Recaps

Lingxu True Person used a cunning sword technique to defeat a powerful Ancient Demon in a brief spell battle near the island. Lin Xuan watched the fight and recognized that Lingxu True Person’s strength and battle instincts made him a dangerous opponent.

• Lingxu True Person tested the demonic cloud with tiger-shaped attacks, then summoned crystalline sword lights that shattered its demonic shield.
• The demonic cloud revealed a hideous Ancient Demon whose forearms had become broadswords, while Lin Xuan watched from the nearby island.
• Lingxu True Person merged his sword lights into a giant sword, then split it apart just as the Ancient Demon raised its blades to block.
• The Ancient Demon’s strike missed, and the scattered sword lights pierced his demonic Qi and scales, dismembering him.
• Lin Xuan assessed Lingxu True Person’s victory and recognized his formidable strength, experience, and cunning.

Lingxu True Person gathered Lin Xuan and two other mortals to help retrieve a treasure, then brought them to a seemingly ordinary lake at the center of the island. He revealed that the area was concealed by a Spirit-Sealing Pillar, whose legendary powers Lin Xuan recognized.

• Lingxu True Person told Lin Xuan that he needed mortals to help retrieve a treasure and promised benefits for their cooperation.
• Lin Xuan met the siblings Su Yunxiu and Su Yunfeng, concealing his true identity and origins.
• Lingxu True Person and the Palace-Robed Girl flew toward the island's center, while the Confucian-Robed Cultivator carried Lin Xuan and the Su siblings after them.
• The group arrived at an ordinary-looking lake, where the Palace-Robed Girl and Confucian-Robed Cultivator could not detect the restriction.
• Lingxu True Person explained that the founding ancestor had placed a Spirit-Sealing Pillar there, and Lin Xuan recalled its legendary ability to seal powerful demons and cut off space.

Lin Xuan recalled how Nailong True Person had sealed a permanent rift to the Demon World with a Spirit-Sealing Pillar. Lingxu True Person then summoned a flood dragon to drain the lake and revealed a talisman that transformed into a landscape painting.

• Lin Xuan remembered that Nailong True Person had sealed an unhealing Spatial Rift with a Spirit-Sealing Pillar after exterminating the Ancient Demons that crossed into a Human World.
• The Confucian-Robed Cultivator urgently asked Lingxu True Person where the Spirit-Sealing Pillar was, but Lingxu said they would soon find out.
• Lingxu True Person released a huge water-attribute flood dragon from a Spirit Beast Bag.
• The flood dragon swallowed all the lake water, exposing the lakebed.
• Lingxu True Person opened a jade box and used its profound talisman, which transformed into a landscape painting.

Lingxu True Person uncovered a white-jade altar from the dried lakebed and used six Blood Spirit Stones to activate the Spirit-Sealing Array. The six carved divine beasts became Void Shadows, leaving Lin Xuan watching as the sealing process began.

• A Void Shadow sank into the lakebed, causing a white-jade altar to rise from beneath the ground.
• Lin Xuan saw six Spirit-Sealing Pillars and an ancient array at the altar’s center.
• Lingxu True Person placed six Blood Spirit Stones of different attributes into the array’s grooves.
• Lingxu True Person chanted incantations and activated the Spirit-Sealing Array.
• Six colored beams struck the pillars, and the carved True Spirits became Void Shadows.

Lingxu True Person, the Palace-Robed Girl, the Confucian-Robed Cultivator, and Lin Xuan entered a sealed space rumored to produce the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill. They found a strange gray land and reached a vibrant forest, where Lin Xuan noticed something unusual as the group entered.

• The six Void Shadows merged and exploded, creating an arc of light that Lingxu True Person entered first.
• The Palace-Robed Girl and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator followed, with the latter shielding Lin Xuan and the other mortal martial artists from the passage’s spatial power.
• The group emerged in a gray space with thin spiritual energy and suppressed divine sense, and Lingxu True Person used a scroll to guide them toward a forest.
• Lingxu True Person sent a Puppet into the forest and, after it remained unharmed, cautiously entered himself under the protection of several defensive treasures.
• The Palace-Robed Girl and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator brought Lin Xuan and the other martial artists down into the forest, where Lin Xuan was startled by something he saw.

Lin Xuan and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators entered a grove rich in spiritual energy, but learned they had only twelve double-hours before the entrance closed and trapped them inside. Lingxu True Person revealed a cauldron among six jade statues and began preparing everyone to open it together.

• The Palace-Robed Cultivator and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator proposed cultivating in the grove, but Lingxu True Person refused and showed them a Jade Slip explaining the twelve-double-hour limit.
• Lin Xuan suspected a mysterious force had concentrated the surrounding spiritual energy into the grove.
• Lingxu True Person used Formation Flags and dharma seals to raise six jade statues and a round table bearing a small Cauldron from the ground.
• The Palace-Robed Cultivator could not lift the Cauldron's lid, and Lingxu True Person said all six cultivators had to work together to open it.
• Lingxu True Person told Junior Brother Yun and Junior Sister Ye to pour in their magic power and the three young cultivators to inject inner force into the palm prints on the statues.

Lin Xuan and the others opened the cauldron’s restriction, revealing a Medicine Spirit and a small cache of Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pills. Lingxu True Person captured the Medicine Spirit, while Lin Xuan kept his identity hidden and waited for a chance to act.

• Lin Xuan worried that the statue test would expose him as a counterfeit Heavenly Dao Martial Artist, but he used the True Explanation of Hundred Spirits to pour internal force into it.
• After the group sustained their efforts for two hours, the six statues opened their mouths and joined their lights to lift the cauldron lid.
• A Medicine Spirit burst from the cauldron, and Lingxu True Person captured it with a hand of light and sealed it in a Jade Bottle.
• Lin Xuan recognized the Medicine Spirit’s value for refining an Internal Incarnation and considered attacking the exhausted cultivators, but an uneasy feeling made him wait.
• The group inspected the cauldron’s dozen or so Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pills, and Lin Xuan identified a purple pill as a powerful healing medicine.

Lin Xuan watched Lingxu True Person claim the Tribulation-Transformation Pill after his fellow disciples yielded it to him. Before Lingxu could collect the pills in peace, a strange Spatial Rift appeared and he recognized the black qi emerging from it as a Heavenly Demon.

• The Palace-Robed Cultivator and Confucian-Robed Cultivator identified the pills, including a Tribulation-Transformation Pill that could raise the odds of reaching Tribulation Transcendence by ten percent.
• Lin Xuan expected the three cultivators to fight over the pill, but the Palace-Robed Cultivator and Confucian-Robed Cultivator stepped aside and let Lingxu True Person take it.
• Lingxu True Person promised to remember their generosity and offered them the other spiritual medicines, while the two accepted their choice to yield.
• A blood-red Spatial Rift streaked with purple-black lightning opened above the cultivators, and nearly invisible black qi drifted out.
• Lingxu True Person warned that a Heavenly Demon had appeared and used a hand of white light to scoop up the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pills.
• Lin Xuan recalled hearing of the Heavenly Demon from the Youth surnamed Long, who had said a Tribulation Transcendence old monster guarded Star-Moon City against it.

Lin Xuan watched as a Heavenly Demon appeared and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators attacked it, but the demon evaded them and possessed Su Yunfeng. As the cultivators struck at Su Yunfeng, Lin Xuan pulled Su Yunxiu to safety and prepared to exploit the chaos while guarding against danger.

• Lin Xuan recalled what he had learned about Heavenly Demons and wondered why one had appeared when no cultivator was breaking through to Tribulation Transcendence.
• The Palace-Robed Cultivator attacked the demonic Qi with a Flying Dagger, while the Confucian-Robed Cultivator struck it with an ancient character formed from purple Qi.
• The Heavenly Demon evaded both attacks, declared that the three cultivators had prepared a body for it, and rushed toward the Su Siblings.
• The Heavenly Demon entered Su Yunfeng's forehead, and Lin Xuan pulled Su Yunxiu away before she could rush to her brother.
• The three Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators launched a Flying Dagger, a purple spear, and silver needle-like attacks at Su Yunfeng as Lin Xuan retreated with Su Yunxiu and watched for an opportunity to seize Lingxu True Person's treasures.

Su Yunfeng revealed his Heavenly Demon power and overwhelmed the three Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators. The Palace-Robed Cultivator was killed, while Lingxu True Person and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator remained occupied fighting his Void Shadows.

• Su Yunfeng evaded the three cultivators’ attacks by bursting into blood threads and reforming more than a hundred zhang away.
• Lingxu True Person warned the Palace-Robed Cultivator, but a Ghost Claw struck her Falling Cloud Veil and trapped her in stagnant air.
• Su Yunfeng sent two Void Shadows to attack Lingxu True Person and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator, forcing both to defend themselves.
• The Ghost Claw broke through the Palace-Robed Cultivator’s barrier, seized her, and burned her to ashes with black-red demonic fire.

After Su Yunfeng killed the Palace-Robed Cultivator and took over her body, Lin Xuan resolved to keep fighting for the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill. Su Yunfeng attacked Lingxu True Person and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator with the Shockwave Demon Technique, badly injuring Lingxu while the Confucian-Robed Cultivator’s defense held.

• Lin Xuan rejected the idea of fleeing, deciding that he had to win the treasure or die in the fight.
• Su Yunfeng merged with the Palace-Robed Cultivator’s body and charged at Lingxu True Person and the Confucian-Robed Cultivator.
• The Confucian-Robed Cultivator summoned an ancient book and formed a defense using its mysterious spear and shield characters, while Lingxu True Person surrounded himself with hundreds of sword lights.
• Su Yunfeng transformed into a giant Evil Ghost head and attacked the two cultivators with his Shockwave Demon Technique.
• The Confucian-Robed Cultivator endured the sound waves with only a few steps backward, but Lingxu True Person’s sword-light defense failed and he was sent flying after being struck.

Su Yunfeng overwhelmed Lingxu True Person with the Shockwave Demon Technique and spatial feints, then killed him with a Scythe-shaped hand after the elder's attacks struck only an incarnation phantom. The battle ended with Lingxu True Person dead, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Su Yunfeng sent hundreds of demonic shadow remnants at Lingxu True Person, who raised multiple defenses and fired sword lights that pierced every shadow.
• Su Yunfeng appeared above Lingxu True Person and smashed through his barriers, forcing him to use essence blood to empower his Whisk and break the spatial confinement.
• Lingxu True Person unleashed Yangzhi Bird soul talismans, Dongxuan Realm Puppets, and sword lights against Su Yunfeng, believing the barrage could threaten even a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.
• Su Yunfeng appeared behind Lingxu True Person and cut him in two with a Scythe-shaped hand, while the attacks in the sea of fire had struck only an incarnation phantom.
• The onlookers were left stunned by Lingxu True Person's sudden death.

Lin Xuan seized Lingxu True Person’s Storage Bag and fled from the Heavenly Demon, but the exit closed before he could escape. He was left trapped inside the space as the demon pursued him.

• The Heavenly Demon destroyed Lingxu True Person’s body and immobilized his Nascent Soul, preparing to devour it.
• Lin Xuan appeared beside Lingxu True Person, bound the Nascent Soul with Azure Glow, took its Storage Bag, and fled.
• The Heavenly Demon pursued Lin Xuan and killed Lingxu True Person’s Nascent Soul with demonic qi.
• Lin Xuan reached the exit, but it rapidly vanished; he used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and struck an invisible wall.

Lin Xuan confronted Su Yunfeng after the Heavenly Demon sealed the space’s entrance and demanded that Lin Xuan defeat him to escape. Lin Xuan turned Su Yunfeng’s ambush against him with the Ink Spirit Drill, but the chapter ended before revealing whether the wound was fatal.

• Su Yunfeng admitted he had closed the entrance and told Lin Xuan he would have to defeat him to leave.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and Thunder Fire Awl, but Su Yunfeng scattered into hundreds of demonized Void Shadows.
• Lin Xuan multiplied his sword lights to hold off the shadows, while Su Yunfeng concealed his true body and slipped behind him.
• Su Yunfeng lunged at Lin Xuan’s back, but Lin Xuan dodged and countered with the Ink Spirit Drill, piercing Su Yunfeng’s skull.
• Lin Xuan’s smile quickly faded, and he regarded the situation with a grave expression.

Lin Xuan and the Heavenly Demon weighed the danger of continuing their battle and began negotiating a truce. The demon agreed that fighting to the death was not in his interest, but had not yet stated his terms.

• Lin Xuan noticed that the Heavenly Demon had healed his skull wound, though the demon seemed weakened by the effort.
• Lin Xuan and the Heavenly Demon regarded each other cautiously after realizing how dangerous the other was.
• The Heavenly Demon asked whether Lin Xuan was an avatar of a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.
• Lin Xuan proposed that they make peace, arguing that neither had a reason to risk a fight to the death.
• Su Yunfeng agreed that continuing the battle did not serve his interests and began to respond.

Lin Xuan’s attempt to make peace with Su Yunfeng collapsed after Su Yunfeng discovered that Lin Xuan possessed a Mortal Saint Body and demanded his physical body. Lin Xuan questioned the claim, but Su Yunfeng revealed that he knew Lin Xuan had once lacked a spirit root and later obtained one through a treasure.

• Su Yunfeng detected Lin Xuan’s Mortal Saint Body and renewed his hostility, viewing Lin Xuan as a priceless prize.
• Lin Xuan dodged hundreds of black crossbow bolts as Su Yunfeng attacked him.
• Su Yunfeng offered to let Lin Xuan’s Nascent Soul escape if Lin Xuan handed over his body.
• Lin Xuan denied having extraordinary aptitude and asked why Su Yunfeng wanted his body.
• Su Yunfeng explained that Lin Xuan’s Mortal Saint Body surpassed his current host and revealed that Lin Xuan had originally lacked a spirit root before obtaining a treasure that gave him one.

Su Yunfeng explained that Lin Xuan possessed the Mortal Saint Body, which offered him no cultivation benefit but could let the Heavenly Demon evolve into an Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon if it took over his body. Lin Xuan questioned whether the demon would keep its promise to spare his Nascent Soul, leaving the pair at an impasse as Su Yunfeng offered to swear an oath.

• Su Yunfeng explained how mortals without Spirit Roots could cultivate and described the two conditions for becoming a Mortal Saint Body.
• Su Yunfeng revealed that the Mortal Saint Body would not benefit Lin Xuan but could transform the demon that occupied it into an Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon.
• Su Yunfeng offered to spare Lin Xuan's Nascent Soul if Lin Xuan surrendered his body, but Lin Xuan said he had no reason to trust him.
• Su Yunfeng admitted Lin Xuan's concern was reasonable and tentatively offered to swear a venomous oath.

Lin Xuan negotiated with Su Yunfeng over surrendering his Mortal Saint Body, demanding an oath and compensation. Su Yunfeng offered a rare Xuan Tian Spirit Treasure, leaving Lin Xuan wary and asking about its origins.

• Lin Xuan demanded that Su Yunfeng swear by his Inner Demon to release Lin Xuan's Nascent Soul after taking his body.
• Lin Xuan also demanded compensation for giving up the Mortal Saint Body, and Su Yunfeng offered him a Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Xuan questioned whether the offered treasure was a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, noting how rare and valuable they were.
• Su Yunfeng explained that the gift was a Xuan Tian Spirit Treasure, said to fall between Xiantian and Houtian Spirit Treasures.
• Lin Xuan asked Su Yunfeng to explain the Xuan Tian Spirit Treasure's origins before he agreed.

Lin Xuan and Su Yunfeng agreed that Lin Xuan could take the Xuantian Spirit Treasure in exchange for handing over the Mortal Saint Body, and Su Yunfeng revealed that the treasure was the cauldron holding the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill. As Lin Xuan moved to claim it, the surviving Confucian-robed cultivator made his own attempt, only for Su Yunfeng to intervene.

• Su Yunfeng agreed to explain the treasure’s origin after Lin Xuan promised to keep their bargain.
• Su Yunfeng explained that Xuantian Spirit Treasures were made by Tribulation Transcendence cultivators who had failed to imitate Xiantian Spirit Treasures.
• Su Yunfeng revealed that the Xuantian Spirit Treasure was the cauldron holding the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill and told Lin Xuan to take it.
• Lin Xuan prepared to fly to the cauldron as the Confucian-robed cultivator, the last survivor from Ethereal Immortal Palace, made a sudden dash for it.
• The Confucian-robed cultivator reached toward the cauldron, but Su Yunfeng’s demonic energy appeared above him after a cold snort.

Lin Xuan watched as the Confucian-Robed Cultivator used a blood-red ancient book to summon Taowu against Su Yunfeng’s black lightning Flood Dragon. The Heavenly Demon overwhelmed Taowu with countless Demon Pythons, leaving the Confucian-Robed Cultivator surrounded and in mortal danger.

• Su Yunfeng’s black lightning formed a five-clawed Flood Dragon that lunged at the Confucian-Robed Cultivator.
• The Confucian-Robed Cultivator sacrificed essence blood and Life Essence to empower an ancient scroll, then summoned a blood-red Taowu.
• Taowu gained the upper hand against the Flood Dragon, giving the Confucian-Robed Cultivator time to rush toward the small cauldron.
• Su Yunfeng sent countless Demon Pythons from the demonic cloud, and they swarmed over and destroyed Taowu.
• The remaining Demon Pythons surrounded the terrified Confucian-Robed Cultivator and made him their target.

Lin Xuan appeared to honor his bargain with Su Yunfeng, but he had secretly used the exchange to obtain the Spirit Formula Cauldron and lure the Heavenly Demon into a trap. As Su Yunfeng tried to seize Lin Xuan’s apparently empty body, Lin Xuan revealed that he could still move because of his Dual Infant One Core ability and unleashed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.

• The Confucian-Robed Cultivator tried to reach the Spirit Formula Cauldron, but Su Yunfeng’s Magic Snakes self-destructed and their corrosive demonic rain destroyed the cultivator and his Nascent Soul.
• Su Yunfeng praised Lin Xuan for not attacking during the fight and promised to let his Nascent Soul leave after Lin Xuan obtained the treasure.
• Lin Xuan lifted the Spirit Formula Cauldron with difficulty and stored the Xuantian Spirit Treasure in his Instantaneous Bag.
• Lin Xuan sent his Nascent Soul out of his body, and Su Yunfeng delayed opening the exit until after fusing with the Mortal Saint Body.
• Su Yunfeng revealed his demonic true body and flew toward Lin Xuan’s apparently lifeless body to seize it.
• Lin Xuan regained control of his body and spat out the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, revealing that he had feigned compliance and used Dual Infant One Core to keep his body mobile.

Lin Xuan killed Ghost Face with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and gathered the treasures left behind after the battle. He was the sole survivor in the sealed space and discovered something unexpected as he searched it before leaving.

• Lin Xuan used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to burn away Ghost Face's demonic will, leaving behind a demon core that resisted the flames.
• Lin Xuan collected the Heavenly Demon Core and saw that the spatial exit had reopened.
• Lin Xuan surveyed the devastated space and found that the cultivators, the Su Siblings, and every other living being there had died.
• Lin Xuan retrieved the Confucian-Robed Cultivator's ancient-book treasure and examined its unfamiliar material and writing.
• Lin Xuan sensed an unexpected discovery with his divine sense, transformed into a Startling Rainbow, and flew downward.

After finding Lingxu True Person’s Jade Talisman among the dead cultivators’ belongings, Lin Xuan decided to impersonate the Misty Immortal Palace’s grand elder and infiltrate the sect. He reached Nine Immortals Mountain in disguise and began gathering the knowledge he needed to avoid being exposed.

• Lin Xuan found Lingxu True Person’s Jade Talisman in one of the three Storage Bags and decided to use it to impersonate him and take the Misty Immortal Palace’s resources.
• Lin Xuan changed his appearance and aura to match Lingxu True Person, then destroyed the Desolate Island to seal off the ancient space and prevent otherworldly demons from entering.
• Lin Xuan flew to Nine Immortals Mountain and told the patrolling disciples not to announce his return.
• Lin Xuan restrained a middle-stage Dongxuan cultivator and used the Soul Searching Technique to learn about the Misty Immortal Palace.

Lin Xuan killed a Dongxuan Realm cultivator after using Soul Searching Technique to learn more about Ethereal Immortal Palace and its treasures. He returned to Spirit Controlling Peak disguised as Lingxu True Person, claimed that Yun and Ye had died, and headed for the great elder’s cultivation cave.

• Lin Xuan searched the Dongxuan Realm cultivator’s memories for information about Ethereal Immortal Palace, then burned him to ash.
• Lin Xuan flew to Spirit Controlling Peak, where he encountered the Bearded Man who had once introduced him to the sect.
• Lin Xuan told the Bearded Man that Yun and Ye had fallen and that he had escaped with serious injuries.
• Lin Xuan ordered the elders to meet him at Ask Immortal Pavilion in ten days, then flew toward Lingxu True Person’s cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan searched the summit’s few cultivation caves with his divine sense and identified the one belonging to Lingxu True Person.

Lin Xuan entered Lingxu True Person’s cultivation cave, collected its treasures, and prepared to seek the Ethereal Immortal Palace’s legendary Puppet. He then examined the black demonic qi inside the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and began refining it to prevent it from becoming a threat.

• Lin Xuan used a Formation Disk to enter Lingxu True Person’s protected cultivation cave without breaking its formation.
• Lin Xuan found two Storage Bags and discovered one contained several dozen Puppets, mostly at the Dongxuan level.
• Lin Xuan considered taking the Ethereal Immortal Palace’s legendary palace-guarding Puppet and planned to wait before pursuing it.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and found that the black qi within it had grown by absorbing its spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan used spell formulas to make the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire refine the black demonic qi.