Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu discovered a Black Baleful Intent Pearl inside the Devil Beast and began absorbing its energy while fighting the creature. After the Devil Beast fled, Lin Yu recovered, awakened his Golden Crow clone, and entered the purple bamboo tree to cultivate.

• Lin Yu found a Black Baleful Intent Pearl in the mist from the Devil Beast and began absorbing its energy.
• Lin Yu and the Devil Beast exchanged powerful attacks, but Lin Yu struggled to break through its defenses.
• Lin Yu used his black sword to wound the Devil Beast, which then vanished from the fight.
• Lin Yu healed and restored his true essence and soul power inside the tree.
• Lin Yu awakened his Golden Crow clone and dove into the tree beneath the purple bamboo to cultivate.

Lin Yu sought to improve his strength and encountered a powerful demonic bull, whom he contracted as a demon pet and healed. A demon dragon then appeared and attacked Lin Yu, who realized the dragon was stronger than him.

• Lin Yu spotted an enormous demonic bull charging at him and drove it away with flames from the Nine Yang Divine Art.
• Lin Yu summoned the bull back and persuaded him to agree to a master-servant contract.
• Lin Yu healed the bull with sacred medicine and prepared to leave with him.
• A huge vortex approached, and the bull identified the creature within it as a demon dragon from the Dragon Race.
• Lin Yu told the demon dragon he wanted to tame him as a mount, and the dragon lunged at him.
• Lin Yu sensed the demon dragon was stronger than him as an enormous azure python appeared behind the dragon.

Lin Yu stopped fighting the demon serpent, then used the serpent’s injured giant centipede rival to drive it away. He traveled with the demon serpent and the giant serpent to the Nine Nether Underworld River, where they planned to head for the Nine Nether Underworld Sea.

• Lin Yu stopped fighting and explained that he had encountered a powerful ancient giant centipede in an ancient tomb.
• A golden dragon appeared and accused Lin Yu of killing a member of the Demon Race, but the demon serpent agreed to go with him.
• Lin Yu struck the giant centipede’s injured mark, wounded it badly, and chased it into the forest.
• Lin Yu, the demon serpent, and the giant serpent arrived at the Nine Nether Underworld River.
• The giant serpent told Lin Yu about the Nine Nether Underworld Sea and said it would kill anyone there, and Lin Yu agreed to hurry toward it.

Lin Yu and the demon snake reached the Nine Nether Dark Cave after the snake revealed the Nine Nether Dark Pearl and explained its connection to its ancestor. They entered the cave together, where Lin Yu discovered something astonishing after landing.

• The demon snake produced the Nine Nether Dark Pearl and explained that it was a Demon Race Saint Artifact made from its ancestor’s remains.
• The demon snake used red flames on the pearl and told Lin Yu that a powerful ninth-tier demon snake had forced it to retreat.
• The demon snake warned Lin Yu that the Demon Race’s holy temple would soon close, and they set off for the Nine Nether Dark Cave.
• Lin Yu and the demon snake reached the black vortex, and the snake revealed it would accompany him to keep him from claiming the pearl alone.
• Lin Yu and the demon snake descended through the vortex and landed inside the cave, where Lin Yu looked down and his eyes widened.

Lin Yu explored the underground palace beneath the Nine Nether Dark Cave and learned how accumulated resentment strengthened demon beasts. A powerful demon serpent brought him to the Nine Nether Dark Abode and told him to pass its trials to obtain the Nine Nether Dark Pearl and challenge the Nine Nether Dark Emperor.

• Lin Yu saw the ancient palace and countless skeletons beneath the Nine Nether Dark Cave, while the demon serpent explained how resentment Qi helped demon beasts grow stronger.
• The demon serpent warned Lin Yu that the Demon Serpent Saint Emperor could use the Nine Nether Dark Pearl to break the cave’s seal, and Lin Yu urged them to leave.
• A huge red-haired demon beast burst from underground and introduced himself as a battle general of the Nine Nether Dark Emperor, sent to guide Lin Yu to the Nine Nether Dark Palace.
• Lin Yu traveled with the demon serpent past the guards of the Nine Nether Dark Abode and reached a mountain range surrounded by a powerful Devil Domain.
• The demon serpent told Lin Yu that the Nine Nether Dark Emperor’s remains had been devoured by the Nine Nether Dark Pearl and that Lin Yu could become ruler of the Nine Nether Dark Kingdom if he obtained it and defeated the emperor.

The Demon Serpent Saint Emperor explained the Nine Nether Dark Pearl’s power and taught Lin Yu about soul cultivation and higher realms. After half a month of cultivation in a desolate valley, Lin Yu’s soul reached the Immortal Realm, and the Demon Serpent Saint Emperor departed to safeguard the Nine Nether Dark Abode.

• The Demon Serpent Saint Emperor explained that the Nine Nether Dark Pearl could strengthen Lin Yu’s body and cultivation, then passed him ancient knowledge about the soul.
• The Demon Serpent Saint Emperor described the Pseudo-Immortal Lord, Immortal Venerable, and Immortal Thearch realms to Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu stored the Nine Nether Dark Pearl in his sea of consciousness and began absorbing Nine Youming Qi under the Demon Serpent Saint Emperor’s guidance.
• Lin Yu and the Demon Serpent Saint Emperor cultivated in the desolate valley for half a month, and Lin Yu’s soul reached the Immortal Realm.
• The Demon Serpent Saint Emperor left to protect the Nine Nether Dark Abode and serve the Nine Youming Realm, while Lin Yu agreed to continue on his own.

Lin Yu traveled to the Demonic Cloud Sea and explored the powerful Demonic Cloud Sect while awaiting the Nine Nether Demon Sea’s opening. He reached the Nine Heavens Pavilion headquarters and tried to get past its guards by offering a pill.

• Lin Yu left the valley with two guards and flew north toward the Dragon Palace, learning from the Demon Serpent Saint Emperor that the Demonic Cloud Sect controlled the Demon Cloud Sea and was backed by an Immortal Venerable.
• After seven or eight days of travel, Lin Yu reached the Demon Cloud Sea and spotted the Demonic Cloud Sect’s warship, islands, and powerful disciples.
• Lin Yu entered the sect’s city, greeted old friends, and observed the Demonic Cloud Sect’s influence and formidable Immortal King experts.
• Lin Yu arrived at the Nine Heavens Pavilion headquarters, where a guard challenged him, and he offered the guard a pill that he claimed would improve his cultivation.

Lin Yu asked the Heavenly Sword Sect master to help find his missing wife, and the master agreed while giving him a Nine Heavens Pavilion teleportation talisman. After cultivating for several days, Lin Yu brought the Nine Yang Body-Forging Art to perfection but remained unable to grasp the chance to break through to the Immortal Venerable Realm.

• Lin Yu revealed himself as the Demonic Cloud Sect master and asked to meet the Heavenly Sword Sect master.
• The Heavenly Sword Sect master recognized Lin Yu and offered to search for his wife, who had disappeared three months earlier.
• The master gave Lin Yu a Nine Heavens Pavilion teleportation talisman and invited him to seek help from the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Lin Yu entered his immortal ring and cultivated for several days, turning away a guard sent to check on him.
• Lin Yu perfected the Nine Yang Body-Forging Art and concluded that he might need another ninth-grade pill to break through to the Immortal Venerable Realm.

Lin Yu met Zither Immortal after emerging from seclusion and learned the Immortal Lord Tournament was approaching. The next morning, he entered a peach-blossom grove in the academy plaza, where a red-robed young man confronted him over a rare peach pit.

• Lin Yu decided to save his nine ninth-grade pills until he reached the Immortal Venerable Realm rather than risk using them prematurely.
• Zither Immortal visited Lin Yu, spoke with him about the upcoming Immortal Lord Tournament, and then left to return to her master.
• Lin Yu continued cultivating overnight and flew to the academy plaza the next morning.
• Lin Yu followed a group of young men into a vast peach-blossom grove after hearing that it contained valuable peach pits.
• A red-robed young man approached Lin Yu and warned him that obtaining the seventh-grade seven-colored peach pit would not be easy.

Lin Yu confronted a red-robed Heavenly Sword Manor disciple who tried to take the seventh-grade peach pit from him. Lin Yu revealed he was a newly appointed Heavenly Sword Sect elder and badly wounded the disciple, who drew a golden longsword as the confrontation continued.

• Lin Yu challenged the red-robed youth for demanding the peach pit and mocked the Heavenly Sword Manor.
• The red-robed youth attacked Lin Yu, who cut through the peach grove with the Azure Edge Sword and destroyed the youth's Ten Thousand Ghosts Shield.
• Lin Yu told the youth that he was a newly appointed Heavenly Sword Sect elder, but the youth remained shocked by his strength.
• Lin Yu's Sword Qi pierced the Ten Thousand Ghosts Shield; the youth used the Mysterious Yin Mirror to block the strike but was still sent flying and coughed blood.
• The red-robed youth stood up and drew a golden-yellow longsword.

Lin Yu defeated the red-robed Heavenly Sword Sect disciple, who fled after threatening revenge. Wu Ming arrived with several guards and decided to confront Lin Yu, despite warnings that Lin Yu's strength was extraordinary.

• Lin Yu wounded the red-robed youth in the shoulder and chest, then beat him into the ground with a punch.
• The red-robed youth escaped, and Lin Yu let him go because he considered the youth his savior.
• Wu Ming arrived with several guards after the fight drew the attention of nearby cultivators.
• Wu Ming dismissed his guard's warning about Lin Yu's power and decided to kill him to protect the Heavenly Sword Sect's prestige.

Lin Yu fought a middle-aged man from the Heavenly Sword Sect who mistook his earth-attribute cultivation for the power of the Earth Clan. After Lin Yu defeated him, the man threatened to have his lineage hunt Lin Yu down.

• The middle-aged man attacked Lin Yu with his longsword, but Lin Yu's earth-element Gang Qi deflected the blow and blocked three flying swords.
• The middle-aged man mistook Lin Yu for a member of the Earth Clan and offered to recruit him into the Heavenly Sword Sect, but Lin Yu refused.
• The middle-aged man challenged Lin Yu to withstand three sword strikes, and Lin Yu shattered his swords with a palm strike, leaving him badly injured.
• The middle-aged man attacked again with Three Sword Slashes, but Lin Yu stopped the swords with earth-element shields and struck him down.
• The middle-aged man called Lin Yu a demon, claimed to be an Earth Clan cultivator, and threatened to have his lineage hunt Lin Yu.

Lin Yu dismissed the Earth Clan man’s threats, then was attacked by a powerful demonic beast near the valley. After several failed attempts to escape or defend himself, Lin Yu was left badly wounded, and the beast regarded him with puzzlement.

• Lin Yu questioned the middle-aged man about the Earth Clan’s origins, but the man refused to answer and threatened him before leaving.
• A powerful demonic beast emerged from the valley and struck at Lin Yu, who used a concealment talisman to teleport away but was caught in its storm and injured.
• The demonic beast recognized Lin Yu and attacked again, but Lin Yu’s earth-element defense endured the claw strike without being shattered.
• Lin Yu used the Five Elements Escape Technique to flee, but the beast’s astral wind caught him and slammed him into a tree, leaving him gravely wounded.

Lin Yu was repeatedly pursued and badly injured by a powerful demonic beast, but swallowed a golden pill and cultivated for five years, reaching the Integrated Body Peak Stage. After the beast revealed itself as Jin Long, the head of the Demon Race, Lin Yu attacked him with purple lightning.

• Lin Yu used the Five Elements Escape Technique repeatedly, but the demonic beast caught him and struck him until he was near death.
• Lin Yu swallowed a golden pill and cultivated for five years while the demonic beast waited, then emerged at the Integrated Body Peak Stage.
• A giant golden serpent appeared, and the demonic beast sent Lin Yu crashing into a mountain before trying to bite him.
• Lin Yu appeared behind the demonic beast with a longsword, and the beast identified itself as Jin Long, the head of the Demon Race.
• Lin Yu rejected Jin Long's threat and unleashed purple lightning, forcing Jin Long to retreat.

Lin Yu defeated a golden dragon and confronted a powerful demonic beast, using the Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring Art to torment it. He discovered that the beast’s demon core resembled the power of the same ancient art, suggesting it may have cultivated the technique too.

• Lin Yu killed the golden dragon with Thunder God Slash, destroying its body and Primordial Spirit.
• A black flood dragon emerged from the demonic beast and attacked Lin Yu, but his defensive clothing let him withstand the blow.
• The demonic beast summoned a green phoenix, which Lin Yu smashed apart with a palm strike.
• The demonic beast evolved and turned black, but Lin Yu used the Five Elements True Fire and the Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring Art to make it writhe in pain.
• Lin Yu noticed black Qi around the beast’s Primordial Spirit and suspected that it had also cultivated the Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring Art.

Lin Yu escaped one demon beast after severing its claw and headed toward a mountain range, where he was attacked by another powerful beast. He battered the second demon beast into a deep sleep, but it remained capable of waking and attacking him again.

• Lin Yu tested his purplish-red treasured saber against a demon beast, shattered its claw, and fled without taking its demon core because he needed it to save someone.
• Lin Yu sensed a mountain range and headed toward it, believing the demon beast's demon core was there.
• A second demon beast ambushed Lin Yu from behind, but he blocked its attack and fought back with his sword and fists.
• Lin Yu split the second beast's defensive spirit armor, struck its head, and blasted it into a deep sleep with hundreds of purple palm prints.
• Lin Yu watched the sleeping demon beast warily, knowing it was not fully unconscious and could attack him if it woke.

Lin Yu fought a group of demonic beasts near an ancient palace, but a Demon Emperor-level beast proved powerful enough to injure him. When the flame tree saplings appeared and the beasts tried to seize them, Lin Yu struck the Demon Emperor-level beast and sent it flying, provoking its counterattack.

• Lin Yu stored the slain demonic beast's demon crystal and flew to the mountain peak, where he sensed an ancient palace hidden among the clouds.
• A demonic beast transformed into a burly man and threatened Lin Yu, then summoned twelve powerful demonic beast figures, including a Demon Emperor-level beast.
• The Demon Emperor-level beast attacked Lin Yu, shattered his hand, and surrounded him with Yao Qi blade rays as Lin Yu avoided using the Dragon Soaring Technique.
• Two flame tree saplings burst from the valley and burned the medicinal herbs, prompting the demonic beasts to try to suppress and seize them.
• Lin Yu struck the Demon Emperor-level beast with a golden fist, sending it thousands of meters away, and the beast retaliated with a punch that split open space.

Lin Yu pursued and battled a Demon Emperor-level demonic beast, using his strength to bring it close to death. The Dragon Prince then arrived with a group of demons to hunt Lin Yu for the Sacred Beast bloodline in his body, leaving Lin Yu facing a larger enemy force.

• Lin Yu followed the Demon Emperor-level demonic beast through a spatial passage and obtained its demonic core, which he devoured with his soul flame.
• Lin Yu caught the fleeing beast, overpowered it with the Nine Yin Baigu Claw, and blasted its chest apart.
• The beast attacked again, but Lin Yu struck it with purple lightning and pierced its chest with a sharp longsword.
• The Dragon Prince arrived with a group of demons and asked whether Lin Yu had been killed.
• Lin Yu realized the demons had come for his Sacred Beast bloodline and prepared to face them without fear.

Lin Yu encountered the Dragon Prince, who revealed that the Demon Race was hunting him because he had killed one of their Demon Emperors. The Dragon Prince asked Lin Yu to help capture Xiaoqing, but Lin Yu refused, and the Dragon Prince left with the other demons.

• The Dragon Prince took precious Immortal Artifacts from a Demon Emperor-level Demon Emperor and went to meet an important figure while Lin Yu stayed behind to refine treasures and strengthen himself.
• The Dragon Prince and his group found Lin Yu, and the Dragon Prince challenged him over his attack on the Demon Race.
• Lin Yu identified the Dragon Prince as a Demon Emperor-level expert and introduced himself as Lin Yu.
• The Dragon Prince asked Lin Yu to help capture Xiaoqing so he could send her out of the Demon Domain, but Lin Yu refused to hand her over.
• The Dragon Prince warned Lin Yu about the Demon Race's powerful forces, then left with the demonic beasts, who predicted Lin Yu would soon be killed.

The Dragon Prince returned to test Lin Yu and attacked him after Lin Yu refused to join the Demon Race. Lin Yu revealed the power of his golden core and struck back, then transformed into a monstrous form as the battle continued.

• The Dragon Prince returned after following Lin Yu for a month and launched an attack on him.
• Lin Yu's sword-light attacks failed to harm the Dragon Prince, who summoned a palace-shaped force to crush him.
• Lin Yu used a golden core to block the Dragon Prince's claw, surprising the watching demonic beasts.
• Lin Yu slashed apart the Dragon Prince's claw and sent him flying, but the Dragon Prince attacked again instead of surrendering.
• Lin Yu transformed into a nine-headed, six-armed form and roared at the Dragon Prince with a terrifying killing aura.