Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo brought Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to stay in his courtyard at the Azure Cloud Sect, then introduced them to his parents as friends. Xue Qingcheng nervously greeted Lin's Father and Lin's Mother and declared that she was their future daughter-in-law.

• Lin Mo brushed aside the sect's formal reception and invited Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to stay at his courtyard.
• Xue Qingcheng dismissed Han Kang and the other sect leaders, insisting that Lin Mo lead them himself.
• Lin Mo took the two women to the Elders' Court, where they nervously slowed as they approached his parents' home.
• Lin Mo introduced Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier as his friends and asked Qin Sang Sang to prepare more bowls and chopsticks.
• Qin Sang Sang greeted the two women and returned inside, feeling bitter and inadequate beside them.
• Xue Qingcheng greeted Lin's Father and Lin's Mother, confessed Lin Mo had lied about their friendship, and called herself their future daughter-in-law.

After meeting Lin Mo’s parents, Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier stayed at the family home while Lin Mo worried they might discover his Treasure Gourd. He left for the Black Market to question Du Zhong about the sealed Holy Lord and any remaining threat to humanity.

• Lin’s Mother warned Lin Mo not to neglect Qin Sang Sang for Xue Qingcheng, while Lin’s Father welcomed Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier into the family home.
• Qin Sang Sang seated Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier beside Lin Mo’s place of honor, and Lin Mo’s parents treated all three girls to dinner.
• Lin Mo decided not to enter the Treasure Gourd because Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier might detect his Concealment Formation.
• Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier sensed Lin Mo leaving but chose not to follow him, trusting that he was safe in the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lin Mo went to the Black Market, thanked Du Zhong for the Tai Sui Token, and asked where the Holy Lord was sealed and whether it could still threaten humanity.

Lin Mo learned from Du Zhong that the Tai Sui Gate’s High Priest had recovered enough to place a bounty on him and that the imprisoned Holy Lord commanded a vast force of holy spirit avatars. He resolved to seek a way to break the Tai Sui Gate’s mind-control art and strengthen the seal before the Holy Lord escaped.

• Du Zhong told Lin Mo that the High Priest had issued a bounty against him and that the Holy Lord’s prison location was known only to a few senior members of the Holy Church.
• Du Zhong revealed that the Tai Sui Gate’s disciples were bound by a mind-controlling secret art and warned that the Holy Lord had likely nurtured a hundred thousand holy spirit avatars.
• Du Zhong asked Lin Mo to destroy his soul if he lost control, while Lin Mo promised to try to save him and then left the Black Market.
• Lin Mo returned to his bedroom and considered the Tai Sui Gate’s ongoing efforts to free the Holy Lord and the High Priest’s threat.
• Lin Mo decided to pursue the remaining five Ancient Swords, ask the Astrology Pavilion to divine clues about the Holy Lord’s seal, and fuse sword hearts into his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword.

Lin Mo brought Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to the Astrology Pavilion and asked Tantai Yan to divine the Holy Lord of Tai Sui Gate. With Xue Qingcheng sustaining Tantai Yan’s divine sense, he burned his lifespan to glimpse the Holy Lord’s true form and reveal its appearance.

• Lin Mo arrived at the Astrology Pavilion with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier while Dantai Jingyu remained in secluded cultivation.
• Tantai Yan agreed to divine the Holy Lord, and Zhuge Fengming arranged seven Bronze Ancient Lanterns around him.
• As the divination continued for three days, Lin Mo used mid-grade spirit spring water to replenish Tantai Yan’s declining life force.
• When Tantai Yan’s divine sense faltered under the Holy Lord’s pressure, Xue Qingcheng infused her divine soul origin to strengthen it to the nascent soul late stage.
• Tantai Yan burned his lifespan to see the Holy Lord’s true form, which appeared as a scaled, seven-eyed and seven-horned figure with a long tail and a cloud of blood-red motes.

Tantai Yan glimpsed the Holy Lord’s true form and judged him to be a terrifying being from the Upper Realm, plunging Lin Mo into despair. Xue Qingcheng restored Lin Mo’s hope, and he asked Zhuge Fengming to divine the general locations of the remaining Ancient Swords.

• Tantai Yan’s divination revealed that the Holy Lord was formed from sinister yin energy and might possess Tribulation Transcendence-level strength.
• Lin Mo feared that no one on the Divine Continent could stop the Holy Lord, while Tantai Yan explained that entering the void physically would be fatal.
• Xue Qingcheng reassured Lin Mo that the Holy Lord was not invincible and that someone destined to answer the Heavenly Dao would emerge.
• Lin Mo remembered the Treasure Gourd could shelter humanity and regained his resolve to gather the Ancient Swords.
• Lin Mo asked Zhuge Fengming to divine the general directions of the five remaining Ancient Swords, and Zhuge began the ritual.

The Ancestors of the Twelve Ancient Sects gathered at Heavenly Sword Mountain after sensing the Kaiyang Ancient Sword stir and debated whether to surrender their five Ancient Swords to the prophesied Master of the Era. The gathering ended with the sect leaders divided over the swords’ ownership, while the threat of the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable underscored the need to unite them.

• The gaunt Ancestor of Heavenly Sword Mountain told a disciple that the Kaiyang Ancient Sword had stirred and that the Master of the Era had emerged, though he worried about the newcomer’s ambitions.
• The Heavenly Sword Mountain Ancestor summoned his old friends, saying the nine swords would soon return to their places and it was time for them to act.
• Eleven representatives of the Twelve Ancient Sects arrived and formed separate groups according to their rivalries.
• The Heavenly Sword Mountain Ancestor explained that the Master of the Era might soon come for the swords, but the assembled Ancestors remained reluctant to give them up.
• The Human Emperor Hall Ancestor declared that his sect would not surrender the Heavenly Balance Ancient Sword, and the Ancestors of Sky-Piercing Abbey and Savage God Valley agreed that the treasure must not fall into another’s hands.
• The Silken Cloud Palace Ancestor warned that the nine swords might be needed to reseal the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable and argued that the sects should support the Master of the Era if he could wield their full power.

The leaders of the Twelve Ancient Sects agreed to test the Master of the Era before allowing him to claim the ancient swords, while weighing the swords’ possible role in their fight against the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable. The first trial was assigned to Silken Cloud Palace, and a blue-robed figure left the Astrology Pavilion with two young women, heading for a Teleportation Array.

• The sect leaders rejected taking all nine swords for themselves and agreed to test whether the Master of the Era was worthy of them.
• The woman in palace robes offered Silken Cloud Palace’s Slender Cloud Star-Shifting Array as the first trial for access to the Shaking Light Ancient Sword.
• The gaunt old man explained that the Twelve Ancient Sects needed the swords as a possible aid when sacrificing themselves to seal the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable.
• The gaunt old man told the woman in palace robes to prepare her disciples to test the Master of the Era without holding back.
• The gaunt old man recalled Tantai Tianji’s prophecy and resolved to seize an opportunity if the Master of the Era passed all five trials.
• A blue-robed figure left the Astrology Pavilion with two young women and hurried toward the nearest Teleportation Array.

Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier traveled through West Xing Island and Kangyuan City while planning how to approach the Twelve Ancient Sects and obtain the Ancient Swords. Lin Mo chose to head for remote Savage God Valley first, and the trio set out by Teleportation Array.

• Lin Mo arrived on West Xing Island with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier, recalling his earlier encounter with Jingxi and discussing the danger of confronting the Twelve Ancient Sects.
• Lin Mo reassured the women that he had prepared spirit spring water and led them to Kangyuan City.
• At the Penglai Pavilion Commerce Association, Lin Mo asked about the Twelve Ancient Sects, and the gray-robed manager gave him a Central Province Map and warned him about the sects.
• Lin Mo chose remote Savage God Valley as their first destination so they would have time to act or escape before other sects could send reinforcements.
• Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier departed Kangyuan City through successive Teleportation Arrays toward Savage God Valley.

Lin Mo, Hai Beier, and Xue Qingcheng visited Savage God Valley to negotiate, but Xue Qingcheng’s display of power led to a confrontation with the valley’s elders and a powerful bare-backed brute. The brute acknowledged that neither side had a clear advantage and demanded to know their purpose.

• Lin Mo and Hai Beier admired the immense physical strength of Savage God Valley’s Foundation Establishment disciples while Xue Qingcheng remained unimpressed.
• Xue Qingcheng used Silent Dark, Absolute Light to announce their arrival, nearly lulling the disciples’ souls to sleep.
• Six senior figures countered her secret art with ripples that injured them when Xue Qingcheng dispersed their attack.
• A bare-backed brute rushed Xue Qingcheng and struck at her, but her soul attack weakened his blow and she kicked his wrist.
• The brute endured Xue Qingcheng’s kick and claimed that neither of them could defeat the other decisively.
• Xue Qingcheng prepared her treasures, and the brute asked why she had come to Savage God Valley.

Lin Mo sought the Jade Balance Sword from the Savage God Valley, but Redback demanded that he pass a trial against the Golden Core disciple Man Jing. The chapter ended as Man Jing revealed his formidable golden sun sacred body and Xue Qingcheng warned Lin Mo to avoid close combat.

• Xue Qingcheng defended Lin Mo after Redback looked down on his Golden Core cultivation and revealed that Lin Mo was her future husband.
• Lin Mo presented four Ancient Swords, and Redback recognized him as the Master of the Era seeking the Jade Balance Sword.
• Redback refused Lin Mo’s offer of treasures and help with the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation, insisting that he pass a trial to claim the sword.
• Redback summoned Man Jing and required him to defeat Lin Mo within three moves for Lin Mo to pass.
• Man Jing unleashed his golden sun sacred body, and Xue Qingcheng warned Lin Mo that his fists and feet could shatter a Nascent Soul cultivator’s body.

Lin Mo fought Man Jing in a close-range contest of physical strength, relying on his extraordinary recovery to withstand Man Jing’s blows and gradually wear him down. As Man Jing’s golden sun faded and his attacks weakened, those watching realized Lin Mo was going to win.

• Man Jing struck Lin Mo with a golden-lit fist, but Lin Mo endured the blow and wounded him with a counterpunch.
• Man Jing healed his injury with the golden sun sacred body, while Lin Mo recovered even faster through the vitality in his flesh.
• Lin Mo and Man Jing exchanged another pair of punches, and the Redback brute realized their physical strength was nearly matched.
• Man Jing abandoned the three-move limit and unleashed a relentless barrage of punches, while Lin Mo laughed and fought back.
• Lin Mo’s recovery outpaced Man Jing’s, and the golden sun’s radiance dimmed as Man Jing’s attacks weakened.
• The Redback brute, Xue Qingcheng, and the others recognized that Lin Mo would win.

Lin Mo defeated Man Jing in a contest of physical strength, earning the Jade Balance Ancient Sword from the Savage God Valley. After Man Jing demanded a rematch and was rebuked by his master, Lin Mo drank spirit spring water, drawing the burly Redback man's intense interest in the liquid.

• The burly Redback man stopped Man Jing's futile attack and declared that the Savage God Valley had lost.
• Lin Mo humbly acknowledged Man Jing's physique, and the burly Redback man awarded him the Jade Balance Ancient Sword.
• Man Jing requested a rematch, but Lin Mo revealed his Life-Bound Dao Sword and the burly Redback man slapped Man Jing and ordered him to accept defeat.
• The burly Redback man told Lin Mo where to find the Jade Balance Ancient Sword, then prepared to leave.
• Lin Mo drank ten drops of mid-grade spirit spring water, and the burly Redback man stopped him to ask what kind of spirit liquid it was.

Lin Mo gave Savage God Valley's Spirit Transformation masters Diluted Spirit Spring Water, winning their goodwill and learning where the remaining Ancient Swords were held. The Redback burly man agreed Savage God Valley would not oppose him and offered to lead him to the Jade Balance Sword.

• Lin Mo revealed that he had made the Diluted Spirit Spring Water using his World Tree essence blood and gave the Redback burly man seven bottles.
• The Redback burly man and the six elders inspected the spirit liquid and realized it could restore the lifespans they had sacrificed for Savage God Valley's body refinement art.
• Lin Mo said he had prepared the bottles as gifts and asked only to build goodwill with Savage God Valley.
• The Redback burly man promised that Savage God Valley would never be Lin Mo's enemy unless he joined the demonic path.
• The Redback burly man told Lin Mo where the Wavering Light Sword, Heavenly Balance Sword, Heavenly Sphere Sword, and Opening Sun Sword were held.
• The Redback burly man offered to lead Lin Mo to Savage God Valley's dragon vein to obtain the Jade Balance Sword.

Lin Mo obtained the Jade Balance Ancient Sword from beneath Savage God Valley and received a Barbarian God Statue containing a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s Body Refinement insights. As he departed for Silken Cloud Palace, the burly Redback warned another sect leader that Xuanyuan might refuse to surrender the Heavenly Balance Sword and suggested telling Lin Mo about the previous empress of the Human Emperor Hall.

• Lin Mo claimed the Jade Balance Ancient Sword, which destroyed the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation and returned its stolen spiritual energy to the Earth Vein.
• The burly Redback asked Lin Mo for Special Spirit Liquid for three disciples, and Lin Mo gave him three bottles.
• The burly Redback presented Lin Mo with the Barbarian God Statue and pledged that the Twelve Ancient Sects would act if the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable broke free.
• Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier left Savage God Valley through its Primordial Teleportation Array and headed for Silken Cloud Palace.
• The burly Redback contacted Yunxin, learned that Xuanyuan might resist giving up the Heavenly Balance Sword, and suggested telling Lin Mo that the previous empress of the Human Emperor Hall was near death.

Lin Mo and the two women arrived in Demonbane City, where he studied the Savage God Overlord Body imparted through the bronze statue. Afterward, Lin Mo realized his cultivation depended on the Jianmu Sapling’s Spirit Plant aura rather than ordinary Dharma Power, leaving him unsure whether he could follow the method as intended.

• Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier used Savage God Valley’s one-way Teleportation Array to reach Demonbane City, and Lin Mo decided to stay for up to three days to study the statue.
• Lin Mo found the Penglai Commerce Association’s branch and had the manager arrange superior rooms for Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier.
• Lin Mo sealed his room with a Concealment Formation and pressed the bronze statue to his brow, drawing the burly Redback’s Divine Sense avatar into his Sea of Consciousness.
• The burly Redback taught Lin Mo the Savage God Overlord Body, which tempered the body by circulating power through one thousand four hundred and forty-four acupoints, and warned him not to pass on the secret art.
• After the avatar vanished, Lin Mo wondered why it had not detected the Jianmu Sapling’s phantom in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lin Mo concluded that his body was already strong enough for the art, but the power he called Dharma Power was actually Spirit Plant aura released by the Jianmu Sapling.

Lin Mo’s attempt to cultivate Savage God Valley’s Body Refinement Secret Art transformed him into a humanoid spirit plant, so he headed with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to Baleful Demon Cliff for a remedy. Unknown to them, the Demon-Suppressing Stone Statue there had begun to crack after Zhuge Fengming secretly divined the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable’s true body.

• Lin Mo circulated the Savage God Overlord Body method, but 3,650,000 emerald branches sprouted from his body instead of the expected strengthening and discomfort.
• Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier entered Lin Mo’s room, saw his treeman form, and agreed that he should seek help at Savage God Valley.
• The Penglai Commerce Association shopkeeper told Lin Mo that he could dispel the baleful blood energy at the Demon-Suppressing Stone Statue on Baleful Demon Cliff, four hundred li west of Demonbane City.
• Lin Mo left Demonbane City with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier and flew toward Baleful Demon Cliff.
• The Demon-Suppressing Stone Statue developed a spreading hairline crack after Zhuge Fengming used a secret divination art to spy on the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable’s true body.

The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable awakened Earth Kui to guard Baleful Demon Cliff while the Savage God's statue weakened, intending to use the Baleful Demon's remains to create a second true body. Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier approached the cliff, where a crack was spreading across the statue and earth vein energy began to rise.

• The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable told the High Priest that the Savage God's statue would collapse within three months and that Earth Kui would protect Baleful Demon Cliff.
• The High Priest realized she had not told the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable that Lin Mo might be the current Master of Destiny.
• Lin Mo sneezed while flying toward Baleful Demon Cliff and warned Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier to prioritize staying alive if trouble arose.
• Xue Qingcheng assured Lin Mo she could defeat the Tai Sui Gate elder again and readied the Pure White Ribbon.
• Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier reached the cliff, where Savage God Valley disciples guarded the statue as a crack spread across its back and earth vein energy rose from below.

Savage God Valley disciples discovered that the Savage God Statue was cracking as a powerful True Spirit awakened beneath Baleful Demon Cliff. A hurricane nearly consumed three trapped disciples, but a phoenix-crowned maiden rescued them and identified the creature as Earth Kui, while warning that someone had altered the local earth veins.

• A Savage God Valley disciple found cracks and a red glow in the Savage God Statue, and sensed a presence nearing Spirit Transformation Pinnacle beneath Baleful Demon Cliff.
• Most Savage God Valley disciples fled, while four mutated disciples were caught in a massive hurricane forming beneath the cliff.
• A Pure White Ribbon rescued three disciples from the storm, and a young man gave them Small Jade Bottles of Special Spirit Liquid that healed their wounds.
• The phoenix-crowned maiden identified the awakening True Spirit as Earth Kui and said they had to repair the Savage God Statue.
• The maiden told the young tree-like man that someone had secretly altered the sparse earth veins, since they could not naturally produce Earth Kui.

A newly born Earth Fiend began draining the Savage God Stone Sculpture’s origin, threatening to free the Baleful Demon beneath it. Xue Qingcheng revealed that Tai Sui Gate had likely engineered the crisis to force the Twelve Ancient Sects into sacrificing their strongest cultivators, while Lin Mo resolved to find another way to stop the fiend.

• Xue Qingcheng identified the newly formed Earth Fiend as an instinct-driven true spirit that could only be sealed, not killed.
• Savage God Valley disciples warned Lin Mo and the women that the Earth Fiend was draining the Savage God Stone Sculpture’s origin and could release the Baleful Demon beneath it.
• Lin Mo ordered Xue Qingcheng to restrain the Earth Fiend with ice and Hai Beier to hold it back with the Boundless Sea.
• Xue Qingcheng explained that water spells were ineffective against the earth-aligned fiend and that sealing it would require the sacrifice of a Spirit Transformation pinnacle cultivator.
• Xue Qingcheng suspected Tai Sui Gate had awakened the Earth Fiend to destroy the statue and seize the Baleful Demon’s remains, leaving the Twelve Ancient Sects unable to intervene freely.
• Lin Mo decided he would gather Spirit Transformation seniors he knew and confront the Earth Fiend himself.

Xue Qingcheng revealed that her Snow Demon lineage could help Lin Mo take Wood Wight’s form and defeat Earth Fiend. She used an inherited secret art to merge her divine sense with Lin Mo, who absorbed vast spiritual energy until Earth Fiend recognized him as a threat.

• Xue Qingcheng explained that Wood Wight was the only true spirit capable of defeating Earth Fiend and that Lin Mo’s World Tree bloodline could help.
• Xue Qingcheng revealed that the Snow Demon Tribe descended from an ice-element true spirit and proposed using an inherited merging art to transform Lin Mo into Wood Wight.
• Lin Mo agreed, and Xue Qingcheng shattered her Ice Crystal Phoenix Crown with the secret art Ice Shatter, sending her divine sense into his sea of consciousness.
• Xue Qingcheng’s divine sense rose to spirit transformation pinnacle and guided Lin Mo as he absorbed spiritual energy for roughly half a day.
• Lin Mo grew to about a hundred feet tall and absorbed most of the nearby spiritual and earth vein energy, prompting Earth Fiend to stop devouring the Savage God Statue and focus on him.