Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai seized the Imperial Heaven Dao Bone from the War Automaton, evaded Di Feng and Huang Liang by hiding underground, and absorbed its power. He reached the Fourth Rank Dao Sovereign and hoped to advance further before the Eternal Trial ended.

• Di Feng and Huang Liang fought over the Imperial Heaven Dao Bone while Lin Bai secretly snatched it from the War Automaton and fled underground.
• Di Feng and Huang Liang pursued Lin Bai but failed to find him, then left in opposite directions.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had hidden in a concealed passage for five days to evade his pursuers.
• Lin Bai absorbed the Imperial Heaven Dao Bone's cultivation power, advancing from the Second Rank to the Fourth Rank Dao Sovereign.
• Lin Bai rejoiced at his breakthrough and resolved to keep cultivating toward the Nine Tribulation Dao Realm.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Lin Bai continued searching Eternal Mountain for the Black Demon Forest and came upon Wu Shanyu’s Heng Province Alliance fighters attacking Li Yumen and Yi Mei. Lin Bai secretly intervened to save Li Yumen, but Wu Shanyu had not yet discovered who was helping them.

• Lin Bai spent two days stabilizing his cultivation, then resumed searching for the Black Demon Forest while cautiously conserving his spiritual power and avoiding the pursuing vengeful ghost.
• After hearing a battle nearby, Lin Bai found Li Yumen and Yi Mei surrounded by seven Heng Province Alliance martial artists led by Wu Shanyu.
• Wu Shanyu demanded that Li Yumen kneel and beg for mercy, then attacked him while threatening Yi Mei.
• When Wu Shanyu’s sword nearly struck Li Yumen, an unseen attacker’s Sword Qi knocked it aside and forced Wu Shanyu back.
• Wu Shanyu attacked Li Yumen again, but another streak of Sword Qi struck him, leaving him furiously demanding that the hidden assailant reveal himself.

Lin Bai drove Wu Shanyu and the Heng Province Alliance away with a roar, then reunited with Li Yumen and Yi Mei. Li Yumen explained that they had encountered Wu Shanyu while seeking the valuable dragon blood at Dragon Blood Mountain.

• Wu Shanyu searched for the hidden expert who had intervened, but Lin Bai stayed concealed because he feared facing the Heng Province Alliance directly.
• Lin Bai unleashed a roar infused with his Sword Heart, injuring Wu Shanyu and the martial artists behind him and forcing them to withdraw.
• Li Yumen thanked the unseen helper, then escaped with Yi Mei and treated their injuries in a mountain ravine.
• Lin Bai joined Li Yumen and Yi Mei in the ravine, and they realized he had repelled Wu Shanyu from hiding.
• Li Yumen told Lin Bai that they had gone to Dragon Blood Mountain to seek its abundant, valuable dragon blood spiritual liquid.

Lin Bai learned that the Lian Province Alliance had been ambushed at Dragon Blood Mountain and that Su Yue held the treasure used to track the elusive dragon blood. He reached the mountain, spotted the fleeing red dragon phantom with his Asura Dharma Eyes, and pursued it as Wu Shanyu’s Heng Province Alliance arrived nearby.

• Li Yumen told Lin Bai that the Heng Province Alliance had ambushed the Lian Province Alliance, leaving only him and Yi Mei to escape, and that Su Yue had the dragon-blood tracking treasure.
• Lin Bai suspected Su Yue had leaked the news, then left Li Yumen and the wounded Yi Mei to investigate Dragon Blood Mountain alone.
• Lin Bai reached Dragon Blood Mountain and flew through the forest while searching for the Heng Province Alliance and Wu Shanyu.
• Lin Bai used his Asura Dharma Eyes to spot a red dragon phantom and chased it when it fled.
• Wu Shanyu arrived with the Heng Province Alliance, carrying a compass-like treasure as his group searched for the dragon blood.

Lin Bai trapped Dragon Blood and pulled it from Dragon Blood Mountain, but Wu Shanyu and the Heng Province Alliance confronted him and demanded it. Lin Bai escaped their encirclement, but Wu Shanyu wounded him with a powerful arrow and prepared to shoot again.

• Wu Shanyu sensed another martial artist nearby as Su Yue urged the Heng Province Alliance to secure Dragon Blood.
• Lin Bai trapped the elusive Dragon Blood with his Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and drew a vat’s worth of it from underground.
• Wu Shanyu and the Heng Province Alliance arrived, surrounded Lin Bai, and demanded that he hand over Dragon Blood.
• Lin Bai attacked Su Yue to break through the encirclement and fled on his flying swords.
• Wu Shanyu pursued Lin Bai and shot him through the abdomen with a Superior-Grade Dao Divine Weapon, then aimed another arrow at him.

Wu Shanyu pursued Lin Bai with a Superior-Grade Dao Divine Weapon bow and arrow that pierced Lin Bai's defenses and relentlessly tracked him. Lin Bai refined all his dragon blood to break through three cultivation realms, then struck down and sealed the arrow, leaving it in his grasp.

• Wu Shanyu shot Lin Bai with his Superior-Grade Dao Divine Weapon, piercing his abdomen and shoulder despite Lin Bai's defenses.
• Lin Bai fled with the Sword Control Art, but Wu Shanyu's arrow continued tracking him and he realized he had to confront it.
• Lin Bai refined the dragon blood with the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit while fleeing, raising his cultivation to Peak Seventh-Grade Dao Sovereign.
• Lin Bai used Winter's Chill from the Four Intentions of Extinction to strike the arrow from the air and extinguish most of its spirituality.
• Lin Bai seized the arrow and sealed it with spiritual power, stopping it from moving.

Lin Bai escaped Wu Shanyu after taking the Sun Moon Arrows and stabilized his cultivation after refining the dragon blood from Dragon Blood Mountain. He told Li Yumen and Yi Mei how he had obtained the dragon blood and revealed Su Yue’s betrayal.

• Lin Bai collected Wu Shanyu’s Sun Moon Arrows and escaped, leaving Wu Shanyu unable to track him.
• Wu Shanyu returned to Dragon Blood Mountain empty-handed and forced Su Yue to follow the Heng Province Alliance after Su Yue had betrayed the Lian Province Alliance.
• Lin Bai returned to the mountain stream and entered seclusion to stabilize his cultivation at the peak of the seventh-grade Dao Venerable level.
• Li Yumen and Yi Mei recovered from their injuries while Lin Bai cultivated.
• Lin Bai told Li Yumen and Yi Mei that he had taken all the dragon blood, that Su Yue had betrayed the Lian Province Alliance, and that Wu Shanyu had pursued him with the Heaven Piercing Bow and Sun Moon Arrows.

After learning that Eternal Mountain held three dangerous treasure grounds, Lin Bai chose to enter the Black Demon Forest despite Li Yumen and Yi Mei’s warnings. He left to seek a treasure that could seal the evil ghost pursuing him.

• Li Yumen identified Wu Shanyu’s bow and arrows as the Heaven Piercing Bow and Sun Moon Arrows and recounted how Wu Shanyu had found them.
• Lin Bai asked about the Black Demon Forest, and Li Yumen explained that it was one of three treasure grounds filled with accumulated treasures and powerful martial artists.
• Yi Mei warned Lin Bai that the Black Demon Forest was perilous and urged him to search elsewhere with them, but Lin Bai insisted on going.
• Lin Bai got the forest’s location from Li Yumen, said farewell, and flew away on his sword.
• Yi Mei questioned Li Yumen for letting Lin Bai go, and Li Yumen replied that Lin Bai could not be persuaded and was no ordinary person.

Lin Bai entered the Black Demon Forest to search for its treasures while guarding against the mind-corrupting Black Demon Qi and the Blackfiends within. After witnessing a Blackfiend kill a flying martial artist, he cautiously ventured deeper and found a man in agony beside a creek, who sensed his hidden presence.

• Li Yumen gave Lin Bai a map of the Eternal Trial, and Lin Bai used it to travel to the Black Demon Forest.
• Lin Bai learned that Black Demon Qi corrupted martial artists into powerful Blackfiends that wandered the forest.
• Lin Bai entered the forest on foot and saw a Blackfiend seize a martial artist in midair and tear him in half.
• Lin Bai continued deeper through the forest for five days, avoiding the air and watching for Blackfiends.
• Lin Bai heard a scream and found a trembling martial artist beside a creek, but the man detected Lin Bai and called out to him.

Lin Bai witnessed a fellow Eternal Devil Sect disciple transform into a Black Demon and followed it through the Black Demon Forest to a mountain it guarded. While searching the mountain, he discovered the remains of an ancient pavilion buried beneath the weeds.

• A Senior Brother begged Lin Bai to kill him as Black Demon Qi overtook his body, then transformed into a Black Demon with Dao Immortal-level strength.
• Lin Bai fled the Black Demon’s attack, then followed it from a distance after it wandered through the forest and began circling a mountain.
• After watching the Black Demon for two days, Lin Bai secretly searched the mountain for a treasure but initially found nothing unusual.
• Lin Bai spotted buried pavilion remains halfway up the mountain and uncovered a weathered stone pillar resembling a pavilion’s flying eave.

Lin Bai discovered that a buried structure beneath a mountain in the Black Demon Forest was the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple and tried to open its stone door using the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit. The door’s movement shook the region, drawing black demons and martial artists, and Lin Bai was forced to fight a black demon before he could enter.

• Lin Bai realized the enormous stone structure might be buried beneath the entire mountain and decided to explore it cautiously through an underground passage.
• Lin Bai uncovered a stone doorway and a plaque identifying the structure as the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to push open the stone door, causing the mountain and surrounding earth to shake and alerting nearby martial artists and black demons.
• A black demon entered Lin Bai’s underground passage and attacked him, forcing him to stop opening the door and fight.
• Lin Bai struggled to defeat the black demon and began considering retreating.

Lin Bai lured a powerful Black Demon away from the newly exposed Stone Temple, fought it until it suddenly withdrew, then returned to find martial artists and Black Demons battling over the ruin. Hidden nearby, he recognized several Eternal Devil Sect prodigies among those fighting.

• Lin Bai drew the Black Demon away from the Stone Temple, giving nearby martial artists a chance to approach it, but other Black Demons attacked them and sparked a battle.
• After fleeing tens of thousands of li, Lin Bai turned to fight the Black Demon, wounding it with his sword but failing to kill it.
• The Black Demon abruptly left after seeming to receive a summons, and Lin Bai headed back toward the Stone Temple.
• Lin Bai returned to find hundreds of martial artists fighting Black Demons around the exposed Stone Temple, whose ancient aura suggested it concealed a great treasure.
• Lin Bai hid to observe the battle and spotted Eternal Devil Sect prodigies Wu Shanyu, Di Feng, and Huang Liang among the martial artists.

Lin Bai entered the Stone Temple after a mysterious black-clad martial artist opened its sealed door, then found himself trapped in a boundless darkness. A strange vision showed a Giant God slaughtering a tribe over a newborn before the world changed again, leaving Lin Bai wondering what the Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Path was revealing.

• Lin Bai watched a black-clad figure open the Stone Temple’s stone door, and Wu Shanyu, Huang Liang, Di Feng, Lei Hou, and other experts entered.
• Lin Bai entered the Stone Temple and found himself sealed inside an endless darkness with no visible way back.
• A pool appeared in the darkness, and Lin Bai traveled toward it as mountains, forests, and a tribal settlement emerged around him.
• A newborn’s arrival frightened the villagers, and a Giant God appeared and crushed the tribe and its inhabitants.
• Lin Bai recognized the giant as part of the Giant God Race, then watched the vision disappear and another world replace it.

Lin Bai witnessed a primordial-era grandfather bring a child of the Heaven Swallowing Race to the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, where a mysterious figure in black took the child in. Lin Bai then approached the temple himself, and the figure revealed that he could see him and warned him not to open its door.

• Lin Bai followed an old man and a child through an ancient city and wilderness, learning that the Giant Gods hunted the Heaven Swallowing Race and seeing the primordial world's wonders.
• After years of searching, the grandfather brought the child to a ruined Stone Temple, where a black-clad figure demonstrated the Heaven Swallowing God's power and claimed the child as one of his people.
• The grandfather handed the crying child to the figure, who took him into the temple and made the temple vanish; the grandfather searched for it before leaving in despair.
• Lin Bai approached the temple after it reappeared, and the black-clad figure warned him not to open its door.
• Lin Bai asked the figure who he was and what secrets lay behind the temple and the ancient war, but the chapter ended before he received an answer.

Lin Bai witnessed a memory in which a black-clad master revealed the Devouring Gods’ ancient war against the Giant Gods and showed his disciple the Demon Sword, one of nine sealed supreme treasures. Inside the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, the disciple found a remnant jade fragment and an ancient tome, and the fragment was identified as a key.

• Lin Bai realized he was only a spectator in a memory as a young man asked his black-clad master why he had entered the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple.
• The black-clad master explained that the Devouring Gods had long fought the Giant Gods and that nine ancient temples each sealed a supreme treasure.
• The black-clad master opened the temple and revealed an ancient sword that Lin Bai recognized as the Demon Sword, explaining that its power was sealed.
• The young man entered the temple and found a shattered remnant jade fragment and an ancient tome on a table.
• The young man called the fragment a key, leaving Lin Bai wondering what it unlocked.

Lin Bai witnessed the black-robed Devouring God explain that the Five Elements Scripture could counter the seal on the Heaven Swallowing Race’s supreme treasure and that Devouring Gods could absorb one another’s power. The vision faded, leaving Lin Bai in the empty ancient temple, where he realized the young man had taken the scripture and Demon Sword away.

• The black-robed man revealed that the fragment was one of eighty-one pieces of a key said to uncover the Devouring Gods’ origins and potentially end their war with the Giant Gods.
• The young man recognized the ancient book as the Five Elements Scripture, and the black-robed man explained that cultivating it could balance the seal and unlock the Heaven Swallowing Race’s supreme treasure.
• The black-robed man entrusted the Five Elements Scripture and ancient sword to the young man, explaining that he was dying from injuries suffered fighting the Giant Gods.
• The black-robed man warned that Devouring Gods could absorb one another’s power and gain each other’s Devouring Heaven Dao Methods, so the young man had to beware even his own kin.
• The black-robed man said he would leave a spiritual imprint in the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, then Lin Bai’s vision faded and he found the long table empty.
• Lin Bai realized the young man had likely taken the Five Elements Scripture and Demon Sword down the mountain after the black-robed man died.

Lin Bai learned from the ancient God of Devouring’s imprint about the Heaven Swallowing Race, the Demon Sword, the Five Elements Scripture, and the fragments tied to the war with the Giant God Race. After leaving the empty temple, he resolved to record the race’s secrets so they would not be lost.

• Lin Bai wondered why the first black-clad man had opened the temple door without triggering the spiritual imprint, then reviewed what the imprint had revealed.
• Lin Bai learned that members of the Heaven Swallowing Race could absorb one another’s devouring power, that the Demon Sword’s seal could be loosened with the Five Elements Scripture, and that fragments could end the war with the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai thanked Ling Tianzi for urging him to cultivate the Five Elements Scripture and understood why he had been able to shake the Demon Sword’s seal.
• Lin Bai searched the temple, found no treasures, and bowed to the ancient God of Devouring before leaving.
• Lin Bai resolved to record his cultivation path and the secrets of the Heaven Swallowing Race for future generations.

After leaving the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple, Lin Bai was ambushed by the Evil Ghost and fled through the Black Demon Forest. He escaped a simultaneous attack from the Evil Ghost and a Black Demon with his Supreme Avatar, then set out to find Liu Fuyun’s hidden formation and the treasure that could deal with the Evil Ghost.

• Lin Bai left the Heaven Swallowing Ancient Temple and found that the martial artists and Black Demons had departed.
• The Evil Ghost ambushed Lin Bai, wounded his shoulder, and resumed its pursuit.
• Lin Bai tried to flee the Evil Ghost but ran into a Black Demon, leaving him trapped between the two monsters.
• Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to blast the Evil Ghost away and destroy the Black Demon, then escaped as the Evil Ghost re-formed.
• Lin Bai decided to search for Liu Fuyun’s formation in the Black Demon Forest, while martial artists later arrived and marveled at the sword marks.

Lin Bai entered the Five-Colored Divine Light Formation to find a treasure that could deal with the pursuing evil ghost. He discovered that Liu Fuyun had left a stone mirror for him, and the formation purified the curse mark that let him pass safely.

• Lin Bai followed martial artists to a valley where the Five-Colored Divine Light Formation guarded a treasure left by Liu Fuyun.
• When Lin Bai sensed the evil ghost closing in, he rushed into the formation despite the danger.
• The divine light removed Lin Bai’s curse mark and opened a path through the formation.
• Lin Bai reached a stone cave and read Liu Fuyun’s message explaining that the stone mirror inside could kill or subdue the evil ghost.
• Lin Bai learned that Liu Fuyun had also left a Thousand Mysteries Myriad Treasures Pill on the God Sealing Platform and invited him to visit after returning safely.

Lin Bai obtained the Stone Mirror and used its Five-Colored Divine Light to kill the evil ghost in the valley. He escaped by blending in with a group of martial artists, but five people who recognized him caught up and surrounded him.

• Lin Bai memorized the Stone Mirror’s refining formulas, claimed the mirror, and watched the Five-Colored Divine Light Formation fade away.
• The evil ghost appeared in the valley, and Lin Bai killed it with the Stone Mirror’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Unable to leave through another passage, Lin Bai hid until martial artists entered the valley, then blended in with them and slipped out.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword away from the valley, but five martial artists who had seen him there caught up and surrounded him.