Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan faced the Eight-Eyes monster and five kinds of Strange Insects, including an elusive Soul Devouring Beast, and realized the monster’s restriction tokens were the key to escaping. Lin Bai stayed behind to draw the swarm while Shen Yunfan charged at the monster, but the insects overwhelmed Lin Bai’s sword formations without appearing to diminish.

• Lin Bai recognized the Soul Devouring Beast as the greatest threat among the five kinds of Strange Insects summoned by the Eight-Eyes monster.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan concluded that killing the Eight-Eyes monster and taking his restriction tokens could let them escape the swarm.
• Lin Bai volunteered to hold off the insects while Shen Yunfan broke through to attack the Eight-Eyes monster.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, but the Eight-Eyes monster forced Spirit-Exploding Insects to detonate and the Hundred-Eyed Insects to blast holes through it.
• Lin Bai withdrew the formation and used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to crush large numbers of insects, but their swarms seemed unchanged.

Lin Bai fought Eight-Eyes’s Strange Insects while conserving his spiritual power, but the Soul Devouring Beast and the swarming insects pushed him into danger. After unleashing his Crimson Lotus Sword Domain to wipe out many of them, he kept the reborn Soul Devouring Beast at bay as Shen Yunfan attacked Eight-Eyes, who countered with Ironclad Insects and a bronze hammer.

• Lin Bai retreated while using his sword formation sparingly, but Eight-Eyes summoned the Soul Devouring Beast, which repeatedly bypassed Lin Bai’s defenses and reassembled after his attacks.
• Spirit-Exploding Insects and Corpse Immortal Insects caught Lin Bai, while a Hundred-Eyed Insect’s filament wounded him and the swarm overwhelmed the Sea God Pearl’s shield.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Crimson Lotus Sword Domain, killing most of the Strange Insects in its range, but the Soul Devouring Beast survived and reassembled.
• Lin Bai chose to conserve his remaining spiritual power and stall the Soul Devouring Beast while many Strange Insects remained.
• Shen Yunfan fought through the encirclement and attacked Eight-Eyes, whose Ironclad Insects formed a shield that stopped his sword strike.
• Eight-Eyes revealed the Ironclad Insects’ defensive strength, then spat out dark-green smoke that formed a bronze hammer and hurled it at Shen Yunfan.

Shen Yunfan wounded the Eight-Eyed man with his Void Tracking Swordplay, allowing Lin Bai to identify him as an Eight-Eyed Demon Toad and defeat him. The Demon Toad’s death freed the Strange Insects from his control, and they fled.

• The Eight-Eyed man attacked Shen Yunfan with Xuan Qing Demonic Energy, but Shen Yunfan used Void Tracking Swordplay to strike him repeatedly.
• The Eight-Eyed man unleashed Destructive Golden Light, destroying Shen Yunfan’s sword lights and forcing him to emerge injured.
• Lin Bai recognized the Eight-Eyed man as an Eight-Eyed Demon Toad and confronted him over the ancient conflict between humans and demons.
• Lin Bai attacked with the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation while Shen Yunfan held back the Soul Devouring Beast and the other Strange Insects.
• The wounded Demon Toad repeatedly used Destructive Golden Light, but Lin Bai’s flying sword ring broke through it and killed him.
• The Strange Insects and Soul Devouring Beast lost their controller and disappeared, and Shen Yunfan rejoined Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan defeated the Eight-Eyed Demon Toad, obtained its Destructive Golden Light, and collected five tokens they could not yet control. After hearing an explosion from the mountains, they headed toward it, suspecting the cave dwelling might be connected to the Myriad Realms Treasure Vaults.

• Lin Bai refined the Eight-Eyed Demon Toad’s remains into Destructive Golden Light and gave the treasure to Shen Yunfan.
• Lin Bai examined the five insect-control tokens but could not overcome their restrictions, so he stored them to take to Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan searched the battlefield, found no other valuable remains, and took pills to restore their spiritual power.
• A thunderous boom sounded from the mountains near the enormous peak, and Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan suspected other beings were there.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan speculated that the cave dwelling might be a Myriad Realms Treasure Vault and headed into the mountains.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan explored a vast mountain chain and headed for its summit, where other cultivators were already fighting. An air-restricting formation forced them to climb on foot, and they discovered a meditation cushion woven from Heavenly Secret Grass that Shen Yunfan could not remove.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan surveyed the mountain chain and suspected its original master had used it to raise spirit beasts and spirit insects.
• Lin Bai chose to head for the highest peak, where palaces and pavilions stood among the clouds and fighting had begun at the summit.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan entered the peak’s range and were forced to land by a powerful air-restricting formation.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan followed the White Jade Ancient Road for several hours and found a vermilion pavilion overlooking a mountain range.
• Lin Bai identified the pavilion’s meditation cushion as Heavenly Secret Grass, and Shen Yunfan explained that he had once received only one drop of Heaven Mending Liquid.
• Shen Yunfan tried to take the cushion, but a restriction held it in place, so Lin Bai told him to ask the Devil Palace for it later.

Fellow Daoist Array and the blood-robed young man, Fellow Daoist Blood Demon, plotted against each other as they sought to open the restriction to the cave abode’s third level. On the first level, Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan reached the mountain summit and discovered two Demon Race factions fighting over the immortal palace complex.

• Fellow Daoist Blood Demon urged Fellow Daoist Array to hurry and open the third-level restriction, while Fellow Daoist Array dismissed the intruders and secretly prepared to break it alone.
• After Fellow Daoist Blood Demon left, Fellow Daoist Array set up a defensive formation and began breaking the restriction, unaware that Fellow Daoist Blood Demon was secretly watching and intended to kill him once it opened.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan failed to remove the treasures on the mountain and continued toward the summit, with Lin Bai deciding not to expose his Devouring Power for treasures he did not need.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan concealed themselves near the summit and saw Dong Qi, Ning Shuang, Xie Chen, and other Demon Race martial artists battling another Demon Race group accompanied by five strange beasts.
• Lin Bai recognized the five beasts as Primordial Wilds Breeds but judged their bloodlines impure and called them Primordial Ancient Beasts instead.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan watched the Spirit Lake Demon Race struggle against the cave abode’s Demon Race, five ancient beasts, and deadly golden lightning. After the Demon Bat Clan’s young man exposed their hiding place and proposed an alliance, Lin Bai agreed to emerge and join the battle.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan observed the golden lightning kill another Spirit Lake Demon Race member while the cave abode’s Demon Race and five ancient beasts kept the attackers suppressed.
• The black-robed young man called out Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan’s hiding place and proposed that they join forces against the cave abode’s Demon Race.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan discussed the risks of allying with the stronger Spirit Lake Demon Race, then decided to act and emerged from hiding.
• Ao Qing recognized Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan, while the black-robed young man greeted them and welcomed Lin Bai’s help.
• The black-robed young man explained that his Demon Bat Clan’s innate abilities let him detect their concealment technique.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan rejected a proposed alliance with the Demon Realm martial artists, suspecting they would be betrayed once the cave-dwelling demons were defeated. The cave-dwelling demons launched a surprise attack with the palace’s restriction lightning, killing two demons, and Lin Bai identified the woman in green as the one controlling it.

• Lin Bai learned that fifteen demons had entered the cave dwelling and that seven had been killed, then questioned the woman in green about the place’s original master.
• A black-robed Demon Realm martial artist urged Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan to join forces, but Lin Bai refused because he expected the demons to betray them.
• The woman in green and the other cave-dwelling demons attacked after secretly gathering the palace’s restriction lightning.
• Lin Bai, Shen Yunfan, and the black-robed martial artist dodged the lightning, while two bolts struck and annihilated two demons.
• Lin Bai spotted the formation compass in the woman in green’s hand and concluded that killing her would weaken the enemy’s control over the lightning.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan joined forces with the Spirit Lake Demon Race to target the woman in blue and seize her formation disc, which controlled the palace’s lethal golden lightning. As the battle spread, Lin Bai distracted the five ancient beasts with his flying swords, then dodged a lightning strike using a movement technique he had learned in the insect chamber.

• The woman in blue used the formation disc to send golden lightning at Lin Bai and the others, while Lin Bai realized that her lightning was the Cave Abode demons’ main weapon.
• Lin Bai told Shen Yunfan they had to seize the formation disc, then demanded that the black-robed young man’s group fight without expecting him to reveal his strongest treasures for them.
• The black-robed young man secretly planned to use the Cave Abode demons to wear down Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan, while Ao Qing agreed and Xie Chen considered warning Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai sent six flying swords against the five ancient beasts, but the beasts and the old spider demon restrained them and prevented the sword formation from forming.
• Lin Bai charged toward the woman in blue with the Demon Sword, but she unleashed golden lightning at him, and he escaped its strike by shifting thirty zhang away with a technique from the Void Evasion Art.

Lin Bai coordinated with the Demon Race to attack the cave-dwelling demons while secretly planning to let the two sides weaken each other over the formation disc. As the fight continued, he reflected on the Demon Race’s cultivation, bloodlines, and inherited mystic arts.

• Lin Bai refused to activate his Supreme Divine Weapon or Supreme Avatar and assigned the Demon Race to fight the woman in blue and her companion while he and Shen Yunfan restrained the elders.
• Lin Bai told Shen Yunfan to hold back because the Demon Race would provoke the cave-dwelling demons into fighting desperately once it seized the formation disc.
• Shen Yunfan entangled the skinny old man, while Lin Bai freed the Dragon Eye Flying Sword from the pockmarked old woman’s spider silk and attacked her.
• The black-robed young man, Ao Qing, and the other demons attacked the woman in blue and her companion, but the woman used the formation disc to summon golden lightning that killed one demon.
• Lin Bai observed the fighters and considered how the Demon Race’s physical strength, innate mystic arts, and bloodline-based inheritance differed from human cultivation.

Lin Bai exploited the demons’ negotiations to kill the azure snake and seize its formation disk, then faced the Spirit Lake Demon Race while Shen Yunfan fought the cave-dwelling demons. The chapter ended as both sides divided the battlefield and prepared to battle.

• The azure snake and black snake transformed into their true forms, and the azure snake proposed joining forces with the Spirit Lake Demon Race to attack Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan.
• Lin Bai used his newly comprehended Blinking technique to reach the azure snake and kill it with one sword strike, taking its formation disk.
• The black-robed young man proposed renewing the alliance against the humans, but Lin Bai rejected him and prepared to fight the demons.
• Shen Yunfan killed the gaunt old demon and drew the black snake and the spider-form old woman away from Lin Bai.
• The black-robed young man sent Dong Qi and Ning Shuang to fight Shen Yunfan, while he, Ao Qing, and Xie Chen confronted Lin Bai.

Lin Bai faced the black-robed youth, Ao Qing, and Xie Chen as they unleashed their strongest attacks, but his Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation shattered their assault. He destroyed the black-robed youth’s bat phantom after it forced its way through the formation, while Ao Qing and Xie Chen retreated wounded.

• The black-robed youth warned Ao Qing and Xie Chen that Lin Bai was formidable and urged them to attack with their ultimate abilities before Lin Bai could use his Supreme Avatar or other defenses.
• The black-robed youth summoned his demon core, while Ao Qing and Xie Chen transformed into half-dragon forms and revealed their Dragon Might.
• Lin Bai unleashed his six flying swords and scarlet sword intent as the three opponents attacked from different directions.
• Lin Bai’s Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation tore apart Ao Qing and Xie Chen’s claw attacks, wounding both and forcing them to retreat.
• The black-robed youth’s bat phantom endured the sword formation and reached Lin Bai, who destroyed it with a hundred-zhang scarlet sword ray.

Lin Bai shattered the black-robed young man’s Fiend Shadow and realized that Ao Qing and Xie Chen had both held back rather than help him. The demon tried to flee with several powerful treasures, but Lin Bai destroyed them and caught up to him, leaving him wounded and begging for mercy.

• The black-robed young man suffered a backlash when Lin Bai destroyed his Fiend Shadow, then suspected Ao Qing and Xie Chen of deliberately withholding their strength.
• Lin Bai recognized that the three opponents were divided and decided to target the black-robed young man first.
• The black-robed young man concluded that he could not defeat Lin Bai and fled, throwing out several treasures to cover his escape.
• Lin Bai destroyed the firebird feather, bone dagger, Golden Light Beast demon core, and Flood Dragon reverse scale with his flying swords.
• Lin Bai’s remaining swords broke through the black-robed young man’s defenses and wounded him, prompting him to beg for mercy and call on Ao Qing and Xie Chen to attack.

Formation Fellow Daoist opened the passage to the cave abode’s third layer, and its dragon roar alerted a dragon prince and his father in the Demon Realm. Meanwhile, Xie Chen betrayed Ao Qing and helped Lin Bai turn against their enemies, leaving Lin Bai to attack the black-robed young man.

• Formation Fellow Daoist used his counter-formation to disable the second-layer formation, opening a passage as a powerful dragon roar struck him and exposed the hidden Blood Demon.
• Formation Fellow Daoist and Blood Demon raced into the third layer, while a dragon prince and his father heard the roar and tore through the void to find its source.
• As Lin Bai fought the black-robed young man, Ao Qing and Xie Chen secretly prepared to attack Lin Bai together.
• Xie Chen instead ambushed Ao Qing, severely injuring him, and offered to hold him back while Lin Bai dealt with the black-robed young man.
• Lin Bai accepted Xie Chen’s offer and charged at the black-robed young man.

Lin Bai pursued the black-robed youth, who summoned Old Man Tianfu from a bone fragment and sacrificed most of his essence blood before escaping. After Lin Bai killed the youth, Old Man Tianfu attacked him, and Lin Bai trapped the old man in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, though his sword lights could not pierce the black mist.

• The black-robed youth fled from Lin Bai, but Lin Bai caught up and attacked him with six flying swords.
• The youth used his essence blood to activate a bone fragment and summoned Old Man Tianfu, whose laughter halted Lin Bai and his swords.
• Old Man Tianfu drained two-thirds of the youth's essence blood, then blocked Lin Bai while the weakened youth escaped.
• Lin Bai secretly sent three flying swords after the youth, which killed him as Old Man Tianfu watched without intervening.
• Old Man Tianfu attacked Lin Bai, and Lin Bai trapped him in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, but the sword lights vanished into the old man's black mist.

Lin Bai fought Old Man Tianfu’s split-soul avatar, enduring its strange black-mist arts while seeking to exhaust the power within it. After surviving the avatar’s strongest attacks with the Flash mystic art, Lin Bai declared that its strength had nearly run dry and prepared to counterattack.

• Lin Bai realized that the skinny old man’s black-mist protection could evade the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, and deduced that the old man could not attack while maintaining it.
• The skinny old man formed black wings, rushed Lin Bai, and knocked away the Overlord Sky Halberd and Mount Tai Sword while mocking Lin Bai for wielding weapons he had not refined.
• Lin Bai inferred that the old man was a split soul whose power could not regenerate, then focused on defending with layered Taiji Two Forms Sword Formations and the Sea God Pearl to drain it.
• The old man unleashed a giant bat phantom, broke through Lin Bai’s defenses, and fired deadly blood rays, but Lin Bai escaped them with the Flash mystic art.
• Lin Bai told the old man that its power was nearly exhausted and sent six flying swords forward, preparing to attack.

Lin Bai killed the black-robed young man and his enormous bat separated soul, then returned to the giant peak to save Xie Chen from Ao Qing. The chapter ended with Lin Bai facing the transformed Flood Dragon after Ao Qing failed to swallow him and was wounded by his Crimson Lotus Sword Intent.

• Lin Bai combined the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and the Crimson Lotus Sword Domain to destroy the enormous bat separated soul, though the attack consumed half his spiritual power.
• Lin Bai found the black-robed young man's corpse and confirmed that the man had no storage treasure.
• A dragon roar shook the cave abode, and Lin Bai hurried back to the giant peak, where Ao Qing had revealed his Flood Dragon form and badly wounded Xie Chen.
• Lin Bai blocked Ao Qing's divine lightning with his sword formation and told the injured Xie Chen to rest.
• Ao Qing attacked Lin Bai by trying to swallow him, but Lin Bai's Crimson Lotus Sword Intent wounded Ao Qing's mouth and forced him to retreat.

Lin Bai battled Ao Qing, surviving the Flood Dragon’s roar and attacks before wounding him with his sword formations. He trapped Ao Qing in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and tore his body apart, but Ao Qing remained alive.

• Ao Qing used his dragon roar and tail to break through Lin Bai’s defenses and nearly struck his head, but Lin Bai severed Ao Qing’s tail with the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Lin Bai formed the Heavenly Wings Four Symbols and Taiji Two Forms sword formations, battering Ao Qing until the Flood Dragon unleashed his Azure Origin Divine Thunder.
• Lin Bai cut apart the remaining thunder and pressed his attack as Ao Qing admitted defeat only through his attempt to invoke the Spirit Lake Dragon King’s status.
• Lin Bai trapped Ao Qing in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and tore his dragon body apart, but Ao Qing survived with formidable vitality.

Lin Bai killed Ao Qing by devouring his demon core, then returned to the colossal peak as Shen Yunfan defeated the remaining enemies. Ning Shuang survived at Xie Chen’s request and offered to share what she knew about the cave dwelling.

• Ao Qing abandoned his body and fled inside his demon core, but Lin Bai stopped him with the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation and trapped him in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to devour Ao Qing’s demon core, restoring much of his spiritual power and healing some injuries.
• Lin Bai returned to the colossal peak, where he found Xie Chen gravely wounded and Shen Yunfan fighting Dong Qi and Ning Shuang; Xie Chen explained that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had tampered with his cultivation technique.
• Lin Bai promised to arrange for Xie Chen to join the Devil Palace’s Ninth Divine Hall and said the Devil Palace would investigate the Town Sea Sect’s dealings with the Demon Race.
• Shen Yunfan killed Dong Qi and nearly killed Ning Shuang, but Lin Bai ordered him to spare her after Xie Chen pleaded for her life.
• Ning Shuang thanked Lin Bai and offered to tell him what she knew about the cave dwelling.

Lin Bai learned that the Spirit Lake Dragon King sought an ancient cave abode because it held the remains of a Dragon Clan predecessor, which could help him rival a true dragon without transforming. Ning Shuang revealed that the cave abode had multiple layers and other powerful lifeforms, leaving Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan to face mysteries beyond the dragon remains.

• Lin Bai questioned Ning Shuang, and she admitted the Spirit Lake Dragon King had taken her in because she possessed a Three-Yin Constitution and used her as a furnace.
• Ning Shuang explained that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had come from the Demon Realm to seek an ancient cave abode connected to the Dragon Clan.
• Ning Shuang said that only eighteen Dragon Clan predecessors' remains remained unrecovered, and only one had fallen in antiquity, making him the likely owner of the cave abode.
• Ning Shuang revealed that the Spirit Lake Dragon King wanted the dragon bones to strengthen his Flood Dragon body enough to face a true dragon without transforming.
• Lin Bai found no dragon remains in the visible space, and Ning Shuang disclosed that the cave abode had at least two layers and contained other powerful lifeforms.