreds of martial artists and challenged Pill Demon, then destroyed Skywind Cliff with a Flying Sword Dao strike as Pill Demon fled into a cave.
• Tong Liang pursued Pill Demon into the cave, and the martial artists in the Blackwood Forest Sea followed to seek Rakshasa Pills.
• Tong Yang hesitated because Tong Liang might expose his secret deal with Pill Demon, but he chose to enter the cave with his followers and obtain a Rakshasa Pill.
• Lin Bai spotted Tong Yang, chased him through the crowded passage, and followed him into one of the one hundred and eight branches.
• Pill Demon watched the martial artists through floating mirrors and vowed to leave the Tong family with an unforgettable nightmare as his life neared its end.