Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai learned that the Heaven and Earth Gate planned to move against the Tianshui Sect, but a mysterious force had sealed the details in its disciple’s memories. When Tang Wei was overwhelmed by three Heaven and Earth Gate disciples, a powerful Azure Dragon sword attack arrived, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Lin Bai searched a subdued Heaven and Earth Gate disciple’s memories, confirmed the sect planned to attack the Tianshui Sect, and found the specific plan mysteriously sealed.
• Lin Bai sent the crow to gather spirit medicines and told it to return within seven days.
• Lin Bai returned to Spirit Field No. 81 and found Tang Wei badly wounded while fighting three Heaven and Earth Gate disciples.
• The three disciples brought Tang Wei down, and one approached her while his companions stood watch.
• A sword attack shaped like an Azure Dragon struck the approaching disciple and slashed him into a bloody mess, startling the other two.

Lin Bai arrived to rescue Tang Wei, killing the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples who had overwhelmed her. After Tang Wei admitted she had underestimated the dangers beyond the sect, they set out to regroup with the rest of the team.

• Lin Bai's Azure Dragon sword image killed two Heaven and Earth Gate disciples who were attacking Tang Wei.
• Lin Bai revealed himself as the top-ranked Tianshui Dao God Rankings disciple and killed the last Heaven and Earth Gate attacker with the Dragon Eye Flying Sword.
• Tang Wei took pills to treat her injuries and admitted she had been defeated because she had grown overconfident after being sheltered by her sect.
• Lin Bai explained the weakness of cultivating secluded geniuses and urged Tang Wei to learn from her defeat.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei set off to find the rest of their team.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei found the eight other members of Tang Wei’s group dead and discovered that they had apparently been manipulated into killing themselves by an illusionist. Lin Bai saw through a false Tang Wei and killed the illusionist’s phantom, but the real illusionist’s spell continued, ending with a Giant God Race powerhouse appearing before him.

• Lin Bai and Tang Wei followed their team’s signals to a mountain range and found all eight other members dead.
• Lin Bai determined that the team members had shattered their own heart meridians, and he suspected an illusion had made them kill themselves.
• A frightened Tang Wei approached Lin Bai, but he recognized her as an illusion and strangled the disguised young man, who turned out to be a false body.
• Lin Bai sensed that the real Tang Wei was attacking a forest ten thousand miles away, then realized the illusionist was still manipulating the realm when the false body vanished.
• The illusion transformed into a collapsing world, where a giant of the Giant God Race appeared and addressed Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.

Lin Bai recognized the Giant God as an illusion and used the Asura Dharma Eyes to battle him with an illusory Devouring Sword Soul and duplicate. Outside the illusion, he defeated Feng Yi, who had been tormenting Lin Bai and Tang Wei, and opened his eyes to confront the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples.

• Lin Bai realized his flying swords could not harm the Giant God and recognized that he was trapped in an illusion.
• Lin Bai used the Asura Dharma Eyes to create an illusory Devouring Sword Soul and duplicate, then fought the Giant God until its healing slowed.
• Outside the illusion, Feng Yi controlled the tormenting visions while Tang Wei struggled and Lin Bai sat calmly with his eyes closed.
• Feng Yi spat blood and collapsed, admitting that Lin Bai's illusory arts surpassed his own.
• Lin Bai opened his eyes and fixed a cold gaze on the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples, and Feng Yi warned them not to look into his eyes.

Lin Bai defeated the giant god’s illusion and used the Asura Dharma Eyes to trap Feng Yi and the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples in a reality-distorting illusion. After freeing Tang Wei, he learned about the Heaven and Earth Gate’s illusion arts and set off to confront the trapped disciples.

• Lin Bai won the clash of illusion arts and saw the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples watching him from the mountain.
• Lin Bai trapped Feng Yi and the disciples in an illusion of a collapsing world and attacking Flame Giants, while their treasures vanished inside it.
• Lin Bai freed Tang Wei from her illusion, and she clung to him in relief.
• Tang Wei explained that illusion arts were one of the Heaven and Earth Gate’s three signature paths, alongside swordsmanship and alchemy.
• Lin Bai told Tang Wei to wait somewhere safe and walked toward the mountaintop while the trapped disciples fled from the Flame Giants.

Lin Bai trapped Feng Yi and the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples in a painful illusion, killed the other disciples, and questioned Feng Yi about the sect’s plans and secrets. Feng Yi revealed the Divine Stele of Heaven and Earth before asking Lin Bai to spare his life, which Lin Bai refused.

• Lin Bai appeared above the burning illusion and asked whether Feng Yi and the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples had killed the Tianshui Sect disciples.
• The disciples blamed Feng Yi and begged for mercy, but Lin Bai killed them while keeping Feng Yi alive.
• Lin Bai and Feng Yi exchanged questions, and Feng Yi admitted the Heaven and Earth Gate planned to secretly destroy the Tianshui Sect.
• Feng Yi questioned Lin Bai about his illusion arts, and Lin Bai said he had learned them on his own.
• Feng Yi explained that the Divine Stele of Heaven and Earth protected the Heaven and Earth Gate’s secrets and tracked its disciples.
• Feng Yi asked Lin Bai to spare his life, and Lin Bai refused.

Lin Bai defeated Feng Yi’s group but Feng Yi escaped using a costly substitute technique. After regrouping with the wounded Tang Wei, Lin Bai left her to recover and went to seek Li Yuanzong, while Li Yuanzong’s team clashed with Yu Lianqin’s Heaven and Earth Gate team.

• Feng Yi used a rose-shaped substitute to escape Lin Bai’s illusion, and Lin Bai killed the other Heaven and Earth Gate disciples before searching their Storage Bags.
• Lin Bai found Tang Wei and the Four Seasons Spirit Mushrooms in the captured Storage Bags, confirming that the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples had killed their teammates.
• Tang Wei said her injuries would take several days to heal and urged Lin Bai to go on without her.
• Lin Bai settled Tang Wei in a small canyon and set off to find Li Yuanzong, despite Tang Wei’s warning about Mu Huaqing.
• Li Yuanzong’s first team fought Yu Lianqin’s first team of the Heaven and Earth Gate, and Yu Lianqin asked Mu Huaqing who he was.

Lin Bai searched for Li Yuanzong but followed Raven’s signal to a hidden formation beneath a vast river in the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Li Yuanzong’s group abandoned their pursuit of the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples to hunt the injured Lin Bai, leaving Mu Huaqing unable to catch up.

• Mu Huaqing held Yu Lianqin to a standstill, and Yu Lianqin ordered the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples to retreat.
• Li Yuanzong’s group pursued the retreating disciples as a pretext to shake off Mu Huaqing and find the injured Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai contacted Raven, learned he had found a hidden secret realm, and used a positioning compass to locate him after Raven refused help.
• Lin Bai reached the river, dived to its bed, and found glowing runes carved into huge stones that appeared to form a teleportation formation.

Lin Bai discovered that the river stones formed a teleportation array leading to the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm’s second level, where he found a colossal World Tree. A Heaven and Earth Gate disciple also arrived and raced toward it, leaving Lin Bai to consider killing him and taking the treasure.

• Lin Bai activated a dim rune stone with his blood and spiritual power, allowing it to teleport him into the secret realm’s second level.
• Lin Bai followed the compass toward the crow and found the second level had immense spiritual energy, towering trees, and no spiritual medicines.
• Lin Bai reached the center of the secret realm and spotted a World Tree towering above the forest.
• A Heaven and Earth Gate disciple recognized the World Tree, laughed excitedly, and flew toward it.
• Lin Bai concealed himself and considered killing the Heaven and Earth Gate disciple to claim the World Tree.

Lin Bai discovered that the supposed World Tree was actually a World-Annihilation Tree that trapped and drained a Heaven and Earth Gate disciple. As the tree’s resurrecting vines surrounded him, Lin Bai contacted the Crow, who recognized the danger.

• Lin Bai decided to race toward the World Tree and kill the Heaven and Earth Gate disciple before he could break through to the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• The Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit activated on its own, releasing Devouring Power that exposed the World Tree’s true, monstrous form and destroyed a vine attacking Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai saw the World-Annihilation Tree draining the Heaven and Earth Gate disciple’s life force while the disciple remained unaware.
• Lin Bai fought off the tree’s vines with the Demonic Sword, but the severed vines revived and surrounded the area around him.
• Lin Bai contacted the Crow, who identified the tree as a World-Annihilation Tree and told Lin Bai he was in danger.

Lin Bai was trapped by the World-Annihilation Tree and poisoned after using his Devouring Power on its vines. The Crow rescued him with Nine-Colored Flames, and Lin Bai followed the Crow out of the tree’s reach.

• The Crow explained that the World-Annihilation Tree bewitched martial artists and that cutting its vines made them multiply, but Lin Bai admitted he had already cut them.
• Lin Bai used his Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to devour the attacking vines, and the Crow warned that the vines’ hallucinogenic toxin would poison him through his Devouring Power.
• Lin Bai lost control of his body as the toxin blurred his senses, and the vines began to wrap around him.
• The Crow appeared through the Void Divine Lightning and used Nine-Colored Flames to drive the World-Annihilation Tree’s vines away from Lin Bai.
• The Crow gave Lin Bai a pill, and once he recovered enough to move, Lin Bai followed the Crow away from the World-Annihilation Tree.

After escaping the World-Annihilation Tree, Lin Bai recovered while the Crow demanded repayment for the treasures he had used to save him. Lin Bai signed a Karma Paper binding them together, and the Crow flew off after remembering the treasure he had abandoned in the Third Secret Realm.

• Lin Bai recovered from the toxins while the Crow listed the treasures he had lost or spent rescuing him and demanded repayment.
• The Crow wrote a debt document and insisted Lin Bai sign it, but Lin Bai recognized it as Karma Paper.
• Lin Bai signed the paper, binding himself and the Crow through karma, and reasoned that the Crow would now have reason to protect him.
• Lin Bai warned the Crow that their bond could entangle him with the Giant God Race, and the Crow realized Lin Bai had tricked him.
• Lin Bai asked about the Third Secret Realm, and the Crow remembered his abandoned treasure and flew south.

Lin Bai and the Crow discovered the entrance to the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm’s third secret realm and reached the Ancient Longevity Hall, where the Ancient Desolate Sect once refined lifespan-extending pills. The Crow said the hall held no true elixir of immortality, but its pills could add as much as ten thousand years to a martial artist’s life.

• The Crow told Lin Bai that a Great Purity Dao Fruit elder of the Heaven and Earth Gate had entered the third secret realm with him and was exploring its core area.
• The Crow led Lin Bai to a hidden hill and activated its runes, transporting them from the second secret realm into the third.
• Lin Bai and the Crow arrived at a mountain with white jade steps leading to a palace called the Ancient Longevity Hall.
• The Crow explained that the Ancient Desolate Sect had refined the Elixir of Immortality there, but the hall contained only pills that could extend a lifespan by around ten thousand years.
• The Crow recalled a possible connection between Lin Bai’s Heaven Swallowing Race and the Giant God Race, but could not remember the details.

Lin Bai and the crow agreed to search the Hall of Longevity for pills that could extend lifespan, with Lin Bai holding off a powerful Heaven and Earth Gate Daoist. They reached the mountaintop after Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to break the formations on the steps, and prepared to enter the hall.

• The crow proposed that Lin Bai distract the upper-grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm Daoist while it searched the Hall of Longevity, and Lin Bai agreed to split the treasures.
• The crow warned Lin Bai that the Daoist was stronger than Prince Yan and refused to lend Lin Bai treasures for protection.
• Lin Bai and the crow climbed the white jade steps, where a powerful formation pressed down on Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to break through the formations and reached the mountaintop after an hour.
• The crow said the Heaven and Earth Gate Daoist had reached the mountainside after it, and refused Lin Bai's request to give him the lifespan pills.

Lin Bai and the crow entered the Ancient Desolate Hall of Longevity, avoided a trap around an Alchemy Furnace, and broke into the pill room, where they found an Elixir of Immortality. As they gathered the pills, the bull-nosed Old Daoist from Heaven and Earth Gate approached them.

• Lin Bai and the crow found an Alchemy Furnace in the main hall, but the crow discovered that taking it would trigger a self-destructing formation.
• The crow told Lin Bai that the bull-nosed Old Daoist from Heaven and Earth Gate was in the right side hall, so Lin Bai headed left toward the pill room.
• Lin Bai used dark radiance to cut through the formation sealing the pill room and opened its door.
• The crow found an Elixir of Immortality among the mostly spoiled pills and swept every jade bottle into his storage ring.
• The bull-nosed Old Daoist from Heaven and Earth Gate approached, saying that Lin Bai had broken the formation that had troubled him.

Lin Bai learned that the Heaven and Earth Gate had secretly explored the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm for years and wanted the pills he found, along with his silence. He refused to join them, and the Old Daoist attacked him as Lin Bai countered with four flying swords.

• The Old Daoist revealed that the Heaven and Earth Gate had learned of the secret treasure from an Ancient Desolate Sect descendant and had explored the secret realms in secret.
• The Old Daoist explained that the Heaven and Earth Gate lost several Great Purity Dao Fruit powerhouses to the World-Annihilation Tree before reaching the third secret realm.
• The Old Daoist described how the Heaven and Earth Gate recognized the Alchemy Furnace as a trap but failed for years to break the Nine-Lock Coiling Dragon Formation guarding the Pill Room.
• The Old Daoist offered to spare Lin Bai if he surrendered the pills and joined the Heaven and Earth Gate, but Lin Bai refused.
• The Old Daoist unleashed his Great Purity Dao Fruit power, and Lin Bai attacked with four flying swords shaped like the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.

Lin Bai fought the Old Daoist, who blocked the only exit from the Ancient Wasteland Hall of Longevity. After the Old Daoist nearly crushed him with the Azure Sky Finger, Lin Bai used the Yellow Springs Demon Bone to reach Great Purity Dao Fruit cultivation briefly and wounded him with One Sword Obscures the Heavens, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation, shattered the Old Daoist's magic formation, and forced him back.
• Lin Bai attacked with the Demon Sword and Heaven Measuring Ruler, but the Old Daoist remained unharmed and knocked him away.
• The Old Daoist unleashed the Azure Sky Finger, cracking Lin Bai's defenses and suppressing his spiritual power.
• Lin Bai fused the Yellow Springs Demon Bone into his body, temporarily raising his cultivation to the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• Lin Bai used One Sword Obscures the Heavens to tear apart the Azure Sky Finger and slash the Old Daoist's chest, wounding him.

Lin Bai battled the Old Daoist, who sought to seize his treasures and used Ancient Dao Sect techniques to trap him. Lin Bai triggered the Ancient Desolate Hall of Longevity’s self-destructing formation to escape, but the Crow suspected the Old Daoist had survived.

• The Old Daoist recognized Lin Bai’s sword technique as the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal’s inheritance and resolved to claim Lin Bai’s treasures.
• The Old Daoist summoned a Copper Warrior and thousands of bean-formed soldiers, then attacked Lin Bai with a Godfire Demon-Slaying Talisman.
• Lin Bai fought while retreating toward the hall’s exit, but the Old Daoist’s forces kept him trapped.
• Lin Bai struck the Alchemy Furnace, triggering the hall’s self-destructing formation, and escaped on his flying sword.
• The Old Daoist fled too late and was struck by the blast, while Lin Bai watched the hall collapse from a distance.
• The Crow warned Lin Bai that the Old Daoist might have survived despite suffering severe injuries.

Lin Bai escaped the destruction of the Ancient Wasteland Hall of Longevity with the Crow and discussed the valuable pills they had taken and the danger of the Old Daoist learning about them. The Old Daoist survived the destruction and resolved to find another way to seize Lin Bai’s treasures.

• Lin Bai left the ruined third secret realm, passed the weakened World-Annihilation Tree without taking it, and returned to the first secret realm to search for Li Yuanzong.
• The Crow told Lin Bai that the World-Annihilation Tree could become a disaster if it absorbed the blood and souls of living beings outside the secret realm.
• The Crow revealed that he had obtained several pills capable of extending life by thousands of years, including an Elixir of Immortality, and Lin Bai considered how the Old Daoist might try to claim it.
• The Old Daoist emerged from hiding on the bare mountain, badly injured after surviving the Hall of Longevity’s destruction.
• The Old Daoist decided that Lin Bai’s Elixir of Immortality and other abilities gave him reason to kill Lin Bai, but he chose to seek another approach while recovering.

Lin Bai rescued Tianshui Sect disciples from Heaven and Earth Gate pursuers and reunited with Mu Huaqing and Tang Wei. Mu Huaqing proposed gathering the Tianshui Sect disciples at Wuwei Peak to fight back together, asking Lin Bai to put aside their rivalry over the Holy Son position and join them.

• Lin Bai encountered Heaven and Earth Gate disciples chasing Tianshui Sect members and killed several attackers with his Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation.
• Mu Huaqing arrived with Tianshui Sect disciples, including Tang Wei, and ordered the Heaven and Earth Gate pursuers to gather at Wuwei Peak if they wanted to fight.
• Tang Wei explained that she had fled Heaven and Earth Gate attackers and joined Mu Huaqing after he found her.
• Mu Huaqing told Lin Bai that dozens of Tianshui Sect disciples had already died and proposed uniting their sect to resist the hunters.
• Mu Huaqing promised not to interfere in Lin Bai and Li Yuanzong's contest for Holy Son and asked Lin Bai to accompany them to Wuwei Peak.