Chapter Summaries

Xu Cheng and the Heaven Tramplers Alliance fought Wild Bull King inside Dragon King Mountain while Lin Bai and the Crow reached the guarded passage to the Netherworld Realm. Lin Bai began cutting through the demon horde to reach the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower, and the Crow collected the fallen demons.

• Xu Cheng arrived with more Dao Realm warriors, demanded that Wild Bull King reveal the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower, and ordered the alliance to form an array when the bull attacked.
• Lin Bai followed the Crow through the palace maze toward the Netherworld Realm and found nearly a thousand Quasi-Dao Realm demon beasts guarding the passage.
• Lin Bai refused to retreat, told the Crow to hold on, and killed the first demon that challenged him.
• Lin Bai charged into the horde with his flying swords, Five-Colored Divine Lightning, Demon Sword, and Heaven Measuring Ruler, killing more than a hundred demons.
• The Crow gathered the slain demon beasts into its Storage Ring and celebrated its growing haul.

Lin Bai fought through the demon beasts in the passage, absorbing their blood to reach the Great Perfection of the Apex Realm. He opened the way into the Netherworld Realm and found the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower, which he claimed despite the crow’s protests.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb demon blood, restoring his spiritual power as he fought through the passage.
• Lin Bai absorbed enough blood and qi to break through to the Great Perfection of the Apex Realm, then killed the remaining demon beasts and reached the stone wall.
• The crow collected the demon-beast corpses, and Lin Bai argued with him over how to divide them.
• The crow opened the stone gate, revealing the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower in the darkness beyond.
• Lin Bai stopped the crow from taking the flower and claimed it, agreeing to compensate the crow twice its value.

Lin Bai seized the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower in the Netherworld Realm and escaped after blasting the Wild Bull King aside. Xiao Jiushan realized Lin Bai was the thief and ordered the Heaven Tramplers Alliance to pursue him.

• Xu Cheng and the Heaven Tramplers Alliance struggled to defeat the Wild Bull King until a wounded demon reported that an Apex Realm martial artist had broken into the Netherworld Realm.
• Lin Bai took the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower, sealed it in a jade box, and fled when the Crow warned him that the Wild Bull King was approaching.
• Lin Bai met the Wild Bull King in the passage and used his sword techniques and lightning to knock him aside before escaping.
• Lin Bai passed Xu Cheng, Xiao Jiushan, and their martial artists as they rushed toward the Netherworld Realm, and they initially failed to recognize him.
• Xiao Jiushan connected Lin Bai to the demon’s report, heard the Wild Bull King’s furious pursuit, and ordered everyone to chase Lin Bai.

Lin Bai escaped the Profound Cloud Mountains with the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower, prompting the Heaven Tramplers Alliance and Wild Bull King to search for him. Three days later, Chan'er arrived and helped Wild Bull King understand that recovering the flower could save him from Young Master's anger.

• Lin Bai used the Sword Control Art to escape, while Xiao Jiushan ordered the Heaven Tramplers Alliance to search Demon God Ridge and offered a bounty for his capture.
• Xu Cheng withdrew the Heaven Tramplers Alliance and distributed Lin Bai's portrait to its martial artists.
• Three days later, Chan'er confronted Wild Bull King about the missing Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower.
• Wild Bull King admitted that Lin Bai had taken the matured flower, and Chan'er urged him to recover it to make amends with Young Master.
• Chan'er decided to stay and help Wild Bull King find Lin Bai.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai argued with the Crow over the price of the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower and found himself burdened with an enormous debt. The Crow accepted Lin Bai’s Vermillion Bird Pills and the demonic beast corpses toward payment, but still insisted that Lin Bai owed nearly 140 million pills.

• After three days of healing, Lin Bai recovered most of his injuries and found the Crow calculating the flower’s supposed value.
• The Crow demanded 140 million Vermillion Bird Pills from Lin Bai, who admitted he had almost no money.
• The Crow took Lin Bai’s 957 Vermillion Bird Pills and tried to claim his weapons as further payment, but Lin Bai refused.
• Lin Bai and the Crow argued over whether the demonic beast corpses Lin Bai had killed could count toward his debt.
• Lin Bai and the Crow settled on counting the corpses as 100,000 Vermillion Bird Pills, and the Crow declared Lin Bai still owed 139,898,043 pills.

Lin Bai and the Crow settled their argument over the Vermillion Bird Pills, then continued traveling together as Lin Bai searched for a place to cultivate. When the Crow unexpectedly mentioned Lin Bai’s Devouring Spirit, Lin Bai considered killing him, but the Crow seemed unable to remember why he knew about it.

• Lin Bai and the Crow settled on a debt of 139,890,000 Vermillion Bird Pills after the Crow waived forty-three pills.
• The Crow identified their location as Tiger Hawk Ravine in Six Bloom Mountain of the Fox Tail Mountains and said he would stay with Lin Bai until the debt was repaid.
• Lin Bai set off to hunt demon beasts and continue cultivating, while the Crow noted that the Devouring Spirit made such a place ideal for him.
• Lin Bai became hostile when the Crow mentioned the Devouring Spirit and demanded to know his background.
• The Crow said he only vaguely remembered the term and claimed he cared more about money, proposing that demon beast remains and seized treasures count toward Lin Bai’s debt.
• Lin Bai wondered whether he should kill the Crow, but doubted the Crow was deliberately hiding his knowledge.

Lin Bai took the Crow along to hunt demons and settle its debt, while remaining wary of the Crow’s strange claim about the Giant God Race. At Mount Sheep Horn, Lin Bai killed the Five-Colored Python the Crow had come to avenge itself against.

• Lin Bai agreed to keep the Crow by his side after warning it not to reveal his Devouring Spirit secret, and the Crow declared that the Giant God Race could never win its war against the Heaven Swallowing Race without knowing why.
• The Crow identified a Quasi-Dao Realm Five-Colored Python at Mount Sheep Horn as a target, recalling that it had once chased him for stealing a Dragon Bloom Flower.
• Lin Bai flew north with the Crow, who challenged the Five-Colored Python at its mountain and demanded revenge.
• The Five-Colored Python remembered the Crow’s theft and attacked, while the frightened Crow hid behind Lin Bai and asked him to fight.
• Lin Bai overwhelmed the Five-Colored Python with his swordsmanship and pierced its skull, killing it.

Lin Bai hunted powerful demon beasts with the Crow for half a month, rapidly approaching the Quasi-Dao Realm. The Crow warned him that his Yellow Rank One Martial Soul and Devouring Spirit would make his future lightning tribulation exceptionally dangerous.

• Lin Bai killed the Five-Colored Python, absorbed its demon blood for cultivation, and let the Crow claim its remains to repay his debt.
• The Crow identified another enemy at Heaven Eagle Mountain, and Lin Bai continued hunting Quasi-Dao Realm demon beasts across the Fox Tail Mountains while fleeing whenever they encountered Dao Realm beasts.
• Over half a month, Lin Bai killed nearly five hundred demon beasts and advanced close to the Quasi-Dao Realm, while learning that the Crow had made enemies among nearly every territorial overlord in Demon God Ridge.
• After Lin Bai refined a khaki-colored leopard's demon blood, the Crow said Lin Bai would die if he tried to force his way into the Dao Realm beneath the lightning tribulation.
• The Crow explained that Yellow Rank One Martial Souls rarely reached the Dao Realm and that lightning tribulations were especially deadly to those with a Devouring Spirit, prompting Lin Bai to ask whether their tribulations differed from ordinary ones.

Lin Bai learned how Dao Realm tribulations could turn Martial Soul Secret Methods into Dao Scriptures and considered seeking a place to witness a tribulation. The Crow pointed him toward the dangerous Soul-Seizing Abyss, but Lin Bai continued east to pursue the next enemy while Chan’er learned of his location and set out after him.

• The Crow explained that a martial artist’s spirit merged with the divine pill to become a Dao Fruit, transforming Martial Soul Secret Methods into Dao Scriptures.
• The Crow named Barren Mountain Dragon City and the Soul-Seizing Abyss as places to undergo tribulations, and warned Lin Bai that a Dao Realm Ghost King might emerge from the Abyss.
• Lin Bai asked how to reach the Soul-Seizing Abyss, but the Crow warned that the journey was dangerous and changed the subject to their next target, three hundred thousand miles east.
• A green snake followed Lin Bai and the Crow, then reported their route to Chan’er and the Wild Bull King.
• Chan’er learned that Lin Bai was heading toward Ten Thousand Spirit Mountain and decided to go after him, saying the green snake was no match for him.

Lin Bai and the Crow hunted the Crow’s old enemies across Demon God Ridge, while Chan’er and the Wild Bull King pursued them. After Lin Bai broke through to the Quasi-Dao Realm, the Crow offered a way to find records about the Dao Realm tribulation and hinted that Lin Bai could enter Barren Mountain Dragon City by disguising himself as a demon.

• Lin Bai killed the Amethyst Bear King at Ten Thousand Spirit Mountain, refined its demonic blood, and left with the Crow, while Chan’er and the Wild Bull King arrived and began tracking them.
• For half a month, Lin Bai and the Crow evaded Chan’er and the Wild Bull King as they pursued them around the outskirts of Demon God Ridge.
• After killing a flying beast, Lin Bai broke through from the Great Perfection of the Apex Realm to the Quasi-Dao Realm and realized he needed to learn about the Dao Realm tribulation before attempting it.
• The Crow said Barren Mountain Dragon City held ancient texts about the tribulation, then told Lin Bai he could enter the Demon Race city if he became a demon.

Lin Bai refused the Crow’s offer of a Demon Transformation Pill and planned to return to Silver Moon City to seek texts on Dao Realm tribulations. Chan’er and the Wild Bull King confronted him over the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower, and he and the Crow fled in separate directions as their pursuers split up.

• The Crow offered Lin Bai a Demon Transformation Pill for one million, but Lin Bai rejected it and decided to return to Silver Moon City to seek Dao Realm tribulation texts.
• The Crow protested that Lin Bai would leave him behind, then silently plotted to make Lin Bai seek his help.
• Chan’er and the Wild Bull King found Lin Bai and demanded the Yin-Yang Creation Two-Life Flower he had taken from Dragon King Mountain.
• Lin Bai and the Crow fled in opposite directions, each claiming the other had the flower.
• Chan’er sent the Wild Bull King after the Crow and pursued Lin Bai herself.

Lin Bai fled Chan'er through Demon God Ridge, but when he stopped to fight her, he discovered that she possessed a divine weapon. The battle left the mountains in ruins, and Lin Bai faced an opponent whose weapon far surpassed an Emperor Artifact.

• The crow burned a black feather to escape the Wild Bull King, while Lin Bai flew north with Chan'er pursuing him using her Violet Feather Wings.
• A slovenly old man recognized Lin Bai's Sword Control Art and Chan'er's Violet Feather Wings, then pursued them.
• Unable to shake Chan'er, Lin Bai landed on a mountain and refused to let her inspect his Storage Bag.
• Chan'er attacked Lin Bai, who defended himself with Five-Colored Divine Lightning and fought back with his Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and Demon Sword.
• Chan'er drew an ice-white divine weapon and shattered Lin Bai's sword shadows, leaving him shocked by its power.

Lin Bai was saved from Chan'er by a powerful Slovenly Old Man, who warned him that the Peacock Clan might continue pursuing him. The old man offered to guarantee Lin Bai’s safety if he accompanied him on a journey, and Lin Bai was left to consider the offer.

• Chan'er attacked Lin Bai with a divine weapon, but the Slovenly Old Man knocked her back before she could kill him.
• Chan'er explained that she served An Jing and demanded the divine medicine, but the Slovenly Old Man refused to let her take it and challenged An Jing to come himself.
• Realizing she was no match for the old man, Chan'er apologized and fled.
• The Slovenly Old Man told Lin Bai that the Peacock Clan might pursue him again and asked whether he had been using the Sword Control Art.
• The Slovenly Old Man offered to protect Lin Bai on a journey in exchange for his company.

Lin Bai agreed to accompany Hong Ding to the Soul-Seizing Abyss, where Hong Ding planned to protect an old friend’s descendant during her Tribulation Transcendence Dao Entry. They flew north together as Hong Ding explained the woman’s background and his worries about her chances of surviving the tribulation.

• Lin Bai became interested in witnessing a Dao-entry tribulation and accepted Hong Ding’s offer to travel with him.
• Lin Bai enlarged his Immaculate Flying Sword, and Hong Ding rode it north while promising to handle any Dao Realm demonic beasts in their way.
• Hong Ding introduced himself as Hong Ding and learned that Lin Bai had arrived at the Celestial God Tomb only three or four months earlier.
• Hong Ding said his charge was a direct descendant of the Gu Family whose parents had been killed, and explained that the Soul-Seizing Abyss was one of the few permitted places near Silver Moon City for tribulation.
• Hong Ding revealed that the woman’s weak talent and martial soul made him fear she might not survive the lightning tribulation.

Lin Bai and Hong Ding reached the Soul-Seizing Abyss, where Gu Wen had been preparing for Gu Rong to undergo a lightning tribulation despite her weak Soul and the Gu Family’s refusal to help. Lin Bai recognized Gu Rong as the woman he had once encountered in the Blackwood Forest Sea.

• Hong Ding told Lin Bai that the young woman facing the tribulation had a Heaven-Rank Soul, and answered Lin Bai’s questions as they traveled.
• After seven days of travel, Lin Bai and Hong Ding entered the haunted Soul-Seizing Wasteland and reached the Soul-Seizing Abyss.
• Gu Wen greeted Hong Ding and explained that Gu Rong’s weak talent and Soul made the tribulation dangerous, while the Gu Family refused to provide a protective treasure.
• Hong Ding and Lin Bai found Gu Rong meditating at the abyss’s edge, and she greeted Hong Ding as Uncle Hong Ding.
• Lin Bai recognized Gu Rong as the woman who had been captured alongside him by Tong Yang in the Blackwood Forest Sea.

Lin Bai reunited with Gu Rong at the Soul-Seizing Wasteland and agreed to help Hong Ding and Gu Wen protect her as she prepared to undergo her Dao Tribulation. Gu Rong began gathering herself at the edge of the Soul-Seizing Abyss while Lin Bai watched, hoping to witness the tribulation.

• Gu Rong recognized Lin Bai, whom she had believed the Flood Dragon Serpent had swallowed and killed.
• Gu Rong recounted Lin Bai’s clever escape from Tong Yang and praised his decisive methods, while Hong Ding also commended his abilities.
• Lin Bai explained that he had escaped the Flood Dragon Serpent and agreed to help protect Gu Rong during her tribulation.
• Hong Ding and Gu Wen warned that members of the Peacock Clan or the Gu family might interfere, and promised to detect anyone approaching within a hundred miles.
• Gu Rong sat at the edge of the Soul-Seizing Abyss and began adjusting her energy as Lin Bai watched.

As Gu Rong prepared to undergo her tribulation, Hong Ding explained to Lin Bai the three kinds of Spirit Realm tribulations and the dangers tied to the Heaven's Wrath Tribulation. The chapter left Lin Bai wondering whether the Heaven's Wrath and Supreme Tribulations could strike the same person.

• Gu Rong sat beside the Soul-Seizing Abyss to prepare for her tribulation while Gu Wen, Hong Ding, and Lin Bai watched from a distance.
• Thunderclouds gathered above the abyss, and Gu Wen initially concluded that Gu Rong faced an ordinary tribulation.
• Hong Ding told Lin Bai that ancient records described ordinary tribulations, the Heaven's Wrath Tribulation, and the Supreme Tribulation.
• Hong Ding explained that great sinners could draw the Heaven's Wrath Tribulation, that members of the Heaven Swallowing Race always drew it, and that the Supreme Tribulation heralded a Saint destined for greatness.
• Lin Bai asked whether the Heaven's Wrath and Supreme Tribulations could strike one person, but Hong Ding said he did not know.

Lin Bai learned about the three kinds of tribulations and the Peacock Mirror, a treasure that lets cultivators test their tribulations safely. As Gu Rong’s tribulation began above the Soul-Seizing Abyss, she rose to face the thunderclouds alone.

• Hong Ding explained that Dao Realm breakthroughs required ordinary tribulations, while the Heaven Swallowing Race also had to survive the Heaven’s Wrath Tribulation.
• Hong Ding described the Peacock Mirror, which let members of the Peacock Clan test a tribulation inside a lightning-filled space, and Lin Bai resolved to obtain it.
• Lin Bai wondered where Crow had gone after they separated and whether Wild Bull King had captured him.
• Gu Wen announced that Gu Rong’s tribulation was beginning, and Lin Bai and Hong Ding turned their attention to the Soul-Seizing Abyss.
• Gu Rong rose beneath the roaring tribulation vortex, standing between it and the black qi rising from the Soul-Seizing Abyss.

Gu Rong faced the Nine Roars of the Lightning Tribulation, while Lin Bai was sent to stop intruders from disrupting her tribulation. After Gu Rong took out a jade talisman, Lin Bai intercepted and killed a horde of mindless demon beasts rushing toward the Soul-Seizing Abyss.

• The Soul-Seizing Abyss absorbed some of the Lightning Tribulation's might, but its black aura retreated after the first two roars wounded Gu Rong severely.
• Hong Ding and Gu Wen explained that intervening beneath the tribulation would increase its power and could kill Gu Rong.
• Hong Ding ordered Lin Bai to kill any demon beasts or humans below the Dao Realm that approached within ten thousand miles.
• Lin Bai sensed many auras approaching the Soul-Seizing Abyss and flew across the Soul-Seizing Wasteland to investigate.
• Lin Bai found several hundred Quasi-Dao Realm demon beasts with erased Ling Zhi charging toward the abyss and killed them with his flying swords.

Lin Bai and Gu Wen guarded Gu Rong as she endured her lightning tribulation, while Hong Ding exposed the Peacock Clan’s Kong Qing, who claimed to have come to protect her. Gu Rong was swallowed by the immense final bolt of heavenly thunder, leaving her fate unknown.

• Lin Bai slew hundreds of unintelligent demon beasts and reported that someone had deliberately sent them, but Hong Ding and Gu Wen told him to focus on Gu Rong’s tribulation.
• Gu Rong endured the seventh and eighth thunderclaps, using a Chongyang Pill from Gu Wen to recover; Hong Ding hinted that he had saved a more precious treasure for her.
• Hong Ding discovered Kong Qing and an elder hiding in the void, and Kong Qing claimed he had traveled from Barren Mountain Dragon City to protect Gu Rong.
• After Gu Rong was struck down by the ninth thunderclap, Kong Qing said her weak martial soul and aptitude would make the tribulation especially powerful.
• Gu Rong rose to face the final heavenly thunder, which struck the Soul-Seizing Abyss and swallowed her from sight as Lin Bai watched in terror.