Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai explained how the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had spent tens of thousands of years planting sleeper agents throughout the major sects and lineages of the Devil Realm Eastern Region. He argued that the agents could be kept from acting as long as the Demon Palace itself remained suppressed, and the chapter ended with Yi Heze realizing that the four Flourishing Sects likely knew of the scheme.

• Lin Bai described how the White Bone Sect and the Blood God Sect had served as infiltration points for the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.
• Lin Bai warned that sleeper agents had risen to powerful positions across Chu and likely throughout the Devil Realm Eastern Region.
• Lin Bai cited the destruction of the Prince Hong Estate after its princess consort was exposed as a demoness, and recalled Li Guxian's death after uncovering the Blood God Sect's infiltration of Ke Province.
• Lin Bai proposed that keeping the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace from rising would leave its sleeper agents unable to act effectively.
• Yi Heze suggested that the four Flourishing Sects already knew about the infiltration plan, and Lin Bai agreed that they likely did.

As Chu Emperor’s birthday celebration began, Lin Bai learned about the Demon Realm’s shifting political tensions and tasted the extraordinarily valuable Celestial Jade Dew. The guests prepared to turn their attention to the Hunting Realm.

• Lin Bai and the younger generation discussed the Demon Realm’s regional conflicts and the factions’ ambitions through their Telepathic Bracelets.
• Qian Hen reminded Lin Bai and the others to set aside their discussion and focus on the upcoming Hunting Realm hunt.
• Chu Emperor and the Empress arrived at Ascension Celestial Palace in a carriage drawn by nine flood dragons and took their seats.
• Chu Emperor welcomed the guests and ordered the banquet’s food and fine wine to be served.
• Chen Yule explained that Celestial Jade Dew was brewed from beads formed on unmined immortal jade, and Qian Hen revealed that each cup was worth at least one hundred immortal jades.
• Lin Bai tasted the milky-white Celestial Jade Dew and found it delicious.

At Emperor Chu’s birthday banquet, he invited the gathered martial artists to hunt Primordial Wilds Breeds in Chu’s Hunting Realm and bring them back as food. Lin Bai and representatives of Chu’s major forces and Seven Nights Divine Sect volunteered, and they prepared to depart for a month-long hunt.

• The banquet guests enjoyed Celestial Jade Dew and delicacies while representatives of the major forces spoke with Emperor Chu.
• Emperor Chu announced that he wanted volunteers to hunt Primordial Wilds Breeds in his Hunting Realm and warned them that even Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm martial artists could die there.
• Lin Bai volunteered on behalf of Tianshui Sect after Ancestor Zu Zhangbai urged him to speak.
• Holy Sons and other representatives of Chu’s major forces, the Prince Liang’s Estate, and Seven Nights Divine Sect also volunteered to hunt.
• Emperor Chu set the hunt’s duration at one month, promised each group could keep three of its catch, and told the volunteers to prepare at the activated formation.

Lin Bai and the Tianshui Sect prepared to enter the Hunting World for a month-long hunt, with the sect limiting its group to twenty core members. As they approached the teleportation gate, Bai Yifei proposed splitting into teams to search more efficiently, and Lin Bai was asked to decide.

• The Chu Emperor authorized anyone to enter the Hunting World, where participants could use any means and hunt for one month before being escorted back.
• Zhang Bailiu confirmed that Lin Bai would lead twenty Tianshui Sect members, including Ancestor Pan Qing, and assigned them a list of exotic species to hunt.
• The sects departed through a teleportation array that would scatter participants across random locations; Qian Hen and Yi Song urged their allies to stay in contact.
• Lin Bai noticed Prince Chen was burdened by the upcoming presentation of Xia Jingzhi's confession, but could offer him little help before setting out.
• Bai Yifei proposed splitting the Tianshui Sect group into three teams to search for the listed species, despite Ancestor Pan Qing's warning that this would increase the danger, and asked Lin Bai to decide.

Lin Bai agreed to split the Tianshui Sect disciples into groups to hunt exotic beasts in the Hunting Realm, while he planned to go alone. Before entering, Ning Qingwen warned him that several Southern Region sects had joined forces to kill him, leaving Lin Bai aware of the danger ahead.

• Lin Bai weighed the risks of splitting the Tianshui Sect and agreed to Bai Yifei's proposal to act separately.
• Lin Bai assigned the disciples to groups and decided that Ancestor Pan Qing and he would each travel alone.
• At the light gate, Ning Qingwen offered Lin Bai information about a plot against him.
• Ning Qingwen revealed that the Southern Border Insect Valley, Mountain Sea Sect, Yin-Yang Sect, and Life and Death Sect had joined forces to kill Lin Bai in the Hunting Realm.
• Lin Bai thanked Ning Qingwen, and Ning Qingwen led the Undying Holy Sect martial artists through the light gate.

Lin Bai led the Tianshui Sect disciples into the Hunt Realm and sent them out in groups to hunt while staying within reach of one another. Soon after setting off alone, he was ambushed by an unknown exotic species, and the Chu Emperor learned it was a Cloud Dream Treant.

• Lin Bai and the Tianshui Sect disciples entered the Hunt Realm, where he instructed them to hunt carefully and prioritize survival.
• Lin Bai split the disciples into groups led by senior members, then flew off alone to search for exotic species.
• Lin Bai found that his Telepathic Bracelet showed no allies within a million miles as he surveyed the realm with his Asura Dharma Eyes.
• A Cloud Dream Treant attacked Lin Bai with thousands of spiked, eye-covered vines, trapping him after his flying swords failed to cut them.
• The Chu Emperor watched Lin Bai's battle on a formation light screen, and Eunuch Gui identified the attacker as a Cloud Dream Treant.

Lin Bai was trapped by the regenerative vines of a Cloud Dream Treant and fled into the Hunting Realm’s forest, where living grass and the treant’s vines pursued him. He realized the vines were controlled by a distant main body and began searching for it.

• Eunuch Gui identified the creature trapping Lin Bai as a Cloud Dream Treant, and Emperor Chu said Lin Bai had to survive without relying on his Supreme Avatar.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to cut through the vines, but they regenerated and wounded him.
• Unable to escape through the vines, Lin Bai flew down into the forest, drawing them after him.
• Living grass in the forest shot arrows at Lin Bai, forcing him to defend himself with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation while fleeing the vines.
• Lin Bai concluded the coordinated vines belonged to one variant whose main body was elsewhere, and he began searching for it.

Lin Bai searched for the Cloud Dream Treant’s true body and followed its attacking vines beneath the earth into a hidden underground world. He found and struck the purple tree, but discovered that its leaking sap was deadly poison.

• Lin Bai concluded that the Cloud Dream Treant’s true body was likely beneath the earth and used his flying swords to dig downward while fending off vines.
• Emperor Chu and Eunuch Gui watched Lin Bai’s progress through the projection array and identified his target as the Cloud Dream Treant.
• After digging ten thousand meters down, Lin Bai entered a glowing underground world and spotted a huge tree shadow surrounded by vines.
• Lin Bai illuminated the darkness and revealed a massive purple tree with an old man’s face in its trunk.
• Lin Bai attacked the tree with his flying swords, making it cry out and spray corrosive purple liquid; he realized the tree was poisonous.

Lin Bai fought the poisonous Cloud Dream Treant, but its purple mist trapped him in an illusion where a purple-haired woman tried to seduce him. He saw through the illusion, destroyed her and split the treant in two.

• Lin Bai avoided the Cloud Dream Treant’s corrosive juices and repeatedly attacked it with Sword Qi until it was badly wounded.
• The treant released purple smoke, and Lin Bai saw a naked purple-haired woman pleading for her life and offering to serve him.
• In the Ascension Celestial Palace, Eunuch Gui identified the smoke as the treant’s illusion, while its vines attacked the unresponsive Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai caught a vine and cut down the others, then feigned being captivated by the woman before grabbing her by the throat.
• Lin Bai called the illusion unworthy of him, crushed the woman into purple smoke, and split the Cloud Dream Treant in two with his flying swords.

Lin Bai explored the underground space after killing Purple Tree, collected its poison and a wood-element crystal, and discovered a passage leading to an Underground River. He began catching glowing spirit fish for the pearls inside them.

• Lin Bai confirmed that Purple Tree was dead, collected its poisonous sap and a crystal from its trunk, and stored the tree's body.
• Lin Bai found the bones of several dozen powerful martial artists and discovered a dark passage in the rock wall.
• Lin Bai cautiously followed the winding passage and reached a surging Underground River filled with glowing creatures.
• Lin Bai caught a glowing spirit fish and found a pearl with pure spiritual energy inside it.
• Lin Bai used his spiritual power to catch more than fifty glowing fish from the river.

Lin Bai explored an Underground River in the Hunting Realm, collecting Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish and their valuable spirit pearls. He met Tuo Baxin, the Barbarian Sect’s Holy Son, who offered to buy the pearls for two immortal jades each.

• Emperor Chu and Eunuch Gui watched Lin Bai’s projection and noted that he had found an Underground River in the Cloud Dream Treant’s nest, within the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent’s territory.
• Lin Bai collected more than fifty Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish, extracted their spirit pearls, and followed the river upstream.
• Lin Bai encountered a mysterious martial artist in the darkness and learned that he was Tuo Baxin, the Barbarian Sect’s Holy Son.
• Tuo Baxin explained that Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish spirit pearls were rare treasures worth about one immortal jade each and offered Lin Bai two immortal jades per pearl.

Lin Bai exchanged his spirit pearls with Tuo Baxin, who then proposed they team up to hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent. Lin Bai agreed, and they set off upstream toward the Underground River's source, where Tuo Baxin believed the beast was hiding.

• Lin Bai sold Tuo Baxin all seventy-two spirit pearls for one hundred and forty-four immortal jades.
• Tuo Baxin explained that his sect had sent him to find the Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish and hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent.
• Tuo Baxin offered Lin Bai everything from the serpent except its soul and essence blood if they hunted it together.
• Lin Bai agreed to join forces with Tuo Baxin despite remaining wary of him.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin traveled upstream toward the river's source, where they expected to find the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin joined forces and traveled toward the Underground River’s source to hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent. Tuo Baxin warned Lin Bai that the Southern Border Insect Valley had ordered its members to kill him in the Hunting Realm, and they continued toward their target.

• Onlookers watched Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin head upstream together, while the Chu Emperor wondered whether Tuo Baxin could be trusted and noticed other warriors nearby.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin entered a vast underground space near the river’s source and discussed the poisonous plants and creatures that could benefit the Southern Border Insect Valley.
• Tuo Baxin told Lin Bai that the Southern Border Insect Valley had ordered its members to make sure Lin Bai did not leave the Hunting Realm alive.
• Lin Bai thanked Tuo Baxin for the warning, then used his Asura Dharma Eyes to look toward the river’s source as they prepared to hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin explored the enormous Underground Sea to find the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent. After sensing a creature approaching Lin Bai from below, they prepared to fight as a colossal beast burst from the water.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin reached the Underground Sea and agreed to draw out the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent by skimming across the surface.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin split up and searched in opposite directions while keeping within ten thousand meters of each other.
• Tuo Baxin warned Lin Bai not to enter the water and estimated that crossing the sea would take another seventy-two hours.
• Tuo Baxin sensed something rising from the depths and rushing toward Lin Bai, then hurried to his side.
• Lin Bai stopped, readied his swords, and faced a colossal creature as it burst from the water with a deafening roar.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin fought the first-tier exotic beast Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent in the Dark Sea, but its many powers and tough hide overwhelmed Lin Bai. After revealing the beast’s weaknesses, Tuo Baxin proposed a second way to kill it, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• The Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent emerged from the water and battered Lin Bai with its roar and a barrage of elemental powers.
• Lin Bai’s Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation failed to pierce the beast’s hide, and its venomous head lunged at him.
• Tuo Baxin arrived and nearly shattered one of the serpent’s heads with a kick, rescuing Lin Bai.
• Tuo Baxin explained the serpent’s dangerous powers, valuable scales, and ability to regenerate severed heads.
• Tuo Baxin described two ways to kill the serpent: sever all nine heads before they regrew, or target its heart.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin worked together to kill the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent in the Underground Sea while an unseen group watched and waited for them to weaken. The serpent’s corpse was recovered, and the hidden figures remained a threat.

• Several figures secretly followed Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin, planning to attack after the pair had suffered heavy losses.
• Tuo Baxin identified the serpent’s heart beneath its nine necks and drew its attention so Lin Bai could strike.
• Tuo Baxin fought the serpent with his physical strength, but its severed head began to regenerate as its other heads trapped him.
• Lin Bai attacked the exposed abdomen with his flying swords and demon sword, piercing the serpent’s heart.
• Tuo Baxin caught the serpent’s corpse before it sank, and Lin Bai dismissed praise of his swordsmanship.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin killed the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent and divided its spoils, then confronted seven Soul Refining Sect disciples who had been waiting in the darkness. The disciples demanded the serpent’s soul and corpse, and Tuo Baxin answered with a threat as the standoff began.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin killed the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent, and Tuo Baxin took its soul and blood essence while Lin Bai claimed its corpse.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin sensed watchers in the darkness and called them out.
• Seven Soul Refining Sect disciples emerged and asked how Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin had discovered them.
• Lin Bai recognized the seven as Northern Region disciples he had seen at the Immortal Abode Restaurant banquet.
• The Soul Refining Sect disciples demanded the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent’s soul and corpse, and Tuo Baxin mocked their audacity.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin refused to hand over the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent to seven members of the Soul Refining Sect, who had come seeking revenge on Lin Bai. The Soul Refining Sect split its forces to hold Tuo Baxin back while five fighters surrounded Lin Bai, and the battle began.

• Tuo Baxin chose to stand with Lin Bai after the Soul Refining Sect demanded the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent’s soul and bones.
• Tuo Baxin explained that Northern Region sects followed unorthodox paths, including the Soul Refining Sect’s ability to absorb other people’s cultivation power.
• The Soul Refining Sect’s horse-faced leader decided to send two fighters after Tuo Baxin while the other five attacked Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai asked Tuo Baxin to restrain his opponents and buy him time, saying he would handle the rest.
• Tuo Baxin refused the Soul Refining Sect’s demand, and a hunched old man and an old woman moved to restrain him as the horse-faced man and four others surrounded Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought five Soul Refinement Sect disciples at the Underground Sea after Tuo Baxin was pulled away, but their attacks began to overwhelm him. The battle stopped when a Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm mutant erupted from the depths.

• The Soul Refinement Sect’s elders separated Tuo Baxin from Lin Bai, leaving five disciples to surround Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai questioned the five disciples’ motives, and they admitted they wanted to test his strength; he angered one disciple with an insult.
• The woman attacked Lin Bai, and he fused with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone and used the Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to repel her waves.
• A Soul Refinement Sect disciple struck Lin Bai with a powerful Dao Art, and the five disciples pressed their advantage until the five-faced man prepared to hit Lin Bai.
• Fifteen tentacles rose from the Underground Sea, forcing everyone to stop fighting as Lin Bai recognized a mutant at the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.

A Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm variant species interrupted Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin’s fight with the Soul Refinement Sect, forcing both sides to attempt an escape. The monster captured them all and dragged them into the underground river, where Lin Bai considered using his trump card.

• A fifteen-tentacled variant species in the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm emerged, prompting Lin Bai, Tuo Baxin, and the Soul Refinement Sect to abandon their fight and seek a way out.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin attacked to the left while the seven Soul Refinement Sect members struck to the right, but the monster’s tentacles blocked both groups and wounded one sect member.
• Lin Bai severed a tentacle, but it quickly regenerated, while Tuo Baxin smashed two tentacles before others bound him.
• The monster’s tentacles wrapped around Lin Bai, Tuo Baxin, and all seven Soul Refinement Sect members, dragging them beneath the water.
• As the water grew colder and darker, Lin Bai realized ordinary attacks would not help him escape and considered using his trump card.