Recaps

Lin Xuan spent three days attempting to purify a discarded Immortal Stone, but the first attempt failed. After recovering and analyzing what he had learned, he began a second attempt with the next stone.

• Lin Xuan used his Blue and Silver Light Spots to try purifying a discarded Immortal Stone, enduring intense strain on his divine sense for three days.
• Lin Xuan failed to purify the first stone, though the attempt gave him useful experience and insights.
• Lin Xuan concluded that Blue Light Spots alone were ineffective, while Silver Light Spots worked best but were consumed too quickly; mixing the two could separate impurities and reduce Silver Light Spot consumption.
• Lin Xuan rested and recovered, then returned to the Cultivation Room and began working on the second Immortal Stone.

Lin Xuan endured a grueling purification process and succeeded in refining several defective Immortal Stones, though failures remained unpredictable. After half a year, he had purified eight of twelve stones and possessed nine Immortal Stones in total.

• Lin Xuan emerged from the Cultivation Room after half a month and revealed that he had successfully purified an Immortal Stone.
• Lin Xuan rested and celebrated, then began purifying another stone, but his third attempt ended in failure.
• Lin Xuan recovered, learned from the setback, and successfully purified the next Immortal Stone.
• Over nearly half a year, Lin Xuan purified eight of his twelve defective Immortal Stones, bringing his total to nine.
• Lin Xuan recalled seeing Nailong True Person ride in a several-hundred-zhang boat made entirely of Spirit-Nurturing Wood.

Lin Xuan used three Immortal Stones to activate the True Spirit Puppet in a remote desert. The puppet manifested amid a storm as a terrifying, dragon-like presence, and Lin Xuan began testing its power.

• Lin Xuan realized his small cultivation cave could not contain the True Spirit Puppet and flew to a vast, uninhabited desert.
• Lin Xuan brought out the miniature puppet and prepared three Immortal Stones with fire, earth, and water attributes to power it.
• Lin Xuan followed the Jade Slip’s instructions and watched the puppet absorb the three stones.
• Dark clouds and lightning gathered as the puppet’s pressure descended, but Lin Xuan dispelled the discomfort with spiritual light.
• Two enormous red lights appeared in the sky, revealing the puppet’s ferocious, True Dragon-like form.

Lin Xuan tested the giant puppet, confirmed its power, and returned to his cultivation cave to refine treasures and practice secret arts while the Cloud Hidden Sect expanded across Tianshuang Prefecture. Meanwhile, his incarnation traveled to Qingmu City to seek information about the Image Pearls, while an unknown presence stirred beneath the desert sands.

• Lin Xuan enlarged the puppet to a colossal size, judged its strength comparable to an early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, then dismissed it and left the desert.
• After Lin Xuan departed, a human face formed from the sand and spoke of breaking through the final layer of its seal after sensing Immortal Stones and immortal spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave and began refining treasures, including plans to fuse the Outer-Domain Heavenly Gold and Illusionary Yin Demon Flower into his life-bound treasures, while studying Sword Spirit Transformation into Void.
• Over the passing years, the Cloud Hidden Sect expanded rapidly with the Three Sects Alliance's support, taking Spirit Veins and resources from nearby sects and clans.
• Lin Xuan's incarnation traveled to Qingmu City to investigate the whereabouts of the other Image Pearls and arrived after two days.

Lin Xuan entered Qingmu City disguised as a Nascent Soul cultivator and went to Hundred Treasures Pavilion to investigate the Image Pearl. The shopkeeper recognized his hidden cultivation, leaving Lin Xuan surprised as he explained that his Mystic Clarity Body let him see through the concealment.

• Lin Xuan concealed his appearance and cultivation before entering Qingmu City.
• Lin Xuan hired a Beast Carriage to take him to Hundred Treasures Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan asked to meet the shopkeeper and was shown to a private room.
• The shopkeeper arrived, saw through Lin Xuan's concealment, and bowed to him as a senior.
• The shopkeeper explained that his Mystic Clarity Body allowed him to see through Lin Xuan's disguise.

Lin Xuan questioned the shopkeeper of Hundred Treasures Pavilion about an Image Pearl that might reveal what happened in ancient times. He learned the shop had acquired it from an unknown cultivator years ago, leaving his investigation without a clear lead.

• The shopkeeper used his Mystic Clarity Body to see through Lin Xuan’s concealment, and Lin Xuan revealed his Spirit Division Stage cultivation.
• Lin Xuan showed the shopkeeper an Image Pearl and asked whether the pavilion had any more like it.
• The shopkeeper confirmed the pearl had come from the pavilion but said it was the only one and could not be opened.
• Lin Xuan asked where the pearl had come from, and the shopkeeper recalled buying it from an unknown Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator about twenty years earlier.
• The shopkeeper could provide no information about the cultivator, leaving Lin Xuan with no further lead.

After failing to uncover the ancient secrets at Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Lin Xuan sensed an overwhelming danger approaching Qingmu City. A clash of powers tore open the sky, and the resulting shockwaves devastated the city and surrounding region as Primordial Demon Qi appeared through the rupture.

• Lin Xuan left Hundred Treasures Pavilion after learning that the trail to the ancient secrets had gone cold, and decided he would need to reach the Tribulation Transcendence Stage to learn more.
• Lin Xuan felt an intensifying sense of danger despite the calm surroundings and suspected something might be breaking through space.
• The sky turned grayish-white and churned with multiple chaotic laws, alarming Lin Xuan.
• A tremendous boom collapsed Qingmu City's walls and destroyed buildings, killing many low-level cultivators.
• A second shockwave reduced Qingmu City and everything within ten thousand li to ruins as mountains collapsed and lakes were filled.
• The sky split open, revealing a black spot surrounded by Primordial Demon Qi that Lin Xuan recognized.

Lin Xuan witnessed the Golden Moon True Toad crash into the Nailong Realm, destroying Qingmu City, and hid nearby to watch. The True Spirit, already at a disadvantage against an unseen opponent, struck toward the sky with its enormous tongue.

• Lin Xuan sensed Primordial Demon Qi and suspected a True Spirit was battling another powerful being.
• The Golden Moon True Toad fell from another interface, and its impact razed Qingmu City and killed tens of thousands of cultivators.
• Lin Xuan survived behind a ruined wall and chose to remain hidden rather than flee, hoping to find an opportunity.
• The Golden Moon True Toad emerged atop a pillar of lava, and Lin Xuan recognized it as a True Spirit facing a formidable opponent.
• The Golden Moon True Toad extended its tongue more than a thousand feet toward the sky in a law-powered strike.

Lin Xuan watched as a late-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator fought the Golden Moon True Toad over the stolen Taiyi Immortal Herb. After the woman wounded the toad, it offered compensation, but she showed no sign of letting it go.

• A mysterious woman in white arrived and confronted the Golden Moon True Toad while Lin Xuan hid nearby.
• The woman struck with a law-infused sword technique and sliced off part of the toad’s tongue.
• The Golden Moon True Toad asked the woman to stop pursuing it, and she revealed that it had stolen her Taiyi Immortal Herb.
• The toad admitted it had eaten the herb and offered compensation, while the woman remained intent on punishing it.

A white-robed woman demanded that the Golden Moon True Toad become her servant to repay the Taiyi Immortal Herb it had swallowed. When it refused, she attacked, and Lin Xuan watched from hiding as the True Spirit prepared to fight back.

• The white-robed woman rejected the Golden Moon True Toad’s offer of compensation and demanded a Master-Servant Blood Pact instead.
• The Golden Moon True Toad refused to submit, furious that the woman wanted to make it her Spirit Beast.
• Lin Xuan confirmed that the woman was a late-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator but could not identify her.
• The white-robed woman summoned her transparent Immortal Sword and unleashed tens of thousands of Sword Qi strikes at the Golden Moon True Toad.
• The Golden Moon True Toad roared and prepared to fight the woman rather than become her servant.

Lin Xuan watched the Golden Moon True Toad battle a mysterious female cultivator whose sword techniques and Flower Basket revealed overwhelming power. Their attacks collided without producing an outward shockwave, leaving Lin Xuan to witness a fight between experts far beyond his level.

• The Golden Moon True Toad reflected the female cultivator's Sword Qi with mirror-like treasures formed from sound waves, while Lin Xuan realized she had vanished from his sight.
• The woman reappeared near the toad and used her Sword into Silk Technique, forcing it to spend origin power to resist her crystalline thread.
• The woman summoned a Flower Basket that released more than a hundred thin Immortal Swords, terrifying the Golden Moon True Toad.
• The Golden Moon True Toad unleashed its restored, law-empowered tongue, filling the sky with Void Shadows as it met the woman's swords.
• Lin Xuan tried to retreat, but he saw that the two experts' attacks produced almost no outward aftermath.

Lin Xuan watched the Golden Moon True Toad and a mysterious female cultivator battle, trying to understand their profound abilities. After the toad shattered her Immortal Sword and appeared to kill her, she reappeared and wounded it with a law-infused pillar of light, leaving Lin Xuan puzzled by how she avoided the treasure’s backlash.

• Lin Xuan realized the Golden Moon True Toad had reinforced its tongue with its source power, making it hard enough to pierce the female cultivator’s Sword Qi.
• The toad’s tongue shattered the female cultivator’s Immortal Sword, and it followed up with a frog cry and a blast of turbid qi that pierced her dantian.
• Lin Xuan saw the wounded woman vanish into specks of starlight and questioned whether she had truly been defeated.
• The woman reappeared nearby and struck the Golden Moon True Toad with a blazing white pillar of light, piercing its body.
• Lin Xuan wondered how the woman could act normally despite the destruction of her Life-Bound Dharma Treasure.

Lin Xuan recognized the woman fighting the Golden Moon True Toad as Hundred Flowers Fairy, who wielded the Hundred Flowers Immortal Sword and a powerful law-based technique. Her giant crystal sword shattered the toad’s bone spear, leaving Lin Xuan injured by the clash and wondering how her power of law had suppressed the True Spirit’s.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy formed hundreds of flying swords from a flower basket, and Lin Xuan recognized her identity and her Sword Spirit Transformation into Void.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy merged the swords into a giant immortal sword and unleashed a powerful technique that compressed space.
• The Golden Moon True Toad fired its blood-red bone spikes, merging them into a giant Bone Spear to meet the sword head-on.
• The collision’s shockwave pulverized the ruins and pierced Lin Xuan’s protective devil qi, so he summoned the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and suffered a mouthful of blood.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy’s crystal sword shattered the Bone Spear, and Lin Xuan wondered how her power of law had overwhelmed the toad’s.

Lin Xuan watched the Hundred Flowers Fairy use her domain to overpower the Golden Moon True Toad, who survived by spending nearly half its accumulated source power. The Fairy then formed crystalline sword silk and sent it away with the power of space, leaving Lin Xuan stunned by her mastery.

• Lin Xuan realized the Hundred Flowers Fairy had comprehended a domain that could reverse and control the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy split the Golden Moon True Toad in two with a crystalline giant sword, but the True Spirit escaped using another divine ability.
• The Golden Moon True Toad reappeared weakened and shrunken after losing nearly half its source power to escape the domain.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy dissolved her giant sword into flying swords, absorbed crystalline runes, and transformed the swords into sword silk.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy sent the sword silk forward using the Space Laws, astonishing Lin Xuan.

The Golden Moon True Toad surrendered to the Hundred Flowers Fairy to avoid being killed, offering its soul, spirit, and mysterious Origin Body for a Master-Servant Blood Pact. As the Hundred Flowers Fairy drew them toward her, the Origin Body transformed into a tiny toad and released True Toad Poison, catching her before she could evade it.

• The Golden Moon True Toad begged the Hundred Flowers Fairy to spare its life and offered to become her Spirit Beast.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy demanded its soul, spirit, and Origin Body, and the Golden Moon True Toad shrank and approached her.
• The Golden Moon True Toad spat out three balls of light, and Lin Xuan recognized the largest as its mysterious Origin Body.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy drew the three balls of light toward herself and lowered her guard.
• The Origin Body revealed itself as a tiny reddish-gold toad and engulfed the Hundred Flowers Fairy in True Toad Poison.

Golden Moon True Toad trapped Hundred Flowers Fairy with its Origin Body and prepared to detonate it, but Lin Xuan’s warning signs had already led him to flee. The toad was killed by Hundred Flowers Fairy’s hidden sword threads, yet its bound Origin Body still threatened to explode around her.

• Golden Moon True Toad bound Hundred Flowers Fairy with tentacles formed from its Origin Body and announced it would detonate the body rather than become her servant.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy challenged the toad’s confidence, and her crystalline sword threads cut Golden Moon True Toad into eight pieces and annihilated it.
• Golden Moon True Toad’s Origin Body continued to bind Hundred Flowers Fairy and remained on the verge of exploding.
• Lin Xuan realized the toad’s unusually willing surrender was a trap and fled before the crisis began.
• Lin Xuan attributed Hundred Flowers Fairy’s vulnerability to her diminished vigilance after a long life of unquestioned authority.

Lin Xuan escaped the blast from the Golden Moon True Toad’s self-detonation and found that the devastated area had become a realm of nothingness. He weighed the danger of returning against the chance to claim the remains and treasures of the Golden Moon True Toad and Hundred Flowers Fairy.

• Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape to shift tens of thousands of miles away from Hundred Flowers Fairy and the Golden Moon True Toad.
• The Golden Moon True Toad’s self-detonation sent a thunderous shockwave across the distance, and Lin Xuan hid deep underground.
• Lin Xuan learned that the explosion had destroyed space and the Laws of Heaven and Earth across several hundred miles, leaving a region of nothingness.
• Lin Xuan emerged from underground and found that his divine sense could not penetrate the ruined area or reveal what had happened there.
• Lin Xuan considered returning to search for the Golden Moon True Toad’s remains and Hundred Flowers Fairy’s Storage Bag, despite the danger.

Lin Xuan decided to risk entering the devastated region to claim the Golden Moon True Toad’s treasures, but first tested the chaotic space with Blood Fire Ants. Their deaths revealed that its mysterious force killed beings below the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving Lin Xuan to assess the danger ahead.

• Lin Xuan chose to pursue the opportunity and flew toward the Golden Moon True Toad’s Storage Bag using the Ten Thousand Soul Banner to protect himself.
• Lin Xuan encountered a vast region where the Golden Moon True Toad’s Origin Body had destroyed the Laws of Heaven and Earth, restoring the area to a state like Hundun first opening.
• Lin Xuan released Blood Fire Ants and sent more than a thousand into the chaotic space to scout it.
• The scouting ants burst apart under a mysterious force, but their mental connection showed Lin Xuan that the force only affected beings below the Nascent Soul Realm.

Lin Xuan flew into the chaotic space left by the explosion, gained insight into the Primordial Era, and advanced his Second Nascent Soul to the mid-stage Spirit Division Stage. He found no trace of the Golden Moon True Toad or the Hundred Flowers Fairy, but just as he was about to give up searching, he noticed something unexpected.

• Lin Xuan entered the chaotic space, repelling its mysterious energy as it grew stronger deeper inside.
• Lin Xuan glimpsed the origin of the laws, stopped when the insight caused pain in his divine sense, and gained a sudden boost that advanced his Second Nascent Soul to the mid-stage Spirit Division Stage.
• Lin Xuan continued flying through the space, where his divine sense and eyesight were severely limited and the mysterious energy became harder to dispel.
• Lin Xuan searched for the Golden Moon True Toad, the Hundred Flowers Fairy, and her Storage Bag but found nothing.
• Lin Xuan turned his head and noticed something unexpected just as he was about to despair.

Lin Xuan used the Sea-Overturning Halberd to open a passage through a mysterious black speck in the Hundun space and entered a barren small plane. He recognized it as a type of small realm but remained unsure why he had arrived there.

• Lin Xuan discovered a tiny black speck that absorbed his divine sense and sensed Space Laws around it.
• Lin Xuan activated the Sea-Overturning Halberd with demonic qi, revealing profound Xuantian demon markings.
• Lin Xuan struck the black speck with the halberd, enlarging it into a crescent-shaped opening that carried a faint trace of True Spirit Blood.
• Lin Xuan wrapped himself in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and flew through the opening into a gray, barren space.
• Lin Xuan recognized the place as a small plane, possibly a Small Spirit World, Small Demon World, or Wasteland Realm, but could not tell why he had been transported there.

Lin Xuan discovered that Hundred Flowers Fairy had survived the Golden Moon True Toad’s explosion but was gravely wounded and unable to move. He decided not to risk killing her for her treasures and instead considered helping her to gain the goodwill of a powerful cultivator.

• Lin Xuan spotted Hundred Flowers Fairy alive near the hills and realized she had survived the explosion.
• Lin Xuan used his divine sense to confirm that Hundred Flowers Fairy was badly injured, conscious, and seemingly unable to move.
• Lin Xuan weighed the possibility of taking Hundred Flowers Fairy’s treasures against the danger of her hidden trump cards.
• Lin Xuan rejected attacking her and decided that helping her might earn her gratitude and friendship.

Lin Xuan approached the badly injured Hundred Flowers Fairy and tried to convince her he had come to help. She remained wary as he presented a spirit medicine, while she doubted it could heal the wounds left by the Golden Moon True Toad’s Origin explosion.

• Lin Xuan decided to help Hundred Flowers Fairy, hoping she might reward him, and cautiously stopped ten zhang away from her.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy kept a powerful white light ready, so Lin Xuan gently assured her he bore no malice.
• Lin Xuan slowly took out a sealed Jade Box and offered her a spirit medicine.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy recalled that she had survived the Golden Moon True Toad’s Origin explosion by using a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, but her body, Nascent Soul, and spirits were gravely injured.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy had been cast into an abandoned space without spiritual or demonic energy, and she doubted Lin Xuan’s medicine could help her.

Lin Xuan gave the gravely injured Hundred Flowers Fairy a Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill, which stabilized her Nascent Soul and gave her hope of surviving. Though he briefly considered killing her for her Storage Bag while she was vulnerable, he chose to retreat and stand guard as she refined the medicine.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy feared her soul injury and weakened cultivation would leave lasting damage, while doubting Lin Xuan could help her.
• Lin Xuan opened a Jade Box and revealed a purple Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill, a natural spiritual medicine known for healing injuries.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy recognized the pill’s value and asked Lin Xuan to let her take it, promising to reward him.
• Lin Xuan sent the pill to Hundred Flowers Fairy without approaching, and she swallowed it.
• The pill nourished her meridians and helped her Nascent Soul grow more stable, though she remained badly injured.
• Lin Xuan considered killing Hundred Flowers Fairy for her Storage Bag but decided against it and withdrew to meditate nearby while she refined the medicine.

After Lin Xuan helped Hundred Flowers Fairy stabilize her injuries, she offered him any reward he wanted. He declined pills, treasures, materials, and Spirit Stones, then asked her for a cultivation method.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy secretly prepared a strand of Sword Qi while watching Lin Xuan, but relaxed when she realized he meant her no harm.
• Half an hour later, Hundred Flowers Fairy stood and told Lin Xuan that her injuries were under control, though she was far from recovered.
• Grateful for Lin Xuan's help, Hundred Flowers Fairy asked what he wanted and offered to provide almost any treasure.
• Lin Xuan declined her offers of pills, Dharma Treasures, rare materials, and Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan told Hundred Flowers Fairy that he wanted a cultivation method, surprising her.

Lin Xuan asked Hundred Flowers Fairy for a single secret technique rather than treasures, leaving her uneasy about repaying his kindness. He began to reveal which technique he wanted, but the chapter ended before he named it.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy offered Lin Xuan a choice of cultivation arts, but he clarified that he wanted only a secret technique.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy was surprised by how modest his request was and urged him to ask for more.
• Lin Xuan declined her offer of an additional request, while secretly hoping to preserve her sense of indebtedness and their future connection.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy pressed Lin Xuan to name the secret technique, and he hesitantly began to say what he had taken a fancy to.