Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai helped the Demon Sword absorb the spirituality of weapons in the Sea of Weapons until it became a peerless Divine Weapon, drawing the attention of powerful experts. He and the Crow then detected the location of another Divine Weapon and hurried to reach it first.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to drain the weapons in a new region, and the Demon Sword broke through to the Divine Weapon level.
• The Crow warned Lin Bai that people were approaching, so Lin Bai hid the Demon Sword and left before the Gu family members arrived.
• Gu Citian, the Gu family's former top genius, searched for the owner of the peerless Divine Weapon as human, demon, and ghost experts converged on the Sea of Weapons.
• Lin Bai carried the Demon Sword in the Blackwood Scabbard so his Dao intent could nourish it toward becoming a Dao Divine Weapon.
• Lin Bai and the Crow sensed the location of another Divine Weapon and rushed to reach it before the other experts.

Lin Bai and the Crow tracked a hidden spirit treasure from the Sea of Weapons toward the Skull Mountains, where Violet Lightning struck as Lin Bai tried to stop it. The treasure escaped into the mountains, and Lin Bai reached the last place it had appeared while continuing the pursuit.

• Lin Bai and the Crow sensed a faint spiritual fluctuation, then followed its trail as powerful experts from several races converged on the same location.
• The treasure repeatedly fled underground, and the Crow guided Lin Bai in pursuit as it veered across the Sea of Weapons.
• When Lin Bai tried to block its escape near the Skull Mountains, Violet Lightning struck and forced him to dodge, allowing the treasure to flee into the mountains.
• Lin Bai pursued the treasure into the Skull Mountains, where the Crow spotted its trail and noticed ghost cultivators cultivating amid the sinister energy.
• Lin Bai landed on a Lonely Mountain where the treasure had last appeared and asked whether that was its final location.

Lin Bai followed the vanished treasure trail into a hidden cavern on Lonely Mountain and discovered a vast underground palace. A mysterious voice inside restrained him and addressed the Crow, asking whether their old agreement still stood.

• Lin Bai and the Crow followed the treasure trail to Lonely Mountain, where it disappeared, while other treasure hunters also failed to track it.
• Lin Bai found a hidden cavern and descended through a deep, foul-smelling passage despite suspecting a ghost cultivator lived there.
• Lin Bai discovered a vast underground palace and approached its gate, which bore the words "Die and Live."
• A voice inside the palace recognized the Crow and magically immobilized Lin Bai.
• The Crow recognized the voice as an old acquaintance, and the palace's occupant asked whether their agreement from long ago still counted.

Lin Bai was trapped before a palace beneath the Skull Mountains and forced by Huang Tian to guard its hall while Huang Tian cultivated. After gaining the power of Huang Tian’s Dao Fruit, Lin Bai drove back an intruder as Gu Citian and the others arrived, leaving them wary of the young man guarding the palace.

• Huang Tian asked the crow whether their old agreement still stood, then threatened to kill Lin Bai before the crow warned him not to harm Lin Bai.
• Huang Tian ordered Lin Bai to kill anyone who entered the plaza and lent him the power of his Dao Fruit, warning that it would vanish if Lin Bai left.
• Gu Citian, Centipede Daoist, General Gu Xi, and others entered the plaza, and a burly Five Tribulation Dao Realm man charged at Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai struck the burly man with Demon Sword and sent him flying out of the plaza, then warned the newcomers not to approach the hall.
• Gu Citian recognized Lin Bai as the young man Hong Ding had recommended to accompany the Gu family disciples into the Azure Ruins Battlefield.

Lin Bai faced more than twenty powerful cultivators who gathered outside the palace, coveting its treasures and the Divine Weapon in his hand. As they attacked, Lin Bai and Crow discussed their options and Crow revealed that he had once tricked the weakened ghost cultivator hidden inside the palace.

• Centipede Daoist and a ghost cultivator questioned Lin Bai about the treasure from the Sea of Weapons, but Lin Bai stayed silent.
• Gu Xi recognized the Divine Weapon in Lin Bai's hand, and the gathered factions grew eager to claim it and raid the palace.
• A demon from the Boundless Wasteland transformed into an iron-armored battle bear and attacked Lin Bai, prompting the other powerhouses, including Gu Citian and Gu Xi, to charge.
• Lin Bai asked Crow whether the ghost cultivator would let him leave after helping him, and Crow suggested absorbing the ghost cultivator's Dao Fruit to escape.
• Crow told Lin Bai how he had deceived the ghost cultivator, destroyed his physical body, and left him to survive by cultivating a ghost body.
• Lin Bai looked up as an attacker brought a blade and axe down toward him.

Lin Bai fought the gathered cultivators as the palace’s Dao Fruit power strengthened him, while Gu Citian realized Lin Bai was acting against his will and left to protect the entrance. The battle continued with Lin Bai cutting down his attackers, and Gu Citian concealed the passage outside.

• The chapter revealed that the crow had lured a Nine Tribulation Dao Realm powerhouse into a trap, leaving his soul to become a ghost cultivator.
• Lin Bai absorbed the palace’s Dao Fruit power and killed a Five Tribulation Dao Realm attacker with one sword strike.
• Lin Bai charged into the crowd and killed more than ten powerhouses as the assembled cultivators attacked him.
• Gu Citian secretly asked Lin Bai what had happened, and Lin Bai warned him to leave because he might be forced to kill him.
• Gu Citian left the palace, concealed its entrance with a formation, and promised to stop others from entering.
• Lin Bai continued fighting the remaining cultivators as the Dao Fruit power sustained his growing strength.

Lin Bai defeated General Gu Xi and the other attackers, then absorbed their Dao Fruit power to form his third God Seal and begin condensing a fourth. He fled the Underground Palace after its inhabitant attacked him, leaving the palace’s master vowing revenge once his ghost body was complete.

• Lin Bai shattered Gu Xi’s military dragon formation and killed General Gu Xi with the Demon Sword, while Centipede Daoist escaped after being cut in two.
• The remaining Lingxiao City soldiers fled, and the Ancient Dao Divine Scripture refined the fallen experts’ Dao Fruits into Lin Bai’s third God Seal.
• Lin Bai absorbed more Dao Fruit power despite the palace inhabitant demanding it back, solidifying his third God Seal and beginning to form a fourth.
• The palace inhabitant reached out with a ghostly green palm, and the Crow warned Lin Bai to run.
• Lin Bai escaped the Underground Palace after the palm struck him and collapsed the passage, while the palace inhabitant vowed to kill him after forming his ghost body.

Lin Bai escaped the collapsing mountain after surviving the palace’s control and recovered from his injuries under Gu Citian’s protection. As they parted from the Sea of Weapons, Gu Citian revealed that the greatest treasures lay in the ghost residences of the Ghost Emperors.

• Lin Bai escaped the collapsing mountain and left the Sea of Weapons with Gu Citian.
• Lin Bai spent three days healing while Gu Citian stood guard, then explained what had happened in the palace.
• Gu Citian said he had protected Lin Bai and explained why he had withdrawn rather than fight him for the Divine Weapon.
• Lin Bai said he planned to leave the Sea of Weapons, and Gu Citian explained that the richest treasures were in the Ghost Emperors’ residences.

Gu Citian explained that the Eighteen Levels Palace held treasures placed there by the three Ghost Emperors, though it was extremely dangerous for those who entered. Lin Bai joined Gu Citian on the journey into the depths of the Azure Ruins Battlefield, where they headed to meet the Gu family outside the palace.

• Gu Citian told Lin Bai that the three Ghost Emperors had taken most of the Azure Ruins Battlefield's treasures and discarded defective weapons in the Wasted Sword Plains and Sea of Weapons.
• Gu Citian explained that the Ghost Emperors placed treasures in the Eighteen Levels Palace to keep intruders away from their ghost residences, and that even powerful cultivators faced grave danger inside.
• Lin Bai became interested in the palace after learning that Hong Ding's Azure Lotus Pagoda had come from there, and asked Gu Citian to take him along.
• Gu Citian warned Lin Bai that he would not be able to protect him if trouble arose, and Lin Bai agreed to fend for himself.
• Lin Bai and Gu Citian traveled for five or six days through the Azure Ruins Battlefield, overcame those who blocked their way, and reached the depths.
• Gu Citian contacted the Gu family powerhouses and, learning that they were waiting outside the Eighteen Levels Palace, hurried there with Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Gu Citian reached the Eighteen Levels Palace, where Elder Gu He explained its dangers and how its levels were organized. They learned that cultivators from the human race, the Demon Race, and the ghost cultivators had already split up to search the different levels.

• Lin Bai and Gu Citian traveled through the Ghost Emperors’ territory and arrived at the Eighteen Levels Palace.
• Elder Gu He met them, questioned why Gu Citian had brought Lin Bai into the depths, and led them inside.
• Gu He explained that the palace’s islands were called Life Island and Dead Island, and warned them that the Water of Lifelessness and Dead Island were dangerous.
• Gu He told Lin Bai and Gu Citian that treasures lay on Dead Island and that the palace’s higher levels held better treasures.
• Gu He explained that the human race, the Demon Race, and the ghost cultivators had divided their forces among the levels, with some already searching the Second and Third Level Palaces.

Lin Bai and Gu Citian joined the Gu family on Life Island, where the elders discussed the dangers and missing treasure on Dead Island. The Gu family sent two elders back to investigate, while Lin Bai stayed behind wondering where the treasure was hidden.

• Gu He led Lin Bai and Gu Citian to the mountain occupied by the Nine Great Families of Silver Moon City and introduced how the different forces on Life Island kept to themselves.
• The Gu family elders explained that they were trying to break through the deadlock on Dead Island, where its poisonous swamps and vicious souls had thwarted their search.
• The elders described how vicious souls, including Blade Dao Soul, defended the island’s treasures and had killed or wounded experts from several forces.
• Gu He said the treasure had not been found despite a month of searching, though its glow showed it had not yet been taken.
• Gu He sent two elders into Dead Island to investigate again, while Lin Bai and Gu Citian remained with the Gu family.

Lin Bai learned from the Crow that Eighteen Levels Palace was actually the Dao Divine Weapon Fuling Pagoda, once used by Fuling Dao Lord to imprison powerful warriors. The Crow hinted that he wanted to take it, while Lin Bai warned that the Three Ghost Emperors would retaliate.

• Lin Bai watched warriors return from Dead Island as the Gu Family elders repeatedly refused to let Gu Citian go there.
• The Crow told Lin Bai that the treasures in the upper nine levels of Eighteen Levels Palace were the most valuable.
• The Crow revealed that Eighteen Levels Palace was the Fuling Pagoda, a Dao Divine Weapon that imprisoned powerful warriors.
• The Crow explained that Fuling Dao Lord had used the pagoda in battle before dying to the Heaven Swallowing Race, after which the Three Ghost Emperors found it and placed it in the tomb.
• Lin Bai warned the Crow that taking the Fuling Pagoda would provoke the Three Ghost Emperors, but the Crow challenged him to consider its value.

Lin Bai agreed to pursue the Fuling Pagoda after learning it could help him defend against the Giant God Race, though claiming it required defeating Fuling Dao Lord’s powerful remnant soul. He set out alone for Dead Island to investigate a route through the Eighteen Levels Palace toward the pagoda’s final level.

• The crow persuaded Lin Bai to consider taking the Fuling Pagoda by reminding him it could protect him from the Giant God Race, and Lin Bai asked how to control it.
• The crow explained that Fuling Dao Lord’s remnant soul guarded the pagoda’s final level and could possess Eight or Nine Tribulation Dao Realm strength.
• After two days without finding a solution, Lin Bai told Gu Citian he was going to Dead Island, and Gu Citian wished him well.
• Lin Bai crossed the Skybridge alone and entered Dead Island, where he saw a desolate landscape filled with decay.

Lin Bai and the Crow deduced that the treasure hidden on the Dead Island was likely carried by its strongest ghost cultivator, Blade Dao Soul. Lin Bai found Blade Dao Soul facing a handsome man in a barren mountain range, and the two appeared to be competing in martial arts.

• Lin Bai used the Thunder Seal to drive off a Three Tribulations Dao realm ghost cultivator.
• After searching half the Dead Island without finding anything, Lin Bai asked the Crow to help locate the treasure.
• The Crow reasoned that the treasure was probably on either the strongest or most timid ghost cultivator, and Lin Bai concluded it was likely on Blade Dao Soul.
• Lin Bai followed Blade Dao Soul's powerful Killing Intent to a barren mountain range and found him facing a handsome man.
• Blade Dao Soul spotted Lin Bai hiding in the clouds, so Lin Bai came out and watched the two men competing in martial arts.

Lin Bai watched Blade Dao Soul battle a handsome man from the Snow Finch Clan of the Great Snow Mountain. Blade Dao Soul gained the upper hand and prepared to kill his wounded opponent, while Lin Bai remained nearby.

• Lin Bai recognized Blade Dao Soul and suspected that the handsome man was from the Demon Race of the Great Snow Mountain.
• Blade Dao Soul dismissed Lin Bai and resumed his duel with the handsome man, while Lin Bai retreated to watch.
• Blade Dao Soul and the handsome man traded powerful attacks that devastated the surrounding mountains, and Lin Bai judged them stronger than the other Five Tribulation Dao Realm experts he had encountered.
• After dozens of exchanges, Blade Dao Soul wounded the handsome man and sent him crashing into a massive pit.
• The handsome man warned Lin Bai to flee, but Blade Dao Soul struck again, sent him skidding across the ground, and approached to finish him off.

Lin Bai stopped Blade Dao Soul from killing a wounded handsome man and learned that Blade Dao Soul carried a Five Elements Dao Bone. Crow explained that the bone was linked to the Five Elements Dao Body Chapter, a continuation of the scripture Lin Bai had been cultivating, leaving Lin Bai with an opportunity to pursue it.

• Lin Bai blocked Blade Dao Soul's attack and stood between him and the wounded handsome man.
• Blade Dao Soul admitted that he carried the treasure and revealed a five-colored pearl.
• Crow identified the pearl as a Five Elements Dao Bone and explained the Five Elements Scripture's known chapters and the Dao Body Chapter's purpose.
• Crow said Lin Bai might use the bone to deduce the Dao Body Chapter, but warned him that completing the Five Elements Scripture was extremely difficult.
• Lin Bai remembered Ling Tianzi's advice about the Grand Five Elements Art and resolved to continue cultivating the Five Elements Scripture.

Lin Bai learned that the Five Elements Scripture had no complete chapters and heard the Crow’s account of the legendary Five Elements Immortal. Blade Dao Soul then challenged Lin Bai over the Five Elements Dao Bone, and Lin Bai wounded him with Five Elements Divine Lightning, leaving Blade Dao Soul wary.

• The Crow told Lin Bai that no one had ever found complete chapters of the Five Elements Scripture and shared the rumor that the Five Elements Immortal created it.
• The Crow explained that immortals were titles for the powerful and urged Lin Bai to find his own path; he also claimed that treasures let him defeat stronger opponents despite his Divine Core Realm cultivation.
• Blade Dao Soul revealed that he had the Five Elements Dao Bone and challenged Lin Bai to take it.
• Lin Bai attacked Blade Dao Soul with his sword, then struck him with Five Elements Divine Lightning using the Thunder Seal.
• Lin Bai demanded that Blade Dao Soul surrender the treasure or be destroyed, and Blade Dao Soul grew wary of the lightning that had burned him.

Lin Bai survived Blade Dao Soul’s treacherous attack and killed him with the Five Thunder Righteous Method. He claimed the Five Elements Dao Bone and Blade Dao Soul’s saber.

• Blade Dao Soul pretended to surrender the Five Elements Dao Bone while secretly gathering power for a killing strike.
• Blade Dao Soul’s saber attack swallowed Lin Bai in a cloud of dust, and he believed he had killed him.
• Lin Bai emerged from the smoke and trapped Blade Dao Soul with the Thunder Seal and Five Elements Divine Lightning.
• Lin Bai’s five divine thunderbolts destroyed Blade Dao Soul’s Soul Body and blasted a ten-mile area into a scorched pit.
• Lin Bai collected the Five Elements Dao Bone and Blade Dao Soul’s saber.

Lin Bai killed Blade Dao Soul, claimed the Five Elements Dao Bone, and gave the black blade to the crow before leaving Dead Island. As the factions arrived, they found Snow Changtian alone at the devastated battlefield and suspected that he had taken the treasure.

• Lin Bai explained that Blade Dao Soul had forced him to kill him, kept the Five Elements Dao Bone, and gave the black blade to the crow.
• Snow Changtian thanked Lin Bai for saving him, and Lin Bai flew away after saying he had no reason to remain on the first level.
• Gu He and the Gu Family elders headed toward the battlefield after the radiance around Dead Island vanished, while Gu He explained the Human Race and Silver Moon City alliances to Gu Citian.
• The Gu Family reached the crater and found experts from the Human Race, ghost cultivators, and Demon Race gathered around Snow Changtian.
• The arriving factions recognized Snow Changtian as a member of the Demon Race and began to regard him as the likely treasure holder.

The gathered factions suspected that Xue Changtian had taken Blade Dao Soul’s treasure, but the Snow Finch Clan said a Quasi-Dao Realm sword cultivator had killed Blade Dao Soul and taken it. Gu Citian suspected Lin Bai, who had already reached the second level and discovered its treasure was gone.

• Gu He learned from the Nangong Lineage that Xue Changtian was the only person found near Blade Dao Soul’s remains and suspected he had the treasure.
• The Snow Finch Clan elders told the gathered cultivators that Xue Changtian had not taken the treasure and that a Quasi-Dao Realm sword cultivator had killed Blade Dao Soul and claimed it.
• Gu Citian recognized that Lin Bai was the only Quasi-Dao Realm warrior he knew in the Eighteen Levels Palace and suspected he was the sword cultivator.
• After the factions questioned the Snow Finch Clan for half a day, Xue Changtian let them inspect his Storage Bag, and the gathered warriors gradually dispersed.
• Xue Changtian left Dead Island with the elders, but unknown factions attacked them along the way.
• Lin Bai reached the second level and found that the halo above Dead Island had vanished, showing someone had already taken its treasure.