Arc 17Chapters 401–425
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The Evil Spirit Man drained the Tai Sui Gate’s remaining protectors, elders, and other disciples to restore his strength, then set out for the Nine Netherworlds Abyss. Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng ambushed him with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, whose killing blow descended as the Evil Spirit Man realized he had been tracked again.
Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng killed the Evil Spirit Man and learned that Netherworld cultivators came from the Nine Netherworlds Abyss, a lower plane where the Netherworld Soul Seal let them wield their full power. Lin Mo insisted that he would first break the Evil Soul Seals on the Divine Continent’s cultivators before considering the Abyss.
Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng headed toward a Primordial Teleportation Array after killing the Evil Spirit Man, while the imprisoned Seven Baleful Nether Venerable sought help from Nine Bone. Nine Bone sent him a Netherworld Soul Seal Replica to strengthen his soul slaves as Seven Baleful prepared for the coming conflict.
The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable activated the Netherworld Soul Seal, triggering a wave of corrupted cultivators across the Central Continent and Western Esoteric Buddhism. As Esoteric Buddhism struggled to contain its possessed disciples, the Sword Sect’s Ninth Elder succumbed to the corruption and fixed his gaze on Lin Mo’s parents.
Hai Beier subdued demonic-corrupted elders and cultivators who attacked Lin Mo’s parents, then brought them to safety in the Scallop Royal Palace. On the Central Continent, Lin Mo fought Soul Slaves at the Alchemy Sect and suspected the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable had triggered the widespread corruption.
Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng faced the threat of evil soul seals spreading through the Snow Demon Tribe and the Alchemy Sect. After Xue Qingcheng rushed to Snow Burial Valley, Tu Lianfeng briefly regained control and killed himself, leaving Lin Mo and the elders to hurry the creation of the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill as Lin Mo grew alarmed about the Human Emperor Hall.
Lin Mo left the Alchemy Sect for Xuanyuan City, fearing that soul slaves had overrun the Human Emperor Hall and its many alchemy masters. He arrived at Sunset City and found hundreds of soul slaves, including a half-step Spirit Transformation cultivator attacking the inner city's defenses.
Lin Mo arrived in Sunset City just as its City-Protecting Grand Formation was about to collapse and Qi Heng prepared to sacrifice himself to destroy the Soul Slaves. Lin Mo trapped the attacking Nascent Soul Soul Slaves and vowed to capture every Soul Slave alive.
Lin Mo used his powerful treasures and Spirit-Devouring Vines to subdue Lu Dingfeng, the soul-slave half-step Spirit Transformation cultivator, while Qi Heng watched in astonishment. With Lu Dingfeng restrained, Lin Mo turned to the remaining soul slaves and planned to repair the Teleportation Array to reach Xuanyuan City.
Lin Mo flew from Sunset City toward Xuanyuan City after discovering its Teleportation Arrays could not connect, while a Dwarf Elder empowered by the Evil Soul Seal set out to kill him. The Dwarf Elder intercepted Lin Mo in flight and attacked him with a strange treasure, leaving their battle about to begin.
Lin Mo fled toward Xuanyuan City as the Spirit Transformation pinnacle Dwarf Elder pursued him with a spatially displaced Curved-Horned Giant Rhino. The elder trapped Lin Mo inside his enormous Medicine Cauldron and began refining him alive, leaving Lin Mo facing rising heat within the sealed cauldron.
Lin Mo was trapped in the dwarf elder’s Medicine Cauldron and used his strongest defenses and trump cards to survive. After the elder nearly destroyed his Sea of Consciousness, Lin Mo escaped into the Treasure Gourd’s space, leaving the elder to keep firing up the cauldron in an attempt to refine him.
Lin Mo emerged from the Gourd Space after advancing to the seventh layer of Golden Core and discovered that the Dwarf Elder had left. After killing Xun Bin, he flew toward Xuanyuan City to protect the Dao of Alchemy cultivators.
Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu struggled to hold back the Tai Sui Gate’s soul slaves in Xuanyuan City while waiting for Lin Mo and the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills. When Zhu Feng arrived with a powerful divine-soul scepter and threatened to use the Black Nightmare Cauldron, Hai Dafu left the Human Emperor Hall to face him.
Zhu Feng trapped Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu inside the Human Emperor Hall and began refining it with the Black Nightmare Cauldron. Lin Mo disrupted the cauldron with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, then revealed himself and secretly proposed a plan to Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu before activating the formation again.
Lin Mo repeatedly survived the God-Devouring Scepter by relying on the Jianmu Sapling, then goaded Zhu Feng into draining the weapon’s power. Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu struck Zhu Feng, and Lin Mo sealed him inside the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation.
Lin Mo helped Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu suppress Zhu Feng and the Spirit Transformation Soul Slaves, then prepared to travel to the Nine Netherworlds to investigate the source of the Evil Soul Seal. He agreed to wait for the first batch of Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills before leaving, while Hai Dafu prepared to open a Plane Passage.
Lin Mo and Hai Dafu crossed four planes to reach the Nine Netherworlds Continent, where Lin Mo entered alone to retrieve the mysterious Netherworld Soul Seal. As his Spirit Plant Altar emerged from the passage, a crimson-eyed man attacked it with a Blood Saber.
Lin Mo escaped a spirit transformation middle-stage cultivator by hiding in the Green-Skinned Little Gourd, then traveled south through the Nine Netherworlds Abyss. Two nascent soul great-perfection soul slaves searching for a Heavenly Void Horned Python were suddenly trapped by Lin Mo's Golden Vines.
Lin Mo captured two Nascent Soul Great Perfection elders in his Gourd Space, removed their Evil Soul Seals, and asked them about the Netherworld Soul Seal. The elders recognized his description as a treasure enshrined in the Netherworld Divine Hall, leaving Lin Mo with a possible lead.
Lin Mo learned that the Netherworld Soul Seal controlled the Nine Netherworlds Continent and sought a way to enter the Netherworld Divine Hall to seize it. After finding the next sacrifice was decades away, he devised a plan to provoke an investigation and revealed he could summon an evil soul seal, alarming the elders.
Lin Mo disguised himself as a soul slave, freed two Nascent Soul elders from their Evil Soul Seals, and supplied them with spirit liquid and Void God Pills before setting out to hunt soul slaves. After reports of an outsider who had made hundreds of people disappear reached Nine Bone Nether Venerable, he ordered two elders to capture Lin Mo alive for a soul search.
Lin Mo hid inside the Green-Skinned Little Gourd as Yan Lin and Lei Xun failed to locate him with the Thousand-Mile Soul-Searching Art. After learning about Nether Venerable Nine Bone’s forces, Lin Mo considered killing their powerful subordinates to attract the Nether Venerable’s attention.
Lin Mo used imitation Evil Soul Seals to disguise Feng Xu and Mo Qing and lure Yan Lin and Lei Xun into the Poison Spirit Swamp Cave. He captured Lei Xun in the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, then confronted Yan Lin outside the cave.
Lin Mo survived Yan Lin’s Evil Soul Torch with the protection of his Nether Crow Feather Robe and joined Feng Xu and Mo Qing in killing him. Back in the Gourd Space, Lin Mo confronted the captured Lei Xun and warned him that his companion was dead.