Arc 7Chapters 151–175
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Lin Mo fought Yan Lie, who tested him with increasingly powerful fire attacks and revealed the might of his false core realm. After Lin Mo’s strongest saber strike was consumed by Yan Lie’s attack, Lin Mo was left exhausted as Yan Lie’s men urged their leader to finish him.
Lin Mo returned to the Azure Cloud Sect after surviving three Tai Sui Gate ambushes, while the elders investigated the purpose of the attack on the sect. He warned them that the Longevity Valley might also belong to the Tai Sui Gate, leaving the sect to consider a new threat.
Lin Mo reported that the Tai Sui Gate had ties to Longevity Valley, the Penglai Commerce Association, and possibly the Sword Sect’s Ninth Elder, alarming Han Kang and the Azure Cloud Sect elders. Han Kang sent the elders away, ordered secrecy, and asked Lin Mo to investigate the Commerce Association disciple while he considered the Tai Sui Gate’s threat.
Lin Mo returned to the Elders' Court, praised Qin Sang Sang for helping his parents grow spirit rice, and gave her spirit stones and a Meridian-Shaping Pill. That night, he visited the Black Market and confronted Du Zhong, who admitted he belonged to the Tai Sui Gate and urged Lin Mo to join the Holy Church to escape death.
Lin Mo negotiated with Du Zhong for Supreme-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills and information about the Tai Sui Gate, then used his mutated spirit plants as leverage to warn the gate against provoking the Azure Cloud Sect. He left the Black Market with clues about the Holy Lord and considered acting against Longevity Valley before the Holy Lord awakened.
Lin Mo set out to enlist the Eight Great Households in destroying the Longevity Valley, despite Han Kang’s concern for his safety. At the Hundred Blessings Market, he learned Zhou Wu had revealed his identity to the Wu Household, then publicly announced his visit and summoned the Eight Great Households’ leaders.
Lin Mo offered to trade his Pill Toxin Removal method with the Eight Great Households and traveled to Pill King City without Longevity Valley's support. The household leaders gathered at the Wu residence to discuss the deal, then learned Lin Mo had arrived alone.
Lin Mo provoked the Eight Great Households into nearly attacking him, then revealed that he could upgrade their pills. The ancestors paused their assault, uncertain what to make of his offer.
Lin Mo removed the toxins from eight pills and advanced their grades, including a low-grade Nascent Soul Condensation Pill. The Eight Great Households’ Golden Core True Lords were stunned by his ability and saw a much greater chance of gaining a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Lin Mo returned the pills he had upgraded to the Wu Household and the seven lineage patriarchs, then challenged their suspicions about his motives. He revealed that he wanted the Eight Great Households’ help to destroy the Longevity Valley, which he said was controlled by Tai Sui Gate Fiends.
Lin Mo convinced the Eight Great Households that Longevity Valley was controlled by the Tai Sui Gate and would threaten them once Wan Sicheng reached Nascent Soul. Wu Liu committed the households to attack in half a month, while Wu Ying suspected Lin Mo still had another trump card that could change Wu Liu’s resolve.
Wu Ying asked Lin Mo to save Wu Liu, whose damaged cultivation and declining vitality made her likely to die in the coming battle against the Longevity Valley. Lin Mo agreed to restore Wu Liu’s vitality in exchange for knowledge about Sword Intent Grass, and Wu Ying revealed how it was commonly used before Lin Mo asked how to recognize a mature plant.
Lin Mo cultivated Wu Ying’s sword intent grass into a mutated sixth-grade spirit plant, then staged a severe loss of blood to make the spirit liquid he gave her seem costly. Wu Ying brought the liquid to Wu Liu, who had been preparing to sacrifice her life for the Wu Household, and told her it could restore her vitality and give her a chance to form a Nascent Soul.
Wu Ying gave Wu Liu Lin Mo’s Special Spirit Liquid, restoring Wu Liu’s youthful appearance and vitality. Wu Liu went to thank Lin Mo, but his feigned weakness and claim that he had made a trade with Wu Ying led the Wu Household to mistake their arrangement for an affair and plan to marry them.
Lin Mo cleared up Wu Liu’s misunderstanding about his relationship with Wu Ying and secured the Wu Household’s friendship. Half a month later, the Eight Great Households attacked Longevity Valley, wiping out its Golden Core cultivators while Wan Sicheng escaped mortally wounded.
After Wan Sicheng escaped, Lin Mo and Wu Ying learned that the Eight Great Households were clearing out Longevity Valley and discussed Wu Zheng’s alchemy and artifact-refining talents. Wu Zheng taught Lin Mo the Sword Heart Refinement Method, and Lin Mo ended the chapter by asking about the battle’s casualties and the captured disciples.
Wu Liu brought the surviving Longevity Valley disciples to the Wu Household and left their fate to Lin Mo as a test of his character. Lin Mo refused to risk killing innocents and offered his own blood to pay for soul searches, while Wu Zheng called on the elders to stop testing him.
After the Eight Great Households tested Lin Mo’s character, they declared him their ally and followed his advice on handling the surviving Longevity Valley disciples. Lin Mo stayed with the Wu Household until Wan Sicheng’s death was certain, then resolved to return to the Azure Cloud Sect and grow strong enough to face the Tai Sui Gate.
Wan Sicheng’s dying false nascent soul told Wei Chen that the Eight Great Households had two false nascent souls and an unknown helper before he vanished. After the Eight Great Households settled Longevity Valley and established Pill King Domain, Lin Mo received a letter for the Azure Cloud Sect and flew back to report to its Sect Master.
Lin Mo noticed that spiritual qi was thinning across the Azure Cloud Sect, though he suspected the Ancient Sword and underground formation were responsible. After reporting news of the Eight Great Households’ alliance and discussing the Tai Sui Gate’s evil art, he returned to his room to begin refining a sword heart.
Lin Mo tried to harvest the sword intent grass in the Gourd Space, but its leaves resisted even his strongest strike until the Treasure Gourd mysteriously stripped them away and revealed the sword heart. He obtained the sword-shaped core but was left wondering how to inscribe formations on something even tougher than the leaves.
Lin Mo forged the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword with the Treasure Gourd’s help, then spent nearly five years cultivating but remained on the verge of the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment. When he went to the sect’s main hall to arrange a trip for a breakthrough pill, Han Kang told him the Divine Firmament Sect had been devastated and the Tai Sui Gate was suspected.
Lin Mo learned that the Divine Firmament Sect’s six Nascent Soul elders were losing their cultivation and recognized signs of the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation, so he set out to find its Ancient Sword and obtain a supreme-grade Barrier-Breaking Pill. After reaching a North Sea teleportation hub, he was accused by a scar-faced Daoist of blocking the way.
Lin Mo traveled with the scar-faced old Daoist to Vaultheaven City, recognizing that the man intended to lure him away and kill him. After leaving the city together, Lin Mo confronted the Daoist and drew the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, preparing to test its power.
Lin Mo killed a greedy Foundation Establishment cultivator with the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, revealing its overwhelming power, then traveled to Vaultheaven City. There, an attendant explained that the Divine Firmament Sect’s formation barred outsiders from approaching within a thousand li.