Recaps

Lin Mo tested the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation and realized its immense Divine Sense cost made it too dangerous for him to use casually. After receiving an invitation from Du Zhong, he went to the Black Market and hinted that he was interested in Du Zhong’s offer concerning ascension.

• Lin Mo stopped testing the formation after its first variation consumed a tenth of his Divine Sense, then told Chen Li to watch over the Spirit Plants.
• Qin Sang Sang gave Lin Mo a letter from Du Zhong, and Lin Mo asked her to return Wang Erhu’s Storage Bag to him.
• Lin Mo burned Du Zhong’s letter, spent the day with Qin Sang Sang and his parents, then left for the Black Market after nightfall.
• Lin Mo saw that the Black Market had grown busier since Han Kang reached the nascent soul stage and asked the queued disciples to give him privacy.
• Lin Mo set up a Small Concealment Formation, met Du Zhong, and said he was interested in the matter of ascension.

Lin Mo learned that the Tai Sui Gate blamed a powerful Upper Realm being for draining the Divine Continent’s spiritual energy and planned to revive its sleeping Holy Lord. He accepted a token to attend the Heaven-Bearing Ceremony on Divine Punishment Island, intending to go alone and decide whether it was safe after seeking a divination.

• Du Zhong told Lin Mo that a mighty being from the Upper Realm was draining the Divine Continent’s spiritual energy and preventing ascension.
• Du Zhong revealed that disruptions to the Tai Sui Gate’s recent sacrifice had delayed the Holy Lord’s revival.
• Du Zhong gave Lin Mo a Tai Sui Token and invited him to the Heaven-Bearing Ceremony on Divine Punishment Island in half a month.
• Lin Mo accepted the token but resolved not to join the Tai Sui Gate and planned to attend the ceremony alone.
• Lin Mo left the Black Market and decided to ask Dantai Jingyu to divine whether attending the ceremony would bring ill omens.

Lin Mo sought Dantai Jingyu’s divination before setting out east toward the Endless Marshlands, but an unknown power interfered with the reading. Despite the warning that his journey’s fortune remained uncertain, Lin Mo resolved to leave immediately to pursue the Tai Sui Gate, carrying Luan Xiuping’s protective Two-World Bell.

• Lin Mo praised Dantai Jingyu’s earlier divination and revealed that he had condensed a pseudo core.
• Dantai Jingyu divined Lin Mo’s journey and sensed an unknown power obscuring heaven’s secrets, making the results uncertain.
• Dantai Jingyu left to report the strange interference to his father and Grand Elder Zhuge, and warned Lin Mo not to act rashly.
• Luan Xiuping recognized that Lin Mo would leave to confront the Tai Sui Gate regardless of the divination’s warning.
• Luan Xiuping gave Lin Mo the Two-World Bell for protection, and Lin Mo accepted it before setting out at once.

Lin Mo traveled through the Eastern Isles to Divine Punishment Island and was stunned by the enormous force of Tai Sui Gate Fiends gathered for the Heaven-Bearing Ceremony. After landing on the island, he noticed its strange traces of tribulation lightning and spotted a familiar face in the crowd.

• Lin Mo reflected on the Eastern Isles’ sparse Teleportation Arrays and the limits of his efforts to weaken Tai Sui Gate.
• As Lin Mo neared Divine Punishment Island, he saw hundreds of thousands of Tai Sui Gate Fiends, including vast numbers of Foundation Establishment Cultivators and Golden Core True Lords.
• Lin Mo realized Du Zhong had invited him to witness a display of Tai Sui Gate’s power, but he remained undaunted by the gathering.
• Lin Mo joined the crowd landing on Divine Punishment Island and observed the tribulation lightning remnants that avoided living creatures.
• Lin Mo searched the island for the ceremony site, then spotted a familiar face he had not seen in a long time.

At Divine Punishment Island, Lin Mo discovered that Xun Bin had survived and secretly marked him, then witnessed the Tai Sui Gate raise an ancient Bronze Gate and begin a blood sacrifice. The chapter left Lin Mo realizing that controlled followers were being killed as offerings to summon the Holy Lord Phantom.

• Lin Mo spotted Xun Bin, secretly placed a divine sense imprint on him, and resolved to kill him after the ceremony.
• A nearby Golden Core True Lord sensed a divine sense fluctuation, but a roar from the island's center drew him and the crowd away.
• Lin Mo joined hundreds of thousands of Tai Sui Gate fiends as an enormous Bronze Gate covered in demon patterns rose from a vast pit.
• An elderly voice from the gate announced that the World-Saving Holy Spirit was about to awaken and ordered the fiends to summon the Holy Lord Phantom.
• The fiends offered Tai Sui Pills while others walked into red light and vanished, and Lin Mo realized the victims were controlled people being used as living sacrifices.

Lin Mo witnessed the Tai Sui Gate sacrifice more than a hundred thousand controlled cultivators to summon the Holy Lord Phantom, then realized the concealed Bronze Gate was tied to a powerful being beneath the earth. After the ceremony ended, he spotted Xun Bin alive and followed him west, determined to capture him.

• Lin Mo recognized that the Tai Sui Gate Fiends were mind-controlled cultivators being sacrificed as they marched into the Bronze Gate, including Xun Bin.
• The Bronze Gate opened a crack, released ink-black air, and summoned a seven-horned Holy Lord Phantom as the Tai Sui Gate Fiends worshiped him.
• The Holy Lord Phantom extended a six-fingered claw before fading, and the Bronze Gate concealed itself while Lin Mo sensed that a powerful being remained hidden within it.
• Lin Mo inferred that the Bronze Gate was a sealing treasure and rejected the risk of searching for the Holy Lord's true body.
• Lin Mo saw Xun Bin leave with a Golden Core True Lord and secretly followed them west across Divine Punishment Island, intending to capture Xun Bin alive.

Lin Mo ambushed the Golden Core True Lord, Xun Bin, and eight other Tai Sui Gate Fiends, killing the eight and sealing the pair in the White Sun Tower. He brought the captives into the Treasure Gourd Space, where the Golden Core True Lord discovered he could neither use his powers nor move freely.

• Lin Mo used the Spirit-Devouring Vine and White Sun Tower to capture the seventh-layer Golden Core True Lord and Xun Bin.
• Lin Mo killed the eight nearby Tai Sui Gate Fiends with his Curled-Branch Swords, collected their belongings, and burned their bodies to ashes for Chen Li.
• Lin Mo flew to a medium-sized island, set up a Seventh-Grade Concealment Formation, and entered the Treasure Gourd Space.
• Lin Mo released the Golden Core True Lord and Xun Bin from the White Sun Tower into the Gourd Space.
• The Golden Core True Lord found himself unable to use his divine sense or Dharma Power, while Chen Li appeared nearby as a resentful ghost.

Lin Mo captured Xun Bin and a Golden Core True Lord in the Gourd Space and questioned them about the Holy Lord. He learned that the Holy Lord’s awakening could be delayed by repairing a Demon-Suppressing Ancient Stele or sealing the fissure beneath it.

• Lin Mo used the Gourd Space’s power to restrain and torment the Golden Core True Lord, then confronted the terrified Xun Bin about his ties to the Tai Sui Gate.
• Lin Mo threatened to experiment on Xun Bin to uncover how the Tai Sui Gate controlled minds, while Xun Bin feared the worst.
• Lin Mo questioned the Golden Core cultivator surnamed Feng, who revealed that the Bronze Gate was a Demon-Suppressing Ancient Stele damaged by the Tai Sui Gate and that the Holy Lord had summoned four great sacred spirits.
• Feng said the other four realms would become the Holy Lord’s Dao Field, but claimed he knew nothing about the fissure or how to delay the awakening.
• Xun Bin revealed that the fissure connected to the Divine Land Dragon Vein, that nine Demon-Suppressing Ancient Steles existed, and that repairing the damaged stele or sealing the fissure could delay the Holy Lord’s awakening.

Lin Mo learned that the Earth Rift was tied to the Holy Lord’s awakening, but Xun Bin knew no way to repair the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Stele. After waiting in the Treasure Gourd for more than twenty days outside, Lin Mo set out for Divine Punishment Island again to try sealing the rift.

• Lin Mo questioned Xun Bin about the ancient stele and Earth Rift, then destroyed Feng and shattered Xun Bin’s dantian before leaving him in Chen Li’s care.
• Lin Mo gathered the spoils, considered using the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation on the Earth Rift, and chose to wait safely inside the Treasure Gourd.
• Lin Mo cultivated for more than half a year inside the Gourd Space while over twenty days passed outside, and Xun Bin grew awed by his abilities.
• After learning how much time had passed, Lin Mo left the Treasure Gourd and flew toward Divine Punishment Island again.

Lin Mo investigated the ocean Demon Beasts gathering on Divine Punishment Island, then returned to the ancient demon-suppressing stele to seal the fissure with the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation. He began activating the formation after growing a vast ring of vines around its opening.

• Lin Mo noticed low-rank ocean Demon Beasts fleeing the waters and gathering on Divine Punishment Island, though he found no clear cause.
• Lin Mo tasted the seawater, decided the unusual signs were too faint to pursue, and marked a late ninth-rank fish monster so he could detect if stronger beasts arrived.
• Lin Mo secretly investigated the island's center with the Gu-Devouring Bee and confirmed that the ancient demon-suppressing stele and fissure remained there.
• Lin Mo released the Spirit-Devouring Vine and Azure Sun Vine, then used spirit spring water to grow thousands of vines around the fissure.
• Lin Mo began activating the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, declaring that the vines would form its seal.

Lin Mo sealed the fissure beneath Divine Punishment Island with thousands of immensely powerful vines, then headed back to the Azure Cloud Sect. Far away in the Endless Marshlands, a Flood Dragon Skeleton sacrificed itself to unleash a spreading sea of blood and toxic mist toward Divine Punishment Island.

• Lin Mo formed a golden net of 4,600 vines that absorbed abundant spiritual energy and approached Golden Core perfection.
• Lin Mo confirmed that the late ninth-rank fish monster remained alive and that no eighth-rank marine Demon Beast had reached Divine Punishment Island, then flew east toward the Azure Cloud Sect.
• In the Endless Marshlands, a vast vortex dragged nearby Demon Beasts into its center and ground them to pieces.
• A Flood Dragon Skeleton emerged from the vortex, gazed toward Divine Punishment Island, and flooded the sea with blood as it disintegrated.
• The Flood Dragon Skeleton's remains produced gray-black mist, and the blood sea and mist dissolved every marine Demon Beast they touched as they advanced toward Divine Punishment Island.

Strange forces transformed the Western Region, Southern Frontier, and Far Northern Icefield, bringing calamities that drained spiritual power and disrupted the natural order. The chapter ended with a frail old turtle emerging from the heart of the icefield.

• A Nameless Buddha Statue became a three-headed, six-armed figure whose gray-black radiance spread across the Western Region, draining Buddhist disciples’ merit and turning the dead into wandering souls and walking corpses.
• The Esoteric Sect Leader and Zonge suppressed the attacks on Buddha Hand Peak, but the Western Region’s Buddha light faded and the land fell into darkness and chaos.
• A gigantic skeletal woman in a burning red robe crossed the Southern Frontier, consuming spiritual energy and weakening the land’s earth vein qi.
• A white-haired woman performed a three-day ritual in the Far Northern Icefield, sacrificing herself as a crack widened beneath her and polar night arrived early.
• A frail old turtle crawled out of the heart of the icefield.

Lin Mo advanced to the golden core stage by easily surviving all nine tribulation bolts, while his unusual spirit seed sprouted in place of a golden core. He wondered what would happen to the spirit plant when he eventually reached the nascent soul stage, unaware that its glow was strengthening his already formidable body.

• Lin Mo returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, reported his trip to Luan Xiuping, and continued cultivating while Han Kang remained in seclusion.
• After more than two years of cultivation inside the Gourd Space, Lin Mo sensed that the spirit seed in his dantian was close to sprouting and prepared to face the golden core tribulation.
• Han Kang emerged from seclusion and told Lin Mo that his treasures and foundation made the tribulation unlikely to endanger him.
• Lin Mo blocked all nine rounds of tribulation lightning with the White Sun Tower, allowing only a trace of the final bolts to temper his body.
• After the tribulation, Lin Mo discovered that the spirit seed had shattered its pod and grown an emerald shoot with three thousand rootlets and twelve branches.
• Lin Mo wondered whether the spirit plant would shatter or bear a nascent-soul-like fruit when he advanced, while its faint halo continued to strengthen his body.

After Lin Mo’s Golden Core advancement ceremony, Qionghengzi and Qiongsongzi revealed that disasters had struck across the Divine Land, including a deadly blood sea spreading through the Endless Marshlands. Suspecting the catastrophe was connected to the Holy Lord of Tai Sui Gate, Lin Mo agreed to investigate the blood sea at Divine Punishment Island.

• Allied sects and factions gave Lin Mo precious gifts, which he entrusted to the Azure Cloud Sect before his advancement ceremony ended.
• Qionghengzi and Qiongsongzi told the gathering that calamities had struck the Western Region, Southern Frontier, Northern Plains, and Endless Marshlands.
• Qiongsongzi warned that the blood sea could engulf the Eastern Isle within half a year and dissolve living creatures into pus and blood.
• Lin Mo recounted his visit to Divine Punishment Island and said the Holy Lord Phantom’s actions might be connected to the disasters.
• Tantai Yan and Zhuge Fengming refused to divine a solution, fearing the karmic backlash would kill them.
• Lin Mo volunteered to test whether his physique could counter the blood sea, and four Nascent Soul Great Cultivators promised to protect him as he set out for Divine Punishment Island.

As the Spirit Turtle Sect’s thousand-foot Patriarch neared death, it sensed that its long-lost elder brother was approaching and sent Ling Yushu to find him, claiming he could resolve the Blood Sea Tide. Far away, Lin Mo’s strange spirit plant pointed him north while he traveled with Qiongsongzi toward Divine Punishment Island.

• The elders told Ling Yushu that the ancient turtle had only a few days left to live and that its death would leave Spirit Turtle Island vulnerable to the Blood Sea.
• The ancient turtle sensed its missing elder brother nearby and told Ling Yushu to bring him to the sect, saying he could resolve the Blood Sea Tide.
• Ling Yushu took three elders and flew north in the direction indicated by the ancient turtle.
• While traveling with Qiongsongzi toward Divine Punishment Island, Lin Mo noticed that the twelve buds on his strange spirit plant all pointed north.

Lin Mo and the Nascent Soul cultivators found an ancient Black Tortoise descendant in the blood sea, where it had been nurturing a golden fir sapling at the cost of its life. As Lin Mo began to take the sapling at the tortoise’s request, Ling Yushu and the Spirit Turtle Sect’s elders arrived and blocked him.

• Following the spirit plant’s guidance, Lin Mo redirected Qiongsongzi north and found a dying Black Tortoise descendant floating unharmed in the blood sea.
• Lin Mo asked whether the tortoise could communicate and realized it was trying to show him something in its mouth.
• Lin Mo spotted a golden fir sapling surrounded by mist made from the tortoise’s blood and vital energy, and the tortoise nodded when he offered to retrieve it.
• Lin Mo drew the sapling toward his palm, but Ling Yushu and the Spirit Turtle Sect’s three Grand Supreme Elders arrived and ordered him to stop.
• Qionghengzi told Ling Yushu that the tortoise had given the sapling to Lin Mo and warned the Spirit Turtle Sect not to seize it by force.

Ling Yushu took the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir from Lin Mo despite the old turtle’s wishes, but Lin Mo restored the turtle’s vitality with spirit spring water. The rejuvenated turtle then offered to pursue Ling Yushu and reclaim the fir.

• Ling Yushu introduced himself as the Spirit Turtle Sect’s Sect Master and asked the old turtle to return with him, but the turtle confirmed that Lin Mo alone could cultivate the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir in time to stop the Blood Sea.
• Ling Yushu insisted on taking the fir back to the Spirit Turtle Sect, and Lin Mo chose not to fight him over it.
• The old turtle refused to return with Ling Yushu, who departed with the three Grand Supreme Elders after taking the fir.
• Lin Mo offered the old turtle diluted spirit spring water to restore its vigor, and the turtle drank all one hundred drops.
• The old turtle regained immense strength, rose above the Blood Sea, and invited Lin Mo onto its back so they could pursue Ling Yushu and reclaim the fir.

Lin Mo and the Nascent Soul cultivators rode the rejuvenated old turtle, which forced Ling Yushu to surrender the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir. The old turtle explained that its lifespan had not increased, and Lin Mo offered more Special Spirit Liquid only in exchange for treasures.

• Lin Mo and four Nascent Soul cultivators boarded the old turtle, which carried them swiftly across the Blood Sea.
• The old turtle dropped onto Ling Yushu and three Grand Supreme Elders, then demanded that Ling Yushu hand over the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir.
• Ling Yushu surrendered the sapling, and the old turtle sent it to Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo stored the sapling and recalled that planting it at the Blood Sea's source after it matured could end the calamity.
• Ling Yushu asked whether the old turtle's recovered vitality meant the Spirit Turtle Sect's guardian ancestor could also regain his strength.
• The old turtle said its lifespan had not increased, and Lin Mo offered Special Spirit Liquid in exchange for treasures.

Lin Mo restored the Spirit Turtle Sect’s dying patriarch with diluted spirit spring water and reunited him with his elder twin brother. He planted the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir and began nourishing it with his blood essence, hoping to mature it within two days before setting out to confront the Blood Sea.

• The Spirit Turtle Patriarch sensed his elder twin brother’s arrival and eagerly greeted him at the sect’s Back Mountain.
• Lin Mo poured one hundred drops of diluted spirit spring water into the Spirit Turtle Patriarch, restoring him to peak condition.
• The old turtle told Lin Mo that he and his brother would accompany him to the Endless Marshlands to suppress the Blood Sea’s source once the fir matured.
• Ling Yushu invited Lin Mo and the others to a banquet, but Lin Mo declined and planted the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir sapling.
• Lin Mo said his special constitution could mature the fir in two days, then cut his wrist and poured his blood essence into its soil.

Lin Mo discovered that his vitality essence could not further advance the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir, and the old turtle revealed that a mysterious cultivator from the Upper Realm had altered the seedling more than six thousand years ago. The old turtle had given it to Lin Mo because his aura reminded him of that cultivator, who had foretold the blood sea calamity.

• Lin Mo examined the rapidly growing Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir and concluded it might already have been advanced or mutated before absorbing his vitality essence.
• Lin Mo asked the old turtle where the fir seedling came from and how it could suppress the source of the blood sea.
• The old turtle recounted how, more than six thousand years earlier, a young cultivator found him beneath the Northern Frontier Icefield and transformed a frosted fir seed into the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir.
• The old turtle said the mysterious cultivator foretold a blood sea calamity and instructed him to nurture the fir for that future disaster.
• The old turtle explained that he gave Lin Mo the fir because Lin Mo's aura and bearing resembled those of the cultivator from the Upper Realm.

Lin Mo learned more about the mysterious young man connected to the old turtle and received a powerful piece of Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor infused with Black Tortoise blood. As the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir neared maturity, Ling Yushu and the three Grand Supreme Elders departed to locate the blood sea’s source ahead of the coming confrontation.

• The old turtle recalled the blue-robed young man who had sealed him beneath the ice, while Lin Mo considered and dismissed the possibility that he was the Azure Emperor’s reincarnation.
• The old turtle infused one piece of Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor with his heart’s blood, giving Lin Mo armor that could protect him from anyone below the late Spirit Transformation stage.
• The old turtle warned Lin Mo that his armor could not prevent him from being sealed or suppressed, since his cultivation was still only at the Golden Core early stage.
• Lin Mo nurtured the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir with his essence blood until its growth stabilized at about ten feet tall.
• At the old turtle’s urging, Ling Yushu and the three Grand Supreme Elders flew east to find the blood sea’s source before the fir matured in two days.

Lin Mo and the deep-sea royal clan reached the blood sea’s source, where he used the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir to confront the force behind the catastrophe. The lovely girl identified that force as the Sinful Dragon’s surviving remnant soul and vowed to destroy it.

• The lovely girl learned from the deep-sea jellyfish that the Sinful Dragon’s remains had escaped their seal and caused the blood sea to spread.
• Lin Mo arrived with several Nascent Soul cultivators, and the old turtles identified him as the one who could end the catastrophe.
• Lin Mo brought out the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir and lowered it into the blood sea to suppress its source.
• A primordial roar erupted from beneath the sea, prompting the cultivators and old turtles to guard Lin Mo.
• The lovely girl declared that the Sinful Dragon’s remnant soul remained and vowed to annihilate it.

Lin Mo used the Spirit-Devouring Vine to trap the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir and began forcing it toward the seabed while the others held off the Sinful Dragon Soul. The dragon’s attack badly wounded its defenders, and the pretty young girl warned Lin Mo that she could block only three more attacks.

• Lin Mo deployed the Spirit-Devouring Vine and formed the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation around the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir.
• The Sinful Dragon Soul gathered the Blood Sea Tide into a giant flood-dragon phantom, revealing a developing fifth claw.
• The two old turtles projected their primordial spirits to restrain the Sinful Dragon Soul while the pretty young girl shielded Lin Mo with her Natal Placenta.
• Lin Mo reinforced his defenses and drove the trapped fir toward the seabed against the whirlpool’s force.
• The Sinful Dragon Soul’s dragon-might attack severely injured the old turtles, the eight Nascent Soul Great Cultivators, and the pretty young girl, who said she could block only three more attacks.

Lin Mo struggled to force the vine net and Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir toward the seabed while the Sinful Dragon Soul repeatedly unleashed its devastating might. As another blast struck him, the Spirit Plant seedling in his Sea of Consciousness and Dantian began to glow, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lin Mo used four Ancient Swords to drive the vine net and Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir toward the seabed as the Sinful Dragon Soul attacked again.
• Lin Mo shielded the eight Nascent Soul Great Cultivators with Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor and the White Sun Tower, but the third blast left them incapacitated.
• Aunt Shui carried the injured cultivators into her innate space, then took the pretty young girl inside after the fourth blast left her bleeding and weakened.
• Lin Mo continued pushing the vine net until it was thirty feet from the seabed, while the pretty young girl warned that the Sinful Dragon Soul could attack again.
• The Sinful Dragon Soul struck Lin Mo with another wave of dragon's might, and the Spirit Plant seedling in his Sea of Consciousness and Dantian glowed with jade-green light.

Lin Mo survived the Sinful Dragon’s dragon might and planted the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir on the seabed, purifying the blood sea and weakening the dragon’s phantom. As the Blood Sea Calamity began to recede, the young woman reacted with disbelief to the old turtle’s proposal.

• Lin Mo regained consciousness after the dragon might’s aftershock and drove the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir toward the seabed.
• Lin Mo released the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, allowing the fir’s rootlet to touch the silt and awaken its purifying power.
• The Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Fir cleared the blood sea and dissolved the Sinful Dragon’s Primordial Spirit phantom, while the two old turtles recovered their Primordial Spirits.
• The young woman and the Jellyfish Sea Beast marveled that Lin Mo had survived, and Lin Mo credited the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor and his wood-type special physique.
• The young woman accused human cultivators of being dishonest, then exclaimed that Father would never agree to what the old turtle had suggested.