Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo killed Xiong Shan and cornered Lang Wei, whose desperate attacks prompted Lin Mo to discover that the branch had fused with his hand and revealed the world tree divine tree’s offensive power. As Lang Wei attacked again, Lin Yang stopped Ying Tianxiao from intervening, confident Lin Mo could handle him.

• Lin Mo shattered Xiong Shan with one strike, leaving the War Bear and Red Wolf soldiers terrified and surrendering.
• Lin Yang blocked Lang Wei’s escape and explained that he had returned Lin Mo’s own power to him.
• Lang Wei ambushed Lin Mo, but Lin Mo dodged and recognized the attack as a desperate attempt to break through.
• Lin Mo discovered the branch was generating vitality essence, fused with his palm, and transformed into green light around his fingers.
• Lang Wei launched another attack, and Lin Yang stopped Ying Tianxiao from stepping in, saying Lin Mo could handle it himself.

Lin Mo defeated Lang Wei with Nature's Fury Fist, securing victory in the war, while Lin Yang revealed that the Demon Race must coexist peacefully with humans after the seal on Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain was lifted. As Lin Mo and his companions returned to the Divine Deer Tribe, Lin Yang identified the Azure Spirit Branch as a powerful artifact and said he had returned it to its rightful owner.

• Lin Mo unleashed Nature's Fury Fist, engulfing Lang Wei in vitality essence and rendering the soldiers from all three tribes unable to move.
• Lang Wei vanished, and the Eagle-Fighting Tribe celebrated its victory while the defeated demons surrendered.
• Lin Yang revealed that the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman's seal would soon be lifted and forbade the demons from harming humans or leaving Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain.
• The demons swore to obey Lin Yang's orders and help restrain the other demons within Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain.
• Ying Tianxiao and Lin Yang accompanied Lin Mo, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu back to the Divine Deer Tribe after Ying Tianxiao sent the eagle soldiers to Sky Island.
• Lin Yang told Lin Mo that the Azure Spirit Branch was a Magical Artifact rivaling an Immortal Artifact and that he had returned it to its rightful owner.

Lin Mo began absorbing the White-Spirit Immortal Crane’s power from the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman, but the draining seal released ancient Shadow Demons. Lin Yang explained they could only be sealed again and prepared staffs for the group to use.

• Lin Yang told Lin Mo that the Azure Spirit Branch had been returned to its original owner and declined to explain further.
• Lin Yang gave Lin Mo a blank talisman and warned that absorbing the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman’s power might trigger a terrible curse.
• Lin Mo respectfully asked the White-Spirit Immortal Crane for its power and began transferring it into the blank talisman.
• Big Green sensed danger as the shadows around the group rose into monstrous Shadow Demons and advanced toward the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman.
• Lin Yang explained that the Shadow Demons had emerged because the seal’s power was draining away, and said they could only be contained with sealing arts.
• Lin Yang formed four staffs and handed three to Ying Tianxiao, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu.

Lin Yang and his allies sealed hundreds of Shadow Demons while Lin Mo neared the end of absorbing the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman. A mysterious male corpse appeared and proved immune to their attacks, leaving Lin Yang able to restrain it only briefly with the Sheep Spirit Bell.

• Lin Yang gave Ying Tianxiao, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu Demon-Sealing Staffs, and the four sealed hundreds of Shadow Demons.
• Gongsun Fu spotted a massive, rotting male corpse advancing toward the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman.
• Gongsun Fu's sealing spell shattered against the corpse, and Ying Tianxiao's strongest attack failed to move it.
• Lin Yang trapped the corpse beneath the Sheep Spirit Bell, but could hold it in place for only a few breaths.

As the male corpse advanced on Lin Mo and the Heavenly Master Divine Talisman, Shi Lan, Gongsun Fu, and Lin Yang risked their lives to delay it. After Lin Yang’s defense failed, Lin Mo unleashed a sword strike that severed the corpse’s head.

• Lin Yang’s Sheep Spirit Bell shattered against the male corpse, and Shi Lan summoned Big Green to attack, but they were both gravely injured and bought only a second.
• Gongsun Fu charged the male corpse to protect Lin Mo and was knocked unconscious after delaying it for one second.
• Lin Yang revealed his primordial ancestor state and used Sheep God's Protection to halt the corpse, but the barrier broke after about half a minute, leaving Lin Yang badly injured.
• As the male corpse raised its foot to crush Lin Yang, Lin Mo leaped into the air and unleashed Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent.
• Lin Mo’s Peerless sword strike severed the male corpse’s head, stunning Lin Yang and Ying Tianxiao.

Lin Mo killed the Male Corpse, discovering it was the second of the three corpses he needed to slay before forming his nascent soul. After failing to refine the Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill, he traveled with Lin Yang and his companions to the Kunlun Continent to seek Gongsun Fu's grandfather's help, while Lin Yang hinted at Lin Mo's immense hidden secret.

• Lin Mo killed the Male Corpse with Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent, and the corpse dissolved into black mist.
• Lin Mo realized the Male Corpse was the second corpse he had been seeking, leaving only one obstacle before he could form his nascent soul.
• Lin Mo failed three times to refine the Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill and asked Gongsun Fu to take him to her grandfather for help.
• Lin Yang arranged for Ying Tianxiao to oversee Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain, then led Lin Mo, Gongsun Fu, and Shi Lan toward the Kunlun Continent.
• Lin Yang told Lin Mo that he carried a secret no lower plane could bear and promised that the demons of Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain would answer his summons.

Lin Mo arrived in Immortal Herb King City with Shi Lan and Gongsun Fu, hoping the Hundred Spirits Alliance could help him refine the Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill. After hearing about Lin Mo’s repeated failures, Gongsun Qian said the problem was troublesome because the pill was essential to neutralizing Black-Plumed Peacock Blood poison.

• Lin Yang brought Lin Mo to Kunlun Continent, then departed for home while Lin Mo continued onward with Shi Lan and Gongsun Fu.
• Gongsun Fu guided Lin Mo and Shi Lan to Immortal Herb King City and explained the Hundred Spirits Alliance’s alchemist ranks and its legendary founder, Yuan Su.
• At the alliance headquarters, Lin Mo met Gongsun Yu, who told Gongsun Fu that her grandfather was at the Scripture Pavilion.
• Gongsun Fu reunited with Gongsun Qian at the Scripture Pavilion and introduced Lin Mo’s pill-refining problem.
• Lin Mo described his failed attempts to refine the Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill, and Gongsun Qian said neutralizing Black-Plumed Peacock Blood poison required that pill.

Lin Mo and Shi Lan joined the Hundred Spirits Alliance’s Grand Luotian Offering while waiting for its new leader, Zhang Tianling, to help refine a Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill. The ceremony proceeded without Zhang Tianling, who was revealed to be resting on the Back Mountain.

• Gongsun Qian told Lin Mo that refining the pill might be possible with the Five Elements Imperial Heaven Cauldron, but he had passed alliance leadership to Zhang Tianling and would ask him after the offering.
• Gongsun Fu explained that Zhang Tianling was a gifted, kind sixth-grade alchemist, but his laziness and disinterest in everything beyond alchemy worried the alliance members.
• Lin Mo and Shi Lan attended the Grand Luotian Offering, where Gongsun Qian led prayers and Gongsun Yu presented the image of Grandmaster Yuan Su.
• When guests asked why Zhang Tianling was absent, Gongsun Qian and Gongsun Yu said he would appear after the vegetarian meal, and Lin Mo suspected Gongsun Fu’s concerns were justified.
• Zhang Tianling lay resting beneath a tree on the Back Mountain.

Zhang Tianling resisted attending the Grand Luotian Offering until Gongsun Qian reminded him of his duties as alliance leader, and he agreed to lead the afternoon pill-refining ceremony. Lin Mo watched as Zhang Tianling and thirty-five other alchemists began refining pills with the Five Elements Imperial Heaven Cauldron, leaving the guests impressed by his skill.

• Gongsun Fu found Zhang Tianling lounging instead of attending the Grand Luotian Offering, but he claimed he could not join because he had eaten meat and drunk wine.
• Gongsun Qian arrived with Lin Mo and persuaded Zhang Tianling to fulfill his duties as alliance leader, assigning him to preside over the afternoon pill-refining ceremony.
• Gongsun Fu explained to Lin Mo that the afternoon ceremony showcased the Hundred Spirits Alliance's alchemy and distributed pills to visiting guests.
• Lin Mo admired the Five Elements Imperial Heaven Cauldron and hoped the alliance could help refine his Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill.
• Zhang Tianling led thirty-five other alchemists in a pill-refining ceremony and ignited his powerful Yin-Yang Qi Flame beneath the cauldron, winning over the guests.

Zhang Tianling and the Hundred Spirits Alliance’s alchemists refined flawless Void God Pills, and he promised to help Lin Mo make a Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill the next day. Before Shi Lan could swallow her pill, Lin Mo discovered that both pills concealed poisonous insects.

• Zhang Tianling directed the alchemists in refining thirty-six ingredients into thousands of high-quality Void God Pills.
• Zhang Tianling gave Void God Pills to Lin Mo and Shi Lan and promised to help Lin Mo refine a Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill after the guests departed.
• At the banquet, Shi Lan said she hoped to use her Void God Pill to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and Lin Mo offered her his pill too.
• Lin Mo stopped Shi Lan from swallowing the pills, then used vitality essence to reveal black mist and a poisonous insect inside each one.
• Lin Mo crushed both pills and insects and concluded that something was wrong.

After guests across Immortal Herb King City were poisoned by the Void God Pills, Zhang Tianling and Gongsun Qian moved to investigate the culprit and protect the Hundred Spirits Alliance’s reputation. Zhang Tianling caught a fleeing black-clad man, but the attacker broke free and escaped into the forest as two golden lights appeared.

• Lin Mo concluded that someone among the thirty-six assisting Alchemists may have tampered with the Void God Pills, and warned Shi Lan that the night would be restless.
• Guests throughout Immortal Herb King City fell gravely ill and vomited blood after taking the pills.
• Zhang Tianling reported the mass poisoning to Gongsun Qian, who ordered him to summon all thirty-six assisting Alchemists and assigned the investigation into the poison itself to his Second Grandfather.
• A black-clad man fled toward the city gate while guests suffered, but Zhang Tianling caught him with a soul-binding spirit talisman.
• The black-clad man shattered the talisman with evil aura, wounded Zhang Tianling, and escaped toward the forest as two golden lights erupted from the ground.

Lin Mo helped Zhang Tianling capture a fox demon who had infiltrated the Hundred Spirits Alliance and poisoned the guests, but the demon killed himself before revealing who sent him. After the alliance cured every victim, Zhang Tianling began refining the Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill for Lin Mo.

• Lin Mo used the Spirit-Devouring Vine to capture the black-clad intruder, who was revealed to be a fox demon and then killed himself to avoid interrogation.
• Zhang Tianling told Lin Mo that the Azure Heavens Demon Race and Evil Moon Demon Race had been infiltrating Kunlun Continent and attacking the Five Great Alliances.
• Gongsun Yu identified Heart-Eating Insect poison in the guests, and Gongsun Qian found its antidote formula in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lin Mo, Zhang Tianling, Gongsun Qian, and the other Alchemists refined antidotes through the night and cured all the poisoned guests.
• Zhang Tianling thanked Lin Mo and insisted on refining the Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pill, so Lin Mo gave him the White-Spirit Immortal Crane's feather.

Lin Mo and Zhang Tianling refined three thousand Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pills, but Lin Mo decided they must first eliminate the Heaven-Connecting Church Master before curing the Southern Region’s controlled cultivators. Back in Shadow Ink State, Lin Mo found the church gathering at the Shadow Ink Divine Temple to welcome an ancestral master, then witnessed tens of thousands of followers kneel to greet their Church Master.

• Zhang Tianling used the Yin-Yang Qi Flame to transform ordinary crane feathers and refined three thousand Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pills with Lin Mo’s help.
• Lin Mo explained to Shi Lan and Gongsun Fu that they needed to eliminate the Heaven-Connecting Church Master before distributing the pills, and Shi Lan described his strength and Great Black Heaven Sword Formation.
• Lin Mo, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu returned to Shadow Ink State and learned that the church’s followers had been summoned to the Shadow Ink Divine Temple to welcome an ancestral master.
• Lin Mo arrived above the temple and saw tens of thousands of followers kneel and hail the Heaven-Connecting Church Master.

Lin Feng and Shi Lan witnessed the Heaven-Connecting Church Master demand 25,000 hearts as an offering for his grandmaster. Lin Mo intervened to stop the followers from killing themselves and restrained them, leaving him facing the Church Master.

• Lin Feng hid Gongsun Fu in the Gourd Space and watched the Heaven-Connecting Church Master appear before the gathered followers.
• The Church Master announced that his awakened grandmaster needed spiritual power and demanded 25,000 hearts as a welcoming offering.
• The followers enthusiastically agreed, and an old man tore out his own heart, prompting others to prepare to do the same.
• Lin Mo emerged and shouted at the followers to stop, then summoned the Spirit-Devouring Vine and used Flora Seals Demons to bind them all.

Lin Mo confronted the Heaven-Connecting Church Master and learned that he was connected to the Netherworld’s plans for the Divine Land. After Lin Mo exposed the Church Master as a tiger demon, the enemy transformed into a primordial ancestor state and reached Tribulation Transcendence True Person strength.

• The Heaven-Connecting Church Master recognized Lin Mo and revealed his knowledge of Lin Mo’s clashes with several Netherworld Venerables, as well as his own grandmaster’s fear of him.
• Lin Mo decided to defeat the Heaven-Connecting Church Master before questioning him and charged with Nature’s Fury Fist.
• Lin Mo pinned the Church Master with his fist and struck him with Big Dipper Sword Rain, tearing away his cloak and robes.
• Lin Mo discovered that the wounded Heaven-Connecting Church Master was a tiger demon rather than a human.
• The Heaven-Connecting Church Master entered his primordial ancestor state, growing to nearly thirty feet tall and increasing his cultivation to the Tribulation Transcendence True Person level.

Lin Mo battled the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, who revealed the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation and trapped him under its attacks. Just as Lin Mo faced the swords with nowhere to escape, Shi Lan intervened with Frost Sacred Ward and saved him.

• Lin Mo summoned the Heavenly Pivot Sword Puppet and fought the Heaven-Connecting Church Master in the sky above Shadow Ink State.
• After both fighters were wounded, the Heaven-Connecting Church Master revealed the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation and called down its Eastern Heaven Formation.
• Lin Mo blocked the eastern swords with Yin-Yang Sacred Ward, then used Immortal Venerable White Tiger's speed to evade the tracking western swords.
• The Heaven-Connecting Church Master sent down the Southern Heaven Formation, trapping Lin Mo between two waves of black swords.
• Shi Lan used Frost Sacred Ward to shield Lin Mo from the swords, absorbing their power before the ice shields shattered.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng worked together to defeat the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, destroy his Great Black Heaven Sword Formation, and strip him of his cultivation. The Church Master warned Lin Mo that an unknown master from an upper plane planned to unite the lower planes, but Lin Mo prepared to kill him anyway.

• Xue Qingcheng froze the Heaven-Connecting Church Master while Lin Mo gathered power for a decisive strike.
• Xue Qingcheng blocked the Church Master's black swords with ice mountains as Lin Mo unleashed Peerless and cut through him.
• Lin Mo's strike shattered the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation, destroyed the Church Master's dantian, and left him barely alive in a crater.
• The Heaven-Connecting Church Master claimed his unseen master came from an upper plane and planned to unify the lower planes.
• Lin Mo said he would fight the master to protect the Divine Land and raised the Azure Spirit Branch to kill the Church Master.

After defeating the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, Lin Mo destroyed the final corpse and broke through to the nascent soul and spirit transformation realms. His cultivation surged to the third level of spirit transformation as heaven and earth changed, and he emerged transformed, surrounded by six azure lotuses.

• Lin Mo killed the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, then recognized and destroyed the old man formed from black mist from the corpse.
• With the three masses of chaos gone, Lin Mo broke through to the nascent soul realm and used Hundred Closures to control the surging power within him.
• Lin Mo's cultivation soared through nascent soul great perfection and into the spirit transformation realm as Xue Qingcheng and the others watched a golden beam pierce the sky.
• As Lin Mo advanced to the third level of spirit transformation, stars arranged above him and moonlight revived plants across the Divine Land and nearby Other Planes.
• Lin Mo emerged from the pit in an azure robe, with six azure lotuses behind him and dark green eyes radiating vitality.

Lin Mo reached the pinnacle of the Spirit Transformation Realm, gained the Divine Tree’s inheritance, and helped cure the Black-Plumed Peacock Blood poison across the Shadow Ink State and the Southern Cities. The freed cultivators thanked him as their savior.

• Lin Mo met the Divine Tree in its space, learned that the World Tree Divine Tree had matured, and received the Withered Leaf Spirit.
• The Divine Tree withheld Lin Mo’s secret and vanished, leaving him to return to Xue Qingcheng, Gongsun Fu, and Shi Lan.
• Lin Mo gave Xue Qingcheng Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pills and explained that the Heaven-Connecting Church Master had controlled the followers with Black-Plumed Peacock Blood.
• Xue Qingcheng spread the pills as snow across the Shadow Ink State and the southern cities, drawing the poison from more than a million cultivators.
• Lin Mo purified the poisonous black mist and dispelled the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation after the cultivators regained their senses.
• More than twenty thousand freed cultivators knelt before Lin Mo and thanked him for saving them.

After saving the Divine Land’s cultivators from the Heaven-Connecting Church, Lin Mo faced a blood-red claw emerging through a rift in the sky. He severed the claw, but a strange beam struck him and sent him falling as a vast scarlet eye filled the rift.

• Lin Mo reassured the rescued cultivators and promised to protect the Divine Land.
• A blood moon and a rift appeared overhead, and a colossal blood-red claw began emerging as the cultivators fell unconscious or trembled in fear.
• Lin Mo rode the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds into the sky and used the Wood God Seal to knock the claw back and begin closing the rift.
• A blood-red eye controlled Lin Mo’s mind, stopping him from sealing the rift as the claw pushed its way out again.
• Lin Mo regained his clarity and severed the claw with Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent, but a scarlet beam struck his chest and sent him plummeting while the eye filled the rift.