Chapter Summaries

Gu Jing explained that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was rushing to reappear before the Sun Moon Divine Flower matured and drew powerful old monsters to the Burial Earth. She warned Lin Bai that experts from all four realms would soon converge on Nine Underworlds City, and that the Divine Medicine War was about to begin again.

• Gu Jing told Lin Bai that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had held back forces to guard against experts from the Spirit Realm and Demon Realm seeking divine medicine amid the Devil Realm’s turmoil.
• Gu Jing explained that outsiders would eventually discover the Burial Earth and realize that Nine Underworlds City lay beside it, forcing the Demon Palace to act before the divine medicine matured.
• Gu Jing revealed that the Sun Moon Divine Flower in the Sea of Mist was nearing maturity and that old monsters there, including Corpse Old Demon, had begun awakening.
• Lin Bai recounted his encounter with Corpse Old Demon, and Gu Jing said he had survived because the demon had not wanted to leave his true body or expend power before the great battle.
• Gu Jing predicted that old monsters from the Spirit Realm, Demon Realm, and Devil Realm would find Nine Underworlds City within months or years, while Lin Bai considered how they might be influencing the war.
• Gu Jing explained that forces such as the Devil Realm’s Demon Tower tracked divine medicine across the realms and predicted that several medicines would mature in the next ten thousand years, beginning a new Divine Medicine War.

Lin Bai brought Gu Jing through the Holy Lord's Mausoleum to meet the Holy Lord and warned her about the dangerous Eternal Night Ancient Lamp. As they discussed the Divine Medicine War and the need to grow stronger, Gu Jing began paying respects at the altar and stopped mid-sentence.

• Lin Bai told Gu Jing that the Divine Medicine War had begun and that Great Mystic Art Users were its entry ticket.
• Lin Bai led Gu Jing through the mausoleum's passages and past its dangerous formations to a palace built atop a nine-level foundation.
• Gu Jing examined the palace's dragon statues, altar offerings, and enormous coffin as she followed Lin Bai inside.
• Lin Bai warned Gu Jing that the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp, once a Supreme Divine Weapon, could drain her essence blood and kill her.
• Gu Jing lit incense, began paying respects to the Holy Lord, and froze after addressing the Holy Lord and an elder brother.

Lin Bai ignited the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp, suppressing cultivation and disabling arrays throughout Nine Underworlds City before its power faded. As he recovered in the Holy Lord's Mausoleum, Corpse Old Demon and forces from the mist sea confronted Four Gloom Demon Palace over the lamp and the Sun Moon Divine Flower.

• Lin Bai ignited the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp, whose darkness disabled the city's arrays and prevented martial artists from using their cultivation or spiritual power.
• Shi Renshan announced that Lin Bai had completed the trial and become Four Gloom Demon Palace's imperial heir, while an Eternal Elder told the city to remain calm.
• Corpse Old Demon attacked the Holy Lord's Mausoleum with a palm of black mist and demanded that the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp be lent to him.
• Zhu Zhiyun shattered the black-mist palm and warned Corpse Old Demon to return to the mist sea, while Shi Renshan said the palace would not fight the mist sea over the Sun Moon Divine Flower.
• Lin Bai stopped supplying his vital essence to the lamp, and its power faded; Gu Jing advised him to recover in the mausoleum as the mist sea's black mist began surging again.

Lin Bai told Gu Jing how the Holy Lord and the Four Gloom Demon Palace discovered Liu Wuchen and two other beings in the Mist Sea, including Corpse Old Demon, whose corpse and remnant soul had cultivated into new beings. Gu Jing explained that lighting the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp had alerted the Mist Sea’s three old monsters, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Gu Jing asked Lin Bai about his injuries, and he said he had not recovered but sensed that the vital energy of heaven and earth had suddenly been drained away.
• Gu Jing said she had just lit the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp and that the three old monsters of the Mist Sea had noticed it.
• Lin Bai explained that the Four Gloom Demon Palace and the Holy Lord had entered the Burial Earth and discovered that Liu Wuchen was in the Mist Sea, seeking the Sun Moon Divine Flower to extend his life.
• Lin Bai said the Holy Lord and the Four Gloom Demon Palace later found a corpse and a remnant soul that had cultivated into powerful new beings.
• Lin Bai explained that the Holy Lord had fought and sealed the corpse and soul in the Mist Sea, which accounted for Corpse Old Demon's hatred of him.

Lin Bai explained how a martial artist surnamed Mo had entered the Sea of Mist and fought its corpse and soul, while Gu Jing wondered why the Three Demons wanted to borrow the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp. Lin Bai left the matter of the Sea of Mist to the Four Gloom Demon Palace.

• Lin Bai speculated that the Holy Lord and the Nine Divine Sons had tried to seize the Sun Moon Divine Flower before sealing the corpse and soul in the Sea of Mist.
• Gu Jing recounted that a powerful martial artist surnamed Mo had entered the Burial Earth decades of thousands of years ago seeking divine medicine and eventually reached the Sea of Mist.
• The corpse and soul joined forces against Mo, and the three became locked in a delicate balance that lasted for tens of thousands of years.
• Lin Bai said the Three Demons might be seeking extra strength for the crisis ahead, but questioned whether they truly wanted to borrow the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp.
• Lin Bai declined to intervene and said the Four Gloom Demon Palace should handle the Sea of Mist crisis.

Lin Bai told Gu Jing that the Four Gloom Demon Palace could not influence the Divine Medicine War and explained how the pursuit of great power would leave her isolated from loved ones. After a cultivator from beyond entered the Burial Earth, Lin Bai and Gu Jing left the Holy Lord's Mausoleum, with Gu Jing still uncertain which side the Four Gloom Demon Palace should support.

• Lin Bai sensed a disturbance in the Burial Earth, and Gu Jing explained that a cultivator from beyond had torn through the spatial barrier and entered.
• Gu Jing asked what stance the Four Gloom Demon Palace would take in the Divine Medicine War, and Lin Bai said it was too weak to affect the conflict.
• Lin Bai warned Gu Jing that even a million disciples would be like ants before great divine ability experts, and that rising in cultivation meant watching family and friends die.
• Gu Jing said she had no choice but to move forward if she wanted to avoid a dead end, and Lin Bai urged her to keep advancing despite the loneliness ahead.
• Lin Bai and Gu Jing left the Holy Lord's Mausoleum as Gu Jing remained conflicted about the Four Gloom Demon Palace's place in the coming war.

Gu Jing left Holy Lord's Ancient Road after learning that even ascending to immortality would not solve the Giant God Race's predicament, and the Four Gloom Demon Palace welcomed her back with elaborate honors for Lin Bai. The palace reopened an exclusive ascending-to-immortality cultivation ground for Lin Bai, while Gu Jing accepted her new position as an elder.

• Gu Jing and Lin Bai discussed the idea of an entire race ascending, and Gu Jing warned that she would reveal more secrets only when Lin Bai was strong enough.
• Xiao Dong opened Holy Lord's Ancient Road's stone gate and told Gu Jing he would control its formations, restrictions, and Automaton Puppets so she could pass safely.
• Gu Jing walked through Holy Lord's Ancient Road and returned to the starting point, where Saint Elder Giant God Race and the Eternal Elders paid their respects to Lin Bai.
• Giant God Race declared Gu Jing an elder of the Four Gloom Demon Palace for lighting the Eternal Night Ancient Lamp and led her back to Four Gloom City.
• The Four Gloom Demon Palace reopened the ascending-to-immortality ground and raised a suspended palace above the Four Divine Halls as Lin Bai's exclusive cultivation ground.

Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing told Lin Bai how the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s lost treasures had helped create powerful sects and explained why its elders could only restore the palace before passing authority to the next generation. Lin Bai remained reluctant to embrace his role as Imperial Heir as news of his succession spread across the Devil Realm.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing explained that many treasures held by the Devil Realm Eastern Region’s top sects had been stolen from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace during its destruction.
• Luo Yuanjing said he and the other elders had nearly exhausted their strength restoring the palace and were nearing the later years of their lives.
• Luo Yuanjing told Lin Bai that the elders hoped to reclaim the palace’s former standing, while leaving its future plans and lost territories to Lin Bai’s generation.
• Lin Bai admitted that he had joined the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace under pressure and had little sense of belonging, but Luo Yuanjing said his Imperial Heir status could not be changed.
• Luo Yuanjing revealed that he had ordered the news of Lin Bai’s succession spread throughout the Devil Realm, where the top sects would fear the palace’s return.

Lin Bai learned that Yan Wenjing of Night God Sect and Xie Lan of Azure Ripple Sect had arrived in Four Gloom City, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators from both the orthodox and devil paths. As Saint Elder Yu Xiaolan showed him the empty Imperial Palace and its hidden cultivation chamber, a watcher beneath the forest realized that the Sun Moon Divine Flower would be harder to seize.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing gave Lin Bai a Jade Slip identifying Yan Wenjing and Xie Lan and congratulating him on becoming the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's Imperial Son.
• Lin Bai asked whether Luo Yuanjing had also been a Saint Elder, and Yu Xiaolan explained that Luo Yuanjing had handed over the position ten thousand years earlier.
• Yu Xiaolan told Lin Bai that attendants would be assigned to monitor him, and Lin Bai accepted the arrangement.
• Lin Bai explored the Imperial Palace and discovered that its stone chamber was covered in runes that gathered pure spiritual energy for cultivation.
• Yu Xiaolan left to meet Yan Wenjing and Xie Lan, while a hidden figure in the forest decided to summon allies because Great Mystic Art Users were gathering in Four Gloom City.

Lin Bai settled into the Imperial Palace and learned from Li Guxian why the Demon Palace had appointed him its lord despite his limited standing in the sect. Their conversation revealed the First Divine Hall’s formidable Daoist Lin Bai and its celebrated God Child, leaving Lin Bai curious to meet the God Child.

• Lin Bai told the Affairs Hall that he did not need the extra maids, then allowed Yu You and the other nine maids to explore and decorate the Imperial Palace.
• Li Guxian visited Lin Bai at the Imperial Palace, where he explained that the Saint Elder had sent Daoist Lin Bai to serve him and monitor him.
• Li Guxian explained that Lin Bai had become Imperial Palace’s lord because the Demon Palace’s ten-thousand-year plan was underway and the First God Child had left on a mission.
• Li Guxian described Daoist Lin Bai’s extraordinary strength and prestige, then introduced the First Divine Hall’s God Child as a dazzling prodigy recognized by nearly all the other Divine Halls.
• Lin Bai said he wanted to meet the First God Child, and Daoist Lin Bai mocked him for thinking he could do so without being frightened.

Yu You tried to persuade Lin Bai to leave Lin Family by warning him against challenging someone above his rank and explaining the Imperial Palace’s cultivation-resource privileges. Lin Bai refused to leave, while Emperor Child considered using the Four Gloom Demon Palace’s resources before departing Nine Underworlds City.

• Yu You warned Lin Bai not to set his sights on Emperor Child and declared her devotion to the First God Child, while Li Guxian teased her about Emperor Child’s maidservants.
• Lin Bai challenged Emperor Child to fight, promising to leave Lin Family regardless of the outcome, but Emperor Child said he was not interested in fighting him.
• Yu You explained that Lin Bai could apply for up to one million immortal jades’ worth of cultivation resources every hundred years as Imperial Palace, subject to the Council of Elders’ review.
• Lin Bai realized that the Four Gloom Demon Palace’s resources could help him advance to the Greater Purity Dao Fruit realm, while Yu You argued that he could borrow the sect’s power before leaving.
• Emperor Child declined to force Lin Bai to leave, and Lin Bai refused to go, leaving Yu You’s attempt to remove him from Lin Family unresolved.

Lin Bai weighed whether to use the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s resources to break through to the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm, knowing the cost could bind him to the palace. Lin Baixian arranged to speak with him privately, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Lin Bai considered staying in Nine Underworlds City for months to break through, but recognized that accepting the palace’s resources could make it impossible to sever ties with it.
• Lin Baixian explained that Lin Bai would need roughly a million immortal jades and that Chu and the Tianshui Sect each had reasons not to provide them easily.
• Lin Bai recalled the Tianshui Sect’s depleted reserves and the scarce resources needed to support his Heaven Swallowing Race cultivation.
• Lin Bai asked Yu You to leave, but Yu You refused Lin Baixian’s request until she warned that exposing the Heaven Swallowing Race’s secret could harm Li Guxian.
• Lin Baixian set up a soundproofing formation and smiled at Lin Bai, who wondered what she was plotting.

Lin Bai confronted Li Guxian after learning that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had uncovered his Heaven Swallowing Race identity, and Lin Baixian argued that the Palace was his best source of cultivation resources. Lin Bai remained concerned about how many people knew his secret and pressed Li Guxian for a direct answer.

• Li Guxian implied that Lin Bai's Heaven Swallowing Race identity had been exposed, prompting him to ask how many people in the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace knew.
• Lin Baixian explained that only the Palace Master, the three Saint Elders, and a small number of Eternal-level elders likely knew about Lin Bai's identity.
• Lin Baixian contrasted the Chu Kingdom's delayed promises and the Tianshui Sect's limited resources with the Four Gloom Demon Palace's ability to provide Lin Bai's cultivation needs.
• Lin Bai recognized that his Heaven Swallowing Race bloodline required immense resources and that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had reason to support him rather than hand him over to the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai asked Li Guxian again how many people in the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace knew his identity.

Lin Bai learned that the Seven Nights Divine Sect had fallen and questioned whether the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s plan was simply to claim its territory. Liu Huan told him there was more to the plan and granted him access to the War Tower’s upper floors, where Lin Bai began reading intelligence from the Northern Region.

• Reports said the Ten Thousand Saints Mountain and Qi Tian Sect delegations left the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s gates but stayed in nearby cities.
• Lin Bai read that the Seven Nights Divine Sect had fallen, its territory was being taken over by the Pure Yang Sect and Phoenix Valley, and its surviving loyalists posed little immediate threat.
• Lin Bai guessed that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace intended to divide the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory among itself and the other powers.
• Liu Huan told Lin Bai that the Demon Palace’s plan went beyond what he had inferred and said the Emperor’s Son could enter the War Tower’s upper floors.
• Lin Bai used his Emperor Child Jade Token to pass the barrier to the sixth floor and found intelligence labeled Northern Region.

Lin Bai discovered that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had secretly allied with the Northern Region to invade the Devil Realm Eastern Region and seize the Worship Heaven Sect’s territory. The records revealed that their conspiracy also involved abducting the Eastern Region’s Holy Sons and Holy Daughters, including several who were hidden in Chu’s Imperial Capital.

• Lin Bai read a Jade Slip reporting that the Northern Region had gathered an army at Horizon Pass and, after the Worship Heaven Sect’s destruction, sought the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s help to break through Eternal Night Pass.
• Liu Huan showed Lin Bai the Council of Elders’ reply to the Northern Region: “Agreed.”
• Lin Bai questioned the Demon Palace’s willingness to help a foreign invasion, but Liu Huan said the decision was only part of its ten-thousand-year plan.
• Lin Bai traced the records back to the original agreement, which showed that the Northern Region and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had planned to invade the Eastern Region and divide the Worship Heaven Sect’s territory.
• Lin Bai learned that the allies had abducted Holy Sons and Holy Daughters and hidden several of them in the Imperial Capital, including Meng Qinxian, Nie Shang, and Lu Qingjun.
• Lin Bai felt a chill and broke into a cold sweat after uncovering the conspiracy.

Lin Bai studied the Weapon Tower’s dossiers and learned that the Northern Region was demanding two-thirds of the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s former territory, while the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace kept refusing. Liu Huan revealed that Li Guxian had coordinated the Devil Palace’s ten-thousand-year plan, whose failure could doom the entire Devil Realm Eastern Region.

• Lin Bai read the dossiers tracing how the Northern Region shifted its target from Chu to the Seven Nights Divine Sect and joined the campaign to abduct its holy sons and daughters.
• Lin Bai discovered that the Northern Region demanded the seventy-two Thousand Prefecture Great Domains bordering its territory, while the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace repeatedly delayed the division.
• Lin Bai asked Liu Huan whether the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace intended to break its alliance with the Northern Region, and Liu Huan said its refusal did not mean the alliance was over.
• Liu Huan explained that Li Guxian had coordinated the Devil Palace’s ten-thousand-year plan and warned that a mistake could bring catastrophe upon the entire Devil Realm Eastern Region.

Lin Bai read intelligence on the Southern and Western Regions and discovered that both were positioning themselves to invade the Eastern Region amid its turmoil. The chapter left him convinced that the Devil Realm was on the brink of widespread chaos.

• Lin Bai entered the Arsenal Tower’s seventh floor and learned that the Southern Region’s leading sects had secretly met after the Eastern Region’s Holy Sons and Holy Daughters disappeared.
• Lin Bai discovered that the Southern Region had gathered ten million martial artists near Qi Tian Sect’s territory, facing tens of millions of Eastern Region forces across the frontier.
• Lin Bai read that the Western Region’s Seventy-Two Kingdoms had declared a ceasefire after negotiations mediated by the Hailong Kingdom of the Sands and the Flying Sword Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai learned that the Western Domain Seventy-Two Kingdoms had gathered more than seventy million troops and advanced toward the Eastern Region, with the Hailong Kingdom of the Sands, Devil Puppet Sect, and Flying Sword Devil Sect pushing the move.
• Lin Bai concluded that the world was about to fall into chaos.

Ling Zhi and Lin Bai learned that numerous powerful forces from the Netherworld and Demon Realm were heading to the Devil Realm for the Divine Medicine War. The gathering included more than fifty Demon Realm old monsters and Half-Step Tribulation Realm experts, leaving Ling Zhi to anticipate a tumultuous few years.

• Liu Huan explained the Netherworld’s origins, its soulless-bodied inhabitants, and how they reproduced and lived in places rich in yin energy.
• Ling Zhi read the Netherworld Jade Slips and learned about its strange and powerful Blessed Lands, including the Corpse Mountain, Bone Sea, and City of the Unjustly Dead.
• Xie Hong told Ling Zhi that the Demon Realm had mobilized more than fifty old monsters, including the White Dragon King and Azure King, both Half-Step Tribulation Realm experts.
• Lin Bai warned that Demon Realm forces could outnumber the Spirit Realm and Netherworld forces combined, though the arriving factions remained hostile toward one another.
• Ling Zhi realized that the Devil Realm’s Divine Medicine War would draw a vast gathering of powerful old monsters.

Lin Bai examined intelligence about the four great realms and learned that Chu Kingdom had mobilized its forces against the Southern Region after the One Night Divine Sect was destroyed. The chapter left him considering how the army at Horizon Pass threatened Prince Liang’s territory.

• Lin Bai learned that the Spirit Realm, Demon Realm, and Netherworld each faced their own dangers and divisions.
• Lin Bai read that Prince Liang had responded to the Southern Region’s troop buildup by banning trade outside the Northern Region and restricting the sale of weapons and pills.
• Lin Bai discovered that Chu Kingdom had sent four Army Kings and tens of millions of soldiers to Horizon Pass to confront the Southern Region.
• Lin Bai realized that Chu Kingdom’s internal troubles had been settled, allowing it to prepare for war and potentially threaten Prince Liang’s territory.

Lin Bai read reports about Chu Zimo’s standoff with the Western Region’s seventeen nations after the Seven Nights Divine Sect fell. Chu Zimo barred their passage and threatened to destroy them if they invaded, while the Chu imperial court ordered its reinforcements to stand by, leaving both border disputes unresolved.

• Lin Bai considered Chu’s eighty-million-strong army at Horizon Pass a formidable force and thought the Northern Region should fear its advance.
• After the Seven Nights Divine Sect was destroyed, Chu Zimo asked the Chu imperial court for instructions, and the court ordered its reinforcements to stand by.
• The Western Region’s seventeen nations assembled ten million troops and claimed they wanted to cross Chu Zimo’s territory to aid the One Night Divine Sect.
• Chu Zimo summoned sects and families to discuss countermeasures, then warned that an invasion would bring war and the destruction of the seventeen nations.
• The Western Region’s allied army halted at the border, and the Flying Sword Devil Sect and Ten Thousand Saints Mountain helped broker a temporary truce, leaving the dispute at a stalemate.