Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Wan Zizhen fought to exhaustion in the Evil Moon Grand Feast martial contest, but Wan Zizhen conceded rather than risk their lives. His concession helped Lin Bai’s sword heart break through to the Third Transformation Sword Heart, and Lin Bai won the contest.

• Lin Bai and Wan Zizhen fought a fierce battle that left both covered in wounds and sprawled on the ground.
• Both rose at the same time, and Lin Bai prepared to continue fighting despite his exhaustion.
• Lin Bai declared that losing was not an option for him and described his path as an unbeaten sword dao.
• Wan Zizhen decided the contest had gone far enough and conceded to fulfill Lin Bai’s sword dao.
• Lin Bai thanked Wan Zizhen, and his sword heart broke through to the Third Transformation Sword Heart.

After Wan Zizhen admitted defeat in their martial contest, Lin Bai was named the winner of the Evil Moon Grand Feast’s Dao God competition, and the Eternal Devil Sect gained fame and powerful allies. The chapter left the sect rising in influence while Lin Bai recovered from his injuries.

• Wan Zizhen ended his contest with Lin Bai and advised him to merge his Devouring Power with his Dao Domain to develop new techniques.
• Luo Wuling announced Qing Luo of the Eternal Devil Sect as the contest’s victor and declared the Evil Moon Grand Feast concluded.
• The Eternal Devil Sect returned to its residence, where its disciples celebrated Lin Bai’s victory and Liu Fuyun urged him to heal.
• The Evil Moon Sect published its Dao God rankings, placing Qing Luo first, Wan Zizhen second, and Tu Qing third.
• Liu Fuyun received visiting sects and negotiated alliances that gave the Eternal Devil Sect new influence and support across the Evil Moon Thousand Provinces.

Lin Bai and the Eternal Devil Sect disciples headed to the Grace and Majesty Pavilion to spend their Dao God competition points, with Lin Bai holding the most. He warned Jiang Xuansu and Liu Fuyun that taking the God-Demon Heart could make the Eternal Devil Sect a target of the Evil Moon Sect and other powerful factions.

• Liu Fuyun told Lin Bai that his first-place finish gave him 109 points to spend freely at the Grace and Majesty Pavilion.
• Lin Bai said he wanted pills and medicines to raise his cultivation, insights into Dao Domains and swordsmanship, and protective treasures.
• Jiang Xuansu considered exchanging her 77 points for the God-Demon Heart so the Eternal Devil Sect could gain another powerful expert.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that major factions across the Evil Moon Thousand Provinces wanted the God-Demon Heart and might attack the sect if it claimed the treasure.
• Lin Bai added that the Evil Moon Sect would fear the Eternal Devil Sect growing too powerful, and Liu Fuyun realized that taking the God-Demon Heart could lead to the sect's destruction.

Lin Bai and the Eternal Devil Sect declined to claim the God-Demon Heart to avoid provoking the Evil Moon Sect, while Jiang Xuansu arranged for Lin Bai to use the sect’s promised request to investigate the Void Ancient Road. At the Grace and Majesty Pavilion, Lin Bai prepared to choose his prize, but a Snow Sect elder stopped him to propose a deal.

• Lin Bai argued that taking the God-Demon Heart would give the Evil Moon Sect a reason to attack the Eternal Devil Sect, and Liu Fuyun decided to leave it to the Evil Moon Sect and Yunling Li Family.
• Liu Fuyun offered Lin Bai the Eternal Devil Sect’s unfulfilled request from the Evil Moon Sect, and Jiang Xuansu revealed that she had exchanged her points for the God-Demon Heart and hoped Lin Bai would investigate the Void Ancient Road.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu that he had fulfilled his promises to the Eternal Devil Sect and intended to leave after the Evil Moon Grand Feast.
• Luo Wuling welcomed the Eternal Devil Sect to the Grace and Majesty Pavilion and said Lin Bai, as first-ranked martial artist, could claim any treasure without competition.
• A Snow Sect elder called Lin Bai aside and asked to make a deal with him.

The Snow Sect elder negotiated with Lin Bai to recover the Four Intentions of Extinction, which Lin Bai had memorized. Lin Bai agreed to trade it for the Snow Sect's martial contest points and Dao Domain cultivation materials, and the elder accepted.

• The Snow Sect elder asked Lin Bai to return the Four Intentions of Extinction, offering the sect's gratitude and future assistance.
• Lin Bai said the secret art belonged to the Eternal Devil Sect and that he would consult its leaders before deciding.
• The elder offered all twenty-seven points earned by the Snow Sect's Dao God Realm disciples, and Lin Bai considered the deal worthwhile.
• Lin Bai demanded the Snow Sect's Dao Domain cultivation manuals and the cultivation insights left by its seniors, explaining that he wanted to study them.
• The Snow Sect elder agreed to Lin Bai's terms, deciding that dealing with him was preferable to asking the stronger Eternal Devil Sect for the secret art.

Lin Bai traded the Snow Sect the complete Four Intentions of Extinction for its Dao Domain scrolls and competition points, then entered the Grace and Majesty Pavilion to select a prize. He began examining the Dao God treasures, where a blade offered for just two points caught his attention.

• The Snow Sect elder gave Lin Bai fifteen Dao Domain scrolls and the sect’s competition points, and Lin Bai exchanged them for the complete Four Intentions of Extinction.
• Lin Bai told Leng Xingguang he had returned the Snow Sect’s lost secret-method levels, and Leng Xingguang reassured him that Wind and Snow Villa would face no trouble.
• Luo Wuling selected Lin Bai, Wan Zizhen, Tu Qing, Li Wanyu, and Leng Xingguang to enter the Grace and Majesty Pavilion first.
• Wan Zizhen warned Lin Bai not to take the God-Demon Heart, while the five began browsing the Dao God prize levels.
• Lin Bai examined the Nine Yang World-Ending Blade and wondered why it cost only two points.

Lin Bai searched the Grace and Majesty Pavilion for five-elements spiritual items to strengthen his Five Elements Dao Body, while the other finalists selected their own prizes. He and the others were still choosing treasures after several hours.

• Lin Bai entered the Grace and Majesty Pavilion with Wan Zizhen, Tu Qing, Li Wanyu, and Leng Xingguang, where each began searching for rewards.
• Lin Bai passed over the Nine Yang World-Ending Blade and decided to seek treasures that could advance his Five Elements Dao Body.
• Lin Bai recorded several five-elements spiritual items, including the Innate Water Lotus, Ten Thousand Year Flame Heart, Pangu Aura, Dragon Tree Jade Root, and Millennial Earth.
• Wan Zizhen teased Leng Xingguang about his jealousy, and Leng Xingguang and Li Wanyu nearly argued before Wan Zizhen calmed them down.
• Lin Bai and the other four continued searching for treasures for hours while the warriors and elders waited outside.

Lin Bai weighed how to spend his 136 points in the Grace and Majesty Pavilion and chose to invest in Five Elements spiritual objects to strengthen his Five Elements Dao Body. After spending the remaining points elsewhere, he encountered Tu Qing, who intended to claim the God-Demon Heart.

• Lin Bai calculated that the Five Elements spiritual objects he wanted cost 125 points, leaving him only 11, and debated whether to strengthen his Dao Body or his martial cultivation.
• After considering his past Dao Injury from relying on pills and the difficulty of advancing his cultivation with limited points, Lin Bai decided to prioritize his Five Elements Dao Body.
• Lin Bai continued through the Grace and Majesty Pavilion, determined to spend his remaining points before leaving.
• On the ninth floor, Lin Bai examined the God-Demon Heart and reflected that the Eternal Devil Sect would court disaster if it claimed the treasure.
• Tu Qing told Lin Bai that he would take the God-Demon Heart, explaining that the other contenders either did not want it, lacked the courage, or ranked below him.

Lin Bai exchanged his points for treasures, including a Divine Weapon Soul to strengthen the Demon Sword, then asked the Evil Moon Sect to let him use its Void Ancient Road. Luo Wuling said he would submit the request to the Sacred Hall, which would answer within five days.

• Lin Bai spent three points on a Divine Weapon Soul and used his remaining points to exchange for other treasures.
• Luo Wuling retrieved the treasures Lin Bai and the other martial artists had chosen, and the group received their items.
• Lin Bai reminded Luo Wuling of the Evil Moon Sect's promises to grant the Eternal Devil Sect five provincial territories, weapons, and arts, and Luo Wuling confirmed they would be fulfilled the next day.
• Lin Bai invoked Old Ancestor Zhu's offer to grant the Eternal Devil Sect one request and asked to travel along the Evil Moon Sect's Void Ancient Road.
• Luo Wuling said he would report Lin Bai's request to the Sacred Hall and promised an answer within five days.

Lin Bai told the Eternal Devil Sect he would stay behind to await the Evil Moon Sect’s decision on entering the Void Ancient Road, then confronted Gong Jian about secretly trading with the Bone Clan. Gong Jian admitted Lin Bai had uncovered him and pleaded not to be handed over to the sect.

• Liu Fuyun announced that the Eternal Devil Sect would leave Star City in three days, and Lin Bai said he would stay in the Evil Moon Sect while awaiting its answer about the Void Ancient Road.
• Luo Wuling delivered the promised rewards, and Lin Bai helped the Eternal Devil Sect choose Xuan Province, Yue Province, Mu Province, Yun Province, and Qilin Province.
• Lin Bai waited for the Evil Moon Sect’s decision and, troubled by the impending separation from the Eternal Devil Sect, went to Gong Jian’s courtyard.
• Lin Bai explained why he had concluded that Gong Jian had arranged the deal with the Bone Clan at the White Bone Battlefield.
• Gong Jian stopped denying his involvement, asked how Lin Bai had discovered him, and pleaded with him not to turn him over to Liu Fuyun.

Lin Bai confronted Gong Jian, who confessed that he had allied with the Bone Clan because he feared being overshadowed and forgotten in the Eternal Devil Sect. Lin Bai let him go and returned to find Jiang Xuansu waiting for him, leaving their impending parting between them.

• Gong Jian admitted that he had dealt with the Bone Clan because he lacked the talent, background, and support of rivals like Jiang Xuansu and Meng Qi.
• Gong Jian accepted that Lin Bai had uncovered his scheme and believed he was doomed to be executed by the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai told Gong Jian to leave and not return to the sect, choosing not to report him to Liu Fuyun.
• Gong Jian thanked Lin Bai as Lin Bai left his courtyard beneath the moon.
• Jiang Xuansu met Lin Bai outside his residence and asked why he had not come to say goodbye; Lin Bai claimed he had tried to find her earlier.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu said an emotional farewell before the Eternal Devil Sect departed the Evil Moon Sect without him. Lin Bai planned to search for a way back to the Barren Ancient Continent, while Gong Jian left the spirit boat to gain experience and Leng Xingguang invited Lin Bai to search for the Yellow Springs Demon Bone if he failed to find a way home.

• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu that the Eternal Devil Sect faced an opportunity to rise but needed to protect its limited pool of talented disciples.
• Lin Bai admitted he might never return to the sect, and Jiang Xuansu asked if their parting would be their final farewell.
• Lin Bai explained that he would first investigate the Evil Moon Sect's Void Ancient Road for a route home to the Barren Ancient Continent, then search the Devil Realm Eastern Region if necessary.
• Liu Fuyun led the Eternal Devil Sect disciples away the next morning, leaving Lin Bai behind as Jiang Xuansu watched him depart in tears.
• Gong Jian left the spirit boat during its journey to gain experience, promising Liu Fuyun that he would return to the sect within three years.
• Leng Xingguang visited Lin Bai for a final drink and asked him to come to Wind and Snow Villa to search for the Yellow Springs Demon Bone if his search for a way home failed.

The Evil Moon Sect prepared to enter its Void Ancient Road when its seal weakened in three months, and Liu Chongen agreed to let Lin Bai join the expedition. Lin Bai waited for the sect’s answer and told Luo Wuling that he knew little about the road.

• Liu Chongen and the Evil Moon Sect elders discussed the Void Ancient Road, which was expected to open in three months, and named the elders and juniors who planned to enter.
• Luo Wuling told Liu Chongen that Lin Bai had requested entry into the Void Ancient Road, and Liu Chongen agreed to let him go despite the danger.
• On the fifth day, Lin Bai met Luo Wuling and asked whether the Evil Moon Sect would permit him to enter the Void Ancient Road.
• Lin Bai said he had heard rumors about the road and knew only that it connected to other minor worlds, while Luo Wuling concluded that Lin Bai knew nothing about the Evil Moon Sect’s route.

Luo Wuling told Lin Bai that the Evil Moon Sect had approved his entry into its Void Ancient Road in three months, but revealed that it led to a Void God Tomb rather than a minor world. Lin Bai remained interested despite losing the chance to return to the Barren Ancient Continent, while facing warnings of deadly dangers and clashes with other sects.

• Luo Wuling told Lin Bai that the Sect Leader had approved his entry into the Evil Moon Sect’s Void Ancient Road in three months.
• Luo Wuling explained that the road led to a Void God Tomb and described four kinds of Void Ancient Roads: tombs, minor worlds, hidden treasure vaults, and the vanished Path to Immortality.
• Luo Wuling revealed that the Path to Immortality once led beyond the Demon Realm and Spirit Realm but had disappeared for unknown reasons.
• Luo Wuling warned Lin Bai that the Void God Tomb held monsters and evil forces, and that powerhouses from many sects would enter and fight.
• Lin Bai was disappointed that the road did not lead to a minor world but remained interested in entering the Void God Tomb.

Lin Bai agreed to enter the Void God Tomb with the Evil Moon Sect and used the three-month wait to strengthen his Five Elements Dao Body. After refining his spiritual treasures, he reached the Dao Body's perfected late stage, but remained far from minor completion.

• Luo Wuling warned Lin Bai about the dangers of the Void Ancient Road, the Void God Tomb, and rival sects, then arranged for him to enter in three months.
• Lin Bai decided to go to the Void God Tomb and spent the wait refining his Five Elements spiritual objects in Star City.
• After a month, Lin Bai perfected all five attributes of his Five Elements Dao Body and raised his physical strength to the peak of the Dao God Realm.
• Lin Bai reflected that his body was still far from minor completion and recognized how costly further cultivation would be.

Lin Bai used the Divine Weapon Soul to raise the Demon Sword to the level of a supreme-grade Dao Divine Weapon, then spent his remaining Grace and Majesty Pavilion points on sword and Dao Domain books. He discovered that one book was likely a fake and began studying Zhang Zinan's Dao Domain Elucidation alongside the Snow Sect experts' insights.

• Lin Bai gave up on advancing the Five Elements Dao Body because he had run out of Five Elements spiritual objects.
• Lin Bai fed the Divine Weapon Soul to the Demon Sword and used his power and mental strength to help it refine the treasure.
• After twenty-five days, the Demon Sword reached the level of a supreme-grade Dao Divine Weapon.
• Lin Bai spent his remaining points on Hundred Great Luo Sword Cultivators' Sword Dao Insights and Zhang Zinan's Dao Domain Elucidation.
• Lin Bai judged the Hundred Great Luo Sword Cultivators' Sword Dao Insights to be a fake and put it away.
• Lin Bai studied Zhang Zinan's Dao Domain Elucidation alongside Dao Domain insights given to him by a Snow Sect elder.

Lin Bai studied Zhang Zinan's Dao Domain Elucidation, which described a Dao Domain as following and defying the Heavenly Dao through a martial artist's will. After more than ten days without progress, Lin Bai began trying to form his own understanding of what a Dao Domain was.

• Lin Bai read Zhang Zinan's account of how he created a Dao Domain by meditating on the cycles of the seasons and the rise and fall of the world.
• Lin Bai learned that Zhang Zinan viewed a Dao Domain as following the Heavenly Dao while defying it, with the practitioner controlling everything within the domain.
• Lin Bai decided to experiment with creating his own Dao Domain and planned to combine the Four Intentions of Extinction, the Square Inch Sword Domain, and Devouring Power.
• Lin Bai spent more than ten days studying and pondering Dao Domains but failed to reach their threshold.
• After listening to birds in a rain-washed courtyard, Lin Bai calmed his mind and began seeking his own understanding of a Dao Domain.

Lin Bai struggled to understand Dao domains until he realized he could use his Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and Devouring Power to create his own. After forming and discarding an initial domain, he began shaping a new one built on Devouring Power and his five techniques.

• Lin Bai grew frustrated studying Zhang Zinan's and other Snow Sect seniors' writings, then realized his belief that he possessed nothing had kept him from comprehending a Dao domain.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and Devouring Power to create a domain that contained the force within a hundred meters and incorporated his Four Intentions of Extinction and Square Inch Sword Domain.
• Lin Bai understood that the domain helped him control the Devouring Power and suspected Wan Zizhen had urged him to comprehend it for that reason.
• Lin Bai decided the black-space domain was not his true domain and dispersed it, then expanded the Devouring Power into a thousand-meter storm.
• Lin Bai began deriving his five techniques from the Devouring Power, unleashing Spring Thunder and then forming a Crimson Sun.

Lin Bai created and tempered the Heaven Swallowing Domain, then joined Luo Wuling and other martial artists at the sealed entrance to the Void Ancient Road. He discovered the hidden formation and learned that Tu Qing had fused with the God-Demon Heart.

• Lin Bai created the Heaven Swallowing Domain and accidentally destroyed the Eternal Devil Sect residence while testing it.
• After three months, Luo Wuling found Lin Bai and took him to the Evil Moon Sect’s forbidden grounds to wait for the Void Ancient Road’s seal to weaken.
• Lin Bai met Wan Zizhen, Huang Nishang, Tu Qing, Zhu Qingzhou, Fei Lingzi, and other martial artists in a cave.
• Lin Bai used his Devouring Power and Asura Dharma Eyes to detect the formation restriction and golden characters concealed within the cave’s stone wall.
• Tu Qing explained that a Great Mystic Art User had sealed the far end of the Void Ancient Road and revealed that he had fused with the God-Demon Heart.

Lin Bai learned from Tu Qing that the Void God Tomb contained five Void Ancient Roads and at least two buried Great Mystic Art Users. After Fei Lingzi opened the sealed passage, the group entered the darkness and followed ancient golden footprints that formed a road into the void.

• Tu Qing told Lin Bai that the Void Ancient Road's inner seal weakened periodically, that five such roads existed, and that at least two Great Mystic Art Users were buried in the tomb.
• Tu Qing glanced at Wan Zizhen while discussing the tomb, prompting Lin Bai to wonder whether Wan Zizhen's origins were connected to it.
• After five days of waiting, Fei Lingzi announced that the time had come and broke through the stone wall sealing the Void Ancient Road.
• Fei Lingzi entered the dark passage, followed by Wan Zizhen, Tu Qing, Lin Bai, Zhu Qingzhou, Huang Nishang, and the others.
• Lin Bai spotted golden footprints in the void as Fei Lingzi stepped onto one, joined its Dao intent with his Great Purity Dao Fruit, and formed a road into the darkness.