Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai opened a sealed Black Coffin Shroud beneath Celestial Pillar Peak and discovered a dead cultivator whose corpse released deadly poison when he took its sword and Storage Bag. After escaping into Immortal Sinking Water and finding little of value in the bag, Lin Bai continued searching and found another cave.

• Lin Bai examined the Black Coffin Shroud, suspected it was connected to Celestial Pillar Peak's tremors, and prepared to open it cautiously.
• Lin Bai used the Demon Sword and Seal Breaking power to open the Black Coffin Shroud and the coffin inside, revealing a dried corpse with a top-grade Dao Divine Weapon and a Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai confirmed the corpse was dead and used spiritual threads to take the sword and Storage Bag, triggering poisonous black smoke from the coffin.
• Lin Bai fled into Immortal Sinking Water, which blocked the poison, then searched the Storage Bag and found only rare metals and ores among the ruined contents.
• Lin Bai resumed searching along the stone wall and discovered another mountain cave less than a hundred meters away.

Lin Bai discovered that the coffins beneath Celestial Pillar Peak were connected to a formation that drained life force and cultivation, suggesting a hidden survivor was using the dead as nourishment. At the 212th cave, he opened a coffin and found a living disciple of Tianshui Sect, contradicting his belief that the coffins held fiends from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.

• Lin Bai opened another Black Coffin Shroud and found a dried corpse whose Storage Bag contained nothing worth keeping.
• Lin Bai discovered an active formation beneath the coffin that drained his spiritual power and life force, leading him to suspect someone was using the coffins to replenish their strength.
• As tremors shook the Immortal Sinking Water, Lin Bai searched through the caves until he reached the 212th one.
• Lin Bai opened the coffin in the 212th cave, and its dried corpse awakened with peak Dao God Realm cultivation.
• The awakened man begged Lin Bai to save him and identified himself as a disciple of Tianshui Sect, surprising Lin Bai.

Lin Bai learned that a dying Tianshui Sect disciple had become trapped in Immortal Sinking Water and died shortly after being removed from a coffin. He traced the life force drained by thousands of coffins to a huge formation and a powerful golden coffin deep inside the mountain.

• Lin Bai pulled a nearly lifeless Tianshui Sect disciple from a coffin and questioned him about how he had become trapped.
• The disciple said he had entered the Immortal Sinking Water, lost his way and exhausted his spiritual power before waking to find Lin Bai, but he knew nothing about how he entered the coffin.
• The disciple died within fifteen minutes of leaving the coffin, and Lin Bai realized that it slowed the loss of life force even as its formation drained it.
• Lin Bai stored the coffin, burned the disciple’s remains, and sat on the formation to trace its flow of life force using the Devouring Power.
• Lin Bai sensed at least a thousand coffins and formations channeling life force into a huge formation deep inside the mountain, where a magnificent golden coffin lay.

Lin Bai discovered that the coffins and life-draining formations in the mountain protected a golden coffin deep within Celestial Pillar Peak, and he began carving a path toward it. His attack awakened a withered Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm corpse, who confronted him and revealed that he had put the Tianshui Sect disciples into the coffins.

• Lin Bai realized the formations beneath the coffins siphoned life force to replenish the golden coffin deep in the mountain.
• Lin Bai tried to cut through the mountain, then used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to break its formations and carve a passage.
• A withered corpse awoke in a coffin after Lin Bai broke the mountain formation and headed toward him through the Immortal Sinking Water.
• Lin Bai sensed the approaching corpse, drew the Demon Sword, and met it in the passage.
• The corpse called Lin Bai a member of the Devouring Heaven Clan and told him that he had placed the Tianshui Sect disciples in the coffins.

Lin Bai fought a dried corpse guarding the forbidden ground beneath Celestial Pillar Peak and triggered a signal that awakened the corpses in the Immortal Sinking Water. The Crow sensed the upheaval and realized Lin Bai had found the main formation.

• The dried corpse told Lin Bai that it had placed the Tianshui Sect disciples in the coffins and attacked him to stop him entering the forbidden ground.
• Lin Bai used the Azure Lotus Swordplay and four flying swords to sever the dried corpse’s limbs, but it released a red signal before Lin Bai destroyed it.
• The signal spread through the Immortal Sinking Water, opening coffins and rousing dried corpses that began moving to kill intruders.
• The Crow burned a risen corpse that opened its coffin, then sensed the Immortal Sinking Water and spotted Lin Bai near the main formation.

Li Juenian killed a dried corpse in another cavern while Lin Bai fought through a swarm of dried corpses and carved his way into the mountain’s inner chamber. Trapped with no apparent exit, Lin Bai climbed into the golden coffin beside a preserved woman as the corpses entered the chamber.

• Li Juenian found no formation beneath a coffin, killed the dried corpse that rose from it, and wondered what rainbow light had swept through the Immortal Sinking Water.
• Lin Bai carved a passage through the stone wall while fighting off the dried corpses, took a claw strike to the chest, and finally broke through into the mountain’s inner chamber.
• Lin Bai saw a golden coffin guarded by the skeletons of four Grand Luo Dao Fruit powerhouses and suspected the chamber was the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s hidden treasure vault.
• Finding no exit and pursued by the dried corpses, Lin Bai opened the golden coffin, saw a beautiful woman inside, and climbed in before closing the lid.

Lin Bai hid inside a golden coffin, found a Green Jade Fragment on the woman lying within, and watched her awaken. After the Crow burned away the dried corpses, Lin Bai and the Crow fled when the woman sat up.

• Dried corpses flooded into the chamber, and the Crow burned them to ash with Nine-Colored Flames.
• Lin Bai found a Green Jade Fragment set in a ring on the woman inside the coffin, and it entered his dantian when he removed the ring.
• The woman opened her eyes and stared at Lin Bai as the coffin began to open.
• Lin Bai attacked through the coffin’s opening, then recognized the Crow and learned the dried corpses were gone.
• Lin Bai fled with the Crow, who saw the woman sit up in the golden coffin and cried out for them to run.

Lin Bai escaped Celestial Pillar Peak with Li Juenian after encountering a powerful woman in red, then asked the Crow to explain the hidden formations protecting her. The Crow revealed that the ice plain and its formations had been built to sustain the woman, but it could not remember who she was.

• Lin Bai fled Celestial Pillar Peak with Li Juenian, while the Crow escaped ahead of them.
• Outside the peak, Lin Bai recovered as Li Juenian and the Five Divine Generals waited for Yi Zien to return.
• Lin Bai summoned the Crow and asked about Celestial Pillar Peak and the woman in red.
• The Crow explained that the ice plain's Snowstorm Seal, Earth Mother Skynet Grand Formation, Dipper Ox Voidless Grand Formation, and Myriad Ages Yin-Yang Grand Formation protected and sustained the woman in red.
• The Crow said the woman had held an extremely high position in the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and possessed formidable strength, but it could not recall her identity.

The Red-Clad Woman awakened at Celestial Pillar Peak and summoned the surviving demons of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to the ice plain. As the Black Demon and the Corpse King answered her call, Lin Bai and the Crow discussed the danger she posed.

• The Red-Clad Woman recognized that Lin Bai carried three fragments and had taken a fourth from her, then called for every surviving demon of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to come to her at once.
• The Black Demon heard the summons, suspected the legend was true, and ordered Sea Beast Island to head for the ice plain.
• The seal on the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave broke, and the Corpse King led its Blood Corpses and other Corpse Puppets toward the ice plain.
• Tianshui Sect disciples saw the Corpse Puppets charging across the Demon Refining Tower and sent messages to warn the sect.
• Outside Celestial Pillar Peak, the Crow warned Lin Bai that the Red-Clad Woman had once swindled him out of valuable treasures and cultivation techniques.

Lin Bai and his companions hid as the Blood Corpses swept across the ice field and the Corpse King and Black Demon arrived at Celestial Pillar Peak. Lin Bai revealed that a Red-Clad Woman beneath the peak had awakened and likely summoned the two taboo beings, leaving the group fearful of what would happen next.

• The Crow sensed danger, warned Lin Bai to leave, and flew away into the snowstorm.
• Li Juenian and the Five Divine Generals hurried Lin Bai away from the ice field as Blood Corpses charged toward Celestial Pillar Peak, and the group concealed themselves with a gauze net.
• The Corpse King appeared with the Blood Corpses and Corpse Puppets, while the Black Demon arrived on Sea Beast Island atop a colossal Ao Turtle.
• The Corpse King and the Black Demon entered Celestial Pillar Peak, and the Ao Turtle stopped outside it.
• Lin Bai told Li Juenian and the Five Divine Generals that a Red-Clad Woman beneath Celestial Pillar Peak was awakening and had likely summoned the two taboo beings.

The Red-Clad Woman awakened in Celestial Pillar Peak and learned from the Corpse King and Black Demon that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had been destroyed and its disciples imprisoned in the Demon Refining Tower. Though she could not yet help them escape, she ordered them to inventory the treasures and asked them to assist her with a task.

• The Corpse King entered the cavern and knelt before the Red-Clad Woman, and the Black Demon soon joined him.
• The Red-Clad Woman questioned the two about the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and learned it had fallen a hundred thousand years earlier.
• The Red-Clad Woman recognized that the Black Demon survived through his Demonic Martial Soul and that the Corpse King had sacrificed his former body and cultivation to become a Corpse Puppet.
• The Black Demon and Corpse King explained that the Tianshui Sect had built the Demon Refining Tower to imprison the palace's disciples and seize its treasures.
• The Red-Clad Woman revealed she could not yet break out of the tower, ordered the two to inventory Celestial Pillar Peak's treasures, and told them to help her with one thing.

The Red-Clad Woman ordered the Corpse King and Black Demon to capture Lin Bai and the crow alive, promising them freedom and merit in the Devil Palace. After they split up to hide her revival and hunt for the pair, Lin Bai reunited with Tianshui Sect experts, including Zhou Xinjin, whose hostile gaze drew Li Juenian’s explanation that he was Li Yuanzong and Mu Huqing’s second senior brother.

• The Red-Clad Woman showed the Corpse King and Black Demon portraits of Lin Bai and the crow and ordered them captured alive.
• Black Demon recognized Lin Bai and explained that he was a Tianshui Sect Holy Son candidate and a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• The Red-Clad Woman promised the Corpse King and Black Demon freedom and merit if they captured Lin Bai and the crow, then left before Tianshui Sect investigators arrived.
• The Corpse King and Black Demon agreed to conceal the Red-Clad Woman’s revival; the Corpse King went to clean up Celestial Pillar Peak while Black Demon searched for Lin Bai and the crow.
• Yi Zien brought Zheng Yuan and dozens of Tianshui Sect Dao God Realm experts to reunite with Lin Bai and the others outside Celestial Pillar Peak.
• Zhou Xinjin gave Lin Bai a hostile look, and Li Juenian identified him as the Grand Elder’s second direct disciple.

Zhou Xinjin confronted Lin Bai over Mu Huaqing’s death, but Li Juenian defended Lin Bai until Zheng Yuan stopped their standoff. After Lin Bai revealed that a powerful Red-Clad Woman had awakened beneath Celestial Pillar Peak and likely summoned demons, Zheng Yuan decided to investigate the underground palace with Lin Bai leading the way.

• Li Juenian told Lin Bai that Zhou Xinjin, Mu Huaqing’s longtime friend and fellow disciple of the Grand Elder, had emerged from seclusion after hearing of Mu Huaqing’s death.
• Zhou Xinjin confronted Lin Bai with killing intent, and Li Juenian stepped between them and drew his sword to defend Lin Bai.
• Zheng Yuan halted Zhou Xinjin and Li Juenian’s standoff so they could focus on investigating the Demon Refining Tower’s abnormality.
• Long Lanshui explained what had happened at Celestial Pillar Peak, and Lin Bai revealed that a Red-Clad Woman had awakened from a golden coffin beneath it.
• Lin Bai suspected the Red-Clad Woman had summoned the Corpse King and the Black Demon, and warned that she could upset the Demon Refining Tower’s balance.
• Zheng Yuan decided to enter Celestial Pillar Peak with Lin Bai leading the way to assess the Red-Clad Woman and her threat.

Lin Bai led Zheng Yuan and Zhou Xinjin into Celestial Pillar Peak to investigate the Red-Clad Woman, but they found only her golden coffin and encountered the Corpse King and Black Demon. The Corpse King recognized Lin Bai as the man the Sacred Ancestor wanted captured and demanded that Zheng Yuan hand him over.

• Zheng Yuan ordered Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the others to remain outside and seal the Demon Refining Tower if anything went wrong, then agreed to let Zhou Xinjin accompany him and Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai guided Zheng Yuan and Zhou Xinjin through the Immortal Sinking Water to the Underground Palace, where the Red-Clad Woman was gone and the Corpse King was searching the area.
• Zheng Yuan confronted the Corpse King and ordered him back to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, but the Corpse King refused to take the threat seriously.
• Black Demon identified Lin Bai as the man the Sacred Ancestor had ordered them to capture, and the Corpse King told Black Demon to seize him while he dealt with Zheng Yuan.
• The Corpse King offered to return to his territory if Zheng Yuan handed Lin Bai over.

The Corpse King demanded Lin Bai, then attacked when Zheng Yuan refused to hand him over. As Black Demon sent a horde of puppets to capture Lin Bai, Lin Bai fought back with six swords and began tearing the puppets apart.

• The Corpse King demanded that Zheng Yuan surrender Lin Bai, but Zheng Yuan refused and ordered the Corpse King to return to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave.
• The Corpse King attacked Lin Bai, and Zheng Yuan stepped in to block him; the two fought as Black Demon moved to capture Lin Bai.
• Black Demon awakened the Ao Turtle and hundreds of Celestial Jade Puppets, sealing the exits and surrounding Lin Bai and the others.
• Zheng Yuan told Lin Bai and Zhou Xinjin to leave, but Black Demon blocked Lin Bai with demonic flames and sent the puppets after him.
• Lin Bai wielded four flying swords, the Demon Sword, and the Heaven Measuring Ruler, destroying the attacking puppets and shocking the Corpse King with his swordsmanship.

Lin Bai fought Black Demon and the Celestial Jade Puppets, but their combined attacks badly wounded him. He broke through Black Demon’s blockade with Azure Lotus Swordplay and escaped, while Black Demon reformed and recognized the technique as the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal’s swordplay.

• Lin Bai’s swordsmanship astonished the Corpse King, Zheng Yuan, and Zhou Xinjin, while Black Demon attacked him with Heavenly Burning Hand.
• Lin Bai shattered Black Demon’s flaming palm, then destroyed three squads of Celestial Jade Puppets before the remaining squads unleashed a combined strike that left him gravely wounded.
• Lin Bai used the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to carve a path through the puppets and rush toward the exit.
• Black Demon blocked the exit with Heavenly Burning Hand, but Lin Bai unleashed Azure Lotus Swordplay and destroyed his body with One Sword Obscures the Heavens.
• Lin Bai escaped the cavern, and Black Demon reformed and wondered whether Lin Bai had used the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal’s swordplay.

Lin Bai and Zhou Xinjin escaped the cave into the Immortal Sinking Water, where Black Demon used the deadly pressure and his puppets to capture Zhou Xinjin. Black Demon then held Zhou Xinjin hostage to force Lin Bai to surrender, appealing to the Tianshui Sect’s conscience and sense of justice.

• Lin Bai and Zhou Xinjin escaped the cave, but Celestial Jade Puppets blocked their way through the Immortal Sinking Water.
• Lin Bai fought through the puppets while Zhou Xinjin was gravely injured by the water’s pressure and the attackers.
• Black Demon caught Zhou Xinjin, broke his defensive shield, and sealed his meridians and dantian so he could use him to capture Lin Bai.
• Black Demon appeared before Lin Bai with Zhou Xinjin and threatened to kill him unless Lin Bai surrendered.
• Lin Bai questioned Black Demon’s assumption that he cared about Zhou Xinjin, while Black Demon argued that Tianshui Sect disciples would not abandon a fellow disciple.

Lin Bai fought the Black Fiend, who had captured Zhou Xinjin, and forced him to flee before he could finish him off. Lin Bai rescued Zhou Xinjin and escaped the Immortal Sinking Water, while the Black Fiend’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• The Black Fiend urged Lin Bai to surrender and threatened Zhou Xinjin, but Lin Bai refused to go with him without knowing why he had been targeted.
• Lin Bai attacked with four flying swords and the Dragon Slaying Skill, trapping the Black Fiend in a sword formation.
• The Black Fiend charged into the Dragon Eye Flying Sword to die in a way that let him be reborn, avoiding death by Lin Bai’s Dragon Slaying Skill.
• Lin Bai realized the Black Fiend had escaped again and seized the unconscious Zhou Xinjin.
• Lin Bai carved through the puppets with his sword formation and escaped the Immortal Sinking Water with Zhou Xinjin.

Lin Bai escaped Celestial Pillar Peak and tried to convince Zhou Xinjin that Li Yuanzong had killed Mu Huaqing, but Zhou Xinjin remained silent. The Corpse King sent Bronze Corpses to hunt Lin Bai, who then appeared above the Blood Corpse army.

• Lin Bai broke through the puppet horde, rescued Zhou Xinjin, and used a healing pill and spiritual energy to revive him.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xinjin that Li Yuanzong might have killed Mu Huaqing and pointed to the Azure Sky Finger marks and the sword wound as evidence.
• Zhou Xinjin questioned Lin Bai’s account but said nothing as Lin Bai left on his flying sword.
• The Black Demon reported Lin Bai’s escape to the Corpse King, who summoned Bronze Corpses and ordered them to capture Lin Bai.
• As the Bronze Corpses searched above the Blood Corpse army, Lin Bai flew over them on his sword.

Lin Bai tried to escape Celestial Pillar Peak but was pursued by seven intelligent Bronze Corpses and swarmed by Blood Corpses. He blocked the attackers and attempted to break through, only to face a Corpse Capture Net.

• Lin Bai left Zhou Xinjin in a safe location and flew away from Celestial Pillar Peak to find Yi Zien.
• Lin Bai sensed a pursuer in the snowstorm and dispersed an arrow of corpse aura with his flying sword formation.
• Seven Bronze Corpses attacked Lin Bai, and he recognized them as intelligent Corpse Puppets sent by the Corpse King.
• Lin Bai fought off the surrounding Blood Corpses and blocked attacks from two Bronze Corpses with Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Lin Bai tried to flee, but four Bronze Corpses cast a Corpse Capture Net over him.