Recaps

Lin Xuan revealed his overwhelming strength by killing the Heavenly Fate Twin Devils when they tried to flee. Lin Yujiao then told him that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s main headquarters had been breached, leaving him facing the sect’s crisis.

• The Heavenly Fate Twin Devils sensed Lin Xuan’s Spirit Division Stage cultivation and tried to escape.
• Lin Xuan stopped them with a gesture and crushed them into blood mist, destroying their Nascent Souls as well.
• Lin Yujiao was stunned by Lin Xuan’s strength, then rejoiced that he might save the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan asked Lin Yujiao what had happened to the sect.
• Lin Yujiao revealed that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s main headquarters had already been breached by the enemy.

Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect and found its headquarters under attack by forces from three sects. After killing several enemy cultivators, he reached the main battle and saw the sect’s defenders locked in fierce combat.

• Lin Xuan took Lin Yujiao toward the Cloud Hidden Sect after she told him the sect faced a crisis.
• Lin Xuan found the sect’s protective array breached and its outer grounds occupied by enemy cultivators.
• Lin Xuan killed several enemy guards who mistook him for one of their own.
• Lin Xuan reached the main hall and saw dozens of Dongxuan cultivators fighting across the headquarters.
• A wealthy-looking enemy cultivator urged Fellow Daoist Bai and the Cloud Hidden Sect to surrender, while Bai continued fighting him.
• Lin Xuan observed several other battles between Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators and their attackers.

The Cloud Hidden Sect’s defenders struggled against the invading Taixuan Sect, Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley, while a white-robed cultivator refused to betray his sect after hearing its Supreme Elders had fallen. The arrival of Spirit Ghost Sect’s old monster Wu sent the defenders fleeing, though a few stayed to fight.

• A squire-like Taixuan Sect cultivator told Bai that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s two Supreme Elders had fallen and urged him to give up.
• Bai rejected the offer to betray the Cloud Hidden Sect and insisted he would stand by his sect.
• Old monster Wu appeared in black Battle Armor, unleashing spiritual pressure that overwhelmed cultivators across the Cloud Hidden Sect’s headquarters.
• The Cloud Hidden Sect’s cultivators recognized the Spirit Division Stage expert and scattered in fear.
• Bai and a few others refused to retreat, while most defenders fled or remained trapped in battle.

A white-robed Cloud Hidden Sect cultivator fought off a group of outsiders until Lin Xuan arrived and saved him. Lin Xuan confronted Old Monster Wu, who attacked him with an enormous battle axe.

• The white-robed cultivator used his Life-Bound sword’s flood dragon Artifact Spirit to destroy the squire-dressed cultivator’s coin-shaped treasure and kill him.
• Old Monster Wu’s axe strike was silently dissolved by Lin Xuan, who appeared alongside Lin Yujiao.
• The white-robed cultivator and the other Cloud Hidden Sect members welcomed Lin Xuan, while Old Monster Wu challenged his reputation and cultivation.
• Lin Xuan told Old Monster Wu to surrender or die, and Old Monster Wu enlarged himself and his axe before swinging at Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan defeated Old Monster Wu with a single punch, revealing overwhelming strength and a grasp of the Laws of Heaven and Earth. As the attackers fled the Cloud Hidden Sect, Lin Xuan sent silver sword-lights after them to stop their escape.

• Old Monster Wu struck first with his giant axe, while Lin Xuan calmly met the attack with his bare fist.
• Lin Xuan's punch shattered the axe and killed Old Monster Wu, destroying his body and Nascent Soul.
• The Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators cheered, and the attackers fled in fear.
• Lin Xuan declared that the attackers could not leave freely and sent silver sword-lights after them, killing many as they ran.

Lin Xuan rescued the Cloud Hidden Sect from an assault by an alliance of three powerful sects, then learned they had attacked over a Top-grade Spirit Stone mineral vein and Immortal Stones discovered there. The revelation left Lin Xuan shaken, since Immortal Stones were something he urgently needed, and he began thinking of the treasures he had acquired in the Ice Sea Realm.

• Lin Xuan killed old monster Wu with a single strike, turning the battle around as the Cloud Hidden Sect drove off the remaining attackers.
• The Cloud Hidden Sect elders escorted Lin Xuan to the grand hall, where he demanded to know who had attacked and why the other Supreme Elders were absent.
• Li Hongxiu explained that the Taixuan Sect, the Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley had joined forces against the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Yujiao revealed that the three sects coveted the Top-grade Spirit Stone mineral vein Lin Xuan had won from Young Master Wu.
• Li Hongxiu disclosed that Immortal Stones had been found in the vein, startling Lin Xuan because he urgently needed them.

Lin Xuan learned that Cloud Hidden Sect’s Immortal Stone had attracted Taixuan Sect, Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley, while Senior Brother Long and Senior Sister Lin had gone silent at the mining vein. Elsewhere, leaders of the three forces and two Demon Race cultivators met to discuss their failed assault on Cloud Hidden Sect.

• Lin Xuan heard from Li Hongxiu that Cloud Hidden Sect had mined an Immortal Stone about a year earlier and that a traitor had leaked the news to the three sects.
• Li Hongxiu said Senior Brother Long and Senior Sister Lin had gone to oversee the mine and had not contacted the sect for a long time, leaving their fate uncertain.
• Several late Spirit Division cultivators, including two members of the Demon Race, gathered in an abandoned stone hall far from Cloud Hidden Sect.
• An elderly cultivator challenged Fellow Daoist Sun over Spirit Ghost Sect’s failed attack, noting that nearly all the disciples sent into battle had been killed.

The leaders of Spirit Ghost Sect, Taixuan Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley discussed Cloud Hidden Sect’s failed assault and learned that Lin Xuan had killed Wu with one punch. They agreed to use the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array against him, but still needed a way to lure him into the trap.

• The black-robed man blamed the failed attack on Cloud Hidden Sect on unexpected events, and Earth Spirit Boy revealed that Lin Xuan had appeared and killed Wu with one punch.
• The gathered leaders doubted the report, but the Brocade-robed Big Man warned that Lin Xuan’s strength was real and that they should not underestimate him.
• The Brocade-robed Big Man proposed that the three sects overwhelm Lin Xuan with their combined forces, and Lady Black warned that a direct fight could bring heavy losses.
• Lady Black proposed using Spirit Ghost Sect’s Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array with cultivators from all three sects, and the leaders approved the plan.
• Earth Spirit Boy pointed out that the array had to be set up at a fixed location and asked how they could lure Lin Xuan into it.

Lin Xuan ignored the Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators’ calls for caution and traveled alone to the contested mine to rescue the sect’s Supreme Elders and protect its Immortal Stones. Near the Tianyan Mountain Range, he spotted a Cloud Hidden Sect disciple fleeing from pursuers of the Three Sects Alliance.

• The black-robed woman and the others discussed how to lure Lin Xuan into their ambush.
• Lin Xuan set out alone for the mine despite the Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators’ objections, determined to save the Supreme Elders and prevent the Immortal Stones from being taken.
• Lin Xuan traveled to the Tianyan Mountain Range, where the Three Sects Alliance had taken most of the mine and Cloud Hidden Sect forces were still resisting.
• Lin Xuan concealed his aura as he approached the mine, then saw a Cloud Hidden Sect disciple fleeing from several pursuers.

Lin Xuan recognized Su Ru as she fled from three pursuers and intervened to save her. Su Ru told him that Cloud Hidden Sect had lost thousands of cultivators in the battle for a mine vein, while Grandmasters Long and Lin and over a thousand disciples remained trapped.

• Lin Xuan noticed Su Ru among the cultivators being pursued and decided to help his old acquaintance.
• Su Ru stopped to fight, but Lin Xuan killed her three pursuers with a silver thread.
• Lin Xuan revealed himself, and Su Ru recognized him as the sect’s Supreme Elder.
• Lin Xuan saw that Su Ru was badly injured and asked what had happened at the mine vein.
• Su Ru said more than ten thousand sect cultivators had died, Grandmasters Long and Lin were trapped with over a thousand disciples, and she begged Lin Xuan to rescue them.

Lin Xuan returned with Su Ru to rescue Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators, only to be ambushed by her and struck with Styx Poison. As the Spirit Ghost Sect's sect master and True Person Tianyin confronted him, Su Ru admitted she had betrayed him willingly.

• Lin Xuan asked Su Ru to lead him back to rescue their fellow sect members, and she agreed without hesitation.
• Lin Xuan found Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators surrounded by the Three Sects Alliance in a valley and subdued the fighting with his spiritual pressure.
• Su Ru attacked Lin Xuan with Styx Poison and escaped using a Teleportation talisman.
• The Spirit Ghost Sect's sect master appeared and urged Lin Xuan to surrender, while True Person Tianyin offered him a position as a Guest Elder of the Taixuan Sect.
• Lin Xuan asked Su Ru why she had betrayed him, and she admitted she had willingly plotted against him despite being captured by the Taixuan Sect.

Lin Xuan confronted Su Ru over her betrayal, and she admitted jealousy and a promise from the Spirit Ghost Sect's sect master had motivated her to help trap him. As the Styx Poison continued to seep into Lin Xuan, Su Ru revealed that her reward was a chance to become a personal disciple and advance to the Dongxuan Realm.

• Lin Xuan asked Su Ru why she had betrayed him, and she accused him of giving her inadequate rewards despite the life-saving kindness she had shown him.
• Su Ru blamed her hardships and Lin Xuan's success for her resentment, and Lin Xuan recognized that jealousy had changed her.
• Lin Xuan asked why Su Ru had betrayed Cloud Hidden Sect, and she said she had acted for her own benefit.
• Su Ru revealed that after she was captured, she volunteered information about having saved Lin Xuan to avoid Soul Searching Technique and was sent to the Spirit Ghost Sect's sect master.
• Su Ru explained that the sect master had promised to make her a personal disciple, provide cultivation resources, and help her advance to the Dongxuan Realm if she lured Lin Xuan into a trap and enabled a sneak attack.
• The Spirit Division Stage cultivators let Lin Xuan and Su Ru talk, confident that the Styx Poison would keep weakening him.

Lin Xuan confronted Su Ru and the Cloud Hidden Sect disciples who had betrayed him, then revealed that the Styx Poison and their encirclement had not left him helpless. He killed the Spirit Ghost Sect Master in one strike, sending the surrounding cultivators fleeing.

• Lin Xuan rebuked Su Ru for betraying the Cloud Hidden Sect, and she dismissed his words and declared that power and longevity mattered more than conscience.
• Lin Xuan reminded the gathered cultivators that he had once been mocked as a talentless disciple and condemned the betrayers for coveting advancement without paying its price.
• Lin Xuan questioned the Cloud Hidden Sect disciples about their role in luring him, while many lowered their heads in shame and others showed no regret.
• Su Ru mocked Lin Xuan for being poisoned and surrounded, but he warned that he was not yet trapped and teleported in front of the Spirit Ghost Sect Master.
• Lin Xuan struck the Spirit Ghost Sect Master with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, annihilating his body and Nascent Soul in a single attack.
• The surrounding cultivators scattered in terror, and several Spirit Division Stage elders, including the Taixuan Sect Master, fled.

Lin Xuan revealed that the Styx Poison used against him was only an imitation and that it could not overcome his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire. After Su Ru chose to die and enter reincarnation, Lin Xuan turned to the cultivators abandoned in the valley and ordered them to kill themselves.

• Lin Xuan explained that the poison was an imitation of the Styx Poison, which he had refined with his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Su Ru realized her hopes of advancement had collapsed and asked Lin Xuan to let her soul enter reincarnation.
• Lin Xuan agreed, and Su Ru destroyed her body and Nascent Soul, leaving her soul to be reborn without its memories.
• Lin Xuan looked toward the cultivators trapped in the valley, including disciples of the Three Sects Alliance and Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan ordered the abandoned cultivators to perform Liberation by Violence themselves.

Lin Xuan killed the cultivators who refused Liberation by Violence, then realized the Three Sects Alliance elders were hiding behind an undetectable formation. The elders, shaken by his strength and failed poison ambush, faced the need to find a way to deal with him.

• Fewer than twenty cultivators chose Liberation by Violence, so Lin Xuan attacked the rest with Sword Qi and killed them all.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the missing Three Sects Alliance elders were concealed by a powerful formation he could not detect.
• The Three Sects Alliance elders recalled how their poison ambush had failed and how Lin Xuan had killed the Spirit Ghost Sect master in one exchange.
• The Spirit Division Stage elders stood frozen with fear, then realized they had to devise a way to confront Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan was trapped inside the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array while the Three Sects Alliance resolved to kill him before he could seek revenge. He blocked attacks from two elders, but the array shifted the valley into a burning desert.

• The Taixuan Sect Master, Lady Black, and a demon elder rallied the Three Sects Alliance to attack Lin Xuan inside the array.
• Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to spot danger and sent Sword Qi to fight off a Short Rod and two Bronze Short Halberds.
• The two elders controlling the treasures were shocked that Lin Xuan's Sword Qi matched their combined attack.
• Lady Black and the other elders activated the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array at full strength.
• Lin Xuan cast the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield as the valley transformed into a desert beneath a larger Sun, with fire raining from the sky.

Lin Xuan fought through a composite array that combined a desert illusion and falling fire while its attackers unleashed Iron Fire Ants against him. He destroyed the ordinary ants with the Hundred Spirit Bell, forced the Spirit Division Stage ant elder back with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and then faced a new assault of crimson flying swords.

• Lin Xuan recognized the desert and falling fire as a composite illusion and attack array, then spotted Iron Fire Ants emerging from the sand.
• Lin Xuan used the Hundred Spirit Bell to kill thousands of Iron Fire Ants as the Short Rod and Long Spear cultivators attacked him.
• The Spirit Division Stage Iron Fire Ant elder revealed itself and attacked Lin Xuan with black-red demonic fire.
• Lin Xuan's Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire swallowed the insect fire and forced the Iron Fire Ant elder to retreat.
• More than twenty crimson flying swords flew toward Lin Xuan, who sent out the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

Lin Xuan saw through the Three Sects Alliance elders’ plan to exhaust him inside their formation and killed a cultivator in a direct clash. The remaining elders were left shaken and uncertain whether their array could protect them.

• Lin Xuan stopped probing the enemy formation and sent the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword against the disheveled-haired cultivator’s Red Fire Swords, cutting them apart.
• The disheveled-haired cultivator attacked with Blood Thunder Beads, but the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword cleared their blood mist with silver lightning.
• Lin Xuan killed the disheveled-haired cultivator with the Sword into Silk Technique, then cut apart his Nascent Soul as it tried to teleport away.
• The Three Sects Alliance elders realized Lin Xuan had understood their plan to wear him down and began to fear that their formation might not save them.
• The surviving elders grew uneasy and shifted responsibility onto one another.

Lin Xuan used his mastery of spatial laws and his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to kill three enemies, then his incarnation appeared and destroyed the fleeing Iron Fire Ant Queen. The remaining Iron Fire Ants still surrounded Lin Xuan as he fought them with the Hundred Spirit Bell.

• Lin Xuan disrupted the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array’s spatial protection, trapping the two old monsters who had tried to retreat into it.
• Lin Xuan killed both old monsters with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, grinding their bodies and Nascent Souls to powder.
• The Iron Fire Ant Queen fled while sending her swarm to surround Lin Xuan and buy her time.
• Lin Xuan’s incarnation pierced the Iron Fire Ant Queen with a black beam and then burned her away with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Lin Xuan remained amid the swarm, using the Hundred Spirit Bell to fend off the Iron Fire Ants.

Lin Xuan fought the Three Sects Alliance elders inside the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array, using the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to strike at the formation’s weakness. The array unleashed the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Soul, and Lin Xuan summoned a gigantic golden Dharma Idol to face the ghosts’ attack.

• The Three Sects Alliance elders, frightened by Lin Xuan’s strength, united to control the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array rather than face him individually.
• Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to locate a weak point in the array and struck it with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, breaking the desert illusion.
• The array shifted into a dark, eerie realm filled with more than ten thousand Fierce Ghosts, each with strength comparable to a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
• The ghosts shrieked together, sending powerful sound waves toward Lin Xuan that could penetrate ordinary defensive Dharma Treasures.
• Lin Xuan formed hand seals and summoned a golden Dharma Idol with nine heads and eighteen arms, which grew to over a hundred zhang tall.

Lin Xuan repeatedly destroyed waves of Fierce Ghosts inside the formation, but their endless numbers began to drain his magical power. He replenished it with spirit milk, forcing the Taixuan Sect Master and the other cultivators to reconsider their plan as Lady Black urged them to hold together.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens God Luo Image and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to destroy wave after wave of Fierce Ghosts.
• As more ghosts appeared, Lin Xuan fought for the time it took to drink a cup of tea and grew exhausted from the repeated battles.
• Lin Xuan drank a drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, restoring his depleted magical power.
• The Taixuan Sect Master realized Lin Xuan's spirit milk could undermine their plan to exhaust him, and the cultivators' morale fell.
• Lady Black encouraged the cultivators to keep using the formation, reminding them they could not escape Lin Xuan if they scattered.
• The cultivators regained some resolve and continued to rely on the formation rather than face Lin Xuan alone.

Lin Xuan used a World-Breaking Bead to destroy the formation trapping him and emerged before more than twenty Spirit Division Stage cultivators of the Three Sects Alliance. As they fled, he released Blood Fire Ants to pursue them, then faced a sudden black lightning attack.

• Lin Xuan reluctantly used a World-Breaking Bead, melting the formation and its instruments and restoring the mountain valley.
• Lin Xuan found more than twenty Spirit Division Stage cultivators surrounding him, and they panicked after seeing him escape.
• A black-robed old man fled, prompting the other cultivators, including the Taixuan Sect Master, to scatter in different directions.
• Lin Xuan released Blood Fire Ants from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower and sent them after the fleeing cultivators.
• A bolt of black lightning suddenly struck toward Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan killed Lady Black and pursued the fleeing elders of the Three Sects Alliance. After slaying the Robe-Clad Elder, he split off his Internal Incarnation to hunt down the remaining enemies, and the incarnation encountered a married woman among them.

• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and the Ink Spirit Drill to kill Lady Black, then captured her Nascent Soul before she self-detonated it.
• Lin Xuan tracked the fleeing cultivators with his divine sense and sped after them.
• The Robe-Clad Elder was trapped by Blood Fire Ants, and Lin Xuan killed him with a punch, sword light, and fire pellet.
• Lin Xuan released his Internal Incarnation and sent it in a different direction to help destroy the remaining enemies.
• Lin Xuan's incarnation encountered a still-charming married woman whose cultivation was relatively weak among the Three Sects elders.

Lin Xuan's incarnation killed a Spirit Division cultivator trapped by Blood Fire Ants, then confronted two powerful Demon Race cultivators who had been following him. The Snake Demon struck his heart with a Crimson Scale and appeared certain she had defeated him.

• The woman used her Thunder Bead to clear a path through the Blood Fire Ants, but the insects quickly blocked her escape again.
• Lin Xuan's incarnation attacked the woman with black claw-lights, killing her before her Nascent Soul could escape.
• Lin Xuan sensed two pursuers and confronted a long-eared Demon Race man and a Snake Demon, both late-stage Spirit Division cultivators.
• The Snake Demon attacked Lin Xuan with a red beam that pierced his chest, then revealed itself as a sharp Crimson Scale.
• The Snake Demon flew toward Lin Xuan, boasting that she could defeat him without her brother's help.

Lin Xuan’s incarnation survived a heart strike and launched a fierce counterattack against the Snake Demon and her long-eared, green-eyed ally. He used the Heaven Ghost Axe, an ancient scroll treasure, and the Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse to meet their attacks, leaving the two demons facing his defenses.

• Lin Xuan revealed that he was still able to fight, cut off the Snake Demon’s arm with the Heaven Ghost Axe, and forced her ally to block the axe’s return strike.
• Lin Xuan transformed his right hand into a Demon Arm and summoned claw-shadows as the Snake Demon changed into a Crimson Python and fired her scales at him.
• The long-eared, green-eyed demon sent a poisonous green mist concealing Flying Needles toward Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan opened an ancient scroll and turned its characters into blades, fireballs, and Demon World monsters, then summoned a huge evil ghost with the Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse.
• The Snake Demon’s scales smashed Lin Xuan’s claw-shadows but lost speed and power, while Lin Xuan’s written character “shield” became overlapping black shields in front of the demons.