Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai faced the Heaven’s Wrath Tribulation as Yang Lou and the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s ancestors recognized him as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race. The first crimson divine lightning overwhelmed his treasures and left him bloodied on Mountain of the Seated Immortal.

• The thunderclouds spread across ninety thousand li, prompting Yang Lou to evacuate the area around Mountain of the Seated Immortal while martial artists fled the storm.
• Yang Lou and more than twenty ancestors identified the storm as the Heaven’s Wrath Tribulation and suspected Lin Bai belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• The tribulation drew power from the surrounding land, and its thunder shook Lin Bai before the first crimson divine lightning descended.
• Lin Bai hurled three treasures at the lightning, but the first two disintegrated and the Moon-Reflecting Mirror exploded after absorbing the bolt.
• The mirror’s shattered lightning struck Lin Bai, leaving him bloody and mangled as he crashed onto Mountain of the Seated Immortal.

Lin Bai endured Heaven's Wrath Tribulation on Mountain of the Seated Immortal, using treasures to withstand increasingly devastating bolts while suffering severe injuries. After surviving five bolts, he refined all twenty-five of his remaining treasures at once as the next bolt gathered.

• Lin Bai realized the immortal phantom and the mountain's terrain could no longer protect him, then swallowed healing pills and prepared to face the second bolt.
• Lin Bai used five treasures and Mountain-Swallowing Toad against the second bolt, but they shattered or exploded, leaving him badly wounded.
• Lin Bai used six defensive treasures against the third and fourth bolts; the lightning shattered them, destroyed the immortal phantom, and carved away much of Mountain of the Seated Immortal.
• Lin Bai survived the fifth bolt with the protection of his Five Elements Dao Body and Sword Heart, while the tribulation continued to worsen his injuries.
• Lin Bai refined all twenty-five remaining treasures, including Thunder Dragon Pearl, Seven-Colored Treasure Umbrella, and Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment, to defend against the bolts still to come.

Lin Bai endured the final bolts of Heaven's Wrath Tribulation at Mountain of the Seated Immortal, while Qin Yuyan and Jiang Xuansu realized the nature of his trial. He survived the ninth bolt, though he was gravely injured and losing consciousness.

• Lin Bai used his treasures and pills to withstand the sixth and seventh bolts, refusing to use the Heaven Concealing Jade Pendant to evade the tribulation.
• The eighth bolt shook the land around Crimson Moon Mountain City, interrupting Murong Ting and Liu Puyu's battle and drawing the attention of the spectators.
• Qin Yuyan explained to Jiang Xuansu that Heaven's Wrath Tribulation afflicted those with immense sins or members of the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Lin Bai used five treasures and the Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment to endure the ninth bolt, which shattered the Seven-Colored Treasure Umbrella and badly damaged his body.
• The ninth bolt passed as Lin Bai's consciousness faded.

Lin Bai survived the ninth bolt of Heaven's Wrath Tribulation, but his divine pill and Devouring Sword Soul did not fuse into a Dao Fruit. A vast new tribulation gathered above him, revealing figures and palaces in the clouds as Ancestor Yang Lou identified it as the Supreme Tribulation.

• Lin Bai survived the ninth bolt, and the Heaven's Wrath lightning clouds dispersed, leaving Mountain of the Seated Immortal devastated.
• Lin Bai realized his divine pill and Devouring Sword Soul had not transformed, then watched new lightning clouds gather across the sky.
• Ancestor Yang Lou and the Crimson Moon Sect Master discussed whether to capture Lin Bai and trade him to the Giant God Race or risk sheltering him.
• The Crimson Moon Sect Master headed toward Mountain of the Seated Immortal, but stopped when immense lightning clouds and imposing figures appeared over Crimson Moon Divine Sect.
• Ancestor Yang Lou recognized the heavenly palaces and figures in the clouds as signs of the Supreme Tribulation.

A Supreme Tribulation formed over Mountain of the Seated Immortal, forcing the Crimson Moon Divine Sect and the martial artists of Crimson Moon Mountain City to flee. Beyond its reach, the Third Elder and the others waited as Lin Bai faced the Devil Realm’s third recorded Supreme Tribulation.

• Yang Lou recognized the Supreme Tribulation and warned that all living creatures within a million li would die, prompting the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s Ancestors to flee and order an evacuation.
• The Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s disciples and martial artists in Crimson Moon Mountain City abandoned the area beneath the thunderclouds and fled east.
• Qin Yuyan and Jiang Xuansu realized the new tribulation was the Supreme Tribulation and raced beyond its vast range.
• Qin Yuyan and Jiang Xuansu joined the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s Ancestors outside the tribulation, where the Third Elder urged the disciples to watch the rare event.

Lin Bai faced the Supreme Tribulation at Mountain of the Seated Immortal and was swallowed by its nine-colored divine thunder. He survived, advanced directly to the peak Nine Tribulation Dao Realm, and manifested his Supreme Avatar.

• Third Elder told Jiang Xuansu that martial artists who crossed the Supreme Tribulation vanished, and they watched Lin Bai's tribulation from afar.
• Lin Bai summoned Devouring Sword Soul, the Demon Sword, and his three flying swords, then charged into the Supreme Tribulation.
• The tribulation struck Lin Bai with a nine-colored divine thunderbolt that devastated the land and caused the distant onlookers to believe he might have died.
• Lin Bai's body and soul were destroyed and then reconstructed within the thunder, leaving him stronger than before.
• Lin Bai's divine pill, Devouring Sword Soul, and spiritual power fused into a Dao Fruit, raising him from the Quasi-Dao Realm to the peak Nine Tribulation Dao Realm.
• Lin Bai manifested a towering Supreme Avatar whose black jade sword was the transformed Devouring Sword Soul.

Lin Bai survived the Supreme Tribulation and manifested his Supreme Avatar, which shattered the thunderclouds and revealed him as a future Supreme of Heaven and Earth. Hundreds of Crimson Moon forces and the Crimson Moon Divine Sect and Eternal Devil Sect pledged allegiance, while a powerful ancestor set out for the Crimson Moon Divine Sect.

• Lin Bai's Supreme Avatar appeared in the tribulation and cleaved apart the thunderclouds with a sword strike.
• Qin Yuyan, Jiang Xuansu, Third Elder, and the other witnesses recognized Lin Bai's Supreme Avatar and celebrated his success.
• Lang Qing and hundreds of families and sects pledged allegiance to Lin Bai, followed by Ancestor Yang Lou on behalf of the Crimson Moon Divine Sect and Third Elder on behalf of the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai gave no response to the pledges of allegiance.
• An ancestor elsewhere in the Devil World sensed the Supreme Tribulation, declared that the Devil World was flourishing, and traveled toward the Crimson Moon Divine Sect.

Ling Tianzi learned that Lin Bai had survived the Supreme Tribulation in the Demon Realm and condensed a Supreme Avatar, and he celebrated his disciple’s achievement. He explained why he had sent Lin Bai to the Demon Realm rather than the Heaven Swallowing Race, while the old woman warned that Lin Bai’s revealed potential would attract both allies and enemies.

• Ling Tianzi sensed Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar in the Demon Realm and told his disciples that Lin Bai had survived the tribulations and gained the Supreme Tribulation’s recognition.
• Li Shanqing rejoiced, while the Slovenly Daoist and Leng Nuan congratulated Ling Tianzi on Lin Bai’s achievement.
• Ling Tianzi refused to notify Liu Songjing, and the old woman cautioned that Giant God Race agents within the Heaven Swallowing Race could expose Lin Bai’s location.
• Ling Tianzi said he trusted Lin Bai’s strength and the Demon Realm’s protection more than the Heaven Swallowing Race, and believed Lin Bai would grow there before returning to the Spirit Realm.
• The old woman warned that the Demon Realm’s Realm Sons and other factions might target Lin Bai because his Supreme Avatar had been revealed, and Ling Tianzi praised Lin Bai’s ability to conceal or display his strength.

After Lin Bai revealed his Supreme Avatar during the tribulation, the Giant God Race marked him as a threat and began searching for him. Lin Bai secretly returned to Azure Dragon Estate, where he told Qin Yuyan that the Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment had been reduced to ashes and fled before she could respond.

• Ling Tianzi recognized that Lin Bai's Supreme Avatar gave him the qualifications to contend with the Giant God Race.
• The Giant God Race elders saw the Heaven Swallowing Supreme Avatar on the Giant God Compass and began searching for Lin Bai so they could kill him.
• After the Supreme Tribulation destroyed Mountain of the Seated Immortal, Lin Bai concealed his identity and slipped back to Crimson Moon Mountain City.
• Lin Bai returned to Azure Dragon Estate and admitted to Qin Yuyan that the tribulation had destroyed the Tribulation-Passing Immortal Garment.
• Qin Yuyan demanded to see the garment's fragments, and Lin Bai said they had turned to ashes before retreating into his courtyard and activating its formation.

After surviving the tribulation, Lin Bai reached the peak of the Nine Tribulation Dao Realm and secluded himself to stabilize his cultivation. Meanwhile, chaos over the destroyed Mountain of the Seated Immortal disrupted the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s martial competition, and the chapter ended with Wei Wuyu giving the Third Elder a shocking answer about whether it would continue.

• Lin Bai reflected on the treasures he had lost in the tribulation, recognized his Supreme Avatar as a powerful but unfamiliar trump card, and entered secluded cultivation.
• The destruction of the Mountain of the Seated Immortal enraged the Crimson Moon Divine Sect’s elders, while searching outsiders invaded forbidden areas and clashed with the sect’s disciples.
• The Third Elder visited Jiang Xuansu and Qin Yuyan, warned them not to disturb Lin Bai, and said he expected to withdraw from the martial competition and return to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• The Crimson Moon Divine Sect restored order by executing trespassers and punishing their families and sects, causing many outsiders to flee.
• Five days later, the Third Elder asked Wei Wuyu whether the martial competition would continue, and Wei Wuyu gave him a startling answer.

Wei Wuyu learned from Yang Lou that the Crimson Moon Divine Sect was keeping the Eternal Devil Sect’s disciples in Crimson Moon Mountain City to find Qing Luo, a Heaven Swallowing Race member who had triggered the Supreme Tribulation. Outside the city, Li Mojun and the Eternal Devil Sect’s ancestors prepared to storm the city if Qing Luo and the disciples were not released within half a month.

• Wei Wuyu told Ke Yu that the Crimson Moon Divine Sect had forbidden the Eternal Devil Sect’s disciples from leaving Crimson Moon Mountain City.
• Wei Wuyu reported Ke Yu’s departure request to Yang Lou, who ordered him to keep the disciples in the city while they searched for the future Supreme.
• Yang Lou told Wei Wuyu he believed the Eternal Devil Sect had brought Qing Luo to the sect deliberately as a warning, and that its leaders might be waiting outside the city.
• Yang Lou instructed Wei Wuyu to maintain contact with Ke Yu and release the Eternal Devil Sect’s disciples if Qing Luo was not found within half a month.
• Li Mojun and more than twenty Eternal Devil Sect ancestors celebrated Qing Luo’s Supreme Tribulation, then agreed to storm Crimson Moon Mountain City if the disciples had not left within half a month.

After nearly half a year in seclusion, Lin Bai learned that Crimson Moon Divine Sect had held the Eternal Devil Sect in Crimson Moon Mountain City while searching for the person who weathered the tribulation. The Eternal Devil Sect returned home, while old ancestor Yang Lou prepared to wait for the hidden future Supreme to rise.

• Lin Bai left seclusion, learned the sect was still in Crimson Moon Mountain City, and concealed his aura with the Heaven Concealing Jade Pendant.
• Lin Bai spent the following days sightseeing with Jiang Xuansu and Qin Yuyan while Crimson Moon Divine Sect continued searching for the tribulation survivor.
• On the fifteenth day, Wei Wuyu let the Eternal Devil Sect leave, and old ancestor Yang Lou ordered his sect to withdraw from Xuan Province and avoid provoking Lian Province.
• Old ancestor Yang Lou told the Crimson Moon Sect Master to watch for the future Supreme and consider recruiting or killing him if he was found.
• Li Mojun and the Eternal Devil Sect's old ancestors escorted Kun Long back to the Eternal Devil Sect, where Lin Bai returned to Sword Hiding Hermitage to cultivate and wait for someone.

Lin Bai returned to the Eternal Devil Sect and learned that Zhou Xi and Sun Yao were preparing to travel to Le Province. Li Mojun told him his tribulation had helped secure peace on the sect’s borders, then asked him to address the sect’s internal troubles.

• Lin Bai returned to the Sword Hiding Hermitage and found Zhou Xi and Sun Yao close to breaking through to the Dao Realm after hearing lectures at Immortality Seeking Peak.
• Zhou Xi and Sun Yao told Lin Bai they had accepted a mission to Le Province and would leave the next day for two or three months; Lin Bai gave them permission.
• Li Mojun visited Lin Bai that evening and praised him for surviving the Heaven’s Wrath Tribulation and the Supreme Tribulation.
• Li Mojun reported that Xuan Province’s forces had been driven from Lian Province and that Xuan and Lian had agreed to a ten-year peace.
• Li Mojun warned Lin Bai to keep the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and Supreme Avatar secret until he was strong enough, then asked him to resolve the Eternal Devil Sect’s internal troubles.

Lin Bai secured Li Mojun’s help with cultivation resources, official status for Zhou Xi and Sun Yao, and a search for the Heaven Measuring Ruler. Li Mojun then asked Lin Bai to help rein in the Thirteen Provinces Alliance, whose province alliances were preparing to fight in Heng Province.

• Lin Bai asked Li Mojun for access to the sect’s cultivation texts, inner disciple status for Zhou Xi and Sun Yao, and help finding the Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Li Mojun agreed to all three requests.
• Li Mojun explained that the Eternal Devil Sect had settled its immediate external threat from the Crimson Moon Divine Sect and wanted Lin Bai to address the Thirteen Provinces Alliance’s rebellion.
• Lin Bai warned that challenging the alliance would risk conflict with powerful disciples and the families and sects backing them, especially the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province.
• Li Mojun revealed that the Le Province Alliance, Bear Province Alliance, and Heng Province Alliance planned to join forces against the Lian Province Alliance in the Poison Hidden Mountain Range under the pretext of experience training.
• Li Mojun said the sect could not prevent the planned fight and explained that tangled personal connections had made its leaders too cautious to enforce order decisively.

Li Mojun explained how the Eternal Devil Sect’s lax discipline and tangled personal ties had weakened its authority, then asked Lin Bai to destroy the Heng Province Alliance so he could purge the Thirteen Provinces Alliance and restore order. Lin Bai recognized the danger of the plan and asked whether there was any other way.

• Li Mojun described how the Eternal Devil Sect’s powerful disciples and their connections made punishing wrongdoing difficult.
• Lin Bai inferred that Li Mojun wanted him to act where the Headmaster could not, and Li Mojun said they were partners rather than master and weapon.
• Li Mojun told Lin Bai to kill the Heng Province Alliance’s outstanding disciples to cripple the alliance and the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province.
• Li Mojun planned to use the resulting upheaval to disband the Thirteen Provinces Alliance, purge the sect, and confront the Eight Great Noble Families.
• Lin Bai called the plan dangerous and asked whether there was another way.

Lin Bai and Li Mojun finalized a plan to use Lin Bai against the Heng Province Alliance while keeping the Eternal Devil Sect's involvement hidden. After Li Mojun left, Lin Bai settled into seclusion to strengthen his cultivation and prepare to deal with the Sword Hiding Hermitage's affairs.

• Li Mojun explained that he had given Lin Bai the Sword Hiding Hermitage to test the provincial alliances, draw the Heng Province Alliance into a legitimate conflict, and see whether Lin Bai dared fight it.
• Lin Bai realized Li Mojun had been coordinating his earlier tribulation and the coming campaign to resolve threats facing the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Li Mojun advised Lin Bai to cultivate before confronting the Heng Province Alliance, and Lin Bai declined to hunt ordinary demons because they offered too little blood qi for his advancement.
• Lin Bai agreed to consolidate his Dao Realm and seek the Sun Moon Divine Flower and Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk, while Li Mojun stopped suppressing the Heng Province Alliance on his behalf.
• An Affairs Hall elder arrived at dawn with orders promoting Zhou Xi and Sun Yao to inner disciples, and they left the sect that afternoon to gain experience.
• Lin Bai began cultivating in seclusion after the Sword Hiding Hermitage grew quiet.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Lin Bai returned to Sword Hiding Hermitage as the Heng Province Alliance prepared to seize its Sun Moon Divine Flower and Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk. The chapter ended with Lin Bai sensing a faint array formation beneath Moon Gazing Pond.

• Lin Bai returned to secluded cultivation while the Heng Province Alliance planned to reclaim the Sun Moon Divine Flower and Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk within three months.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu arranged for a Wu Family elder to hold Liu Qingyun back, and the alliance prepared a trap for Lin Bai.
• The Wu Family elder persuaded Liu Qingyun to leave Sword Hiding Hermitage, though Liu Qingyun had already received Li Mojun's permission to go.
• Lin Bai awoke after half a month of cultivation, caught a Moon Gazing Spirit Fish by cutting off the water around it, and cooked it.
• While eating beside Moon Gazing Pond, Lin Bai noticed a faint array formation at the bottom of the lake.

Lin Bai discovered a hidden formation beneath Moon Gazing Pond and found a cavern containing the legendary Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk. After consuming one drop and feeling his cultivation surge toward the Dao Sovereign realm, he realized the pool held only about a thousand precious drops, replenished at roughly one per year.

• Lin Bai recalled the formation he had sensed beneath Moon Gazing Pond and dove in to investigate it.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to break through the formation and entered a cavern through a light gate.
• Lin Bai found a pool of Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk and read an inscription explaining its origin and value.
• Lin Bai consumed one drop, and the spiritual energy rapidly advanced his cultivation toward the Dao Sovereign realm.
• Lin Bai estimated that the pool held about a thousand drops and that the stone pillar produced only one drop each year.

Lin Bai collected Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk and went to Qin Pavilion to find an alchemist who could refine it into pills. He began discussing a partnership with Qin Yuyan, who reluctantly entertained his proposal.

• Lin Bai decided not to use his Dao Fruit to refine the pool of Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk and filled ten jade bottles with ten drops each.
• Lin Bai left the Sword Hiding Hermitage for Qilin Town to find a suitable Mountain Protection Formation at Qin Pavilion.
• Qin Yuyan confronted Lin Bai over the destruction of the Mortality-Defying Immortal Robe, though the Qin Pavilion master had ordered the matter dropped.
• Lin Bai showed Qin Yuyan the Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk and proposed cooperating with Qin Pavilion to refine it into pills.
• Qin Yuyan asked what pill Lin Bai wanted, and Lin Bai pointed out that he was still standing, prompting her to offer him a seat.

Lin Bai negotiated with Qin Yuyan to have Qin Pavilion refine pills using his Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk, agreeing to pay one drop for every ten. He left after arranging for cultivation pills within three months and healing and body-tempering pills within half a year.

• Lin Bai proposed a seventy-thirty split with Qin Pavilion for pills refined from Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk, but Qin Yuyan explained other ways to profit from the milk.
• Lin Bai rejected Qin Yuyan's proposal to add traces of the milk to other pills, saying he wanted to focus on improving his cultivation.
• Qin Yuyan offered to refine pills for Lin Bai in exchange for one-tenth of his Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk, and Lin Bai agreed and handed over ten drops.
• Lin Bai requested cultivation, healing, and body-tempering pills, and Qin Yuyan agreed to refine them.
• Lin Bai asked Qin Yuyan to finish the cultivation pills within three months and the other pills within half a year, then left.