Chapter Summaries

Lin Mu obtained a map to the Netherworld Ancient Domain and traveled with his companions to Ming Tian City, where they waited for the domain to open. After reaching the city, he ended up sharing a quiet night with Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.

• Feng Xian found a dusty scroll in Starfall Pavilion's Scripture Repository that showed the Netherworld Ancient Domain's location and explained it would open in a month.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi arrived and offered to guard the Heavenly Court while Lin Mu's group traveled.
• Lin Mu and his companions set out for Ming Tian City and reached it after nearly a month of travel, three days before the domain opened.
• Lin Mu suggested sharing a room with Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian, but both women slapped him, so he returned to his own room.
• Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian came to Lin Mu's room that night, and the three quietly rested together.

Lin Mu and his companions attended Ming Tian City’s auction to find items useful for entering the Netherworld Ancient Domain. They learned that a Hidden Dragon Robe could conceal its wearer from the Beast Tide, but Cai Lin’s power made it unnecessary for their group.

• Tang Zhen and Tian Chen invited Lin Mu and the others to the special auction at the Netherworld Auction House.
• The auction opened with a Heavenly Hành Soul Turning Pill, which a bidder acquired after offering an Earth-tier Dou Technique.
• Ling'er introduced the Hidden Dragon Robe, explaining that it could help its wearer evade the Beast Tide around the Netherworld Ancient Domain.
• Cai Lin revealed that her Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python aura could intimidate most magical beasts, so Lin Mu’s group had no need for the robe.
• A ragged-looking old man won the Hidden Dragon Robe and immediately left the auction.

At the auction, Lin Mu and his companions acquired a mysterious stone slab bearing runes that Xiao Yi Xian could read. She deciphered it as a high-grade Heaven-tier Dou Technique called the Immortal Life Technique, left by a Dou Saint with the Calamity Poison Body.

• Xiao Yi Xian recognized the stone slab’s runes from Medicine Valley and said she could decipher them.
• Tian Chen bid two seventh-tier medicinal pills for the slab after realizing Xiao Yi Xian could read it.
• Back at their residence, Xiao Yi Xian used her purple Dou Qi to reveal and decipher the slab’s writing.
• Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the slab had been left by a Dou Saint with the Calamity Poison Body and recorded their strongest Dou Technique.
• The slab’s information entered Xiao Yi Xian’s mind, revealing the high-grade Heaven-tier Immortal Life Technique.

Lin Mu and his companions entered the Netherworld Ancient Domain and encountered its fearsome Beast Tide. Cai Lin used her Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline to make the energy-beasts part before them, allowing the group to hurry onward.

• Lin Mu and his companions traveled to the plain outside Ming Tian City and waited for the Netherworld Ancient Domain to open.
• The domain appeared as the space shifted, and Lin Mu's group entered with the crowds.
• A group charged ahead and triggered the Beast Tide, which consisted of countless powerful energy-beasts.
• Cai Lin sensed that the beasts retained bloodlines and other primitive traits, then tested her Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline against them.
• The Beast Tide yielded to Cai Lin, and Lin Mu's group rushed through the opening she created.

Lin Mu and his group crossed the Beast Tide, discovered a hidden passage into the true Netherworld Ancient Domain, and reached Nether City. They learned that the city’s guardians protected its inhabitants from the deadly Nether Moon, which awakened the lingering resentment of the fallen Netherworld Saint.

• Cai Lin’s bloodline power disrupted the Beast Tide, allowing Lin Mu’s group and a disheveled old man to cross it.
• Lin Mu used his soul perception and Heavenly Spirit Sword to reveal a spatial passage, then led the group through it with the World-Purifying White Flame.
• Lin Mu and his companions arrived in a beautiful inner region of the Netherworld Ancient Domain and traveled to a vast city.
• Kun Sheng told Lin Mu that Nether City was the domain’s only stronghold and that entrants had to defeat its Dou Venerate-level guardians.
• Kun Sheng explained that the Nether Moon turned the sky purple-gray and unleashed the fallen Netherworld Saint’s resentment, while Nether City remained safe.

Lin Mu and his companions learned that entry into Nether City required gaining the guardian’s recognition, then Lin Mu fought the guardian with his Hand of the Heavens. He realized the guardian could not truly be killed and believed his full-strength attack would earn its recognition.

• Kun Sheng explained that travelers had to gain the guardian’s recognition to enter Nether City, and Lin Mu agreed to let Kun Sheng join his group.
• Lin Mu stepped forward to fight the guardian after stopping Cai Lin, while Kun Sheng watched and concealed his own relief at avoiding a direct clash.
• Lin Mu unleashed the Hand of the Heavens, stunning Kun Sheng with the attack’s power.
• The guardian countered by charging into Lin Mu’s strike, and their attacks collided in a prolonged explosion.
• Lin Mu sensed that the guardian embodied the Netherworld Saint’s will and could not be killed, then told Tang Zhen not to worry.
• The explosion subsided, and the guardian appeared before the group again.

Lin Mu and his companions learned that the Nether Moon was a deadly, unpredictable threat in the Netherworld Ancient Domain and planned to explore in teams the next day. When they watched the night sky from Nether City, the moon abruptly turned purplish gray, revealing the Nether Moon and making Lin Mu look toward several figures outside the city.

• Kun Sheng told Lin Mu that the Nether Moon might be connected to the Netherworld Saint’s resentment and warned him never to spend a night outside during its appearance.
• Lin Mu decided the group would rest in Nether City and explore the Netherworld Ancient Domain the next day.
• Tang Zhen proposed splitting into teams, and Cai Lin assigned Tian Chen and herself to one team while Xiao Yi Xian and Lin Mu formed the other.
• Lin Mu and his companions gathered outside at night to observe the ordinary-looking moon, while Lin Mu noticed several figures beyond Nether City.
• The moon suddenly turned purplish gray, and Lin Mu turned toward the figures he had seen outside the city.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian explored the Netherworld Ancient Domain after witnessing the Nether Moon erase a Dou Venerate. They found a faint trace of the Immortal Life Technique in a strange space and entered an eerie secret chamber covered in shifting, laughing murals.

• The Nether Moon erased a fleeing Dou Venerate, prompting Lin Mu and the others to return to Nether City before nightfall.
• Lin Mu gave Cai Lin a jade stone made from the Seven-Colored Spirit Flame so he could sense if she crushed it, and Cai Lin left with Wu Chen and Tang Zhen.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian searched the Netherworld Ancient Domain and entered ruins that transported them to another space.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed a faint aura of the Immortal Life Technique, and the pair continued deeper into the space.
• A towering armored figure emerged from shattered space but stopped moving, so Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian left it behind.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian entered a vast secret chamber where shifting mural-like faces laughed eerily, frightening Xiao Yi Xian.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian followed the Immortal Life Technique’s signal to a sealed chamber in the Netherworld Saint’s strange domain, where they encountered a decayed armored figure. They escaped as night approached, planning to return the next day to claim the technique.

• Lin Mu studied the shifting smiling and weeping murals, then left the area with Xiao Yi Xian and learned that she could still sense the Immortal Life Technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian deciphered runes beside a massive stone door, causing it to open into the chamber they had been seeking.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian heard heavy footsteps and were attacked by a rotting armored figure that emerged from the darkness.
• Lin Mu pierced the armored figure’s chest with the Chaos Spirit Devouring Array, but it kept fighting and prepared a powerful strike.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Lin Mu that night was approaching, so he used his Kunpeng Wings to take them from the domain and said they would return for the technique the next day.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian returned to the ruins to retrieve the Immortal Life Technique, while Cai Lin and the others continued investigating similar light-and-shadow phenomena. Lin Mu fought the Rotten Guardian to give Xiao Yi Xian time, and she reached a Secret Chamber containing a peculiar stone slab.

• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian returned to Nether City and told Cai Lin and the others about the strange ruins and the powerful armored man.
• Cai Lin revealed that her group had encountered similar opposing forces of light and shadow in other ruins.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian set out the next morning and confirmed the Immortal Life Technique remained in the ruins.
• Lin Mu engaged the Rotten Guardian while Xiao Yi Xian hurried deeper into the ruins to retrieve the technique.
• Lin Mu unleashed the Thunder Dragon Swallowing Heaven Array and a powerful sword strike against the guardian as Xiao Yi Xian reached a Secret Chamber with a peculiar stone slab.

Xiao Yi Xian obtained the Immortal Life Technique and saw a vision of the Netherworld Saint and a mysterious tower in the Netherworld Ancient Domain. After she reunited with Lin Mu, the pair confronted Evil Flower Demon Lord and attacked him together.

• Xiao Yi Xian took the Immortal Life Technique from a stone slab and saw a vision of the Netherworld Saint fighting within himself, followed by an image of a tower in the Netherworld Ancient Domain.
• Xiao Yi Xian left the ruin and called Lin Mu away from his battle with the Rotten Guardian.
• Lin Mu asked whether Xiao Yi Xian had obtained the Immortal Life Technique, but a group led by Evil Flower Demon Lord confronted them and demanded their treasure.
• Evil Flower Demon Lord threatened Xiao Yi Xian, so she charged at him while Lin Mu intercepted the rest of his group with phantom bodies.
• Evil Flower Demon Lord attacked Lin Mu, but struck an afterimage; Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian appeared behind him and hit him together.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian defeated Demon Flower Evil Lord, then the group compared strange visions and discovered they pointed to a tower linked to Netherworld Saint’s dual nature. After agreeing to search for it together, they were confronted by the Nether Moon, whose powerful will injured Lin Mu.

• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian battered Demon Flower Evil Lord, and Lin Mu finished him with the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The group reunited in Nether City, where Cai Lin, Tian Chen, and Tang Zhen described encountering people with ill intentions and a space that shifted from beauty to horror.
• Tang Zhen showed the group a patterned black iron block, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized its markings from a black tower in her vision.
• Lin Mu connected the group’s contradictory experiences to the Nether Moon and Netherworld Saint, and the group resolved to find the tower together.
• The Nether Moon descended that night, and its overwhelming will forced Lin Mu back and made him cough up blood.

Lin Mu and his companions left Nether City to search for a black tower and encountered Soul Hall figures seeking cooperation. They agreed to work together after learning that their metal blocks were keys to finding the tower, though Lin Mu remained wary of his new allies.

• Lin Mu concluded that the Netherworld Saint's consciousness influenced both the Nether Moon and Nether City, then led the group out to search for a tower.
• Cai Lin sensed they were being followed, and Lin Mu identified the pursuers as Soul Hall members rather than Demonic creatures.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she could no longer sense the final part of the Immortal Life Technique and doubted it was in the Netherworld Ancient Domain.
• Hun Lin and Blood River Venerate approached the group and proposed cooperation, showing a metal block that resonated with Lin Mu's block.
• Blood River Venerate explained that three metal blocks were keys to a hidden place, and Lin Mu agreed to cooperate to locate the final key.
• Lin Mu told the Soul Hall figures that the hidden place was likely a black tower, and Blood River Venerate welcomed the partnership.

Lin Mu and Blood River Venerate followed the signal from their iron blocks into a deep cliff in search of the third key. As they explored the ruins below, they prepared for dangerous Rotten Guardians and agreed to protect one another.

• Lin Mu and Blood River Venerate combined the auras of their iron blocks and followed the directional signal to a vast, dark cliff.
• Lin Mu used Merit Golden Flame to protect the group from the destructive gales as they descended into the cliff.
• Tang Zhen sent nine silver dragons formed from Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire overhead to track the passage of time and warn them before nightfall.
• Blood River Venerate explained that the ruins were guarded by armored guardians and Rotten Guardians, including possible Half-Saint-level enemies.
• Hun Lin led the group to enormous ruins, where Lin Mu placed Golden Flame Demon Repelling Arrays within the group, Blood River Venerate, and Hun Lin.
• Lin Mu, Blood River Venerate, and Hun Lin agreed to cooperate and protect one another inside the ruins.

Lin Mu and his companions entered the ruins, where Xiao Yi Xian sensed a fading trace of the Immortal Life Technique. They encountered four peak Dou Venerate Rotten Guardians, and Lin Mu organized the group to hold them off.

• Blood River Venerate judged Lin Mu and his companions too dangerous to provoke as they approached the ruins.
• The gates opened, and Hun Lin sent soul bodies ahead to scout before the group entered.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed a faint trace of the Immortal Life Technique, and Lin Mu urged her to locate it.
• The group discovered a field of skeletons, then reached a quiet space where a Rotten Guardian attacked Blood River Venerate.
• Lin Mu identified four peak Dou Venerate Rotten Guardians and assigned himself, Cai Lin, and the others to keep them occupied.

Lin Mu and the others defeated the Rotten Guardians and continued deeper into the ruins, searching for the final piece of the key. They found a shattered crystal bearing a faint trace of the Immortal Life Technique, but the technique itself was gone.

• Lin Mu defeated a Rotten Guardian with the Six Paths Samsara Fist and finished it with lightning from the Lightning Bracelet.
• Lin Mu helped Hun Lin and the others defeat a second Rotten Guardian, then joined Cai Lin to defeat hers while Blood River Venerate killed the last one.
• The group discussed the Guardians’ resilience and continued deeper into the ruins to search for the final piece of the key.
• The group discovered a shattered crystal with a faint aura of the Immortal Life Technique, and Cai Lin wondered if it was where the technique they had obtained at the auction was located.

Lin Mu’s group found the location of the third key but withdrew rather than confront the Half-Saint-level Rotten Guardian before nightfall. The next morning, Blood River Venerate proposed using the Soul Hall’s Demon Binding Soul Decree Array to restrain the guardian while Lin Mu secured the key.

• Lin Mu sensed the third key ahead and warned that a Half-Saint-level Rotten Guardian guarded it, so Tang Zhen urged the group to leave before time ran out.
• Lin Mu led everyone back to Nether City, where he told Tian Chen and the others that their cooperation with the Soul Hall was temporary and they might fight over the key.
• The next morning, Lin Mu advised his group to avoid attacking any Half-Saint-level Rotten Guardian they encountered.
• Blood River Venerate revealed that the Soul Hall’s Demon Binding Soul Decree Array could bind the guardian, but said Lin Mu would need to obtain the third key while the array was deployed.

Lin Mu and his companions returned to the ruins, where Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin used the Demon Binding Soul Decree Array to restrain a Half-Saint-level Rotten Guardian. Lin Mu found the final black iron fragment and raced toward it while the guardian began breaking free.

• Blood River Venerate explained that he and Hun Lin needed the third key to jointly deploy the Demon Binding Soul Decree Array, and Lin Mu agreed to hand it over.
• Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin formed the array as the Half-Saint-level Rotten Guardian emerged, then bound it with black chains.
• Lin Mu and his companions descended into the space below and used the resonance of their iron fragments to locate the final fragment.
• Lin Mu told the others to wait behind and flew toward the fragment, while the imprisoned Rotten Guardian went berserk and strained against the array.
• Lin Mu reached the final iron fragment as Hun Lin struggled to maintain the weakening formation.

Lin Mu retrieved the final iron key piece and escaped two Half-Saint-level Rotten Guardians with the others. The pieces fused into the Black Gold Scepter, which Lin Mu kept as the group prepared to approach the black tower the next day.

• Lin Mu took the last iron block and led everyone away from the Rotten Guardians, using the Mysterious Fire Pearl to destroy their attack and escape.
• After recovering, Lin Mu joined the others as Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin brought their iron block together with his two pieces, forming the Black Gold Scepter.
• Blood River Venerate let Lin Mu keep the scepter and asked him to bring them to the final black tower; Lin Mu agreed to set out the next day.
• The group returned to Nether City, where Tang Zhen warned Lin Mu that he still distrusted Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin.

Lin Mu led his companions to the final black tower, where the Black Gold Scepter opened the way to a vast chamber containing a hundred-meter coffin. After Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin departed, the entrance closed behind the group, leaving them to investigate the coffin in a place that seemed protected from Nether Moon.

• Lin Mu watched Nether Moon descend, then returned to his residence and broke through to Two-star Dou Venerate.
• Lin Mu and his companions set out for the final black tower after Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin arrived.
• Lin Mu used the Black Gold Scepter to ignite the tower with black-gold flames and open its entrance.
• Lin Mu's group entered the tower and found a vast chamber with an enormous coffin.
• Blood River Venerate and Hun Lin ended their cooperation with Lin Mu and left without fighting.
• The spatial entrance closed behind Lin Mu's group, and Cai Lin noted that the chamber's aura resembled Nether City and might block Nether Moon.