Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai learned that the jade was guarded by numerous living statues as strong as Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm experts, including statues wielding objects tied to Calamity Wind and Calamity Snow. He chose a small group of powerful martial artists to enter and seize the jade while the rest remained behind, but the statues' numbers beneath the ground were unknown.

• White Fox was crushed by a black whirlwind from the statue holding the jade, which Lin Bai and the others identified as Calamity Wind.
• Scouts reported that attacking a statue caused it to reflect their power, come alive, and kill a scout with one sword strike.
• The scouts counted 187 statues aboveground and found more buried beneath the earth, with each statue possessing Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm strength.
• Lin Bai observed that the jade statue held a patterned stone bottle and that a nearby statue held a patterned great seal, which he associated with Calamity Wind and Calamity Snow.
• Lin Bai warned that the Chu Kingdom's main force should not enter together and assembled Chu Tinghan, Yi Song, Chen Yule, Xia Guan Tong, Sun Miao, and Zhen Qianying to seize the jade while the others held the rear.

Lin Bai and Xiang Tian tried to overcome the Calamity Snow and Calamity Wind protecting the jade, but neither could find a way through. The Whitewater Clan’s Saint Son, Cai Huan, took the jade and mocked the Chu State martial artists.

• Lin Bai charged through the Calamity Snow toward the jade statue, but his sword could not cut the snow and he could not escape its area.
• Xiang Tian tested the statues with his Four Symbols Sword Formation, but the bottle statue released a Calamity Wind that destroyed the statues and forced him to retreat.
• Xiang Tian considered using the Heaven Swallowing Dao Method but held back to avoid revealing his identity and drawing more trouble from the Ascension Celestial Palace’s watchers.
• Xiang Tian entered the statues again and faced the Calamity Snow, but it corroded his Sword Qi and drove him back despite the Sea God Pearl.
• Cai Huan appeared atop the jade statue, picked up the jade, and mocked Wolf Marquis and the Chu State martial artists for failing to take it.

Cai Huan took the jade as Chen Yule and Lin Bai activated the formation, awakening the statues and throwing the Chu warriors into chaos. Cai Huan, Chu Tinghan, Chai Yandong, and Yi Song fought their way toward the archers, while Huang Qingyun tried to rally the scattered warriors.

• Cai Huan took the jade and taunted Lin Bai and the others, prompting Chen Yule and Yi Song to challenge him.
• Chen Yule and Lin Bai activated the formation, causing statues to rise from underground and attack the Chu warriors with weapons and stone arrows.
• The Chu warriors scattered in panic despite Huang Qingyun's orders to hold formation, while the Black Tortoise Battalion maintained its ranks.
• Cai Huan led Chu Tinghan, Chai Yandong, and Yi Song toward the statues firing arrows, using flying swords, sword strikes, and lightning to break through.
• The four destroyed the archers, giving Huang Qingyun an opening to regroup the Chu warriors and stabilize their formation.

Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song used the chaos of the battlefield to launch a surprise attack on the Holy Son of the Black Water Clan. He blocked their first combined assault with a powerful shield, but the attack left him under threat from all sides.

• Lin Bai and the others advanced through the battlefield unnoticed while the Holy Son of the Black Water Clan focused on controlling the statues.
• The Holy Son of the Black Water Clan searched for Lin Bai and failed to find him amid the statues and fighting.
• Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song attacked together from four directions with their strongest techniques.
• The Holy Son of the Black Water Clan raised a Huang Qingyun Artifact shield, which blocked the attacks but could defend only one direction at a time.

Yi Song and the others nearly killed the Black Water Clan's Holy Son, but he used Calamity Wind and Calamity Snow to drive them back. Lin Bai's crow then passed unharmed through the calamities and landed on the statue, leaving the battle's next move uncertain.

• Yi Song struck the Black Water Clan's Holy Son with nine thunder dragons, gravely wounding him.
• Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song pursued the Holy Son, but he summoned Calamity Wind and Calamity Snow to block them.
• Yi Song and the others weighed fighting on against retreating to seek another route, as the Holy Son mocked them from behind the calamities.
• A black crow appeared, pierced through Calamity Wind and Calamity Snow unharmed, and landed atop the statue holding the great seal.
• Yi Song recognized the crow as Lin Bai's spirit pet, while the others reacted in astonishment.

The crow shattered the Black Water Divine General Formation, freed Lin Bai and the Chu warriors, and handed the formation’s treasures to Lin Bai. After the crow departed, Cai Huan demanded the treasures back, but Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song stood in his way.

• Cai Huan sent Calamity Wind and Calamity Snow to attack the crow, but the crow broke the formation and destroyed the statues.
• Cai Huan failed to control the collapsing formation, and its Formation Seal Compass shattered.
• Lin Bai told Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun that the crow was his master’s spirit pet, and Huang Qingyun helped support his explanation.
• The crow took the Formation Diagram, Treasure Bottle, and Treasure Seal, then gave them to Lin Bai when he asked it not to return them to Cai Huan.
• The crow left after Lin Bai reminded it to return before the Hunting Realm closed.
• Cai Huan demanded his treasures from Lin Bai, but Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song blocked him, and Yi Song warned him to worry about saving his life.

Lin Bai and his allies defeated the Black Water Clan Holy Son and broke the Black Water Divine General Formation, keeping the clan’s three treasures. They prepared to advance into the Yin Mountain Formation, controlled by Luan Tang, while Chu Tinghan counted the casualties.

• Yi Song, Chen Yule, and Huang Qingyun overwhelmed the wounded Black Water Clan Holy Son, but Luan Tang emerged from the auxiliary formation and shielded him with three sealed coffins.
• Luan Tang refused to help Cai Huan reclaim the Black Water Clan’s treasures and revealed that the next obstacle was the Yin Mountain Formation, which he controlled.
• Cai Huan entered the Yin Mountain Formation after warning Lin Bai that he would recover the treasures, while Yi Song and Huang Qingyun urged Lin Bai not to return them.
• Lin Bai told Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song that he would neither return nor sell the treasures, and the group regrouped with Chu Tinghan’s forces after the formation dissipated.
• Lin Bai urged Chu Tinghan to count casualties and prepare to advance, explaining that Luan Tang controlled the Yin Mountain Formation; Chu Tinghan found that more than thirty martial artists had been killed or wounded.

After the Black Water Divine General Formation inflicted heavy casualties across the Chu Territory, Lin Bai and the other leaders assessed their forces and agreed to let the wounded disciples rest. Lin Bai then learned that the Seven Nights Divine Sect Territory had suffered a breakdown in unity after Shen Haoyue and Ji Ruoci faltered during battle, leaving it unable to continue.

• Lin Bai found Bai Yifei, Zhou Xinjin, Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Yi Zien, and the surviving Tianshui Sect disciples badly injured after their formation collapsed during the statues’ attack.
• Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun reported that their groups had each lost about half their fighters, while Chu Tinghan said the Black Tortoise Battalion had few casualties and retained its strength.
• Chu Tinghan proposed that the exhausted disciples of the Five Great Families and Seven Sects of Chu remain behind, and Lin Bai agreed to let the Black Tortoise Battalion handle the two remaining formations.
• Lin Bai contacted Wang Zhengyang, Qi Lingyu, and Yi Jinyun, who reported heavy casualties in their territories; Yi Jinyun said Shen Haoyue and Ji Ruoci had faltered during battle, triggering losses and an argument with Meng Qinxian and Nie Shang.
• Yi Jinyun said the Seven Nights Divine Sect Territory had too few fighters left to break through its auxiliary formation, and Qi Lingyu criticized the territory and Chu for failing to appoint a Holy Son and Crown Prince.

Qi Lingyu argued that Chu and the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory had invited invasion by failing to establish leaders, then the three territories agreed to coordinate their attacks on the Demonic Refinement of All Living Things Formation. Lin Bai prepared to lead Chu’s remaining forces into the Yin Mountain Formation, controlled by Luan Tang.

• Qi Lingyu said Holy Sons and Crown Princes could stabilize their territories even if they were not the most talented, and Wang Zhengyang agreed that a Holy Son should be established and trained over time.
• Wang Zhengyang said the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory could no longer break formations, so he and Qi Lingyu would each choose more than twenty fighters to test the next formation.
• Lin Bai said Chu would send Prince Liang’s Estate’s Black Tortoise Battalion into the next formation, and Qi Lingyu stressed that Lin Bai must lead them.
• Lin Bai, Qi Lingyu, and Wang Zhengyang agreed that whichever territory broke through first would notify the others so their forces could converge on the main formation.
• Lin Bai told Chu Tinghan that only Holy Sons, Holy Daughters, and the Black Tortoise Battalion would enter the next formation, then looked toward the Yin Mountain Formation controlled by Luan Tang.

Lin Bai and the others entered the Yin Mountain Formation, where they discovered an enormous corpse-nurturing formation and learned about the Corpse Refinement Sect’s corpse fiends. The Corpse Refinement Sect’s Holy Son Ling Zhi appeared on an altar and claimed that the way to break the formation was behind him.

• Lin Bai left the injured Shangguan Tong and Sun Miao behind, then led the other Holy Sons and Chu Tinghan’s fifty Black Tortoise Battalion soldiers into the Yin Mountain Formation.
• Northern Region explained the distinctions between corpse puppets, corpse demons, and corpse fiends as the group discussed the dangers of corpse refinement.
• Lin Bai led the group through the gray mist, where they found a vast, eerie mountain filled with coffins and cold corpse energy.
• Northern Region recognized the mountain’s formation as a corpse-nurturing formation that suppressed extreme yang to cultivate extreme yin.
• Ling Zhi appeared on a towering altar and told Lin Bai and the others that the method for breaking the formation was behind him.

Lin Bai and the others prepared to break the Yin Mountain Formation by fighting their way through the Corpse Puppets and destroying the banner at the summit. The scouts found their route blocked, and Lin Bai warned that the Holy Son at the summit was likely a Corpse Puppet while the real Holy Son hid elsewhere.

• Luan Tang challenged the group to climb the mountain and break the formation, then sat down beneath the banner.
• Lin Bai searched the surrounding mountains for the hidden real Holy Son and told the group that Luan Tang was probably a Corpse Puppet.
• Yi Song and the others concluded that the Corpse Puppets could not be lured away and that they would have to fight through them to reach the banner.
• Mou Huichao sent scouts to investigate, but a coffin opened and a Corpse Puppet attacked a scout before more coffins began opening.
• The scouts returned after finding their way blocked, and Yi Song planned for the Black Tortoise Battalion and Chen Yule to create an opening while the others charged for the summit.

Lin Bai and the others fought through the Yin Mountain Formation’s Corpse Puppet army as Luan Tang empowered the puppets with the Corpse Refinement Sect’s arts. They reached the mountainside and pushed toward the mountaintop, while Chen Yule’s soldiers faced mounting casualties.

• Luan Tang awakened the Corpse Puppets in the Yin Mountain Formation and sent them charging down the mountain.
• Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, Yi Song, Chu Tinghan, and the Black Tortoise Battalion advanced, with the battalion engaging the Corpse Puppets.
• Luan Tang used the Divine Armament Art and Nether Art to strengthen the Corpse Puppets, raising many to the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm and suppressing Chen Yule’s soldiers.
• Lin Bai recognized the Nether Art and urged the others to hurry up the mountain as the battle worsened and soldiers suffered casualties.
• Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, Yi Song, and the Black Tortoise Battalion broke through the Corpse Puppets and reached the mountainside, then continued toward the mountaintop.

Lin Bai realized the Yin Mountain Formation strengthened its controller, allowing Huang Qingyun to command and empower a vast horde of Corpse Puppets. Luan Tang, Lin Bai, Yi Song, and Black Tortoise Battalion reached the summit, where Huang Qingyun revealed hundreds of heavily sealed coffins as a gift for them.

• Lin Bai inferred that the Yin Mountain Formation amplified its controller's power and made the Corpse Puppets stronger.
• Huang Qingyun used the banners to send white smoke into the Corpse Puppets, whose eyes turned blood-red as they attacked.
• The Corpse Puppets overwhelmed the Chen Yule soldiers, and Chu Tinghan warned Luan Tang that they could not hold out much longer.
• Luan Tang told Chu Tinghan to withdraw the Chen Yule soldiers if necessary while he, Lin Bai, Yi Song, and Black Tortoise Battalion rushed toward the summit.
• Luan Tang, Lin Bai, Yi Song, and Black Tortoise Battalion arrived at the altar and found hundreds of coffins covered in runes, seals, and talismans.
• Huang Qingyun welcomed them and declared that the coffins contained a gift she had prepared especially for them.

Lin Bai and his companions attacked Luan Tang, the Corpse Refinement Sect's Holy Son, while hundreds of Corpse Demons overwhelmed them and the Black Tortoise Battalion below. The battle left Lin Bai facing a choice between fighting Luan Tang and the hidden Black Veil Woman as the Chu forces neared defeat.

• Lin Bai warned his companions about a possible hidden expert, while Luan Tang questioned whether he or the Black Veil Woman was the real Holy Son.
• Lin Bai urged Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun to end the fight quickly, then sent his Talisman Seals toward Luan Tang as they charged.
• Luan Tang released swarms of Corpse Demons from the coffins, forcing Lin Bai and the others to defend themselves against dozens each.
• A Corpse Demon used golden light to block Lin Bai's attacks and tore open his robe, but exposed an opening that let him counterattack.
• Lin Bai saw that the Black Tortoise Battalion was being driven back by the Corpse Puppet army and hesitated over how to proceed.
• Luan Tang began the Divine Armament Art as the coffins around the altar shook, while Chen Yule warned Lin Bai that Luan Tang was only buying time.

Lin Bai used four soul-linked flying swords to keep Luan Tang from waving his banner while Flying Sword and the others fought through the Corpse Devils. The chapter left both Flying Sword and Luan Tang wounded, as the Flying Sword Devil Sect's elders suspected Lin Bai had ties to the Flying Sword Immortal Sect.

• Lin Bai sent four flying swords after Luan Tang, forcing him to interrupt his banner technique whenever he tried to use it.
• Luan Tang directed Corpse Devils to attack Flying Sword, leaving Flying Sword surrounded and wounded while the others fought through their attackers.
• The Flying Sword Devil Sect's elders marveled at the flying swords and wondered whether Lin Bai was connected to the Flying Sword Immortal Sect.
• Huang Qingyun arrived at the altar carrying a Corpse Devil's head, and Flying Sword pushed through the remaining Corpse Devils to attack Luan Tang.
• Flying Sword and Luan Tang struck each other and were both sent flying, spitting blood.

Huang Qingyun revealed herself on the altar and joined the fight over the banner controlling the Yin Mountain Formation. As the fighters tried to seize it, the Corpse Demons revived and exploded, leaving the battle in chaos.

• Huang Qingyun arrived carrying a Corpse Demon’s head and revealed that she had destroyed the Corpse Demons surrounding her.
• Luan Tang and the Holy Son attacked Huang Qingyun while Chen Yule and Yi Song tried to reach the banner and break the formation.
• Huang Qingyun explained the Sacred Lotus Palace’s reputation for avoiding combat and recalled its role in the war against the Four Gloom Demon Palace.
• The Corpse Demons reassembled and attacked the fighters, then exploded as Yi Song and Chen Yule broke free.
• The blast sent the fighters flying while Luan Tang and the Holy Son remained in danger near the altar.

Lin Bai and the Sect's Saint Son fought to break the Corpse Refinement Sect's Yin Mountain Formation as a monstrous Fiend Shadow crushed Lin Bai's Supreme Avatar. The Sect's Saint Son destroyed the formation's flag and killed Luan Tang with the Six Paths Lotus Seal, but the mysterious dead-looking eye and the palm's source remained unexplained.

• The Fiend Shadow drew power from the Yin Mountain Formation, healed after Lin Bai split it with his Supreme Avatar, and formed a rune-bound arm that crushed the avatar.
• Lin Bai escaped the shadow's deadly palm while the Sect's Saint Son seized the white flag and destroyed it, causing the Yin Mountain Formation to collapse.
• The Sect's Saint Son unleashed the Six Paths Lotus Seal, trapping and crushing Luan Tang as the Corpse Puppets lost control.
• The Sect's Saint Son's right eye turned gray-white and gave Lin Bai a suffocating chill, while she covered her eyes and said they should deal with the Hunter World first.
• The shadow and its palm vanished as the formation collapsed, and the Sect's Saint Son returned to Lin Bai; they were left wondering whose palm it had been and who the Corpse Ancestor was.

After Lin Bai and the Chu Kingdom’s warriors shattered the Yin Mountain Formation, they regrouped and arranged to join the other territories outside the main formation. The Soul Refining Sect learned that the Corpse Refinement Sect had failed and began withdrawing to the main formation.

• Chu Tinghan found Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun after the formation collapsed, then reported that Chen Yule and Yi Song were recovering with Shui Mo Dan’s blood.
• Lin Bai learned that only a little over twenty of the fifty Black Tortoise Battalion warriors had survived and agreed with Chu Tinghan to gather the other territories before attacking the main formation.
• Lin Bai contacted Qi Lingyu, Wang Zhengyang, and Yi Jinyun and told them the eastern auxiliary formation had been broken, allowing them to regroup outside the main formation.
• Qi Lingyu withdrew the Qi Tian Sect’s warriors from the Soul Refining Sect’s formation and taunted the Soul Refining Sect’s Saint before leaving.
• The Soul Refining Sect’s Saint learned from Bu Junfeng that the Corpse Refinement Sect had failed and led the Northern Territory warriors toward the main formation.

Bu Junfeng gathered the Northern Domain warriors inside the main formation after the Yin Mountain Formation fell to Wolf Marquis. As the Eastern Domain warriors prepared to attack, Bu Junfeng ordered the gathered forces to face them head-on.

• The Black Veil Woman reported that Wolf Marquis had survived and credited Huang Qingyun with helping defeat their forces in the Yin Mountain Formation.
• Bu Junfeng ordered the Northern Domain warriors to gather inside the main formation and prepare to meet the Eastern Domain warriors.
• The Soul Refining Sect's Holy Son told Bu Junfeng that Qi Lingyu had withdrawn from the formation with his warriors before he could defeat him.
• The Northern Domain warriors converged on the mountaintop, while the Black Veil Woman concealed herself and Bu Junfeng said Luan Tang was recovering from serious injuries.
• Bu Junfeng told the assembled leaders that the Eastern Domain warriors would soon attack the main formation and that they would fight them head-on.

The Seven Nights Divine Sect martial artists arrived at the snowy mountain, where their internal feud erupted into insults and violence. Lin Bai confronted Shen Haoyue as the rival factions faced off, leaving the sect’s growing turmoil unresolved.

• Yi Jinyun led the Seven Nights Divine Sect martial artists to the snowy mountain, where Meng Qinxian and Nie Shang apologized to Lin Bai for the infighting in their territory.
• Meng Qinxian and Ji Ruoci traded insults, and Ji Ruoci slapped Meng Qinxian as Shen Haoyue and Lin Bai joined the confrontation.
• Lin Bai challenged Shen Haoyue’s threat to the Worship Heaven Sect, while the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters argued over whether outsiders should interfere.
• Cao Zhenxing arrived with several hundred martial artists, but the quarrel continued as Qi Lingyu shut her eyes and tried to contain her anger.
• Qian Hen and Nie Shang observed that the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s factions were on the verge of further conflict, while the five major sects’ unity continued to break down.