Chapter Summaries

Madam Black Python and One-Eyed Elder regrouped with Bailu Boy after their opponents escaped, and they suspected the red-clothed woman came from the Human World. Lin Xuan returned to the Mang Mountain Assembly unnoticed, where a message announced that the cultivators could enter the mountain.

• Madam Black Python and One-Eyed Elder realized their formation had vanished and chose not to pursue their opponents.
• Madam Black Python and One-Eyed Elder met Bailu Boy, who revealed that a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon had prevented him from stopping the red-clothed woman.
• The three old monsters speculated that the red-clothed woman came from the Human World, but they could not identify her.
• Lin Xuan confirmed that the old monsters had not followed him, put the injured Corpse Demon into the Spirit Ghost Bag, and returned to the assembly unnoticed.
• A Sound Transmission Talisman arrived, and the palace-dressed woman announced that the appointed hour had come and the cultivators could enter Mang Mountain.

Lin Xuan entered the Mang Mountain Assembly, arranged for Xing'er to serve as his attendant, and learned about the early private exchange meetings. After sensing many powerful cultivators nearby, he left to investigate the trades while deciding to stay cautious.

• The palace-dressed woman admitted cultivators with valid invitations and killed a Spirit Movement Stage youth who tried to enter with a fake talisman.
• Lin Xuan was welcomed into Mang Mountain without an invitation because his concealed cultivation appeared to be at least mid-stage Core Condensation.
• Xing'er became Lin Xuan's maidservant and led him to a pavilion, where he told her to find information about private trades.
• Lin Xuan detected more than a dozen Nascent Soul Realm cultivators with his divine sense, nearly attracting the attention of one, and resolved to be careful.
• Xing'er reported five exchange meetings, including two for Core Condensation cultivators, and Lin Xuan left her behind to visit them.
• Lin Xuan told Xing'er he would not take her as a concubine and promised benefits for her help, then admitted to Yue'er that he wanted to preserve his pure yang body until he condensed his Nascent Soul.

Lin Xuan attended a private trade fair in Mang Mountain, where he learned that a young Foundation Establishment cultivator named Jin Ling was the granddaughter of Old Monster Jin and had a rare pure metal-attribute spirit root. The fair began with only a few dozen cultivators present, and its host invited them to offer their treasures for exchange.

• Lin Xuan paid two hundred crystal stones to enter the trade fair at Fire Proclamation Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan noticed that Jin Ling was the only Foundation Establishment cultivator among the mostly Core Condensation Realm attendees.
• A fair-faced old man told Lin Xuan that Jin Ling was Old Monster Jin's granddaughter and possessed a rare pure metal-attribute spirit root.
• Several more cultivators arrived, bringing the number of attendees to twenty-seven.
• The pavilion's host, Lei, opened the private trade and invited the cultivators to take turns presenting treasures for exchange.

At a cultivator trade fair hosted by the red-robed Lei, Lin Xuan watched the participants trade treasures and acquired a small profit by selling an Ancient Treasure. Jin Ling offered a Three-Headed Golden Python egg in exchange for top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, but no one could meet her demand before the fair ended.

• Lei offered a Thunder Eagle talon for fifty thousand crystal stones, and Jin Ling bought it after no one else bid.
• A burly cultivator auctioned two third-level Demon Cores, while the other attendees traded a variety of treasures and Lin Xuan made several purchases.
• Jin Ling presented a Three-Headed Golden Python egg and demanded a bottle of top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, but rejected an offer of mid-grade pills and spirit stones.
• Lin Xuan put a low-quality Ancient Treasure up for trade, and an unremarkable cultivator bought it for one hundred thousand spirit stones.
• The final cultivator exchanged a thousand-year spirit herb, bringing the trade fair toward its end as the attendees left the pavilion.

Lin Xuan left the gathering and flew away, while Jin Ling returned toward her cave residence and reflected on the rare pills she needed to overcome her Pulse-Severing Body. Zhang ambushed her on the way and demanded her beast egg and belongings, leaving Jin Ling fleeing with a golden talisman.

• Lin Xuan avoided the trade fair, checked that the forest was deserted, and flew off in a streak of rainbow light.
• Jin Ling traveled toward her cave residence and recalled that her Pulse-Severing Body made her chances of Golden Core Formation extremely low.
• Jin Ling hoped the Mang Mountain Assembly might help her find high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, which could improve her chances of core condensation.
• Zhang appeared from hiding, accused Jin Ling of humiliating him at the trade fair, and demanded her Three-Headed Golden Python beast egg and Storage Bag.
• Jin Ling refused to surrender her belongings and used a golden talisman to flee from Zhang.

Jin Ling lured the bald old man into a Tremor Thunder Bead blast, but his demonification turned him into a mindless monster that overwhelmed her defenses. As the monster struck at her, Lin Xuan prepared to intervene.

• The bald old man attacked Jin Ling as she tried to escape, but she survived the blow and pretended to be unconscious to lure him close.
• Jin Ling spat out Old Monster Jin's Tremor Thunder Bead and blasted the bald old man, who survived by demonifying his body but lost his soul and reason to the backlash.
• The mindless monster attacked Jin Ling, shattered her silver hooks, and chased her when she fled.
• Jin Ling used talismans and a shield to hold off the monster, but it broke her shield and brought its blade down near her forehead.
• Yue'er urged Lin Xuan to save Jin Ling, and Lin Xuan agreed as her shield was about to fail.

Lin Xuan rescued Jin Ling from a demon, then offered her the top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills she needed in exchange for Purple Lotus Wood. Jin Ling agreed to provide the wood and gave him the location of Offline Gorge, where Lin Xuan planned to meet her after the assembly.

• Lin Xuan intervened when a demon attacked Jin Ling and killed it after a prolonged fight.
• Jin Ling recognized Lin Xuan, thanked him for saving her, and offered him the Three-Headed Golden Python beast egg.
• Lin Xuan gave Jin Ling a top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and showed her a bottle of more pills.
• Lin Xuan refused the beast egg and asked whether Jin Ling could provide more Purple Lotus Wood from Offline Gorge.
• Jin Ling agreed to exchange Purple Lotus Wood for the pills, and Lin Xuan said he would visit Offline Gorge after the assembly.
• Jin Ling recorded Offline Gorge's location in a jade cylinder and gave it to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan left Jin Ling with a promise to visit her sect, then returned to the Reception Pavilion and studied an introductory alchemy book. He discovered that Demon Spirit Island's alchemy differed from that of other regions and planned to seek pill formulas for Nascent Soul Cultivators at the Mang Mountain trade fair.

• Jin Ling gave Lin Xuan a sachet to help him at Offline Gorge, and he promised to visit her after settling his affairs.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Reception Pavilion, where Xing'er was reading an alchemy book, and rewarded her for gathering trade-fair information.
• Lin Xuan told Xing'er not to disturb his seclusion until the Mang Mountain Assembly began, then borrowed her introductory alchemy book.
• Lin Xuan sealed the pavilion with a formation talisman and quickly studied the book.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Demon Spirit Island's alchemy had its own lineage and resolved to look for pill formulas for Nascent Soul Cultivators at the trade fair.

Lin Xuan discovered that Jade Luo Bees were drawn to Purple Lotus Wood and might benefit from it, then prepared to attend the Mang Mountain Assembly. As he flew toward Tianyun Square, Madam Black Python’s flower carriage stopped and her gaze settled on him.

• Lin Xuan released his Jade Luo Bees, which swarmed over the Purple Lotus Wood and stripped away its purple color and fragrance.
• Lin Xuan spent three days cultivating until a maid told him the Mang Mountain Assembly was about to begin.
• The maid gave Lin Xuan a detailed Jade Slip about Tianyun Square and the auction, and he rewarded her with pills and spirit stones.
• Lin Xuan flew toward Tianyun Square and passed Madam Black Python riding in a flower carriage with a bewitched Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
• Madam Black Python’s carriage stopped, and she fixed her gaze on Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan met Madam Black Python after she singled him out and invited him into her carriage. She revealed she wanted his help with a Fire Qilin ruin, leaving Lin Xuan eager but uncertain why she needed him.

• Madam Black Python summoned Lin Xuan to her carriage, and he agreed to meet her after realizing he could not avoid the invitation.
• Madam Black Python recognized Lin Xuan as an immortal cultivator from the Human World, and he confirmed he had arrived through a spatial rift.
• Madam Black Python offered Lin Xuan a great benefit in exchange for his aid, and he questioned her motives.
• Madam Black Python told Lin Xuan she had discovered a Fire Qilin ruin, and he recalled his thwarted plans to use a Qilin Fire Vein to refine pills.
• Lin Xuan asked why Madam Black Python needed his help, and she replied that she had her reasons.

Lin Xuan agreed to work with Madam Black Python to seek the Qilin Fire Vein, despite suspecting she planned to betray him. He entered the Seven Star Island trade fair and found its middle-level market stocked with rare treasures.

• Lin Xuan agreed to cooperate with Madam Black Python, then told Yue'er he knew she might betray him but would not abandon the chance to find the Qilin Fire Vein.
• Lin Xuan flew with the crowd to an enormous plaza and learned that the trade fair was divided into three levels by cultivation rank.
• Lin Xuan paid five thousand crystal stones to enter the Nascent Soul-level trade fair and received a Command Token.
• Lin Xuan searched the Foundation Establishment-level market, found nothing worthwhile, and used a teleportation array to reach the second floor.
• Lin Xuan saw that the second-floor shops were filled with rare materials and treasures, and he was stunned by their quality.

Lin Xuan exploited the Mang Mountain Assembly to buy up nearly all third-rank demonic beast materials, disguising himself as he went to avoid suspicion. He entered the Nascent Soul-level trade fair and was astonished by its hidden valley setting, where he spotted an exceptionally powerful Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

• Lin Xuan bought a shop’s third-rank demonic beast materials with crystals, claiming he represented a sect.
• Lin Xuan changed his appearance and identity between shops, using magic treasures as payment while buying up the remaining materials.
• By the afternoon, Lin Xuan had cleared out nearly every third-rank demonic beast material stall, leaving cultivators and major sects puzzled.
• Lin Xuan presented his pass and used a teleportation array to reach the Nascent Soul-level trade fair in a hidden valley.
• Lin Xuan sat among hundreds of cultivators and recognized an old man with yellow eyebrows as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

Lin Xuan disguised himself before joining the Nascent Soul-level auction, where he outbid a Nascent Soul cultivator to acquire rare Black Iron Profound Mother. The auction continued with lavish sales and difficult exchange requests.

• After Ancestor Yellow-Brow’s divine sense injured him, Lin Xuan left the trade fair and changed his appearance with the Heavenly Demon Appearance Alteration Technique.
• Bailu Boy opened the Nascent Soul-level auction and announced that items had to be worth at least thirty thousand crystal stones.
• Bailu Boy offered Black Iron Profound Mother, and the horse-faced old man bid eighty thousand crystal stones for it.
• Lin Xuan bid ninety thousand, then raised his offer to one hundred thousand and claimed his hidden master had ordered him to obtain the material.
• The horse-faced old man backed down, and Lin Xuan won the Black Iron Profound Mother as the auction continued with further trades.

Lin Xuan offered an ancient Longevity Pill in exchange for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, hoping to obtain what he needed to return to the Human World. Nascent Soul experts confirmed the pill’s reputed ability to add a hundred years of life, but doubts remained about whether Lin Xuan’s pill was genuine.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator asked to trade several hundred thousand Spirit Stones for cultivation pills, but no one agreed.
• A Core Condensation Demon Cultivator sold Seven Profound Heaven-Returning Liquid for three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan took the jade table and offered a Longevity Pill for a single Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Core Condensation cultivators mocked Lin Xuan, while Nascent Soul experts recognized the pill from ancient records and confirmed its effects.
• Bailu Boy raised a talisman as the assembly’s host while cultivators continued to question whether Lin Xuan’s pill was genuine.

Lin Xuan offered a verified Longevity Pill in exchange for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, but none of the gathered cultivators had one. The Yellow-Browed True Person then offered to take Lin Xuan as his disciple and help him condense a Nascent Soul, leaving Lin Xuan to choose between the offer and his original demand.

• Bailu Boy summoned Elder Ding, who used a Hundred Herb Pearl to verify that Lin Xuan's pill was a Longevity Pill.
• Lin Xuan insisted that he would exchange the pill only for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, despite offers of other terms and one million Spirit Stones.
• The gathered cultivators failed to produce a Top-grade Spirit Stone, and some began plotting to seize the pill from Lin Xuan by force.
• The Yellow-Browed True Person offered to accept Lin Xuan as his disciple and help him condense a Nascent Soul in exchange for the Longevity Pill.

Lin Xuan considered how to refuse Yellow-Browed True Person’s offer when the Poison Flood Dragon King broke through Mang Mountain Assembly’s restrictions and arrived. After threatening the gathered cultivators with the prospect of war, the demon king claimed he had come to join the auction and approached Lin Xuan.

• Yellow-Browed True Person offered to help Lin Xuan form a Nascent Soul in exchange for the Longevity Pill, but Lin Xuan decided not to become his disciple.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King broke the island’s restrictions, and his demon cloud swallowed the Core Condensation Realm cultivators sent to investigate.
• Elder Ding recognized the intruder, and the Poison Flood Dragon King revealed himself as a late Transformation Realm demon beast.
• Yellow-Browed True Person challenged the Poison Flood Dragon King, who mocked his defeat in their previous fight and warned that attacking him could provoke a war between humans and demons.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King said he had come to participate in the auction, and Bailu Boy reluctantly welcomed him.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King ignored Bailu Boy and walked up to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan watched Yellow-Browed True Person and Poison Flood Dragon King compete for the Longevity Pill, hoping to obtain a Top-grade Spirit Stone. After Poison Flood Dragon King revealed and proved he had one, Lin Xuan accepted it and prepared to hand over the pill.

• Poison Flood Dragon King offered to trade for the Longevity Pill, and Yellow-Browed True Person challenged him to produce a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Poison Flood Dragon King revealed an ordinary-looking fire-attribute spirit stone, then cracked its outer shell to expose a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Lin Xuan examined the stone, confirmed its power to absorb spiritual energy, and agreed to the exchange.
• Lin Xuan secured the Top-grade Spirit Stone in his Storage Bag and brought out the Longevity Pill for Poison Flood Dragon King.

Yellow-Browed True Person ambushed the Poison Flood Dragon King and tried to seize the Longevity Pill from Lin Xuan, but the Poison Flood Dragon King intervened. The two powerful foes prepared to fight while Lin Xuan escaped their restraints with the pill still in hand.

• Yellow-Browed True Person struck the Poison Flood Dragon King from behind and demanded that Lin Xuan hand over the Longevity Pill.
• Yellow-Browed True Person restrained Lin Xuan and summoned a giant yellow hand, but the Poison Flood Dragon King pierced it with a beam of light.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King teleported in front of Yellow-Browed True Person and blocked his attempt to reach Lin Xuan.
• Yellow-Browed True Person threatened to destroy the Poison Flood Dragon King's physical body, but the Poison Flood Dragon King refused to surrender the pill.
• Lin Xuan broke free and withdrew as Yellow-Browed True Person and the Poison Flood Dragon King gathered their power for battle.

Yellow-Browed True Person and the Poison Flood Dragon King began a fierce battle at the trade fair while Lin Xuan watched the other cultivators grow greedy for his Longevity Pill and Top-grade Spirit Stones. When He the Fourth’s revenge attack and self-destruction shattered the fragile balance, an old monster lunged at Lin Xuan to seize the pill.

• The Enforcement Envoys and other cultivators stayed out of the fight, while Lin Xuan realized they were eyeing his treasures and hid his confidence behind a frightened act.
• Yellow-Browed True Person unleashed forty-nine powerful Sword Rays at the Poison Flood Dragon King, whose poisonous cloud quickly reformed after being cut apart.
• Yellow-Browed True Person and the Poison Flood Dragon King continued clashing, forcing nearby cultivators to retreat from the aftershocks.
• He the Fourth stabbed Zhang, accused him of defiling his Dao companion, and attacked again as Bailu Boy ordered the Enforcement Envoys to arrest him.
• He the Fourth self-destructed, killing Zhang and several Enforcement Envoys and disrupting the cultivators’ fragile standoff.
• An old monster suddenly pounced toward Lin Xuan and demanded the Longevity Pill.

Lin Xuan scattered a mixture of the Longevity Pill and lookalike pills to spark a fierce scramble among the old monsters, then fled toward the teleportation formation. Several cultivators pursued him, but he activated the array before they could reach him.

• The old monsters abandoned their duels and joined the chaotic fight over Lin Xuan’s Longevity Pill and Top-grade Spirit Stone, while many Core Condensation Realm cultivators were killed.
• Lin Xuan mixed the Longevity Pill with similar-looking pills and tossed them into the air, sending the old monsters into a frantic scramble.
• Lin Xuan escaped as the cultivators fought over the scattered pills, and several old monsters failed to pursue him because others mistook their movements for attempts to seize pills.
• Lin Xuan reached the teleportation formation and activated it just before the pursuing old monsters could catch him.