Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai slaughtered the Ancient Immortal Sect fighters, killed the Sacred Emperor and the Ninth Ancestor, and announced the Sacred Emperor’s death on the battlefield. The Central Sacred Nation’s army collapsed as the Divine Martial Nation gained the upper hand, while Lin Bai pursued Yu Qiudi and Zhang Chao.

• Zhao Jingmen and the Zhao Family joined Yu Qiudi in attacking Lin Bai, but Lin Bai killed most of them and severed Zhao Jingmen’s arms.
• Yu Qiudi abandoned Zhao Jingmen and fled, while Lin Bai killed Zhao Jingmen and the remaining Zhao Family fighters.
• Lin Bai killed the Ninth Ancestor and the Sacred Emperor, then threw their heads onto the Dragon River and ordered the Central Sacred Nation’s armies to surrender.
• Divine Martial Nation soldiers displayed the Sacred Emperor’s head, and news of his death threw the Central Sacred Nation’s forces into disarray as they retreated.
• Iron Sword Marquis confirmed that the Sacred Emperor and the Ninth Ancestor had died, while Lin Bai pursued Yu Qiudi and Zhang Chao.

After the Sacred Emperor’s death, Emperor Xiao ordered the Divine Martial Nation to invade the Central Sacred Nation, while Lin Bai pursued Yu Qiudi and Zhang Chao. Lin Bai killed Zhang Chao, crippled Yu Qiudi, and brought him to his parents, where Li Subai confronted the man who had tormented her and killed her father.

• Iron Sword Marquis weighed retreating or surrendering, fearing both the Ancient Immortal Sect’s future revenge and the Divine Martial Nation’s advance.
• After learning that Sword King had killed the Sacred Emperor and the Ninth Ancestor, Emperor Xiao ordered Chu Jiangliu to lead the army across the Dragon River and conquer the Central Sacred Nation.
• Lin Bai caught Yu Qiudi and Zhang Chao as they fled toward Descent Mountain, but Yu Qiudi tried to escape by ordering Zhang Chao to hold Lin Bai off.
• Lin Bai killed Zhang Chao, then used his flying swords to pin Yu Qiudi and cripple his cultivation.
• Lin Bai brought Yu Qiudi to Lin Duo and Li Subai by the Dragon River, and Li Subai trembled with rage as she remembered his past cruelty.

Li Zhengyi killed Yu Qiudi and the Divine Martial Nation gained the upper hand against the Central Sacred Nation, but the arrival of fifteen Giant God Race warriors turned the battle into a crisis. Lin Bai ordered the crow to evacuate the others once the Evil Flood Dragon arrived while he stayed behind to hold off the giants.

• Li Zhengyi used his father's broken sword to kill Yu Qiudi, ending the lives of the Ancient Immortal Sect members who had descended to the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Zhuo Lian reported that Lin Bai's defeat of the Sacred Emperor had thrown the Central Sacred Nation's army into chaos, though destroying the nation would take years.
• A crow warned Lin Bai that the Giant God Race had arrived, and enormous faces appeared across the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Fifteen giant gods, led by Gong Jun, entered the continent from different regions and headed toward the Dragon River after learning Lin Bai's location.
• Lin Bai told the crow to use the Void Sword Ark to evacuate everyone once the Evil Flood Dragon arrived, while he stayed to hold off the giants.

Lin Bai sent his family and allies away from the Barren Ancient Continent aboard the Void Sword Ark as the Giant God Race approached. He stayed behind and unleashed the Devouring Sword Soul to draw the fifteen Giant Gods toward him, leaving his loved ones to escape into the void.

• Lin Bai ordered everyone at the Dragon River to board the Void Sword Ark and flee, while the Crow agreed to take them beyond the Giant God Race's control.
• Lin Bai's friends and family reluctantly boarded the ark, and it launched into the sky as the Crow promised to return for him.
• The Giant God Race took control of Descent Mountain and learned that a vessel had left the Barren Ancient Continent, prompting Gong Jun to order the Giant Gods to intercept it.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Devouring Sword Soul and announced his presence, diverting the fifteen Giant Gods from the Void Sword Ark.
• Lin Bai watched the ark disappear into the void, then let the Devouring Sword Soul fade and prepared to face the Giant God Race alone.

After sending Bai Xiaoxiao, Lin Duo, A Ning, and the others away aboard the Void Sword Ark, Lin Bai left the Dragon River to draw the Giant God Race after him. Cloud Dragon caught up with him in Eastern Continent and crushed him, leaving Lin Bai gravely wounded and apparently unable to resist.

• Chun Han ordered the Divine Martial Nation's army to withdraw toward Lingnan Imperial City as the Central Sacred Nation's forces fled.
• Lin Bai waited until the Void Sword Ark had left the Barren Ancient Continent, then flew toward Eastern Continent to draw the Giant Gods away from his companions.
• The fifteen Giant God Race members sensed Lin Bai's Devouring Sword Soul, and Cloud Dragon charged to intercept him.
• Cloud Dragon's punch injured Lin Bai as he fled, but Cloud Dragon quickly caught up and struck him into a vast crater.
• Cloud Dragon reported that he had captured Lin Bai, who remained calm despite his shattered bones and Cloud Dragon's taunts.

Lin Bai was rescued from Cloud Dragon Giant God by his own Giant God Avatar, which had cultivated three Divine Crystals. Gravely wounded, Lin Bai fled with the Avatar into the void as the Giant Gods pursued them, while the Slovenly Daoist wondered whether they had prepared a World Sealing Formation.

• Cloud Dragon Giant God mocked Lin Bai and threatened his friends and family, but a Giant God suddenly rushed in and punched Cloud Dragon away.
• Lin Bai’s Giant God Avatar lifted him from the pit, and Cloud Dragon recognized that Lin Bai had cultivated the forbidden Giant God Sutra.
• Lin Bai ordered the Avatar to flee because he was gravely wounded and could not face the fifteen Giant Gods pursuing them.
• The Giant God Avatar carried Lin Bai through the barrier of the Barren Ancient Continent and into the void, with Cloud Dragon and the other Giant Gods chasing them.
• The Slovenly Daoist watched from a mountain and wondered whether the Giant Gods had sealed the world to prevent Lin Bai’s escape.

Lin Bai fled into the Chaotic Void on his Giant God Avatar, but Gong Jun and fifteen Giant Gods pursued him and trapped him with the World Sealing Formation. After Lin Bai broke through the formation, the Giant Gods nearly destroyed his avatar, leaving him close to death as Li Shanqing begged the Slovenly Daoist to save him.

• Lin Bai entered the Chaotic Void on his Giant God Avatar while gravely injured from the Cloud Dragon Giant God's punch.
• A golden World Sealing Formation blocked the avatar, and Lin Bai recognized that it enclosed the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Gong Jun and fifteen Giant Gods caught up with Lin Bai and ordered him to submit.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method to cut through the formation and escape into the void.
• The Giant Gods attacked together, dismembering the Giant God Avatar and leaving Lin Bai on the brink of death.
• Li Shanqing and Leng Nuan appeared beside the Slovenly Daoist, and Li Shanqing pleaded with him to save Lin Bai.

Slovenly Daoist explained that Ling Tianzi had sent him to protect Lin Bai’s loved ones, not save Lin Bai, because someone else had been arranged to intervene. As the Giant Gods continued to cripple Lin Bai’s avatar, Lin Bai entered his consciousness and faced Xuantong, who asked whether they could still win.

• Slovenly Daoist told Li Shanqing and Leng Nuan that he had protected Lin Bai’s relatives and friends with medicinal wine but had not been ordered to save Lin Bai.
• Slovenly Daoist explained that Ling Tianzi had prepared another way to rescue Lin Bai, while warning that surviving this attack would only begin Lin Bai’s ongoing tribulation.
• Fifteen Giant Gods surrounded and brutally wounded the Giant God Avatar in the dark void as Lin Bai watched from its shoulder.
• Lin Bai entered his space of consciousness, where Xuantong asked him whether they could win.

Lin Bai prepared to die at the hands of the Giant God Race and used the Demon Sword to separate Profound Eyes from himself, sending him into the void to seek a new life. As fifteen Giant Gods moved to extract Lin Bai’s blood and refine his bones, Lin Bai began to self-detonate.

• Lin Bai told Profound Eyes he would not ask Ling Tianzi for help and explained that he wanted to free Profound Eyes before dying.
• Lin Bai used the Demon Sword to sever Profound Eyes and the Demon Flower from his body, intending for Profound Eyes to find a Heavenly Spirit Embryo and make a new body.
• Profound Eyes raged at Lin Bai’s farewell, then wondered why it affected him so deeply.
• Gong Jun drew blood from Lin Bai and refined his bones while the other Giant Gods watched.
• Lin Bai threw the Demon Sword into the dark void, where it vanished beyond the Giant Gods’ reach.
• Lin Bai began burning his body’s blood and bones to self-detonate, and the fifteen Giant Gods realized what he was doing.

Lin Bai tried to destroy his body to keep the Giant God Race from using his blood and bones to track his friends and family, but Gong Jun stopped him and began extracting them. Liu Songjing arrived just in time to save Lin Bai and revealed himself as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.

• Lin Bai ignited his Dao body and unleashed the Devouring Sword Soul, forcing the fifteen Giant Gods to retreat.
• Gong Jun struck Lin Bai out of the flames and used the blood-and-bone secret technique to extract his power.
• Li Shanqing urged the Slovenly Daoist to save Lin Bai, but a powerful force swept through the dark void before he acted.
• The incoming force shattered Gong Jun's blood-and-bone power and sent the fifteen Giant Gods reeling.
• Liu Songjing arrived carrying a lantern, restored Lin Bai's life with its flame, and identified himself as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.

Liu Songjing rescued Lin Bai from the fifteen Giant Gods and sent him away in a lantern before battling them. Lin Bai drifted down the Immortal Corpse River, was repeatedly robbed and thrown back into the water, and was finally taken to a ruined temple by two sisters who hoped to help him.

• Liu Songjing sent Lin Bai away in his lantern and held off Gong Jun and the fourteen other Giant Gods, whose battle raged for three months.
• Lin Bai drifted unconscious through the darkness and woke near the Immortal Corpse River, where Corpse Fishers robbed him and kicked him back into the water.
• Lin Bai drifted for seventeen days as Corpse Fishers repeatedly hauled him ashore, found him empty-handed, and threw him back into the river.
• Two sisters pulled Lin Bai from the river, and the older sister carried him toward a ruined temple because he was still alive and might otherwise be killed by river creatures.

Lin Bai remained severely crippled in the broken temple for four months, slowly healing until a demon arrived to eat him. He used the Devouring Sword Soul to kill the demon and absorb its vitality, gaining a little strength as Volume Eight ended.

• The sisters left Lin Bai in the broken temple, unable to treat his injuries, and he faintly thanked them as they departed.
• Lin Bai spent four months drawing in spiritual energy to stabilize his injuries, while his Storage Bag and demon sword were taken from him.
• A demon entered the temple, found Lin Bai, and prepared to eat him.
• Lin Bai summoned the Devouring Sword Soul, which pulled the demon back and absorbed its blood and vitality.
• Lin Bai absorbed the demon's vitality and hoped that more demon beasts would help him heal.

Lin Bai slowly healed in the ruined temple on Eternal Night Mountain, learning from demons he killed that he was likely in a powerful world rather than a minor one. After six months, he remained unable to move and estimated that recovery would take years, but a group of fleeing martial artists arrived at the temple to rest.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to kill a pig demon and inferred from its cultivation that he was probably in a resource-rich world.
• Lin Bai worried about Liu Songjing and suspected Ling Tianzi had sent the Heaven Swallowing Race senior to save him.
• Lin Bai spent six months healing in the ruined temple, killing several wandering demons and estimating that restoring his body and cultivation would take at least five years.
• Lin Bai resolved to reclaim his demon sword, which had been stolen along with his Storage Bag.
• Uncle Xi led a group of exhausted martial artists into the ruined temple to rest before entering Xuanzhou territory.

Lin Bai lay gravely injured in a ruined temple while Uncle Xi’s group took shelter there. As they rested, Lin Bai learned that the war between Xuanzhou and Lianzhou had begun over rivalries and competing interests in valuable resources.

• Uncle Xi’s group found Lin Bai in the ruined temple and determined that his injuries left him barely alive and no danger to them.
• Uncle Xi and his followers rested in the temple, leaving Lin Bai alone.
• That night, Uncle Xi told the group that the war began after a dispute between the Zhao Family’s Young Master Qian and the Candle Dragon Sect’s Young Sect Master at an auction.
• Uncle Xi explained that the dispute was only a pretext, while regional power struggles and the desire for resources had fueled the war.
• Uncle Xi said Cloud Crane Town’s martial artists had attacked Nine Night Town to seize its Celestial Crystal Mine, angering the young people in his group.

Uncle Xi explained that Nine Night Town had also planned to seize Cloud Crane Town’s resources before losing the war, while Lin Bai reflected on the ruthless struggle for cultivation resources. Before dawn, Fang Yu and hundreds of Cloud Crane Town martial artists surrounded the ruined temple and trapped Uncle Xi and the surviving Zhou Lineage juniors.

• Uncle Xi told the young refugees that Nine Night Town had intended to attack Azure Town and had also coveted Cloud Crane Town’s Cloud Purity Jade Dew.
• Lin Bai listened to Uncle Xi’s explanation and reflected on how fiercely people fought over resources.
• The young men and women complained about Lin Bai’s smell, and one of them threw him from the temple into the courtyard.
• Fang Yu’s force entered Eternal Night Mountain, killed the night watchmen, and surrounded the ruined temple.
• Fang Yu revealed that Nine Night Town had been destroyed and that he had orders to kill Zhou Xi before he could reach Xuanzhou.
• Zhou Xi weighed the danger to the surviving Zhou Lineage juniors as Fang Yu demanded that he die or take his own life.

Fang Yu and the Cloud Crane Town martial artists cornered Uncle Xi and the Zhou family in a ruined temple, but a sudden darkness consumed them all. When the light returned, they had vanished without a trace, leaving Uncle Xi stunned.

• Fang Yu defeated Uncle Xi in their battle and ordered the Zhou family members killed.
• Uncle Xi urged the Zhou family juniors to flee, but Cloud Crane Town's martial artists captured the escapees and brought them back.
• Fang Yu ordered his men to search the ruined temple and kill Lin Bai, who lay crippled in a corner.
• A sudden gale plunged the temple into darkness, and Cloud Crane Town's martial artists began disappearing amid their screams.
• Fang Yu's blood and bones were drained and crushed before he could escape the darkness.
• The darkness receded, and Uncle Xi saw that Fang Yu and all the Cloud Crane Town martial artists had disappeared without a trace.

Lin Bai wiped out the Cloud Crane Town martial artists who threatened him and the Zhou family, then remained in the ruined temple as the Zhou family fled toward Xuanzhou. Seven days later, another group approached, dragging a gravely injured Uncle Xi with them.

• Darkness swallowed the ruined temple, and hundreds of Cloud Crane Town martial artists vanished after Lin Bai killed them.
• Uncle Xi led the Zhou family members out of the temple and told them that a powerful, dangerous expert had slain their pursuers.
• Cai'er realized that Lin Bai might have been the limbless man they had thrown into the temple the previous night.
• Lin Bai regretted saving the Zhou family and wondered whether his missing Giant God Avatar had been destroyed.
• Seven days later, several hundred martial artists approached the temple, bringing a badly injured Uncle Xi with them.

Fang Yunhe led Cloud Crane Town experts to the ruined temple to avenge his son Fang Yu, only to discover that an unseen force around the motionless Lin Bai killed anyone who approached. After Lin Bai's power destroyed Fang Yunhe's Violet Lightning Serpent, darkness swallowed the temple again, and Fang Yunhe ordered his men to retreat.

• Fang Yunhe brought Zhou Xi and several hundred Cloud Crane Town experts to the ruined temple where Fang Yu had died.
• Zhou Xi recognized Lin Bai lying motionless in the courtyard and pleaded with him for protection, while Fang Yunhe demanded to know if Lin Bai had killed his son.
• A Six Tribulation Dao Realm young man attacked Lin Bai, but an invisible force swallowed his sword and pulled him in, killing him.
• Fang Yunhe secretly sent his Violet Lightning Serpent underground to attack Lin Bai, but a powerful force destroyed it and made Fang Yunhe spit blood.
• Darkness enveloped Eternal Night Mountain, and Fang Yunhe shouted for his experts to retreat.

After Lin Bai’s Black Jade Sword devoured the Cloud Crane Town martial artists, Lin Bai opened his eyes for the first time in a long while. Still badly injured and unable to move, he ordered Zhou Xi to take him out of Eternal Night Mountain.

• Fang Yunhe fled the ruined temple after the Black Jade Sword’s darkness swallowed the Cloud Crane Town martial artists, while Zhou Xi regretted that Fang Yunhe escaped.
• Lin Bai’s injuries eased after he refined the vital energies of Fang Yu’s group and Fang Yunhe’s group, and he regained enough awareness to open his eyes.
• Zhou Xi bowed to Lin Bai and tried to leave, but Lin Bai stopped him and revealed that he had awakened.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xi that his dantian, divine core, and four limbs remained damaged, and asked him to take him out of Eternal Night Mountain.
• Zhou Xi questioned how Lin Bai could kill hundreds of Dao Realm martial artists while so gravely injured, and Lin Bai answered that they were beneath his notice.

Zhou Xi carried the badly wounded Lin Bai through Eternal Night Mountain, where Lin Bai learned that he had arrived in the Demon Realm rather than the Spirit World. As Zhou Xi explained the Demon Realm’s hierarchy and tribute system, Lin Bai asked who stood above its powerful provincial sects and families.

• Zhou Xi carried Lin Bai out of the ruined temple and told him they were in a remote part of Eternal Night Mountain.
• Lin Bai discovered from Zhou Xi that he was in the Demon Realm and wondered how he had ended up there while unconscious in the void.
• At Lin Bai’s request, Zhou Xi described how villages, towns, and cities were ranked by the strength of their resident martial artists.
• Zhou Xi explained that provincial sects and families controlled local forces and took sixty percent of their cultivation resources as tribute, raising the share during wars.
• Lin Bai questioned why no one resisted the Candle Dragon Sect, and Zhou Xi began explaining the significance of the Eternal Thirteen Provinces and the Crimson Moon Eighteen Provinces.