Recaps

Lin Mo subdued Lei Xun in his own world and learned that the Soulfire Platform would alert the Nine Bone Nether Venerable if Lei Xun died. He left Lei Xun alive and announced that he would visit the Nether Venerable’s temple, though he insisted he did not intend to fight its master.

• Lin Mo released Lei Xun from the Ashen Chains, then used his world’s laws to nullify Lei Xun’s attack and bind him with nine golden shackles.
• Lin Mo explained that he controlled the laws of his world, while Lei Xun threatened him with the Nine Bone Nether Venerable’s vengeance.
• Lei Xun revealed that the Soulfire Platform tracked the life sources of the Nether Guards and Evil Generals, so Lin Mo wounded him but chose not to kill him.
• Chen Li silenced Lei Xun by stuffing his mouth with fertilized soil after Lin Mo ordered him to quiet down.
• Lin Mo told Feng Xu and Mo Qing that he planned to visit the Nine Bone Nether Venerable’s temple, but clarified that he only meant to stroll through it and try his luck.

Lin Mo disguised himself as Evil General Lei Xun and planned to infiltrate the Netherbone Divine Hall, while the Nine Bone Nether Venerable mobilized the Soul Slaves to hunt for the intruder. Lin Mo encountered Evil General Bing Hun in the Chaos Poison Marsh and pretended to have lost his memory.

• Lin Mo used the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall and Lei Xun’s blood to disguise himself and imitate Lei Xun’s aura, convincing Feng Xu and Mo Qing that the transformation was convincing.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable learned that Yan Lin had died and ordered every Soul Slave in the Nine Netherworlds Abyss to capture the intruder alive for a Supreme Demon Pill.
• One hundred thousand Soul Slaves began searching the abyss in teams, and Evil General Bing Hun led four Soul Slaves into the Chaos Poison Marsh.
• Bing Hun found Lin Mo, disguised as the wounded Lei Xun, lying in a cave and hurried to check on him.
• Lin Mo pretended to be confused and complained of a severe headache, and Bing Hun identified himself as Lei Xun’s brother.

Lin Mo disguised himself as Lei Xun and deceived Bing Hun into believing a powerful white-haired woman had killed Yan Lin and gravely wounded him. Bing Hun brought Lin Mo to the Netherbone Divine Hall and placed him in charge of the Yin Plant Division, giving him access to its vast medicinal fields.

• Lin Mo told Bing Hun that a white-haired intruder at the spirit transformation pinnacle had killed Yan Lin and injured him.
• Bing Hun abandoned his plan to hunt the intruder immediately and used a talisman to take Lin Mo and his Soul Slaves to the Netherbone Divine Hall.
• Lin Mo saw the sinister hall and the terrifying rift above it, then refused Bing Hun's offer to fetch healing pills.
• Bing Hun led Lin Mo through the hall's courtyards to the Yin Plant Division, where Lin Mo spotted an enormous field of valuable medicinal herbs.
• Bing Hun sent Duan San and Du Gui to gather information about the intruder and offered Lin Mo their job managing the Yin Plant Division while he recovered.

Lin Mo used his position in the Yin Plant Division to transplant hundreds of spirit herbs and prepared to investigate why the Nine Bone Nether Venerable had summoned the Nether Guards and Evil Generals. He revealed that his Divine Invisibility Pills could conceal him even from the Nether Venerable, leaving him ready to attend the gathering unseen.

• Bing Hun told Lin Mo that the Nine Bone Nether Venerable would summon all the Nether Guards and Evil Generals in three days, and offered to excuse Lin Mo as too badly wounded to attend.
• Lin Mo spent three days transplanting hundreds of valuable spirit herbs from the Yin Plant Division into his gourd world and took a heavenly yin dragon-claw locust.
• Lin Mo told Feng Xu and Mo Qing that the gathering was unusual and that he still intended to pursue the Netherworld Soul Seal.
• Lin Mo swallowed a Divine Invisibility Pill and demonstrated that he could vanish without leaving any trace of his presence.
• Lin Mo explained that his invisibility could evade even the Nine Bone Nether Venerable unless Lin Mo chose to reveal himself.

Lin Mo witnessed the Nine Bone Nether Venerable leave the Nine Netherworlds Abyss through the Heaven-reaching Rift, appointing Li Yuan to govern in his absence. Realizing the rift connected the lower planes to the powerful Netherworld, Lin Mo understood that stealing the Netherworld Soul Seal would not end the threat.

• Lin Mo used a Divine Invisibility Pill to leave the Yin Plant Division and discovered the soul slaves and Netherworld officers gathered behind the Netherbone Divine Hall.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable appeared from nine fused bones and announced that he had to return to the Netherworld for up to a year.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable placed Li Yuan in charge, gave him the Profound Bone Nether Sword, and ordered the search for the intruder to continue.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable returned to nine bones and entered the Heaven-reaching Rift as Lin Mo watched unnoticed.
• Lin Mo realized the rift allowed Netherworld forces to reach the lower planes and feared that even stronger enemies might follow.

Lin Mo searched the God-Sealing Treasure Vault for the Netherworld Soul Seal and discovered an unknown ancient book protected by a rule that barred beings from lower planes. He used his transformed dragon claws to bypass the defense, leaving him able to reach for the book.

• Lin Mo investigated the Netherbone Divine Hall and resolved to search for the Netherworld Soul Seal in the God-Sealing Treasure Vault.
• Lin Mo entered the vault under a Divine Invisibility Pill and found supreme treasures stolen from conquered lower planes.
• Lin Mo discovered an unnamed ancient book protected by black mist and was repelled when he tried to touch it.
• Lin Mo realized the defense used rules that prevented lower-plane beings from reaching the book.
• Lin Mo transformed his hands into dragon claws with the power of the heavenly yin dragon-claw locust and passed one through the black mist.

Lin Mo retrieved the ancient Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record but found its pages sealed except for the words “Four Sages Return, Void Opens.” When Ouyang Ling caught him with the tome, Lin Mo escaped and lured him into the Big Dipper Sword Formation, leaving Ouyang Ling engulfed by its attack.

• Lin Mo took the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record from the black mist and discovered its title and the flyleaf’s message, but he could not open the remaining pages.
• Ouyang Ling found Lin Mo in the God-Sealing Treasure Vault and demanded that he hand over the tome.
• Lin Mo secretly used his Soul-Devouring Vine to restrain Ouyang Ling, then fled with the tome.
• Ouyang Ling broke free, chased Lin Mo, and struck his left leg with an iron ball.
• Lin Mo revealed that he had lured Ouyang Ling into a trap and unleashed the Big Dipper Sword Formation, sending its nine swords down upon him.

Lin Mo killed Ouyang Ling after defeating him in the Big Dipper Sword Formation and rejected his fatalistic belief that the lower planes would inevitably fall to the Netherworld. Disguised again as Lei Xun, Lin Mo faked being wounded and used Ouyang Ling’s death to spread fear through the Nine Netherworlds Abyss.

• Lin Mo revealed his identity to Ouyang Ling, then killed him with Greenwood Sword Rain after deciding not to recruit him.
• Sensing powerful enemies approaching, Lin Mo disguised himself as Lei Xun and pretended to have been injured beside Ouyang Ling’s corpse.
• Bing Hun arrived with Soul Slaves, helped Lin Mo, and accepted his claim that an outsider had killed Ouyang Ling.
• Bing Hun sent Lin Mo back to the Yin Plant Division and went to report Ouyang Ling’s death to Li Yuan.
• Lin Mo’s account spread panic, making the Nether Guards, Evil Generals, and Soul Slaves fear that the intruder could kill them as easily as Ouyang Ling.

After learning the history of the Four Sages and their sealed remnant souls, Lin Mo decided to seek their power to awaken the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record. Feng Xu and Mo Qing concluded that freeing the remnant souls could also restore the Nine Netherworlds Abyss’s heavenly dao will and challenge the Nine Bone Nether Venerable.

• Lin Mo asked Feng Xu and Mo Qing about the origins of the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record, and Feng Xu explained the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ history on the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• Feng Xu said the Nine Bone Nether Venerable had sealed the Four Sages’ remnant souls with Netherworld Evil Treasures before the invasion, weakening the continent and allowing it to fall.
• Lin Mo decided to search the continent’s four corners for the remnant souls’ power and use it to awaken the ancient book while the Nether Guards and Evil Generals remained withdrawn.
• Mo Qing worried that Lin Mo could not overcome the Netherworld Evil Treasures, but Feng Xu reminded him of Lin Mo’s past victories.
• Mo Qing realized that awakening the Four Sages’ remnant souls could restore the continent’s heavenly dao will and let it oppose the Nine Bone Nether Venerable.

Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing entered the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh to find the Four Sacred Immortal Venerables' remnant souls, but a horde of Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles surrounded them. When they learned thunder was the turtles' weakness, Lin Mo revealed he had a way to use it despite knowing no thunder-control arts.

• Lin Mo carried Feng Xu and Mo Qing into the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh on the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds.
• A Swollen-Head Softshell Turtle attacked them, and Mo Qing explained that the turtles had once served as vanguard beasts in the Netherworld invasion.
• Over a thousand Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles emerged and surrounded the three; their attacks failed to break through the creatures' shells.
• Feng Xu explained that thunder techniques could penetrate the turtles' defenses, while Mo Qing suggested releasing Lei Xun, a thunder-skilled Evil General, and Feng Xu objected.
• Lin Mo said he could use thunder techniques despite not knowing how to cultivate them.

Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing fought through the Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles in the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh and reached the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower, which sealed Black Tortoise’s remnant soul. Their combined attack and Lin Mo’s Big Dipper Sword Formation were both redirected into the tower’s gate and absorbed without effect.

• Lin Mo swallowed a Heavenly Thunder World-Cleansing Fruit and used its lightning power to blast a path through the Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing flew through the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh and reached the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower at the edge of the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• Feng Xu explained that the tower had been placed there to suppress Black Tortoise’s remnant soul and had grown much stronger after more than ten thousand years of absorbing evil aura.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing combined their strongest attacks, but the tower’s gate redirected and absorbed them.
• Lin Mo summoned the Big Dipper Sword Formation and unleashed Divine Severance, but the gate again pulled in and absorbed the attack without damaging the tower.

Lin Mo found a way to bypass the rule power protecting the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower and entered with Feng Xu and Mo Qing. Inside, they awakened Immortal Venerable Black Tortoise, who learned that the Nine Netherworlds Continent had fallen to the Netherworld during his ten thousand years of slumber.

• Lin Mo discovered that only evil spirit power could pass through the tower door’s rule power.
• Lin Mo pierced Lei Xun’s dantian, then used the unconscious Evil General to break open the tower door and rushed inside with Feng Xu and Mo Qing.
• Immortal Venerable Black Tortoise spoke to the trio and realized his memories had a gap and the Heavenly Dao Will had been distorted.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing told Black Tortoise how Netherworld cultivators invaded and transformed the Nine Netherworlds Continent while he slept.
• Lin Mo asked Black Tortoise to help save the Nine Netherworlds Continent and the Lower Realm planes.

Lin Mo persuaded the Black Tortoise to help awaken the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record, but first he had to free the Black Tortoise’s remnant soul from the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower. Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing fought their way through the tower’s undead Soul Slaves and reached its summit, where they found the soul core.

• Lin Mo told the Black Tortoise that the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record needed the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ power, and the Black Tortoise agreed to help if Lin Mo freed its remnant soul.
• The Black Tortoise explained that destroying the soul core at the top of the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower would break its restraints, though the tower was filled with undead Soul Slaves.
• Lin Mo used heavenly thunder to fight the Soul Slaves, while Feng Xu and Mo Qing hesitated after recognizing their sect’s fallen forebears among them.
• Lin Mo urged Feng Xu and Mo Qing to release the undead from their corrupted state, and they joined him in fighting through the tower.
• After a fierce battle, Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing reached the tower’s summit and spotted the soul core.

Lin Mo learned that the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower’s soul core was protected by the Black Tortoise’s Yin-Yang Sacred Ward, which required perfectly balanced extreme yin and yang attacks to break. He obtained the matured yin baleful grass and yangflame flower and prepared to refine them, confident they would help transform his sword and overcome the ward.

• Lin Mo’s strongest lightning attack vanished against the black-and-white ward surrounding the tower’s soul core.
• The Black Tortoise revealed that Netherworld cultivators had stolen its Yin-Yang Sacred Ward and explained that equal extreme yin and yang powers had to strike simultaneously to dispel it.
• Lin Mo returned to the Gourd Space with Feng Xu and Mo Qing, then went to check on two spirit plants he had ordered Chen Li to tend.
• Chen Li presented the matured yin baleful grass and yangflame flower, and Lin Mo announced that he would refine them immediately.
• Lin Mo said the plants could transform the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword and make breaking the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward easy.

Lin Mo infused the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword with balanced yin and yang power, then used his new Yin-Yang Soul-Slaying Slash to destroy the soul core in the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower. As the tower began collapsing, the Black Tortoise shielded Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing and appeared before them in an unexpected elderly form.

• Lin Mo refined the yin and yang power of the yin baleful grass and yangflame flowers into the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword, forming an Eight Trigrams pattern on its hilt.
• Lin Mo returned to the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower and told the Black Tortoise he had found a way through the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward.
• Lin Mo’s Yin-Yang Soul-Slaying Slash cleaved the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward’s vine cage and destroyed the soul core.
• The Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower began shaking and collapsing, and Feng Xu warned that they might be buried in the ruins.
• The Black Tortoise enveloped Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing in an azure protective bubble, then appeared before them as a white-haired old man.

Black Tortoise explained the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record’s origins and its role in the war between the Void Realm and the Netherworld, then agreed to help awaken it. The chapter ended with Feng Xu questioning whether Lin Mo could cultivate its methods as a lower-plane cultivator.

• Black Tortoise recognized Lin Mo’s resemblance to a long-dead acquaintance, then praised him and promised to help rescue the other Immortal Venerables’ remnant souls and awaken the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record.
• Black Tortoise entered the Gourd Space while the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower continued to collapse around Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing.
• Black Tortoise recounted how the Four Sages Immortal Venerables created the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record for the Void Realm, which the Netherworld and Barbarian Realm destroyed ten thousand years ago.
• Black Tortoise explained that the Record could not be destroyed while dormant and required the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ power to awaken, while Lin Mo considered how Nine Bone Nether Venerable had planned to destroy it.
• Feng Xu asked Black Tortoise whether Lin Mo could practice the Record’s cultivation methods despite being from a lower plane.

Lin Mo rescued Black Tortoise’s remnant soul and destroyed the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower, restoring the Northern Court to its former ocean. The Four Baleful Stars failed to secure help from the Nine Bone Nether Venerable as Lin Mo headed toward the Western Court’s Chaos Poison Marsh to rescue another remnant soul.

• Black Tortoise assured Lin Mo that the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record would let him practice its cultivation methods after he rescued all four remnant souls.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing emerged from the destruction of the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower and saw the Northern Court restored to a living azure ocean.
• Feng Xu explained that the tower’s evil aura had turned the Northern Court’s ocean into the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh, and Lin Mo vowed to restore the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• Li Yuan, Mu Zhankuang, and Zhu Jiaonu discussed the intruder’s destruction of the tower and contacted the Nine Bone Nether Venerable, who refused to help and threatened them.
• Lin Mo traveled southwest with Feng Xu and Mo Qing toward the Western Court’s Chaos Poison Marsh, where the swamp grew hot and began bubbling like lava.

Lin Mo learned that the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation was suppressing Vermilion Bird’s remnant soul and set out to destroy its Formation Eye. Protected by Black Tortoise’s Water Ward, Lin Mo entered the formation and encountered a powerful presence before finding the Formation Eye.

• Black Tortoise contacted Vermilion Bird, who explained that destroying the Formation Eye of the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation would free her remnant soul.
• Lin Mo steered the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds northwest and found the vast formation, whose heat threatened Feng Xu and Mo Qing.
• Black Tortoise created a Water Ward to protect them but warned it would last only as long as an incense stick burned.
• Lin Mo led Feng Xu and Mo Qing into the fiery clouds and searched for the Formation Eye.
• A savage aura emerged from the clouds ahead, and Lin Mo halted the clouds and demanded that the hidden creature show itself.

Lin Mo faced the Spirit Transformation Pinnacle Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord, the living formation eye of the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation, and used his Wood Wight form to overpower it in close combat. Just as he prepared to finish it, the beast created more than a hundred copies that surrounded him.

• Black Tortoise identified the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord as the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation’s formation eye and warned that its attacks were weakening Water Ward.
• Lin Mo sent Feng Xu and Mo Qing into the Gourd Space, transformed into a Wood Wight Giant, and attacked the beast while Black Tortoise expanded Water Ward around him.
• Lin Mo deduced that killing the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord would break the formation and free Senior Vermilion Bird, then used repeated close-range attacks to suppress it.
• The Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord fired beams from its eyes to create over a hundred insect eggs in the fiery clouds, then caused them to hatch into identical copies that surrounded Lin Mo.

Black Tortoise awakened Lin Mo’s Divine Wood Eye, allowing him to distinguish the original Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord from its duplicates and defeat him. With the formation collapsed and the battle over, Lin Mo asked Black Tortoise to explain the eye’s power.

• Black Tortoise told Lin Mo that killing the original Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord would destroy its duplicates, but Lin Mo could not tell them apart as they attacked him with evil fire.
• Black Tortoise sensed the World Tree power within Lin Mo and used his Dharma Power to accelerate the growth of the Jianmu Sapling in Lin Mo’s Dantian.
• Following Black Tortoise’s instructions, Lin Mo concentrated the World Tree’s power between his brows and awakened the Divine Wood Eye.
• Lin Mo used the Divine Wood Eye to identify the original Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord and charged through the attacking duplicates with his nine Starry Ancient Swords.
• Lin Mo caught the original as it tried to flee and killed it with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, causing the duplicates and Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation to collapse.
• Black Tortoise caught the exhausted Lin Mo with Water Ward, and Lin Mo asked what the Divine Wood Eye was after its third eye disappeared.

Lin Mo learned that the Divine Wood Eye came from his Jianmu sapling, but Black Tortoise could not explain the World Tree Descendant legacy before the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord revived. Vermilion Bird destroyed the demon with her Pure-Turbid Heavenly Flame, then knelt before Lin Mo and greeted him as her elder brother.

• Black Tortoise explained that Lin Mo could use the Divine Wood Eye to see through demons and evil disguises, and said its power would grow with his cultivation.
• As Black Tortoise began to explain the World Tree Descendant legacy, the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord reformed by absorbing the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation's remaining power.
• Lin Mo tried to summon his sword but found himself too exhausted to fight, while Black Tortoise assured him that help had arrived.
• Vermilion Bird appeared and struck the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord with her Sacred Flame Bow, burning it to ashes with the Pure-Turbid Heavenly Flame.
• Vermilion Bird landed before Lin Mo, knelt respectfully, and greeted him as her elder brother.

Lin Mo rescued Vermilion Bird and set out to save White Tiger while the Divine Land recovered from the evil soul seal crisis. Xuanyuan Hong and Zhu Feng visited Hai Dafu, crediting Lin Mo’s pills with helping restore order across the Divine Land.

• Vermilion Bird agreed to aid Lin Mo after he explained his mission to stop the Netherworld’s invasion of the lower planes.
• After Vermilion Bird entered Lin Mo’s Sea of Consciousness, Lin Mo rested in the Gourd Space and then departed with Feng Xu and Mo Qing for the Southern Court to rescue White Tiger.
• Vermilion Bird told Black Tortoise that Lin Mo felt familiar, and Black Tortoise cautioned her not to act on their suspicions.
• Hai Beier reported that Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills had restored nearly all Golden Core True Lords in the Deep Sea Imperial City from the evil soul seal.
• Xuanyuan Hong and Zhu Feng visited Hai Dafu, reporting that the pills had helped free powerful cultivators across the Divine Land and that Zhu Feng had recovered from the seal’s control.

Xue Qingcheng learned that Lin Mo had gone to the Nine Netherworlds Continent and flew after him, while Lin Mo reached the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh to seek the sealed White Tiger. Black Tortoise could sense White Tiger but received no answer, and a host of ghosts appeared before Lin Mo and his companions.

• Hai Dafu told Zhu Feng that Lin Mo had gone to the Nine Netherworlds Continent to steal the Netherworld Soul Seal and end the Evil Spirit rebellion.
• Xue Qingcheng overheard where Lin Mo had gone, learned why he left, and transformed into an ice-crystal mystic phoenix to pursue him.
• Hai Dafu and Xuanyuan Hong worried that Xue Qingcheng would cross planes to find Lin Mo, while Zhu Feng hoped the two would return safely.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing arrived at the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh, where Mo Qing described how the Southern Court had been ruined by Netherworld Evil Treasures.
• Black Tortoise sensed White Tiger nearby but could not reach him, and more than a hundred ghostly figures appeared before Lin Mo and his companions.

Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing fought through the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh, where they encountered the powerful Tian Zhu Ghost King, the enslaved soul of a legendary Nine Netherworlds general. After Feng Xu was injured, Lin Mo prepared to release Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird from his sea of consciousness so they could join the battle.

• Lin Mo recognized the marsh ghosts as souls of fallen Nine Netherworlds cultivators controlled by the Netherworld and led Feng Xu and Mo Qing through them.
• Lin Mo rescued Mo Qing from a massive black-mist claw with the Spirit Plant Altar, revealing the approaching Tian Zhu Ghost King.
• Feng Xu identified Tian Zhu as a loyal general who had died defending the Nine Netherworlds Imperial House during the invasion.
• Lin Mo's Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation failed to catch Tian Zhu, and the Ghost King shattered Feng Xu's Ten Thousand Spirits Shield, injuring him.
• Black Tortoise told Lin Mo that the Spirit Plant Altar could protect him and Vermilion Bird from the marsh's evil aura, and they prepared to emerge and fight.

Lin Mo and his companions fought through the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh and discovered that the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither was controlling the ancient cultivators’ souls. The zither’s music seized Feng Xu and Mo Qing, and Lin Mo summoned the Soul-Devouring Vine to restrain them.

• Black Tortoise bound the Heavenly Pearl Ghost King with Mystic Spirit Soul Lock, and Vermilion Bird burned him away with her Sacred Flame Bow.
• Lin Mo realized that killing the Heavenly Pearl Ghost King had not broken the formation, and he and his companions fought through the marsh to its far end.
• Black Tortoise identified the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither as the force controlling the souls of the Primordial Antiquity Cultivators.
• The zither’s music filled Lin Mo with killing intent, but Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird used the Heart-Clearing Mantra to restore his senses.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing fell under the zither’s control, so Lin Mo summoned the Soul-Devouring Vine and cast the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation.