Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai learned that humans, the Demon Race, and ghost cultivators were contending over Moonflower Dew in the Moon Gazing Cave, then waited outside while the other factions entered and fought. When the battle quieted, Lin Bai and the crow prepared to enter and take advantage of the weakened survivors.

• Xu Ci explained that a Ghost King cultivated in the Moon Gazing Cave and that humans and the Demon Race were stalemated outside, each afraid to attack first.
• Lin Bai and the crow stayed back while Gu Yule reached an agreement with the Tiger Demon, and Xu Ci left with his companions to join the others.
• The humans and Demon Race charged into the cave, where black fog engulfed them and a fierce battle began against the ghost cultivators.
• Xu Ci and his companions entered amid the chaos, and an unnoticed woman entered as well.
• After waiting for the fighting to die down, Lin Bai and the crow set off for the Moon Gazing Cave to seize the opportunity.

Lin Bai entered Moon Gazing Cave searching for the Ghost King and found humans and demons fighting over Moonflower Dew at Yue Hua Pool. He rescued Gu Rong from the Black Fox, but the Crow doubted the claim that the Ghost King had been killed.

• Lin Bai entered Moon Gazing Cave, where the Crow used the Soul Refining Banner to absorb fleeing remnant souls.
• Lin Bai heard humans and demons fighting over Yue Hua Pool and found them battling beside the emerald-green pool.
• Lin Bai saw Gu Rong being badly wounded by the Black Fox as she fought to protect the Frost Spirit Sword.
• Lin Bai pierced the Black Fox with sword intent, then pulled Gu Rong to his side and asked what had happened.
• Gu Rong said the Tiger Demon, Gu Yule, and Gu Gongyu had killed a powerful ghost cultivator, but the Crow angrily insisted they could not have killed the Ghost King.

Lin Bai warned the humans and demons that the Ghost King was still alive and hiding beneath Yue Hua Pool. He forced Yue Shuang out of the water, and she attacked him, only to be driven back by his Five Elements Divine Lightning.

• Black Fox told Tiger Demon that Lin Bai had arrived, prompting the demons and humans to stop fighting and gather on opposite sides.
• Tiger Demon questioned whether Lin Bai had wounded Black Fox, while Lin Bai denied being a Gu family disciple and told both sides to keep fighting without minding him.
• Lin Bai warned everyone that the Ghost King had likely faked her death and was waiting for them to exhaust each other.
• Lin Bai called to the calm waters of Yue Hua Pool and gathered the Five Elements Divine Lightning in his palm.
• Yue Shuang, Ghost King, erupted from the pool and revealed her plan to kill everyone after they weakened one another.
• Yue Shuang attacked Lin Bai with black mist, but Lin Bai shattered it with his lightning and forced her to flee aside.

Lin Bai used Five Elements Divine Lightning and the Soul Refining Banner to subdue Yue Shuang, Ghost King, and left Moon Gazing Cave without claiming the Moonflower Dew. The humans and Demon Race members watched in shock as he departed, while Tiger Demon and Black Fox resolved not to provoke him.

• Yue Shuang, Ghost King recoiled from Lin Bai's Divine Lightning as Crow sent the Soul Refining Banner's nine chains after her.
• Yue Shuang, Ghost King unleashed a sound wave that injured the gathered martial artists, then fled toward the cave exit.
• Lin Bai activated the Soul Refining Banner and struck Yue Shuang, Ghost King with the Thunder Seal, leaving her weakened enough for the chains to bind her and drag her into the banner.
• Crow saw Yue Shuang, Ghost King's Soul Body trapped inside the soul-refining space, where a mysterious force began devouring her Ling Zhi.
• Lin Bai declined to compete for the Moonflower Dew and headed for the exit, while Tiger Demon and Black Fox decided not to provoke him.

After Lin Bai subdued the Ghost King Yue Shuang, the humans and demons negotiated over the Moonflower Dew while he withdrew to question her. The chapter ended with the bound Yue Shuang trying to charm Lin Bai, only for the Crow to demand that she call him Grandpa.

• Gu Yule and Gu Gongyu debated Lin Bai’s strength, while Gu Siling reminded them that Senior Hong Ding had chosen him.
• The humans and demons negotiated over the Moonflower Dew instead of fighting, then went their separate ways after leaving the Moon Gazing Cave.
• Lin Bai settled in a mountain ravine and asked the Crow what they should do with the subdued Ghost King.
• The Crow released Yue Shuang from the Soul Refining Banner but kept her bound with nine chains.
• Yue Shuang called Lin Bai “Young master” and tried to entice him, but the Crow ordered her to call him Grandpa.

Lin Bai and the Raven forced Yue Shuang, Ghost King, to reveal her ghost manor and help them find treasures in the Azure Ruins Battlefield. When she denied knowing about other treasures, the Raven exposed her past with the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor, leaving her terrified.

• Yue Shuang, Ghost King, tried to win Lin Bai's sympathy, but he told her to cooperate and listen to the Raven.
• The Raven demanded Yue Shuang hand over her treasures and take them to her ghost manor.
• Yue Shuang claimed her treasures had been taken and denied knowing about a ghost manor, so the Raven struck her with an iron chain.
• Yue Shuang asked whether surrendering the ghost manor would earn her freedom, but the Raven said she must also lead them to other treasures.
• Yue Shuang denied knowing the Azure Ruins Battlefield, and the Raven recounted how the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor had used her before she fled on their wedding day.

The Crow revealed that Yue Shuang had escaped the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor, who had planned to use her Nine Yin Spirit Nurturing Body to produce a Ghost God Child. Yue Shuang agreed to guide Lin Bai and the Crow to treasures, and the Crow began explaining the rare Nine Yin Ghost Physique and Yue Shuang’s unusual nature.

• The Crow told Yue Shuang that the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor had taken her in to cultivate her Nine Yin Spirit Nurturing Body and intended to drain her strength, but she escaped during their wedding.
• The Crow threatened to expose Yue Shuang unless she cooperated, and she agreed to reveal the location of her ghost manor and guide Lin Bai and the Crow to other treasures.
• Yue Shuang willingly entered the Soul Refining Banner, and Lin Bai and the Crow set out for her ghost manor.
• Lin Bai confronted the Crow about knowing Yue Shuang’s origins, and the Crow admitted he had kept the matter secret because it involved too much.
• The Crow explained that the Nine Yin Ghost Physique usually emerged in martial artists after death, but Yue Shuang had developed it as a wandering soul and possessed exceptionally pure Yin Essence.

The Crow explained Yue Shuang’s Nine Yin Spirit Nurturing Body and the Ghost God Child’s extraordinary nature, revealing why the human and Demon races attacked the Azure Ruins Battlefield. He urged Lin Bai to find and protect Yue Shuang so they could take her to the Netherworld and sell her, though Lin Bai resisted treating her as merchandise.

• The Crow told Lin Bai that Yue Shuang’s pure Yin Essence could strengthen his divine soul and that she could give birth to the Ghost God Child, a being with ghost-cultivator talent and eternal life.
• The Crow explained that ghost cultivators were immortal but faced Heaven’s wrath, while the Ghost God Child could escape the laws of heaven and earth and become a godlike power in the Spirit Realm.
• The Crow recounted how Yun Jun’s divination revealed the Ghost God Child’s existence, prompting the human and Demon races to attack the Azure Ruins Battlefield and drive Rakshasa Ghost Emperor and the ghost cultivators away.
• The Crow revealed that Yue Shuang had escaped during the chaos and that the human and Demon races had searched for her, while Rakshasa Ghost Emperor later returned to the Ghost Manor to heal.
• The Crow urged Lin Bai to find Yue Shuang and sell her in the Netherworld, then offered her to Lin Bai for a hundred billion Vermillion Bird Pills if he wanted her to bear the Ghost God Child.

Lin Bai and Raven brought Yue Shuang to her hidden ghost mansion, where she revealed her treasure vault. As Raven collected the decayed weapons, Lin Bai discovered a green jade fragment that had stirred an unknown power within him.

• Raven explained how Yue Shuang's Nine Yin Spirit Nurturing Body had led the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor to cultivate her for his plans, and how she escaped during an attack on his wedding banquet.
• Lin Bai followed Raven to a hidden chamber beneath a cliff, where Yue Shuang opened the entrance to her ghost mansion.
• Yue Shuang led Lin Bai and Raven to her treasure vault and said she had stored treasures she secretly found at Monarch's Slope.
• Raven began collecting the mostly decayed Divine Weapons and offered Lin Bai one item, while Lin Bai noticed a green jade fragment that affected him.
• Yue Shuang said she had taken the green jade from the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor, who had treasured it, and Raven's pupils contracted as he examined it.

Lin Bai recognized Yue Shuang’s green jade as a fragment he had been searching for, but the crow refused to explain its origin. Lin Bai kept the fragment and left Yue Shuang’s Ghost Manor with the crow after it looted the treasures.

• Yue Shuang told Lin Bai that the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor had worn the green jade close to his body and that she had taken it while escaping.
• The crow tried to trade Lin Bai several treasures for the jade, but Lin Bai refused and asked whether it was one of the fragments.
• The crow’s shocked reaction convinced Lin Bai that the green jade was a fragment, though the crow would not reveal what it knew.
• Lin Bai kept the fragment, and the crow gave up trying to obtain it.
• The crow swept the treasures from Yue Shuang’s Ghost Manor into its storage, and Lin Bai left on his flying sword half a day later.

Lin Bai found Gu Rong and Xu Ci hiding in a valley after the Three-Headed Hound Clan attacked them and killed Xu Ci’s companions. As Gou Hong arrived and attacked the valley, Gu Rong prepared to hold him off while Xu Ci begged Lin Bai for help.

• Lin Bai found Gu Rong, Xu Ci, and several wounded martial artists recovering in a valley.
• Xu Ci explained that Gou Hong and the Three-Headed Hound Clan had hunted the humans after they left Moon Gazing Cave, killing Xu Ci’s companions.
• Xu Ci asked Lin Bai to teach Gou Hong a lesson, but Lin Bai warned Gu Rong that he had planned to leave Monarch’s Slope and asked about Gou Hong’s strength.
• Gou Hong appeared in the sky as a gigantic Three-Headed Mastiff and attacked the valley with a thunderbolt.
• Xu Ci begged Lin Bai to save them, while Gu Rong drew her Frost Spirit Sword and told Lin Bai to flee as she held Gou Hong back.

Lin Bai used the God Seal to defeat and kill Gou Hong, the Three-Headed Mastiff, despite his apparent Quasi-Dao Realm cultivation. After claiming the demon’s Dao Fruit, he told Gu Rong and Xu Ci he was leaving Monarch’s Slope and warned them to be careful.

• Gu Rong urged Lin Bai to flee from Gou Hong, but Lin Bai stepped forward to face the Three-Headed Mastiff.
• Lin Bai’s initial sword attacks failed to harm Gou Hong, so he activated the God Seal and raised his strength to the One-Calamity Dao Realm.
• Lin Bai severed Gou Hong’s first head, then split its thunder and flames before cutting off its remaining two heads.
• Lin Bai took Gou Hong’s Dao Fruit, and the Crow stored the demon’s corpse in its Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai told Gu Rong and Xu Ci that he was leaving Monarch’s Slope and advised them to be careful.

Lin Bai traveled to Red Leaf Valley in the Tomb Mountain Range to search for the South Clarity Dao Lord’s inheritance, despite Yue Shuang’s warning about powerful ghost cultivators in the region. He found no clues and left after encountering five guarded visitors from Tianyi City.

• Lin Bai warned Gu Rong and Xu Ci to stay alert after killing Gou Hong, then left Monarch's Slope for Red Leaf Valley.
• Yue Shuang told Lin Bai that Red Leaf Valley lay in the Tomb Mountain Range, where a Seven Tribulations Dao Realm ghost cultivator served the Asura Ghost Emperor.
• Lin Bai crossed the mountain range and followed a drifting red leaf to Red Leaf Valley.
• Lin Bai searched the valley for most of the day but found no trace of the South Clarity Dao Lord’s inheritance.
• Lin Bai encountered three men and two women from Tianyi City, smiled to show no hostile intent, and walked away.
• Wu Xuan said Lin Bai seemed like a visitor, but a long-faced young man warned her that he could be a wolf in human skin.

Lin Bai searched Red Leaf Valley for the South Clarity Dao Lord’s cave residence and inheritance, while the Crow insisted the valley held no treasure. On the second night, a frigid yin aura revealed a towering mountain that Lin Bai had never seen there before.

• Lin Bai searched Red Leaf Valley through the day and rested beside a stream as the Crow said the valley showed no sign of treasure.
• Lin Bai decided to keep searching for two or three more days before leaving for another location.
• Lin Bai encountered Wu Xuan, Liu Hang, and their companions, who debated whether he was a dangerous hidden enemy.
• Lin Bai spent the next night deducing the valley’s clues while the Crow complained beside him.
• The Crow sensed something unusual, and Lin Bai detected a frigid yin aura spreading from the east.
• Lin Bai rushed toward the aura and saw a newly appeared mountain bearing two faintly lit places.

Lin Bai climbed the newly appeared mountain and found Liu Hang rampaging in a courtyard after reading a book. Wu Xuan told Lin Bai that Liu Hang had killed three companions, and Lin Bai turned his attention to the room where the book lay.

• Lin Bai climbed the ancient mountain path while the Crow collected wandering souls with the Soul Refining Banner.
• Lin Bai reached a thatched cottage and courtyard, where an oil lamp glowed with eerie green light.
• Lin Bai entered the courtyard and saw Liu Hang slashing wildly beside the bodies of Xiao Wu, Li Le, and Tang Chui, while Wu Xuan lay gravely wounded.
• Wu Xuan asked Lin Bai to save Liu Hang and explained that he had gone mad after picking up a book in a small room.
• Lin Bai looked toward the room containing the book.

Lin Bai rescued Liu Hang after the Southern Bright Sword Sutra’s Dao intent drove him into a frenzy, then realized the tome was a dangerous decoy rather than the true inheritance. He warned Wu Xuan to leave the mountain before dawn and continued toward the summit to seek the real sword sutra.

• Wu Xuan told Lin Bai that Liu Hang had gone berserk after opening an ancient tome in the cottage, and the Crow explained that its Dao intent had caused cultivation deviation.
• Lin Bai subdued Liu Hang and destroyed the Dao intent in his body, leaving him unconscious but safe.
• Lin Bai identified the tome as the fake Southern Bright Sword Sutra and reasoned that the true inheritance lay farther up the mountain.
• Lin Bai stored the tome, warned Wu Xuan to take Liu Hang down the mountain before dawn, and headed for the summit.

Lin Bai read the South Clarity Dao Lord's sword inheritance by sustaining his sword intent, then discovered a hidden chamber containing a skeleton and a Dao Divine Weapon. The Crow rushed into the chamber toward the sword.

• Wu Xuan carried the unconscious Liu Hang down the mountain while Lin Bai reached the mountaintop and examined an oil lamp sustained by Dao intent.
• Lin Bai opened the Southern Bright Sword Sutra and used his sword intent to reveal its writing, learning that he had to keep his sword intent from faltering to continue reading.
• Lin Bai read the sword techniques and cultivation insights in the sutra, recognizing that his sword heart let him master the techniques with little effort.
• A secret door opened behind Lin Bai, revealing a skeleton seated with a dust-covered long sword across its knees.
• The Crow recognized the sword as a Dao Divine Weapon and shot into the hidden chamber.

Lin Bai obtained the South Clarity Dao Lord’s inheritance in Red Leaf Valley, while the Crow secretly took the Dao Divine Weapon. The Crow tried to bargain to keep the sword, and Lin Bai left him to reconsider the price.

• The Crow snatched the Dao Divine Weapon from the South Clarity Dao Lord’s skeleton and returned to Lin Bai’s shoulder.
• Lin Bai paid his respects to the South Clarity Dao Lord, took the ancient texts, and left the mountain before it vanished at sunrise.
• Lin Bai settled at the empty wooden houses by a stream and demanded that the Crow show him the Dao Divine Weapon.
• The Crow claimed the sword was his, while Lin Bai argued that the South Clarity Dao Lord’s trial had meant it should have been his inheritance.
• Lin Bai offered to trade the sword for the Crow’s debt of three hundred million Vermillion Bird Pills, and the Crow unsuccessfully tried to bargain the discount down to twenty million.

Lin Bai obtained South Clarity Dao Lord’s Dao Divine Weapon, Bright Moon, from the Crow as a loan and began restoring its dormant spirituality. After three days of awakening it, he had revived one-tenth of its power and continued the demanding process.

• The Crow agreed to lend Lin Bai a Dao Divine Weapon on the condition that Lin Bai owed him one billion Vermillion Bird Pills.
• Lin Bai cleaned the rust from the sword and discovered its name, Bright Moon, engraved on the blade.
• Lin Bai tested Bright Moon and found it stronger than his demon sword, though its power was below his expectations because its spirituality had withered.
• The Crow explained that Lin Bai could awaken Bright Moon’s spirituality with his sword heart and sword intent, though the process would take time.
• After three days of channeling sword intent into Bright Moon, Lin Bai had awakened one-tenth of its spirituality and estimated that full recovery would take about a month.

Lin Bai stayed in Red Leaf Valley to awaken the Bright Moon Sword’s spirituality while the Crow grew restless and went treasure hunting with Yue Shuang’s guidance. Two days later, the Crow returned with the Four Seas Pearl, dismissing the powerful treasure as a lousy bead.

• Lin Bai remained in the wooden cabin, working to restore the Bright Moon Sword’s spirituality, while the bored Crow complained about waiting.
• The Crow released Yue Shuang, who recognized the Dao Divine Weapon’s sword might and described how the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor had weakened his own black saber before claiming it.
• Yue Shuang told the Crow about the Four Seas Pearl held by Song Wu, a Three Tribulation Dao Realm ghost cultivator at Lotus Mountain.
• The Crow stored Yue Shuang in the Soul Refining Banner and flew off to seek the pearl after telling Lin Bai he was going for a stroll.
• Two days later, the Crow returned with the Four Seas Pearl and called it a lousy bead, leaving Yue Shuang to ask whether he had killed Song Wu.