Chapter Summaries

After Yue'er stabilized her Golden Core, Lin Xuan prepared to leave Guiluo City and gave her his Beast Soul Banner. Li Yaotian invited him to a Core Condensation exchange meeting, but Lin Xuan was astonished to learn that True Person Linglong was hosting it.

• The little beast absorbed spiritual energy, began advancing, and Lin Xuan returned it to his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er spent the winter and spring cultivating in their cave residence, and Yue'er stabilized her realm.
• Lin Xuan explained why he would not reveal Seven Absolutes Heaven's plans and gave Yue'er his Beast Soul Banner to nourish.
• Li Yaotian arrived and invited Lin Xuan to a Core Condensation exchange meeting being held that day.
• Li Yaotian led Lin Xuan toward the meeting, and Lin Xuan reacted with shock when he learned True Person Linglong was hosting it.

Lin Xuan accompanied Li Yaotian to an exchange meeting supposedly hosted by True Person Linglong, but he saw through the trap laid for him. He exposed Li Yaotian’s disguise and recognized his past, while Li Yaotian’s plan to build a force in You Province was revealed.

• Li Yaotian told Lin Xuan that True Person Linglong managed Seven Absolutes Heaven’s business in southwestern You Province and brought him to the meeting.
• Li Yaotian opened a hidden passage through a bare mountain wall, and they followed it to a great hall.
• Lin Xuan refused to enter until the concealed formation was withdrawn and declared that the amiable old man was not True Person Linglong.
• The disguised man transformed into a tall, ugly middle-aged cultivator, while Li Yaotian admitted the deception had been exposed.
• Lin Xuan accused Li Yaotian of trying to lure him in and kill him for his goods, then revealed he knew Li Yaotian’s history in Yanzhou.
• Li Yaotian was shocked that Lin Xuan knew his background, as the chapter revealed he had gathered surviving Fire Spirit Sect cultivators in You Province to build a force.

Li Yaotian recounted how he rebuilt the Fire Spirit Sect in Guiluo City through ambushes and robbery before attempting to trap Lin Xuan. When Lin Xuan resisted with an ancient treasure and Yue'er appeared, Li Yaotian feared that Lin Xuan might be the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil.

• Li Yaotian led the Fire Spirit Sect in an attack on a small clan, but its formation and iron-armored demon corpses drove them away.
• After a year of wandering, Li Yaotian settled the Fire Spirit Sect in Guiluo City and funded its growth by luring and robbing Rogue Cultivators.
• Li Yaotian and Wang Hu laid a trap for Lin Xuan using an exchange meeting, but Lin Xuan saw through their scheme and challenged them.
• Wang Hu summoned Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and attacked Lin Xuan with a writing-brush treasure, while Lin Xuan countered with the Green Scale Needle.
• Yue'er appeared to protect Lin Xuan, and Li Yaotian recognized her as a powerful yin soul and began to suspect Lin Xuan was the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil.

Lin Xuan pretended to be the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil to make Li Yaotian and Wang Hu lower their guard, but a blood-red monster broke free of its restriction and attacked. Lin Xuan recognized it as a Demon Monster, a supposedly extinct intelligent race, leaving the group facing a threat from the ancient past.

• Yue'er displayed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and Li Yaotian mistook Lin Xuan for the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil and begged for mercy.
• Lin Xuan played along with Li Yaotian's mistake and planned to attack him and Wang Hu when they let down their guard.
• A rumble and screams alerted Lin Xuan that Li Yaotian and Wang Hu knew something about a nearby danger.
• Bloodied cultivators ran into the hall, but a red cloud appeared and killed them before they could explain what had happened.
• The red cloud sent out blood-red snakes that killed the Fire Spirit Sect cultivators, while Lin Xuan activated the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield.
• A three-headed, six-armed creature emerged from the cloud, and Lin Xuan recognized it as a Demon Monster thought to have been exterminated in ancient times.

Lin Xuan faced a powerful ancient Demon Monster while Li Yaotian and Wang Hu begged him for protection. Li Yaotian explained how he had found the monster sealed in ice and how the two men’s blood sacrifice had unexpectedly led to its escape.

• Lin Xuan assessed the Demon Monster’s danger as Li Yaotian and Wang Hu pleaded for his help.
• Lin Xuan questioned Li Yaotian about the monster’s origins while it watched them without attacking.
• Li Yaotian recounted finding the monster sealed in an ancient cave and discovering it was still alive after more than a million years in ice.
• Li Yaotian took the frozen monster back, and he and Wang Hu used an ancient blood-sacrifice technique in an attempt to make it their pet.
• The blood sacrifice initially went smoothly, but the monster broke free when Li Yaotian and Wang Hu’s attempted robbery brought them into danger.

The Demon Monster ambushed Lin Xuan, Li Yaotian, and Wang Hu, killing Li Yaotian and Wang Hu and consuming their Golden Cores. Lin Xuan fought back with his treasures, including the Spirit-Absorbing Mirror, and the battle continued as the Demon Monster began chanting an ancient incantation.

• The Demon Monster attacked the three cultivators with blood-red weapons and a hidden tentacle, but Lin Xuan dodged the tentacle's strike.
• The Demon Monster impaled Li Yaotian and Wang Hu, took their Golden Cores, and consumed them.
• Lin Xuan summoned his sword, Carefree Fan, Yue'er, and the Spirit-Absorbing Mirror to face the Demon Monster.
• The Spirit-Absorbing Mirror's black light clusters clashed with the Demon Monster's bloody lights, and both attacks vanished.
• Lin Xuan prepared to wear down the Demon Monster with the mirror while the Demon Monster began chanting in an ancient language.
• Lin Xuan pointed his Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword at the Demon Monster and sent it forward.

Lin Xuan fought the invisible Blood Demon and used the Immortal Binding Ball to expose and restrain it. The Demon Monster triggered Demonic Transformation, grew far stronger, and cut through the ancient treasure’s threads, leaving Lin Xuan facing a more dangerous enemy.

• The Demon Monster vanished from Lin Xuan’s sight and struck through the Carefree Fan’s protective barrier while taunting him as Blood Demon.
• Lin Xuan used the Immortal Binding Ball to locate and bind the hidden Demon Monster, which recognized the treasure and struggled against it.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Green Scale Needle and Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword, but the Demon Monster’s blood-red barrier repelled both ancient treasures.
• The Demon Monster unleashed Demonic Transformation, changing its form and releasing even stronger demonic Qi.
• The transformed Demon Monster cut apart the Immortal Binding Ball’s threads with two streaks of white light, shocking Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan struggled against a demon monster whose Demonic Transformation gave it overwhelming speed and a deadly Bone Blade, while Yue'er used the Beast Soul Banner to hold it back. After using a Thousand-Mile Instantaneous talisman to boost his speed, Lin Xuan struck with the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword, surprising his opponent.

• Lin Xuan recalled the damaged Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword and dodged the demon monster’s rapid attacks, but his Spirit-Absorbing Mirror failed to hit it.
• The demon monster broke Lin Xuan’s Carefree Fan with three Bone Blade strikes, forcing him to retreat.
• Yue'er released venomous snakes from the Beast Soul Banner, temporarily restraining the demon monster.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword and applied the Thousand-Mile Instantaneous talisman to himself to increase his speed.
• Lin Xuan dodged the demon monster and landed a dazzling sword strike, leaving it startled by the clash.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er killed the demon after restraining it with their treasures and the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword. While searching Li Yaotian and Wang Hu's belongings, Lin Xuan found pills and a Jade Slip that surprised him, leaving its contents unrevealed.

• Lin Xuan used the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword's frigid light to slow the demon while Yue'er bound it with the Beast Soul Banner and he trapped it with the Immortal Binding Ball.
• Lin Xuan enlarged the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword and killed the demon with a direct strike.
• Lin Xuan stored the demon's corpse and took the Storage Bags from Li Yaotian and Wang Hu's bodies.
• Lin Xuan found mid-grade crystal stones and about three hundred Biying Pills in the two men's Storage Bags, though he lamented that they would do little to overcome his cultivation difficulties.
• Lin Xuan searched further and found a Jade Slip; when he examined it with his divine sense, he was surprised by what he discovered.

After defeating the Fire Spirit Sect, Lin Xuan learned the location of an ancient cave from Li Yaotian’s Jade Slip and traveled into the dangerous Hundred Thousand Mountains to find it. He came across the Heaven Mountain Sect’s Xu Siblings fighting several demon beasts and flew to help them.

• Lin Xuan read Li Yaotian’s Jade Slip, memorized the ancient cave’s location, and destroyed the Fire Spirit Sect members’ corpses.
• Lin Xuan explained to Yue'er that powerful ancient illusion restrictions might have hidden the cave from Li Yaotian, then set off for the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Xuan rested at a market on the mountains’ outskirts before entering, and he drove off would-be robbers by revealing his Core Condensation cultivation.
• After two days of searching, Lin Xuan heard fighting near his campsite and used his divine sense to find the Xu Siblings surrounded by demon beasts.
• Lin Xuan recognized Xu Yin and her brother, saw they were close to being overwhelmed, and flew toward them to intervene.

Lin Xuan rescued Xu Feng and Xu Yin from demonic beasts and reunited with his old friends, revealing that he had reached the Core Condensation stage. The siblings learned how much their fortunes had changed, and Xu Feng remained ashamed of his failed attempt at Core Condensation.

• Xu Feng tried to protect Xu Yin as demonic beasts overwhelmed them and knocked her short sword away.
• Lin Xuan arrived, killed the attacking beasts with sword gleams, and saved the siblings.
• Xu Feng and Xu Yin recognized Lin Xuan, and he reminded them of their friendship and his past rescue of Xu Yin.
• Xu Feng learned Lin Xuan had formed a Golden Core, while Xu Yin explained that Xu Feng's attempt at Core Condensation had failed.
• Lin Xuan consoled Xu Feng and noted that Spirit Herb Mountain had grown powerful while the Heaven Mountain Sect had become a vassal.

Lin Xuan learned that Xu Feng and Xu Yin had fled the Heaven Mountain Sect after its disciples were treated as cannon fodder by the Three Giants. Xu Feng explained that their escape followed a disastrous crystal mine mission, while Lin Xuan understood the punishment as an attempt by the righteous sects to intimidate their subordinate factions.

• Lin Xuan asked Xu Feng and Xu Yin why they had come to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and they described how the Three Giants used Heaven Mountain disciples for dangerous missions.
• Xu Feng revealed that he and Xu Yin had secretly fled the Heaven Mountain Sect rather than carry out a mission.
• Xu Feng explained that several dozen Heaven Mountain disciples, including Xu Yin, had been assigned to guard a crystal mine that unexpectedly produced mid-grade crystals.
• The Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil sent forces to seize the mine, and the Heaven Mountain disciples withdrew when they faced overwhelming enemy strength.
• The Three Giants accused the withdrawing disciples of fleeing before battle and sought to punish them, while Lin Xuan inferred that the punishment was meant to intimidate other subordinate sects.

Lin Xuan learned how Xu Feng and Xu Yin escaped the Heaven Mountain Sect and rescued them from three Kunnu in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. After giving them the beast core, he departed, leaving the siblings resolved to keep cultivating despite their precarious lives.

• Xu Feng and Xu Yin explained that Ouyang Qinxin had helped Xu Yin escape, after which the siblings fled the Heaven Mountain Sect and hid in Guiluo City.
• Needing medicinal pills, the siblings entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains to hunt and found a Kunnu, only for two more Kunnu to appear and turn the hunt against them.
• Lin Xuan killed the Kunnu and offered its beast core to Xu Feng and Xu Yin before leaving.
• Xu Feng and Xu Yin praised Lin Xuan's rapid rise to the Golden Core Realm and encouraged each other to keep working toward condensing Golden Cores.

After leaving the Xu siblings, Lin Xuan found the remains of an Ink Moon Tribe shaman in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and wondered whether the tribe had survived there. He searched the shaman’s Storage Bag and discovered pills, Demon Cores, spirit herbs, and demon beast materials.

• Lin Xuan flew deeper into the Hundred Thousand Mountains and stopped at a desolate little mountain.
• Lin Xuan uncovered remains beneath some withered grass and recognized the clothing as that of an Ink Moon Tribe shaman.
• Lin Xuan recalled the ancient conflict between the Ink Moon Tribe and the Qin Clan, then considered whether the tribe had hidden in the mountains.
• Lin Xuan used his divine sense to inspect the shaman’s Storage Bag and found few crystal stones but many bottles, herbs, and demon beast materials.
• Lin Xuan identified a large bottle’s contents as pills that increased Core Condensation cultivators’ magic power and kept more than a hundred of them.
• Lin Xuan opened the other bottles and found several kinds of Demon Cores.

Lin Xuan discovered a map suggesting the Ink Moon Tribe still lived in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, then found a powerful mutated Moon Demon Spider near the ancient cultivator's ruins. He chose to attack it by stealth and sent an earth-rank spirit talisman blazing into its cave.

• Lin Xuan examined the Ink Moon Tribe shaman's belongings and found a damaged map whose markings suggested the tribe had settlements in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Xuan discovered that the shaman's broken ribs had been torn by a demon beast and used his divine sense to find a nearby nest.
• Lin Xuan identified the sleeping creature as a high-grade third-rank Moon Demon Spider, far stronger than an ordinary one.
• Lin Xuan decided to kill the spider before exploring the nearby ancient cultivator's ruins and concealed his presence with a Hidden Spirit Pill and a secret technique.
• Lin Xuan approached the cave and hurled an earth-rank spirit talisman into its depths as a sneak attack.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er killed the fire-immune Moon Demon Spider and collected its corpse and inner core. He then removed Li Yaotian’s illusion array, revealed a concealed cave on the mountain, and entered after checking it for danger.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er fought the Moon Demon Spider with their magic treasures, and Lin Xuan killed it with the Green Scale Needle and Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword.
• Lin Xuan stored the Moon Demon Spider’s corpse and inner core, then flew back to the small mountain.
• Lin Xuan used the array disc from Li Yaotian’s Storage Bag to remove the Luanhuan Lost Immortal Array and reveal the mountain’s true appearance.
• Lin Xuan searched the mountainside, uncovered a stone-blocked cave entrance, and probed its deep passage with his divine sense.
• Lin Xuan found no danger in the cave and flew inside.

Lin Xuan searched an empty mountain cave for seventeen days, convinced it concealed an ancient cultivator’s treasure. On the night of the full moon, a small restriction drew moonlight into a corner of the chamber and revealed something that filled him with joy.

• Lin Xuan searched the cave chamber and dug through its walls and floor but found nothing.
• He continued investigating the chamber for seventeen days, then decided to leave if he found nothing after three more days.
• While meditating on the night of the full moon, Lin Xuan sensed a small restriction guiding moonlight into the chamber.
• The moonlight shone on an inconspicuous corner, where surging spiritual power and a strange fragrance appeared, and Lin Xuan reacted with joy.

Lin Xuan discovered that the false cave residence concealed an ancient teleportation array leading to a sealed cave, where he found a dead cultivator and a trapped Storage Bag guarded by powerful Infant Fire. He and Yue'er prepared to break through the flame with ice- and yin-attribute magic treasures.

• On the full moon, Lin Xuan activated the ancient teleportation array and arrived in a sealed mountain cave.
• Lin Xuan found the remains of an old man seated on a stone platform and spotted a green Storage Bag at his waist.
• Lin Xuan sent his zombie to retrieve the Storage Bag, but a spark of Infant Fire burned the zombie to ash.
• Lin Xuan identified the flame as the preserved Infant Fire of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and concluded that he could wear it down.
• Yue'er appeared and offered to help Lin Xuan break the flame, so he summoned the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword while she raised the Beast Soul Banner.
• Lin Xuan transformed his sword into an ice dragon as Yue'er's ghostly mist formed an Ink Flood Dragon.

After Lin Xuan and Yue'er spent two months dissolving an ancient cultivator’s Infant Fire restriction, they cautiously opened his Storage Bag and found three unusual treasures. Lin Xuan discovered that the talisman could be reused, leaving him with a powerful new defensive treasure, a Beast Spirit Treasure, and a rare spirit talisman.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er finished dissolving the Infant Fire restriction and used a snake beast soul to check the Storage Bag for traps.
• Lin Xuan found a fiery-red defensive shield, an emerald jade flute, and a golden talisman in the Storage Bag.
• Lin Xuan activated the jade flute, and Yue'er identified it as a Beast Spirit Treasure refined with a demon soul.
• Lin Xuan accidentally activated the talisman, which released a golden blade that cut deeply through the iron-stone mountain wall.
• Lin Xuan used an incantation to retract the golden fireball and realized the talisman could be used repeatedly until its stored power ran out.

Lin Xuan discovered a hidden cavern beneath the evil cultivator’s cave residence, where he found dozens of coffins containing Iron-Armored Refined Corpses. After one corpse awakened, Yue'er’s beast souls attacked it, but it destroyed them with ease, leaving Lin Xuan to face the creature’s power.

• Lin Xuan found Sandalwood hidden in the cave walls and uncovered a concealed passage leading deeper into the mountain.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er entered a large cavern filled with dozens of stone coffins.
• Lin Xuan split open a coffin and discovered an Iron-Armored Refined Corpse whose strength matched a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator.
• The Iron-Armored Refined Corpse awakened as Lin Xuan prepared to collect it.
• Yue'er sent a spiked tiger and a two-headed snake from her Beast Soul Banner to attack, but the corpse's armor resisted their strikes and it tore the snake's soul apart.