Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai met the fifteen members of the Dragon Protector Guard and learned why they had joined his personal guard. He promised to reward their service and planned to expand the guard, while Dao Child Yu You affirmed her loyalty after explaining that she had left the Yu Lineage.

• Lin Bai summoned the Dragon Protector Guard and thanked its fifteen members for protecting him in secret.
• Yu Ce introduced himself as the guard’s Supreme Dao Fruit Realm martial artist, and Old Wen revealed that he was Dao Child Yu You’s grandfather.
• Yu Ce explained that he had joined to protect Yu You, while the other guards said they supported Lin Bai because the First God Child ignored their smaller lineages.
• Lin Bai promised to remember the guards’ contributions, asked Old Wen to record their names and lineages, and announced that he would expand the Dragon Protector Guard.
• After the guards left, Dao Child Yu You said she had left the First God Child and the Yu Lineage to serve Lin Bai, who reassured her that he would not give her unreasonable orders.

Hu Zhiyao joined Mo Guyu and Zhao Yuanchen in plotting to humiliate the First God Child and prove their families’ loyalty to Lin Bai. After struggling to advance despite refining many pills, Lin Bai received Hu Zhiyao, who had come to see him.

• Hu Zhiyao, Mo Guyu, and Zhao Yuanchen agreed that their families would support Lin Bai and devised a trap to make the First God Child lose face.
• Hu Zhiyao assigned Mo Guyu to invite the First God Child, Zhao Yuanchen to arrange the venue, and herself to bring Lin Bai and the Devil Palace elders at the crucial moment.
• Lin Bai refined nearly all of his Grand Luo Golden Pills but remained stuck at the peak of the mid-stage Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm.
• Old Wen told Lin Bai that Hu Zhiyao had come to pay her respects, and Lin Bai prepared himself before meeting her in the side hall.
• Hu Zhiyao congratulated Lin Bai on his cultivation progress, and Lin Bai asked why she had come.

Hu Zhiyao offered the Hu, Mo, and Zhao Families’ support for Lin Bai and proposed a plan to wrest control of the Forbidden Guards from the First God Child. She revealed that the plan would expose two of his commanders for secretly dealing with the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect, leaving Lin Bai and the others to consider the evidence and its consequences.

• Hu Zhiyao told Lin Bai that several families and Divine Halls supported his bid to become the Devil Palace Emperor Child.
• Hu Zhiyao invited Lin Bai to meet with Duanmu Lin, Shen Yunfan, and Li Guxian, saying the three clans had prepared a show of sincerity.
• Hu Zhiyao explained that the clans intended to reclaim the Forbidden Guards, which the First God Child controlled.
• Hu Zhiyao proposed targeting commanders Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai rather than accusing the First God Child directly.
• Hu Zhiyao revealed that her family had captured spies who claimed Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai accepted benefits and sold information and resources to the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect.

Hu Zhiyao persuaded Lin Bai and the others to join her plan to publicly expose Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai without giving the Shi Family or the First God Child time to suppress it. As they set out for the spectacle, Jiang Zhihuan prepared to entertain Shi Yunhai and four guests who were secretly spies from the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect.

• Hu Zhiyao explained that they would force the Devil Palace to judge Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai in public rather than submit their evidence to the Council of Elders.
• Hu Zhiyao asked Lin Bai, the Second God Child, and the Third God Child to attend without intervening, and Lin Bai agreed despite the risk of being scolded by the Palace Master.
• Hu Zhiyao led Lin Bai, Li Guxian, the Second God Child, and the Third God Child out of the Imperial Palace to watch the planned spectacle.
• The chapter recounted how Jiang Zhihuan used his arrangements with female cultivators to win the First God Child's favor and rise through the ranks of the Devil Palace.
• Jiang Zhihuan welcomed Shi Yunhai and four ordinary martial artists to Flower Plucking Valley, unaware that the four men were spies from the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect.

Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai met with four young men from Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect to trade Demon Palace treasures for immortal jades, unaware that Hu Zhiyao had turned the buyers into unwilling pawns. The four had no payment, and Hu Zhiyao’s plan to use them against the First Divine Hall was underway.

• Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai welcomed the four young men to Flower Plucking Valley and asked for payment from their earlier deals.
• Jiang Zhihuan prepared more than one hundred and sixty Storage Bags of Divine Weapons, miraculous elixirs, and other goods for the four men to inspect.
• Jiang Zhihuan demanded a deposit of sixty thousand immortal jades and twelve thousand owed from earlier transactions, but the four men had brought no immortal jades.
• The chapter revealed that Hu Zhiyao had secretly imprisoned the four men, then released them with restrictions that let her control their lives and movements.
• Hu Zhiyao sent the four men to meet Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai as part of her plan to strike at the First Divine Hall.

Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai tried to force Hu Zhiyao’s four agents to accept harsher terms for a huge sale of goods stolen from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace. Yan Congjiao and Mo Guyu arrived before the transaction could be completed, and Mo Guyu spotted the Palace’s marked storage bags.

• Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai demanded a deposit of ninety-two thousand immortal jades and an eighty-twenty profit split from the four young men.
• The four young men agreed to the new terms but stalled because they had brought no immortal jades, and Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai grew suspicious of their behavior.
• A maid warned Jiang Zhihuan that Yan Congjiao and Mo Guyu had arrived, and the two God Children entered the pavilion despite his attempt to keep them away.
• Mo Guyu examined the pile of storage bags and recognized the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s markings, then questioned Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai about them.

At Flower Plucking Valley, Fourth God Child Mo Guyu discovered top-grade Storage Bags filled with treasures stolen from the Devil Palace treasury and accused First God Child Yan of selling them to hostile sects. Yan joined Shi Yunhai and Jiang Zhihuan in deciding to stop Mo Guyu from contacting the elders, and the chapter ended with Yan attacking him as Mo Guyu challenged him publicly.

• Mo Guyu recognized the Storage Bags as products of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, alarming Shi Yunhai and Jiang Zhihuan, who admitted the bags held treasures stolen from the treasury.
• Shi Yunhai told First God Child Yan about the theft, and Yan urged them to distract Mo Guyu rather than let him inspect the bags.
• Mo Guyu rejected Yan and Jiang Zhihuan's attempts to divert him, then accused Yan of stealing and reselling the Devil Palace's treasures.
• When Mo Guyu prepared to notify the Council of Elders, Shi Yunhai persuaded Yan to subdue him while they destroyed the evidence.
• Yan unleashed his late Grand Luo Dao Fruit cultivation at Mo Guyu, who defended himself and challenged Yan for attacking a God Child inside the Devil Palace.

First God Child Yan Congjiao was drawn into a scheme over stolen Devil Palace treasures and clashed with Fourth God Child Mo Guyu, who aimed to make him appear guilty. Seventh God Child Zhao Yuanchen arrived to support Mo Guyu, but the confrontation remained unresolved as Yan challenged them to fight despite his late Grand Luo Dao Fruit cultivation.

• Yan Congjiao’s cultivation at the late Grand Luo Dao Fruit stage was revealed as he faced Mo Guyu, Jiang Zhihuan, and Shi Yunhai in Flower Plucking Valley.
• Jiang Zhihuan began collecting the supreme Storage Bags, and Yan blocked Mo Guyu’s attack on him.
• Mo Guyu accused Yan of helping steal the Devil Palace’s treasures, and Yan realized that Mo had lured him into a trap before attacking him.
• Zhao Yuanchen emerged from hiding and joined Mo Guyu, backing his accusations against Yan and questioning why Yan had stopped Mo from reporting the theft.
• Mo Guyu warned Zhao Yuanchen that Yan had reached the late Grand Luo Dao Fruit stage, and Yan asked whether the two still intended to resist him.

The First God Child Yan Congjiao fought Zhao Yuanchen while Mo Guyu battled Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai, until Lin Bai and his allies arrived and interrupted the clashes. Mo Guyu accused Yan Congjiao and the two Dao Children of stealing Devil Palace treasures for enemy sects, and Hu Zhiyao summoned the Council of Elders while calling hidden observers out of the shadows.

• Mo Guyu and Zhao Yuanchen attacked Yan Congjiao, Jiang Zhihuan, and Shi Yunhai to stall for time, but Yan Congjiao gained the upper hand against Zhao Yuanchen.
• Five of Lin Bai's flying swords intervened, driving back Yan Congjiao, Jiang Zhihuan, and Shi Yunhai without killing them.
• Lin Bai arrived with Duanmu Lin, Shen Yunfan, Hu Zhiyao, Li Guxian, Yu You, and Old Wen, while Mo Guyu and Zhao Yuanchen greeted him.
• Mo Guyu accused Yan Congjiao, Jiang Zhihuan, and Shi Yunhai of stealing Devil Palace treasures and selling them to the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect.
• Hu Zhiyao contacted the Council of Elders and called for the people hiding in the surrounding mountains and forests to come out.

Hu Zhiyao and the other God Children exposed the First God Child’s theft and sale of Demon Palace treasures before thousands of witnesses, while Lin Bai stayed back and avoided taking the lead. The chapter ended with Mo Guyu presenting the Storage Bags as evidence and the First God Child angrily denying the accusation.

• Hu Zhiyao urged the gathered martial artists to appear, and Lin Bai warned her that the public scandal could damage the Demon Palace’s reputation.
• Wang Zhengyang, delegations from other territories, and thousands of martial artists gathered around Flower Plucking Valley.
• Elder Shi Renshan questioned the First God Child, then ordered Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai imprisoned while trying to leave with his disciple.
• Hu Zhiyao signaled Mo Guyu and Zhao Yuanchen, who challenged Shi Renshan for ignoring the First God Child’s alleged crimes.
• Mo Guyu displayed more than a hundred Demon Palace Storage Bags as evidence and accused the First God Child of selling stolen treasures to enemy sects.
• The First God Child furiously denied Mo Guyu’s accusation while Lin Bai continued watching from a distance.

Lin Bai watched accusations against the First God Child unfold as Shi Renshan tried to protect him by sacrificing Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai. Lin Bai accepted Shi Renshan’s proposal only while warning that the Devil Palace’s laws must apply equally, signaling his support to Hu Zhiyao, Li Guxian, and their allies against the Shi Family.

• Mo Guyu accused the First God Child of conspiring with Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai to sell the Devil Palace’s treasures, while Hu Zhiyao presented the Storage Bags and the four traders as evidence.
• The four traders confessed that the First God Child had ordered them to sell the stolen treasures, and the First God Child tried to kill them before He Gongji and Yao Daogu intervened.
• Shi Renshan blamed Lin Bai for the accusations and declared that Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai had acted alone, then offered to send them to the Council of Elders for judgment.
• Lin Bai accepted Shi Renshan’s proposal but warned that the Devil Palace’s laws should apply equally to everyone, including himself.
• Lin Bai realized that Hu Zhiyao and Li Guxian had been waiting for him to show his own commitment to opposing the Shi Family.

Lin Bai declared that he would fight the Shi Family for the position of Emperor Child and the Demon Palace’s future leadership. Three Saint Elders arrived at Flower Plucking Valley, issued a decree punishing the First God Child and ordering an investigation, then summoned Lin Bai to meet the Palace Master.

• Lin Bai rejected the Shi Family’s pressure and openly declared his resolve to fight for the Emperor Child position and the Demon Palace’s future leadership.
• Saint Elders Duanmu Peng, Luo Yuanjing, and Lei Qin appeared above Flower Plucking Valley, and Duanmu Peng invoked the Demon Palace’s iron laws.
• Duanmu Peng ordered He Gongji, Yao Daogu, and Zhao Fengxia to imprison Jiang Zhihuan, Shi Yunhai, and the other involved martial artists and investigate the incident.
• Duanmu Peng ordered the First God Child to remain in seclusion, cooperate with questioning, and accept the investigation; the First God Child obeyed.
• Duanmu Peng asked whether Lin Bai accepted the arrangements, ended the gathering, and told Lin Bai that the Palace Master wished to see him.

Lin Bai met with the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace after Hu Zhiyao’s actions exposed corruption tied to the Shi Family. The Palace Lord reprimanded Lin Bai for stirring up trouble before the Renaming Ceremony, while Lin Bai argued that he needed support within the Demon Palace; the meeting ended with Lin Bai asking what would happen if the Shi Family retaliated against him.

• Lin Bai left Hu Zhiyao with Elder He Gongji and Elder Yao Daogu, who asked Li Guxian how to handle the fallout from the incident.
• Hu Zhiyao urged the Elders to execute Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai and punish the First God Child as severely as possible.
• Li Guxian persuaded the Elders to direct the investigation toward the Shi Family’s failure to guard the Demon Palace Treasury, preparing to seize the Treasure Pavilion and treasury.
• Lin Bai met the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace at Contemplation Moon Cliff, where the Palace Lord scolded him for causing trouble before the Renaming Ceremony.
• Lin Bai explained that he needed to build support among the Demon Palace’s martial artists, and the Palace Lord declared that Lin Bai’s merits and faults canceled out.
• Lin Bai agreed not to cause further trouble, then asked what he should do if the Shi Family retaliated against him.

Lin Bai learned that Shi Renshan would likely delay his revenge until after the Renaming Ceremony, and discussed why his cultivation had stalled despite consuming one hundred Grand Luo Golden Pills. The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace suggested that the world’s laws might have been deliberately altered to restrain powerful cultivators, leaving Lin Bai to wonder whether martial artists were captive lambs.

• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace warned Lin Bai that Shi Renshan would probably wait until after the Renaming Ceremony to retaliate and urged him to plan with Li Guxian.
• Lin Bai told the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace that he had consumed all one hundred Grand Luo Golden Pills but had only reached the middle stage of the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm.
• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace speculated that Lin Bai’s Heaven Swallowing Race constitution and Supreme Avatar made his cultivation unusually difficult.
• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace explained that cultivation might grow harder because ancient wars disrupted the world’s laws or because someone deliberately altered them.
• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace compared martial artists to fish and lambs whose laws could be controlled by higher beings, and Lin Bai wondered whether they were captive lambs.
• Lin Bai connected the possible restrictions on cultivation to the disappearance of powerful special constitutions and talents from the four great realms.

Lin Bai sought more cultivation resources and the authority to allocate Thousand Provinces as he prepared to strengthen his position in the Demon Palace. The Palace Lord agreed to provide both after the Renaming Ceremony, but advised Lin Bai to hold the allocation documents until the political situation was settled.

• Lin Bai considered why extraordinary talents had vanished and suspected that someone had altered the laws of heaven and earth, then resolved to focus on cultivation and his duties in the Demon Palace.
• Lin Bai asked the Palace Lord for more cultivation resources, and the Palace Lord promised to select suitable pills after the Renaming Ceremony.
• Lin Bai requested allocation rights to several Thousand Provinces to win support from his allies and strengthen his forces against Shi Renshan and the Shi Family.
• The Palace Lord agreed to grant Lin Bai the documents but warned him to keep them until the situation was settled so his allies would not abandon him after receiving their territories.
• Lin Bai named more than twenty Thousand Provinces, and the Palace Lord remarked that they were among the Seven Nights Divine Sect's most valuable territories.

Lin Bai persuaded the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace to grant him control of twenty-seven fertile Thousand Provinces, arguing that the request served both his interests and the Demon Palace’s. He then told the allied God Children and Goddesses that their lineages could begin ruling their assigned territories, though the Edicts would remain with the Demon Palace until the overall situation was settled.

• Lin Bai asked the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace for twenty-seven Thousand Province Edicts, and the Palace Lord agreed after Lin Bai refused to let his past contributions be counted as payment.
• Lin Bai returned to the Imperial Palace, where Old Wen and Dao Child Yu You told him that several God Children and Goddesses were waiting.
• Lin Bai reassured Hu Zhiyao and the others that the Palace Lord had only scolded him, while warning that they must not cause further trouble before the Renaming Ceremony ended.
• Hu Zhiyao described how her plan had tied the Hu Family, Zhao Family, and Mo Family to Lin Bai, and Lin Bai promised to remember their contributions if he took control of the Demon Palace.
• Lin Bai told the assembled allies that the Palace Lord had approved the Thousand Province Edicts but that they would remain in the Demon Palace until the overall situation was settled, while their lineages could begin ruling the territories.

Lin Bai kept the Thousand Province Edict in his own hands to ensure the God Children and Goddesses continued supporting him, while Li Guxian arranged to use it to negotiate with their Lineages’ elders. As they prepared for Shi Renshan’s retaliation after the Renaming Ceremony, Li Guxian hinted that she already had a countermeasure.

• Hu Zhiyao bluntly asked whether Lin Bai was withholding the edict to keep the God Children and Goddesses from abandoning him, and Li Guxian defended his decision as necessary while the Devil Palace’s provinces remained unsettled.
• Li Guxian proposed inviting the elders of the God Children and Goddesses’ Lineages to the Devil Palace when Lin Bai showed them the edict, and Hu Zhiyao agreed to wait for his news.
• After the others left, Li Guxian explained that the Lineages’ true authorities needed to be consulted and said the Duanmu, Shen, Mo, Hu, and Zhao Families had shown interest in pledging allegiance.
• Li Guxian revealed that the Murong Family had also wanted to visit Lin Bai, and Lin Bai promised it a share of the fertile provinces if it pledged allegiance.
• Lin Bai warned that Shi Renshan would retaliate after the Renaming Ceremony and asked Li Guxian for a countermeasure, and she said she had anticipated the attack and already had a plan.

Lin Bai and Li Guxian planned to exploit the First God Child’s recent defeat by seizing control of the Treasure Pavilion and Demon Palace Treasury before Saint Elder Shi Renshan could retaliate. The chapter ended with Lin Bai reflecting that the risky scheme had broken his ties with the Shi Family but gained the allegiance of six divine palaces.

• Li Guxian recounted how Shi Renshan had risen from being an Earth-Rank Martial Soul outcast to a powerful leader, and proposed striking before he could prepare his retaliation.
• Li Guxian proposed taking control of the Treasure Pavilion and Demon Palace Treasury, then gradually stripping the Shi Family of its authority and military forces.
• Li Guxian warned that Shi Renshan might provoke infighting if his family faced defeat, and Lin Bai cautioned her against causing trouble before the Renaming Ceremony.
• Li Guxian left after saying she had another plan that depended on the right opportunity and would tell Lin Bai if it became viable.
• Lin Bai reflected that the scheme had severed his relationship with the Shi Family but brought six of the Nine Great Palaces to his side.

Lin Bai’s support from six palace families had resulted from Elder Shi Renshan’s efforts to win over smaller families and rivals among the great families, forcing the palace families to side with Lin Bai. As the Renaming Ceremony approached, Lin Bai received provincial documents, prepared to meet powerful Demon Palace figures, and learned that the Stone Throne could be activated by Devouring Power.

• Elder Shi Renshan won over small and medium-sized families and the Xiang Family and Duan Family, while his stalled negotiations pushed the Nine Great Palaces’ families into Lin Bai’s faction.
• Lin Bai received thirty provincial documents from the Palace Master, filled in five for the Hu, Duanmu, Shen, Mo, and Zhao Families, and entrusted the remaining documents to Old Wen.
• Lin Bai declined to meet visiting small and medium-sized families and ordered Old Wen to summon Goddess Li Guxian and prepare a banquet.
• Lin Bai contemplated the Stone Throne, and Goddess Li Guxian explained that its hidden power required Devouring Power to activate.
• Goddess Li Guxian reviewed the five completed documents and noted that the Murong Family’s provincial document was missing; Lin Bai said the family had not yet made a request.

Lin Bai prepared to meet the leaders of the Devil Palace’s divine hall families after they pledged allegiance to him, while considering how to address their interests and the conflict with Shi Renshan. As he bathed in the Immortal Cleansing Pool before the meeting, Yi Jinyun joined him and reminded him not to let the burden of his position consume him.

• Goddess Li Guxian advised Lin Bai to summon the leaders of the allied divine hall families, including the Murong Family, and Lin Bai ordered her to invite them to a banquet at the Imperial Palace.
• Lin Bai spent the night preparing for discussions about the Shi Family and the families’ future interests, while Old Wen and Dao Child Yu You arranged a grand banquet.
• Dao Child Yu You told Lin Bai that the Immortal Cleansing Pool was ready, and Lin Bai reluctantly agreed to bathe in its Sacred Spirit Spring Water before the meeting.
• Lin Bai sent the maids and Dao Child Yu You away so he could bathe alone, but Yi Jinyun appeared and massaged his shoulders.
• Yi Jinyun reassured Lin Bai that the Imperial Palace was safe and declined his invitation to bathe with him, noting that he had a meeting to attend.