Recaps

Han Kang protected Lin Mo from the Eight Great Households by threatening to take him to Longevity Valley, forcing Wu Pingdao and his allies to withdraw. Alone with Han Kang, Lin Mo revealed a five-ring Barrier-Breaking Pill and began transforming it, leaving Han Kang stunned as a sixth pill ring appeared.

• Han Kang summoned Lin Mo and used the threat of Longevity Valley to make Wu Pingdao and the Eight Great Households retreat.
• Wu Pingdao warned Han Kang not to let Lin Mo's secret art reach Longevity Valley, then led his people away.
• Han Kang ordered the sect-protecting formation to remain active and brought Lin Mo into the Sect Master's Main Hall to question him privately.
• Lin Mo showed Han Kang a five-ring Barrier-Breaking Pill and said the Eight Great Households coveted what it would become.
• Lin Mo infused the pill with spirit mist, causing gray-black vapor to emerge and a sixth pill ring to form.

Lin Mo revealed that his special physique could remove pill toxins and improve pills, and Han Kang protected the secret while ordering him to stay within the sect. After six months without further trouble from the Eight Great Households, Lin Mo reached the great perfection of the tenth layer of qi refining and touched the foundation establishment bottleneck.

• Lin Mo told Han Kang that his special physique could purify pills and raise their grade, explaining how he had made a Perfect Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Han Kang feared the Eight Great Households would silence the sect to hide Lin Mo's ability and arranged for covert agents to alert Longevity Valley if they attacked again.
• Han Kang revealed that Wu Pingdao had probed Sect Master Peak with divine sense, then asked Lin Mo to refine pills for him and ordered him to keep the secret and not leave the mountain without permission.
• Han Kang allowed Lin Mo to visit the Scripture Pavilion and said he would arrange for Lü Di to manage the spirit fields while Lin Mo focused on cultivation.
• The Eight Great Households stayed away for more than six months, while the Azure Cloud Sect selected new Inner Sect elders from among the Outer Elders.
• Lin Mo cultivated day and night and reached the great perfection of the tenth layer of qi refining, touching the foundation establishment bottleneck.

Five years after entering the Azure Cloud Sect, Lin Mo attempted foundation establishment in the Back Mountain’s Sword Tomb using a Perfect Foundation Establishment Pill. The breakthrough began, but instead of forming spirit liquid, six elemental Dao platforms appeared in his dantian, leaving him bewildered.

• Lin Mo told Liu Xianzong he would miss the elder selection ceremony to attempt foundation establishment, and Liu offered to guard him.
• Lin Mo explained that Han Kang had granted him permission to attempt the breakthrough in the forbidden grounds on the Back Mountain.
• Lin Mo returned to the Sword Tomb, noticed that traces of sword intent had reappeared, and prepared to cultivate amid its concentrated spiritual energy.
• Lin Mo swallowed the Perfect Foundation Establishment Pill and guided its medicinal power toward his dantian.
• Six elemental Dao platforms formed in Lin Mo’s dantian in place of the spirit liquid expected during foundation establishment, and he opened his eyes in confusion.

During the selection ceremony, Lin Mo’s advancement to Foundation Establishment triggered a terrifying thunder tribulation over the Back Mountain. He warned the entire sect to stay away and insisted he would face the tribulation alone.

• Han Kang promoted Yuan Jingtu, Cui Zhong, Tie Fa, and Chang Huaigu to Inner Sect Elders and elevated Wang Qiuru and several stewards to Outer Elders.
• Yuan Jingtu and Cui Zhong credited Lin Mo with changing Han Kang’s attitude toward Spirit Plant Peak and raising their hopes of reaching the Golden Core Realm.
• As Han Kang announced that Lin Mo was advancing in the Back Mountain forbidden grounds, a ninefold thundercloud gathered above Sect Master Peak.
• Ao Hong recognized that the tribulation was aimed at the Back Mountain, where Lin Mo was still inside.
• Lin Mo used the formation disc to warn everyone that the tribulation was his, urged them to flee, and told Han Kang not to intervene.

Lin Mo faced his golden core tribulation in the Forbidden Sword Mound and used the sect’s protective formation to withstand the first six strikes. With the formation’s spirit stones exhausted, he unleashed the Spirit-Devouring Vine to face the remaining strikes, and the seventh began overwhelming it.

• Han Kang evacuated the sect members from Sect Master Peak and gave Lin Mo permission to use the protective formation against the tribulation.
• Lin Mo used the Azure Cloud Primordial Defense Formation to block the first six lightning strikes, but its mid-grade spirit stones ran out.
• Lin Mo summoned A-Teng and fed the Spirit-Devouring Vine his saved spirit stones and spirit spring water so it could fight the remaining strikes.
• Lin Mo commanded the vine’s Coiled-Branch Swords to attack the seventh strike, which widened and carried ice-like crystals.
• The vine’s wooden swords repeatedly shattered and regrew as the spirit stones’ energy rapidly drained.

As Lin Mo faced an unprecedented black-and-white tribulation light, the Spirit-Devouring Vine fought to shield him while he realized vitality essence might be the key to surviving. The vine formed an unfamiliar altar-like formation, and Lin Mo began to regain control of his body.

• Lin Mo prepared his defenses with a Heaven-Returning Pill, an Iceberg Talisman, and diluted spirit spring water as the Spirit-Devouring Vine endured the seventh tribulation bolt.
• The final two layers of thunderclouds merged into an eerie black-and-white tribulation light that severed sound and divine-sense connections across the area.
• The Spirit-Devouring Vine repeatedly sent Curled-Branch Swords against the tribulation light while absorbing spirit spring water and drawing energy from underground.
• Lin Mo realized the vine could still move because its rootlets were immersed in undiluted mid-grade spirit spring water, and he suspected vitality essence could save him.
• The Spirit-Devouring Vine reshaped nine vines into an unfamiliar Ancient Altar-like formation, causing Lin Mo's body to loosen and his ability to move to return.

Lin Mo survived his Foundation Establishment tribulation by using the Spirit-Devouring Vine and a copied formation diagram, but the Black-and-White Tribulation Light formed a new mass in his dantian that he recognized as a seventh Dao platform. Han Kang arrived and suspected the vine had learned the formation from something buried underground.

• Lin Mo copied the Spirit-Devouring Vine's mysterious formation diagram onto a Jade Formation Disc, whose power swallowed the vine's branch swords and weakened the Black-and-White Tribulation Light.
• Black-and-White light gathered inside Lin Mo's dantian and formed a mass above his six Dao platforms as the tribulation ended.
• Lin Mo realized the light mass functioned like a seventh Dao platform and worried that gaining more spiritual roots would slow his cultivation.
• Han Kang arrived, confirmed Lin Mo had survived, and examined the Spirit-Devouring Vine and formation disc.
• Han Kang suspected the Spirit-Devouring Vine had learned the dangerous formation underground and struck the soil with his Black-Gold Pestle.

Han Kang and Lin Mo discovered a vast underground Blood Formation beneath the forbidden grounds, centered on a rusty Ancient Sword. The sword chose Lin Mo, and its blood-red aura and gray-white light began transforming his dantian and divine sense.

• Han Kang smashed open a deep fissure, and he and Lin Mo descended into an enormous cavern beneath Sect Master Peak.
• They found eight thousand one hundred blood-colored pillars forming a Blood Formation around a hovering Ancient Sword, whose sword intent surpassed that of the Sword Tomb.
• The Jade Formation Disc trembled, the pillars crumbled, and the Ancient Sword turned to point at Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo sensed that the sword wanted to acknowledge him as its master, and Han Kang cautiously let him approach it.
• Lin Mo grasped the sword, which enveloped him in bloody aura and gray-white light, severing Han Kang's divine sense connection to him.
• The sword's bloody aura entered Lin Mo's dantian and formed a crimson mist, while its gray-white light merged with his divine sense.

Lin Mo saw visions revealing that seven ancient cultivators had created nine swords to suppress the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formations across the Divine Land. After identifying the nearest formation near the Sword Sect, he recognized a star pattern on his ancient sword that suggested its origins lay with the Big Dipper Seven Sects.

• Lin Mo witnessed visions of the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formations being established and nine ancient swords suppressing them.
• Han Kang guarded Lin Mo as the formation collapsed and the ancient sword acknowledged Lin Mo as its master.
• Lin Mo told Han Kang that eight other formations existed and that the nearest was within a thousand li, near a Sword-Shaped Mountain in White Jade Ravine.
• Han Kang recognized the mountain as the Sword Sect's Sect Master Peak and speculated about the identities of the seven ancient swordmakers.
• Lin Mo rubbed rust from the sword and found raised dots arranged like stars, leading him to suspect it came from the Big Dipper Seven Sects.

After emerging from the Sword Tomb, Lin Mo was appointed an Inner Sect Elder and Service Hall Master, and Han Kang sent him to the Astrology Pavilion to seek a divination about the Ancient Swords and the danger surrounding them. Before Lin Mo left, he asked Han Kang about his younger sister Lin Xiaohe’s strange cold energy.

• Ao Hong and the elders found a fissure in the Sword Tomb, but Han Kang and Lin Mo emerged from below before Ao Hong could descend.
• Han Kang appointed Lin Mo as the sect’s sixteenth Inner Sect Elder and Service Hall Master, and warned the elders to keep Lin Mo’s tribulation and the fissure secret.
• Lin Mo drew nine mountain peaks for Han Kang, who identified Buddha Hand Peak and instructed Lin Mo to take a Jade Talisman to Zhuge Fengming at the Astrology Pavilion for a divination.
• Han Kang told Lin Mo to bring his parents from Locust Grass Village to live at the sect after returning from the Astrology Pavilion.
• Lin Mo asked Han Kang whether he knew of a Special Physique like Lin Xiaohe’s, whose dantian held cold energy that could cut bamboo and wood cleanly.

Lin Mo learned that Lin Xiaohe might possess a Sword Dao spirit physique and accepted Han Kang’s reward of mid-grade spirit liquid. In the Treasure Gourd, he left the mysterious sword intent grass to keep growing, strengthened the Spirit-Devouring Vine with a new formation, and planned to hide his rapid progress while cultivating toward the second layer of Foundation Establishment.

• Han Kang proposed taking Lin Mo and Lin Xiaohe to the Sword Sect so Sect Master Miao could examine her, and replaced Lin Mo’s reward with a thousand drops of mid-grade spirit liquid.
• Lin Mo found that the spirit plants in the Treasure Gourd had matured, including the enormous sword intent grass, but he could not tell how to use it and ordered Chen Li to watch it.
• Lin Mo branded the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation’s patterns onto the Spirit-Devouring Vine’s root tendrils.
• Lin Mo found that his six dao platforms, black-and-white light mass, and blood mist grew stronger in harmony as he cultivated.
• Lin Mo pretended to stabilize his cultivation for a month, intending to use his time in the Treasure Gourd to reach the second layer of Foundation Establishment in about five months.

After advancing to the second layer of Foundation Establishment, Lin Mo traveled to the Astrology Pavilion and received an auspicious reading about his marriage to Qin Sang Sang. When he asked whether restoring his incomplete treasure would bring fortune or calamity, the divination shattered the fortune-teller’s tortoise shell and formed the character for “slaughter” in blood.

• Lin Mo reached the second layer of Foundation Establishment, while Qin Sang Sang advanced to the fifth layer of Qi Refining and moved into his courtyard with Lin Xiaohe.
• Lin Mo left the Azure Cloud Sect to visit the Astrology Pavilion, planning to bring his parents up the mountain when he returned.
• In Astrology City, a fortune-teller cast a marriage reading for Lin Mo and declared its all-yang result highly auspicious.
• Lin Mo asked whether restoring his incomplete treasure would bring fortune or calamity to him and his sect, then focused on its secrets and his own origins as he cast the coins.
• The tortoise shell shattered as all six coins landed yin-side up, and the fortune-teller’s blood and the coins formed the character for “slaughter.”

After a fortune-teller warned Lin Mo that his Ancient Sword heralded a calamity, Lin Mo reached the Astrology Pavilion to undergo Fate Divination at Zhuge Fengming’s hands. Zhuge’s divination revealed four bright stars converging on the chart’s center, where a new light flared and vanished.

• A fortune-teller predicted a catastrophic omen connected to Lin Mo’s Ancient Sword, and Lin Mo decided to stay vigilant but doubted it could destroy the Divine Land.
• Lin Mo arrived at the Astrology Pavilion and presented Zhuge Fengming with the Voice Transmission Jade Talisman from Han Kang.
• Zhuge Fengming read the talisman, questioned Lin Mo about his special physique and five-spirit root, and led him upstairs for Fate Divination.
• Zhuge Fengming and Lin Mo followed a sequence of steps around each other as Zhuge Fengming used his White Jade Gui Ruler to perform the divination.
• A star chart appeared above them, and four bright stars converged on its center before a burst of light there turned dark.

After Zhuge Fengming predicted that four calamity stars close to Lin Mo would bring about his death, Lin Mo chose to trust his parents and brought them to live at the Azure Cloud Sect. As the Tai Sui Gate appeared to have been defeated, Zhu Ang revealed that it was preparing a blood sacrifice to awaken the Venerable Lord’s Primordial Spirit.

• Zhuge Fengming divined that four people close to Lin Mo would bring calamity upon him, then suffered severe backlash from the divination.
• Lin Mo returned to Locust Grass Village and invited his parents to live with him at the Azure Cloud Sect, refusing to let the prediction make him doubt them.
• Over three months passed, and Lin Mo’s parents settled into life at the sect while the Tai Sui Gate’s surviving forces seemed to fade away.
• A red-haired elder told Zhu Ang that the Branch Altars had gathered enough essence blood for a Blood Sacrifice Ceremony before the third day of the next month.
• Zhu Ang declared that the ceremony would seize the Heaven and Earth Spirit Vein and awaken the Venerable Lord’s Primordial Spirit, dismissing the Azure Cloud Sect as no opponent to the Tai Sui Gate.

Zhu Ang and the Tai Sui Gate gathered with cultivators, demonic beasts, and other beings to perform a blood sacrifice at the White Bone Sacred Altar. When part of the Yellow Springs Spirit-Guiding Diagram faded, they suspected one of its nine formations had been destroyed, but a deep voice declared the Sacred Lord’s plan would still succeed.

• Zhu Ang led the silver-robed elder and his followers through an underground passage in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where he described the Tai Sui Gate’s repeated blood sacrifices and hoped for their master’s awakening.
• Zhu Ang reached a lava lake and poured fresh blood toward the enormous White Bone Pillar, while beings arriving from other passages also fed blood into the lake.
• Bloodlight climbed the pillar, awakening the Yellow Springs Spirit-Guiding Diagram’s nine-palace patterns at its summit.
• Zhu Ang noticed one section of the diagram dimming, and the assembled cultivators, demonic beasts, and unusual beings feared one of the nine Soul-Devouring Formations had been disrupted or destroyed.
• A deep male voice assured the gathered beings that the Sacred Lord would sense the nearly complete diagram and that his ten-thousand-year plan would succeed.

Lin Mo cultivated to the third layer of foundation establishment and discovered that his Ancient Sword could help him sense the other eight swords. He decided to travel with Han Kang and Xiao He to the Sword Sect, where he planned to destroy a Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation, subdue another Ancient Sword, and have Xiao He’s physique examined.

• Lin Mo tended his spirit plants, added essence-nurturing fruit plants, and continued cultivating despite his slow progress.
• Lin Mo studied the Ancient Sword and concluded that all nine swords were needed to complete its formation pattern and unleash its full power.
• Lin Mo decided to visit the Sword Sect to destroy the formation beneath its Master Peak and seek the next Ancient Sword.
• Han Kang agreed to accompany Lin Mo and bring Xiao He so Sect Master Miao could examine her possible special physique.
• Han Kang told Lin Mo to prepare for their trip to the Sword Sect the next morning.

Han Kang brought Lin Mo and Lin Xiaohe to the Sword Sect, where Miao Yun recognized Lin Xiaohe's rare clear sword heart and asked to take her as a disciple. Lin Mo then warned that a Peerless Demonic Array beneath Sword Peak was draining the sect's earth vein qi, and Miao Yun revealed the Sword Sect had already suffered major losses.

• Han Kang introduced Lin Xiaohe to Miao Yun, and Lin Xiaohe demonstrated her innate sword power by cutting a wooden stick into eight pieces.
• Miao Yun identified Lin Xiaohe as likely possessing a clear sword heart and explained that she already wielded sword dao true essence despite having no cultivation.
• Miao Yun asked to make Lin Xiaohe her disciple, but Lin Xiaohe refused to leave her brother and parents at the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lin Mo revealed an Ancient Sword and warned that another one beneath Sword Peak suppressed a Peerless Demonic Array threatening the Sword Sect's foundations.
• Miao Yun said the Sword Sect had lost more than half its earth vein qi, its spirit plants were withering, and its spiritual energy had weakened, then asked whether the Azure Cloud Sect had suffered the same trouble.

Miao Yun revealed that the Sword Sect’s dragon vein node was rapidly losing earth-vein qi, and Lin Mo agreed to investigate in exchange for the sect’s support. Beneath the master peak, the Ancient Sword pointed toward a cavern wall that Lin Mo suspected concealed the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation.

• Miao Yun told Han Kang and Lin Mo that the Sword Sect’s dragon vein node had been draining earth-vein qi for half a month, despite her search underground.
• Han Kang gave Lin Mo a Heaven-Restoring Pill and urged him to help; Miao Yun offered him the rank of chief Guest Elder and any Ancient Sword they found.
• Lin Mo promised to do what he could to restore the dragon vein, left Lin Xiaohe behind, and followed Miao Yun underground with Han Kang and the Sword Sect elders.
• At the dragon vein node, Lin Mo used spiritual energy to activate the Ancient Sword, which pointed toward a cavern wall and shook violently.
• Lin Mo told the others to break through the wall, saying the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation was likely causing the earth-vein qi to disappear.

Lin Mo and the Sword Sect members found a second Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation and an Ancient Sword beneath the sect. After the two Ancient Swords destroyed the formation, Lin Mo suffered a severe backlash, but Miao Yun still sensed that the sect’s fortune had barely improved, prompting Lin Mo to consider using the swords to restore the underground dragon vein.

• Miao Yun and the Sword Sect elders blasted a passage through the rock and discovered an underground cavern containing the formation and a second Ancient Sword.
• Lin Mo realized the formation was drawing on the earth vein qi and harming the Sword Sect’s fortune.
• The first Ancient Sword trembled in Lin Mo’s hand, and the second sword responded by releasing power that destroyed all 8,100 stone pillars.
• The second Ancient Sword flew to Lin Mo and acknowledged him, while the two swords’ lights went out and Lin Mo suffered a debilitating backlash.
• Lin Mo took a Heaven-Restoring Pill, and the Sword Sect elders apologized after seeing his condition.
• Miao Yun said the sect’s fortune had barely recovered, and Lin Mo considered using the two swords to restore the underground dragon vein.

Lin Mo discovered that his bathwater could purify the Sword Sect’s contaminated Dragon Vein, and he negotiated for spirit liquid to continue the treatment. The chapter ended with Han Kang offering two thousand drops of mid-grade spirit liquid in exchange for payment from Miao Yun.

• Lin Mo returned with the others to the Dragon Vein and explained that the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation had contaminated it and drained the Sword Sect’s fortune.
• Miao Yun and the Sword Sect elders pleaded with Lin Mo to purify the Dragon Vein and promised rewards and a place for Xiao He as a True Disciple.
• Lin Mo poured his bathwater into the magma, and Miao Yun sensed that the Dragon Vein and the sect’s fortune had begun to recover.
• Lin Mo revealed that his bathwater contained Low-Grade Spirit Liquid and mid-grade spirit liquid, prompting Miao Yun to offer to gather more supplies.
• Lin Mo said that ten thousand drops of mid-grade spirit liquid should suffice, and Han Kang offered two thousand drops in exchange for payment.

Lin Mo accepted Miao Yun’s Dark-Green Iron Fragment and promised to purify the Sword Sect’s dragon vein within seven days, while Han Kang received an offer of Sword Dao manuals. Meanwhile, a hidden enemy learned that Lin Mo threatened their plan and organized an ambush to kill him.

• Miao Yun offered Lin Mo the Dark-Green Iron Fragment as thanks for purifying the dragon vein, and Han Kang handed over two thousand drops of mid-grade spirit liquid.
• Miao Yun offered Han Kang twenty Sword Dao manuals, and Lin Mo said he needed seven days and a larger bathing tub to complete the purification.
• Lin Mo assured Miao Yun that Lin Xiaohe would agree to become her disciple, and the group returned to the surface.
• A Sword-Browed Elder watched Lin Mo with concealed hostility as the group departed.
• A Black-Clad Man received a message that Lin Mo had destroyed the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation and threatened the Holy Lord’s awakening.
• The Black-Clad Man ordered a feigned attack on the Azure Cloud Sect and arranged an ambush between it and the Sword Sect to kill Lin Mo.

Lin Mo purified the Sword Sect’s dragon vein with the vitality essence in his bathwater and prepared to return to the Azure Cloud Sect. Before leaving, he sensed a familiar evil aura on the Ninth Elder and realized it resembled the aura from demonized man-eating blood vines.

• Lin Mo declined Miao Yun’s invitation to stay and poured the bathwater into the Magma Lake, purifying the dragon vein and restoring the Sword Sect’s fortune.
• Miao Yun thanked Lin Mo and made him the Sword Sect’s foremost Guest Elder.
• Lin Mo warned Miao Yun that the Ninth Elder carried an evil aura, but Miao Yun said the elder had saved her life and remained loyal to the sect.
• Lin Mo departed for the Azure Cloud Sect while Miao Yun watched the Ninth Elder, who showed no unusual behavior.
• On his way back, Lin Mo recognized the Ninth Elder’s aura as matching the foul aura from Gou Fengying’s demonized man-eating blood vines.

Lin Mo was ambushed by Tai Sui Gate cultivators while traveling to the Azure Cloud Sect, but his Spirit Plant and unexpected sword power let him defeat them. He realized more Tai Sui Fiends were likely waiting along his route.

• Lin Mo suspected the Ninth Elder had been tainted by the same foul aura as Gou Fengying and decided to find evidence of his betrayal, despite worrying about Xiao He.
• A blood-red attack knocked Lin Mo's Flying Sword away, but he used A-Teng to block the next strike and steady himself in midair.
• A masked leader ordered the Tai Sui Gate cultivators to kill Lin Mo before other groups could claim credit for the White Jade Branch Altar's mission.
• Lin Mo combined the energy of his six Dao Platforms with the Black-and-White Light Mass and Blood Mist sphere, unleashing a rainbow sword strike that annihilated the attackers.
• Lin Mo realized the leader's words meant more Tai Sui Fiends were likely positioned along the route to ambush him.

Lin Mo defeated Tai Sui Gate ambushers and continued toward the Azure Cloud Sect, where he met the scar-faced body refinement cultivator Yan Lie. Lin Mo fought him at close quarters and was wounded, while Yan Lie's saber drew blood.

• The black-clad Tai Sui Gate man learned Lin Mo had killed the ambush party and ordered a black-robed youth to warn Yan Lie to capture Lin Mo alive.
• Lin Mo searched the fallen Tai Sui fiends, then set out for the Azure Cloud Sect with Chen Li while the Gu-Devouring Bee remained asleep.
• Near the sect, Lin Mo sensed Yan Lie and told Chen Li to protect him while he tested his physique in close combat.
• Yan Lie claimed that the Longevity Valley was allied with the Tai Sui Gate and attacked Lin Mo with a saber forged from demon beast bones.
• Lin Mo ignored Chen Li's warning and clashed with Yan Lie, nearly splitting his sword hand and chipping his Dao Sword as Yan Lie's saber drew blood.

Lin Mo killed the scar-faced man after a dangerous close-quarters fight and took his possessions. He then encountered Yan Lie, a False Core or Pseudo Core cultivator who challenged him to survive three moves.

• Lin Mo's Dao Sword shattered and the scar-faced man wounded his shoulder, but the black-and-white light mass and other powers killed the attacker.
• Lin Mo collected the scar-faced man's saber, spirit stones, spirit liquid, talismans, formation disc, and demon beast materials, then burned the corpse and left with Chen Li.
• Yan Lie refused orders from the White Jade Branch Altar to capture Lin Mo alive, insisting that nobody could dictate how he acted.
• Lin Mo arrived on his flying sword, and Yan Lie stopped him with a towering wall of fire.
• Lin Mo sensed Yan Lie's power was below that of a Golden Core True Lord and accepted him as a test of his own strength.
• Yan Lie challenged Lin Mo to survive three moves, promising to leave if he did and threatening to kill him if he failed.