Arc 13Chapters 301–325
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Lin Mo brought Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to stay in his courtyard at the Azure Cloud Sect, then introduced them to his parents as friends. Xue Qingcheng nervously greeted Lin's Father and Lin's Mother and declared that she was their future daughter-in-law.
After meeting Lin Mo’s parents, Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier stayed at the family home while Lin Mo worried they might discover his Treasure Gourd. He left for the Black Market to question Du Zhong about the sealed Holy Lord and any remaining threat to humanity.
Lin Mo learned from Du Zhong that the Tai Sui Gate’s High Priest had recovered enough to place a bounty on him and that the imprisoned Holy Lord commanded a vast force of holy spirit avatars. He resolved to seek a way to break the Tai Sui Gate’s mind-control art and strengthen the seal before the Holy Lord escaped.
Lin Mo brought Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to the Astrology Pavilion and asked Tantai Yan to divine the Holy Lord of Tai Sui Gate. With Xue Qingcheng sustaining Tantai Yan’s divine sense, he burned his lifespan to glimpse the Holy Lord’s true form and reveal its appearance.
Tantai Yan glimpsed the Holy Lord’s true form and judged him to be a terrifying being from the Upper Realm, plunging Lin Mo into despair. Xue Qingcheng restored Lin Mo’s hope, and he asked Zhuge Fengming to divine the general locations of the remaining Ancient Swords.
The Ancestors of the Twelve Ancient Sects gathered at Heavenly Sword Mountain after sensing the Kaiyang Ancient Sword stir and debated whether to surrender their five Ancient Swords to the prophesied Master of the Era. The gathering ended with the sect leaders divided over the swords’ ownership, while the threat of the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable underscored the need to unite them.
The leaders of the Twelve Ancient Sects agreed to test the Master of the Era before allowing him to claim the ancient swords, while weighing the swords’ possible role in their fight against the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable. The first trial was assigned to Silken Cloud Palace, and a blue-robed figure left the Astrology Pavilion with two young women, heading for a Teleportation Array.
Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier traveled through West Xing Island and Kangyuan City while planning how to approach the Twelve Ancient Sects and obtain the Ancient Swords. Lin Mo chose to head for remote Savage God Valley first, and the trio set out by Teleportation Array.
Lin Mo, Hai Beier, and Xue Qingcheng visited Savage God Valley to negotiate, but Xue Qingcheng’s display of power led to a confrontation with the valley’s elders and a powerful bare-backed brute. The brute acknowledged that neither side had a clear advantage and demanded to know their purpose.
Lin Mo sought the Jade Balance Sword from the Savage God Valley, but Redback demanded that he pass a trial against the Golden Core disciple Man Jing. The chapter ended as Man Jing revealed his formidable golden sun sacred body and Xue Qingcheng warned Lin Mo to avoid close combat.
Lin Mo fought Man Jing in a close-range contest of physical strength, relying on his extraordinary recovery to withstand Man Jing’s blows and gradually wear him down. As Man Jing’s golden sun faded and his attacks weakened, those watching realized Lin Mo was going to win.
Lin Mo defeated Man Jing in a contest of physical strength, earning the Jade Balance Ancient Sword from the Savage God Valley. After Man Jing demanded a rematch and was rebuked by his master, Lin Mo drank spirit spring water, drawing the burly Redback man's intense interest in the liquid.
Lin Mo gave Savage God Valley's Spirit Transformation masters Diluted Spirit Spring Water, winning their goodwill and learning where the remaining Ancient Swords were held. The Redback burly man agreed Savage God Valley would not oppose him and offered to lead him to the Jade Balance Sword.
Lin Mo obtained the Jade Balance Ancient Sword from beneath Savage God Valley and received a Barbarian God Statue containing a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s Body Refinement insights. As he departed for Silken Cloud Palace, the burly Redback warned another sect leader that Xuanyuan might refuse to surrender the Heavenly Balance Sword and suggested telling Lin Mo about the previous empress of the Human Emperor Hall.
Lin Mo and the two women arrived in Demonbane City, where he studied the Savage God Overlord Body imparted through the bronze statue. Afterward, Lin Mo realized his cultivation depended on the Jianmu Sapling’s Spirit Plant aura rather than ordinary Dharma Power, leaving him unsure whether he could follow the method as intended.
Lin Mo’s attempt to cultivate Savage God Valley’s Body Refinement Secret Art transformed him into a humanoid spirit plant, so he headed with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to Baleful Demon Cliff for a remedy. Unknown to them, the Demon-Suppressing Stone Statue there had begun to crack after Zhuge Fengming secretly divined the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable’s true body.
The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable awakened Earth Kui to guard Baleful Demon Cliff while the Savage God's statue weakened, intending to use the Baleful Demon's remains to create a second true body. Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier approached the cliff, where a crack was spreading across the statue and earth vein energy began to rise.
Savage God Valley disciples discovered that the Savage God Statue was cracking as a powerful True Spirit awakened beneath Baleful Demon Cliff. A hurricane nearly consumed three trapped disciples, but a phoenix-crowned maiden rescued them and identified the creature as Earth Kui, while warning that someone had altered the local earth veins.
A newly born Earth Fiend began draining the Savage God Stone Sculpture’s origin, threatening to free the Baleful Demon beneath it. Xue Qingcheng revealed that Tai Sui Gate had likely engineered the crisis to force the Twelve Ancient Sects into sacrificing their strongest cultivators, while Lin Mo resolved to find another way to stop the fiend.
Xue Qingcheng revealed that her Snow Demon lineage could help Lin Mo take Wood Wight’s form and defeat Earth Fiend. She used an inherited secret art to merge her divine sense with Lin Mo, who absorbed vast spiritual energy until Earth Fiend recognized him as a threat.
Lin Mo pushed his Wooden Fiend Body beyond its limits with the Jianmu Sapling’s power and prepared a decisive strike against the Earth Fiend. The Earth Fiend sensed that Lin Mo could kill him and begged for his life, offering to restore the Savage God Stone Sculpture and return the power he had taken.
Lin Mo forced Earth Fiend to repair the Savage God Stone Sculpture before unleashing a sword strike with power he could barely contain. The strike cleaved the Baleful Demon's skeleton, and Lin Mo's Wooden Fiend Body returned to its original form as his borrowed power faded.
After Lin Mo destroyed the Baleful Demon’s skeleton, its remains and the Savage God Stone Sculpture vanished. He left Demonbane City with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier, setting out for Silken Cloud Palace to find the Ancient Sword, Wavering Light.
Yunxin learned that Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng had destroyed Baleful Demon's remains and welcomed them to the Silken Cloud Palace. After Lin Mo declined a trial requiring his strongest sword strike, Yunxin left to confer with the elders, while Xue Qingcheng warned that Yunxin intended to pursue dual cultivation with him.
Yunxin decided to send Lin Mo into the Silken Cloud Grotto-Heaven to seek the Sacred Treasure’s blessing, offering the Shaking Light Ancient Sword if he succeeded. She suspected Lin Mo’s aura matched someone she had glimpsed in a vision of the future, and the chapter ended with him and ten Golden Core disciples entering the grotto-heaven.