Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai defeated and killed Ge Yuan after the Heaven and Earth Gate expert used the Myriad Corpse Fiend Lightning, while the crow seized the Thunder Tribulation Token. The Heaven and Earth Gate Master held back from retaliating because Xiao Cangsheng was present, but Ma Qiuming demanded that Lin Bai hand over the token.

• Ge Yuan swallowed the Myriad Corpse Fiend Lightning and attacked Lin Bai with a punch enhanced by a secret technique.
• Lin Bai activated his Five Elements Dao Body and struck Ge Yuan head-on, shattering his arm and sending him flying.
• Lin Bai beheaded Ge Yuan as the crow snatched the Thunder Tribulation Token and stored it in its ring.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate disciples demanded that the Master execute Lin Bai, but he restrained himself because Xiao Cangsheng was watching.
• Ma Qiuming ordered Lin Bai to hand over the Thunder Tribulation Token.

Lin Bai refused to return the Thunder Tribulation Token and faced eight Heaven and Earth Gate disciples wielding the other Nine Tribulations Tokens after the sect’s master changed the rules so they could attack together. As the tokens unleashed a storm of overwhelming power, Lin Bai strode forward to fight them all at once.

• Ma Qiuming demanded that Lin Bai return the Thunder Tribulation Token, but Lin Bai said Heaven and Earth Gate could win it back in a future martial arts debate.
• Eight Heaven and Earth Gate disciples appeared on the heavenly ladder with the other eight Nine Tribulations Tokens, completing the set.
• Xiao Cangsheng challenged the Heaven and Earth Gate Master for having the eight disciples attack together, and the master claimed the rules had changed.
• Lin Bai dismissed the eight disciples as trash and advanced to fight them all at once.
• The eight disciples activated their tokens, filling the battlefield with storms, flames, waves, and lightning as Lin Bai strode toward them.

Lin Bai fought the eight Heaven and Earth Gate disciples wielding the Nine Tribulations Tokens on the Celestial Ladder, using their attacks against one another to break through their formation. The battle grew more dangerous as the Void, Earth, and Metal Tribulation Tokens joined in, leaving Lin Bai surrounded while the Poison Tribulation Token remained unused.

• The Fire, Water, and Wind Tribulation Tokens combined their powers to drive Lin Bai back with flaming beasts, frost, and tornadoes.
• Lin Bai dodged the tornadoes so they collided with the flaming beasts, injuring the warriors holding the Wind and Fire Tribulation Tokens, then cut through the Water Token's frost arrows.
• A warrior empowered by the Earth Tribulation Token appeared behind Lin Bai through the Void Tribulation Token's spatial shift and punched him a thousand meters backward.
• The Crow explained the Void and Metal Tribulation Tokens' abilities as a giant-sword wielder attacked Lin Bai and split the earth with a Sword Qi strike.
• The Earth and Metal Token wielders trapped Lin Bai between them while the Fire, Water, and Wind Token wielders resumed their assault, supported by the Void Token; only the Poison Token wielder had yet to act.

Lin Bai fought the martial artists wielding the Nine Tribulations Tokens and tried to defeat the Metal and Earth token holders first. After the Void and Wood Tribulation Tokens rescued and healed his opponent, the Crow explained the World Tree’s role in creating worlds and revealed that fragments had been found in the collapsed Demon and Spirit Realms.

• Lin Bai charged the Metal and Earth Tribulation Token holders, endured their attacks and the elemental assaults, then struck the Metal token holder’s arms with the Demon Sword.
• The Void Tribulation Token holder opened a spatial wormhole and moved the wounded swordsman a thousand meters away.
• The Crow explained that the Void Tribulation Token allowed its wielder to teleport people within a ten-thousand-mile range.
• The Wood Tribulation Token holder healed the swordsman’s injuries with emerald light.
• The Crow explained that a World Tree nurtured a world’s laws and said fragments had been found in the Demon and Spirit Realms, shocking Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought the warriors wielding the Nine Tribulations Tokens while avoiding using the Heaven Swallowing Domain, and he killed Zhang Yuan by trapping the Void Tribulation Token wielder with his flying swords. The surviving enemy warriors reacted to Zhang Yuan’s death, and the Earth Tribulation Token wielder began a powerful counterattack.

• The Crow warned Lin Bai that the Demon Realm and Spirit Realm were connected to the Heaven Swallowing Race, then alerted him that the Nine Tribulations Token warriors were attacking.
• Lin Bai evaded the attackers’ elemental powers and used the Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to keep the Void Tribulation Token wielder occupied.
• Lin Bai charged Zhang Yuan, the Metal Tribulation Token wielder, while three flying swords pursued his ally and prevented interference.
• Lin Bai used the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to pierce Zhang Yuan’s greatsword and kill him, and the Crow collected the Metal Tribulation Token.
• After the warriors recognized Zhang Yuan as a Heavenly Rankings expert and mourned his death, the Earth Tribulation Token wielder activated his token and struck with the phantom of an ancient colossal beast.

Lin Bai killed the warriors holding the Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and Void Tribulation Tokens, leaving only the Wood and Poison token holders alive. As he confronted the final two, the Poison token holder activated his token and unleashed a dangerous aura.

• Lin Bai killed Su You, who held the Earth Tribulation Token, and the Crow collected the token.
• Lin Bai broke through the Wind token holder’s nine tornadoes, killed him, and took the Wind Tribulation Token.
• Lin Bai charged through the frost and flames unleashed by the Fire and Water token holders and killed them both.
• Lin Bai severed the Void token holder’s arm, took his token, and then killed him with a flying sword.
• Lin Bai confronted the Wood and Poison token holders, and the Poison token holder activated his token, releasing a dangerous aura.

News from the Heaven and Earth Gate reached the Imperial Capital, where Prince Chen and the Third Prince considered Lin Bai’s growing influence and the struggle for imperial favor. Old Huo urged the Third Prince to strike at Prince Chen, and the Third Prince resolved to kill him.

• Prince Chen learned that Lin Bai had overcome the Earth Tribulation and killed one hundred and eight Dao God realm experts, then ordered further reports from the Heaven and Earth Gate.
• The Second Elder and Third Elder reassured Prince Chen that Xiao Cangsheng was accompanying Lin Bai, while warning that the Third Prince might seek another chance to eliminate him.
• The Third Prince heard that Lin Bai had overwhelmed the Heaven and Earth Gate, while Sun Moon Pavilion experts mocked the sect’s failure.
• The Third Prince worried that Prince Chen’s recent achievements had won the Chu Emperor’s favor and might lead to the seal inside Prince Chen’s body being unlocked.
• Old Huo told the Third Prince that Prince Chen’s power depended on the Chu Emperor’s favor, and the Third Prince declared that this time he wanted Prince Chen dead.

At the Heaven and Earth Gate’s Heavenly Stairway, Lin Bai faced Dong Yi, the Poison Tribulation Token’s master, whose deadly poison corroded Lin Bai’s Sword Qi and forced him to change tactics. The Crow recognized Dong Yi’s technique as the forbidden Myriad Poisons Divine Art, and the duel remained unresolved.

• The Tianshui Sect learned that Lin Bai had killed seven opponents at the ninth tribulation and discussed Dong Yi’s role in Li Lingtian’s defeat and wrongful execution.
• Li Zai'en explained that Dong Yi wielded the Poison Tribulation Token and was now the Heaven and Earth Gate’s top Heavenly Rankings expert.
• Dong Yi attacked Lin Bai with poisonous smoke dragons that corroded his Sword Qi, forcing Lin Bai to retreat.
• Lin Bai charged at Dong Yi to attack the token’s wielder, but Dong Yi enveloped himself and Lin Bai’s demon sword in poison, making Lin Bai pull back.
• Dong Yi swallowed the poison around him, and the Crow identified his technique as the Southern Border Insect Valley’s forbidden Myriad Poisons Divine Art.

Lin Bai fought Dong Yi, who wielded the Myriad Poisons Divine Art and Poison Tribulation Token, but his attacks were undermined by deadly poison. As Lin Bai weighed his options while hiding his strongest abilities from the watching crowd, he began to form a countermeasure.

• The Crow warned Lin Bai that Dong Yi’s Myriad Poisons Divine Art made his body and attacks deadly with poison.
• Dong Yi unleashed the Myriad Poison Soulchase Palm, and Lin Bai dodged as it devastated Dragon Slayer Mountain and poisoned the surrounding land.
• Dong Yi sent a poisonous fog dragon and a swarm of black mosquitoes after Lin Bai, who destroyed the insects with rapid sword strikes.
• Lin Bai explained that the Poison Tribulation Token’s fog corroded his Sword Qi and that he could not reveal the Heaven Swallowing Domain or Supreme Avatar before the onlookers.
• After the Crow suggested they might be doomed, Lin Bai declared that he had a possible countermeasure.

Lin Bai fought Dong Yi, whose Poison Tribulation Token unleashed swarms of poisonous creatures and deadly poison mist. Lin Bai pierced the poison mist with his Dragon Eye Flying Sword, but after Dong Yi regenerated his severed arm with a snake, the battle resumed with Lin Bai surrounding him with attacks from every direction.

• Dong Yi summoned poisonous creatures and smoke dragons from the Poison Tribulation Token as Lin Bai blocked them with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and charged toward him.
• Lin Bai’s Dragon Eye Flying Sword pierced Dong Yi’s poison-mist barrier, forcing Dong Yi to choose between holding back the sword and facing Lin Bai’s descending strike.
• Dong Yi let Lin Bai sever his left arm, knocked away the Dragon Eye Flying Sword, and retreated, then used a small snake to restore his arm.
• Lin Bai attacked Dong Yi with the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation and the Azure Lotus Sword Intent, seeking an opening as Dong Yi dodged the pursuing sword.
• Lin Bai spread the swords of the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation around Dong Yi, sealing off his escape routes while attacks closed in from the front, rear, left, and right.

Lin Bai defeated Dong Yi, who self-detonated his Dao Fruit and unleashed poison across the area before Xiao Cangsheng contained it. As Xiao Cangsheng questioned whether the Heaven and Earth Gate would continue the fight, Qin Mo arrived with six others and revealed he had fused with the Earth Demon’s remnant Soul Power.

• Lin Bai changed the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation into a killing move and trapped Dong Yi despite his severed arm.
• Dong Yi self-detonated his Dao Fruit, killing the woman with the Wood Tribulation Token and poisoning the surrounding martial artists.
• Xiao Cangsheng gathered the poison spread across a hundred thousand miles and cast it into a rift in the void.
• The Crow returned to Lin Bai after taking all the Nine Tribulations Tokens, while Xiao Cangsheng challenged the Heaven and Earth Gate Master to end the battle.
• Qin Mo arrived with six figures, demanded that the fight continue, and confirmed he had fused with the Earth Demon’s remnant Soul Power.

The Heaven and Earth Gate sent Qin Mo and six Saint Disciple-level fighters to continue the contest and kill Lin Bai. Lin Bai confronted Qin Mo, who revealed that he had killed Li Lingtian, and the two prepared to fight.

• Qin Mo assured the Heaven and Earth Gate Master that he and the other six would kill Lin Bai, and the master ordered them to proceed.
• Qin Mo challenged Lin Bai on the Heavenly Stairway, while the Heaven and Earth Gate Master continued the battle to protect the sect’s reputation and obey the Third Prince’s order.
• Lin Bai climbed to the plaza and asked where Ke Ling was; Qin Mo told him Ke Ling was dead and introduced himself as the former Saint Disciple.
• Qin Mo revealed that he had personally killed Li Lingtian, prompting Lin Bai to raise his Demon Sword and vow to leave Qin Mo’s corpse disfigured.
• Qin Mo surrounded himself with black flames carrying the Earth Demon’s aura as he and Lin Bai prepared to fight.

Qin Mo emerged from five thousand years of seclusion with six Holy Son-level followers to kill Lin Bai and restore the Heaven and Earth Gate’s reputation. Lin Bai faced their assault and badly wounded one of the six, but the battle remained underway.

• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master ordered Qin Mo to leave seclusion and kill Lin Bai after Ke Ling’s defeat brought shame on the sect.
• Qin Mo told his six followers to show no mercy, and they surrounded Lin Bai at the final gate of the martial contest.
• The six Holy Son-level fighters shattered Lin Bai’s Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and trapped him with their attacks.
• Lin Bai drove the attackers back with his Demon Sword, then attacked one man with Zhu Xian.
• The man survived Lin Bai’s sword but was sent flying with his meridians and bones shattered.

Lin Bai seriously injured the six martial artists accompanying Qin Mo, revealing strength at the Dao-Seer level. Qin Mo recognized Lin Bai as a rival of equal rank after their first exchange of blows.

• Lin Bai used his sword formation and Five Elements Dao Body to defeat two of Qin Mo’s companions.
• A woman trapped Lin Bai in the Demon Subduing Tribulation Formation and struck him with crimson divine lightning, but Lin Bai endured it and wounded her.
• A saber wielder and a sword cultivator attacked Lin Bai together, but his Azure Lotus Sword Intent repelled them and left all six companions seriously injured.
• Qin Mo rushed at Lin Bai and exchanged a powerful blow with him, sending them both flying back.
• Qin Mo realized Lin Bai had reached the Dao-Seer level, and Lin Bai sensed how powerful Dao-Seer-level strength was.

Lin Bai and Qin Mo fought a fierce Dao-level battle near Dragon Slayer Mountain, where Qin Mo used Heaven and Earth Gate techniques and overwhelming force to pressure him. Lin Bai revealed his Crimson Lotus Sword Intent and wounded Qin Mo with a strike that pierced his shoulder and began destroying him from within.

• Lin Bai and Qin Mo exchanged powerful techniques and fought to a standstill as onlookers cheered Qin Mo on.
• Qin Mo's relentless attacks forced Lin Bai to defend, but Lin Bai then declared he had finished testing Qin Mo and unleashed a far stronger sword might.
• Qin Mo used Heaven and Earth Infinity to gather spiritual power into a colossal vortex and punched toward Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai countered with Crimson Lotus Sword Intent and Azure Sea Torrent, and their collision flattened the surrounding area and injured nearby disciples.
• Lin Bai used the aftermath to close in and pierce Qin Mo's left shoulder, severely injuring him with the sword intent.

After Lin Bai wounded Qin Mo, Qin Mo used the Star Devouring Art to consume six followers and restore his body, bringing his strength close to the God-level. Lin Bai faced Qin Mo again, but Qin Mo shattered his defenses and struck him hard before launching another attack.

• Qin Mo's Sword Qi tore through his body, and he devoured the six men who had gathered around him to suppress it and heal his injuries.
• The raven identified Qin Mo's technique as the Star Devouring Art, explained its demonic cost, and told Lin Bai that its creator, Earth Demon, had belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• The raven warned Lin Bai that Qin Mo's strength had nearly reached the God-level, and Lin Bai prepared to fight him with his demon sword.
• Qin Mo charged Lin Bai, broke through the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and the Five Elements Dao Body, and sent Lin Bai flying with a deep wound in his chest.
• Qin Mo leaped toward Lin Bai and launched the Eight Desolations Dragon Capture Art.

Lin Bai and Qin Mo fought a fierce battle, each unleashing power far beyond what Dao God Realm martial artists were expected to possess. Lin Bai defeated Qin Mo with a punch combining the Five Elements Dao Body and Crimson Lotus Sword Intent, and stood victorious above the clouds.

• Qin Mo broke through Lin Bai's Sword Qi with his physical strength and shattered the void with a punch.
• Lin Bai activated the Three Revolutions Sword Heart, Five Elements Dao Body, and flying sword formations before charging back at Qin Mo.
• Qin Mo broke apart Lin Bai's sword formations and drove a punch toward his chest.
• Lin Bai fused the Five Elements Dao Body with Crimson Lotus Sword Intent and met Qin Mo's fist head-on.
• The collision sent a devastating shockwave across the area, and Qin Mo fell bloodied to the ground.
• Lin Bai remained standing above the clouds as the onlookers realized Qin Mo had lost.

Lin Bai and Qin Mo, both badly injured, faced off in a final exchange after Qin Mo refused to accept defeat. Lin Bai's Astonishing Immortal Sword Intent killed Qin Mo, and Xiao Cangsheng stopped the Heaven and Earth Gate Master from attacking Lin Bai.

• Xiao Cangsheng urged the Heaven and Earth Gate Master to end the match, but Qin Mo rose and demanded one final move against Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai and Qin Mo acknowledged their severe injuries and prepared to settle the fight with a decisive attack.
• Qin Mo used the Dao Art Dragon Riding Returns to the Sea and charged Lin Bai atop a divine dragon.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Dao Art Astonishing Immortal Sword Intent, sending a black tide of sword intent against Qin Mo.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master tried to strike Lin Bai and rescue Qin Mo, but Xiao Cangsheng blocked him, and Qin Mo was killed by the black tide.

Lin Bai defeated Qin Mo in the Heaven and Earth Gate’s martial contest, but the Heaven and Earth Gate Master tried to kill him after Qin Mo died. Xiao Cangsheng prepared to take Lin Bai back to the Tianshui Sect, but Heaven and Earth Gate elders refused to let Lin Bai leave.

• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master pulled Qin Mo from Lin Bai’s Black Tide sword intent, but Qin Mo’s body and soul crumbled into ashes, while Xiao Cangsheng blocked the Master’s attack on Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai declared the contest over and claimed victory for the Tianshui Sect; the Heaven and Earth Gate’s disciples and elders seethed over their losses.
• Lin Bai told Xiao Cangsheng that the Heaven and Earth Gate had repeatedly tried to kill him, and Xiao Cangsheng promised to escort him safely back to the Tianshui Sect.
• Xiao Cangsheng sensed the Heaven and Earth Gate Master sealing off their escape routes, then summoned the White Deer Carriage to leave with Lin Bai.
• Ma Qiuming stopped Lin Bai from leaving, and other elders demanded that Lin Bai pay in blood for killing their disciples.

After Lin Bai killed disciples of the Heaven and Earth Gate, its elders and disciples demanded that he be captured, but the sect master let him leave with Xiao Cangsheng. The elders later confronted the sect master, who revealed that Xiao Cangsheng’s presence had prevented them from acting and hinted that he had another plan.

• The Heaven and Earth Gate’s elders and disciples called for Lin Bai to be seized, while Xiao Cangsheng warned Lin Bai to take shelter in the White Deer Carriage if a fight broke out.
• The master of the Heaven and Earth Gate allowed Lin Bai and Xiao Cangsheng to leave, despite the protests of Ma Qiuming and the other elders.
• Xiao Cangsheng carried Lin Bai away in the White Deer Carriage and said the Heaven and Earth Gate would not let the matter rest; Lin Bai began treating his injuries.
• Ma Qiuming and dozens of elders questioned the sect master in the council hall about why he had let Lin Bai go.
• The sect master said the Heaven and Earth Gate could not attack while Xiao Cangsheng was with Lin Bai and indicated that he had a plan for after they returned toward the Tianshui Sect.