Chapter Summaries

At the Black Mysterious Market auction, Lin Mo outbid the crowd for a girl with legendary star spirit blood by offering a Golden Core Realm Blood-Eyed Tiger carcass. He left the market with the girl and his companions, refusing Yang Xue’er’s request to use her blood for cultivation.

• Ye Qing stabbed the girl’s wrist and revealed her deep-blue, star-speckled blood, announcing that she possessed legendary star spirit blood.
• The auction guests frantically offered their treasures for the girl, and Ye Qing favored a complete Foundation Establishment demon wolf carcass.
• Lin Mo offered a fresh Golden Core Realm Blood-Eyed Tiger carcass, and Ye Qing awarded him the girl.
• Lin Mo left the Black Mysterious Market with Gongsun Fu, Yang Xue’er, and the girl, then placed the girl in the Gourd Space.
• Yang Xue’er asked Lin Mo to share the girl’s star spirit blood, but Lin Mo said he had another use for her and would not draw her blood for now.

Lin Mo freed Shi Lan in the Gourd Space and earned her trust, learning how the Heaven-Connecting Church Master used an addictive secret drug to seize control of the Shadow Ink State and surrounding cities. The chapter leaves Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu horrified by the drug’s effects and the scale of the threat across the Southern Region.

• Lin Mo declined Yang Xue'er's offer to return to the Heaven-Seeking Academy and entered the Gourd Space with Gongsun Fu.
• Lin Mo freed Shi Lan from her Iron Shackles and promised she could leave for safety whenever she wished.
• Shi Lan tested Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu with a jade bead, then trusted them after it confirmed they had pure breath and had not eaten people.
• Shi Lan revealed that the Heaven-Connecting Church Master killed three leaders with the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation and forced the Shadow Ink State's factions to submit.
• Shi Lan explained that the Heaven-Connecting Church Master's addictive secret drug twisted cultivators' minds, turning them into cannibals and enabling him to control millions across the Southern Region.
• Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu recognized that the drug's damage extended beyond the Shadow Ink State and was worse than the evil soul seal's control.

Lin Mo agreed to investigate the Heaven-Connecting Church Master's secret drug and entered Heaven-Seeking Academy with Gongsun Fu to gather intelligence. With Yang Xue'er's help, they got past the guards, but Lin Mo discovered the academy's disciples were immersed in a gruesome flesh-and-blood trade.

• Shi Lan recognized Lin Mo and begged him to save Shadow Ink State from the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, and Lin Mo agreed to help after learning they needed to identify the secret drug controlling the region.
• Lin Mo sent Shi Lan to the Gourd Space and went with Gongsun Fu to Heaven-Seeking Academy to capture a disciple and question them about the drug.
• Two gatekeepers challenged Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu, but Yang Xue'er arrived and vouched for them, allowing them to enter the academy.
• Lin Mo saw human and spirit-beast limbs hanging inside cave abodes and realized the academy's corruption ran deep.
• Yang Xue'er asked about the Blood Slave with Star Spirit Blood, and Lin Mo claimed he had confined her to let her recover before drawing more blood.

Lin Mo accepted Song Ming’s challenge after Song Ming confronted him for getting close to Yang Xue'er. At the Bee Forest that night, Lin Mo ambushed Song Ming and dragged him into the Gourd Space, where Ashen Chains pinned him down.

• Yang Xue'er happily accepted Lin Mo’s offer of a treasure and walked with her arm linked through his, prompting Gongsun Fu to feel jealous.
• Song Ming confronted Lin Mo and challenged him to a duel, declaring that Yang Xue'er would become his Dao companion if he won.
• Lin Mo accepted the duel at the Bee Forest, while Yang Xue'er warned him that Song Ming was a powerful late Golden Core cultivator.
• Lin Mo told Gongsun Fu that he planned to use Song Ming as his target, and she teased him for his soft spot for beauties.
• At the Bee Forest, Lin Mo used Golden Vines to capture Song Ming and drag him into the Gourd Space.
• Song Ming attacked Lin Mo with his Spirit Sword, but Lin Mo summoned four Ashen Chains that pinned him to the ground.

Lin Mo discovered that the Great Black Heaven Divine Church’s addictive secret drug was made from diluted Black-Feathered Peacock blood, which turned its users into mindless, bloodthirsty beasts. He learned that White-Spirit Immortal Crane feathers could counter the poison and decided to search for them at Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain while pursuing his own goal there.

• Lin Mo captured Song Ming with Ashen Chains and found two vials of secret drug on him, which Song Ming desperately tried to reclaim.
• Shi Lan confirmed the vials contained the drug distributed by the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, and explained how the Church later demanded Spirit Beast or human corpses in exchange for it.
• Lin Mo identified Black-Feathered Peacock blood as the drug’s main ingredient and explained how it destroyed its users’ reason and humanity.
• Lin Mo said White-Spirit Immortal Crane feathers could counter the poison, but the crane was known only from legend.
• Lin Mo revealed that Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain was a Sealing Ground and said he already planned to search there for a corpse.
• Shi Lan agreed to seek a way to save the Shadow Ink State, and Lin Mo set out with her and Gongsun Fu for Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain that night.

Lin Mo, Gongsun Fu, and Shi Lan entered Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain to confront the threat to the Shadow Ink State, but discovered its demonic miasma disabled their treasured artifacts. Shi Lan summoned her golden-core green ox, and the three rode toward the mountains on foot-bound transport.

• Lin Mo left the Heaven-Seeking Academy with Gongsun Fu and Shi Lan and traveled south to Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain, passing towns occupied by Great Black Heaven Divine Church Disciples.
• Lin Mo examined the sacred barrier sealing Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain and led the group through it.
• Inside the mountain, the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds lost power and Lin Mo found that demonic miasma had severed his connection to his weapons and artifacts.
• Gongsun Fu worried they could not fight without treasured artifacts, while Shi Lan vowed to save the Shadow Ink State; Lin Mo refused to turn back.
• Shi Lan summoned her golden-core green ox, Big Green, and Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu climbed aboard with her.
• The three rode Big Green toward the ink-black mountains.

Lin Mo used the Heavenly Thunder World-Cleansing Fruit to clear the way for Shi Lan and Gongsun Fu as Big Green carried them toward Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain. At the mountain’s foot, Lin Mo subdued a Wolf Demon and questioned him about White-Spirit Immortal Cranes and a corpse on the mountain.

• Lin Mo ate the Heavenly Thunder World-Cleansing Fruit and killed a Bull Demon that blocked their path with Thunder Strike.
• Big Green carried Lin Mo, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu onward while Lin Mo defeated seven or eight more demon beasts and stored their bodies in the Gourd Space.
• At the foot of Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain, a nascent soul realm Wolf Demon attacked Big Green with a Stone Axe, but Lin Mo stopped its strike and subdued it with a Heavenly Thunder Talisman.
• Lin Mo asked the Wolf Demon whether White-Spirit Immortal Cranes lived on the mountain and whether there was a corpse there.
• The Wolf Demon said he did not know the full answers but offered to tell Lin Mo what he could.

Lin Mo learned that four great tribes divided Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain and headed for the Eagle-Fighting Tribe to ask about the White-Spirit Immortal Crane. The tribe’s soldiers attacked them in the air, and Lin Mo struck back with lightning as their captain watched his forces fall.

• The wolf demon told Lin Mo about the four tribes on Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain and suggested he ask the Eagle-Fighting Tribe about the White-Spirit Immortal Crane and High Priest Lin Yang of the Divine Deer Tribe about a corpse.
• Lin Mo killed the wolf demon after it invoked its chief, Lang Wei, and decided to visit the Eagle-Fighting Tribe first.
• Shi Lan dismissed Daqing, summoned a Heavenly Horse, and carried Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu toward the Eagle-Fighting Tribe’s floating island.
• An eagle demon captain intercepted them and ordered his soldiers to fire arrows after Lin Mo asked to meet the tribe’s chief.
• Lin Mo counterattacked with lightning, knocking more than half the eagle demon soldiers from the sky while the Heavenly Horse dodged their arrows.

Lin Mo confronted Ying Tianxiao, chief of the Eagle-Fighting Tribe, after the tribe’s soldiers attacked him and his companions. When Lin Mo revealed the Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ inheritances, Ying Tianxiao ended the fight and invited them to the tribe’s palace to talk.

• Ying Tianxiao descended and challenged Lin Mo, insisting on a fight to avenge the eagle demons Lin Mo had killed.
• Ying Tianxiao fired a powerful Soul-Destroying Arrow, which Shi Lan evaded by diving with the Heavenly Horse.
• Lin Mo manifested the Four Sages Immortal Spirits and counterattacked with the Sacred Flame Bow and three fire phoenix arrows.
• Ying Tianxiao halted the battle and asked why Lin Mo possessed Great Venerable Vermilion Bird’s divine ability.
• Lin Mo revealed that he possessed all Four Sages Immortal Venerables’ inheritances, prompting Ying Tianxiao to welcome him as an honored guest.
• Lin Mo, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu followed Ying Tianxiao to the Eagle-Fighting Tribe’s island palace.

Lin Mo learned that the White-Spirit Immortal Crane had ascended to the middle plane, leaving the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman on Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain as the only possible source of power to counter Black-Plumed Peacock Blood. Ying Tianxiao warned that reaching the talisman would require confronting Lin Yang, the powerful and hostile chief of the Divine Deer Tribe.

• Lin Mo asked Ying Tianxiao about the White-Spirit Immortal Crane and explained that he needed its power to save the mind-controlled cultivators of Shadow Ink State.
• Ying Tianxiao revealed that the White-Spirit Immortal Crane had created Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain, sealed its demons there with a Heavenly Master Divine Talisman, and ascended to the middle plane.
• Ying Tianxiao disclosed that the White-Spirit Immortal Crane was the ancestor of the Eagle-Fighting Tribe, which faced hostility from the other demon tribes because of its lineage.
• Shi Lan proposed using the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman to obtain the White-Spirit Immortal Crane’s power, and Lin Mo agreed that they could extract some without removing it.
• Ying Tianxiao warned that the talisman stood in the Divine Deer Tribe’s territory and that its chief, Lin Yang, was a Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence expert who hated the White-Spirit Immortal Crane.

Lin Mo offered to help Lin Yang despite Ying Tianxiao’s warning, but the Eagle-Fighting Tribe came under attack from Xiong Yan and the War Bear Tribe. As the battle turned against Ying Tianxiao, Xiong Yan revealed a spirit ring that greatly increased his strength.

• Lin Mo told Ying Tianxiao he still wanted to meet Lin Yang and explain his purpose in person.
• An eagle demon soldier reported that Xiong Yan had brought three thousand War Bear Tribe troops onto the sky island using a cloud ladder.
• Lin Mo and his companions offered to fight alongside the Eagle-Fighting Tribe, and Ying Tianxiao led his warriors into battle.
• Xiong Yan’s forces overwhelmed the Eagle-Fighting Tribe’s defenses and killed many of its warriors.
• Ying Tianxiao confronted Xiong Yan, but Xiong Yan overpowered him and revealed that his Tiger Bone Spirit Ring let him unleash ten times his strength.

Lin Mo protected Ying Tianxiao from the War Bear Tribe and faced Xiong Yan after the bear warrior unleashed his primordial ancestor state. Lin Mo evaded Xiong Yan’s attacks and began overwhelming him with the White Tiger’s Hundredfold Fist Dance.

• Lin Mo used the Yin-Yang Sacred Ward to repel Xiong Yan’s attack, sending him crashing into a crater and giving the Eagle-Fighting Tribe a chance to regroup.
• Xiong Yan learned that Lin Mo was human and activated his primordial ancestor state, transforming into a giant bear at the Spirit Transformation Realm pinnacle.
• Lin Mo invoked the Four Sages Immortal Spirit Tree’s White Tiger power and dodged Xiong Yan’s charge by leaping onto his back.
• Lin Mo slammed Xiong Yan into the ground, evaded his renewed charge, and struck him with the White Tiger’s Hundredfold Fist Dance.

Lin Mo and the Eagle-Fighting Tribe defeated the invading War Bear Tribe army, and Ying Tianxiao agreed to take Lin Mo to the Divine Deer Tribe to meet Lin Yang. At the War Bear Tribe, Xiong Shan learned of Xiong Yan’s death and set out to ally with the Red Wolf Tribe for revenge.

• Lin Mo weakened Xiong Yan with a thousand punches, then Shi Lan’s giant elephant Huihui pinned him down so Lin Mo could kill him with Annihilating Dragon Breath.
• Ying Tianxiao led the Eagle-Fighting Tribe in a counterattack, and together they wiped out all three thousand bear demon soldiers and burned their scaling ladders.
• Ying Tianxiao thanked Lin Mo and agreed to accompany him to the Divine Deer Tribe to meet Lin Yang.
• Xiong Shan learned that a human expert had helped kill Xiong Yan and defeat the War Bear Tribe’s army.
• Xiong Shan ordered his elite soldiers to accompany him to the Red Wolf Tribe so he could join forces with Lang Wei against the Eagle-Fighting Tribe and Lin Mo.

Lin Mo and his companions went to the Divine Deer Tribe to meet Lin Yang, but the hostile guards provoked a battle at the city gate. Lin Mo’s attacks overwhelmed the deer soldiers until a mysterious Golden Bell appeared and absorbed his heavenly flame.

• Ying Tianxiao explained to the Divine Deer Tribe’s guards that Lin Mo had come to discuss an important matter with Lin Yang, but the guards rejected the humans and ordered them to leave.
• Lin Mo struck two guards with his Soul-Devouring Vine, then used Thunder Strike against the reinforcements pouring out of the city.
• Gongsun Fu, Shi Lan, Ying Tianxiao, and his attendants joined Lin Mo as they fought through waves of deer soldiers, defeating hundreds.
• Lin Mo summoned the Four Sages Immortal Spirits and formed the Sacred Flame Bow, then unleashed Three Calamities Demon-Slaying at the tightly packed deer soldiers.
• A massive Golden Bell descended to protect the deer soldiers and absorbed Lin Mo’s pure-turbid heavenly flame, leaving him wondering what kind of artifact it was.

Lin Mo confronted Lin Yang, chief of the Divine Deer Tribe, over his hatred of humans and argued that his vengeance made him unworthy of being called a sage. Lin Yang was shaken by Lin Mo’s words and invited him into the city.

• Lin Yang used the Sheep Spirit Bell to shield the Divine Deer Tribe soldiers from Lin Mo’s heavenly flame and revealed himself.
• Lin Mo asked Lin Yang for help, but Lin Yang condemned Ying Tianxiao for bringing humans into his tribe and vowed to slaughter humanity if he escaped Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain.
• Lin Mo challenged Lin Yang’s hatred and called him a fool, provoking Lin Yang to descend and threaten him.
• Lin Mo compared Lin Yang’s vengeance with the compassion of a sage who had imprisoned himself rather than harm others.
• Lin Yang withdrew his killing intent and told Lin Mo to follow him into the city, leaving Ying Tianxiao impressed by Lin Mo’s composure.

Lin Mo asked Lin Yang to help him obtain the power of the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman to counter Black-Plumed Peacock Blood, and persuaded Lin Yang not to attack the human world if its seal was removed. Lin Yang agreed but required Lin Mo to eliminate the Red Wolf Tribe before they could take the talisman’s power.

• Lin Mo explained that he needed a White-Spirit Immortal Crane feather or the power left in the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman to create an antidote for Black-Plumed Peacock Blood.
• Lin Yang led Lin Mo and the others to the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman and explained that it threatened demons but not humans.
• Lin Yang warned that removing the talisman’s power would release the demons, but Lin Mo persuaded him to swear that he would restrain them from attacking the human world.
• Lin Yang revealed that Lang Wei and the Red Wolf Tribe could invade the Divine Land after the seal vanished, and demanded that Lin Mo eliminate them first.

Xiong Shan persuaded Lang Wei to consider an alliance against the Eagle-Fighting Tribe, but Ying Tianxiao’s surprise attack on Red Wolf territory forced Lang Wei to mobilize. The Red Wolf Tribe and War Bear Tribe joined the battle, where the Eagle-Fighting Tribe and Lin Mo continued fighting under heavy opposition.

• Xiong Shan urged Lang Wei to ally with the War Bear Tribe and attack the Eagle-Fighting Tribe, while Lang Wei initially refused.
• Lang Xing supported an alliance, arguing that it could help Lang Wei conquer the Divine Deer Tribe and rule Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain.
• A soldier reported that Ying Tianxiao had invaded Red Wolf territory with more than two thousand Eagle-Fighting Tribe warriors and several humans.
• Lang Wei ordered his elite warriors to march out and kill the invaders.
• Ying Tianxiao led the Eagle-Fighting Tribe against the Red Wolf soldiers as Lin Mo attacked with lightning.
• Lang Xing brought more than a thousand Red Wolf elites and Xiong Shan’s War Bear warriors into the battle.

Lin Mo faced the allied chiefs of the Red Wolf Tribe and War Bear Tribe after they cornered him on the battlefield. He escaped their opening attacks and counterattacked Xiong Shan with the White Tiger Movement Technique, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lang Xing confronted Ying Tianxiao and attacked him while the Red Wolf and War Bear elites overwhelmed the Eagle-Fighting Tribe soldiers.
• Lang Wei and Xiong Shan arrived, transformed into their primordial forms, and joined forces to attack Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo dodged their blows and summoned the Four Sages Immortal Spirit Tree, alarming both chiefs.
• Lang Wei used Heavenly Wolf Roar to disrupt Lin Mo, but Lin Mo regained control and evaded Xiong Shan with the White Tiger Movement Technique.
• Lin Mo rushed back at Xiong Shan and launched Hundredfold Fist Dance.

Lin Mo struggled to hold off Xiong Shan and Lang Wei as the Eagle-Fighting Tribe faced defeat, until Lin Yang arrived over the battlefield. Lang Wei questioned whether Lin Yang had come to support the Eagle-Fighting Tribe or would hear the Red Wolf Tribe's side.

• Lin Mo used the four sages immortal spirit tree to summon Senior Black Tortoise's Yin-Yang Sacred Ward and survived Xiong Shan and Lang Wei's combined attack.
• Lin Mo continued evading the two great demons, while Ying Tianxiao struggled against Lang Xing and the Eagle-Fighting Tribe's soldiers suffered heavy losses.
• Lin Yang arrived above the battlefield on the Sheep Spirit Bell, startling the soldiers of all the tribes.
• Lang Wei called out to Lin Yang, insisting that the Eagle-Fighting Tribe had attacked the Red Wolf Tribe first and asking him not to take sides without hearing him out.

Lin Yang gave Lin Mo a branch that could function despite Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain’s Demon Power, allowing Lin Mo to unleash a powerful sword attack. Lin Mo struck Xiong Shan with the branch’s sword intent and left him encased in green crystal, while the demons watched in shock.

• Lin Yang refused to join the battle and tossed Lin Mo a glowing branch that he had been entrusted to return.
• Lin Mo infused the branch with Dharma Power and realized it could overcome Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain’s Demon Power.
• Xiong Shan launched his Rending Rock attack, but Lin Mo met him in the air and unleashed Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent with the branch.
• Lin Mo’s sword attack pierced Xiong Shan and spread green crystal across his body, freezing him into a statue.
• The demon soldiers stared in terror at Xiong Shan’s condition, and one soldier told another to listen to a sound.