Recaps

Lin Mo discovered that the cultivators guarding Divine Wood City were real, not illusions, and they attacked him before demanding his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds. The chapter ended with Lin Mo facing their demand and wondering whether all Primordial Antiquity cultivators were so domineering.

• Lin Mo watched a flock of illusory Sun-Eating Nether Crows devour solar true fire, then flew onward.
• Lin Mo found Divine Wood City, a vast city built in nine tiers along a towering mountain.
• Three black-armored cultivators confronted Lin Mo and the leader ordered him to surrender.
• The leader attacked Lin Mo with his spear, and Lin Mo realized that the three cultivators were real.
• Lin Mo dodged their attacks and explained that he was a rogue cultivator who had fled the Sun-Eating Nether Crows.
• The leader demanded that Lin Mo leave behind his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and leave Divine Wood City.

Lin Mo resisted the Divine Wood Guard’s attempt to seize his treasure and easily held off Mu Wang’s powerful Wood Spirit Incarnation. Watching from Divine Wood City, a woman in emerald gauze robes decided Lin Mo might be key to preserving her tribe’s legacy.

• Lin Mo challenged the black-armored cultivators’ demand for his treasure, and two of them attacked him with their spears.
• Lin Mo caught both spearheads with his bare hands, while the leading cultivator, Mu Wang, transformed into a hundred-foot-tall Wood Spirit Incarnation.
• Mu Wang struck Lin Mo with his spear, but Lin Mo caught the shaft with one hand and stood firm against the attack.
• A woman in emerald gauze robes and a white-haired elder watched Lin Mo fight and wondered whether he came from another world shaped by the sacred tree.
• The woman called Lin Mo a guest of Divine Wood City, ordered that he be settled on the third level, and said he might become the key to her tribe’s legacy.

Lin Mo entered Divine Wood City after the Grand Elder overruled Mu Wang and ordered the guards to let him pass. At the Divine Wood Hall, he learned that leaving a Shadow Portrait would allow him to move freely through the city.

• The white-haired Grand Elder dispersed Mu Wang’s Wood Spirit Incarnation and ordered him to let Lin Mo enter Divine Wood City.
• Mu Wang and his two subordinates withdrew, and Lin Mo approached the city, marveling at its nine towering tiers and leaf-shaped flying boats.
• Mu Wang invited Lin Mo through the protective formation’s gateway, and Lin Mo entered the city’s independent third-tier space.
• A Divine Wood Guard directed Lin Mo to the Divine Wood Hall, where a portly cultivator offered to record his Shadow Portrait and grant him freedom to move around the city.

Lin Mo obtained a Divine Wood Token and learned that Azure Painting Mystic Pythons lived by the Wei Sea, whose hides could be used to make Danqing Painting Scrolls. He left Divine Wood City for the Wei Sea, unaware that Mu Wang was leading young cultivators after him to seize his treasure and kill him.

• A Divine Wood Hall cultivator recorded Lin Mo's image and gave him a Divine Wood Token, then explained that Danqing Painting Scrolls were made from Azure Painting Mystic Python hides.
• The cultivator told Lin Mo that the pythons lived by the Wei Sea, more than forty thousand li east of the city, and that ice-attribute spells were needed to kill them.
• Lin Mo paid for the directions, left Divine Wood City through a passage opened by his token, and flew east toward the Wei Sea.
• After Lin Mo departed, a Divine Wood Guard reported his movements to Mu Wang, who learned that he had headed east.
• Mu Wang gathered young cultivators and set out to kill Lin Mo and take his auspicious cloud treasure.

Lin Mo slowed his journey to the Wei Sea after sensing Mu Wang following him, then chose an open stretch of ground to confront him. Mu Wang arrived with three fellow Divine Wood Guards, and the men surrounded Lin Mo after spotting the rare sword intent grass in Lin Mo’s Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword.

• Lin Mo sensed someone tracking him and suspected Mu Wang, so he continued toward the Wei Sea at a controlled pace.
• Lin Mo stopped in an isolated area and waited for Mu Wang to catch up.
• Mu Wang arrived with three armored cultivators and announced that he intended to take Lin Mo’s auspicious cloud treasure.
• The three cultivators surrounded Lin Mo and activated their Wood Spirit Incarnation abilities.
• Lin Mo drew his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, and Mu Wang and his companions recognized its sword intent grass and coveted it.
• Mu Wang’s companion explained that the sword could be enhanced with sword intent grass, while Mu Wang planned to trade it for a Spirit-Linking Treasure.

Lin Mo used the World Tree aura in his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword to kill Li and wound Mu Wang, then transformed into a towering Wood Wight. He raised his sword to strike Mu Wang and the two remaining cultivators.

• Lin Mo learned how to refine sword intent grass from Mu Wang and decided to kill him and his companions.
• Lin Mo empowered the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword with the World Tree aura and instantly destroyed Li's golden core, killing him.
• Lin Mo pierced Mu Wang's throat, but Mu Wang healed the wound with Wood Spirit Incarnation while his two companions transformed as well.
• Lin Mo absorbed the surrounding wood spiritual energy and became a three-hundred-foot Wood Wight, dwarfing the others' incarnations.
• Lin Mo declared that Mu Wang and his companions had brought their deaths upon themselves, then swung his sword down at them.

Lin Mo fled toward the Wei Sea after eliminating Mu Wang and his companions, then landed on a remote island where Feng Yan was gathering cultivators to hunt a Sixth Tier Azure Painting Mystic Python. The chapter left him considering whether his hidden ability to use ice-element Divine Abilities could help her group.

• Lin Mo burned the bodies and Storage Bags of Mu Wang and his companions, then confirmed with the Gu-Devouring Bee that no Divine Soul traces remained.
• Lin Mo flew toward the Wei Sea on his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and landed on a small island.
• Feng Yan explained that her group of five Golden Core cultivators needed an Ice Spiritual Root cultivator to hunt the Azure Painting Mystic Python.
• Lin Mo told Feng Yan he was new to the region and asked whether she would trade him a Sea Chart.
• Lin Mo realized he could use the World Tree's aura to unleash ice-element Divine Abilities despite lacking an Ice Spiritual Root.

Lin Mo agreed to join Madam Yan and five other cultivators in hunting a sixth-tier Ink-Painting Mystic Python after learning that his ice spiritual root could counter it. They set out by flying boat, with Lin Mo seeking only enough python hide to make an Ink-Painting Scroll, though he learned that Divine Wood City would have to refine it.

• Lin Mo revealed his ice spiritual root, and Madam Yan invited him to join the hunt for an Ink-Painting Mystic Python.
• Madam Yan showed Lin Mo a sea chart that did not mark the pythons’ locations, then offered to lead him to one she knew had recently entered the sixth tier.
• Lin Mo agreed to join the group and asked how they would divide the spoils after the hunt.
• Madam Yan and the hunchbacked elder offered Lin Mo half the credit, and Lin Mo asked only for enough python hide to make an Ink-Painting Scroll.
• Madam Yan explained that a World Tree Descendant in Divine Wood City would need to refine the scroll, and Lin Mo resolved to visit the city again.
• Madam Yan launched a flying boat, and Lin Mo and the others boarded and departed across the sea.

Lin Mo encountered heaven's retribution lightning fire while traveling by flying boat and risked entering its range to capture a wisp for refining his sword. He returned safely with the fire sealed in his gourd and asked Madam Yan to notify him when they reached their destination.

• Madam Yan told Lin Mo that they had entered waters inhabited by sixth-tier demon beasts and expected to reach the Azure Painting Mystic Python's location in half a day.
• An Eight-Tentacled Sea Demon emerged from the sea and was trapped and burned by heaven's retribution lightning fire.
• Lin Mo flew into the retribution's range, endured the lightning and flames, and captured a wisp of the fire in a Dharma Power cage.
• Lin Mo drew the cage into his Treasure Gourd, and the Lightning Cloud Vortex's threatening black bolt disappeared.
• Lin Mo returned to the flying boat, explained that his gourd could restrain flames, and asked Madam Yan not to disturb him while he recovered.

Lin Mo refined his accumulated sword intent grass with heaven’s retribution lightning fire and fed the resulting liquid to the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, greatly enhancing its power. The sword’s aura rose to rival a powerful Buddhist treasure, and Lin Mo planned to strengthen it further with future harvests.

• Lin Mo entered the Gourd Space and found that Chen Li had accumulated a vast harvest of spirit plants, including more than a hundred thousand mature stalks of sword intent grass.
• Lin Mo used heaven’s retribution lightning fire to melt hundreds of stalks of sword intent grass, but the fire began to fade before he had finished.
• Lin Mo’s authority over the Gourd Space caused the dying fire to surge into pure Rootless Heavenly Fire, allowing him to melt all the remaining sword intent grass.
• Lin Mo immersed the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword in the resulting liquid, and it absorbed the liquid and rapidly grew in power.
• Lin Mo judged that the sword now surpassed Nascent Soul cultivators’ life-bound treasures and planned to strengthen it further with future sword intent grass harvests.

Madam Yan and the hunchbacked elder found two sixth-tier Azure Painting Mystic Pythons but worried their group could not defeat them. Lin Mo emerged from seclusion, dismissed their concerns, and displayed powerful abilities that left the others questioning whether he was truly only at the Golden Core Fourth Layer.

• Madam Yan and the hunchbacked elder realized the Azure Painting Mystic Python had left its territory and considered turning back to find more allies.
• Two Azure Painting Mystic Pythons appeared together, and the hunchbacked elder deduced they had returned after seeking a mate.
• Madam Yan proposed recruiting more late Golden Core cultivators because their group could not safely face two sixth-tier demon beasts.
• Lin Mo emerged from the cabin and insisted they could deal with both pythons without wasting time.
• Lin Mo sent nine Northern Dipper Ancient Swords into the sea and raised his Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor around the flying boat, astonishing Madam Yan and the others.

Lin Mo used his Big Dipper Nine Swords, Spirit-Devouring Vine, and Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor to overwhelm two sixth-tier Azure Painting Mystic Pythons. After trapping the male python, he formed a second Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation and sent it toward the female.

• Lin Mo recalled his Big Dipper Nine Swords after they wounded the two Azure Painting Mystic Pythons.
• Lin Mo sent the Spirit-Devouring Vine’s Twisted-Branch Wood Swords and Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation against the pythons.
• The male python’s tail smashed aside many swords, while the female python charged the flying boat and struck its Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor.
• The male python spat venom at the formation but became trapped, and the female python’s venom failed to harm the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor.
• Lin Mo formed a second Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation and sent it toward the female python.

Lin Mo trapped and killed both Azure Painting Mystic Pythons, then agreed with Madam Yan and the others on how to divide their remains. As the hunchbacked elder butchered the corpses, Lin Mo sensed that an exceptionally powerful hidden observer was watching him.

• The female mystic python used her demon core to break Lin Mo’s Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, but Lin Mo rebuilt it with the Spirit-Devouring Vine and trapped her again.
• Lin Mo killed both trapped mystic pythons with the Big Dipper Nine Swords and let their corpses fall into the sea.
• Madam Yan proposed that Lin Mo keep the female python while the others divided the male, and Lin Mo agreed.
• The hunchbacked elder began butchering the corpses and carefully cut the female python’s hide for Danqing Painting Scrolls.
• The Gu-Devouring Bee stirred in Lin Mo’s sleeve, and Lin Mo sensed an exceptionally powerful presence secretly watching him.

Lin Mo’s Gu-Devouring Bee ate a Hidden Void Moth, bringing the fury of a silver-haired Nascent Soul elder from Hidden Void Valley down on the group. The elder demanded Lin Mo, the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor, and the Azure Painting Mystic Pythons, but Madam Yan refused to hand Lin Mo over and warned that his strength might rival the elder’s.

• Lin Mo’s Gu-Devouring Bee chased down and devoured a Hidden Void Moth that emerged from a spatial ripple.
• A silver-haired old man arrived with over twenty silver-robed cultivators and accused Lin Mo’s group of killing his spirit insect and stealing his Azure Painting Mystic Pythons.
• The Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor blocked most of the old man’s spiritual pressure, while he grew greedy for the armor and suspected Lin Mo possessed a powerful spatial spirit insect.
• The silver-haired old man demanded the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor, Lin Mo, and both pythons in exchange for sparing the group.
• Madam Yan refused, saying she had no right to demand that Lin Mo submit and warning the old man that Lin Mo’s strength might be close to his own.

Lin Mo confronted Qi Chengyue of Hidden Void Valley after the elder demanded their treasures, while Madam Yan defended Lin Mo’s strength. Lin Mo killed three Hidden Void Valley Golden Core cultivators before they could attack and turned the Spirit-Devouring Vine toward their masterless spirit insects.

• Madam Yan insisted that Lin Mo was no weaker than she was, despite Qi Chengyue’s disbelief and warning about the strength of Nascent Soul Great Cultivators.
• Lin Mo recalled the Spirit-Devouring Vine, retrieving the hunchbacked elder and gathering the remains of the Azure Painting Mystic Pythons.
• Three Hidden Void Valley cultivators volunteered to fight Lin Mo, and Qi Chengyue ordered them to capture him alive.
• Lin Mo reassured his companions that he could get them away from ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, then sent out nine Northern Dipper Ancient Swords.
• Lin Mo’s swords killed the three cultivators and shattered their golden cores, after which he sent the Spirit-Devouring Vine to capture their masterless spirit insects.

Lin Mo fought Qi Chengyue and the Hidden Void Valley disciples, using his Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor to withstand their attacks. After revealing that his nine Ancient Swords were limited by his cultivation, he drew his newly strengthened Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword and prepared to unleash his true killing move.

• Qi Chengyue used his Silver Jar to retrieve the spirit insects and sent three Gold-Piercing Shuttles at Lin Mo's flying boat, but the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor was unharmed.
• Lin Mo sent the Big Dipper Nine Swords against Qi Chengyue's flying boat, whose golden formation barrier held despite the vessel being shaken.
• Qi Chengyue warned Lin Mo that Hidden Void Valley would send reinforcements after he reported the confrontation, alarming Madam Yan and the others.
• Lin Mo recalled the Ancient Swords and drew his newly strengthened Life-Bound Dao Sword, the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, to reveal his true killing move.

Lin Mo used the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword and Spirit-Devouring Vine to kill Qi Chengyue and his Hidden Void Valley disciples. Afterward, Lin Mo found spirit-insect feed and other treasures among the spoils, then opened a silver jar for his Gu-Devouring Bees.

• Lin Mo awakened the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword's immense power and unleashed Greenwood Sword Rain on Qi Chengyue's fleeing Flying Boat.
• The Greenwood Sword Rain pierced the Flying Boat's Defensive Formation and killed the Hidden Void Valley disciples aboard.
• Lin Mo sent the Spirit-Devouring Vine's Curled-Branch Swords against Qi Chengyue, breaking his defenses and destroying his Nascent Soul as he tried to flee.
• Madam Yan, the Hunchbacked Elder, and the others marveled that Lin Mo had killed a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator while at the Golden Core fourth layer.
• Lin Mo collected Qi Chengyue's Storage Bag, silver jar, and flying shuttles, finding zhan origin grass seeds to feed his Gu-Devouring Bees.
• Lin Mo opened the silver jar and summoned the Gu-Devouring Bees, telling them they could eat its contents.

After Qi Chengyue died, Lin Mo agreed to accompany Madam Yan to Linwei City and help protect the Feng Household from Hidden Void Valley. Three days later, a gold-robed cultivator summoned Feng Yan and Lin Mo to the City Lord’s residence, where Hidden Void Valley’s Cheng Ji and the Feng Household’s three Ancestors were waiting.

• The Gu-Devouring Bee devoured Qi Chengyue’s spirit insects, and Lin Mo warned Madam Yan that Hidden Void Valley would soon come after them.
• Madam Yan pleaded with Lin Mo to protect the Feng Household, and he agreed to return to Linwei City with her.
• Hidden Void Valley learned that Qi Chengyue had died, and its Sect Master ordered Second Elder Cheng Ji to investigate and destroy the Feng Household if it was responsible.
• Three days later, Lin Mo and Madam Yan arrived at Linwei City, where a gold-robed cultivator ordered Feng Yan to report to the City Lord’s residence with Lin Mo.

Lin Mo and Madam Yan were summoned to the City Lord's Manor over Qi Chengyue's death, where Lin Mo explained that Qi Chengyue had attacked him for his treasures and died in the fight. Cheng Ji challenged Lin Mo's account, leaving the City Lord's judgment unresolved.

• General Wu ordered Madam Yan and Lin Mo to report to the City Lord's Manor about Qi Chengyue's death.
• Lin Mo learned that the City Lord's Manor served the Human Emperor and decided to obey its summons.
• General Wu escorted Madam Yan and Lin Mo into the City Lord's Manor, where Cheng Ji and the Feng Household's elders were waiting.
• City Lord Jiang questioned Madam Yan and Lin Mo about Qi Chengyue's death and warned that they could be imprisoned and executed if they had no reasonable explanation.
• Lin Mo said Qi Chengyue had tried to kill him for his treasures and asked City Lord Jiang to judge fairly.
• Cheng Ji accused Lin Mo of lying about killing two Azure Painting Mystic Pythons and defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator while at the Golden Core fourth layer.

Lin Mo faced an inquiry into Qi Chengyue’s death and revealed the Xuanyuan Token to City Lord Jiang. Jiang recognized it as the Human Emperor Hall’s supreme symbol of authority and bowed to Lin Mo, offering his service.

• City Lord Jiang asked Lin Mo to explain his background, treasures, and how he killed Qi Chengyue, while the Feng Household’s Ancestors hoped Lin Mo could clear Madam Yan.
• Lin Mo explained that he had no master and asked Jiang to dismiss the others so he could show him a private token.
• When Jiang refused to clear the room, Lin Mo used the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor and Spirit-Devouring Vine to seal them off from the others.
• Lin Mo showed Jiang the Xuanyuan Token, and Jiang recognized its authority and bowed, identifying himself as Jiang Moli, City Lord of Linwei City.

Lin Mo convinced Jiang Moli that Qi Chengyue had died after seeking his own death, prompting the city lord to protect the Feng Household and demand compensation from Hidden Void Valley. The chapter ended with Cheng Ji apologizing to Lin Mo and Jiang Moli asking whether his judgment satisfied him.

• Lin Mo showed Jiang Moli the Xuanyuan Token and explained that Qi Chengyue had sought his own death, and Jiang Moli agreed to protect the Feng Household.
• Lin Mo withdrew the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor and Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, reappearing with Jiang Moli before General Wu, Cheng Ji, and the Feng Household elders.
• Jiang Moli accused Cheng Ji of slandering Lin Mo and the Feng Household, then ordered him to apologize and compensate Lin Mo.
• Cheng Ji realized Jiang Moli believed Lin Mo's account and warned Hidden Void Valley to accept the city lord's judgment or face the Human Emperor Hall.
• Cheng Ji apologized to Lin Mo and promised to report the matter and prepare a generous gift, while Jiang Moli asked Lin Mo if he was satisfied.

Lin Mo left Hidden Void Valley without finding a Danqing Painting Scroll powerful enough for his sword formation and returned to Divine Wood City to trade his mystic python hides. He learned that the city’s passages were closed after Mu Wang and several junior commanders died, and offered the attendant spirit stones to help him reach the fifth level.

• Jiang Moli gave Lin Mo three low-quality Danqing Painting Scrolls, but Lin Mo judged them unable to withstand the Big Dipper Sword Formation.
• Cheng Ji admitted Hidden Void Valley had no suitable scrolls, so Lin Mo declined compensation and flew toward Divine Wood City with Madam Yan.
• Jiang Moli warned Cheng Ji that Lin Mo must not be provoked, nor should the Feng Household or Feng Yan be harmed.
• Lin Mo entered Divine Wood City using his Divine Wood Token and asked the hall attendant how to trade his mystic python hides for Danqing Painting Scrolls.
• The attendant told Lin Mo that the passages between the city’s levels had been sealed after Mu Wang and the junior commanders died, and Lin Mo offered him a hundred high-grade spirit stones for help.

Lin Mo entered the Divine Wood Trial to earn divine wood essence and found thousands of evil spirits sealed beneath a giant spirit-tree root. After one spirit attacked him, he blocked its strike with his Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor, but it prepared a divine soul attack.

• Lin Mo paid a middle-aged cultivator for information and chose to undertake the Divine Wood Trial rather than contact Divine Wood City's grand elder.
• The cultivator led Lin Mo to the Ancestral Stele, where Lin Mo offered a drop of essence blood and was drawn into the trial space.
• A voice explained that Lin Mo had to endure the evil spirits' attacks for an hour to pass the trial and receive divine wood essence.
• Lin Mo saw thousands of evil spirits sealed among the roots of a towering spirit plant and recognized their connection to the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable.
• A golden core fourth-layer evil spirit escaped its rootlet and attacked Lin Mo, who blocked it with his Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor.
• The evil spirit dismissed Lin Mo's defense and announced that it would attack his divine soul.

Lin Mo survived the evil spirit’s soul and physical attacks inside the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor, then discovered that Silent Dark, Absolute Light could leave it vulnerable to his swords. After he destroyed it, the strange spirit plant released a stronger evil spirit.

• The jianmu sapling’s phantom protected Lin Mo from the evil spirit’s divine soul attack, while the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor blocked its black smoke.
• Lin Mo attacked with the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword and an Ancient Sword, but the evil spirit evaded them by turning into black mist and re-forming.
• Lin Mo realized he needed to prevent the transformation and struck the evil spirit with the Snow Demon Tribe technique Silent Dark, Absolute Light.
• While the evil spirit was asleep, Lin Mo battered it with Greenwood Sword Rain and the Northern Dipper Ancient Sword until its life aura faded and it vanished.
• A root of the strange spirit plant unfurled and released another evil spirit, whose aura had reached at least the golden core sixth layer.

The Great Elder killed the Divine Wood Hall steward who had abused his position against Lin Mo, then was astonished when Lin Mo emerged alive from the Divine Wood Trial. Lin Mo met Mu Yu, who offered him a Danqing Painting Scroll in exchange for the truth about his origins and the World Tree in his world.

• The Great Elder questioned the steward about Lin Mo's trial and killed him for abusing his authority to pursue a private grudge.
• The Great Elder expected Lin Mo to die in the trial, but Lin Mo emerged unharmed from the Divine Wood Stele.
• The Great Elder transferred Lin Mo to the palace, where Mu Yu refused to give him Divine Wood Essence but offered other compensation.
• Lin Mo requested a Danqing Painting Scroll, and Mu Yu guessed that he had crossed over from Beyond the Domain.
• Mu Yu revealed that she was also at the Golden Core Middle Stage and asked Lin Mo about his plane, the missing World Tree roots, and how he had preserved his bloodline.