Chapter Summaries

The Evil Spirit Man drained the Tai Sui Gate’s remaining protectors, elders, and other disciples to restore his strength, then set out for the Nine Netherworlds Abyss. Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng ambushed him with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, whose killing blow descended as the Evil Spirit Man realized he had been tracked again.

• The Evil Spirit Man ordered the Tai Sui Gate’s Four Great Protectors and thirteen Nascent Soul Elders to surrender their essence blood, then killed them and absorbed their power.
• After finding his strength still short of Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence, the Evil Spirit Man decided to travel to the Nine Netherworlds Abyss to regain his peak strength.
• The Evil Spirit Man left the underground cavern using his special movement method and appeared high in the sky.
• Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng activated the Big Dipper Sword Formation, freezing space and time across a hundred-li radius and locking onto the Evil Spirit Man.
• The Evil Spirit Man recognized Lin Mo’s ambush and raged that he had been outmaneuvered again.
• Lin Mo declared that he had prepared further contingencies, and the Big Dipper Sword Formation’s sword of starlight began descending toward the Evil Spirit Man.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng killed the Evil Spirit Man and learned that Netherworld cultivators came from the Nine Netherworlds Abyss, a lower plane where the Netherworld Soul Seal let them wield their full power. Lin Mo insisted that he would first break the Evil Soul Seals on the Divine Continent’s cultivators before considering the Abyss.

• Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng trapped the Evil Spirit Man with the Big Dipper Sword Formation and Xue Qingcheng’s sealing art, then destroyed his remaining black mist.
• Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng searched the underground cavern and found only shattered corpses and rubble, as the Evil Spirit Man had already devoured the Tai Sui Gate Fiends’ essence blood.
• Xue Qingcheng used the Evil Spirit Man’s memories to explain that Netherworld cultivators descended from a middle plane and could use their full power in the Nine Netherworlds Abyss because of the Netherworld Soul Seal.
• Xue Qingcheng warned Lin Mo that his concealment art would not work against the Netherworld’s Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
• Lin Mo said he would not go to the Nine Netherworlds Abyss yet and would first break the Evil Soul Seals on the Divine Continent’s cultivators.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng headed toward a Primordial Teleportation Array after killing the Evil Spirit Man, while the imprisoned Seven Baleful Nether Venerable sought help from Nine Bone. Nine Bone sent him a Netherworld Soul Seal Replica to strengthen his soul slaves as Seven Baleful prepared for the coming conflict.

• Lin Mo put away his treasures and traveled with Xue Qingcheng toward a damaged Primordial Teleportation Array, planning to repair it and visit the Alchemy Sect.
• Seven Baleful Nether Venerable awoke in his prison and learned that his Evil Spirit Clone had been killed.
• Nine Bone refused to send soul slaves to the Divine Continent but agreed to help Seven Baleful in secret.
• Seven Baleful told Nine Bone that Lin Mo was a confirmed World Tree Descendant and might be connected to the vanished World Tree.
• Nine Bone opened a plane passage and sent Seven Baleful a Netherworld Soul Seal Replica.

The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable activated the Netherworld Soul Seal, triggering a wave of corrupted cultivators across the Central Continent and Western Esoteric Buddhism. As Esoteric Buddhism struggled to contain its possessed disciples, the Sword Sect’s Ninth Elder succumbed to the corruption and fixed his gaze on Lin Mo’s parents.

• The Seven Baleful Nether Venerable poured gray mist into the Netherworld Soul Seal and continued slowly strengthening beneath the runic chains.
• Three Central Continent rogue cultivators were transformed into mindless Nascent Soul cultivators and flew toward the nearest human city.
• More than three hundred and fifty Esoteric Buddhism Golden Core disciples advanced to Nascent Soul and became corrupted, while several monks grew powerful enough to threaten the sect.
• Masters Zhichang, Zhikong, and Zonge suppressed the maddened disciples, and Zhichang sent Zhishan to alert Zen Buddhism’s Ten Thousand Buddha Temple.
• Liu Xianzong helped suppress the corrupted disciples and worried about Lin Mo and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The Sword Sect’s Ninth Elder emerged from a stone house inside the Deep Sea Stone Formation and stared toward Lin Mo’s parents.

Hai Beier subdued demonic-corrupted elders and cultivators who attacked Lin Mo’s parents, then brought them to safety in the Scallop Royal Palace. On the Central Continent, Lin Mo fought Soul Slaves at the Alchemy Sect and suspected the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable had triggered the widespread corruption.

• Hai Beier sensed the attack and used her seven-colored shell to bind the corrupted Sword Sect's Ninth Elder, Dragon Hall elders, Eight Great Households descendants, and an Astrology Pavilion elder.
• Hai Beier told the onlookers that the attackers had been controlled by a Tai Sui Gate secret art, then escorted Lin's Father and Lin's Mother to the Scallop Royal Palace.
• Hai Beier sent Lin Mo a message about the attack and asked how to proceed, but received no reply.
• At the Alchemy Sect, Lin Mo used the Spirit-Devouring Vine while an Ice Phoenix and Alchemy Sect cultivators fought to restrain hundreds of Soul Slaves.
• Lin Mo noted that the Alchemy Sect had a Spirit Transformation pinnacle cultivator, six Spirit Transformation middle-stage cultivators, and nearly a thousand Nascent Soul Great Cultivators among the corrupted, and suspected the Seven Baleful Nether Venerable had acted personally.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng faced the threat of evil soul seals spreading through the Snow Demon Tribe and the Alchemy Sect. After Xue Qingcheng rushed to Snow Burial Valley, Tu Lianfeng briefly regained control and killed himself, leaving Lin Mo and the elders to hurry the creation of the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill as Lin Mo grew alarmed about the Human Emperor Hall.

• Lin Mo learned from a Message Jade Slip that Bei'er had subdued the Sword Sect's Ninth Elder and others at the Deep Sea Stone Formation, while Xue Qingcheng realized her tribe might also be compromised by evil soul seals.
• Lin Mo sealed the ice sculptures in a Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, and Xue Qingcheng returned to Snow Burial Valley using spatial translocation.
• Tu Lianfeng's power surged toward Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence, but Lin Mo used the Spirit Plant Altar to suppress his evil soul seal and briefly restore his clarity.
• Tu Lianfeng mourned the Alchemy Sect disciples he had killed and struck himself dead before Lin Mo could stop him; his azure cauldron shattered with him.
• Lin Mo urged Dan Shen Zi and the other elders to cultivate the Year-Infant Fruit and refine the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill, then reacted with alarm when Dan Shen Zi mentioned the Human Emperor Hall.

Lin Mo left the Alchemy Sect for Xuanyuan City, fearing that soul slaves had overrun the Human Emperor Hall and its many alchemy masters. He arrived at Sunset City and found hundreds of soul slaves, including a half-step Spirit Transformation cultivator attacking the inner city's defenses.

• Dan Shen Zi began preparing the Alchemy Sect to refine the first batch of Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills over twenty-seven days.
• Lin Mo decided to reach Xuanyuan City and rescue any Dao of Alchemy Grandmasters who had become soul slaves, then teleported toward the Human Emperor Hall's territory.
• Lin Mo arrived in Sunset City's outer market and trapped two attacking Nascent Soul soul slaves in Golden Vine cages.
• Lin Mo sensed more than three hundred soul slaves within forty li, including a half-step Spirit Transformation soul slave assaulting the inner city's defensive formation.

Lin Mo arrived in Sunset City just as its City-Protecting Grand Formation was about to collapse and Qi Heng prepared to sacrifice himself to destroy the Soul Slaves. Lin Mo trapped the attacking Nascent Soul Soul Slaves and vowed to capture every Soul Slave alive.

• Soul Slaves overran Sunset City, and the weakened city defenders struggled to hold them back as the Teleportation Array remained damaged.
• Qi Heng ordered the golden-armored guard to lead the Righteous Dao cultivators out while he prepared to detonate the City-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Qi Heng dropped the barrier and used its remaining energy to strike the pursuing Soul Slaves, then waited until the escaping cultivators were beyond the formation's core.
• As Qi Heng reached for the Formation Disc, Lin Mo knocked it away with a golden vine and trapped the attacking Nascent Soul Soul Slaves in a vast cage.
• Qi Heng recognized Lin Mo, who said he would capture all the Soul Slaves alive instead of detonating the formation.

Lin Mo used his powerful treasures and Spirit-Devouring Vines to subdue Lu Dingfeng, the soul-slave half-step Spirit Transformation cultivator, while Qi Heng watched in astonishment. With Lu Dingfeng restrained, Lin Mo turned to the remaining soul slaves and planned to repair the Teleportation Array to reach Xuanyuan City.

• Lu Dingfeng arrived above the inner city square as a soul slave, and Qi Heng tried to appeal to his former attendant before Lu attacked him with the Bronze Ancient Bell.
• Lin Mo blocked the bell with the Spirit Plant Altar, then replaced the altar with Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor that withstood Lu Dingfeng's repeated blows until the bell shattered.
• Lin Mo attacked Lu Dingfeng with Greenwood Sword Rain, while Lu's relentless blows exhausted his strength against the shell armor.
• Lin Mo struck Lu Dingfeng with the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor and bound him with four hundred and sixty golden vines in a Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation.
• Lin Mo set off to seal the remaining soul slaves, then repair the Teleportation Array and travel to Xuanyuan City.

Lin Mo flew from Sunset City toward Xuanyuan City after discovering its Teleportation Arrays could not connect, while a Dwarf Elder empowered by the Evil Soul Seal set out to kill him. The Dwarf Elder intercepted Lin Mo in flight and attacked him with a strange treasure, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Lin Mo found that the repaired Teleportation Arrays in Sunset City could not connect to Xuanyuan City and feared something had happened there.
• Lin Mo left for Xuanyuan City on the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds, while the Dwarf Elder's Evil Soul Seal raised his cultivation to the spirit transformation pinnacle.
• A Divine Sense transmission gave the Dwarf Elder the God-Devouring Scepter and ordered him to kill Lin Mo and stop him from refining the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill.
• The Dwarf Elder rode his Curved-Horned Giant Rhino toward the Alchemy Sect to ambush Lin Mo, but spotted him flying nearby and gave chase.
• The Dwarf Elder's winnowing-basket treasure unleashed a waterfall attack, and Lin Mo blocked it with the Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor as the Dwarf Elder closed in.

Lin Mo fled toward Xuanyuan City as the Spirit Transformation pinnacle Dwarf Elder pursued him with a spatially displaced Curved-Horned Giant Rhino. The elder trapped Lin Mo inside his enormous Medicine Cauldron and began refining him alive, leaving Lin Mo facing rising heat within the sealed cauldron.

• Lin Mo recognized the Dwarf Elder, who had been controlled by the Evil Soul Seal and ordered by Lord Seven Baleful Ones to kill him.
• Lin Mo used his Spirit Tortoise Shell Armor to deflect the Winnowing Basket Treasured Artifact’s waterfall, transformed with his wooden fiend body, and sped toward Xuanyuan City on the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds.
• The Dwarf Elder used spatial powers with the Curved-Horned Giant Rhino to catch up and pursue Lin Mo, but Lin Mo repeatedly changed course and widened the distance.
• The Dwarf Elder unleashed his Pill-Condensing Seal, slowed Lin Mo, and sealed him inside a gigantic solid Medicine Cauldron.
• The Dwarf Elder fed his life-bound spirit fire into the cauldron, causing its temperature to rise as Lin Mo remained trapped inside.

Lin Mo was trapped in the dwarf elder’s Medicine Cauldron and used his strongest defenses and trump cards to survive. After the elder nearly destroyed his Sea of Consciousness, Lin Mo escaped into the Treasure Gourd’s space, leaving the elder to keep firing up the cauldron in an attempt to refine him.

• Lin Mo used the Nether Crow Feather Robe to withstand the cauldron’s flames, then expanded the Spirit Plant Altar until his Dharma Power ran out.
• The dwarf elder commanded heaven and earth spiritual energy to shrink the Medicine Cauldron and intensify its heat, forcing Lin Mo to abandon the altar.
• Lin Mo summoned the Big Dipper Sword Formation, but the elder struck his Sea of Consciousness with the God-Devouring Scepter and distorted the cauldron’s space.
• The phantom Jianmu Sapling restored Lin Mo’s Sea of Consciousness, and he entered the Treasure Gourd’s space before the elder could strike again.
• The dwarf elder failed to find Lin Mo inside the cauldron and ordered the Black Nightmare Cauldron to keep refining him.

Lin Mo emerged from the Gourd Space after advancing to the seventh layer of Golden Core and discovered that the Dwarf Elder had left. After killing Xun Bin, he flew toward Xuanyuan City to protect the Dao of Alchemy cultivators.

• The Dwarf Elder spent more than ten days refining the Black Nightmare Cauldron, then concluded Lin Mo had vanished and flew toward Xuanyuan City.
• Lin Mo cultivated inside the Gourd Space for more than half a year and advanced from the fourth to the seventh layer of Golden Core.
• Lin Mo refined thousands of sword intent grass hearts into the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword, strengthening it beyond ordinary spirit transformation treasures.
• Lin Mo used Xun Bin to check the outside and confirmed that the Dwarf Elder had left.
• Lin Mo emerged, killed Xun Bin before his evil soul seal could erupt, and rode toward Xuanyuan City.

Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu struggled to hold back the Tai Sui Gate’s soul slaves in Xuanyuan City while waiting for Lin Mo and the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills. When Zhu Feng arrived with a powerful divine-soul scepter and threatened to use the Black Nightmare Cauldron, Hai Dafu left the Human Emperor Hall to face him.

• Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu discussed how the soul slaves had overwhelmed Xuanyuan City and how the Human Emperor Hall could not hold out much longer.
• Hai Dafu prepared to charge through the encirclement so Xuanyuan Hong could flee to Heavenly Sword Mountain and seek Yang Fenggu’s help.
• Zhu Feng arrived on the Curved-Horned Giant Rhino, revealing that he had become a Spirit Transformation Pinnacle soul slave wielding a terrifying scepter.
• Zhu Feng threatened to use the Black Nightmare Cauldron to refine the Human Emperor Hall, and Hai Dafu left the hall to confront him.
• Zhu Feng swung the God-Devouring Scepter at Hai Dafu and declared that he would kill him.

Zhu Feng trapped Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu inside the Human Emperor Hall and began refining it with the Black Nightmare Cauldron. Lin Mo disrupted the cauldron with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, then revealed himself and secretly proposed a plan to Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu before activating the formation again.

• Zhu Feng used the God-Devouring Scepter to injure Hai Dafu, and Xuanyuan Hong pulled him into the Human Emperor Hall.
• Zhu Feng and his Spirit Transformation soul slaves bombarded and encased the Human Emperor Hall in the Black Nightmare Cauldron, forcing Xuanyuan Hong to struggle to keep it from shrinking.
• Lin Mo struck the Black Nightmare Cauldron with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, cracking it and injuring Zhu Feng.
• Zhu Feng attacked the formation with the Soul-Devouring Scepter, disrupting it and forcing Lin Mo to appear nearby.
• Lin Mo told Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu that he had a plan and urged them to act without hesitation.
• Lin Mo reassembled the Big Dipper Sword Formation with the nine Starry Ancient Swords.

Lin Mo repeatedly survived the God-Devouring Scepter by relying on the Jianmu Sapling, then goaded Zhu Feng into draining the weapon’s power. Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu struck Zhu Feng, and Lin Mo sealed him inside the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation.

• Zhu Feng repeatedly attacked Lin Mo with the God-Devouring Scepter, but the Jianmu Sapling restored Lin Mo’s shattered Sea of Consciousness.
• Zhu Feng ordered more than two hundred Spirit Transformation Soul Slaves to attack Lin Mo, whose Spirit Plant Altar blocked their assault.
• Lin Mo pretended to surrender and provoked Zhu Feng into striking him dozens of times, weakening the God-Devouring Scepter.
• Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu ambushed Zhu Feng and knocked him toward the ground.
• Lin Mo sent out four thousand six hundred Golden Vines, trapping Zhu Feng in the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation.

Lin Mo helped Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu suppress Zhu Feng and the Spirit Transformation Soul Slaves, then prepared to travel to the Nine Netherworlds to investigate the source of the Evil Soul Seal. He agreed to wait for the first batch of Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills before leaving, while Hai Dafu prepared to open a Plane Passage.

• Lin Mo trapped Zhu Feng in a Vine Cage, where Golden Vines drained his vitality and weakened his Divine Soul.
• Xuanyuan Hong and Hai Dafu joined Lin Mo in sealing the Spirit Transformation Soul Slaves inside Vine Cages.
• Lin Mo asked Xuanyuan Hong to take the rescued alchemy grandmasters to the Alchemy Sect to refine Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills.
• Hai Dafu said he would return to the Deep Sea to oversee the crisis, but Lin Mo announced that he intended to go to the Nine Netherworlds.
• Lin Mo asked Hai Dafu to open a Plane Passage, and Xuanyuan Hong advised him to wait for the first batch of pills before setting out.

Lin Mo and Hai Dafu crossed four planes to reach the Nine Netherworlds Continent, where Lin Mo entered alone to retrieve the mysterious Netherworld Soul Seal. As his Spirit Plant Altar emerged from the passage, a crimson-eyed man attacked it with a Blood Saber.

• Lin Mo left the Divine Continent with Hai Dafu after promising the elders he would return within three years.
• Hai Dafu carried Lin Mo across Qihuang Continent, Biluò Continent, Haishan Continent, and Huangming Continent, avoiding encounters along the way.
• At the edge of Huangming Continent, Hai Dafu warned that the Nine Netherworlds Continent was fallen and let Lin Mo proceed alone.
• Lin Mo entered the Nine Netherworlds Abyss on the Spirit Plant Altar, determined to recover and seal the Netherworld Soul Seal.
• A burly, crimson-eyed man spotted the altar emerging from the passage and slashed at it with his Blood Saber.

Lin Mo escaped a spirit transformation middle-stage cultivator by hiding in the Green-Skinned Little Gourd, then traveled south through the Nine Netherworlds Abyss. Two nascent soul great-perfection soul slaves searching for a Heavenly Void Horned Python were suddenly trapped by Lin Mo's Golden Vines.

• A burly spirit transformation middle-stage cultivator attacked Lin Mo's Spirit Plant Altar, but it withstood the saber strike and Lin Mo fled on the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds.
• The burly cultivator lost track of Lin Mo and repeatedly returned to search the area before finally leaving.
• After a day and night, Lin Mo emerged from the Green-Skinned Little Gourd, disguised his clouds, and flew south to avoid attracting Netherworld cultivators.
• Two elderly nascent soul great-perfection soul slaves discussed their dwindling lifespans and their search for a Heavenly Void Horned Python to obtain its demon core.
• Lin Mo's Golden Vines emerged from the void and formed a huge cage that descended toward the two old men.

Lin Mo captured two Nascent Soul Great Perfection elders in his Gourd Space, removed their Evil Soul Seals, and asked them about the Netherworld Soul Seal. The elders recognized his description as a treasure enshrined in the Netherworld Divine Hall, leaving Lin Mo with a possible lead.

• Lin Mo trapped the two elders with the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation and brought them into the Gourd Space.
• Lin Mo revealed that he ruled the independent world and persuaded the elders to swallow Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills.
• The pills removed the elders’ Evil Soul Seals without reducing their cultivation, freeing them from the Nine Bone Nether Venerable’s control.
• Lin Mo asked the elders about the Netherworld Soul Seal and described its rumored power over the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• The elders recalled a black seal enshrined in the Netherworld Divine Hall and suspected it was the treasure Lin Mo sought.