Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai refined the Five Elements Dao Bone and gained an incomplete portion of the Five Elements Dao Body Chapter, which suggested that cultivating the body could let a warrior travel through chaos without relying on spiritual power. He suspected the remaining Dao Bones might be in the tomb of the Three Thousand Dao Lord and planned to investigate after leaving the Azure Ruins Battlefield, but he remained unsure whether it was safe to cultivate the incomplete scripture.

• Lin Bai passed from the first level of the Eighteen Levels Palace to the quiet second level and paused on Life Island to study the Five Elements Dao Bone.
• Lin Bai refined the Five Elements Dao Bone and received about one-third of the Five Elements Dao Body Chapter.
• Lin Bai wondered whether the three great Ghost Emperors held the other Dao Bones, while the Crow suggested they were in the tomb of the Three Thousand Dao Lord.
• Lin Bai decided to investigate the Three Thousand Dao Lord's tomb after leaving the Azure Ruins Battlefield.
• Lin Bai read the incomplete scripture and learned that cultivating the body could allow a warrior to cross chaos without spiritual power, but he feared that practicing the incomplete method could cause cultivation deviation.

Lin Bai resolved to cultivate the Five Elements Dao Body despite the immense resources it required and decided to search the Celestial God Tomb for its complete chapter. He reached the third level of the Eighteen Levels Palace, where the treasure still appeared to be waiting.

• Lin Bai considered the Five Elements Dao Body's costs and power, then chose to continue cultivating the Five Elements Scripture to prepare for the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai decided that he needed the complete Five Elements Dao Body Chapter, which he believed lay in the Celestial God Tomb's treasure trove.
• Lin Bai told Crow to collect every five-elements spiritual object, medicine, and pill for him, while Crow could keep other treasures that Lin Bai did not need.
• Lin Bai crossed the second level and teleported to Life Island on the third level of the Eighteen Levels Palace.
• Lin Bai saw halos around Dead Island and concluded that the third-level treasure had not yet been taken.

Lin Bai entered Dead Island on the Eighteen Levels Palace’s third level and used Ghost Shadow to locate a gathering of powerful cultivators concealed by an array. He watched four cultivators attack a trapped ghost cultivator, suspecting the fight concerned the level’s treasure, while another observer waited nearby.

• Lin Bai asked Ghost Shadow to find the treasure quickly, and Ghost Shadow spotted powerful cultivators gathered far to the northwest.
• Lin Bai reached the mountains and used the Martial Soul Secret Method to see through an array concealing five injured Five Tribulation Dao Realm cultivators.
• Lin Bai saw two humans, a demon, and a ghost surrounding another ghost cultivator, while Ghost Shadow urged him to wait for both sides to weaken.
• Lin Bai noticed another ghostly observer watching from a distant mountain and refused Ghost Shadow’s demand to attack it.
• The two humans, the demon, and the ghost joined forces against the trapped ghost cultivator, and Lin Bai suspected the treasure was in the ghost’s possession or that it knew where it was.

Lin Bai pursued the wounded ghost cultivator and defeated it with his sword and Five Elements Divine Lightning. He demanded that it surrender its treasure or provide clues in exchange for its life, leaving the ghost cultivator to choose.

• A Tianyi City martial artist struck the ghost cultivator with a Lightning Attraction Talisman, forcing it to flee after the attack weakened its Soul Body.
• The Crow explained to Lin Bai that powerful Command Talismans required experts with deep attainments and said the talisman likely came from a Nine Tribulation Dao Realm master.
• Lin Bai pursued the fleeing ghost cultivator, knocked it out of its escape path with the Immaculate Flying Sword, and forced it into a forest.
• The ghost cultivator attacked Lin Bai, but the God Seals on his chest unleashed a sword strike that blasted it away and frightened it.
• Lin Bai summoned Five Elements Divine Lightning and demanded that the ghost cultivator surrender its treasure or provide clues, or be beaten until he took them himself.

Lin Bai pressured a ghost cultivator guarding a treasure in the Eighteen Levels Palace, then used the Crow's Soul Refining Banner to make him surrender. The ghost cultivator agreed to help Lin Bai collect the other treasures, while Lin Bai planned to take the palace out of the Azure Ruins Battlefield.

• Lin Bai offered the ghost cultivator a choice, but the ghost cultivator resolved to fight because the three Ghost Emperors would kill him if he lost the treasure.
• Lin Bai told the ghost cultivator he intended to take the Eighteen Levels Palace away from the Azure Ruins Battlefield and promised to spare his life.
• The Crow used the Soul Refining Banner's chains to bind and drag the ghost cultivator toward the banner.
• The ghost cultivator begged for mercy and offered to reveal the locations and guardians of the other treasures, so Lin Bai stopped the Crow.
• The ghost cultivator handed Lin Bai a yellow-wood divine flute, which Lin Bai gave to the Crow, and agreed to help collect the remaining treasures.

Lin Bai took Xia Song's flute divine weapon, forced him to cooperate in collecting the Eighteen Levels Palace, and sealed him inside the Soul Refining Banner, where Xia Song recognized Yue Shuang. When pursuers arrived and grew suspicious of Lin Bai, he blocked a ghost cultivator's attack, exposing his strength and provoking the group to confront him.

• Lin Bai gave Xia Song's flute divine weapon to the Crow and secured Xia Song's help collecting the Eighteen Levels Palace in exchange for sparing his life and the lives of any ghost cultivators who submitted.
• Lin Bai confined Xia Song in the Soul Refining Banner, where Xia Song recognized Yue Shuang and the Crow warned him not to harm or expose her.
• A group of martial artists and ghost cultivators arrived searching for Xia Song, and Lin Bai tried to leave without drawing their attention.
• When a ghost cultivator attacked Lin Bai, he cut apart the ghostly strike with his Demon Sword, revealing that he was stronger than an ordinary Quasi-Dao Realm martial artist.
• The others blocked Lin Bai's path, and he coldly warned them that they were courting death.

Lin Bai faced five Five Tribulation Dao Realm experts who sought a treasure, then defeated the two ghost cultivators and the Three-Headed Mastiff with his divine lightning and sword. The two Tianyi City martial artists withdrew, leaving Lin Bai to wonder what the Human Race's chain of interests meant.

• Two Tianyi City martial artists, two ghost cultivators, and a demon surrounded Lin Bai and demanded the treasure.
• Lin Bai used Five-Colored Divine Lightning to badly injure one ghost cultivator and kill the other.
• Lin Bai dodged the Three-Headed Mastiff’s attacks, severed one of its heads, then split its body with his sword.
• The injured ghost cultivator died, and Lin Bai refined the three Dao Fruits into nourishment for his fourth God Seal.
• The Tianyi City martial artists decided not to fight Lin Bai and left, while Lin Bai wondered about the Human Race’s chain of interests.

Lin Bai reached the fourth level of the Eighteen Levels Palace to claim its treasure and found Tiger, a powerful ghost cultivator, daring all three paths to challenge him. The Crow revealed that Tiger’s black boulder was an ordinary stone and guessed the real treasure was on Tiger himself.

• Lin Bai left the third level after deciding his strength could contend with Five Tribulation Dao Realm cultivators, then traveled to the fourth level with Xia Song and the Crow.
• Xia Song warned Lin Bai that Tiger was cruel, bloodthirsty, and difficult to control, so Lin Bai decided to find him and use force if necessary.
• Xia Song led Lin Bai to Ping Tian Cliff, where Tiger stood on a platform and challenged anyone seeking the treasure to defeat him.
• Lin Bai heard that Tiger had beaten challengers from the human, demon, and ghost paths, while rival factions waited for powerful reinforcements to return.
• Lin Bai questioned whether Tiger’s black boulder was the treasure, and the Crow identified it as an ordinary stone and suspected the real treasure was on Tiger.

Lin Bai challenged Tiger on the fourth level after learning that the black stone was a decoy and demanded the real treasure. He defeated Tiger with his sword and Divine Lightning, then cornered him as Tiger worried that the three Ghost Emperors would still kill him.

• Lin Bai rejected Xia Song’s offer to search for the hidden treasure and stepped onto the platform to confront Tiger.
• Tiger mocked Lin Bai and pointed to the black stone, but Lin Bai’s sword strike forced him back and stunned the watching cultivators.
• Lin Bai used Five Elements Divine Lightning to blast Tiger away and scorch his palms, then defeated his ghostly assault with another sword attack.
• Tiger fled and claimed he had handed over the treasure, but Lin Bai stopped him and demanded the real treasure instead of the stone.
• Xia Song emerged from the Soul Refining Banner and offered to plead for Tiger, while Tiger feared the three Ghost Emperors would kill him anyway.
• Lin Bai promised to protect Tiger even if the three Ghost Emperors came, and Tiger declared that the Eighteen Levels Palace was about to change hands.

Lin Bai learned that the ninth level held the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, a rare fire spiritual treasure, but its guardian was the powerful Corpse King. He set off for the ninth level to claim it despite the danger.

• Tiger accepted Lin Bai's offer of allegiance and handed over a divine weapon sword, which Lin Bai gave to the Crow.
• Lin Bai passed through the fifth level and learned from Tiger that the ninth level held the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, which could nurture a divine weapon into a Dao Divine Weapon.
• Tiger and Xia Song warned Lin Bai that the ninth level was guarded by the Corpse King, a Five Tribulation Dao Realm cultivator who had fought the Rakshasa Ghost Emperor to a draw.
• The Crow speculated that the Corpse King's body might belong to a Dao Lord who had hunted the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Lin Bai chose to skip the remaining lower levels and head straight to the ninth level.

Lin Bai secretly went to Dead Island to assess the Corpse King and watched him overwhelm the Peacock Clan. The Corpse King noticed Lin Bai, leaving a direct confrontation looming.

• Lin Bai arrived at the ninth level, saw many injured cultivators on Life Island, and quietly crossed to Dead Island.
• Lin Bai followed the Crow’s directions to a mountain range where the Peacock Clan was battling the Corpse King.
• The Crow identified the Corpse King’s remains as belonging to someone who had cultivated the Celestial Crystal Body, a powerful treasure physique from the Spirit World.
• The Corpse King endured the Peacock Clan’s attacks, killed several fighters, and sent the surviving experts fleeing.
• The Corpse King spotted Lin Bai, ate a Peacock Clan fighter’s heart, and smiled at him while the Crow commented on the meal.

After watching the Corpse King defeat the Peacock Clan and slaughter other challengers, Lin Bai concluded that his powerful Celestial Crystal Clan body made him nearly impossible to overcome alone. A Three-Way Assembly was called on Life Island, and Lin Bai headed there to hear what the human, demon, and ghost paths would decide.

• The Corpse King defeated the Peacock Clan's experts and left after grinning at Lin Bai, who chose not to pursue him.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow how to deal with the Corpse King, and the Crow said only the three Ghost Emperors might suppress him; Lin Bai resolved to find another way to obtain the Mystic Fire Dao Aura.
• The Corpse King wandered across Dead Island and killed nearly everyone who challenged him, while the ninth-level powers failed to agree on a joint plan.
• Lin Bai watched the Corpse King defeat prepared Demon Race fighters from Great Snow Mountain and considered using his flying swords, Five Elements Divine Lightning, and the Bright Moon Sword.
• Tianyi City martial artists told Lin Bai that the Three-Way Assembly was being held on Life Island, so he flew there to learn what the three paths would decide.

Lin Bai arrived at a gathering of human, demon, and ghost cultivators to discuss joining forces against Corpse King and seizing his treasure. Long Han proposed taking the treasure first and fighting over it afterward, a plan Lin Bai viewed as quenching thirst with poison.

• Lin Bai entered the valley and observed the human faction led by Xu Shui, alongside the gathered demon and ghost forces.
• Long Han stepped forward and proposed that the three factions unite to defeat Corpse King and seize his treasure.
• Ji Tai asked how the factions would divide the treasure, and Long Han suggested they fight over it after taking it from Corpse King.
• Xu Shui accused the demons of waiting for the humans and ghosts to weaken themselves before offering an alliance.
• Lin Bai judged Long Han’s proposal to be quenching thirst with poison.

Lin Bai watched the humans and ghost cultivators accept Long Han’s proposal to join the Demon Race in attacking the Corpse King for the Mystic Fire Dao Aura. After the factions prepared their plans and the humans reaffirmed their interest pact, Lin Bai and the others headed to Dead Island for the decisive battle.

• Long Han proposed that the humans, Demon Race, and ghost cultivators cooperate to seize the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, and Xu Shui and Ji Tai agreed on behalf of their factions.
• The three factions planned an attack in which the Demon Race would restrain the Corpse King, the ghost cultivators would launch sneak attacks, and the humans would mount the fierce assault using the Star Plucking Pavilion’s Command Talisman.
• Xu Shui told the human martial artists that they must keep the treasure out of the Demon Race’s and ghost cultivators’ hands, and Luo Wei and the Nangong Family’s sword cultivators upheld the human interest pact.
• Lin Bai stayed on Life Island to recover and considered the pact’s origins while Tianyi City, the Demon Race, and the ghost cultivators gathered information and prepared.
• Three days later, Lin Bai received word to go to Dead Island and followed the human group across the Sky Bridge as the other factions arrived for the decisive battle.

Lin Bai joined the alliance surrounding the Corpse King, despite Xu Shui warning him that the battle could be fatal. The trap sprang, but the Corpse King proved devastatingly strong, and the humans, ghost cultivators, and Demon Race entered the formation together as Lin Bai sensed something was wrong.

• Xu Shui urged Lin Bai to leave the battlefield, but Lin Bai said he would stay back and protect himself.
• Long Han arrived with the Corpse King pursuing the Demon Race, and the Corpse King tore through the fleeing demons.
• Xu Shui activated the Ten Thousand Thunder Demon Subjugation Formation, trapping the Corpse King inside its lightning perimeter.
• The ghost cultivators attacked, but the Corpse King destroyed them with a swipe of his claw.
• Long Han and Luo Wei argued over who should join the fight, until the Ji Lineage elder ordered the humans and Demon Race into the formation.
• Lin Bai followed the others into the formation to pursue the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, though he felt uneasy about the Corpse King.

Lin Bai and the allied human, demon, and ghost cultivators attacked the Corpse King, but he slaughtered them with overwhelming ease. Xu Shui’s strongest divine thunder failed to injure him, leaving the alliance facing a disastrous defeat.

• Luo Wei, the Nangong Lineage, and other cultivators joined the assault on the Corpse King, while Lin Bai sensed a powerful urge to flee before forcing himself to attack.
• The Corpse King vanished and killed demons and Nangong Lineage cultivators with his claws, then scattered ghost cultivators with green mist that pierced Ji Tai’s defenses.
• Long Han and Ji Tai demanded that Xu Shui unleash his divine thunder, and Xu Shui struck the Corpse King with the thunder formation’s strongest bolt.
• Lin Bai sensed that the thunder had not weakened the Corpse King, who emerged unharmed and killed another group of cultivators.
• The Crow and Lin Bai recognized that the Celestial Crystal Body was exceptionally difficult to counter within the Celestial God Tomb.

Lin Bai used divine lightning against the Corpse King, then narrowly escaped death by striking with the Bright Moon Sword and seizing the Mystic Fire Dao Aura. He fled as Long Han, Ji Tai, and the Corpse King pursued him.

• The Corpse King slaughtered the cultivators who had not escaped, then attacked Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai combined his flying swords with divine lightning and pierced the Corpse King's chest, but the wounds quickly healed.
• As the Corpse King cornered Lin Bai, the Crow urged him to use the Bright Moon Sword.
• Lin Bai cleaved the Corpse King in half and captured the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, but the Corpse King began reviving.
• Lin Bai fled with the Mystic Fire Dao Aura as Long Han and Ji Tai pursued him, while the Corpse King also set off after him.

After failing to kill the Corpse King, Lin Bai fled with the Mystic Fire Dao Aura, but his Dao Divine Weapon drew the other factions after him. Ghost cultivator Ji Tai attacked first, and Lin Bai’s divine lightning overwhelmed him—though Ji Tai survived behind a golden shield.

• Lin Bai and the crow escaped the Corpse King's territory, and Lin Bai decided to head for the tenth level as the human, demon, and ghost cultivators pursued him.
• Ji Tai caught up with Lin Bai and demanded the Dao Divine Weapon and Mystic Fire Dao Aura.
• Lin Bai mocked Ji Tai for fleeing from the Corpse King, and Ji Tai attacked him with arrows of ghost mist.
• Lin Bai struck Ji Tai with the Thunder Seal, using divine lightning to scatter his Soul Body and flatten the surrounding mountains.
• Ji Tai emerged from the ruins protected by golden light, revealing that he had survived Lin Bai's attack.

Lin Bai faced Ghost Cultivator Ji Tai, Long Han, and a gathering of powerful demons over the Mystic Fire Dao Aura and the Dao Divine Weapon. Xu Shui and a Nangong sword cultivator sided with Lin Bai, but Long Han summoned the Nine Fiends of Tongxin Mountain, leaving the human alliance outnumbered.

• Ghost Cultivator Ji Tai used a lightning talisman from the Star Plucking Pavilion to resist Lin Bai's divine lightning and demanded that Lin Bai surrender one of his two treasures.
• Lin Bai revealed that Long Han had been hiding nearby, and Long Han appeared from the mountains.
• Xu Shui and a sword cultivator from the Nangong Lineage arrived, with Xu Shui declaring that he would protect Lin Bai.
• Xu Shui challenged Long Han and Ji Tai with a lightning talisman, while the Nangong sword cultivator urged Lin Bai not to let the treasures fall to the Demon Race or Ghost Cultivators.
• Long Han summoned eight powerful demons and revealed that he had joined them as the Ninth Fiend of Tongxin Mountain.
• One of the demons stepped forward and greeted Xu Shui.

Long Han revealed that the Eight Fiends of Tongxin Mountain had been waiting in ambush to seize the Mystic Fire Dao Aura and Dao Divine Weapon, and Xiong Jiang demanded that Lin Bai surrender them. Lin Bai fled with seven demons in pursuit while Xu Shui and the Nanguong Lineage sword cultivator fought to hold off the others, leaving Lin Bai deciding whether to kill his pursuers.

• Xiong Jiang recognized the treasures Lin Bai possessed and threatened to take them, while Xu Shui realized Long Han had planned to use the Eight Fiends as a hidden trump card.
• Xiong Jiang and the Songtian Scholar prepared to fight Xu Shui and the Nanguong Lineage sword cultivator, and the latter warned Lin Bai that the situation was dangerous.
• Lin Bai refused to surrender the treasures and flew away, prompting Xiong Jiang to send seven demons, including Long Han, after him.
• Xu Shui used a lightning talisman against the Songtian Scholar, while the Nanguong Lineage sword cultivator attacked Xiong Jiang, beginning a fierce battle.
• As the seven demons pursued him, Lin Bai wondered whether to kill them, weighing the time it would take against the risk of attracting more enemies.