Chapter Summaries

At the Chu Emperor's Birthday Celebration, the Netherworld Beast dragged Lin Bai beneath the Underground Sea, while damaged projection formations concealed the depths from observers. Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to cut free, then spotted a mysterious light below him.

• Eunuch Gui identified the tentacles that seized Lin Bai as those of the Netherworld Beast.
• The Celestial Mystery Pavilion's Formation Daoists told the Chu Emperor that someone or some breed had damaged the projection formations.
• The Chu Emperor ordered Zhu Mo to take three thousand Dragon Scale Guards, the Blood Dragon Legion, and Formation Daoists to investigate the Underground Sea.
• Lin Bai activated his Supreme Avatar and cut through the tentacle restraining him.
• Lin Bai saw a strange light far below in the darkness and watched it instead of immediately trying to escape.

After escaping the underwater beast, Lin Bai discovered a vast Inner Earth World beneath the Hunter Realm and crossed into it. While exploring its cultivated spirit fields, he encountered a three-headed tiger whose strength had reached the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.

• Lin Bai escaped the tentacle, searched for Tuo Baxin, and then investigated a glimmer beneath the water.
• Lin Bai found a transparent barrier separating the underwater river from a sunlit world beneath the earth and passed through it.
• Lin Bai explored the unfamiliar, spirit-energy-rich Inner Earth World and discovered extensive spirit fields planted with spirit medicines.
• A strange beast attacked Lin Bai near the fields, and a three-headed tiger with the strength of the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm emerged from the forest.

Lin Bai fled a devastating encounter with a three-headed tiger and became trapped in a misty marsh. He met Chen Yule there, but the dim gemstones on Lin Bai’s Telepathic Bracelet made him realize something was wrong just as Chen Yule offered him a pill.

• The three-headed tiger attacked Lin Bai, whose sword techniques failed to pierce its hide, and he escaped after suffering serious injuries.
• Lin Bai flew into a mist-shrouded marsh and discovered that retreating did not take him out of the region.
• Lin Bai took healing pills and continued searching the marsh for a way out.
• Chen Yule emerged from the mist, told Lin Bai he had encountered mutants too, and proposed they travel together.
• Chen Yule handed Lin Bai a life-saving pill, and Lin Bai noticed that all twelve gemstones on his Telepathic Bracelet were dim.

Lin Bai exposed the man posing as Chen Yule and discovered he was a Grand Luo expert who served a powerful presence in the Inner Earth World. The old man took Lin Bai, pretending to be gravely wounded, toward Verdant City, leaving Lin Bai to investigate the people and aberrant species there.

• Lin Bai noticed that his Telepathic Bracelet showed no allies nearby and tested the fake Chen Yule by asking where they had first met.
• The fake Chen Yule failed to recall their first meeting, so Lin Bai attacked him with four flying swords and demanded to know if he was an aberrant species.
• The impostor transformed into a wrinkled old man, revealed his Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm strength, and struck Lin Bai into the marsh.
• The old man said he would not kill Lin Bai for now and ordered him to come to Verdant City.
• The old man asked the Mirage King to open a path through the mist, then carried Lin Bai toward Verdant City.

Lin Bai was captured and taken to a hidden city inside the Hunting Realm, where martial artists and half-demons lived together. At the City Lord’s Mansion, he recognized Madam Qianrou as a member of the Demon Race, and she hinted that she had noticed how unusually composed he was.

• Old Zhang captured Lin Bai in the Mist Marsh and brought him to an ancient city hidden within it.
• A man on the city wall told Old Zhang that someone else had already captured seven or eight martial artists.
• As Old Zhang led Lin Bai through the city, Lin Bai noticed that about half its residents were half-demons.
• Old Zhang took Lin Bai to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Madam Qianrou questioned and appraised him.
• Lin Bai calmly identified Madam Qianrou as a member of the Demon Race, and she praised his composure.

Lin Bai was taken to Verdant City’s dungeon, where he learned that the captors recorded the identities and backgrounds of randomly chosen martial artists. He found several other prisoners there and began investigating why they had been captured.

• Madam Qianrou ordered Old Zhang to take Lin Bai to the dungeon, but Old Zhang refused to answer Lin Bai’s questions about Verdant City and its captives.
• A jailer fastened a deadly formation collar around Lin Bai’s neck and locked him in a cell with eight martial artists.
• The prisoners recognized Lin Bai as Wolf Marquis, and Chen Yunjie explained that a Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm attacker had abducted him after he became separated from his clan.
• Lin Bai found that his Telepathic Bracelet could not send messages from the dungeon and learned that the other prisoners came from top sects across the Demon Realm.
• Chen Yunjie said the captors had made the prisoners write down their identities and backgrounds, leaving Lin Bai convinced that Verdant City cared deeply about who they were.

Lin Bai refused to reveal his identity to the people holding him in Verdant City, while Madam Qianrou tried to determine whether he belonged to the Chu imperial clan. She left without learning the truth and decided to interrogate Chen Yunjie instead.

• A jailer ordered Lin Bai to write down his identity and origins, but Lin Bai left the paper blank.
• Madam Qianrou learned that the prisoners had called Lin Bai Wolf Marquis and ordered the jailer to question him about his background.
• When the jailer found the blank paper, Lin Bai dismissed his threats and called for Madam Qianrou to speak with him directly.
• Madam Qianrou entered the cell and asked Lin Bai about his origins, and Lin Bai claimed to be part of the Chu imperial clan.
• Madam Qianrou doubted Lin Bai was royalty and left without pressing him further.
• Madam Qianrou told the jailer to bring Chen Yunjie out so she could interrogate him.

Lin Bai stayed in Verdant City to uncover its secrets while concealing that he could break his restraint collar. Madam Qianrou questioned Chen Yunjie about Lin Bai and learned that he was the Tianshui Sect's Saint.

• Lin Bai considered the collars harmless to him and decided to keep investigating Verdant City.
• A jailer took Chen Yunjie from the cell, and Lin Bai warned him to keep quiet.
• Madam Qianrou questioned Chen Yunjie in a torture room about why he called Lin Bai Wolf Marquis.
• Chen Yunjie resisted at first, then revealed Lin Bai was a trusted confidant of Prince Chen and might be rewarded with a title if Prince Chen took the throne.
• Chen Yunjie identified Lin Bai as the Tianshui Sect's Saint, shocking Madam Qianrou.

After Chen Yunjie revealed Lin Bai’s identity, Madam Qianrou weighed the consequences while receiving envoys in Verdant City. She met the Demon Race envoy and then faced a Nine Underworlds Demon Palace delegation demanding resources.

• Chen Yunjie admitted that he had told Madam Qianrou Lin Bai was the Holy Son of Tianshui Sect and a favorite of Prince Chen, leaving Lin Bai with little control over the situation.
• Madam Qianrou decided Lin Bai’s identity posed little threat because Tianshui Sect had declined, then learned that both the Demon Race and Nine Underworlds Demon Palace envoys had arrived.
• Madam Qianrou greeted the Demon Race envoy, her uncle, and her cousin Jingming, who complained about the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s growing demands.
• Madam Qianrou and Jingming went to the council hall, where Song Caiying introduced himself as a Slaughter Immortal Sect elder and demanded the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s share of Verdant City’s resources.

The Demon Race and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace argued over their alliance and the Demon Race’s failure to deliver the promised rare bloodlines. Song Caiying threatened Verdant City’s survival, and Madam Qianrou asked for time to prepare, leaving the envoys three days to wait.

• Jingming accused the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace of demanding resources without fulfilling its promises, while Song Caiying insisted the Demon Race had delayed its obligations.
• Song Caiying listed the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s past assistance to Verdant City and demanded the rare bloodlines specified in their pact.
• Jingming lost his temper and revealed his snake-demon features after Song Caiying threatened the Demon Race.
• Madam Qianrou tried to soothe Song Caiying and explained that her people had been unable to obtain the promised bloodlines.
• Song Caiying warned that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace might abandon its alliance and destroy Verdant City if the Demon Race returned empty-handed.
• Madam Qianrou asked for time to prepare, and Song Caiying gave her three days.

Madam Qianrou and Jingming discussed the Demon Race’s desperate alliance with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and their plan to stall its demands. In the dungeon, Jingming recognized their prisoner as Lin Bai, leaving them alarmed by the consequences of having captured him.

• Madam Qianrou explained that the Demon Race had allied with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to seek a path to revival, and she and Jingming planned to delay the palace and offer it worthless remains instead of their treasures.
• Jingming told Madam Qianrou about Lin Bai’s talent, his position as the Tianshui Sect’s Holy Son, and the protection he had received from Chu’s strongest expert.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Lin Bai was being held in Verdant City’s dungeon, and Jingming agreed to identify him.
• Jingming looked through the cell’s ventilation hole, saw Lin Bai, and confirmed that he was the man he had described.
• Madam Qianrou and Jingming realized that capturing Lin Bai had put their plans in serious danger.

Lin Bai realized that someone in Verdant City had recognized him and suspected the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was involved in the Hunter's Realm. Madam Qianrou awakened Verdant City's City Lord, who agreed to give the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace ten King Grade Bloodlines to secure its help with the teleportation formation, and then asked about her second matter.

• Lin Bai deduced that the person watching him might belong to the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and secretly used his devouring power to damage the formation in his collar.
• Madam Qianrou left Jingming and went to awaken Verdant City's City Lord after Lin Bai's identity was exposed.
• Madam Qianrou told the City Lord that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's envoy demanded the alliance's promised treasures and threatened Verdant City.
• The City Lord recalled the Demon Race's agreement to provide rare materials and King Grade Bloodlines, then ordered Madam Qianrou to offer ten King Grade Bloodlines in exchange for help completing the teleportation formation.
• Madam Qianrou accepted the costly decision, and the City Lord asked what her second matter was.

Madam Qianrou told the awakened City Lord that Verdant City had captured Lin Bai, the Tianshui Sect Holy Son and Wolf Marquis who possessed the Supreme Avatar. The City Lord ordered her to try to recruit Lin Bai while preparing to abandon Verdant City, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Madam Qianrou explained that the Hunting Realm hunt had led Verdant City to capture Lin Bai, whose ties to Tianshui Sect and the Chu royal family made him a threat to the city.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Lin Bai possessed the Supreme Avatar, prompting the City Lord to recognize him as a rare prodigy and consider the coming age of great contention.
• The City Lord ordered Madam Qianrou to offer Lin Bai benefits and seek his cooperation, but to kill him and blame the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace if he refused.
• The City Lord said Verdant City would relocate to the nearly completed Barren City and instructed Madam Qianrou to keep his awakening secret while he took charge.
• The City Lord ordered Madam Qianrou to hand the Demon Race envoys the city's accumulated reserves and cultivated talents so they could take them outside.

Lin Bai reassured the captured disciples that Verdant City would likely spare them and explained his suspicions about the city’s plans. Madam Qianrou summoned him and tried to charm him with a moonlit dance, but Lin Bai remained wary and dodged her staged fall.

• Lin Bai told the imprisoned disciples that their status made it unlikely Verdant City would kill them, and he speculated that the city might be capturing outsiders to produce half-demons.
• A jailer summoned Lin Bai to meet Madam Qianrou, and Lin Bai reasoned that Verdant City would try to recruit him before resorting to killing him.
• The jailer escorted Lin Bai to a waterside pavilion, where Madam Qianrou danced beneath the moon and arranged food and wine for him.
• Lin Bai identified the dance as an attempted honey trap and warned Madam Qianrou not to waste her effort.
• Madam Qianrou leaped toward Lin Bai and pretended to stumble into his arms, but Lin Bai dodged her.

Lin Bai resisted Madam Qianrou’s attempts to seduce and threaten him, so she offered him a place among her allies and promised a king-level variant species bloodline. She explained the Demon Race’s origins and bloodline inheritance, leaving Lin Bai listening to an account whose truth remained uncertain.

• Madam Qianrou tried to bewitch and threaten Lin Bai, but he stayed calm and asked why she had summoned him.
• Madam Qianrou admitted that she wanted to kill Lin Bai, then offered to speak openly after her usual methods failed.
• Madam Qianrou invited Lin Bai to join her group and promised benefits, including the bloodline of a king-level variant species.
• Madam Qianrou explained that the Demon Race descended from five progenitor clans that ruled different regions around the Heaven and Earth Immortal Mountain.
• Madam Qianrou said the five clans interbred with other races, creating variant species whose traits were passed down through bloodlines.

Madam Qianrou explained to Lin Bai how bloodlines and ancestral reversion shaped the Demon Race and variant beasts, and revealed that humans might obtain demonic innate divine abilities through King Grade Bloodlines. She said Verdant City was founded for experiments, leaving Lin Bai asking what those experiments involved and why human martial artists had been captured.

• Madam Qianrou explained that the Demon Race and variant beasts valued bloodlines because ancestral reversion could restore powers inherited from their ancient ancestors.
• Madam Qianrou linked the Chu imperial family's variant-beast tiers to bloodline grades and said only King Grade Bloodlines could inherit innate divine arts.
• Madam Qianrou told Lin Bai that humans could cultivate techniques derived from demonic powers, but a King Grade Bloodline offered only a fifty percent chance of awakening an innate divine ability.
• Madam Qianrou revealed that Verdant City had been founded to conduct experiments, prompting Lin Bai to ask why the city captured human martial artists.

Madam Qianrou explained that Verdant City captured human martial artists to sustain the Demon Race and conduct bloodline experiments, then demanded that Lin Bai join them under threat of death. Lin Bai agreed but negotiated conditions, and the city lord secretly ordered Madam Qianrou to offer him a King Grade Bloodline in exchange for bearing a child with her.

• Madam Qianrou told Lin Bai that Verdant City had captured human martial artists for reproduction and injected variant bloodlines into unborn children to help them achieve Return to Ancestry.
• Madam Qianrou asked Lin Bai to join the Demon Race while armed demons surrounded the waterside pavilion, and Lin Bai agreed to avoid being killed.
• Lin Bai demanded that he keep his human body and receive a King Grade Bloodline immediately.
• Madam Qianrou resisted giving him the bloodline until the city lord secretly ordered her to agree, on the condition that she bear offspring with Lin Bai.
• The city lord told Madam Qianrou that their child might inherit Lin Bai's Supreme Avatar as well as the Demon Race's bloodline power.

Madam Qianrou accepted the City Lord’s plan to bear Lin Bai’s child, hoping the child would inherit his Supreme Avatar and the Demon Race’s bloodline and one day help her take revenge. She offered Lin Bai a King Grade Bloodline in exchange, and the chapter ended with Lin Bai questioning whether a child could truly inherit his Supreme Avatar.

• Jingming grew impatient while Madam Qianrou spoke with Lin Bai, but an old Demon Race man warned him not to act rashly because of the powerful forces behind Lin Bai.
• The City Lord urged Madam Qianrou to bear Lin Bai’s child, and she agreed when she thought of using the child’s potential to gain revenge.
• Madam Qianrou offered Lin Bai a King Grade Bloodline if he would couple with her and let her bear his child.
• Jingming cried out in protest and tried to rush from hiding, but the old Demon Race man restrained him.
• Madam Qianrou explained that she hoped their child would inherit Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar and combine it with the Demon Race’s bloodline, leaving Lin Bai doubtful that such inheritance was possible.

Lin Bai rejected the Demon Race’s demand that he have a child with Madam Qianrou, refusing to let his child be raised as their weapon. The city lord gave him until the Hunting Realm hunt ended to reconsider, and Lin Bai remained determined to protect any future child from the Demon Race.

• Lin Bai remembered Ye Suxin and the child he had lost, then told Madam Qianrou he would not agree to have a child with her.
• Lin Bai explained that he would not let his child become someone else’s tool or sword, and challenged Madam Qianrou to take his head if she insisted.
• Lin Bai revealed that the city lord of Verdant City had been watching, and the city lord said Lin Bai could reconsider before the Hunting Realm hunt ended.
• The city lord allowed Lin Bai to move freely within Verdant City as long as he did not leave.
• The city lord explained that the Demon Race wanted a child with Madam Qianrou so it could raise the child to be loyal to them, strengthening Lin Bai’s resolve to refuse.
• Madam Qianrou agreed to arrange a quiet residence for Lin Bai.

Madam Qianrou led Lin Bai through the Demon Race gathering in Verdant City and explained her Fox Clan heritage and the origin of her charm art. She brought him to a secluded courtyard inside the City Lord's Mansion.

• Madam Qianrou led Lin Bai past Demon Race experts, including the hostile Jingming, who said he hated Lin Bai because he was human.
• Madam Qianrou denied being fickle, showed Lin Bai her vermilion chastity mark, and explained that Demon Race bloodlines made chastity and same-race marriage especially important.
• Madam Qianrou told Lin Bai that she cultivated the Red Dust Severing Path, a Fox Clan method created by a woman who killed the human spy she had loved.
• Madam Qianrou briefly revealed her fox form and brought Lin Bai to a secluded courtyard in the City Lord's Mansion.