Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and his companions watched the Eternal Devil Sect attack Zhennan Mountain, where Liu Fuyun defeated Murong Chouyuan before Murong summoned the Vermilion Bird Formation Spirit. The Vermilion Bird overwhelmed Liu Fuyun with a single strike, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• At dawn, Lin Bai and his companions learned the fighting had begun and slowly advanced toward Tianzhu Mountain without joining the battle.
• Lin Bai recognized the attackers at Zhennan Mountain as disguised martial artists of the Eternal Devil Sect, led by Liu Fuyun.
• Liu Fuyun defeated Murong Chouyuan and ordered his forces to break through the blockade and seize Zhennan Mountain.
• Murong Chouyuan drove a command token into the ground, summoning the Vermilion Bird Formation Spirit from the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation.
• The Vermilion Bird struck Liu Fuyun once and sent him flying thousands of miles, badly burned and bleeding.

Murong Chouyuan used the Vermilion Bird to devastate the Eternal Devil Sect’s forces, while the other Formation Spirits of the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation drove back attacks across the region. Lin Bai concluded that the sect’s defeat was certain and led his companions toward Zhennan Mountain, where more than twenty Murong Family martial artists remained on guard.

• Murong Chouyuan rode the Vermilion Bird and used its flames to slaughter the Eternal Devil Sect and Murong Family martial artists alike.
• Lin Bai recognized that the jade command token let Murong Chouyuan control the Vermilion Bird, but Li Meng warned him that approaching it was too dangerous.
• Lin Bai and the others learned that the Azure Dragon, tortoise-snake, and White Tiger were also rampaging at the other formation hubs, forcing the Eternal Devil Sect to retreat.
• Lin Bai decided to seize the opportunity at Zhennan Mountain while Murong Chouyuan was away, and Li Meng, Gongsun Ci, Meng Po, and Ni Zun followed him.
• More than twenty Murong Family descendants guarding Zhennan Mountain spotted Lin Bai and his companions, and Lin Bai saw that they were all Dao God Realm martial artists.

Lin Bai and his companions infiltrated Zhennan Mountain by pretending Murong Chouyuan had sent them to inspect it, hoping to find and destroy its hidden hub mechanism. They reached a strange valley but found no clue before the Murong Family guards realized their story was false, leaving them on the verge of a fight.

• Lin Bai convinced the Murong Family guards that Murong Chouyuan had ordered his group to inspect Zhennan Mountain.
• As the guards led them inside, Lin Bai secretly told his companions to prepare to destroy the hub and flee.
• Lin Bai told the guards that Murong Chouyuan had won at Tianzhu Mountain, easing their suspicions as they entered the mountain.
• The guards brought the group to a bleak valley, where Lin Bai and Li Meng searched for its hidden secret but found nothing unusual.
• The Murong Family guards grew suspicious, accused the group of being spies, and Lin Bai and Li Meng silently resolved that it was too late to retreat.

Lin Bai searched Zhennan Mountain for the Murong Family's hub while Li Meng and the others held off the family’s martial artists. Li Meng’s group escaped after suffering heavy injuries, leaving Lin Bai alone in the poison-filled valley as the others wondered how he could survive.

• Li Meng ordered Gongsun Ci, Ni Zun, and Meng Po to fight while Lin Bai searched the valley for the hub, and Meng Po released poisonous fog over Zhennan Mountain.
• Lin Bai entered the valley and evaded attacks from Murong Family Dao God realm martial artists, using his flying swords and the fog to escape.
• Li Meng told Lin Bai that the others were badly injured and could not hold out, so Lin Bai ordered them to retreat without him.
• Gongsun Ci, Ni Zun, Meng Po, and Li Meng fought their way out of Zhennan Mountain and fled several hundred thousand li to recover.
• The group worried that Lin Bai would be killed once Meng Po’s poison dissipated, but Li Meng believed Lin Bai had a way to survive.

Lin Bai realized that the valley itself was the hidden hub of the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation, then unleashed the Azure Gourd’s Flame Spirit to escape the Murong Family’s search. The Murong Family martial artists were left fighting the rampaging Flame Spirit as Lin Bai fled.

• Lin Bai searched the valley for the formation’s hub while Meng Po’s poisonous mist concealed him from the returning Murong Family martial artists.
• Remembering Liu Fuyun’s explanation of how the Murong Family disguised the formation’s spiritual veins, Lin Bai realized that the valley itself was the hub.
• A Murong Family martial artist found Lin Bai and attacked him, so Lin Bai opened the Azure Gourd and released its Flame Spirit.
• The Flame Spirit burned the poisonous mist and killed the seventh-grade Dao God Realm martial artist with a single sword strike.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword out of the mist while the Flame Spirit rampaged, forcing the Murong Family martial artists to surround it instead of pursuing him.

Lin Bai used the Flame Spirit to draw the Murong Family away from Zhennan Mountain, but Murong Chouyuan returned with the Vermilion Bird and began overpowering it. Lin Bai summoned his Supreme Avatar to destroy the Vermilion Bird, then commanded the Flame Spirit to break the valley’s protective formation.

• Lin Bai watched the Flame Spirit ravage the mountains around Zhennan Mountain while Murong Chouyuan learned of the flames and led the Vermilion Bird to reinforce the site.
• The surviving Murong Family warriors told Murong Chouyuan that the Rose Squad had betrayed them, and he drove the Vermilion Bird into battle against the Flame Spirit.
• The Vermilion Bird gained the upper hand, and Lin Bai decided to intervene rather than let the Flame Spirit lose and miss his chance to seize Zhennan Mountain.
• Lin Bai summoned his Supreme Avatar and struck the Vermilion Bird with its black sword, splitting the Formation Spirit in two.
• Lin Bai ordered the Flame Spirit to attack the valley, and it shattered the protective formation, melting the surrounding land into molten lava.

Lin Bai destroyed the hub at Zhennan Mountain, breaking the formations across the southern mountains and eliminating the Vermilion Bird Formation Spirit. He urged Liu Fuyun to exploit the open route to Mountain River City, but Liu Fuyun hesitated and said he would defer the decision to Li Mojun.

• After Murong Chouyuan rode the Vermilion Bird away, Liu Fuyun learned from Lin Bai that he had found Zhennan Mountain's hub and warned him that Murong Chouyuan was heading there.
• At the Eternal Devil Sect encampment, Li Mojun learned that the forces sent against the other six hubs had been defeated and recognized Zhennan Mountain as their last hope.
• Lin Bai's Flame Spirit destroyed the hub valley and Zhennan Mountain, causing the southern formations to collapse and the Vermilion Bird to disappear.
• Lin Bai concluded that the southern route to Mountain River City was open and urged Liu Fuyun to lead the full army through it to attack the Murong Family.
• Liu Fuyun said he would report Lin Bai's proposal to Li Mojun and hesitated to commit the army without further consideration.

Li Mojun and her master accepted Lin Bai’s proposal and sent the Eternal Devil Sect army through the southern mountains toward Mountain River City. After destroying Zhennan Mountain’s formation hub, Lin Bai unexpectedly gained the Flame Spirit’s submission and rode it toward the city.

• Liu Fuyun relayed Lin Bai’s proposal, and Li Mojun’s master agreed that the sect should risk an all-out attack before Murong Family could repair its formation hub.
• Li Mojun ordered the Eternal Devil Sect army into the southern mountains, where its forces fought through the Demon Race and advanced toward Mountain River City.
• After seeing Zhennan Mountain’s hub destroyed, Murong Chouyuan ordered Murong Family’s fighters to retreat and left recruited martial artists to delay the pursuers.
• Lin Bai emerged from the flames and approached the Flame Spirit, which knelt and submitted to him instead of attacking.
• Lin Bai climbed onto the Flame Spirit and rode it toward Mountain River City to join the sect’s assault.

Lin Bai arrived at Mountain River City, where the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation had stopped the Eternal Devil Sect’s army for hours. He offered a way to break the formation for half an hour and asked whether the sect could use that time to enter the city and fight Murong Family.

• Li Mojun led the Eternal Devil Sect’s army to Mountain River City, where Murong Family activated the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation and gathered allies to defend the city.
• Lin Bai reached the devastated battlefield and learned from Jiang Xuansu and Liu Fuyun that the formation and Murong Family’s guards had made an assault too costly.
• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that the Eternal Devil Sect’s forces had failed to capture the other formation hubs because Murong Family had moved the Formation Spirits and reinforced the hubs.
• Lin Bai joined Li Mojun and the elders on a mountain, where they discussed how to overcome Mountain River City’s defenses.
• Lin Bai said he could break the formation for at most half an hour and asked whether the Eternal Devil Sect could enter the city and fight Murong Family within that time.

Lin Bai persuaded the Eternal Devil Sect to risk a half-hour assault on Mountain River City, and Li Mojun set the attack for noon three days later. As the army gathered outside the city, Lin Bai offered the defenders surrender terms, but the Murong Family Head refused and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Lin Bai told the Eternal Devil Sect's leaders he could break the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation for half an hour, warning that they had to capture the city within that time.
• Li Mojun chose Lin Bai's plan and ordered the sect's experts to gather outside Mountain River City for an all-out assault at noon three days later.
• Lin Bai's search for Li Meng, Gongsun Ci, and the others found no trace of them.
• Three days later, the Eternal Devil Sect's army advanced toward Mountain River City, and the Murong Family activated the formation and summoned its three Formation Spirits.
• The Eternal Devil Sect's army stopped one hundred li from the city, and Lin Bai approached alone to demand the Dragon Immortal Jade and offer safe surrender.
• The Murong Family Head rejected Lin Bai's terms, insisting that the formation would protect the city as the two sides faced off.

Lin Bai shattered the Murong Family’s Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation with one sword, allowing the Eternal Devil Sect to storm Mountain River City. As the city descended into battle, Lin Bai headed for the Murong Family’s ancestral grounds to search for treasure, and Jiang Xuansu followed to protect him.

• The Murong Family Patriarch revealed that he knew the attackers were members of the Eternal Devil Sect and trusted the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation to defend his family.
• Lin Bai unleashed one sword strike that destroyed the three Formation Spirits and broke through the formation protecting Mountain River City.
• Li Mojun ordered the Eternal Devil Sect’s army to attack, and its forces breached the southern wall and flooded the city.
• The Eternal Devil Sect’s army fought through the burning city toward the Murong Family’s ancestral grounds.
• Jiang Xuansu found Lin Bai as he slipped into the city and explained that her master had sent her to protect him.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu he planned to search the Murong Family’s ancestral grounds for treasure.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu left Mountain River City’s main battlefield to search the Murong Family’s ancestral grounds for Dragon Immortal Jade. They found treasure hunters gathering at Moon Lake, where a demon python guarded the hidden vault, and the hunters began attacking it.

• After Mountain River City fell, Lin Bai decided to slip away from the battle and search the Murong Family’s ancestral grounds for treasures.
• Jiang Xuansu joined Lin Bai, and they entered the Murong Family’s largely undefended East City.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu found other treasure hunters searching the ancestral grounds and followed them to Moon Lake.
• Lin Bai saw a powerful demon python beneath the lake and realized it was guarding the treasure vault.
• A Dao God realm treasure hunter organized an alliance, and more than twenty Dao God realm warriors plunged into the lake to fight the python.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu watched treasure seekers attack the demonic python guarding Moon Lake, expecting the Murong Family’s defenses to stop them. After the surviving treasure seekers were driven away, Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu entered the lake to approach the vault’s barrier.

• Lin Bai persuaded Jiang Xuansu to wait, reasoning that the Murong Family would have traps and experts protecting its treasure vault beneath Moon Lake.
• More than twenty Dao God realm martial artists killed the demonic python, but poisonous water and deadly arrows killed most of them as the lakebed mechanisms activated.
• The survivors and later treasure seekers failed to break the transparent barrier, which Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu suspected was connected to the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation.
• Murong Family elders arrived and attacked the treasure seekers, who withdrew from Moon Lake.
• After confirming the lakebed was clear, Lin Bai pulled Jiang Xuansu into the water to approach the vault.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu entered the Murong Family’s vault beneath Moon Lake and began taking its treasures. After clearing the medicine cavern, they swept up the rare treasures as Murong Family martial artists rushed toward them.

• Lin Bai broke through the vault’s barrier with his Heaven Swallowing Race power, and he and Jiang Xuansu entered the underground passage.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu found four branches marked medicine, arts, weapons, and treasures, then chose the medicine passage.
• Lin Bai broke the formations protecting the elixirs and medicines and stored them all, agreeing with Jiang Xuansu to split their haul evenly.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu entered the treasures cavern, where Jiang Xuansu spotted the Storage Bag containing the Dragon Immortal Jade.
• Lin Bai broke the formations and swept the rare treasures into his Storage Bag as Murong Family martial artists sensed the disturbance and charged toward them.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu escaped the Murong Family treasury after Lin Bai took most of its treasures and Jiang Xuansu held off a peak Dao God expert. Meanwhile, the Eternal Devil Sect overran Mountain River City as the Murong Family’s allies fled, leaving the family to face the assault alone.

• Lin Bai broke the Treasure Vault formation and took most of its treasures while a Murong Family elder entered the treasury.
• Jiang Xuansu engaged the peak Dao God expert as Lin Bai headed for the barrier, then escaped with him through the opening he made.
• The Murong Family expert failed to catch Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu and lamented how formidable the younger generation had become.
• The Eternal Devil Sect’s army stormed Mountain River City after Lin Bai broke the Thousand Autumns Mountain River Four Gods Formation, causing the Murong Family’s allied forces to scatter.
• The Wu Family and Shangguan Family secretly withdrew, leaving the Murong Family alone against the Eternal Devil Sect’s slaughter.

After the Murong Family’s defeat, Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu watched the Eternal Devil Sect overrun Mountain River City and learned that the Great Purity Dao Fruit experts were fighting elsewhere. Li Mojun destroyed the Murong ancestral shrine, sealed Heng Province, and ordered a prolonged hunt for the surviving members of the Eight Great Noble Families.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu watched the Murong Family descend into internal chaos as the Eternal Devil Sect advanced through Mountain River City.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that the Great Purity Dao Fruit experts from both sides had been moved to an uninhabited battlefield to keep their power from devastating the city.
• Three hours later, the Eternal Devil Sect defeated the Murong Family, and Li Mojun destroyed its ancestral shrine.
• Li Mojun ordered Heng Province sealed under the pretext of avenging the Eight Great Noble Families, intending to trap and eliminate their survivors.
• Over the following six months, hunters across the Eternal Thirteen Provinces pursued the families’ remnants for rewards, while the bounties remained valid for ten thousand years.

After returning to the Eternal Devil Sect, Lin Bai sorted through the treasures he had taken from the Murong Family’s treasury, finding many valuable pills and strange artifacts. He discovered that a fragrant, seemingly empty pouch was actually a Storage Bag with an enormous interior.

• Lin Bai returned to the Eternal Devil Sect with Li Mojun and asked Zhou Xi to bring the Liu Jiangxue sisters back.
• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that the sect was still hunting the Eight Great Noble Families’ survivors and had postponed rewarding merits.
• Lin Bai sorted the Murong Family’s pills, stored away the dangerous poison pills, and set aside healing and cultivation pills for later identification.
• Lin Bai examined several mysterious treasures, including a banner and a jade bottle whose ghost attacked him, then stored the remaining artifacts.
• Lin Bai opened a fragrant, empty-looking pouch and discovered that it was a Storage Bag with a space several hundred times larger than an ordinary one.

Lin Bai discovered that the blue-green Storage Bag he obtained from the Murong Family's treasury was a Cosmos Treasure Sack made by the Cosmos Devil Sect, whose mastery of space made the sect powerful and dangerous. He and Jiang Xuansu finished dividing the treasury spoils, with Jiang Xuansu taking only a few treasures and pills.

• Lin Bai transferred and organized his treasures inside the unusually spacious blue-green Storage Bag, then invited Jiang Xuansu to the Sword Hiding Hermitage to divide the spoils.
• Jiang Xuansu recognized the bag as a Cosmos Treasure Sack and explained the Cosmos Devil Sect's expertise in teleportation formations and Storage Bags.
• Jiang Xuansu warned Lin Bai to avoid offending the Cosmos Devil Sect, recounting how its disciples had ruined powerful enemies through spatial schemes.
• Lin Bai offered Jiang Xuansu an even share of the treasures, but she chose only nine treasures and seven kinds of pills.
• Lin Bai quickly stored the remaining treasures after Jiang Xuansu finished choosing, and she laughed at his miserly eagerness.

Lin Bai entered seclusion to refine the pills and treasures he had seized, hoping to advance his cultivation while awaiting the sect’s reward. As he cultivated, visitors came and the Eternal Thirteen Provinces descended into chaos after the destruction of the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province.

• Jiang Xuansu assured Lin Bai that the sect would reward him for his service, then left the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Lin Bai began refining his large supply of pills with the Dao Fruit of Devouring and continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Zhou Xi, Liu Jiangxue, Liu An'an, Jiang Xuansu, Li Yumen, Senior Sister Yi Mei, and Xiao Ji visited, but Lin Bai turned away visitors while he remained in seclusion.
• Families across the Eternal Thirteen Provinces fought over resources left behind by the Eight Great Noble Families, while the Eternal Devil Sect hunted their surviving powerhouses.
• The surviving members of the eight families fled beyond the Eternal Thirteen Provinces, and the sect lifted the Heng Province World Sealing Formation after nearly all those it could find had been killed.

After the Eternal Devil Sect lifted its seal on Heng Province, Lin Bai emerged from half a year of pill cultivation disappointed that he had only reached the seventh-grade Dao Immortal realm. He realized he had rushed his training, saved five wisps of Dragon Qi for a later breakthrough, and left his secret chamber looking like a beggar.

• The Eternal Devil Sect lifted the World Sealing Formation after slaughtering more than half of the Eight Great Noble Families and driving the rest from Heng Province.
• Lin Bai used up the Murong Family's cultivation pills but reached only the seventh-grade Dao Immortal realm, discovering that his Devouring Dao Fruit required increasing resources and that excessive pills had become less effective.
• Lin Bai regretted rushing his cultivation and resolved to wait before attempting another breakthrough.
• Lin Bai fused his 572 pieces of Dragon Immortal Jade and obtained five wisps of Dragon Qi, which he believed could help him reach the Dao God realm.
• Lin Bai emerged from his secret chamber covered in grime, with a long beard and hair, and Liu An'an screamed that he was a ghost.