Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo used the Spirit-Devouring Vine to rescue the three eminent monks and Hai Beier, then raised twenty-eight Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formations to hold back the Formless Demon Seed’s canopy. When Zonge said the Bodhi Tree might need the World Tree’s aura to awaken, Lin Mo suspected the spirit plant in his dantian and the Treasure Gourd were connected to the World Tree.

• Lin Mo sent the Vine Root Ball to pull the three eminent monks and Hai Beier away as the gray-black canopy struck Buddha Hand Peak and weakened the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation.
• Master Zhichang noticed Lin Mo’s newly cultivated Bodhi Tree, but Lin Mo admitted he did not know how to activate its power.
• Lin Mo poured diluted spirit spring water onto the Spirit-Devouring Vine and formed twenty-eight Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formations that held the canopy above Buddha Hand Peak.
• Lin Mo asked the eminent monks how the Bodhi Tree could be activated, warning that they would perish unless they defeated the Formless Demon Seed.
• Zonge explained that the World Tree was the ancestor of all plants and that a lost Heaven-Piercing Dragon Root had once been suspected to be one of its roots.
• Lin Mo connected Zonge’s account to the mysterious spirit plant in his dantian and suspected the Treasure Gourd was linked to the World Tree.

Lin Mo awakened the Bodhi sapling’s power with blood carrying Jianmu’s aura and destroyed the Formless Demon Seed, ending the Western Region calamity. After learning Jianmu’s ancient roots lay in the Southern Wasteland, he set out to investigate the ruins with Hai Beier.

• Lin Mo placed a drop of his blood on the Bodhi sapling, causing it to unleash golden light that erased the Formless Demon Seed and purified the gray-black evil light.
• Lin Mo told the monks and Hai Beier that his wood-type physique might be connected to Jianmu, while the monks acknowledged his role in ending the Western Region calamity.
• Master Zhichang described the remaining disasters in the Northern Plains and Southern Wasteland, and Lin Mo asked Zonge where Jianmu’s ancient roots had been located.
• Zonge said Jianmu’s roots had once extended through the Southern Wasteland and left a three-million-li rift, which Lin Mo decided to investigate.
• Lin Mo invited Hai Beier to accompany him to the Jianmu Ruins, and she agreed to go while boasting that he needed her protection from the Drought Demon.

Three Tai Sui Gate cultivators searched the Jianmu Ruins for earth vein spirit springs so they could prevent the land’s spiritual energy from recovering. Lin Mo learned from Hai Beier that reviving all the earth veins could eradicate the Drought Demon, but that seemed impossible unless the World Tree grew again.

• Three Black-Robed Men descended into the Jianmu Ruins to locate and destroy its earth vein spirit springs.
• The man surnamed Qi complained about the High Priest and recalled how his ancestor had lost the priestly position, while Hu warned him that the High Priest was far stronger.
• The man surnamed Qi used the High Priest’s compass to locate an earth vein and led the other two southwest.
• Lin Mo and Hai Beier arrived above the rift in the Seven-Colored Scallop, and Lin Mo marveled at its vastness.
• Hai Beier told Lin Mo that reviving the earth veins could eradicate the Drought Demon, but the World Tree would have to grow again for that to happen.

Lin Mo and Hai Beier reached an underground earth vein spirit spring, where three Tai Sui Gate cultivators were hiding as one attempted to break through to spirit transformation. Hai Beier attacked them, and Lin Mo offered her spirit spring water to help her finish the fight as a team.

• Lin Mo sensed a familiar aura in the great rift and directed Hai Beier toward its source.
• The Man surnamed Qi found the earth vein spirit spring and began absorbing its spiritual energy to attempt a breakthrough.
• The Nascent Soul Great Cultivator surnamed Hu set up a Concealment Formation with the other Black-Robed Man.
• Hai Beier and Lin Mo arrived on the Seven-Colored Scallop, and Hai Beier dispelled the formation to reveal the three Tai Sui Gate cultivators.
• Hai Beier unleashed the Boundless Sea against the Man surnamed Qi's Blood Cocoon, but struggled to maintain the attack.
• Lin Mo offered Hai Beier a Small Jade Bottle of diluted spirit spring water so they could defeat the Tai Sui Gate Fiends together.

Lin Mo tried to protect the injured Hai Beier as the man surnamed Qi’s Blood Baleful Light struck her and two Nascent Soul cultivators advanced. Lin Mo’s first attacks only bought a few breaths, leaving him to face them with his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword.

• Hai Beier rejected Lin Mo’s warning and used her azure river to batter the Blood Cocoon, but the man surnamed Qi repaired it with his Skeleton Blood Banner.
• The man surnamed Qi unleashed Blood Baleful Light; Lin Mo shielded Hai Beier with the White Sun Tower and Nether Crow Feather Robe, but the attack wounded her badly.
• The man surnamed Qi warned that Hai Beier’s organs were injured and sent the Nascent Soul surnamed Hu and the Demonist surnamed Tang to attack under Blood Cocoon protection.
• Lin Mo forced Diluted Spirit Spring Water on Hai Beier and sent his Spirit-Devouring Vine and four Ancient Swords against the attackers, but they quickly repelled both measures.
• Lin Mo channeled the Jianmu Sapling’s power into his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword and swung at the advancing enemies.

Lin Mo used the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword to wound two Nascent Soul cultivators, then healed himself with Authentic Spirit Spring Water. Hai Beier took over the fight and used the Seven-Colored Scallop to annihilate both cultivators, leaving only Qi's primordial spirit alive and begging for mercy.

• Lin Mo unleashed the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword's power, scattering Tang's blood beads and cracking his blood sword while suffering severe injuries from the backlash.
• Lin Mo swallowed ten drops of Authentic Spirit Spring Water and rapidly healed as Tang and Hu marveled at his recovery.
• Lin Mo told Hai Beier he could strike only twice more and promised to use his last life-saving measure if she had not recovered.
• Hai Beier broke free of the White Sun Tower, handed Lin Mo the Nether Crow Feather Robe, and activated the Seven-Colored Scallop's Natal Placenta.
• The Seven-Colored Scallop's vortex destroyed Tang and Hu and reduced Qi to a terrified primordial spirit, which begged Hai Beier and Lin Mo for mercy.

Lin Mo and Hai Beier learned that the Mystic Ice Soul could end the Northern Plains’ Eternal Night and warned the seniors after killing a Tai Sui Gate half-step Spirit Transformation cultivator. The Tai Sui Gate High Priest mobilized all eleven protectors and thirty-six elders to march on the Southern Wasteland.

• Hai Beier forced the Man surnamed Qi to reveal that restoring the Cold Abyss’s seal with the Mystic Ice Soul would end the Eternal Night, then trapped his primordial spirit in the Fragrant Soft Pouch.
• Lin Mo suspected the Tai Sui Gate had sent the Man surnamed Qi to sabotage the effort to destroy the Drought Demon and warned that the sect would retaliate.
• Lin Mo contacted Qiongsongzi and other seniors, while Hai Beier used her conch horn to summon Senior Hai.
• The Tai Sui Gate High Priest learned that Protector Qi, Elder Hu Wei, and Elder Tang Tan were dead and ordered all eleven protectors and thirty-six elders to join her in the Southern Wasteland.
• The High Priest collected the White Bone Altar and departed, declaring that the Holy Church was ready to act.

Lin Mo advanced to the second level of Golden Core and discovered that his blood could summon a root-like force that sought out earth vein spirit springs. As Hai Beier wondered whether he was a World Tree Descendant, her father and the Algae King arrived, and Lin Mo considered helping the ancient spirit plant advance.

• Lin Mo absorbed the vitality of the earth vein spirit spring and advanced to the second level of Golden Core, while Hai Beier questioned whether he was a World Tree Descendant.
• Hai Beier explained that World Tree Descendants were cultivators with wood-type special physiques descended from people who had revered the World Tree.
• Lin Mo cut his wrist and let his blood fall into the spring, producing a root-like outline that spread out to search for other earth vein spirit springs.
• Lin Mo admitted that he seemed to be a World Tree Descendant, leaving Hai Beier stunned by the possibility of a mutated bloodline.
• Hai Dafu, Uncle Cao, two old turtles, and the Spirit Turtle Sect's four Nascent Soul cultivators arrived in the Southern Frontier.
• Lin Mo learned that Uncle Cao was an ancient spirit plant and wondered whether spirit spring water could help him advance.

Lin Mo’s World Tree Fibrous Root began reconnecting the earth veins in the Jianmu Ruins, and the others mistook him for a World Tree Descendant. He gave Senior Cao spirit liquid in exchange for a Heavenheart Sunflower Gall, a treasure that could help Lin Mo condense a second nascent soul after reaching Nascent Soul.

• The Spirit Transformation beings realized the World Tree Fibrous Root was spreading through the earth veins and could restore the Southern Frontier’s spiritual energy and destroy the Drought Demon.
• Hai Dafu concluded that Lin Mo was a World Tree Descendant, and Senior Cao said Lin Mo’s aura felt comforting.
• Lin Mo offered Senior Cao a bottle of special spirit liquid, but Senior Cao explained that it could restore vitality rather than help him advance or ascend.
• Hai Dafu suggested Senior Cao use the spirit liquid to nurture a spirit-plant successor, and Lin Mo gave him ten bottles containing a thousand drops.
• Senior Cao gave Lin Mo a Heavenheart Sunflower Gall, which Hai Dafu said could help him condense a second nascent soul once he reached Nascent Soul.

Lin Mo tested the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall and used its gift to bargain with Hai Dafu for a Seven-Colored Conch Shell, then shared spirit spring water with the deep-sea elders. Hai Dafu hid Lin Mo's human body and laid out the urgent threats facing the Southern Frontier.

• Lin Mo accepted the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall and learned it could create a controllable body by copying a living creature's aura.
• The old turtle lent its life essence, allowing Lin Mo to form and control a spirit turtle body.
• Hai Dafu gave Lin Mo a Seven-Colored Conch Shell to store his original body, and Lin Mo repaid him with ten drops of Authentic Spirit Spring Water.
• Lin Mo produced more spirit spring water for Hai Beier and the four Spirit Transformation powerhouses, surprising them with his supply.
• Hai Dafu told Lin Mo to conceal his World Tree Descendant identity by placing his original body in the conch shell.
• Hai Dafu said the World Tree's roots would reconnect the earth veins within half a month and called for the group to find the Drought Demon and prepare for the Tai Sui Gate witch.

Hai Dafu and the others planned how to withstand the Tai Sui Gate’s terrifying High Priest and its forces while the World Tree’s roots connected through the earth veins. Their potential ally from the Penglai Commerce Association arrived, recognized Hai Beier as a turtle descendant, and reacted with surprise at Lin Mo.

• Hai Dafu explained that the Tai Sui Gate’s Holy Lord could create Spirit Transformation perfection followers with undying bodies, making the High Priest exceptionally dangerous.
• The dark green man offered to send a spore clone to search for the Drought Demon, while Hai Dafu agreed to delay the High Priest until the World Tree’s roots connected throughout the earth veins.
• Hai Dafu warned that Hai Beier could face the Tai Sui Gate’s thirty-six Nascent Soul elders, but eleven half-step Spirit Transformation Protectors remained a serious threat.
• The dark green man said he had invited an old friend from the Penglai Commerce Association to deal with the eleven Protectors.
• A slightly plump old man arrived with Qiongsongzi and Qionghengzi, greeted the Spirit Transformation powerhouses, and mistook Hai Beier for the old turtles’ descendant.

Lin Mo, trapped in his simulated Spirit Turtle body, met Gu Youfang and received a Soul-Calming Abacus Bead as a greeting gift. Hai Dafu revealed the life-restoring power of Lin Mo’s Special Spirit Liquid, leaving Gu Youfang eager to trade for it.

• The dark-green man explained that Lin Mo’s Spirit Turtle body came from the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall, then introduced him to Gu Youfang, president of the Penglai Commerce Association.
• Gu Youfang gave Lin Mo a Soul-Calming Abacus Bead, and Qiongsongzi and Qionghengzi explained that it could preserve his consciousness and memories.
• Lin Mo offered Gu Youfang a Small Jade Bottle of Special Spirit Liquid in return, but Gu Youfang initially declined.
• Hai Dafu showed Gu Youfang another bottle of the Special Spirit Liquid, whose vitality eased Gu Youfang’s centuries-old cultivation bottleneck.
• Gu Youfang guessed Lin Mo was a World Tree Descendant, and Hai Dafu offered to trade Lin Mo’s Small Jade Bottle for a treasure of equal value.

Lin Mo exchanged ten drops of spirit spring water for Gu Youfang’s Penglai Token and decided to travel north to seize the Mystic Ice Soul and stop Eternal Night. A spirit transformation clone agreed to escort him to the Northern Frontier, while the others remained in the Southern Frontier to guard the earth veins.

• Gu Youfang offered Lin Mo a Penglai Token that could command the Penglai Commerce Association once, and Lin Mo traded him the jade bottle of spirit spring water for it.
• Hai Beier urged Lin Mo to head for the Northern Frontier and seize the Mystic Ice Soul before Eternal Night spread further.
• Gu Youfang explained that the Snow Demon Queen guarded the Mystic Ice Soul and could draw on the spirit transformation skeletons in Snow Burial Valley, making a direct assault nearly impossible.
• Lin Mo considered using the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall to infiltrate the Sea Demon Tribe and secretly steal the Mystic Ice Soul.
• Lin Mo announced that he would depart for the Northern Frontier, and the dark-green man created a spirit transformation clone to escort him.
• Lin Mo entered his spirit turtle body, and the clone took him toward the nearest ancient Teleportation Array.

Lin Mo crossed the frozen Northern Plains during Eternal Night and reached Lingbei City, where he learned that snow demons had surrounded the Ice Palace. He went to a Penglai Commerce Association branch to prepare for the journey there, presenting Gu Youfang’s token to the shopkeeper.

• Lin Mo flew across the corpse-strewn icefield, using the warmth of the jianmu sapling and his protective gear to withstand the cold.
• Lin Mo activated a teleportation array in an abandoned city and arrived in Lingbei City.
• A guard warned Lin Mo that snow demons had surrounded the Ice Palace and that the teleportation array only reached to within a thousand li of it.
• Lin Mo asked for directions to the Penglai Commerce Association and rode a horned antelope to its Lingbei City branch.
• Lin Mo placed Gu Youfang’s Penglai Token on the counter and asked the shopkeeper if he recognized it.

Lin Mo obtained three ancient Snow Demon corpses and used the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall to create a Snow Demon body. He stored the body in the Seven-Colored Conch Shell, bringing his plan to infiltrate the Snow Demon Tribe and steal the Mystic Ice Soul closer to success.

• Lin Mo showed the Penglai Token at the shop and asked the shopkeeper for a Snow Demon corpse.
• The shopkeeper explained that the city lord's treasury held three undecayed Snow Demon corpses slain by the Ice Palace's old palace master, and Lin Mo arranged to borrow them.
• An attendant returned with the three corpses, and the shopkeeper told Lin Mo about their beauty and the battle between the Snow Demon Queen and the old palace master.
• Lin Mo paid the shopkeeper, set up a Concealment Formation, and placed the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall on one corpse.
• The Heavenheart Sunflower Gall formed a flawless young man's body, which Lin Mo put into the Seven-Colored Conch Shell.

Lin Mo traveled in a snow demon body to infiltrate the Ice Palace, where the former palace master sensed his approach and guessed that someone was impersonating the supposedly slain commander Xue Zong. The Ice Palace remained surrounded by the snow demon army as Lin Mo neared it.

• Lin Mo returned to the Teleportation Plaza, traveled to a ruined city, and flew north toward the Ice Palace in his snow demon body.
• Lin Mo checked his concealed treasures and removed the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor and Nether Crow Feather Robe to avoid revealing his identity.
• The former palace master told Bing Tianxing and the elders that Eternal Night and the snow demon army threatened the Ice Palace, while the Twelve Ancient Sects would not intervene.
• The former palace master sensed a familiar aura approaching and recognized it as belonging to Xue Zong, whom he had killed centuries earlier.
• The former palace master concluded that the approaching snow demon was an impostor or a direct descendant of Xue Zong who had infiltrated the Snow Demon Tribe.

Lin Mo reached the Snow Demon Tribe’s formation and was mistaken for a descendant of Xue Zong, so he pretended to have lost his memories and pledged loyalty to the Snow Demon Queen. When the tribe’s leaders discovered his aura resembled the Queen’s yin-yang spirit body, Xue Xiu took him to report to Her Majesty while the Snow Demons continued besieging the Ice Palace without attacking.

• Lin Mo arrived at the icy mist surrounding the Snow Demon Tribe and was teleported into a tent after its commander mistook him for Xue Zong’s descendant.
• Xue Xiu and three senior Snow Demons welcomed Lin Mo as a lost member of the tribe after he claimed to have forgotten his identity and declared loyalty to the Queen.
• One Snow Demon noticed that Lin Mo’s aura resembled the Snow Demon Queen’s yin-yang spirit body, and Xue Xiu confirmed the unusual resemblance with Divine Sense.
• Xue Xiu ordered the other Snow Demons to maintain the siege of the Ice Palace without attacking, then took Lin Mo through a teleportation array to report to the Queen.

Lin Mo entered the Snow Demon Tribe’s palace disguised as a descendant of Xue Zong and passed the Snow Demon Queen’s test. The Queen declared that he was eligible to become her husband and ranked him first among the candidates, leaving Lin Mo stunned.

• Xue Xiu brought Lin Mo to the Snow King Palace and told its guards that Lin Mo was Xue Zong’s descendant with a yin-yang spiritual physique.
• Xue Ye and Xue Mu examined Lin Mo, accepted his identity, and escorted him to meet the Snow Demon Queen.
• The Queen used her phoenix crown to test Lin Mo, and the phantom Jianmu sapling in his sea of consciousness resonated with its black-and-white light.
• The Queen confirmed Lin Mo had the royal sacred physique and named him a marriage candidate, provisionally placing him first in line.
• Lin Mo realized the Queen intended to marry him and worried that his plan to steal the Mystic Ice Soul had taken an unexpected turn.

Lin Mo learned that he had to win the Snow Demon Tribe’s origin core tournament to become one of the Snow Demon Queen’s three consort candidates, and accepted his return to the Xue Zong Lineage. His newly discovered half-brothers planned to kill him in the arena with deadly Ice Scar Awls as Xue Mu brought him to meet their family.

• Xue Ye explained that Lin Mo would need to become the strongest origin core cultivator in his group to reach the final three, and Xue Mu said he had three days to prepare for the tournament.
• Lin Mo agreed to rejoin the Xue Zong Lineage and traveled with Xue Mu to meet its head and his two supposed elder brothers, Xue Kuotai and Xue Kuoluo.
• Xue Zong’s first wife warned her sons that the Snow Demon Queen favored Lin Mo and that he threatened their standing in the lineage.
• Xue Kuotai and Xue Kuoluo vowed to kill Lin Mo in the arena and accepted Ice Scar Awls from their mother, weapons she said could destroy even a nascent soul body.
• As Xue Mu brought Lin Mo to the tent, Xue Zong’s first wife and her sons put on welcoming smiles and went outside to greet them.

Lin Mo returned to the Snow Demon clan and faced the hostility of Xue Ke and her sons while pretending to be Xue Zong’s son. At the tournament, the Snow Demon Queen watched as Lin Mo began his first Origin Core match against Xue Ying.

• Xue Ke and her sons greeted Lin Mo with feigned affection, while Lin Mo pretended to be moved by reuniting with his family.
• After Xue Mu left, Xue Ke directed Lin Mo to a small tent, and she and her sons cursed him once he was out of sight.
• Three days later, Lin Mo saw that the Snow Demon Queen, Xue Mu, and Xue Ye were observing the tournament from concealed positions.
• Xue Ye announced Lin Mo’s match against Xue Ying, and the Snow Demon Queen shone black-and-white light over their arena.
• Xue Ying attacked Lin Mo with an ice sword covered in spikes.