Chapter Summaries

The Corpse Demon rewarded Ning Wuxin and urged the Ning Family to unite before leaving to aid the fighting elsewhere. At Lei Yin Mountain, the Cloud Ghost Sect gained the upper hand until Mrs. Ning Third confronted the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady, and the two prepared to fight.

• The Corpse Demon praised the Fourth Branch, gave Ning Wuxin the Mang Brothers' Mourning Staff, and called on the Ning Family to fight as one.
• The Corpse Demon departed to support the other battlefronts, while the Fourth Branch disciples prepared to follow.
• At the foot of Lei Yin Mountain, the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady joined the fighting and killed Ning Family experts, shifting the battle toward the Cloud Ghost Sect.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady's magic treasure nearly struck a Ning Family elder, but Mrs. Ning Third intercepted it with her red light.
• Mrs. Ning Third and the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady traded insults and revealed their magic treasures, preparing to clash.

Mrs. Ning Third fought the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady as Cloud Ghost Sect attacked the Ning Family, until word arrived that Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon had turned the battle with their Nascent Soul Realm strength. The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady ordered a retreat, but Mrs. Ning Third rallied her side and provoked her into empowering the Two-Headed Black Snake.

• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady sent the Two-Headed Black Snake and a strange six-legged spirit beast against Mrs. Ning Third, forcing her to use multiple magic treasures to defend herself.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady received a Sound Transmission Talisman reporting that Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon had joined the battle, and she ordered Cloud Ghost Sect to retreat.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady told the Silver-Haired Elder that two Nascent Soul Realm experts had arrived and that Cloud Ghost Sect might have fallen into a trap.
• Mrs. Ning Third announced that the Ancestor had arrived, raising the Ning Family cultivators' morale and encouraging them to hold the retreating attackers in place.
• Mrs. Ning Third taunted the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady and struck at her with a giant seal, prompting the enraged sect master to feed blood essence into the Two-Headed Black Snake.

Lin Xuan helped the Ning Family defeat the invading forces and killed the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady, saving the family from destruction. After the battle, the Corpse Demon announced that Lin Xuan had agreed to become the Ning Family’s esteemed guest elder before he left to travel the outside world.

• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady transformed her spirit snake into an Evil Flood Dragon and overwhelmed Mrs. Ning Third until Lin Xuan arrived to help.
• Lin Xuan summoned his emerald python, shattered the Evil Flood Dragon, and killed the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady, causing the Cloud Ghost Sect’s remaining fighters to flee.
• The Ning Family pursued the invaders, and the battle ended with heavy losses for the Cloud Ghost Sect, the Zhang Family, and their allies.
• At White Tiger Hall, the Corpse Demon introduced Lin Xuan as his close friend and credited him with helping save the Ning Family.
• The Corpse Demon told the Ning Family he would travel the outside world and revealed that Lin Xuan had agreed to serve as an esteemed guest elder.

Lin Xuan took control of the Ning Family, established a base at Lei Yin Mountain, and led the family to destroy the Cloud Ghost Sect and Zhang Family while searching for Earth Vein Fire. The chapter ended when a Demon Nether Sect Command Token activated a Soul-Absorbing Technique against him, revealing itself as a trap.

• The Corpse Demon appointed Lin Xuan as the Ning Family's Guest Elder and ordered the clan to obey him as they would the old ancestor.
• Lin Xuan chose a secluded valley on Lei Yin Mountain, built a cave residence, and fortified it with formations.
• After three months, Lin Xuan led the Ning Family in attacking and eliminating the weakened Cloud Ghost Sect and Zhang Family, raising the clan's standing among the Yin Spirit Plains factions.
• Lin Xuan ordered the Ning Family to search across the islands for Earth Vein Fire while he continued cultivating for two years without news.
• During meditation, a Demon Nether Sect Command Token flew from Lin Xuan's Storage Bag and unleashed a Soul-Absorbing Technique that tried to seize his soul.

Lin Xuan destroyed the elder Command Token that was trying to absorb his soul, disrupting the Demon Nether Sect master's attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Mrs. Ning Third then brought Lin Xuan a clue about the Earth Vein Fire he sought, pointing him toward the Blazing Sun Sect.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to destroy the elder Command Token and stop its soul-absorbing power.
• At the Demon Nether Sect's main altar, the destruction of a lifebound beast injured the Sect Master and ruined his breakthrough attempt.
• The Sect Master and a red-haired old man realized that a cultivator had escaped the Soul-Absorbing Technique, possibly because that person had achieved Nascent Soul Formation.
• Lin Xuan resolved to remember the Demon Nether Sect's attack but postponed any revenge until he was stronger.
• Mrs. Ning Third visited Lin Xuan and reported that she had found a clue to the Earth Vein Fire.
• Mrs. Ning Third named the Blazing Sun Sect, whose fire-attribute Spirit Vein Lin Xuan had already considered as a possible source.

Mrs. Ning Third told Lin Xuan that the Blazing Sun Sect had discovered a high-quality Fire Spirit Vein, possibly once inhabited by an ancient Qilin, and Lin Xuan decided to seek its Earth Vein Fire. He traveled to Seven Star Island and arrived near Stone Tiger City, preparing to pursue the dangerous lead.

• Mrs. Ning Third reported that the Blazing Sun Sect had found a Fire Spirit Vein that might have been a Qilin's habitat.
• Lin Xuan rewarded Mrs. Ning Third with top-grade Primordial Yang Pills and resolved to investigate the Fire Spirit Vein despite the risks.
• Lin Xuan warned the Ning Family leaders, then left Lei Yin Mountain the next morning.
• Lin Xuan paid seven thousand crystal stones to teleport from Xuankong Island to Seven Star Island.
• Lin Xuan arrived near Stone Tiger City, where Stone Tiger Academy had been founded by a pair of Dao companions.

Two Stone Tiger Academy disciples searched for an ancient ginseng guarded by a Single-Horned Python, but a powerful youth suddenly appeared in a lightning-filled formation. The youth asked them where he was, leaving the women uncertain whether the encounter meant fortune or danger.

• A red-clad Stone Tiger Academy disciple persuaded her green-clad junior sister to skip morning lesson and help retrieve a six- or seven-hundred-year-old ginseng.
• The women reached the ginseng near a cave and prepared to fight the guarding Single-Horned Python with their spiritual tools.
• A strange formation appeared overhead, unleashed a storm of lightning, and vanished after a youth emerged beneath several protective barriers.
• The two women sensed that the youth was far stronger than their academy master and watched warily as he dismissed his barriers.
• The youth looked around, saw the women, and asked them what place this was.

Lin Xuan survived a teleportation error and discovered that he had arrived in Eastern Edge Province, still within Seven Star Island. After helping two sisters defeat a powerful spirit beast, he discussed with Yue'er how difficult it would be to approach the Blazing Sun Sect's fire vein.

• Lin Xuan confirmed with two sect disciples that he was still on Seven Star Island and learned a nearby market city’s direction.
• Lin Xuan warned the sisters that a newly advanced second-rank Single-Horned Python guarded their ginseng.
• Lin Xuan seized and killed the python with an azure spell and lightning, then gave it to the sisters before flying away.
• The sisters collected the ginseng and python and bowed in gratitude toward Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er that he had been careless about the teleportation formation and had no plan for dealing with the Blazing Sun Sect’s fire vein, which was likely guarded by Nascent Soul elders.

Lin Xuan encountered his old adversary Master Ku fleeing a group of demonic cultivators on Seven Star Island and attacked him while disguised. The chase continued as Master Ku was cornered, and his pursuers demanded that he surrender a treasure.

• Lin Xuan recognized the wounded Master Ku inside a dark cloud as he fled seven or eight Core Condensation Realm cultivators.
• Lin Xuan disguised himself as a gaunt old man, attacked Master Ku, and blocked his escape.
• Master Ku pleaded with Lin Xuan, then tried to escape by splitting his demonic cloud into three illusions.
• Lin Xuan saw through the illusions and attacked the real cloud as Master Ku’s pursuers caught up and surrounded him.
• The demonic cultivators’ leader demanded that Master Ku surrender a treasure, and Master Ku rejected his offer of mercy.

Master Ku fought off a group of Core Condensation Realm cultivators while Lin Xuan waited for an opportunity. Master Ku escaped their encirclement with a Substitute Talisman, but Lin Xuan attacked him as he fled.

• Master Ku refused to surrender his treasure and prepared to fight despite his severe injuries.
• The round-eyed cultivator warned the others and led them in attacking Master Ku with their magic treasures.
• Lin Xuan stayed out of the battle while the cultivators overwhelmed Master Ku’s demonic defenses and struck his body.
• Master Ku’s body turned out to be a Substitute Talisman, allowing his true body to escape the encirclement.
• Lin Xuan sent a jade-green flame after Master Ku, blocking his attempt to flee.

Lin Xuan killed Master Ku by exploiting the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, then used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to stop and destroy his fleeing Nascent Soul. He claimed Master Ku’s Storage Bag, but several Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators confronted him, leaving the treasure and their intentions unresolved.

• Master Ku attacked Lin Xuan with a bone spear, but Lin Xuan blocked it with the Three Yin White Bone Shield.
• The Azure Phantom Nether Fire struck Master Ku, burned through his demonic qi, and destroyed his body.
• Master Ku’s Nascent Soul tried to teleport away with his Storage Bag, but Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring stopped it and Lin Xuan killed it.
• Lin Xuan took Master Ku’s Storage Bag as the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators approached, their gazes fixed on it.
• Lei Bao introduced himself as an outer hall steward of Ten Thousand Ghost Lake and thanked Lin Xuan, who gave the name Li Yaotian and said he was a Rogue Cultivator.

Lin Xuan refused Lei Bao's demand to share Master Ku's Storage Bag and revealed that he was a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. He attacked the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators as they fled, then sent Yue'er and the Corpse Demon into the fight.

• Lei Bao demanded Master Ku's Storage Bag and offered to split its treasures, but Lin Xuan refused to share them.
• The horse-faced cultivator attacked Lin Xuan, and Lei Bao ordered the others to join in.
• Lin Xuan revealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, prompting Lei Bao to apologize and offer the Storage Bag.
• Lin Xuan attacked the cultivators, killed one with sword light, and drove the rest to flee.
• Yue'er volunteered to pursue Lei Bao, while Lin Xuan summoned the Corpse Demon and sent it after the fleeing cultivators.

Lin Xuan sent ghost heads after the fleeing Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators while Yue'er intercepted Lei Bao. Yue'er held off his attacks and trapped him in a fight, leaving him afraid that Lin Xuan would arrive.

• Lin Xuan sent six ghost heads to pursue the fleeing Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators and waited for news.
• Lei Bao fled for several dozen li, then encountered Yue'er blocking his path.
• Yue'er used the Beast Soul Banner to withstand Lei Bao's flood-dragon attack, while he failed to break through her defenses.
• Lei Bao hurled earth-grade talismans at Yue'er and tried to escape, but she countered them with waves of light from illusory Magic Beasts.
• Yue'er sent the Mandarin Duck Blades after Lei Bao, forcing him to turn back and fight as he feared Lin Xuan would arrive.

Yue'er defeated Lei Bao after he used a Li Po Pill to raise his cultivation to the peak of the Core Condensation Realm. She killed him as he tried to flee and captured his soul, while Lin Xuan prepared to continue their journey.

• Lei Bao swallowed a Li Po Pill, causing his cultivation to surge to the peak of the Core Condensation Realm.
• Lin Xuan finished off the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators with the Corpse Demon and urged Yue'er to end her fight quickly.
• Yue'er summoned a huge fiend from her Beast Soul Banner, which overpowered Lei Bao's two-headed flood dragon.
• Lei Bao destroyed his bonded Black Iron Crutches to damage Yue'er's fiend, then fled when he thought she was injured.
• Yue'er revealed she had only pretended to be hurt and killed Lei Bao with the Mandarin Duck Blades as he tried to escape.
• Yue'er pulled Lei Bao's soul from his body with the Beast Soul Banner.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er escaped after killing the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators, but two Nascent Soul experts arrived to investigate their deaths. After they left, Lin Xuan searched Master Ku's Storage Bag and discovered a vast trove of treasures, including several mysterious items.

• Yue'er destroyed the bodies of the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators, and she and Lin Xuan left the scene.
• Lin Xuan hid on a hill when two Nascent Soul experts arrived and discussed the deaths of Lei and seven other cultivators.
• The two experts suspected Master Ku had stolen a treasure from Ten Thousand Ghost Lake and split up to search for clues near a market.
• Lin Xuan inferred that Master Ku's theft had angered Ten Thousand Ghost Lake's sect master and became excited about the spoils he had gained.
• Lin Xuan emptied Master Ku's Storage Bag and found crystal stones, medicines, Earth-rank talismans, the Five Ghost Soul-Splitting Formation, and a bone, a dagger, and a plate-like object.

Lin Xuan identified Master Ku’s treasures and concluded that the indestructible Round Disc was the object Ten Thousand Ghost Lake sought. With the region under heavy inspection, he concealed his cultivation and left the area disguised as a low-level cultivator.

• Lin Xuan recognized the Wraith Human Bone Staff and an Ancient Treasure dagger, then suspected the Round Disc was Master Ku’s most important treasure.
• Lin Xuan struck the Round Disc with sword light and found it unharmed, convincing Yue'er that its apparent mid-grade spiritual tool power concealed unusual durability.
• Lin Xuan abandoned his plan to visit the market because the soap-robed cultivator was there and might expose him.
• Lin Xuan suppressed his cultivation below the Foundation Establishment Realm and set out to travel hundreds or thousands of li away.
• Lin Xuan encountered vigilant Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators searching the region and inspecting travelers at checkpoints.

Lin Xuan tried to escape Eastern Edge Province with the disk he had taken from Master Ku, but Ten Thousand Ghost Lake’s increasingly severe searches left him trapped on Desolate Mountain. While gathering information, he overheard the Changfeng Escort Agency discussing how the blockades were delaying a delivery and exposing them to heavy losses.

• Lin Xuan used Yue'er’s flying sword to pass checkpoints while concealing his identity, but he encountered growing numbers of Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators, including Nascent Soul Realm experts.
• Lin Xuan learned that Ten Thousand Ghost Lake’s sect master had ordered his followers to kill suspected treasure thieves rather than let anyone escape, and he decided not to risk forcing his way through.
• Lin Xuan hid on Desolate Mountain and listened with his divine sense as the Changfeng Escort Agency’s Xing'er complained to her Martial Uncle about the blockades delaying their delivery.
• The old man explained that the small escort agency could not afford to oppose Ten Thousand Ghost Lake, while Lin Xuan observed that the checkpoints were extorting crystal stones even from cultivators with clear identities.

Lin Xuan hid underground for a year until Ten Thousand Ghost Lake lifted its blockade, then escaped Eastern Edge Province and traveled to Yan Province to seek information about the Heaven Dust Pill and Blazing Sun Sect. He entered a medium-sized market belonging to Blazing Sun Sect and stopped before a two-story wooden building.

• Lin Xuan decided to wait out the search and concealed himself deep underground in a state of feigned death.
• After more than a year, Ten Thousand Ghost Lake withdrew its checkpoints, and Lin Xuan emerged and surveyed the area.
• Lin Xuan traveled nearly a million li from Eastern Edge Province, studied the Round Disc without success, and made the Heaven Dust Pill his first priority.
• Lin Xuan arrived in Yan Province and learned about Blazing Sun Mountain, Blazing Sun Sect, and the province’s cultivation forces.
• Lin Xuan disguised his cultivation as Foundation Establishment Realm, surveyed a market, and stopped outside a two-story wooden building.

Lin Xuan learned that a cultivator with a special skill could enter the Blazing Sun Sect even after its recruitment assembly had ended, giving him a possible way to reach the Qilin Fire Vein. He followed Murong, a sect-connected cultivator, and paid him to hear his request.

• Lin Xuan entered the Immortal Guest House and overheard Murong tell the White-Robed Scholar that the Blazing Sun Sect might admit him late if he had a specialty in a cultivation art.
• Lin Xuan realized this rule could help him infiltrate the Blazing Sun Sect to reach the Qilin Fire Vein.
• Lin Xuan followed Murong out of the teahouse and into a secluded dead end, where Murong confronted him.
• Lin Xuan offered Murong several mid-grade crystals, and Murong accepted them and asked what help Lin Xuan needed.

Lin Xuan entered Fire Cloud Peak with Murong Bo’s help, claiming he wanted to join the Blazing Sun Sect as an alchemist. After the elders were unavailable to assess him, an explosion at Martial Uncle Lei’s alchemy chamber brought Lin Xuan to a failed pill furnace and an opportunity to observe the sect’s alchemy facilities.

• Lin Xuan paid Murong Bo two thousand crystal stones to introduce him to the Blazing Sun Sect, and Murong Bo brought him to Fire Cloud Peak.
• Murong Bo introduced Lin Xuan to the woman in red, who escorted him into the sect to seek an elder’s approval.
• The woman in white told Lin Xuan that Martial Uncle Lei was in seclusion refining pills and could not examine him.
• An explosion came from Martial Uncle Lei’s alchemy chamber, and the two women hurried there with Lin Xuan following.
• Lin Xuan saw Martial Uncle Lei beside a split alchemy furnace as the old man wondered what had gone wrong while refining a Three Yang Soul-Forging Pill.