Chapter Summaries

Black Tortoise explained the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record’s origins and its role in the war between the Void Realm and the Netherworld, then agreed to help awaken it. The chapter ended with Feng Xu questioning whether Lin Mo could cultivate its methods as a lower-plane cultivator.

• Black Tortoise recognized Lin Mo’s resemblance to a long-dead acquaintance, then praised him and promised to help rescue the other Immortal Venerables’ remnant souls and awaken the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record.
• Black Tortoise entered the Gourd Space while the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower continued to collapse around Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing.
• Black Tortoise recounted how the Four Sages Immortal Venerables created the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record for the Void Realm, which the Netherworld and Barbarian Realm destroyed ten thousand years ago.
• Black Tortoise explained that the Record could not be destroyed while dormant and required the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ power to awaken, while Lin Mo considered how Nine Bone Nether Venerable had planned to destroy it.
• Feng Xu asked Black Tortoise whether Lin Mo could practice the Record’s cultivation methods despite being from a lower plane.

Lin Mo rescued Black Tortoise’s remnant soul and destroyed the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower, restoring the Northern Court to its former ocean. The Four Baleful Stars failed to secure help from the Nine Bone Nether Venerable as Lin Mo headed toward the Western Court’s Chaos Poison Marsh to rescue another remnant soul.

• Black Tortoise assured Lin Mo that the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record would let him practice its cultivation methods after he rescued all four remnant souls.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing emerged from the destruction of the Pale Moon Soul-Suppressing Tower and saw the Northern Court restored to a living azure ocean.
• Feng Xu explained that the tower’s evil aura had turned the Northern Court’s ocean into the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh, and Lin Mo vowed to restore the Nine Netherworlds Continent.
• Li Yuan, Mu Zhankuang, and Zhu Jiaonu discussed the intruder’s destruction of the tower and contacted the Nine Bone Nether Venerable, who refused to help and threatened them.
• Lin Mo traveled southwest with Feng Xu and Mo Qing toward the Western Court’s Chaos Poison Marsh, where the swamp grew hot and began bubbling like lava.

Lin Mo learned that the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation was suppressing Vermilion Bird’s remnant soul and set out to destroy its Formation Eye. Protected by Black Tortoise’s Water Ward, Lin Mo entered the formation and encountered a powerful presence before finding the Formation Eye.

• Black Tortoise contacted Vermilion Bird, who explained that destroying the Formation Eye of the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation would free her remnant soul.
• Lin Mo steered the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds northwest and found the vast formation, whose heat threatened Feng Xu and Mo Qing.
• Black Tortoise created a Water Ward to protect them but warned it would last only as long as an incense stick burned.
• Lin Mo led Feng Xu and Mo Qing into the fiery clouds and searched for the Formation Eye.
• A savage aura emerged from the clouds ahead, and Lin Mo halted the clouds and demanded that the hidden creature show itself.

Lin Mo faced the Spirit Transformation Pinnacle Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord, the living formation eye of the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation, and used his Wood Wight form to overpower it in close combat. Just as he prepared to finish it, the beast created more than a hundred copies that surrounded him.

• Black Tortoise identified the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord as the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation’s formation eye and warned that its attacks were weakening Water Ward.
• Lin Mo sent Feng Xu and Mo Qing into the Gourd Space, transformed into a Wood Wight Giant, and attacked the beast while Black Tortoise expanded Water Ward around him.
• Lin Mo deduced that killing the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord would break the formation and free Senior Vermilion Bird, then used repeated close-range attacks to suppress it.
• The Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord fired beams from its eyes to create over a hundred insect eggs in the fiery clouds, then caused them to hatch into identical copies that surrounded Lin Mo.

Black Tortoise awakened Lin Mo’s Divine Wood Eye, allowing him to distinguish the original Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord from its duplicates and defeat him. With the formation collapsed and the battle over, Lin Mo asked Black Tortoise to explain the eye’s power.

• Black Tortoise told Lin Mo that killing the original Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord would destroy its duplicates, but Lin Mo could not tell them apart as they attacked him with evil fire.
• Black Tortoise sensed the World Tree power within Lin Mo and used his Dharma Power to accelerate the growth of the Jianmu Sapling in Lin Mo’s Dantian.
• Following Black Tortoise’s instructions, Lin Mo concentrated the World Tree’s power between his brows and awakened the Divine Wood Eye.
• Lin Mo used the Divine Wood Eye to identify the original Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord and charged through the attacking duplicates with his nine Starry Ancient Swords.
• Lin Mo caught the original as it tried to flee and killed it with the Big Dipper Sword Formation, causing the duplicates and Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation to collapse.
• Black Tortoise caught the exhausted Lin Mo with Water Ward, and Lin Mo asked what the Divine Wood Eye was after its third eye disappeared.

Lin Mo learned that the Divine Wood Eye came from his Jianmu sapling, but Black Tortoise could not explain the World Tree Descendant legacy before the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord revived. Vermilion Bird destroyed the demon with her Pure-Turbid Heavenly Flame, then knelt before Lin Mo and greeted him as her elder brother.

• Black Tortoise explained that Lin Mo could use the Divine Wood Eye to see through demons and evil disguises, and said its power would grow with his cultivation.
• As Black Tortoise began to explain the World Tree Descendant legacy, the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord reformed by absorbing the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation's remaining power.
• Lin Mo tried to summon his sword but found himself too exhausted to fight, while Black Tortoise assured him that help had arrived.
• Vermilion Bird appeared and struck the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord with her Sacred Flame Bow, burning it to ashes with the Pure-Turbid Heavenly Flame.
• Vermilion Bird landed before Lin Mo, knelt respectfully, and greeted him as her elder brother.

Lin Mo rescued Vermilion Bird and set out to save White Tiger while the Divine Land recovered from the evil soul seal crisis. Xuanyuan Hong and Zhu Feng visited Hai Dafu, crediting Lin Mo’s pills with helping restore order across the Divine Land.

• Vermilion Bird agreed to aid Lin Mo after he explained his mission to stop the Netherworld’s invasion of the lower planes.
• After Vermilion Bird entered Lin Mo’s Sea of Consciousness, Lin Mo rested in the Gourd Space and then departed with Feng Xu and Mo Qing for the Southern Court to rescue White Tiger.
• Vermilion Bird told Black Tortoise that Lin Mo felt familiar, and Black Tortoise cautioned her not to act on their suspicions.
• Hai Beier reported that Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills had restored nearly all Golden Core True Lords in the Deep Sea Imperial City from the evil soul seal.
• Xuanyuan Hong and Zhu Feng visited Hai Dafu, reporting that the pills had helped free powerful cultivators across the Divine Land and that Zhu Feng had recovered from the seal’s control.

Xue Qingcheng learned that Lin Mo had gone to the Nine Netherworlds Continent and flew after him, while Lin Mo reached the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh to seek the sealed White Tiger. Black Tortoise could sense White Tiger but received no answer, and a host of ghosts appeared before Lin Mo and his companions.

• Hai Dafu told Zhu Feng that Lin Mo had gone to the Nine Netherworlds Continent to steal the Netherworld Soul Seal and end the Evil Spirit rebellion.
• Xue Qingcheng overheard where Lin Mo had gone, learned why he left, and transformed into an ice-crystal mystic phoenix to pursue him.
• Hai Dafu and Xuanyuan Hong worried that Xue Qingcheng would cross planes to find Lin Mo, while Zhu Feng hoped the two would return safely.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing arrived at the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh, where Mo Qing described how the Southern Court had been ruined by Netherworld Evil Treasures.
• Black Tortoise sensed White Tiger nearby but could not reach him, and more than a hundred ghostly figures appeared before Lin Mo and his companions.

Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing fought through the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh, where they encountered the powerful Tian Zhu Ghost King, the enslaved soul of a legendary Nine Netherworlds general. After Feng Xu was injured, Lin Mo prepared to release Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird from his sea of consciousness so they could join the battle.

• Lin Mo recognized the marsh ghosts as souls of fallen Nine Netherworlds cultivators controlled by the Netherworld and led Feng Xu and Mo Qing through them.
• Lin Mo rescued Mo Qing from a massive black-mist claw with the Spirit Plant Altar, revealing the approaching Tian Zhu Ghost King.
• Feng Xu identified Tian Zhu as a loyal general who had died defending the Nine Netherworlds Imperial House during the invasion.
• Lin Mo's Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation failed to catch Tian Zhu, and the Ghost King shattered Feng Xu's Ten Thousand Spirits Shield, injuring him.
• Black Tortoise told Lin Mo that the Spirit Plant Altar could protect him and Vermilion Bird from the marsh's evil aura, and they prepared to emerge and fight.

Lin Mo and his companions fought through the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh and discovered that the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither was controlling the ancient cultivators’ souls. The zither’s music seized Feng Xu and Mo Qing, and Lin Mo summoned the Soul-Devouring Vine to restrain them.

• Black Tortoise bound the Heavenly Pearl Ghost King with Mystic Spirit Soul Lock, and Vermilion Bird burned him away with her Sacred Flame Bow.
• Lin Mo realized that killing the Heavenly Pearl Ghost King had not broken the formation, and he and his companions fought through the marsh to its far end.
• Black Tortoise identified the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither as the force controlling the souls of the Primordial Antiquity Cultivators.
• The zither’s music filled Lin Mo with killing intent, but Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird used the Heart-Clearing Mantra to restore his senses.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing fell under the zither’s control, so Lin Mo summoned the Soul-Devouring Vine and cast the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation.

Lin Mo subdued Feng Xu and Mo Qing, then tried to destroy the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither but was attacked by a mind-controlled White Tiger. As White Tiger overwhelmed his defenses, Vermilion Bird proposed a risky plan to help Lin Mo fight back.

• Lin Mo bound Feng Xu and Mo Qing with Golden Vines and imprisoned them in the Gourd Space before turning to destroy the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither.
• White Tiger attacked Lin Mo from behind, and Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird realized the zither had controlled him.
• White Tiger repeatedly battered Lin Mo, overpowering his sword strike and nearly breaking through the Spirit Plant Altar’s defenses.
• Black Tortoise refused to manifest outside Lin Mo’s sea of consciousness, fearing the zither’s music would control him and Vermilion Bird.
• Vermilion Bird proposed manifesting briefly to aid Lin Mo, then explained a strategy that made him smile with excitement.

Lin Mo and Vermilion Bird coordinated an attack against White Tiger, but he transformed into human form and overwhelmed Lin Mo with his Hundredfold Fist Dance. Lin Mo used the Divine Wood Eye to catch White Tiger’s fist and prepared to counter with the Big Dipper Nine Swords.

• Lin Mo charged White Tiger with the Big Dipper Sword Formation while Vermilion Bird fired three flaming arrows, but White Tiger evaded their attacks by transforming into a young man.
• White Tiger attacked Lin Mo with the Hundredfold Fist Dance, forcing him onto the defensive until Vermilion Bird’s arrows gave him a brief reprieve.
• Lin Mo transformed into a Wood Wight and fought White Tiger at close range, but White Tiger dodged his punch and struck toward his chest.
• Lin Mo used the Divine Wood Eye to see White Tiger’s attack and caught his fist, then summoned the Big Dipper Nine Swords to counter.

Lin Mo kept White Tiger occupied while Feng Xu and Mo Qing secretly attacked the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither. After the zither was destroyed, White Tiger regained his senses and no longer recognized Lin Mo.

• Lin Mo fought White Tiger at close quarters while Vermilion Bird prepared a shot, but White Tiger struck Lin Mo down with Blazing Fang.
• Vermilion Bird attacked White Tiger with Three Calamities Flame Annihilation, and Black Tortoise protected Lin Mo with Yin-Yang Sacred Ward.
• Lin Mo revealed that Feng Xu and Mo Qing had secretly escaped their mind control and were targeting the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither.
• White Tiger tried to stop Feng Xu and Mo Qing, but Lin Mo restrained him with two Golden Vines.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing pierced the Ghost-Faced Soul-Enchanting Zither, destroying it and ending White Tiger's possession.
• White Tiger's eyes cleared, and he asked Lin Mo who he was before noticing Vermilion Bird and the ruined Southern Court.

After White Tiger learned of the Netherworld's invasion, Black Tortoise explained that Lin Mo and the four remnant souls needed to reach the Eastern Court and free Azure Dragon before they could unlock the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record. Meanwhile, Xue Qingcheng arrived in the Nine Netherworlds Abyss searching for Lin Mo and discovered the Netherbone Divine Hall.

• Black Tortoise told White Tiger that the Netherworld had invaded the Nine Netherworlds Continent and that Lin Mo was their hope because the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record had recognized him.
• White Tiger agreed to merge with the record but followed Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird into Lin Mo's Sea of Consciousness after learning they first needed to rescue Azure Dragon.
• Chen Li warned that Lin Mo's injuries would require two or three days of rest, while White Tiger bragged about the power of his Hundredfold Fist Dance.
• Xue Qingcheng reached the Nine Netherworlds Abyss after pursuing Lin Mo across four planes and vowed to find him and return with him to the Divine Land.
• A burly candidate Evil General attacked Xue Qingcheng, but she froze him solid after he claimed not to know Lin Mo.
• Xue Qingcheng sent an ice Mystic Phoenix into the sky, which located the Netherbone Divine Hall, and she headed there to seek information about Lin Mo.

Xue Qingcheng infiltrated the Central Court and learned that Lin Mo was heading east to break the final seal. After defeating Bing Hun and four soul slaves, she hurried east to find Lin Mo, unaware that Bing Hun had survived her attacks.

• Xue Qingcheng used the Snow Mist Art to enter the Central Court, freezing and killing dozens of soul slaves while searching for Lin Mo.
• Xue Qingcheng overheard Bing Hun explain that an invader had destroyed the Netherworld Evil Treasures in the Northern, Western, and Southern Courts and was expected to head east.
• Xue Qingcheng realized the invader was Lin Mo and decided to travel east to join him.
• Bing Hun detected Xue Qingcheng, and she dispelled her disguise and identified herself as the silver-haired invader.
• Xue Qingcheng used Blizzard Grand Burial and Snow Spirit Burst to freeze Bing Hun and his four soul slaves, then hurried east.
• After Xue Qingcheng left, Bing Hun broke free from the ice and survived, badly injured and terrified.

Bing Hun reported that a powerful white-haired woman was heading east to destroy the Eastern Court’s Netherworld Evil Treasure, prompting Li Yuan to mobilize the three Baleful Stars and their forces. Meanwhile, Lin Mo recovered and traveled toward the Eastern Court with his companions, intent on contacting Azure Dragon’s soul.

• Bing Hun told the three Baleful Stars that the intruder was a white-haired woman who had defeated him and was heading east.
• Li Yuan concluded that the woman planned to destroy the Eastern Court’s evil treasure and release Azure Dragon’s soul.
• Li Yuan ordered Zhu Jiaonu and Mu Zhankuang to muster Nether Guards and Evil Generals, and proposed releasing a powerful lord to stop the intruder.
• Lin Mo recovered from his injuries after twenty days in the Gourd Space and led Feng Xu, Mo Qing, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger toward the Eastern Court.
• Lin Mo announced that they were nearing the Eastern Court and asked Black Tortoise to contact Azure Dragon’s soul.

Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird tried to contact Azure Dragon and learned that his soul was sealed by a Netherworld Evil Treasure. Azure Dragon urged them to abandon the lower planes, and Lin Mo dismissed him as a good-for-nothing unwilling to be rescued.

• Black Tortoise explained that Azure Dragon came from the Dragon Clan and was its future patriarch, then searched the Heavenly Baleful Cloud Marsh for him without success.
• Vermilion Bird and White Tiger joined Black Tortoise in searching, but they found no trace of Azure Dragon.
• Azure Dragon spoke through Lin Mo's Sea of Consciousness and revealed that a Netherworld Evil Treasure had sealed his soul.
• Azure Dragon told the others to give up on the lower planes because they could not resist the Netherworld.
• Lin Mo said Azure Dragon was not worth rescuing because he had willingly given up.

Lin Mo confronted Azure Dragon about his despair, then learned that the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword had sealed the senior’s soul. Azure Dragon explained how Lin Mo could draw out the sword and free him.

• Azure Dragon unleashed his dragon might against Lin Mo, but Lin Mo challenged him for refusing to defend his homeland and people.
• Black Tortoise told Azure Dragon that Lin Mo had destroyed three Netherworld Evil Treasures and gained the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record’s recognition.
• Azure Dragon revealed that the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword had sealed his soul, and Black Tortoise explained that the weapon had been transformed from an Asura Sword Domain immortal artifact.
• Lin Mo offered to help defeat the sword, and Azure Dragon agreed to guide him despite the weapon’s power.
• Azure Dragon instructed Lin Mo to slay the three evil beasts on the solitary peaks east of his location and seal each peak to summon the sword and its Sword Puppet.

Lin Mo and his companions began the trials required to free Azure Dragon, but the Heaven-Swallowing Evil Python swallowed their attacks and charged at them. The chapter ended as Lin Mo raised the Spirit Plant Altar and the python's maw descended on them.

• Lin Mo thanked Azure Dragon and set out to defeat the three evil beasts guarding the seals.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing reached the first peak and discovered the enormous Heaven-Swallowing Evil Python.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing attacked from opposite sides while Lin Mo unleashed Flying Sword Soulbreaker, but the python swallowed all three attacks.
• Black Tortoise explained that the python could devour anything and had once left Azure Dragon helpless.
• The python rushed at Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing, and Lin Mo summoned the Spirit Plant Altar to shield them, but the creature ignored it.

Lin Mo used Black Tortoise’s advice to make the Heaven-Swallowing Evil Python swallow an immortal-ruling tree seed, which grew inside the beast and blocked its maw. The Python crashed to the ground, and Lin Mo urged Feng Xu and Mo Qing to seize the opening and kill it.

• Black Tortoise rescued Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing from the Python’s attack with Mystic Spirit Heaven Draw, but warned he could use the technique only once in a short span.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing’s attacks were swallowed by the Python, so Lin Mo told them to focus on dodging its lunges.
• Black Tortoise advised Lin Mo to make the Python swallow something too large to digest, and Lin Mo sent an immortal-ruling tree seed into its maw.
• Lin Mo activated Immortal Tree Advent, causing the seed to grow into a towering tree inside the Python.
• The tree’s branches burst from the Python’s mouth and its trunk stretched the beast rigid, knocking it to the ground as Lin Mo called for Feng Xu and Mo Qing to attack.