Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai found only women's belongings and a few unrelated books in the Black-Robed Man's Storage Bag, then searched the City Lord's Mansion and discovered that its treasures had all disappeared. As he considered whether the Black-Robed Man had taken them or someone had arrived first, a Grand Luo Dao Fruit expert's furious shout shook the mansion.

• Lin Bai opened the Black-Robed Man's Storage Bag and found it was filled mostly with women's belongings, with only a few books and scant treasures.
• The Black-Robed Man attacked Lin Bai to reclaim the bag, but Lin Bai tossed it back, released Zhu Qingzhou, Huang Nishang, and the Black-Robed Man from his Dao Domain, then left the study courtyard.
• Lin Bai searched the Treasure Pavilion, Spirit Herb Garden, and other sites, finding fierce battles but no remaining treasures.
• Lin Bai weighed whether the Black-Robed Man had taken the treasures or whether an unknown person had taken them before the factions arrived.
• A Grand Luo Dao Fruit expert shouted at the black-robed warriors, and the force of the voice nearly injured Lin Bai.

Sun Tianchan accused the Black-Robed Men of stealing the City Lord's Mansion treasures, and he allied with the Evil Moon Sect to attack them. The Black-Robed Men denied taking anything beyond a furnace, and the chapter left the three forces fighting inside the mansion.

• Sun Tianchan summoned the Black-Robed Men and confronted them over the vanished treasures in the City Lord's Mansion.
• The Black-Robed Men denied taking the treasures and said they had found only the furnace in the Pill Refining Chamber.
• Sun Tianchan persuaded Fei Lingzi and the Evil Moon Sect to join forces against the Black-Robed Men.
• Sun Tianchan attacked the Black-Robed Men with a massive palm strike, and one of them revealed Grand Luo Dao Fruit cultivation to meet his charge.
• The two Grand Luo Dao Fruit experts clashed, shaking the City Lord's Mansion.

Lin Bai searched the City Lord's Mansion while the three factions fought, then followed them into Insect Valley after a mysterious rumble revealed divine light. He realized the light was reviving countless insect eggs, but chose to press onward toward the valley's depths.

• Lin Bai concluded that the Black-Robed Man's faction had not taken the treasure and searched the City Lord's Mansion, finding it stripped bare.
• Lin Bai studied the mansion's formations and heard a great rumble coming from Insect Valley.
• Lin Bai and the three factions gathered in Insect Valley, where cracks in the mountain walls began emitting divine radiance.
• Sun Tianchan and the Black-Robed Man's Grand Luo Dao Fruit expert led the rush into the valley's depths, and Lin Bai followed.
• Lin Bai noticed the divine radiance reviving the insect eggs and feared the martial artists would be trapped by the Gu insects.
• Lin Bai protected himself with his cultivation art and resolutely continued toward the depths of Insect Valley.

Lin Bai entered the mountain beneath the Insect Valley and discovered a vast chamber filled with giant eggs that had revived under the divine radiance. After one egg hatched a mantis monster, he realized countless others were beginning to stir, leaving him surrounded by a potential swarm.

• The Black-Robed Man, Fei Lingzi, and Sun Tianchan carved separate passages into the mountain, and Lin Bai followed the passage made by Ten Thousand Saints Mountain.
• Lin Bai descended into a dark, poisonous chamber and used a Luminous Stone to illuminate the area.
• A giant egg hatched a human-faced mantis monster, and Lin Bai destroyed it with three flying swords.
• Lin Bai wondered whether the divine radiance had revived the insect eggs and continued searching for the other forces.
• Lin Bai discovered enormous numbers of giant eggs covering the chamber, many of whose mantis monsters were beginning to move.

Lin Bai explored the Underground Palace, where poisonous fog and countless Giant Eggs concealed a deadly threat. After witnessing people lose control and melt into pus, he realized his growing rage might mean the same danger had begun affecting him.

• Lin Bai searched the Underground Palace for an exit and the treasure trove while trying to avoid the hatching mantis monsters.
• He found a Ten Thousand Saints Mountain disciple raging at unseen enemies until the man melted into pus, then noticed a tiny Ladybug Poison crawling into his ear as he left.
• Lin Bai encountered a Black-Robed Man who also attacked the darkness before melting into pus.
• An unseen gaze followed Lin Bai through the Underground Palace, but his flying swords could not strike its source.
• Lin Bai's anger intensified as he attacked the surroundings, then he recognized that his behavior resembled the other victims and forced himself to calm down.

Lin Bai discovered that a Ladybug Poison had entered his body and cut off his little finger to keep its deadly toxins from spreading. After recovering, he prepared to seek the treasure or escape the strange Underground Palace, wary that more kinds of gu insects might be lurking there.

• Lin Bai realized that his growing agitation might be caused by a hidden threat and searched his body for its source.
• Lin Bai found a Ladybug Poison in his blood and sent his three flying swords through his body to attack it.
• When the Ladybug Poison began to burst and release toxins, Lin Bai severed his left little finger, sacrificing it to destroy the poison before it could kill him.
• Lin Bai checked his blood for other gu insects, strengthened his defenses, and used his Five Elements Dao Body to regenerate his finger while restoring his spiritual power.
• After five hours, Lin Bai had recovered and decided to find the treasure or leave, while suspecting the Underground Palace had been made by someone other than the creator of Nine Bend City.

Lin Bai suspected the Void God Tomb contained the burial grounds of two Great Mystic Art Users, then descended into a second level filled with lethal poisonous plants and unknown creatures. Though the danger threatened to nullify his abilities, he chose to venture onward rather than abandon the search.

• Lin Bai wondered whether the Spear Immortal and the Insect Valley’s Gu insect master were different Great Mystic Art Users, and questioned who had hidden the Spear Immortal’s remains and taken Nine Bend City’s treasures.
• Lin Bai found a breached opening to the next level and followed Sun Tianchan and the Black-Robed Man’s apparent path downward.
• Lin Bai entered a dark forest of poisonous black and blood-red plants, hearing cries from unknown beasts and fearing that ancient Gu insects might still inhabit the place.
• Lin Bai recalled Ling Tianzi’s warnings that poison and Gu insects were the Heaven Swallowing Race’s natural enemies, and hesitated to use Devouring Power.
• Lin Bai decided he could not turn back after enduring so much, and cautiously walked into the second level with luminous stones lighting his way.

Lin Bai crossed a deadly forest and learned that a black Gu worm had stolen the treasures from the Insect Emperor’s remains. After Tu Qing explained the hunt, Lin Bai headed toward the Insect Emperor’s burial site.

• Lin Bai watched a Black-Robed Man get dragged into the forest by poisonous vines and continued on without helping him.
• Lin Bai passed through a swarm of glowing insects, protecting himself with sword radiance.
• Lin Bai heard fighters searching for the Gu worm that had taken the treasures and recognized Fei Lingzi, Luo Wuling, and Sun Tianchan among them.
• Tu Qing told Lin Bai that the Gu worm had stolen a Storage Bag from the Insect Emperor’s remains and escaped the pursuing fighters.
• Lin Bai chose to stay and headed toward the towering tree where the Insect Emperor was buried.

Lin Bai refined the remains beneath the towering tree, but gained almost no power and suspected they were not the Insect Emperor’s bones. A Black-Robed Man attacked him over the remains, and Lin Bai decided to avoid a prolonged fight in the perilous terrain.

• Lin Bai found a skeleton beneath the great tree and refined its remaining power, but it gave him no meaningful cultivation increase.
• Lin Bai suspected the skeleton did not belong to the Insect Emperor, and a Black-Robed Man appeared and accused him of taking a treasure.
• The Black-Robed Man demanded that Lin Bai hand over the supposed treasure, but Lin Bai denied taking anything and challenged him to attack.
• The Black-Robed Man charged Lin Bai with a fist, and Lin Bai met it with a palm strike that sent both of them flying back a hundred paces.
• The Black-Robed Man realized Lin Bai’s physical body had reached the Great Purity realm, while Lin Bai judged that he should avoid a prolonged fight.

Lin Bai was surrounded by the three factions after a mysterious gu worm flew into his clothes, and he discovered that it was actually the crow he had met in the Celestial God Tomb. The crow said the Insect Emperor had tricked them and that the tomb was false, leaving Lin Bai demanding an explanation while still surrounded.

• Lin Bai fled from the Black-Robed Man but collided with a black streak of light that burrowed into his clothes.
• Fei Lingzi, Luo Wuling, Tu Qing, Zhu Qingzhou, Huang Nishang, Sun Tianchan, and the other warriors surrounded Lin Bai and demanded he hand over the gu worm.
• Lin Bai offered to take the gu worm out, but it dodged his hand and spoke from his shoulder.
• Lin Bai recognized the gu worm as the crow he had last seen piloting the Void Sword Ark and asked about his family and friends.
• The crow said the Insect Emperor had played them and that the tomb contained no treasures because it was a false tomb.

Lin Bai and the Crow argued that the Void God Tomb was a false tomb and that the Insect Emperor had taken the Spear Immortal’s treasures, but the other factions refused to believe them. As they faced the gathered experts, the Crow discovered that someone had found an entrance to the next level, and a dragon’s roar shook the Poisonous Miasma Space.

• The Crow explained that the Insect Emperor had taken the treasures from the Spear Immortal’s tomb and left behind a false tomb, while Lin Bai suspected another area remained undiscovered.
• Lin Bai told Sun Tianchan and the other experts that the Crow’s Storage Bag was empty and the bones beneath the old tree were not the Insect Emperor’s remains, but the Black-Robed Man accused them of lying.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow how they could escape, and the Crow admitted he could not use Devouring Power or fight the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm experts.
• The Crow revealed that someone else had found an entrance to the next level as the Poisonous Miasma Space shook and a dragon roared in the distance.

Lin Bai and the Crow fled the second level while nine Great Purity Dao Fruit experts pursued them, forcing them down to the third level of the Void God Tomb. There, Lin Bai shattered dangerous Gu insect eggs to hinder his pursuers, and the venom struck several of them.

• Wan Zizhen's dragon roar shook the second level and revealed the passage to the third level, prompting the Evil Moon Sect, Ten Thousand Saints Mountain, and the Black-Robed Man's forces to move on.
• Sun Tianchan and the Black-Robed Man left nine Great Purity Dao Fruit experts behind to deal with Lin Bai and the Crow.
• Lin Bai punched through the encirclement and escaped with the Crow guiding him through the poisonous miasma, but the pursuers caught up.
• The Crow mistakenly led Lin Bai to the passage to the third level, and Lin Bai jumped down with the nine experts following him.
• Lin Bai found Gu insect eggs lining the third-level passages and shattered them with his sword, splashing venom onto several pursuing experts.

Lin Bai and the Crow reached the Insect Emperor’s tomb abode, where they discovered the other factions stalled before a palace. The Crow identified deadly traps in the plaza, and Lin Bai weighed whether to risk crossing it for the treasures inside.

• Lin Bai escaped his pursuers through winding passages, and the Crow warned him not to use his Devouring Power amid the poisonous materials.
• The Crow recalled that the Black-Robed Men were connected to an ancient dynasty, leading Lin Bai to suspect they came from the Chu Kingdom.
• Lin Bai and the Crow found an underground landscape and a palace guarded by enormous stone sculptures, with martial artists from several factions gathered outside.
• The Crow revealed that the plaza could ensnare minds and conceal reviving insect eggs beneath its stone slabs.
• Lin Bai considered risking the plaza to reach the Insect Emperor’s treasures, despite the danger of becoming trapped like the others.

Lin Bai and the Crow crossed the plaza’s deadly formation and faced the Insect Emperor’s tomb-guarding statues. As Lin Bai charged toward the palace, the python statue attacked and the other statue unleashed dark green liquid, forcing the Crow to intervene with the Soul Refining Banner.

• The Crow led Lin Bai across the plaza by following a safe route through the trapped stone slabs, while other martial artists watched and one fell into a pit.
• Lin Bai and the Crow reached the statues, which awakened and attacked as they left the plaza.
• Lin Bai dodged the python statue and slashed its waist, then rushed through a gap toward the palace.
• Dark green liquid fell toward Lin Bai, and the Crow spat out black smoke wrapped around the Soul Refining Banner to protect him.

Lin Bai reunited with Yue Shuang inside the palace after the crow summoned her from the Soul Refining Banner, and warned her that the crow might intend to sell her. Lin Bai, Yue Shuang, and the crow reached the Great Mystic Art User’s tomb, where Wan Zizhen was examining the coffin and dragon pillars, while the crow found no treasures.

• The crow used the Soul Refining Banner to bring Yue Shuang out to shield Lin Bai from the poisonous rain, and Lin Bai pulled them both through the palace gates.
• Lin Bai reunited with Yue Shuang and told her the crow might plan to sell her because of her Nine Yin Spirit Nurturing Body.
• Yue Shuang followed Lin Bai through the brightly lit palace after he identified it as the tomb residence of a Great Mystic Art User.
• Lin Bai found Wan Zizhen standing before a coffin on a nine-tiered jade platform and looking at four coiling-dragon pillars.
• The crow searched the palace, returned to Lin Bai’s shoulder empty-handed, and complained that the Insect Emperor had hidden the treasures.

Wan Zizhen revealed that he was born in the Insect Emperor’s palace and explained how the Insect Emperor abducted four divine dragons to sustain a Rebirth Cicada and attempt a second life. The chapter left Lin Bai realizing that the Insect Emperor was another ancient powerhouse who had sought to escape death.

• The Crow accused Wan Zizhen of hiding the palace’s missing treasures, but Wan Zizhen denied finding any.
• Wan Zizhen revealed that he was born in the palace and that the Insect Emperor had abducted four divine dragons from the Spirit World and nailed them to the jade pillars.
• The Crow inferred that the Insect Emperor had used the dragons’ blood, an array, and a special coffin to sustain himself.
• The Crow explained that the Insect Emperor’s body was likely wrapped in a Rebirth Cicada cocoon, which could let him emerge and live a second life.
• Lin Bai learned that the Rebirth Cicada needed abundant vitality, which explained why the Insect Emperor had chosen the dragon race as its source.

Lin Bai and the Crow pieced together how the Insect Emperor had hidden her burial chamber beneath the Spear Immortal’s tomb and sustained the Rebirth Cicada with the vitality of captured dragons. Wan Zizhen recounted his birth and escape from the tomb, then hinted that he had returned for a purpose beyond honoring his ancestors.

• Lin Bai deduced that the Insect Emperor had captured four dragons and hidden herself beneath the Spear Immortal’s tomb while waiting for a chance to resurrect.
• The Crow explained that female dragons could protect unborn offspring by concentrating their vitality into an egg.
• Wan Zizhen revealed that the Insect Emperor had unknowingly captured his pregnant mother, and the formation used dragon blood to sustain the Rebirth Cicada.
• Wan Zizhen said he had hatched in the tomb, later helped the Evil Moon Sect obtain a fragment of the Spear Immortal Inheritance, and left with them.
• Wan Zizhen and the others concluded that the coffin might contain the Insect Emperor’s and Spear Immortal’s treasures.
• Wan Zizhen admitted he had returned for a purpose other than paying respects to his ancestors, but did not reveal what it was.

Wan Zizhen asked Lin Bai to break the formation protecting the Insect Emperor’s coffin so he could avenge his murdered parents. Lin Bai agreed despite the danger, and the chapter ended as he struck the coffin with the Demon Sword.

• Wan Zizhen revealed that he had lured Lin Bai into the tomb abode because he could not break the coffin’s formation himself.
• The Crow demanded the treasures inside the coffin, and Wan Zizhen agreed to give them up in exchange for Lin Bai’s help.
• Wan Zizhen admitted he was not confident he could kill the Insect Emperor, but insisted he could not wait any longer to avenge his parents.
• Lin Bai agreed to break the formation and leave afterward, while Wan Zizhen transformed into a dragon and prepared to attack the Insect Emperor.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method and brought the Demon Sword down toward the coffin.

Lin Bai and Wan Zizhen opened the coffin and found the Insect Emperor wrapped in a cocoon, but no treasures. As the gathered forces accused Lin Bai and the Crow of taking the loot, an unknown voice challenged their assumption that the palace was a tomb.

• The Evil Moon Sect, Ten Thousand Saints Mountain, and the Black-Robed Man followed Lin Bai’s route across the square and entered the palace.
• Lin Bai broke the coffin’s formation seal, and Wan Zizhen opened the lid to reveal a human-shaped cocoon but no visible treasures.
• The Crow tore off a strand of silk from the cocoon before fleeing the coffin, and Wan Zizhen unleashed dragon breath that set the coffin ablaze.
• The three forces entered the palace, found no treasures, and suspected Lin Bai and the Crow had taken them.
• Lin Bai sent Yue Shuang into the Soul Refining Banner, while the Crow denied taking any treasures.
• An unknown voice asked who had told them the palace was a tomb.

The Insect Emperor awoke from the coffin and unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes that devoured the martial artists inside the palace. Lin Bai escaped with the Crow and Tu Qing, while the swarm pursued the survivors, leaving the fate of everyone who entered the Void God Tomb in doubt.

• An ancient voice revealed that the coffin was not in a tomb manor, and Wan Zizhen realized his dragon flame could not kill the Insect Emperor.
• Lin Bai and the Crow fled the palace, followed by Tu Qing, while Fei Lingzi warned the others that the Insect Emperor had awakened.
• A shriveled hand tore through the cocoon, and fragments from the coffin transformed into mosquitoes that attacked the martial artists.
• The mosquito swarm devoured a Black-Robed Man and Luo Wuling as the martial artists from Ten Thousand Saints Mountain, the Evil Moon Sect, and the Black-Robed Man fled.
• Sun Tianchan charged back toward the palace but was swallowed by a human face formed from mosquitoes, which continued hunting the fleeing martial artists.