Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai was pursued by five martial artists who believed he had taken the valley’s treasure, and he killed all five when they tried to seize it. The story ended with Lin Bai leaving the ninth-grade Dao Venerable dead after piercing his throat.

• The five martial artists recognized Lin Bai as he left the valley and pursued him, convinced he had taken its treasure.
• Lin Bai stopped and denied having the treasure, but the five drew their weapons and demanded his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai killed Senior Brother Zhang with his three flying swords after Zhang attacked him.
• Lin Bai swiftly slew three more attackers with his swords and a punch, leaving only the ninth-grade Dao Venerable alive.
• Lin Bai used Nine Steps Chasing the Gods Swordplay to pierce the last man’s throat.

After resolving the curse, Lin Bai decided to keep searching the Black Demon Forest for pills and spirit medicines, using his formation-breaking Dao Method to claim hidden treasures. He found and broke a Myriad Beasts Formation, obtaining a Celestial Cry Pill that could help cultivators break through a realm.

• Lin Bai examined the Stone Mirror, recovered, and decided to remain in the Black Demon Forest to seek cultivation-enhancing treasures.
• Lin Bai reasoned that his formation-breaking Dao Method gave him an advantage in finding and claiming sect-hidden treasures.
• Lin Bai searched the western mountains and used his Asura Dharma Eyes to locate a formation concealed near a massive stone.
• Lin Bai shattered the illusion beasts and the Myriad Beasts Formation with a single sword strike.
• Lin Bai took the Celestial Cry Pill, a precious pill capable of helping cultivators in the Dao Venerable, Dao Immortal, and Dao God Realms break through a realm.

Lin Bai left the Black Demon Forest after reaching Eighth Rank Dao Venerable and headed for the God Sealing Platform to seek better treasures. He finally located the vast platform and prepared to explore its rewards.

• Lin Bai decided to save the Celestial Cry Pill while he searched for another pill to reach Ninth Rank Dao Venerable.
• During half a month in the Black Demon Forest, Lin Bai found two pills, a lower-grade Dao Divine Weapon, and the Sun-Moon Water-Fire Dharma Robe; the pills raised his cultivation to Eighth Rank Dao Venerable.
• After three more days without finding another spell formation and nearly losing a battle with a Blackfiend, Lin Bai left the Black Demon Forest for the God Sealing Platform.
• Lin Bai traveled up Eternal Mountain and learned that the God Sealing Platform stood between the fifth and sixth regions, where defeating ten War Automatons earned a random reward.
• Lin Bai found the God Sealing Platform and saw its enormous disk covered in Talisman Seals.

Lin Bai observed the God Sealing Platform’s challenges and learned that its War Automata could kill those who failed to retreat in time. He began his own challenge and recognized the automata’s coordinated assault as military tactics, then dodged their encirclement.

• Lin Bai watched a wounded challenger leave the platform and saw other martial artists pursue him to seize his treasures.
• A ninth-grade Dao Sovereign defeated seven War Automata before they killed him, and Lin Bai realized challengers had to withdraw before they were overwhelmed.
• Lin Bai watched four more challenges: two martial artists defeated ten War Automata and earned treasures, while two died.
• After a challenger withdrew, Lin Bai stepped onto the platform, where its power inspected his Identity Token and Eternal Trial jade token.
• Ten War Automata appeared and attacked Lin Bai in a coordinated pattern; he identified their tactics and dodged their encirclement.

Lin Bai fought ten War Automatons using a Combined Attack Formation on the God Sealing Platform. He destroyed all ten, narrowly surviving a hidden attack from the last one, and received a treasure as his reward.

• The ten War Automatons coordinated their attacks and charged Lin Bai using a Combined Attack Formation.
• Lin Bai used his flying swords, Demon Sword, Five-Colored Divine Lightning, and Five Elements Dao Body to destroy the first War Automaton.
• Lin Bai studied the automatons' relentless attacks and realized he needed to defeat them with decisive blows.
• Lin Bai used Spring's Wild Hope to shred five War Automatons, then teamed up with his flying swords to destroy three more.
• The final War Automaton stabbed Lin Bai in the back, but his Asura Dharma Eyes revealed it, and his Five Elements Divine Lightning shattered its blade.
• Lin Bai killed the last War Automaton and received a treasure from the God Sealing Platform.

Lin Bai defeated the ten War Automatons by discovering that the final one emerged from the void, then received an Ancient White Jade Lotus as his reward. He put it away for future cultivation and was left wondering how the War Automaton had appeared out of thin air.

• Lin Bai rested after defeating the first group of War Automatons and reasoned that the last one to attack was the battle formation’s hidden trump card.
• Lin Bai fought another group of ten War Automatons, using his three flying swords to handle the first nine while searching unsuccessfully for the hidden one with his Asura Dharma Eyes.
• After the other nine War Automatons fell, Lin Bai saw the tenth emerge from the void a thousand meters behind him and killed it with his flying swords.
• Lin Bai received an Ancient White Jade Lotus, whose nine seeds could be used to refine a God Immortal Pill for breaking through to the Dao God Realm.
• Lin Bai examined the spot where the final War Automaton had appeared but found no formation traces and wondered how it had emerged from the void.

Lin Bai studied the patterns on the God Sealing Platform and realized they revealed where the War Automata emerged and how they moved. After using this insight to defeat the third wave, he collected a low-grade Dao Divine Weapon and prepared for the next round.

• Lin Bai searched the God Sealing Platform after defeating twenty War Automata, trying to learn how they appeared.
• Lin Bai recognized the platform’s intricate patterns as Emergence Points and mapped the points within a thousand meters.
• Lin Bai used the Emergence Points to predict the third wave’s movements and defeated all ten War Automata in close combat.
• Lin Bai claimed a low-grade Dao Divine Weapon, then recovered his spiritual power while studying the mapped area.

Lin Bai used his control over the God Sealing Platform’s Emergence Points to predict and defeat the third wave of War Automata, then claimed and refined its pill. He remained at the peak of the Seventh-Rank Dao Venerable realm and prepared to face the next wave, hoping for a pill that could help him break through.

• Lin Bai realized the Emergence Points within his thousand-kilometer radius revealed the War Automata’s movements and attack patterns.
• Lin Bai waited for the War Automata to enter his controlled area, then destroyed all ten in the third round.
• Lin Bai collected and refined the reward pill but did not reach the Eighth-Rank Dao Venerable realm.
• Lin Bai suspected Liu Fuyun had designed the God Sealing Platform and admired his knowledge of formations and warfare.
• Lin Bai studied the Emergence Points again and concluded that one more high-grade pill might let him break through.

Lin Bai continued defeating War Automata on the God Sealing Platform while studying its Emergence Points and developing a spatial-jumping technique. After naming the new art Square Inch Sword Domain, he left with its power still limited by his cultivation.

• Lin Bai defeated twenty-eight groups of War Automata in one day, claiming twenty-eight treasures and drawing the attention of martial artists across the Eternal Trial.
• Lin Bai studied the God Sealing Platform’s Emergence Points and copied them with spiritual power within a thousand-meter radius.
• Lin Bai used the copied points to jump behind a War Automaton and kill it, but the points collapsed after one jump.
• Lin Bai refined the Emergence Points through repeated battles until he could jump several times, then used the technique to kill ten War Automata without being seen.
• Lin Bai named the technique Square Inch Sword Domain, his second self-created Dao Art and Mystic Art after Zhu Xian Sword.

Lin Bai claimed the Thousand Mysteries Myriad Treasures Pill from the God Sealing Platform and used its medicinal power to reach the peak of the Nine-Rank Dao Sovereign realm and advance his Five Elements Dao Body to its third layer. With the platform’s trials apparently over and a crowd waiting outside, he was left to face the consequences of taking its many treasures.

• Lin Bai used his Square Inch Sword Domain to slay War Automatons and collect thirty-seven treasures while raising his cultivation to the peak of the Eight-Rank Dao Sovereign realm.
• Lin Bai spotted the crowds gathered outside the God Sealing Platform and worried they might attack him after he left.
• After defeating two more rounds of War Automatons, Lin Bai found the Thousand Mysteries Myriad Treasures Pill among his fortieth treasure and swallowed it.
• Lin Bai refined the pill’s power to break through to the peak of the Nine-Rank Dao Sovereign realm, then used the remaining medicinal power to advance his Five Elements Dao Body to the Dragonic Blood Qi stage.
• Lin Bai waited half an hour without another War Automaton appearing and concluded that the platform’s challenge had ended, while the onlookers cursed him for consuming the pill.

Lin Bai advanced to the third level of the Five Elements Dao Body and left the God Sealing Platform, where Weizhou Alliance martial artists tried to seize his treasures under the guise of protecting him. He killed the attackers and faced the remaining gathered experts.

• Lin Bai sensed his blood and qi transform after advancing to the third level of the Five Elements Dao Body, and concluded that the God Sealing Platform had no more treasures for him.
• Lin Bai decided to leave the God Sealing Platform and consider venturing to the Apex Celestial Palace before the Eternal Trial ended.
• Wu Shanyu, Di Feng, Huang Liang, and other experts watched Lin Bai leave, while Weizhou Alliance martial artists gathered to take his treasures.
• Lin Bai rejected the Weizhou Alliance’s offer of protection and ordered its martial artists to move aside.
• A Weizhou Alliance martial artist attacked Lin Bai from behind, and Lin Bai killed him with a punch before using Square Inch Sword Domain to kill the other attackers.

Lin Bai killed the Weizhou Alliance martial artists who attacked him, then was intercepted by a barefoot old man demanding the ancient zither he had obtained. Lin Bai wounded the old man, but the former Dao God Realm expert unleashed a powerful saber-and-sword assault, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lin Bai slaughtered the Weizhou Alliance martial artists surrounding him and flew away as the other martial artists hesitated to pursue him.
• A barefoot old man stopped Lin Bai and demanded that he hand over the ancient zither, but Lin Bai refused and challenged him to take it by force.
• The old man attacked with a giant foot, which Lin Bai shattered before appearing behind him and breaking his defensive treasure with a punch.
• The old man admitted he had underestimated Lin Bai, then conjured a saber and sword and launched a devastating attack that swept across the land.

Lin Bai survived the old man’s attacks unharmed and pursued him, determined to kill the Dao God expert before he could seek revenge. The old man used a Black God Luck Transfer Talisman to temporarily reach Dao Immortal strength, injuring Lin Bai and turning the fight in his favor.

• Lin Bai emerged from the old man’s devastating attack without a scratch and realized his physical strength rivaled the Dao Immortal level.
• Lin Bai struck the old man and chased him, refusing to let him escape and threaten him later.
• The old man fled from Lin Bai, who eventually landed a powerful blow that left him badly injured.
• The old man activated a Black God Luck Transfer Talisman, temporarily restoring his cultivation to the Dao Immortal level.
• The old man countered Lin Bai’s next attack and broke through his Five Elements Dao Body, injuring him.

Lin Bai fought the old man, who used a Black God Luck Transfer Talisman to temporarily raise his strength, and eventually killed him with his sword techniques. Lin Bai took the old man's Storage Bag and discovered it contained another talisman.

• The old man activated the Black God Luck Transfer Talisman and attacked Lin Bai, driving him back in a fierce battle that drew distant onlookers.
• Lin Bai noticed the talisman's rune fading and realized its power would soon end, while the old man grew anxious at being unable to defeat him.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and used his flying swords, Square Inch Sword Domain, and Winter's Chill to wound the old man and sever his arm.
• The old man tried to flee, but Lin Bai trapped him with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and killed him with Immortal-Slaying.
• Lin Bai searched the area, collected the old man's treasures, and found another Black God Luck Transfer Talisman in his Storage Bag.

After killing a Dao God Realm martial artist and taking his treasures, Lin Bai traveled to the Apex Celestial Palace, where he encountered a strange void and floating stone slabs. The chapter left him on a moving slab, approaching another martial artist in the darkness.

• Lin Bai searched the old man's Storage Bag, found treasures worth about five million Devil Orbs, and planned to share some Dao Divine Weapons before using the rest to strengthen the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword for seven days to reach the summit of Eternal Mountain and found the Apex Celestial Palace deserted, with a force preventing him from flying.
• Lin Bai stepped onto a White Jade Stone slab, which rose into the air and carried him into a dark void where the palace and other martial artists' slabs remained visible.
• Lin Bai realized that falling from his slab could leave him lost in the darkness, then waited until it began moving toward another slab bearing a martial artist.

Lin Bai entered the Apex Celestial Palace’s stone-slab arena and defeated Wang Chuan after discovering that the slabs brought martial artists together to fight. As Lin Bai held Wang Chuan by the throat, observers said the newcomer could advance another step.

• Lin Bai’s stone slab merged with Wang Chuan’s, and Wang Chuan tried to trick Lin Bai before launching a surprise sword attack.
• Lin Bai used the Square Inch Sword Domain to evade Wang Chuan’s strike and inferred that the merged slabs were arenas where victors advanced toward the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Wang Chuan kept his distance and attacked with Sword Qi, but Lin Bai resisted the blows and provoked him into a powerful sword strike.
• Lin Bai used the Square Inch Sword Domain to appear behind Wang Chuan and seized him by the throat.
• Martial artists watching from distant slabs expressed surprise at Wang Chuan’s defeat and said Lin Bai could advance.

Lin Bai learned that the stone slabs in the Summit of Extinction were Dao Heart Stones used to reach the Apex Celestial Palace, then killed the young man who tried to ambush him. He gained the man’s stone slab and wondered how many more were needed to reach the palace.

• Lin Bai forced the young man to explain that martial artists joined Dao Heart Stones to form paths toward the Apex Celestial Palace and could fight to seize one another’s stones.
• After the young man explained how to leave, Lin Bai released him and told him to go without his stone slab.
• The young man attacked Lin Bai with Blood Dragon Sword Qi, but Lin Bai shattered it and killed him with a punch.
• The young man’s ownerless Dao Heart Stone merged with Lin Bai’s, doubling the size of Lin Bai’s stone slab.
• Lin Bai spotted martial artists with several Dao Heart Stones and wondered whether Jiang Xuansu and Murong Chuan had reached the palace, as well as how many stones the journey required.

Lin Bai learned how Dao Heart Stones worked and how many were needed to reach the Apex Celestial Palace while facing a white-clad martial artist for control of his stones. After they exchanged threats, Lin Bai prepared to fight.

• Lin Bai decided to hurry onward and moved his Dao Heart Stone toward another martial artist.
• The white-clad man’s Dao Heart Stones joined Lin Bai’s, forming a battle platform, and he challenged Lin Bai to fight for them.
• Lin Bai asked how many Dao Heart Stones were needed to reach the palace, and the man explained that ninety-nine were likely required and that the stones’ number depended on how many martial artists entered.
• The man explained that fewer than fifty martial artists had arrived so far, so many were waiting for more entrants before trying to gather enough stones.
• The white-clad man threatened to defeat Lin Bai, and Lin Bai activated the Square Inch Sword Domain and warned him to surrender or face his retaliation.

Lin Bai fought the white-robed man, whose Myriad Desires Spirit-Bewildering Skill trapped him in an illusion. Lin Bai recognized the deception with his Asura Dharma Eyes, while onlookers watched him struggle against an opponent who had never moved.

• Onlookers mocked Lin Bai for challenging the white-robed man and warned that his illusion art could defeat even accomplished monks.
• The white-robed man struck Lin Bai, who was badly injured despite relying on his Five Elements Dao Body.
• Lin Bai attacked with his Square Inch Sword Domain, but the white-robed man repeatedly vanished and evaded his blows.
• As the white-robed man continued attacking, Lin Bai realized the seemingly impossible fight might be an illusion.
• Lin Bai opened his Asura Dharma Eyes and saw that the white-robed man had remained a thousand meters away while Lin Bai acted out the battle in the illusion.
• The onlookers recognized that Lin Bai had fallen victim to the white-robed man's illusion and watched him struggle.

Lin Bai used the Asura Dharma Eyes to break the white-clad man's pollen-based illusion and discovered how it had been created. He turned the tables with his own Hellscape Illusion, leaving the white-clad man trapped in excruciating torment and begging to die.

• Lin Bai broke the white-clad man's illusion with the Asura Dharma Eyes and identified the floating starlight as pollen that had drawn him into it.
• The white-clad man tried to cast the illusion again, but Lin Bai shattered each attempt and revealed that he had escaped.
• Lin Bai met the white-clad man's gaze and trapped him in a scorched wasteland illusion ruled by an enormous ox-headed monster.
• The monster dragged the white-clad man through magma and across a mountain of blades while his illusion-breaking treasures failed.
• The white-clad man called out to Lin Bai and begged him to kill him as the torment shattered his mind.