Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Li Yumen stayed near White Dragon Ridge to watch for the Bone Clan’s transaction, while Jiang Xuansu discovered that Lin Bai had tricked her into wasting months at Yuelai Inn. Furious, she went to Sword Hiding Hermitage, destroyed Lin Bai’s cottage, and stayed there to wait for him.

• Lin Bai and Li Yumen remained in Moonless City and watched White Dragon Ridge for signs of the Bone Clan’s transaction.
• Jiang Xuansu copied Lin Bai’s plan by drinking daily at Yuelai Inn, where drunk patrons harassed her and she eventually returned to Eternal Palace to complain to Li Mojun.
• Li Mojun explained that the Bone Clan could not leave White Bone Battlefield, so its transaction would likely occur there rather than in Qilin Town.
• Jiang Xuansu realized Lin Bai had deceived her, then stormed to Sword Hiding Hermitage and shattered his thatched cottage with a palm strike.
• Zhou Xi told Jiang Xuansu that Lin Bai had gone traveling, and she decided to wait for him at Moon Gazing Pond.

Lin Bai and Li Yumen discovered that the bone clansmen in White Dragon Ridge were driving human martial artists away ahead of an upcoming trade. Surrounded and nearly out of spiritual power, Lin Bai called out to the bone clan and challenged its willingness to proceed with the trade.

• Lin Bai warned Li Yumen that White Dragon Ridge had more bone clansmen than usual, but Li Yumen initially dismissed his concern.
• In an underground palace, White Dragon Lord and Yin Shan Envoy ordered the bone clansmen to clear martial artists from White Dragon Ridge before a trade scheduled for half a month later.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen found themselves surrounded by a vast tide of bone clansmen and realized the bone clan was clearing the area.
• The two fought to escape, but the unending numbers of bone clansmen exhausted their spiritual power and trapped them.
• As Li Yumen feared they would die, Lin Bai shouted across White Dragon Ridge, asking whether the bone clan still wanted to conduct the trade.

Lin Bai tried to convince the Bone Race that he and Li Yumen had come to negotiate a transaction for a powerful lord of the Eternal Devil Sect. The Bone Race stopped attacking and accepted his claim, but Yin Shan Envoy demanded the lord’s token, leaving Lin Bai at risk of being exposed.

• Surrounded by Bone Race warriors, Lin Bai claimed that he and Li Yumen had been sent to negotiate a transaction and warned that killing them would end the trade.
• Yin Shan Envoy and White Dragon Lord heard Lin Bai’s words and wondered whether he had truly been sent by the Eternal Devil Sect lord involved in the deal.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen fought the Bone Race until they were badly wounded, and Lin Bai prepared to use the Devouring Sword Soul to break through.
• The Bone Race warriors suddenly retreated, and Yin Shan Envoy and White Dragon Lord approached Lin Bai and Li Yumen.
• Lin Bai angrily accused the Bone Race of nearly killing them and threatened to cancel the transaction, convincing Yin Shan Envoy that he was connected to the Devil Sect lord.
• Yin Shan Envoy apologized for the misunderstanding and asked Lin Bai to present the lord’s token, which Lin Bai did not have.

Lin Bai and Li Yumen faced a demand for a token from the Yin Shan Envoy, but Lin Bai convinced the bone clansmen that they were legitimate messengers for a secret trade. He learned the trade would take place in fifteen days at White Dragon Ridge and that the demonic sect contact was called Young Master Lu, then turned back after receiving a Sound Transmission Talisman.

• The Yin Shan Envoy demanded Lin Bai show a token, and Lin Bai insisted he had none despite the bone clansmen threatening to attack.
• Lin Bai held to his story until the Yin Shan Envoy decided the demand had been a test and apologized for the threats.
• Lin Bai asked about the transaction, and the Yin Shan Envoy said it was fifteen days away and promised to clear demonic sect disciples from White Dragon Ridge.
• Lin Bai said he would represent his senior brother at the transaction, and the Yin Shan Envoy identified that senior brother as Young Master Lu.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen began to leave, but Lin Bai pretended to receive a message on a Sound Transmission Talisman and returned to the Yin Shan Envoy.

Lin Bai pretended to relay instructions from a senior brother and demanded that the Bone Clan triple the payment for Young Master Lu’s information. The Bone Clan’s Venerable accepted the demand and agreed to the proposed exchange schedule at White Dragon Ridge.

• Lin Bai told the Yin Shan Envoy that his supposed senior brother wanted to triple the price, while Li Yumen realized Lin Bai had fabricated the message.
• Lin Bai demanded three times the original payment and proposed that the Bone Clan deliver its treasure in thirteen days, with the information to follow two days later.
• The Yin Shan Envoy and the White Dragon Lord returned to the Underground Palace, where the Yin Shan Envoy explained that the increased price would exceed ten million Devil Orbs.
• The Yin Shan Envoy reported Lin Bai’s demand to the Venerable, who judged that Lin Bai’s greed and caution made his information seem more credible.
• The Venerable agreed to the triple price and said he would personally bring the treasures to White Dragon Ridge in thirteen days and wait two days for the information.

Lin Bai impersonated Young Master Lu’s junior brother and negotiated with the Bone Race, securing treasures worth three times the original price. After escaping White Dragon Ridge with Li Yumen, he explained how he had seized the initiative, leaving them safely back at the Eternal Devil Sect with ten million Devil Orbs’ worth of treasures promised.

• The Yin Shan Envoy returned to White Dragon Ridge and agreed to Lin Bai’s demand for three times the price, arranging to deliver the treasures in thirteen days.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen left White Dragon Ridge safely and traveled through Moonless City’s teleportation array back to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Li Yumen praised Lin Bai for staying calm and asked how he had persuaded the Bone Race that he was there to negotiate.
• Lin Bai explained how his knowledge of the deal, the lack of contact between the parties, and his demand for a higher price convinced the Bone Race to trust him.
• Lin Bai admitted that the plan had many risks but said it had earned them treasures worth ten million Devil Orbs.

Lin Bai returned to the Sword Hiding Hermitage with Li Yumen and found Jiang Xuansu waiting, furious that he had deceived her about the Bone Clan’s trading location. After they agreed to work together on the operation, Jiang Xuansu demanded that Lin Bai catch spirit fish for her.

• Lin Bai sensed an unfamiliar presence at the Sword Hiding Hermitage and warned Li Yumen that they were in trouble.
• Jiang Xuansu confronted Lin Bai and used her cultivation pressure to stop him and Li Yumen from moving.
• Jiang Xuansu accused Lin Bai of lying about the Bone Clan’s trade at Yuelai Inn, and Lin Bai said he had learned the actual time and location.
• Li Yumen fled, while Lin Bai offered to let Jiang Xuansu join the operation if she followed his arrangements.
• Jiang Xuansu admitted she had altered the Sect Master Senior Brother’s decree and apologized, but rejected Lin Bai’s apology for humiliating her at Yuelai Inn.
• Jiang Xuansu asked Lin Bai to catch spirit fish from Moon Gazing Pond as an apology.

Lin Bai tried and failed to catch the elusive spirit fish in Moon Gazing Pond, while discovering signs of a hidden formation beneath it. Jiang Xuansu caught a fish herself, then struck Lin Bai into the pond after deciding he had watched her soaked clothes.

• Lin Bai repeatedly chased the Moon Gazing Spirit Fish through Moon Gazing Pond but failed to catch any, even using his flying swords and divine lightning.
• Lin Bai's Devouring Sword Soul detected a concealed formation somewhere beneath the pond, but he hid his interest while Jiang Xuansu watched.
• Jiang Xuansu mocked Lin Bai for catching nothing and entered the pond to prove she could catch a spirit fish.
• Jiang Xuansu caught an arm-length spirit fish and realized her wet robes revealed her figure, while Lin Bai pretended not to look.
• Jiang Xuansu accused Lin Bai of leering and struck him into the pond, while Lin Bai denied seeing anything.

Lin Bai prepared to trade with the Bone Race while Jiang Xuansu explained the Dao Realm’s cultivation levels and agreed to support him. As the transaction approached, Lin Bai and Li Yumen headed to the White Bone Battlefield, leaving Jiang Xuansu in Moonless City to alert the Sect Master if they failed to return.

• Lin Bai asked Jiang Xuansu to help him handle the Bone Race transaction, and she said she was a Ninth-Rank Dao God who might not match a Great Purity Dao Fruit Honored One.
• Jiang Xuansu explained the Dao Realm’s stages and the cultivation levels of the Eternal Devil Sect’s leaders and elders.
• Jiang Xuansu stayed at the Sword Hiding Hermitage, where she and Lin Bai discussed the Dao, while Zhou Xi and Sun Yao investigated Young Master Lu without identifying him.
• Li Yumen arrived at the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and Lin Bai told him Jiang Xuansu would join their operation against the Bone Race.
• Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, and Li Yumen reached Moonless City; Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu to notify the Sect Master if he and Li Yumen had not returned within a day, then left with Li Yumen.

Lin Bai and Li Yumen went to White Dragon Ridge to inspect the Bone Race’s treasures for their planned transaction with Young Master Lu. After confirming the goods, Lin Bai prepared to return and bring the Bone Race what it wanted, while the Honored One trusted him to keep his word.

• Lin Bai rejected Li Yumen’s suggestion to prepare defensive treasures, and Jiang Xuansu warned them to do their best to survive.
• A purple-boned Bone Race Honored One arrived at White Dragon Ridge and learned that Young Master Lu’s people would inspect the treasures the next day.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen entered White Dragon Ridge, where Lin Bai persuaded the Honored One to withdraw most of the Bone Race so Moonless City would not grow suspicious.
• The Honored One presented 172 Storage Bags, and Li Yumen spent two hours verifying that they held the agreed treasures worth more than ten million Devil Orbs.
• Lin Bai said he would take the treasures back and return with what the Bone Race wanted, while offering to let Li Yumen go instead; the Honored One said he trusted Young Master Lu’s reputation.

Lin Bai and Li Yumen left White Dragon Ridge with the Bone Race’s treasures and reunited with Jiang Xuansu. They informed Sect Master Li Mojun about the planned exchange and the suspected traitor, then Lin Bai revealed the treasure hoard and proposed dividing it among the three of them.

• The Bone Race Honored One let Lin Bai and Li Yumen leave White Dragon Ridge, and Lin Bai collected the Storage Bags containing the Bone Race’s treasures.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen found Jiang Xuansu in Moonless City and returned with her to the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Jiang Xuansu contacted Sect Master Li Mojun, and Lin Bai told him where the exchange would take place and that the suspected traitor was a high-ranking disciple surnamed Lu.
• Li Mojun said he would investigate the exchange and reward the three, then hinted that Jiang Xuansu deserved a share of the treasures.
• Lin Bai realized Li Mojun had likely been monitoring them and summoned the Storage Bags, proposing that he, Li Yumen, and Jiang Xuansu divide them equally.

Lin Bai, Li Yumen, and Jiang Xuansu sorted the Bone Clan’s enormous treasure hoard, with Jiang Xuansu refusing a share and Li Yumen agreeing to sell the remaining goods for Devil Orbs. After Jiang Xuansu left to investigate the White Bone Battlefield and Li Yumen went to find buyers, Lin Bai began cultivating the Five Elements Dao Body in preparation for his planned breakthrough at the Crimson Moon Divine Sect.

• Li Yumen described the Bone Clan’s Storage Bags, and Lin Bai invited him and Jiang Xuansu to take whatever treasures they needed before selling the rest.
• Jiang Xuansu refused a share, while Li Yumen praised Lin Bai for devising the plan that had secured the treasures from the Bone Clan.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen selected treasures, sorted the remaining goods into batches, and arranged for Li Yumen to find buyers and exchange them for Devil Orbs.
• Lin Bai kept Five Elements medicines for cultivating his Dao Body and hid the sorted treasure hoard in the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Jiang Xuansu left to investigate the White Bone Battlefield, and Li Yumen departed to search for buyers.
• Lin Bai reflected on the sects’ planned martial competition in six months and began refining Five Elements medicines to strengthen his Dao Body before his breakthrough.

The Bone Race Honored One expected Young Master Lu to trade for the secrets of the White Bone Battlefield’s seal, but discovered that the treasures he had supplied never reached Lu. The transaction collapsed into a confrontation, and the chapter ended with the Eternal Devil Sect’s Nineteenth Elder arriving to rescue Lu’s three envoys.

• The Bone Race Honored One and the Yin Shan Envoy waited at White Dragon Ridge for Young Master Lu’s people to arrive.
• Three masked men came with a scroll containing secrets about the White Bone Battlefield’s seal and asked whether the Bone Race had prepared their senior brother’s requested items.
• The Bone Race Honored One revealed that two men had already collected the treasures, but the three envoys insisted Young Master Lu had never received them and threatened to leave with only an incomplete map.
• The Bone Race Honored One attacked the three men and demanded the scroll, but a powerful force rescued them.
• The Elders Council’s Nineteenth Elder arrived and said the three men were still useful to the Eternal Devil Sect, while the envoys denied informing the sect’s higher-ups.

The Nineteenth Elder tried to take three captured Eternal Devil Sect members from White Dragon Ridge, but two Bone Race Honored Ones attacked him before the Sect Master intervened. Back at Sword Hiding Hermitage, Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu he suspected the captured men would reveal nothing about Young Master Lu.

• The Nineteenth Elder bound three Eternal Devil Sect members and refused the Bone Race Honored One's demand to take something from them.
• The Bone Race Honored One attacked the Nineteenth Elder, then called the Hundred Battles Honored One to join him against their opponent.
• The Sect Master's Netherworld Cave Heaven Finger blasted apart the two Bone Race Honored Ones, who escaped as Spirit Bones, and he ordered the Nineteenth Elder to take the three captives back for interrogation.
• Jiang Xuansu praised Li Mojun's secret art, then left White Bone Battlefield and returned to Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Lin Bai explained how he had predicted the ambush and suggested Young Master Lu had sent expendable disciples who might not know his identity or even whether that name was real.

Lin Bai explained why he had risked offending Young Master Lu and the Bone Race to obtain treasures, then agreed to let Jiang Xuansu stay at the Sword Hiding Hermitage before departing for the Crimson Moon Divine Sect. After half a month of cultivation, he advanced his Five Elements Dao Body to the second layer and gained a major increase in strength and defense.

• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu that Young Master Lu might be using a false name and that the captured Eternal Devil Sect disciples likely knew nothing about him.
• Lin Bai said acquiring the treasures was worth the risk because he needed Devil Orbs to buy protection against his lightning tribulation.
• Jiang Xuansu revealed that she planned to accompany Lin Bai to the Crimson Moon Divine Sect under the Sect Master's orders, and Lin Bai let her stay at the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Lin Bai used the Bone Race's Five Elements spiritual objects to cultivate his Dao Body while Li Yumen searched for merchants to buy the treasures.
• After half a month, Lin Bai broke through to the second layer of the Five Elements Dao Body and found that his physical strength and defense had greatly improved.

After emerging from seclusion, Lin Bai demonstrated the immense strength he had gained from his body-tempering technique and discussed it with Jiang Xuansu. Li Yumen then reported Qin Yuyan’s proposal for selling their seized treasures through an internal auction, and Lin Bai agreed on the condition that the transaction’s safety was guaranteed.

• Lin Bai emerged from seclusion and showed Jiang Xuansu that his body-tempering technique had greatly increased his physical strength.
• Jiang Xuansu asked whether Lin Bai was cultivating a demonic art or forbidden technique, but he declined to reveal more about the technique.
• Li Yumen arrived and explained that no single merchant force could buy all the treasures worth ten million Devil Orbs.
• Li Yumen relayed Qin Yuyan’s proposal to gather wealthy merchants and noble families for an internal auction, with the Qin Pavilion taking a five-percent commission.
• Lin Bai agreed to Qin Yuyan’s proposal but required the Qin Pavilion to guarantee their safety during the transaction.

Lin Bai met Qin Yuyan at Spring Wind Valley to have her assess the treasures he planned to sell through the Qin Pavilion. Qin Yuyan confirmed they were worth more than ten million Devil Orbs, clearing the way for their business deal.

• Lin Bai chose to meet Qin Yuyan inside the Eternal Devil Sect and arranged the meeting through Li Yumen.
• Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, and Li Yumen arrived at Spring Wind Valley, where Qin Yuyan welcomed them and recognized Jiang Xuansu and Lin Bai.
• Qin Yuyan hosted the visitors with spirit tea, and they praised its flavor.
• Lin Bai handed Qin Yuyan a Storage Bag so she could inspect the treasures he intended to sell.
• Qin Yuyan confirmed the treasures were worth more than ten million Devil Orbs and explained why she had insisted on checking them first.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu arranged for Qin Yuyan to auction the treasure in Spring Wind Valley, then heard Li Mojun’s three updates about the sect’s plans, the failed interrogation, and their rewards. Li Mojun led them to collect those rewards, and they arrived at the Eternal Seven Absolute Peaks, where the sect’s treasury and Scripture Repository were kept.

• Lin Bai agreed to Qin Yuyan’s five-percent commission and arranged to attend an auction in Spring Wind Valley in half a month, using a Bone Shift Pill to disguise himself.
• Li Mojun told Lin Bai that the Crimson Moon Divine Sect had agreed to reconcile with the Eternal Devil Sect and that the martial arts competition would take place in five months.
• Li Mojun explained that the captured disciples had revealed little about Young Master Lu, so the sect would continue investigating while Lin Bai prepared for the competition.
• Li Mojun awarded Lin Bai, Li Yumen, and Jiang Xuansu five hundred thousand Devil Orbs each, one treasury treasure, and one Mystic Art or Dao Art.
• Li Yumen told Lin Bai that the treasury and Scripture Repository had nine levels, and Li Mojun led them through a barrier to the Eternal Seven Absolute Peaks.

Lin Bai, Li Yumen, and Jiang Xuansu entered the Eternal Seven Absolute Peaks to choose treasures, and Jiang Xuansu warned them about the dangers of the higher levels. Lin Bai continued toward the ninth level while Li Yumen stayed behind to choose a weapon, and the guarding ancestor discussed Li Mojun’s risky decision to bring Lin Bai to the peaks.

• Li Mojun gave Lin Bai, Li Yumen, and Jiang Xuansu Sect Master's Jade Tokens and told them they could each take one item from the Eternal Seven Absolute Peaks.
• Jiang Xuansu led Lin Bai and Li Yumen through the divine-weapon peak, where they passed through successive levels filled with increasingly powerful treasures.
• At the sixth level, Jiang Xuansu warned that treasures beyond the seventh level could cause backlash and asked them to weigh immediate usefulness against future potential.
• Li Yumen decided to stay on the sixth level and choose a treasure suited to his cultivation prospects, while Lin Bai asked Jiang Xuansu to take him onward.
• A guarding ancestor told Li Mojun that Lin Bai was heading for the ninth level and said the ancestors would support her decision to try to save the Eternal Devil Sect.

Lin Bai chose the Heaven Concealing Leaf from the Eternal Seven Absolute Peaks’ treasury because it could hide the aura of his Devouring Spirit, while Li Yumen selected the Thousand-Scaled Dragon Armor. The old ancestor approved of Lin Bai’s judgment and promised Li Mojun full support for her decisions.

• Lin Bai passed over the powerful treasures on the seventh and ninth levels, then learned from Jiang Xuansu that the Heaven Concealing Leaf could conceal soul and martial soul aura.
• Lin Bai tried to lift a flaming sword on the ninth level, but its power harmed him, so he let go and chose the Heaven Concealing Leaf instead.
• Lin Bai used the Sect Master's Jade Token to take the Heaven Concealing Leaf, then rejoined Jiang Xuansu and Li Yumen.
• Li Yumen showed Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu the Thousand-Scaled Dragon Armor he had chosen for defense, and the three headed to the Scripture Repository.
• The old ancestor told Li Mojun that Lin Bai’s choice would help conceal the Devouring Spirit and pledged to support her decisions.