Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai agreed to serve the Eternal Devil Sect after Li Mojun promised to protect his secret, and learned that the Sect Master planned for him to undergo tribulation at the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s Mountain of the Seated Immortal. After Li Mojun departed, Lin Bai asked Li Yumen where to find treasures to withstand tribulation lightning, and Li Yumen pointed him toward Qilin Town.

• Lin Bai pledged not to betray the Eternal Devil Sect as long as the sect did not betray him, and Li Mojun promised to keep his Heaven Swallowing Race secret safe.
• Li Mojun named the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s Mountain of the Seated Immortal as Lin Bai’s ideal secluded place to undergo tribulation and admitted he also hoped Lin Bai’s tribulation would pressure the Crimson Moon Divine Sect.
• Li Mojun said he would arrange for Lin Bai to travel with the Eternal Devil Sect’s disciples to a ceasefire martial competition within half a year, while Lin Bai searched for treasures to ward off tribulation lightning.
• Lin Bai and Li Mojun spoke until dawn, then Li Mojun left; Zhou Xi and Sun Yao went up Five Elements Mountain to continue searching for the Sun Moon Divine Flower and Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Bai asked Li Yumen where he could obtain treasures to resist tribulation lightning, and Li Yumen told him to buy them in Qilin Town.

Li Yumen took Lin Bai to Qilin Town to browse its shops and learn about its treasures. He brought Lin Bai to Qin Pavilion and led him through its Treasure Tablets, stopping at the one titled “Lightning Tribulation.”

• Lin Bai arranged for Zhou Xi and Sun Yao to guard the Sword Hiding Hermitage and temporarily entrusted them with the Myriad Formation Banner.
• Li Yumen guided Lin Bai to Qilin Town, where he explained how the town had developed and described its different districts.
• Li Yumen told Lin Bai that Qin Pavilion was a renowned treasure pavilion and brought him inside.
• Miao Yu greeted Lin Bai and Li Yumen, then gave them Sound Transmission Talismans when they said they would browse on their own.
• Li Yumen led Lin Bai to Qin Pavilion’s rear courtyard and explained that the stone tablets listed the pavilion’s greatest treasures.
• Li Yumen stopped with Lin Bai before the Treasure Tablet titled “Lightning Tribulation.”

Lin Bai learned about the Thunder Tribulation Stele and the rare Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment, which could greatly improve his chances of surviving a lightning tribulation. With only six Devil Orbs and a need to prepare for both an ordinary lightning tribulation and Heaven's Wrath Tribulation, he asked Li Yumen how to earn more.

• Lin Bai and Li Yumen examined Qin Pavilion's Thunder Tribulation Stele, where every listed treasure cost one hundred thousand Devil Orbs.
• Li Yumen explained that the rankings came from martial artists' recommendations and that the Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment offered nearly an eighty percent chance of surviving a lightning tribulation.
• Li Yumen said that only two Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garments existed, both available only for rent, and that Qin Pavilion would not charge for one damaged during a tribulation.
• Lin Bai considered selling the Sun Moon Divine Flower and Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk but worried that the Heng Province Alliance would interfere.
• Lin Bai realized he had only six Devil Orbs and asked Li Yumen where members of the Eternal Devil Sect could earn more.

Li Yumen explained the origins of the Eternal Devil Sect and the dangers and rewards of the White Bone Battlefield to Lin Bai, who needed a way to earn Devil Orbs. Lin Bai became interested in entering the battlefield as Li Yumen recounted his own visits.

• Li Yumen told Lin Bai that the sect's ordinary ways to earn Devil Orbs offered little profit and suggested the White Bone Battlefield.
• Li Yumen explained that the Bone Race arose from a forbidden curse that transformed the dead into living bones and once threatened the Eternal Thirteen Provinces.
• Li Yumen described how the Evil Moon Sect sealed the cursed territory in a void paradise and how Su Yong founded the Eternal Devil Sect to guard it.
• Li Yumen said the sect later opened the White Bone Battlefield to disciples seeking Devil Orbs and treasures, though many disciples had died there.
• Lin Bai asked whether Li Yumen had visited the battlefield, and Li Yumen recounted his three trips there.

Lin Bai learned how to enter the White Bone Battlefield and traveled there to cultivate, leaving the Sword Hiding Hermitage under Li Mojun’s watch. He arrived at Moonless City and recognized Wu Yuanlin among a group of Heng Province Alliance martial artists.

• Li Yumen told Lin Bai that anyone could enter the White Bone Battlefield through a cavern beneath Black White Mountain, with no rules or protections.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xi and Sun Yao to guard the Sword Hiding Hermitage, then asked Li Mojun to watch for threats from the Heng Province Alliance and other provincial alliances.
• Lin Bai flew to Black White Mountain and entered the dark cavern, passing through a barrier into the pale, painted world of the White Bone Battlefield.
• Lin Bai followed the other martial artists to Moonless City, where he learned that the War Soul Pavilion provided maps and information about the Bone Race.
• Lin Bai recognized Wu Yuanlin among the Heng Province Alliance martial artists who entered Moonless City.

Lin Bai entered Moonless City to learn about the White Bone Battlefield and discovered how its Bone Race yielded Devil Orbs and other resources. After preparing, he left the city and headed for the nearby ruins of Luoshui Town to investigate and hunt the Bone Race.

• Lin Bai concealed his identity from the Heng Province Alliance and explored Moonless City, a supply hub for martial artists on the White Bone Battlefield.
• At the War Soul Pavilion, an elder recognized Lin Bai as Qing Luo, gave him books and maps, and offered help as a member of Li Mojun's faction.
• Lin Bai kept his connection to Li Mojun secret, then studied the map and learned that Bone Race Spirit Bones could be exchanged for Devil Orbs, while natural treasures also offered a way to earn them.
• Lin Bai left Moonless City and flew toward Luoshui Town, a nearby ruin occupied by relatively weak Bone Race members.

Lin Bai encountered a Bone Clan member in the White Bone Battlefield and discovered that it could reshape its bones into weapons and reassemble itself unless its Spirit Bone was destroyed. After Qin Yuzhu saved him, Lin Bai met her and Qin Yuheng’s group from the Le Province Alliance.

• Lin Bai traveled from Moonless City toward Luoshui Town, observing the growing silence and considering the Bone Clan’s connection to ghost cultivators.
• A Bone Clan member ambushed Lin Bai with bone arrows, then attacked by reshaping its bones into spikes and weapons.
• Lin Bai shattered the skeleton but watched it reassemble around its intact Spirit Bone, realizing that the Spirit Bone was key to killing it.
• Qin Yuzhu shot the Bone Clan member’s Spirit Bone, turning it to ashes, and arrived with Qin Yuheng and three other martial artists.
• Qin Yuheng introduced himself and Qin Yuzhu to Lin Bai, while Qin Yuzhu questioned why a Quasi-Dao Realm martial artist had entered the battlefield alone.

Lin Bai learned that Yellow Springs Flowers near Luoshui Town could earn him three thousand Devil Orbs, so he headed there alone. After a bone clan ambush nearly overwhelmed him, he escaped and continued toward the town more cautiously.

• Qin Yuzhu told Lin Bai that the group was heading to Luoshui Town to hunt the bone clan and search for Yellow Springs Flowers, then Qin Yuheng led them away.
• Lin Bai read that Yellow Springs Flowers near Luoshui Town were worth three thousand Devil Orbs and set out for the town.
• Hundreds of bone clan members ambushed Lin Bai in the forest, and their numbers swelled to several thousand as they repeatedly recovered from his attacks.
• Lin Bai used Immortal-Slaying to break through the bone clan's bone-arrow storm and escaped after flying tens of thousands of li.
• Lin Bai concluded that he must avoid being surrounded and resumed his journey toward Luoshui Town.

Lin Bai followed the Netherworld Flying Sword’s pull to Luoshui Lake, hoping to find the Yellow Springs Flower in a place of extreme yin. After discovering a vast Bone Clan horde beneath the lake and narrowly escaping, he returned to search elsewhere, certain the flower was not there.

• Lin Bai used the Netherworld Flying Sword to trace frigid yin energy northwest to Luoshui and followed the river to its source.
• At Luoshui Lake, Lin Bai judged the water too dangerous to enter himself and sent the Netherworld Flying Sword below to scout.
• The flying sword revealed countless Bone Clan members lurking at the lake bottom, and Lin Bai recalled it before they could surround him.
• Tens of thousands of Bone Clan members surged from the lake after Lin Bai, who escaped on his flying sword as they chased him.
• Half a day later, Lin Bai returned to the lake and concluded that the Yellow Springs Flower did not grow there.

Lin Bai deduced that Luoshui Town and Luoshui Lake formed a yin-yang pattern and searched the intervening mountains for Yellow Springs Flowers. After finding no flowers, he followed a hunch to a valley crowded with Bone Clansmen and spotted a dark cave.

• Lin Bai realized Luoshui Lake was the place of extreme yin and Luoshui Town the place of extreme yang, identifying the mountains between them as the likely home of the Yellow Springs Flowers.
• Lin Bai descended into the mountains, killed several hundred Bone Clansmen, and collected their Spirit Bones.
• Lin Bai passed the Qin siblings and Wu Yuanlin among groups of martial artists searching the mountain range.
• Lin Bai searched the mountains for hours without finding Yellow Springs Flowers, then reasoned that the largest gathering of Bone Clansmen might mark their location.
• Lin Bai went to a valley filled with Bone Clansmen, saw a pitch-black cave at the foot of a cliff, and wondered whether the flowers were inside.

Lin Bai attacked the Bone clansmen in the valley to draw them away so he could investigate a cave, but his escape brought him face-to-face with the Heng Province Alliance martial artists who held a grudge over the Myriad Formation Banner. After they attacked him, he fled and left them to confront the pursuing Bone army.

• Lin Bai decided to lure the Bone clansmen away from the valley, attacked them, and fled on his flying sword as they pursued him.
• Lin Bai encountered Senior Brother Wu, Wu Yuanlin, and other Heng Province Alliance martial artists searching for Yellow Springs Flowers, and warned them that the Bone clansmen were coming.
• Senior Brother Wu and Wu Yuanlin recognized Lin Bai and attacked him to reclaim the Myriad Formation Banner, while the others joined in.
• Lin Bai dodged their attacks and escaped, taunting Wu Yuanlin that he would have to survive the coming calamity before they could settle their grudge.
• The Heng Province Alliance group saw thousands of Bone clansmen charging toward them, and Senior Brother Wu turned and fled.

Lin Bai lured most of the bone clansmen away from the valley, then entered a cavern and found twelve Yellow Springs Flowers. When the bone clansmen returned and blocked the exit, he waited for half a day before deciding he would have to fight his way out.

• Lin Bai drew the bone clansmen out of the valley, circled back, and killed the few hundred left behind.
• Lin Bai explored the cavern and found a karst cave filled with twelve Yellow Springs Flowers.
• Lin Bai harvested the flowers with his flying swords and sealed them in a treasure box.
• Lin Bai found the bone clansmen gathered at the cavern entrance and retreated into the darkness rather than risk fighting them.
• After waiting half a day for someone else to draw the bone clansmen away, Lin Bai decided to fight his way out himself.

Lin Bai overheard two Golden Bone Clan members discussing a secret trade with Eternal Devil Sect disciples and a plan to discover the seal of the White Bone Battlefield. He realized someone had betrayed the sect and became fixated on the treasures’ value, which exceeded three million Devil Orbs.

• Lin Bai heard human voices in the valley but saw no martial artists, so he searched for their source.
• Lin Bai spotted two Golden Bone Clan members speaking about monitoring Moonless City and carrying out their Venerable’s plan.
• The Golden Bone Clan members discussed a trade at White Dragon Ridge in three months, exchanging valuable treasures for information about the pocket dimension’s seal.
• One Golden Bone Clan member left, and Lin Bai retreated into the shadows, concluding that someone had betrayed the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai checked an ancient text and calculated that the planned trade was worth more than three million Devil Orbs.

Lin Bai escaped the White Bone Battlefield with severe injuries after realizing the deal at White Dragon Ridge could bring him the fortune he needed to survive his lightning tribulation. Back at the Sword Hiding Hermitage, he recovered enough to begin planning how to seize the three million Devil Orbs.

• Lin Bai decided that although the White Dragon Ridge deal was too dangerous for him to confront directly, its treasure could fund the Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment and other protections.
• After waiting for the golden bone clan member to leave, Lin Bai launched his flying swords as a decoy and fought his way out of the valley, suffering numerous bone-arrow wounds.
• Lin Bai reached Moonless City, traded more than three hundred Spirit Bones for Devil Orbs, kept the Yellow Springs Flower, and bought Profound Spirit Dao Pills before leaving the White Bone Battlefield.
• Lin Bai returned to the Sword Hiding Hermitage and used the pills to recover about seventy percent of his injuries.
• Lin Bai began planning how to seize the three million Devil Orbs at White Dragon Ridge, reasoning that the money had come from a traitor to the Eternal Devil Sect.

Lin Bai told Eternal Devil Sect Master Li Mojun that a sect disciple planned to betray the sect by trading clues to the White Bone Battlefield’s seal for rare treasures. Li Mojun reacted with fury, but the traitor’s identity remained unknown.

• Zhou Xi and Sun Yao returned from a lecture at Immortality Seeking Peak, excited by their progress in cultivation, and reported that they had found neither the Sun Moon Divine Flower nor the Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xi and Sun Yao that he was recovering from injuries sustained in the White Bone Battlefield and instructed them not to disturb him while he waited for a guest.
• Li Mojun arrived at Moon Gazing Pond, and Lin Bai asked him about golden Bone Race members communicating in a way that sounded like human speech.
• Li Mojun explained that the golden Bone Race used a secret form of communication detectable by those with powerful Martial Souls or Divine Souls, and asked Lin Bai what he had heard.
• Lin Bai revealed that a disciple of the Eternal Devil Sect planned to trade clues to the White Bone Battlefield’s seal for treasures worth three million Devil Orbs, and Li Mojun crushed his wine jug in anger.

Lin Bai learned that only Li Mojun knew the locations of White Bone Battlefield’s nine seals, and the two discussed the suspected deal between a sect disciple and the Bone Race. Lin Bai agreed to investigate the traitor in exchange for a reward and received Li Mojun’s jade token, though Li Mojun warned him that some elders could not be trusted.

• Lin Bai asked Li Mojun about the seals on White Bone Battlefield, and Li Mojun explained that all nine had to be opened for the barrier to fall and that he alone knew their locations.
• Li Mojun rejected Lin Bai’s suspicion that his master, the Previous Sect Leader, might be involved in the conspiracy.
• Li Mojun said he would intervene to protect the seals, but Lin Bai warned that a direct raid might disrupt the exchange without revealing the traitor.
• Lin Bai offered to capture the disciple conspiring with the Bone Race, and Li Mojun agreed to reward him with Devil Orbs, a treasury treasure, and a cultivation technique.
• Li Mojun gave Lin Bai his Sect Leader’s jade token and warned him to use it carefully because some elders might betray the sect.

Lin Bai prepared to investigate an Eternal Devil Sect disciple’s dealings with the Bone Clan and recruited Li Yumen to help, despite the danger. Sect Leader Li Mojun then consulted the Previous Sect Leader, seeking to learn whether anyone else knew clues about the White Bone Battlefield seal.

• Lin Bai told Li Yumen about the disciple’s dealings with the Bone Clan and showed him the Sect Leader’s Jade Token to prove he had approval to act.
• After weighing the risks for half a day, Li Yumen agreed to join Lin Bai, citing their shared origins in Lianzhou.
• Li Mojun went to Immortal Buddha Grotto and told the Previous Sect Leader what Lin Bai had discovered.
• Li Mojun asked whether the Previous Sect Leader had shared the clues about the White Bone Battlefield seal with anyone besides him.

Li Mojun and the Previous Sect Leader arranged support for Lin Bai’s mission to stop a secret transaction between an Eternal Devil Sect disciple and the Bone Race. The chapter leaves Jiang Xuansu headed to meet Lin Bai, while Lin Bai and Li Yumen prepared to investigate White Dragon Ridge.

• Li Mojun told the Previous Sect Leader that Qing Luo would act openly to stop the transaction while he pursued the conspirators from the shadows.
• The Previous Sect Leader ordered Jiang Xuansu to leave the Immortal Buddha Grotto and assist with the mission, but Li Mojun chose not to involve Gong Jian.
• Jiang Xuansu agreed to follow Li Mojun’s instructions, and he told her to go to the Sword Hiding Hermitage and follow Lin Bai’s arrangements.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen discussed investigating White Dragon Ridge before the transaction scheduled for five months later.
• Li Yumen agreed to gather information and healing pills while Lin Bai recovered from his injuries.

Lin Bai healed in seclusion at the Sword Hiding Hermitage while Jiang Xuansu, the Eternal Devil Sect’s Holy Daughter, unexpectedly arrived and demanded to see him. After learning about her extraordinary status and power, Lin Bai asked her what she wanted.

• Lin Bai gave Li Yumen Yellow Springs Flowers to sell for healing pills, then returned to the Sword Hiding Hermitage to recover.
• Zhou Xi and Sun Yao stayed at the hermitage while Lin Bai healed, and Jiang Xuansu bypassed the Myriad Formation Banner and approached the Moon Gazing Pond.
• Jiang Xuansu demanded that Qing Luo come out and threatened to tear down the hermitage, so Lin Bai left seclusion to meet her.
• Jiang Xuansu introduced herself as the Eternal Devil Sect’s Holy Daughter, and Zhou Xi told Lin Bai about her immense talent, cultivation, and backing from Immortal Cave Mountain.
• Lin Bai greeted Jiang Xuansu, who rejected his flattery, and he then asked why she had come.

Lin Bai misled Jiang Xuansu about the location and timing of the Bone Clan’s trade with the Eternal Devil Sect, sending her to Qilin Town while he recovered and prepared with Li Yumen. Lin Bai and Li Yumen surveyed White Dragon Ridge, where the real trade was due in less than three months.

• Lin Bai gave Jiang Xuansu a fabricated account of a trade at Yuelai Inn in Qilin Town six months later, and she went there to wait disguised as a drinker.
• A month later, Li Yumen delivered the proceeds from selling Lin Bai’s Yellow Springs Flowers and the healing pills he had purchased.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen entered White Bone Battlefield and traveled to White Dragon Ridge to scout the area.
• The pair hunted Bone Clan members and surveyed White Dragon Ridge for more than ten days, learning its terrain.
• Lin Bai revealed that the trade was actually scheduled for five months after his earlier discussion with Li Mojun, leaving less than three months before it took place.