Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo defeated the Heaven-Swallowing Evil Python and sealed its remains before traveling with Feng Xu and Mo Qing to Heavenly Demon Peak. There, the Three-Baleful Nether Bat ambushed them from the clouds, and Vermilion Bird suggested removing its hiding places.

• Lin Mo used the Immortal Commanding Tree seed and the Big Dipper Sword Formation to kill the Heaven-Swallowing Evil Python, then sealed its remains with the Soul-Devouring Vine.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing replenished their spiritual power in the Gourd Space and headed to Heavenly Demon Peak.
• Black Tortoise warned Lin Mo that the Three-Baleful Nether Bat was exceptionally fast and could split into three Clones controlling wind, fire, and lightning.
• The Three-Baleful Nether Bat attacked Feng Xu and Mo Qing from the dark clouds, and Lin Mo used the Divine Wood Eye to locate it.
• Vermilion Bird suggested leaving the Three-Baleful Nether Bat nowhere to hide.

The Vermilion Bird burned away the Three-Baleful Nether Bat’s hiding clouds, forcing it to split into three clones. Lin Mo killed the Thunder Nether Bat, but the other two revived it, and the group learned that all three clones had to die simultaneously; Lin Mo remained confident they could manage it.

• The Vermilion Bird used her Sacred Flame Bow to burn away much of the dark cloud hiding the Three-Baleful Nether Bat.
• The Three-Baleful Nether Bat emerged and split into Wind, Fire, and Thunder Nether Bat clones after Lin Mo’s Soul-Devouring Vine restrained it.
• The Black Tortoise shielded the group from the Wind Nether Bat’s gales while the Vermilion Bird countered the Fire Nether Bat’s flames.
• Lin Mo trapped and cut the Thunder Nether Bat in two with his Yin-Yang Soul-Slaying Slash.
• The Wind Nether Bat and Fire Nether Bat restored the Thunder Nether Bat, and the Black Tortoise explained that all three clones shared their life force and had to be killed simultaneously.
• Lin Mo said that knowing how to defeat the clones would make the fight easier than battling the Heaven-Swallowing Evil Python.

Lin Mo assigned his allies to restrain the three Nether Bats so they could kill them together. Feng Xu and Mo Qing subdued the Wind Nether Bat, while Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird trapped the Fire Nether Bat, leaving Lin Mo to confront the Thunder Nether Bat.

• Lin Mo ordered Feng Xu and Mo Qing to restrain the Wind Nether Bat, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger to handle the Fire Nether Bat, and he took the Thunder Nether Bat.
• The Wind Nether Bat knocked Feng Xu and Mo Qing back, but Feng Xu pinned its wings with Soul-Locking Needles and Mo Qing severed its meridians with sword qi.
• Black Tortoise trapped the Fire Nether Bat between giant blue hands, and Vermilion Bird burned away its evil aura with sparks from the Sacred Flame Bow.
• Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird subdued the Fire Nether Bat while White Tiger lamented that he could not fight from inside the Spirit Plant Altar.
• Lin Mo left the Spirit Plant Altar on his Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and flew toward the Thunder Nether Bat.

Lin Mo and his allies captured the Three-Baleful Nether Bat, leaving only one obstacle ahead. Elsewhere, Xue Qingcheng was mistaken for Lin Mo and surrounded by the Three Baleful Stars, with Mu Zhankuang attacking her.

• Lin Mo used the Heavenly Thunder World-Cleansing Fruit to unleash a Thunder Spear that paralyzed the Thunder Nether Bat.
• Lin Mo, Mo Qing, and Vermilion Bird struck the three Nether Bats' vital points together, and Lin Mo trapped their reformed body with the Soul-Devouring Vine.
• Xue Qingcheng was ambushed by ten Evil Generals, five Nether Guards, and the Three Baleful Stars, who mistook her for Lin Mo.
• Xue Qingcheng summoned an azure saber and froze the marshland around her, frightening the Nether Guards and injuring weaker Evil Generals.
• Li Yuan ordered Zhu Jiaonu and Mu Zhankuang to test Xue Qingcheng, and Xue Qingcheng stopped Mu Zhankuang's Ghost Fist in midair with one finger.

Xue Qingcheng fought Li Yuan and the other Soul Slaves in the Nine Netherworlds Abyss, but Li Yuan struck her with a hidden attack and forced her to flee badly wounded. Meanwhile, Lin Mo reached Forest Demon Peak, where he and Feng Xu faced its swift guardian, the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape.

• Xue Qingcheng held off Li Yuan, Mu Zhankuang, and Zhu Jiaonu with the Ten Directions Cold Ward, then tried to kill Li Yuan.
• Li Yuan struck Xue Qingcheng with a hidden attack, severely injuring her dantian, and ordered his followers to capture her.
• Xue Qingcheng used snowy mist to cut down an Evil General and escape east while wounded.
• Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing entered Forest Demon Peak, where the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape ambushed Mo Qing and slashed his chest.
• The Blood-Drinking Demon Ape attacked Feng Xu, but Lin Mo restrained it with Soul-Devouring Vine and severed its left arm.

Lin Mo discovered that the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape could revive by drawing evil aura from Forest Demon Peak’s trees, and he used Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills to purify them. He left the battle with a way to weaken the demon ape and explained that saving the Nine Netherworlds Continent required awakening the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and driving out the Netherworld.

• The Blood-Drinking Demon Ape regenerated his severed arm using evil aura from the surrounding trees, then grew stronger and attacked Lin Mo and Feng Xu.
• Lin Mo realized that the demon ape could not be defeated while the evil trees replenished his vitality, but Vermilion Bird could not burn them all at once.
• Lin Mo summoned nine Starry Ancient Swords and used their Nine Luminaries Sword Winds to spread powdered Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pills across Forest Demon Peak.
• Black Tortoise recognized that the pills were purifying the evil aura inside the trees into spiritual energy.
• Lin Mo told Black Tortoise that awakening the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and driving the Netherworld out of the lower plane was the path to saving the world.

Lin Mo purified the evil aura in the Evil Trees, but the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape absorbed what remained and became a Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence being. White Tiger killed the ape, and the three peaks then released black beams that converged as the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword appeared.

• Lin Mo used powdered Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill to purify the evil aura within the Evil Trees, while the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape absorbed the remaining aura and knocked Lin Mo out of his Wood Wight form.
• The Blood-Drinking Demon Ape reached the spirit transformation pinnacle and became a Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence being, leaving Lin Mo and Feng Xu facing a formidable enemy.
• White Tiger appeared outside Lin Mo's sea of consciousness and charged at the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape, while Black Tortoise explained that he and Vermilion Bird would leave the fight to White Tiger.
• White Tiger overwhelmed the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape with his Hundredfold Fist Dance and killed it with Skull Shatter.
• Lin Mo confirmed that the Blood-Drinking Demon Ape could no longer revive, then saw black beams from Marsh Demon Peak, Heavenly Demon Peak, and Forest Demon Peak converge as the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword appeared.

Lin Mo and his companions reached the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword’s final trial and faced its powerful Sword Puppet. After its first attack badly injured Lin Mo, the Sword Puppet surrounded them with more than a dozen clones, leaving Feng Xu and Mo Qing in despair.

• Lin Mo brought Feng Xu and Mo Qing to the three peaks’ intersection, where they saw the Sword Puppet and the treasured sword within its heart.
• Black Tortoise explained that the Sword Puppet was tied to the corrupted artifact spirit of the Heavenly Guardian Soul Sword.
• The Sword Puppet attacked Lin Mo, and his Spirit Plant Altar barrier stopped the strike but could withstand only a few more.
• Black Tortoise warned that revealing the other remnant souls would expose them to the soul-devouring sword.
• The Sword Puppet summoned more than a dozen identical clones and surrounded Lin Mo, Feng Xu, and Mo Qing.

Surrounded by the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword’s many clones, Lin Mo devised a plan to seal it by refining the heavenly yin dragon-claw locust into a source of Dragon Clan power. As Feng Xu and Mo Qing fought to buy him five minutes, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger aided Lin Mo’s desperate refinement inside the Gourd Space.

• Black Tortoise explained that the Four-Aspect Soul-Suppressing Formation could seal the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword, but it required Azure Dragon or another source of Dragon Clan power.
• Lin Mo entered the Gourd Space to refine the heavenly yin dragon-claw locust while Feng Xu and Mo Qing stayed behind to hold off the black-armored warriors.
• Lin Mo told Chen Li to gather Dragon-Scale Grass, Jade Dragon Lotus, and wood- and water-attribute spirit plants for the rushed refinement.
• Lin Mo used heaven’s retribution lightning fire and exhausted his vitality and world tree aura to compress a day of refinement into five minutes.
• Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger lent their powers to nourish the locust, strengthen the fire, and keep the alchemical process balanced.

Lin Mo endured the dragon might and refined the Heavenly Yin Dragon-Claw Locust, then returned just in time to save Feng Xu and Mo Qing. He unleashed Spirit Dragon Burst on the Sword Puppet's original body, immobilizing it and its clones.

• With Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger's help, Lin Mo refined the Heavenly Yin Dragon-Claw Locust by enduring its immense dragon might.
• Feng Xu and Mo Qing lay gravely wounded as the Sword Puppet's original body ordered its black-armored warriors to kill them.
• As the warriors struck, Lin Mo arrived and used the Spirit Plant Altar to shield Feng Xu and Mo Qing, then sent them into the Gourd Space to recover.
• Lin Mo transformed both hands into dragon claws and used Spirit Dragon Burst to strike the Sword Puppet's original body.
• The dragon might pinned the Sword Puppet and froze its clones, while Vermilion Bird recognized the attack as a Dragon Clan divine ability.

Lin Mo and the Four Sages trapped the Sword Puppet in the Four-Aspect Soul-Suppressing Formation, but the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword broke free before the seal was complete. Lin Mo caught and purified it with his Wood Dragon Technique, while Black Tortoise explained that it could never become the Heavenly Guardian Soul Sword again.

• Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Lin Mo formed the Four-Aspect Soul-Suppressing Formation around the Sword Puppet.
• Lin Mo used the Spirit Plant Altar to fend off the Sword Puppet's clones while sustaining the formation despite his injuries.
• The formation weakened the Sword Puppet, but the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword sacrificed him and broke free.
• Lin Mo cast the Wood Dragon Technique to catch the sword and bind it while he purified its remaining evil aura.
• Black Tortoise told Lin Mo that the sword could not return to its former state because the Heavenly Guardian Soul Sword had been remade, leaving only its corrupted artifact spirit.

Lin Mo purified the Heavenly Baleful Soul-Slaying Sword and gained a vastly stronger lead sword for his formation. Azure Dragon returned, and the Four Sages began leaving the lower plane through the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record, leaving Lin Mo to face the road ahead.

• Lin Mo offered the Heavenly Pivot Sword as a new vessel, and the Sword Puppet transferred its immortal power into it, creating the Heavenly Pivot Soul-Guarding Sword.
• The purified evil aura cleared the sky, and Azure Dragon appeared before Lin Mo and the other sages.
• Azure Dragon praised Lin Mo, then summoned the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and prepared to depart with the Four Sages.
• White Tiger entered the record after bidding Lin Mo farewell and challenging him to fight again in the Immortal Realm someday.
• Vermilion Bird followed White Tiger into the record, recalling their battles together and promising to meet Lin Mo again.
• Black Tortoise said goodbye to Lin Mo and vanished into the record as blue light.

The Four Sages Immortal Venerables awakened the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and left Lin Mo a spirit tree that granted him their divine abilities. He sensed a battle nearby, discovered Xue Qingcheng surrounded and badly wounded, and rushed to help her as she continued fighting.

• Azure Dragon merged his remnant power with the other three sages' power, awakening the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and returning it to Lin Mo.
• A four sages immortal spirit tree appeared, and Black Tortoise explained that the sages had summoned it as a gift for Lin Mo before his farewell.
• The tree merged into Lin Mo's Gourd Space, where he realized he could use the Four Sages Immortal Venerables' divine abilities through it.
• Lin Mo heard fighting nearby, used Divine Wood Eye to find Xue Qingcheng surrounded by three Baleful Stars, five Nether Guards, and ten Evil Generals, and hurried to the cave.
• Wounded and exhausted, Xue Qingcheng stood her ground against her enemies and swung the Cold Moon Ice Blade.

Lin Mo arrived at the cavern just as Li Yuan was about to finish off the wounded Xue Qingcheng, then revealed himself as the person responsible for the chaos in the Nine Netherworlds Abyss. He summoned the Four Sages Immortal Spirit Tree and defeated Mu Zhankuang, leaving Xue Qingcheng stunned by his sudden power.

• Zhu Jiaonu stabbed Xue Qingcheng with the Peach-Pink Dagger, and Mu Zhankuang struck her into a rock wall, leaving her unable to stand.
• As Li Yuan prepared to cripple Xue Qingcheng, a streak of Sword Qi severed his left hand and sent the Bone Sword flying.
• Lin Mo arrived on a Wood Dragon, introduced himself, and confessed that he had killed Ouyang Ling and destroyed the four courts' Netherworld Evil Treasures.
• Mu Zhankuang attacked Lin Mo, but Lin Mo summoned the Four Sages Immortal Spirit Tree and used Hundredfold Fist Dance to overwhelm him.
• Lin Mo struck Mu Zhankuang with Blazing Fang, blasting him from the cavern and leaving him unable to get up.
• Xue Qingcheng asked Lin Mo where he had gotten such power.

Lin Mo used the Four Sages’ power to kill Zhu Jiaonu and two Evil Generals, while Xue Qingcheng wiped out the remaining Nether Guards and Evil Generals. As they turned on Li Yuan, he removed the last of six nails embedded in his chest and unleashed a mysterious force that blasted them away.

• Lin Mo blocked Zhu Jiaonu’s arrow attack with the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward, then burned her and two Evil Generals to ash with the Sacred Flame Bow and Pure-Turbid Heavenly Flame.
• Li Yuan recognized the Four Sages’ power and ordered the Nether Guards and Evil Generals to attack Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo faltered from the strain of using the Four Sages’ power, but Xue Qingcheng fought beside him and shattered every Nether Guard and Evil General with the Frozen Snow Spirit-Shattering Shock.
• Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng turned to attack Li Yuan, who pulled the final nail from his chest and threw it to the ground.
• A black shadow flashed past, and a terrifying force sent Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng crashing to the ground.

Taotie emerged from Li Yuan and swallowed him, then attacked Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng with power strengthened by its prey. Lin Mo summoned a white armored giant to save Xue Qingcheng, leaving them facing Taotie inside its protection.

• Taotie emerged from Li Yuan, ignored his command, and swallowed him whole.
• Xue Qingcheng identified Taotie as one of the Netherworld’s Four Fiends and explained that it grew stronger by devouring living creatures.
• Taotie’s strength rose to the level of a Tribulation Transcendence True Person, and it attacked Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng with evil flames.
• Taotie sent four black-mist tentacles past Lin Mo’s Yin-Yang Sacred Ward to target Xue Qingcheng, who failed to hold them with her Ice Seal.
• Lin Mo summoned a white armored giant that severed the tentacles and drew Xue Qingcheng inside its body.

Lin Mo opened the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record, which transported him to a strange sea where he witnessed a white-robed Sword Immortal slay the Eight-Tentacled Behemoth. The Sword Immortal gave Lin Mo his golden sword, and Lin Mo returned to the cave with dozens of Daoist inscriptions in his mind, leaving him with a possible means to fight Taotie.

• Lin Mo summoned the Heavenly Pivot Soul-Guarding Sword Puppet, but its defense could not overcome Taotie's strength, and he realized the battle was turning hopeless.
• Lin Mo opened the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and was transported from the cave to a stormy sea in the Void Realm.
• The Eight-Tentacled Behemoth attacked boats and devoured fishermen and cultivators while Lin Mo watched.
• A white-robed Daoist Sword Immortal killed the Eight-Tentacled Behemoth with a Spirit-Breaking Slash and tossed his golden sword to Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo caught the golden sword, received dozens of Daoist talismanic inscriptions in his mind, and returned to the cave where Taotie was wreaking havoc.

Lin Mo used the sword immortal’s sword intent to slay Taotie, but discovered that the beast had transformed into an indestructible Demon Egg. Meanwhile, powerful Nether Venerables gathered to worship at a strange altar in the Netherworld.

• Lin Mo awakened with the sword immortal’s sword intent and shaped it into his own Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent technique, Peerless.
• Lin Mo used the power of the nine Starry Ancient Swords to slay Taotie, which melted into a Demon Egg.
• Xue Qingcheng explained that the Four Fiends could revive from their eggs after a long cycle, though Taotie would take at least a millennium to return to its growth stage.
• In the Netherworld, Nine Bone Nether Venerable, Seven Baleful Nether Venerable, Hundred-Flower Nether Venerable, and other Nether Venerables bowed in worship around a towering pillar of light.

Nine Bone Nether Venerable learned that Taotie had been sealed and left to return to the Nine Netherworlds Abyss, determined to capture the intruders. In the Gourd Space, Lin Mo studied the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and decided he and Xue Qingcheng should leave the Abyss before Nine Bone arrived.

• Nine Bone Nether Venerable saw the beast-head tattoo on his wrist fading and learned Taotie had been sealed, while Seven Baleful Nether Venerable mocked him.
• Hundred-Flower Nether Venerable urged Nine Bone Nether Venerable to return and capture the intruders before the Holy Lord came back, and Nine Bone agreed.
• Nine Bone Nether Venerable entered the Conquest Gate, vowing to imprison the outsider's soul and make him suffer.
• Lin Mo studied the Void Suppression Demon-Sealing Record and recalled how Spirit Sword Dao Immortal had taught him the Spirit-Breaking Slash, helping him comprehend his Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent.
• Lin Mo told Xue Qingcheng that they should leave the Nine Netherworlds Abyss to avoid confronting Nine Bone Nether Venerable until he had mastered more of the Record's divine abilities.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng traveled to the Dry Jade Continent to investigate its severe evil soul seal outbreak, while Lin Mo attempted and failed to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. They entered Bluestone Ghost City and discovered that many cultivators had become soul slaves while the unaffected were enslaved.

• Xue Qingcheng proposed heading to the Dry Jade Continent to weaken the Netherworld's forces and save its million inhabitants, and Lin Mo agreed.
• During their journey, Lin Mo used thirty Origin-Nourishing Spiritual Root Fruit plants to cultivate from the seventh Golden Core level to the Golden Core pinnacle.
• Lin Mo failed three times to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm when three mysterious masses of chaos blocked his path, and Feng Xu and Mo Qing could not explain them.
• Xue Qingcheng brought Lin Mo to the Dry Jade Continent, where they found a desolate valley near Bluestone Ghost City.
• Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng entered Bluestone Ghost City under the Snow Mist Art and found that more than half its cultivators were soul slaves while the unaffected cultivators were chained and forced to labor.