Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai faced a group of Spirit Sons and unleashed the seventh form of the Supreme Sword, slaughtering them despite their combined attack. The thirteen Spirit Sons who had come to besiege him all lay dead, leaving Meng Chuan, Lin Miao, Nan Hui, and the others stunned.

• After Xiu Feng died, Jie Yu ordered the other ten Spirit Sons to summon their martial souls and attack Lin Bai together.
• Lin Bai used the seventh form of the Supreme Sword, Slaying the Gods, to shatter their combined attack and kill seven Spirit Sons while grievously wounding Liu Baoshen, Wei Tianyi, and Jie Yu.
• Jie Yu, Liu Baoshen, and Wei Tianyi tried to flee, but Lin Bai killed Liu Baoshen and Jie Yu as they attempted to escape.
• Lin Bai ignored Wei Tianyi's pleas for mercy and killed him, leaving all thirteen Spirit Sons dead.
• Meng Chuan, Lin Miao, Nan Hui, and the others stood petrified at the sight of Lin Bai's victory.

After killing thirteen spirit disciples in the Heavenly Pearl Secret Realm, Lin Bai returned to Divine Relic Ridge and began cultivating in the Sacred Spirit Pool. As he advanced to the great perfection of the Earth Core Realm, Su Cang learned of the massacre and arranged to meet Long Qingfeng, Qin Beiao, and others.

• Lin Bai collected the thirteen spirit disciples’ Storage Bags, spoke with Jian Ruohan about her plans and his goal of challenging a Saint Son, then warned Ye Jianqiu about his troubled state of mind before leaving the Heavenly Pearl Tomb.
• Three hours after Lin Bai left, spirit disciples and great demons arrived at the Heavenly Pearl Tomb and fought another battle, while Lin Bai returned to the five peaks and rested for five days.
• Lin Bai obtained permission to enter the Sacred Spirit Pool, teleported to it, and after three days of cultivation broke through to the great perfection of the Earth Core Realm, but he could not use the Devouring Sword Soul because an elder guarded the pool.
• A martial artist told Su Cang that Lin Bai had killed all the spirit disciples sent against him, including Jie Yu, Xiu Feng, Liu Baoshen, Wei Tianyi, and Zhang Xiao.
• Ye Banqiu told Su Cang that Lin Bai had once suppressed Long Qingfeng and Qin Beiao, and Su Cang asked him to arrange a meeting with them and other disciples from Lingnan.

After breaking through to the Heaven Core Realm in the Sacred Spirit Pool, Lin Bai studied a map of the ruined Crimson Immortal Sect and set out for a forbidden blood mountain marked on it. He reached the mountain, where eerie screams and a fleeing martial artist greeted him.

• Lin Bai ended his ten-day cultivation in the Sacred Spirit Pool after reaching the first level of the Heaven Core Realm, and the white-haired elder recognized his incomplete Grand Five Elements Art.
• After resting at Tempest Cave, Lin Bai reviewed a map of the Crimson Immortal Sect and chose to investigate a blood mountain marked as forbidden within the direct disciples’ area.
• Lin Bai used a teleportation array to enter the Crimson Immortal Sect battlefield and flew for ten days toward the blood mountain.
• Lin Bai reached the mountain, discovered an air-restriction array, and heard a woman’s screams and a man calling for help.
• A terrified martial artist fled down the mountainside and begged Lin Bai to save him.

Lin Bai encountered a powerful hairless monster on Blood Mountain and learned that Xiang Hui’s companions had been killed by creatures like it. While Xiang Hui escaped and reported that the Holy Sect’s target had been found, Lin Bai ventured deeper into the mountain to investigate the Crimson Immortal Sect’s destruction and the debt owed by his Heaven Swallowing Race.

• Xiang Hui fled from a hairless monster and begged Lin Bai to save him on Blood Mountain.
• Lin Bai killed the monster with his Azure Song Sword and Purple Cloud Sword, but its black-red liquid injured him when he tried to absorb it.
• Xiang Hui told Lin Bai that monsters had killed his friends and warned that Blood Mountain was likely a nine-star danger-level ruin.
• Lin Bai refused to leave and headed into the depths of Blood Mountain to learn what his Heaven Swallowing Race owed the Crimson Immortal Sect.
• Xiang Hui used his Shadow Transmission Compass to report that the Holy Sect’s target had been found.
• Hua Yuxian ordered Blade Fiend to gather the sect’s experts so they could go to Blood Mountain in one hour and try to seize the thing.

Lin Bai fought his way up Blood Mountain and found an Ascension Token in a ruined palace, its carved route pointing to a destination on the mountain. Five Heaven Core Realm martial artists confronted him over the Storage Bag, and their blue-robed leader wounded him when Lin Bai refused to hand it over.

• Lin Bai killed nine monsters on Blood Mountain and reached a shattered palace at the end of an ancient path.
• Lin Bai found a skeleton’s Storage Bag, whose contents had rotted away except for an Ascension Token carved with a route across Blood Mountain.
• Lin Bai decided to follow the token’s route, but five martial artists arrived and demanded the Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai tried to leave after explaining that the bag was empty, but the blue-robed man ordered him to open it for inspection.
• Lin Bai refused and attacked the group, but the blue-robed man struck him with a powerful palm and sent him flying.

Lin Bai killed four Heaven Core Realm attackers and their leader, then used the Devouring Sword Soul to break through to the second level of the Heaven Core Realm. Its appearance awakened an ancient skeleton in the Blood Mountain, which recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race and ordered Chang Yun to bring him over.

• Lin Bai repelled five martial artists with the Supreme Sword, killed four, and slew the blue-robed man despite learning his brother was Mei Jianqing.
• Lin Bai absorbed the five men’s blood and vital energy with the Devouring Sword Soul, advancing to the second level of the Heaven Core Realm.
• The Blood Mountain shook when the Devouring Sword Soul appeared, and an ancient skeleton recognized Lin Bai as one of its race.
• The ancient skeleton addressed Chang Yun and ordered him to bring Lin Bai to meet it.
• Chang Yun’s resurrected form expressed hatred toward Qing He and insisted that Qing He’s clansman must be destroyed.

Chang Yun, the Crimson Immortal Sect's Sect Master, summoned martial artists to Blood God Mountain and promised an Ascension Fruit to the first person to reach him beyond the nine gates. Lin Bai realized his token was an Ascension Token, and it transported him to another world.

• The skeleton elder summoned martial artists to Blood God Mountain, hoping others would kill Lin Bai, while Qing He trusted his clansman to prevail.
• Chang Yun announced that Ascension Token holders could enter the nine gates and that the first person to reach him would receive an Ascension Fruit.
• Lin Bai considered how the Ascension Fruit could shatter the Mandate of Heaven bottleneck and transform a martial soul into a Transcendent Soul.
• Lin Bai found that the token he had obtained was an Ascension Token and wondered how many others existed.
• The Ascension Token glowed, enveloped Lin Bai in spatial power, and transported him to another world.

Chang Yun’s announcement of the Ascension Fruit drew Ascension Token holders from Divine Relic Ridge and the Demon Race into a mysterious realm. Lin Bai arrived on a small island suspended in the void and spotted a familiar woman among the powerful martial artists gathered there.

• A Purple-Haired Man used his Ascension Token to teleport away after learning about the Ascension Fruit.
• Hua Yuxian recognized the fruit as the one Ye Jinghong had consumed and left Blade Fiend to lead the Five Venoms Sect disciples to Xiang Hui.
• The white-haired Holy Son gave his Ascension Token to Ke Han, who teleported away to seek the fruit.
• Ascension Token holders from Divine Relic Ridge and the Demon Race were transported to a strange world after their leaders urged them to seize the opportunity.
• Lin Bai arrived on Void Island, saw around a hundred powerful martial artists, and recognized one woman in the crowd.

Lin Bai and Hua Yuxian surveyed the formidable martial artists gathered for the Ascension Fruit, including Liang Kun and Long Hui. When a voice summoned the token holders, Lin Bai crossed the Ascension Bridge to enter the First Gate of the Nine Gates.

• Lin Bai reunited with Hua Yuxian on Void Island, where they saw more than a hundred powerful martial artists and demons gathered.
• Hua Yuxian told Lin Bai that Liang Kun had once challenged Ye Jianjun for the saint child position and hoped the Ascension Fruit would repair his damaged foundation.
• Hua Yuxian identified Long Hui as a peak Heaven Core Realm Demon Commander seeking to temper his divine soul with the Ascension Fruit.
• After waiting, the gathered fighters heard that enough token holders had arrived and were ordered to cross the Ascension Bridge and pass through the Nine Gates.
• Lin Bai stepped onto the white jade Ascension Bridge and vanished into the First Gate.

Lin Bai and Hua Yuxian crossed the Golden Desert and found a Pass Token in the Golden Ancient City, where martial artists fought sand soldiers for treasures. Chang Yun revealed that he had made Lin Bai's token shine to draw attention to him, leaving Lin Bai exposed inside the city.

• Lin Bai and Hua Yuxian teamed up and entered the Golden Desert, the first of the Crimson Immortal Sect's nine trials.
• After wandering for nearly three days, Lin Bai and Hua Yuxian followed other martial artists to the Golden Ancient City, where they fought its endlessly returning sand soldiers.
• Hua Yuxian deduced that Pass Tokens to the second trial were hidden in the city, and she and Lin Bai found one inside a house.
• Chang Yun made the token in Lin Bai's hand shine and announced that the city held thirty-two Supreme Martial Spirit Tools and one hundred and eight Pass Tokens.

Lin Bai helped Hua Yuxian enter the second trial, then escaped Hong Xiong’s attack and hid to recover. Pass Tokens began appearing around Lin Bai as Chang Yun secretly manipulated the trial, and the chapter ended with more than thirty tokens materializing before him.

• Lin Bai held off Hong Xiong while Hua Yuxian crushed her Pass Token and entered the second trial.
• Hong Xiong wounded Lin Bai with his Martial Soul, but Lin Bai escaped and hid in a remote room.
• Chang Yun caused a Pass Token to appear in Lin Bai’s room, and a ninth-stage Heaven Core Realm cultivator took it before Lin Bai could leave.
• Lin Bai found another Pass Token, avoided a Demon Race cultivator who claimed it, and wondered why the tokens kept appearing around him.
• Chang Yun remotely made more than thirty Pass Tokens appear before Lin Bai.

Lin Bai realized Chang Yun had arranged the Pass Tokens to draw powerful opponents against him, but he used his Flying Sword to seize most of the tokens in the Golden Ancient City. After waiting for the tokens to run out, Lin Bai entered the second round, determined to confront whoever was targeting him.

• Thirty-two Pass Tokens appeared around Lin Bai, drawing more than fifty powerful martial artists and members of the Demon Race who rushed to take them.
• Lin Bai fought off the attackers, collected all thirty-two tokens, and escaped the Golden Ancient City on his Flying Sword despite being wounded.
• Lin Bai flew through the city, stealing tokens as they appeared and bringing his total to eighty-one.
• Chang Yun watched from beyond the ninth barrier and realized Lin Bai had taken nearly all the tokens, leaving no more to reveal.
• After waiting three hours without another token appearing, Lin Bai crushed a token and entered the second round through a light gate.

Lin Bai entered the Infernal Earth Realm, where Chang Yun attacked him with fire dragons and overwhelming Infernal Earth power. Lin Bai devoured the power to reach the third level of the Heaven Core Realm, then entered the third trial, where Heavenly Thunder began to gather.

• Chang Yun unleashed his Myriad Dragons Heaven-Burning Formation against Lin Bai in the Infernal Earth Realm.
• Lin Bai used his Devouring Sword Soul to cut through and devour the fire dragons and Infernal Earth power.
• Lin Bai absorbed enough Infernal Earth to advance to the third level of the Heaven Core Realm, then left to search for the Pass Token.
• Qing He praised Lin Bai's Devouring Soul and mocked Chang Yun for helping him grow stronger.
• Chang Yun opened the gate to the third trial, and Lin Bai entered a sky filled with gathering thunder power.

Lin Bai used his Devouring Sword Soul to absorb heavenly lightning, then broke through the fourth trial’s Mountain of Formations and the fifth trial’s weapons with a single sword strike. He entered the sixth trial as Chang Yun watched in shock and Qing He mocked him.

• Lin Bai devoured the heavenly lightning in the third trial, strengthening his body and reaching the peak of the third level of the Heaven Core Realm before Chang Yun sent him onward.
• Lin Bai recognized the fourth trial as a Mountain of Formations and used the Devouring Sword Soul’s secret method to shatter its formations and restrictions.
• Lin Bai descended the mountain and entered the fifth trial, leaving Chang Yun astonished and Qing He amused.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method to destroy the fifth trial’s blades and weapons, then entered the sixth trial.
• Chang Yun admitted that members of the Heaven Swallowing Race were extraordinarily powerful as Qing He laughed at his failed trials.

Chang Yun gave Supreme Martial Spirit Tools to several cultivators to set them against Lin Bai, while Qing He dismissed the threat. Lin Bai entered the seventh trial, found a flood dragon’s remaining essence blood, and accidentally awakened its corpse by activating the Devouring Sword Soul.

• Chang Yun granted Lu Yang, Fu Yuan, Ke Han, Long Hui, Liang Kun, Sang Shuo, and Hua Yuxian powerful spirit tools to prepare them as opponents for Lin Bai.
• Qing He criticized Chang Yun for controlling the trials’ opportunities, but refused to interfere and told him the spirit tools were Lin Bai’s first opportunity to claim.
• Lin Bai entered the seventh trial and found a blood-red mountain range covered with the corpses of powerful demonic beasts.
• Lin Bai searched the corpses for demonic blood and discovered ten drops of vital essence blood inside a flood dragon.
• Lin Bai activated the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb the essence blood, causing the long-dead flood dragon to writhe and roar back to life.

Lin Bai discovered that Corpse Control Worms were animating the dead beasts in the Demon Tomb and killed the worms to defeat them. He harvested the beasts’ essence blood, broke through to the fourth level of the Heaven Core Realm, and continued searching the seventh level while Chang Yun watched.

• Dead beasts rose and surrounded Lin Bai, while Chang Yun explained that Corpse Control Worms were controlling them.
• Lin Bai fought the beasts but realized he could not kill them by destroying their bodies.
• Lin Bai struck a beast in the eye, exposed the worm inside, and confirmed that killing the worm stopped the beast.
• Lin Bai used One Sword Becomes a Thousand to kill worms throughout the horde and collected the beasts’ essence blood.
• After absorbing ten drops of a horned dragon’s essence blood, Lin Bai broke through to the fourth level of the Heaven Core Realm and continued searching the corpses.
• Chang Yun noticed Lin Bai had quickly discovered the worms’ weakness.

Lin Bai reached the peak of the fourth level of the Heaven Core Realm while searching the seventh pass for blood essence, where Long Hui arrived and attacked the martial artists scavenging Demon Race corpses. Long Hui killed seven scavengers and then struck Lin Bai with the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Seamless Needle, while Chang Yun watched and revealed that he had arranged the encounter.

• Lin Bai found nearly a hundred drops of blood essence in the seventh pass and advanced to the peak of the fourth level of the Heaven Core Realm.
• Several martial artists entered the seventh pass and began taking apart the demon beast corpses for their valuable remains.
• Long Hui entered the pass, saw the scavengers dismembering Demon Race seniors, and killed all seven with the Seamless Needle.
• Long Hui attacked Lin Bai from a distance, and the needle pierced Lin Bai's chest despite his attempt to dodge.
• Chang Yun watched the two meet and identified Long Hui as a great-completion Heaven Core Realm genius wielding the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Seamless Needle.

Lin Bai was cornered by Long Hui and Fu Yuan in the Seventh Pass and faced death after Fu Yuan’s Supreme Martial Spirit Tool shattered his defenses. Just as Lin Bai prepared to use the Great Barren Art, Qing He intervened with a colossal finger descending from the sky.

• Long Hui attacked Lin Bai with a hidden silver needle, but Lin Bai fled on his Flying Sword and was struck down by Fu Yuan’s thunderous battle-axe.
• Long Hui told Fu Yuan that Lin Bai had humiliated the Demon Race’s seniors in the Demon Tomb, and Fu Yuan joined him in seeking revenge.
• Lin Bai sensed that Chang Yun was watching from beyond the Ninth Pass, while Qing He told Chang Yun he would help his race’s junior by killing the already-dead Demonic Beasts.
• Fu Yuan shattered Lin Bai’s attacks and wounded him severely with his Supreme Martial Spirit Tool, then raised his axe for another strike.
• Lin Bai began preparing to use the Great Barren Art, but the Seventh Pass shook as a gigantic finger descended, destroying bones and Corpse Control Worms.

A mysterious Heaven Swallowing Race senior destroyed the beasts in the Seventh Pass, healed Lin Bai, and advanced his cultivation before Lin Bai escaped into the Eighth Pass. There, Lin Bai and the others discovered a Blood Temple refining a pill with blood, and the group faced the prospect of killing one another to complete it.

• Qing He of the Heaven Swallowing Race annihilated the beast corpses and Corpse Control Worms, sent their vital essence to Lin Bai, healed him, and raised him to the fifth level of the Heaven Core Realm.
• Lin Bai fled into the Eighth Pass as Long Hui and Fu Yuan pursued him, and other martial artists followed after them.
• Lin Bai found a blood moon, four Blood Rivers, and an ancient temple where four Demon Buddhas directed the blood into an Alchemy Furnace.
• The temple's chanting revealed that the pill needed human and demon blood, and the gathered martial artists wondered what power it would grant.
• The Purple-Haired Man and Long Hui proposed taking blood from those present, and killing intent spread among the eight people.

Lin Bai watched the others battle over the divine pill, then decided to seize it despite the danger. He smashed the Alchemy Furnace, took the unfinished pill, and fled through the newly revealed gate into the ninth trial as the others pursued him.

• The Purple-Haired Man and Long Hui clashed, while Fu Yuan fought Lu Yang and Sang Shuo attacked Hua Yuxian with their Supreme Martial Spirit Tools.
• Ke Han and Lin Bai withdrew from the fighting, and Lin Bai weighed leaving the Blood Temple against taking the divine pill.
• Lin Bai decided to claim the pill and struck the Alchemy Furnace with his Azure Song Sword, breaking it open.
• A blood-red pill appeared, and the blast revealed a light gate leading to the ninth trial.
• Lin Bai seized the unfinished pill and rushed through the gate, and the others chased after him.