Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo apologized to a Dao of Alchemy Grandmaster for the Queen’s disruption and offered him Special Spirit Liquid, whose effects astonished the gathered cultivators. The Chu-Surnamed Elder accepted a bottle and let Xuanyuan Hong examine it only after extracting a promise that it would be returned.

• Lin Mo stored the six Ancient Swords and gave a bottle of Special Spirit Liquid to the Spirit Transformation middle-stage cultivator whose pill had shattered.
• The cultivator sensed the liquid’s restorative vitality, declared it more valuable than a Void God Pill, and claimed only Primordial Antiquity pills could rival it.
• A slightly plump elder offered Lin Mo a Spirit-Restoring Pill for another bottle, but Lin Mo gave him the liquid as an introductory gift instead.
• After tasting its effects, the Chu-Surnamed Elder changed his attitude toward Lin Mo and guarded his bottle closely.
• Xuanyuan Hong asked whether the liquid could rival Primordial Antiquity pills, and the Chu-Surnamed Elder let him examine it only after securing his promise to return it.

Lin Mo used the special spirit liquid to persuade Xuanyuan Hong to give up the Heavenly Balance Ancient Sword, which Xuanyuan Hong wanted to obtain for Liu Qing. Beneath the Human Emperor Hall, Xuanyuan Hong agreed to let Lin Mo take the sword after learning Lin Mo could destroy the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formations.

• Xuanyuan Hong realized the special spirit liquid could restore Liu Qing's vitality, but Chu and Yu refused to trade him theirs.
• Xuanyuan Hong accepted Lin Mo's offer and led him to the Human Emperor Hall's underground dragon vein.
• Xue Qingcheng identified the golden seal there as the Human Emperor Seal, a treasure that preserved the Human Emperor Hall's destiny.
• Xuanyuan Hong explained that he planned to use the Human Emperor Seal to suppress the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation after Lin Mo took the Heavenly Balance Ancient Sword.
• Lin Mo said the Big Dipper Nine Swords had destroyed the formations at several sects, and Xuanyuan Hong recognized him as this era's Master of Destiny.
• Xuanyuan Hong acknowledged that the Heavenly Balance Ancient Sword was bound to Lin Mo and invited him to take it.

Lin Mo claimed the Heavenly Balance Ancient Sword and received the Xuanyuan Token from Xuanyuan Hong, who then brought him to witness Liu Qing's Spirit Transformation tribulation. Liu Qing's remaining life suddenly ebbed away as Xuanyuan Hong realized her lifespan had ended.

• Lin Mo destroyed the Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation and claimed the Heavenly Balance Ancient Sword, confirming Xuanyuan Hong's belief that he was the Master of Destiny.
• Lin Mo gave Xuanyuan Hong two bottles of improved Special Spirit Liquid, and Xuanyuan Hong rewarded him with the Xuanyuan Token.
• Xuanyuan Hong invited Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng to witness Liu Qing's Spirit Transformation tribulation, and Xue Qingcheng explained the laws associated with its final bolts.
• Xuanyuan Hong brought Lin Mo and his companions to meet Liu Qing, whose life force suddenly dwindled as she said she feared she could repay his love only in her next life.
• Xuanyuan Hong realized that Liu Qing's lifespan had ended, despite believing she had three years left to live.

With Liu Qing at the end of her lifespan, Lin Mo brought her into the Treasure Gourd Space and asked the gourd to grant her ten more days. As the gourd answered, the Jianmu sapling’s leaves withered and Lin Mo’s hair turned gray-white.

• Lin Mo poured all ten drops of genuine Spirit Spring Water into Liu Qing’s mouth, but it only faintly slowed her decline.
• Lin Mo asked Xuanyuan Hong for permission to make one last attempt to save Liu Qing, and Xuanyuan Hong agreed.
• Lin Mo carried Liu Qing into the Side Hall and ordered Xuanyuan Hong, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier not to probe inside.
• Lin Mo entered the Gourd Space with Liu Qing, found Chen Li tending the spirit fields and Xun Bin still imprisoned, and used the gourd’s power to block Xun Bin’s senses.
• Lin Mo asked the Treasure Gourd to add ten days to Liu Qing’s lifespan, and the Gourd Space shook as the Jianmu sapling’s leaves withered and Lin Mo’s hair turned gray-white.

Lin Mo used the Treasure Gourd to restore Liu Qing at the cost of his own life essence, leaving his hair gray-white and her with only ten days to advance to spirit transformation. Liu Qing began her tribulation at the Ancestral Shrine, and Lin Mo was awakened when the eighth bolt appeared.

• Lin Mo realized the Treasure Gourd had consumed his life essence to replenish Liu Qing's lifespan, and Liu Qing regained consciousness.
• Xuanyuan Hong gave Liu Qing a perfect-grade Void God Pill and took her to the Ancestral Shrine after Lin Mo warned that she had only ten days to advance.
• Liu Qing began her spirit transformation tribulation as Xuanyuan Hong, Lin Mo, Xue Qingcheng, and Hai Beier watched.
• Lin Mo cultivated quietly while the Jianmu Sapling absorbed spiritual energy to replenish him, and Xue Qingcheng later called him when Liu Qing's eighth bolt appeared.

During Liu Qing’s Spirit Transformation tribulation, the jianmu sapling absorbed traces of spatial and time law, restoring Lin Mo’s hair and vitality. Liu Qing completed her advancement, and Xuanyuan Hong offered to grant Lin Mo any condition in gratitude.

• The jianmu sapling and Nine-Colored Auspicious Cloud reacted to the spatial law in Liu Qing’s eighth tribulation bolt while Lin Mo was unable to comprehend it himself.
• As Liu Qing’s ninth bolt descended, the jianmu sapling absorbed time law, and Lin Mo’s gray-white hair turned black again.
• Xue Qingcheng, Xuanyuan Hong, and Hai Beier noticed the change, and Xuanyuan Hong identified Lin Mo as a World Tree Descendant.
• Liu Qing’s tribulation ended early, and she advanced to Spirit Transformation with a Spatial Ripple forming around her.
• Xuanyuan Hong thanked Lin Mo for helping Liu Qing and promised to grant whatever condition Lin Mo proposed.

Lin Mo secured Xuanyuan Hong’s help in obtaining the remaining ancient swords, while the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable prepared to unleash one hundred thousand evil spirit clones across the Divine Land. The High Priest planned to lure the Twelve Ancient Sects’ cultivators away from their strongholds and defeat them separately.

• Lin Mo asked Xuanyuan Hong to let his friends and younger sister use the Human Emperor Ancestral Shrine for their spirit transformation tribulations, and Xuanyuan Hong agreed.
• Liu Qing asked Xuanyuan Hong to help Lin Mo obtain the remaining ancient swords, and Xuanyuan Hong promised to accompany Lin Mo within half a month.
• The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable revealed that one hundred thousand evil spirit clones had taken shape and ordered the High Priest to use them to slaughter cultivators and refine Tai Sui Pills.
• The High Priest shrank and took the White Bone Altar, then proposed drawing the Twelve Ancient Sects’ cultivators from their sects and defeating them one by one.

Lin Mo gathered all nine Northern Dipper Ancient Swords but doubted the Big Dipper Sword Formation’s power. A message from the Eastern Isles revealed that the Tai Sui Gate High Priest and a Mysterious Demon had attacked, forcing the Azure Cloud Sect to flee to the Deep Sea Stone Formation and leaving Senior Cao’s fate unknown.

• The High Priest led a hundred thousand evil spirits toward the Eastern Isles to target Lin Mo and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lin Mo obtained the Heavenly Sphere Sword from Sky-Piercing Abbey and the final sword from Heavenly Sword Mountain, completing the nine Northern Dipper Ancient Swords.
• Lin Mo questioned why the Big Dipper Sword Formation seemed weaker than expected, and the gaunt elder began to explain what might be missing.
• Hai Beier received a message showing that the Azure Cloud Sect had taken shelter in the Deep Sea Stone Formation after the High Priest and a Mysterious Demon attacked.
• Lin Mo learned that both Senior Turtles were badly wounded and that Senior Cao had stayed behind to cover the retreat and might have died.

Lin Mo learned that the Big Dipper Sword Formation needed a formation diagram to reach its full power against the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable’s evil spirit incarnation. He volunteered to search the Primordial Antiquity Ruins for the Ancient Painting Scroll, though Yang Fenggu warned that the ruins were an unpredictable place within the void and might not contain it.

• Hai Beier feared that Senior Cao might not recover his memories even if his spore clones survived, while Yang Fenggu assured Lin Mo that the Azure Cloud Sect and the Spirit Turtle Sect were protected.
• Yang Fenggu identified the mysterious fiend as a likely incarnation of the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable and explained that the Twelve Ancient Sects’ Sealing Formation had to be saved for the Venerable’s true body.
• Yang Fenggu told Lin Mo that the Big Dipper Sword Formation lacked a formation eye and that an Ancient Painting Scroll might be the only material capable of bearing its complete patterns.
• Lin Mo considered using the Spirit-Devouring Vine’s root ball as a formation diagram but rejected the risk of destroying it.
• Lin Mo volunteered to enter the Primordial Antiquity Ruins and find the Ancient Painting Scroll, and Yang Fenggu warned him that the ruins had no entrance and might not contain the scroll.

Lin Mo entered the Primordial Antiquity Ruins to search for materials for the Big Dipper Formation Diagram, despite warnings that the ruins could endanger him. Inside, he saw nine suns and a flock of Sun-Eating Nether Crows, which he realized should have gone extinct in Primordial Antiquity.

• Lin Mo promised Yang Fenggu he would search the ruins for materials to refine the Big Dipper Formation Diagram, and Yang Fenggu took him there.
• Xue Qingcheng warned that Lin Mo's World Tree Bloodline could make him assimilate into the ruins, while Xuanyuan Hong trusted him to resist their illusions.
• Yang Fenggu gave Lin Mo a Spatial Jade Talisman and warned him that nine of sixteen Nascent Soul cultivators had died exploring the ruins.
• Lin Mo flew into the ruins on the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and pondered how reality and illusion were intertwined there.
• Lin Mo saw nine suns and tens of thousands of Sun-Eating Nether Crows, then recalled that the species had gone extinct in Primordial Antiquity.

Lin Mo discovered that the cultivators guarding Divine Wood City were real, not illusions, and they attacked him before demanding his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds. The chapter ended with Lin Mo facing their demand and wondering whether all Primordial Antiquity cultivators were so domineering.

• Lin Mo watched a flock of illusory Sun-Eating Nether Crows devour solar true fire, then flew onward.
• Lin Mo found Divine Wood City, a vast city built in nine tiers along a towering mountain.
• Three black-armored cultivators confronted Lin Mo and the leader ordered him to surrender.
• The leader attacked Lin Mo with his spear, and Lin Mo realized that the three cultivators were real.
• Lin Mo dodged their attacks and explained that he was a rogue cultivator who had fled the Sun-Eating Nether Crows.
• The leader demanded that Lin Mo leave behind his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and leave Divine Wood City.

Lin Mo resisted the Divine Wood Guard’s attempt to seize his treasure and easily held off Mu Wang’s powerful Wood Spirit Incarnation. Watching from Divine Wood City, a woman in emerald gauze robes decided Lin Mo might be key to preserving her tribe’s legacy.

• Lin Mo challenged the black-armored cultivators’ demand for his treasure, and two of them attacked him with their spears.
• Lin Mo caught both spearheads with his bare hands, while the leading cultivator, Mu Wang, transformed into a hundred-foot-tall Wood Spirit Incarnation.
• Mu Wang struck Lin Mo with his spear, but Lin Mo caught the shaft with one hand and stood firm against the attack.
• A woman in emerald gauze robes and a white-haired elder watched Lin Mo fight and wondered whether he came from another world shaped by the sacred tree.
• The woman called Lin Mo a guest of Divine Wood City, ordered that he be settled on the third level, and said he might become the key to her tribe’s legacy.

Lin Mo entered Divine Wood City after the Grand Elder overruled Mu Wang and ordered the guards to let him pass. At the Divine Wood Hall, he learned that leaving a Shadow Portrait would allow him to move freely through the city.

• The white-haired Grand Elder dispersed Mu Wang’s Wood Spirit Incarnation and ordered him to let Lin Mo enter Divine Wood City.
• Mu Wang and his two subordinates withdrew, and Lin Mo approached the city, marveling at its nine towering tiers and leaf-shaped flying boats.
• Mu Wang invited Lin Mo through the protective formation’s gateway, and Lin Mo entered the city’s independent third-tier space.
• A Divine Wood Guard directed Lin Mo to the Divine Wood Hall, where a portly cultivator offered to record his Shadow Portrait and grant him freedom to move around the city.

Lin Mo obtained a Divine Wood Token and learned that Azure Painting Mystic Pythons lived by the Wei Sea, whose hides could be used to make Danqing Painting Scrolls. He left Divine Wood City for the Wei Sea, unaware that Mu Wang was leading young cultivators after him to seize his treasure and kill him.

• A Divine Wood Hall cultivator recorded Lin Mo's image and gave him a Divine Wood Token, then explained that Danqing Painting Scrolls were made from Azure Painting Mystic Python hides.
• The cultivator told Lin Mo that the pythons lived by the Wei Sea, more than forty thousand li east of the city, and that ice-attribute spells were needed to kill them.
• Lin Mo paid for the directions, left Divine Wood City through a passage opened by his token, and flew east toward the Wei Sea.
• After Lin Mo departed, a Divine Wood Guard reported his movements to Mu Wang, who learned that he had headed east.
• Mu Wang gathered young cultivators and set out to kill Lin Mo and take his auspicious cloud treasure.

Lin Mo slowed his journey to the Wei Sea after sensing Mu Wang following him, then chose an open stretch of ground to confront him. Mu Wang arrived with three fellow Divine Wood Guards, and the men surrounded Lin Mo after spotting the rare sword intent grass in Lin Mo’s Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword.

• Lin Mo sensed someone tracking him and suspected Mu Wang, so he continued toward the Wei Sea at a controlled pace.
• Lin Mo stopped in an isolated area and waited for Mu Wang to catch up.
• Mu Wang arrived with three armored cultivators and announced that he intended to take Lin Mo’s auspicious cloud treasure.
• The three cultivators surrounded Lin Mo and activated their Wood Spirit Incarnation abilities.
• Lin Mo drew his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, and Mu Wang and his companions recognized its sword intent grass and coveted it.
• Mu Wang’s companion explained that the sword could be enhanced with sword intent grass, while Mu Wang planned to trade it for a Spirit-Linking Treasure.

Lin Mo used the World Tree aura in his Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword to kill Li and wound Mu Wang, then transformed into a towering Wood Wight. He raised his sword to strike Mu Wang and the two remaining cultivators.

• Lin Mo learned how to refine sword intent grass from Mu Wang and decided to kill him and his companions.
• Lin Mo empowered the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword with the World Tree aura and instantly destroyed Li's golden core, killing him.
• Lin Mo pierced Mu Wang's throat, but Mu Wang healed the wound with Wood Spirit Incarnation while his two companions transformed as well.
• Lin Mo absorbed the surrounding wood spiritual energy and became a three-hundred-foot Wood Wight, dwarfing the others' incarnations.
• Lin Mo declared that Mu Wang and his companions had brought their deaths upon themselves, then swung his sword down at them.

Lin Mo fled toward the Wei Sea after eliminating Mu Wang and his companions, then landed on a remote island where Feng Yan was gathering cultivators to hunt a Sixth Tier Azure Painting Mystic Python. The chapter left him considering whether his hidden ability to use ice-element Divine Abilities could help her group.

• Lin Mo burned the bodies and Storage Bags of Mu Wang and his companions, then confirmed with the Gu-Devouring Bee that no Divine Soul traces remained.
• Lin Mo flew toward the Wei Sea on his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and landed on a small island.
• Feng Yan explained that her group of five Golden Core cultivators needed an Ice Spiritual Root cultivator to hunt the Azure Painting Mystic Python.
• Lin Mo told Feng Yan he was new to the region and asked whether she would trade him a Sea Chart.
• Lin Mo realized he could use the World Tree's aura to unleash ice-element Divine Abilities despite lacking an Ice Spiritual Root.

Lin Mo agreed to join Madam Yan and five other cultivators in hunting a sixth-tier Ink-Painting Mystic Python after learning that his ice spiritual root could counter it. They set out by flying boat, with Lin Mo seeking only enough python hide to make an Ink-Painting Scroll, though he learned that Divine Wood City would have to refine it.

• Lin Mo revealed his ice spiritual root, and Madam Yan invited him to join the hunt for an Ink-Painting Mystic Python.
• Madam Yan showed Lin Mo a sea chart that did not mark the pythons’ locations, then offered to lead him to one she knew had recently entered the sixth tier.
• Lin Mo agreed to join the group and asked how they would divide the spoils after the hunt.
• Madam Yan and the hunchbacked elder offered Lin Mo half the credit, and Lin Mo asked only for enough python hide to make an Ink-Painting Scroll.
• Madam Yan explained that a World Tree Descendant in Divine Wood City would need to refine the scroll, and Lin Mo resolved to visit the city again.
• Madam Yan launched a flying boat, and Lin Mo and the others boarded and departed across the sea.

Lin Mo encountered heaven's retribution lightning fire while traveling by flying boat and risked entering its range to capture a wisp for refining his sword. He returned safely with the fire sealed in his gourd and asked Madam Yan to notify him when they reached their destination.

• Madam Yan told Lin Mo that they had entered waters inhabited by sixth-tier demon beasts and expected to reach the Azure Painting Mystic Python's location in half a day.
• An Eight-Tentacled Sea Demon emerged from the sea and was trapped and burned by heaven's retribution lightning fire.
• Lin Mo flew into the retribution's range, endured the lightning and flames, and captured a wisp of the fire in a Dharma Power cage.
• Lin Mo drew the cage into his Treasure Gourd, and the Lightning Cloud Vortex's threatening black bolt disappeared.
• Lin Mo returned to the flying boat, explained that his gourd could restrain flames, and asked Madam Yan not to disturb him while he recovered.

Lin Mo refined his accumulated sword intent grass with heaven’s retribution lightning fire and fed the resulting liquid to the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, greatly enhancing its power. The sword’s aura rose to rival a powerful Buddhist treasure, and Lin Mo planned to strengthen it further with future harvests.

• Lin Mo entered the Gourd Space and found that Chen Li had accumulated a vast harvest of spirit plants, including more than a hundred thousand mature stalks of sword intent grass.
• Lin Mo used heaven’s retribution lightning fire to melt hundreds of stalks of sword intent grass, but the fire began to fade before he had finished.
• Lin Mo’s authority over the Gourd Space caused the dying fire to surge into pure Rootless Heavenly Fire, allowing him to melt all the remaining sword intent grass.
• Lin Mo immersed the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword in the resulting liquid, and it absorbed the liquid and rapidly grew in power.
• Lin Mo judged that the sword now surpassed Nascent Soul cultivators’ life-bound treasures and planned to strengthen it further with future sword intent grass harvests.