Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo learned that the Netherworld Soul Seal controlled the Nine Netherworlds Continent and sought a way to enter the Netherworld Divine Hall to seize it. After finding the next sacrifice was decades away, he devised a plan to provoke an investigation and revealed he could summon an evil soul seal, alarming the elders.

• The white-haired elder explained how the Netherworld Soul Seal had let the Nine Bone Nether Venerable enslave the continent’s ancient cultivators and weaken its heaven and earth will.
• Lin Mo asked how to enter the Netherworld Divine Hall, but the elders said only the Nine Bone Nether Venerable could enter and that the next sacrificial ceremony was about seventy years away.
• Lin Mo realized he could not reach the required cultivation in time and proposed making many soul slaves disappear so the Nine Bone Nether Venerable would send investigators.
• Lin Mo summoned an evil soul seal, and the two elders wondered whether he was a Netherworld cultivator.

Lin Mo disguised himself as a soul slave, freed two Nascent Soul elders from their Evil Soul Seals, and supplied them with spirit liquid and Void God Pills before setting out to hunt soul slaves. After reports of an outsider who had made hundreds of people disappear reached Nine Bone Nether Venerable, he ordered two elders to capture Lin Mo alive for a soul search.

• Lin Mo infused himself with a newly condensed Evil Soul Seal and kept its aura separate from his vitality essence and divine soul, making his life aura resemble that of a soul slave.
• Lin Mo told the two Nascent Soul elders to cultivate safely, then gave them spirit liquid and perfect-grade Void God Pills to restore their vitality and help them advance.
• Lin Mo left the elders and flew across the marsh to search for soul slaves while avoiding those at middle-stage spirit transformation or above.
• Two black-robed elders reported to Nine Bone Nether Venerable that an outsider had caused at least three hundred disappearances, including six early-stage spirit transformation cultivators.
• Nine Bone Nether Venerable ordered the two elders to capture Lin Mo alive and bring him back for a soul search.

Lin Mo hid inside the Green-Skinned Little Gourd as Yan Lin and Lei Xun failed to locate him with the Thousand-Mile Soul-Searching Art. After learning about Nether Venerable Nine Bone’s forces, Lin Mo considered killing their powerful subordinates to attract the Nether Venerable’s attention.

• Yan Lin and Lei Xun used the Thousand-Mile Soul-Searching Art across the continent but failed to find Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo listened from inside the Green-Skinned Little Gourd as the elders vowed to watch for him and then departed.
• Lin Mo summoned Feng Xu and Mo Qing, who had advanced to early spirit transformation after three months of cultivation.
• Feng Xu identified the two elders as Yan Lin and Lei Xun, members of the Seventy-Two Evil Generals, and explained the hierarchy of Nether Venerable Nine Bone’s forces.
• Lin Mo wondered whether killing the Nether Venerable’s powerful subordinates would draw his attention, and Feng Xu and Mo Qing clarified that most were expendable soul slaves.

Lin Mo used imitation Evil Soul Seals to disguise Feng Xu and Mo Qing and lure Yan Lin and Lei Xun into the Poison Spirit Swamp Cave. He captured Lei Xun in the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation, then confronted Yan Lin outside the cave.

• Lin Mo asked Feng Xu and Mo Qing to help him fight the two Evil Generals and placed imitation Evil Soul Seals in their brows to restore their former appearance.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing led Yan Lin and Lei Xun to the Poison Spirit Swamp Cave, claiming Lin Mo was hiding there and preparing to break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Yan Lin deduced that Feng Xu and Mo Qing had advanced to Spirit Transformation and accused them of betraying the Nether Venerable.
• Lei Xun attacked Feng Xu and Mo Qing, but Lin Mo activated the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation and dragged Lei Xun into the Gourd Space.
• Lin Mo emerged from the cave with the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword and told Yan Lin he would send him to join Lei Xun.

Lin Mo survived Yan Lin’s Evil Soul Torch with the protection of his Nether Crow Feather Robe and joined Feng Xu and Mo Qing in killing him. Back in the Gourd Space, Lin Mo confronted the captured Lei Xun and warned him that his companion was dead.

• Yan Lin attacked Lin Mo with the Evil Soul Torch, but Lin Mo emerged unharmed and struck him with Greenwood Sword Rain.
• Yan Lin charged at Lin Mo, and Feng Xu and Mo Qing combined their attacks to kill him; the Evil Soul Torch shattered.
• Lin Mo explained that the Nether Crow Feather Robe had countered Yan Lin’s fire-based attacks and returned with Feng Xu and Mo Qing to the Gourd Space.
• Lin Mo found Lei Xun bound by Ashen Chains in the Gourd Space and warned him that Yan Lin’s soul had scattered into oblivion.

Lin Mo subdued Lei Xun in his own world and learned that the Soulfire Platform would alert the Nine Bone Nether Venerable if Lei Xun died. He left Lei Xun alive and announced that he would visit the Nether Venerable’s temple, though he insisted he did not intend to fight its master.

• Lin Mo released Lei Xun from the Ashen Chains, then used his world’s laws to nullify Lei Xun’s attack and bind him with nine golden shackles.
• Lin Mo explained that he controlled the laws of his world, while Lei Xun threatened him with the Nine Bone Nether Venerable’s vengeance.
• Lei Xun revealed that the Soulfire Platform tracked the life sources of the Nether Guards and Evil Generals, so Lin Mo wounded him but chose not to kill him.
• Chen Li silenced Lei Xun by stuffing his mouth with fertilized soil after Lin Mo ordered him to quiet down.
• Lin Mo told Feng Xu and Mo Qing that he planned to visit the Nine Bone Nether Venerable’s temple, but clarified that he only meant to stroll through it and try his luck.

Lin Mo disguised himself as Evil General Lei Xun and planned to infiltrate the Netherbone Divine Hall, while the Nine Bone Nether Venerable mobilized the Soul Slaves to hunt for the intruder. Lin Mo encountered Evil General Bing Hun in the Chaos Poison Marsh and pretended to have lost his memory.

• Lin Mo used the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall and Lei Xun’s blood to disguise himself and imitate Lei Xun’s aura, convincing Feng Xu and Mo Qing that the transformation was convincing.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable learned that Yan Lin had died and ordered every Soul Slave in the Nine Netherworlds Abyss to capture the intruder alive for a Supreme Demon Pill.
• One hundred thousand Soul Slaves began searching the abyss in teams, and Evil General Bing Hun led four Soul Slaves into the Chaos Poison Marsh.
• Bing Hun found Lin Mo, disguised as the wounded Lei Xun, lying in a cave and hurried to check on him.
• Lin Mo pretended to be confused and complained of a severe headache, and Bing Hun identified himself as Lei Xun’s brother.

Lin Mo disguised himself as Lei Xun and deceived Bing Hun into believing a powerful white-haired woman had killed Yan Lin and gravely wounded him. Bing Hun brought Lin Mo to the Netherbone Divine Hall and placed him in charge of the Yin Plant Division, giving him access to its vast medicinal fields.

• Lin Mo told Bing Hun that a white-haired intruder at the spirit transformation pinnacle had killed Yan Lin and injured him.
• Bing Hun abandoned his plan to hunt the intruder immediately and used a talisman to take Lin Mo and his Soul Slaves to the Netherbone Divine Hall.
• Lin Mo saw the sinister hall and the terrifying rift above it, then refused Bing Hun's offer to fetch healing pills.
• Bing Hun led Lin Mo through the hall's courtyards to the Yin Plant Division, where Lin Mo spotted an enormous field of valuable medicinal herbs.
• Bing Hun sent Duan San and Du Gui to gather information about the intruder and offered Lin Mo their job managing the Yin Plant Division while he recovered.

Lin Mo used his position in the Yin Plant Division to transplant hundreds of spirit herbs and prepared to investigate why the Nine Bone Nether Venerable had summoned the Nether Guards and Evil Generals. He revealed that his Divine Invisibility Pills could conceal him even from the Nether Venerable, leaving him ready to attend the gathering unseen.

• Bing Hun told Lin Mo that the Nine Bone Nether Venerable would summon all the Nether Guards and Evil Generals in three days, and offered to excuse Lin Mo as too badly wounded to attend.
• Lin Mo spent three days transplanting hundreds of valuable spirit herbs from the Yin Plant Division into his gourd world and took a heavenly yin dragon-claw locust.
• Lin Mo told Feng Xu and Mo Qing that the gathering was unusual and that he still intended to pursue the Netherworld Soul Seal.
• Lin Mo swallowed a Divine Invisibility Pill and demonstrated that he could vanish without leaving any trace of his presence.
• Lin Mo explained that his invisibility could evade even the Nine Bone Nether Venerable unless Lin Mo chose to reveal himself.

Lin Mo witnessed the Nine Bone Nether Venerable leave the Nine Netherworlds Abyss through the Heaven-reaching Rift, appointing Li Yuan to govern in his absence. Realizing the rift connected the lower planes to the powerful Netherworld, Lin Mo understood that stealing the Netherworld Soul Seal would not end the threat.

• Lin Mo used a Divine Invisibility Pill to leave the Yin Plant Division and discovered the soul slaves and Netherworld officers gathered behind the Netherbone Divine Hall.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable appeared from nine fused bones and announced that he had to return to the Netherworld for up to a year.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable placed Li Yuan in charge, gave him the Profound Bone Nether Sword, and ordered the search for the intruder to continue.
• The Nine Bone Nether Venerable returned to nine bones and entered the Heaven-reaching Rift as Lin Mo watched unnoticed.
• Lin Mo realized the rift allowed Netherworld forces to reach the lower planes and feared that even stronger enemies might follow.

Lin Mo searched the God-Sealing Treasure Vault for the Netherworld Soul Seal and discovered an unknown ancient book protected by a rule that barred beings from lower planes. He used his transformed dragon claws to bypass the defense, leaving him able to reach for the book.

• Lin Mo investigated the Netherbone Divine Hall and resolved to search for the Netherworld Soul Seal in the God-Sealing Treasure Vault.
• Lin Mo entered the vault under a Divine Invisibility Pill and found supreme treasures stolen from conquered lower planes.
• Lin Mo discovered an unnamed ancient book protected by black mist and was repelled when he tried to touch it.
• Lin Mo realized the defense used rules that prevented lower-plane beings from reaching the book.
• Lin Mo transformed his hands into dragon claws with the power of the heavenly yin dragon-claw locust and passed one through the black mist.

Lin Mo retrieved the ancient Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record but found its pages sealed except for the words “Four Sages Return, Void Opens.” When Ouyang Ling caught him with the tome, Lin Mo escaped and lured him into the Big Dipper Sword Formation, leaving Ouyang Ling engulfed by its attack.

• Lin Mo took the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record from the black mist and discovered its title and the flyleaf’s message, but he could not open the remaining pages.
• Ouyang Ling found Lin Mo in the God-Sealing Treasure Vault and demanded that he hand over the tome.
• Lin Mo secretly used his Soul-Devouring Vine to restrain Ouyang Ling, then fled with the tome.
• Ouyang Ling broke free, chased Lin Mo, and struck his left leg with an iron ball.
• Lin Mo revealed that he had lured Ouyang Ling into a trap and unleashed the Big Dipper Sword Formation, sending its nine swords down upon him.

Lin Mo killed Ouyang Ling after defeating him in the Big Dipper Sword Formation and rejected his fatalistic belief that the lower planes would inevitably fall to the Netherworld. Disguised again as Lei Xun, Lin Mo faked being wounded and used Ouyang Ling’s death to spread fear through the Nine Netherworlds Abyss.

• Lin Mo revealed his identity to Ouyang Ling, then killed him with Greenwood Sword Rain after deciding not to recruit him.
• Sensing powerful enemies approaching, Lin Mo disguised himself as Lei Xun and pretended to have been injured beside Ouyang Ling’s corpse.
• Bing Hun arrived with Soul Slaves, helped Lin Mo, and accepted his claim that an outsider had killed Ouyang Ling.
• Bing Hun sent Lin Mo back to the Yin Plant Division and went to report Ouyang Ling’s death to Li Yuan.
• Lin Mo’s account spread panic, making the Nether Guards, Evil Generals, and Soul Slaves fear that the intruder could kill them as easily as Ouyang Ling.

After learning the history of the Four Sages and their sealed remnant souls, Lin Mo decided to seek their power to awaken the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record. Feng Xu and Mo Qing concluded that freeing the remnant souls could also restore the Nine Netherworlds Abyss’s heavenly dao will and challenge the Nine Bone Nether Venerable.

• Lin Mo asked Feng Xu and Mo Qing about the origins of the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record, and Feng Xu explained the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ history on the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• Feng Xu said the Nine Bone Nether Venerable had sealed the Four Sages’ remnant souls with Netherworld Evil Treasures before the invasion, weakening the continent and allowing it to fall.
• Lin Mo decided to search the continent’s four corners for the remnant souls’ power and use it to awaken the ancient book while the Nether Guards and Evil Generals remained withdrawn.
• Mo Qing worried that Lin Mo could not overcome the Netherworld Evil Treasures, but Feng Xu reminded him of Lin Mo’s past victories.
• Mo Qing realized that awakening the Four Sages’ remnant souls could restore the continent’s heavenly dao will and let it oppose the Nine Bone Nether Venerable.

Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing entered the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh to find the Four Sacred Immortal Venerables' remnant souls, but a horde of Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles surrounded them. When they learned thunder was the turtles' weakness, Lin Mo revealed he had a way to use it despite knowing no thunder-control arts.

• Lin Mo carried Feng Xu and Mo Qing into the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh on the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds.
• A Swollen-Head Softshell Turtle attacked them, and Mo Qing explained that the turtles had once served as vanguard beasts in the Netherworld invasion.
• Over a thousand Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles emerged and surrounded the three; their attacks failed to break through the creatures' shells.
• Feng Xu explained that thunder techniques could penetrate the turtles' defenses, while Mo Qing suggested releasing Lei Xun, a thunder-skilled Evil General, and Feng Xu objected.
• Lin Mo said he could use thunder techniques despite not knowing how to cultivate them.

Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing fought through the Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles in the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh and reached the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower, which sealed Black Tortoise’s remnant soul. Their combined attack and Lin Mo’s Big Dipper Sword Formation were both redirected into the tower’s gate and absorbed without effect.

• Lin Mo swallowed a Heavenly Thunder World-Cleansing Fruit and used its lightning power to blast a path through the Swollen-Head Softshell Turtles.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing flew through the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh and reached the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower at the edge of the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• Feng Xu explained that the tower had been placed there to suppress Black Tortoise’s remnant soul and had grown much stronger after more than ten thousand years of absorbing evil aura.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing combined their strongest attacks, but the tower’s gate redirected and absorbed them.
• Lin Mo summoned the Big Dipper Sword Formation and unleashed Divine Severance, but the gate again pulled in and absorbed the attack without damaging the tower.

Lin Mo found a way to bypass the rule power protecting the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower and entered with Feng Xu and Mo Qing. Inside, they awakened Immortal Venerable Black Tortoise, who learned that the Nine Netherworlds Continent had fallen to the Netherworld during his ten thousand years of slumber.

• Lin Mo discovered that only evil spirit power could pass through the tower door’s rule power.
• Lin Mo pierced Lei Xun’s dantian, then used the unconscious Evil General to break open the tower door and rushed inside with Feng Xu and Mo Qing.
• Immortal Venerable Black Tortoise spoke to the trio and realized his memories had a gap and the Heavenly Dao Will had been distorted.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing told Black Tortoise how Netherworld cultivators invaded and transformed the Nine Netherworlds Continent while he slept.
• Lin Mo asked Black Tortoise to help save the Nine Netherworlds Continent and the Lower Realm planes.

Lin Mo persuaded the Black Tortoise to help awaken the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record, but first he had to free the Black Tortoise’s remnant soul from the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower. Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing fought their way through the tower’s undead Soul Slaves and reached its summit, where they found the soul core.

• Lin Mo told the Black Tortoise that the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record needed the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ power, and the Black Tortoise agreed to help if Lin Mo freed its remnant soul.
• The Black Tortoise explained that destroying the soul core at the top of the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower would break its restraints, though the tower was filled with undead Soul Slaves.
• Lin Mo used heavenly thunder to fight the Soul Slaves, while Feng Xu and Mo Qing hesitated after recognizing their sect’s fallen forebears among them.
• Lin Mo urged Feng Xu and Mo Qing to release the undead from their corrupted state, and they joined him in fighting through the tower.
• After a fierce battle, Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing reached the tower’s summit and spotted the soul core.

Lin Mo learned that the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower’s soul core was protected by the Black Tortoise’s Yin-Yang Sacred Ward, which required perfectly balanced extreme yin and yang attacks to break. He obtained the matured yin baleful grass and yangflame flower and prepared to refine them, confident they would help transform his sword and overcome the ward.

• Lin Mo’s strongest lightning attack vanished against the black-and-white ward surrounding the tower’s soul core.
• The Black Tortoise revealed that Netherworld cultivators had stolen its Yin-Yang Sacred Ward and explained that equal extreme yin and yang powers had to strike simultaneously to dispel it.
• Lin Mo returned to the Gourd Space with Feng Xu and Mo Qing, then went to check on two spirit plants he had ordered Chen Li to tend.
• Chen Li presented the matured yin baleful grass and yangflame flower, and Lin Mo announced that he would refine them immediately.
• Lin Mo said the plants could transform the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword and make breaking the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward easy.

Lin Mo infused the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword with balanced yin and yang power, then used his new Yin-Yang Soul-Slaying Slash to destroy the soul core in the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower. As the tower began collapsing, the Black Tortoise shielded Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing and appeared before them in an unexpected elderly form.

• Lin Mo refined the yin and yang power of the yin baleful grass and yangflame flowers into the Divine Wood Mystic Gourd Sword, forming an Eight Trigrams pattern on its hilt.
• Lin Mo returned to the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower and told the Black Tortoise he had found a way through the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward.
• Lin Mo’s Yin-Yang Soul-Slaying Slash cleaved the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward’s vine cage and destroyed the soul core.
• The Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower began shaking and collapsing, and Feng Xu warned that they might be buried in the ruins.
• The Black Tortoise enveloped Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing in an azure protective bubble, then appeared before them as a white-haired old man.