Recaps

Lin Xuan fought the powerful Black-Robed Ghost, surviving a law-infused attack and countering with a punch and his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords. When the enemy’s robe was destroyed, Lin Xuan discovered that the Black-Robed Ghost was a Yin Spirit and suspected he might be the Nether Dark King.

• The Black-Robed Ghost used spatial laws to attack Lin Xuan, then bound his movements and struck him with another blow.
• Lin Xuan endured the hit, surged forward, and landed a powerful punch on the Black-Robed Ghost.
• Lin Xuan followed with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords, but every sword missed the enemy.
• The Black-Robed Ghost’s destroyed robe revealed a gray, human-shaped light and shadow, and Lin Xuan recognized it as a Yin Spirit.
• Lin Xuan recalled that the Nether Dark King had been born a low-grade Yin Spirit and wondered whether this opponent was that Underworld king.

Lin Xuan tried to delay a powerful opponent who might be one of the Six Kings of the Underworld, but his sneak attack failed to do more than briefly stagger the enemy. The opponent recognized his techniques and pressed the assault, leaving Lin Xuan fighting to hold his ground.

• Lin Xuan wondered how the Nether Dark King could have entered the Lost Realm, then focused on delaying the formidable enemy while a treasure was refined.
• The old monster identified Lin Xuan's complete Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and asked about his connection to the Ink Moon Tribe and the Heavenly Witch Goddess.
• The old monster gathered Yin energy into a massive black Trident and attacked, while Lin Xuan unleashed hundreds of sword lights.
• Lin Xuan transformed his sword lights into numerous silver threads to evade the enemy's sweeping attack.
• The old monster recognized Lin Xuan's Sword into Silk Technique and speculated that he might be connected to Hundred Flowers Fairy.

Lin Xuan fought a powerful Yin Spirit, using his sword techniques and Space Laws against the opponent’s black bead and mysterious Laws of Heaven and Earth. After his law-based attack was overwhelmed, he unleashed his strongest defenses and fled diagonally, still unsure whether he could survive.

• Lin Xuan attacked the Yin Spirit with countless sword threads, but the opponent’s black bead formed a light curtain that withstood them.
• Lin Xuan gathered his sword threads into a giant sword and embedded a trace of Space Laws in its strike.
• The Yin Spirit countered with a far more profound power of law, easily breaking Lin Xuan’s spatial attack and sending a deadly force toward him.
• Lin Xuan used golden vortices, the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to try to obstruct the incoming law.
• Lin Xuan flared with azure light and fled diagonally to avoid the brunt of the attack.

Lin Xuan was nearly killed by a Yinhun's power of law, but the Vermilion Bird Ring emerged just in time and gave him an opening to escape. He regrouped for the coming fight while his Internal Incarnation prepared the hidden formation.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to resist the Yinhun's power of law, but both defenses were destroyed and his life-bound treasure shattered.
• The Vermilion Bird Ring appeared as the Lava Lake erupted, distracting the Yinhun and weakening his control over the power of law.
• Lin Xuan seized the opening with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and escaped over a thousand zhang away.
• The Yinhun focused on the newly emerged treasure and dismissed Lin Xuan as a threat, while Lin Xuan prepared another treasure for the coming fight.
• Lin Xuan's Internal Incarnation waited at the formation, ready to use the hidden move Lin Xuan had prepared.

Lin Xuan seized the newly refined Vermilion Bird Ring while his Avatar escaped through the cavern, then stayed behind to delay the Yinhun powerhouse. Lin Xuan unleashed Meteor Fire Rain and transformed the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords into a massive Phoenix, leaving its attack to clash with the Yinhun.

• Lin Xuan's Avatar grabbed the Vermilion Bird Ring and flew toward a prepared arrangement in the cavern.
• The Yinhun realized Lin Xuan had an accomplice and flew toward the underground cavern to reclaim the treasure.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Spirit Formula Cauldron and cast Meteor Fire Rain to hold the Yinhun back.
• Lin Xuan's Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords reappeared, and he fused them into a giant Phoenix using the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art.
• Lin Xuan sent the Phoenix and its raging flames toward the Yinhun, whose ability to withstand the attack remained uncertain.

Lin Xuan used a hidden Teleportation Array to send his Avatar away with the treasure while drawing the Yinhun’s attention. After replenishing his power, he coordinated his Phoenix sword art with Meteor Fire Rain and launched an all-out attack, as the Yinhun prepared to stake everything in the clash.

• Lin Xuan revealed a concealed Teleportation Array and sent his Avatar into it with the treasure.
• The Yinhun detected the escape attempt and rushed to stop the Avatar, leaving Lin Xuan an opening.
• Lin Xuan drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and restored the power needed to strengthen his attack.
• Lin Xuan’s Phoenix used its mastery of space to confront the Yinhun, forcing him into a fierce close-quarters clash.
• Lin Xuan combined Meteor Fire Rain with the Phoenix’s attack, while the Yinhun’s eyes showed he was ready to stake everything.

Lin Xuan unleashed a devastating attack against the Yinhun ghost creature, but the enemy survived and revealed that it was only an Avatar capable of using an even greater divine ability. As the creature began transforming, Lin Xuan tried to disrupt it with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.

• Lin Xuan combined Meteor Fire Rain with his enormous Phoenix, engulfing the Yinhun ghost creature in an overwhelming blaze.
• Lin Xuan drank several drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to replenish his magical power while he waited for the attack's results.
• Lin Xuan spotted a small region of black Qi surviving in the red light and realized the enemy was still alive.
• The enemy laughed and told Lin Xuan that he had nearly destroyed its Avatar, that its accomplice had taken the treasure, and that it would now use a more powerful divine ability.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the enemy was an Avatar and suspected it might be the Nether Dark King as bones began cracking inside its Yin Spirit form.
• Lin Xuan sent out Five-Colored Glaze, which transformed into a giant python, and used Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to attack the enemy as it prepared its spell.

Lin Xuan unleashed his treasures and the True Spirit Puppet against the Yin energy, but they barely affected it. The armored enemy revealed his true form and summoned a strange weapon, leaving Lin Xuan facing an opponent whose power far exceeded his attacks.

• Lin Xuan sent more than ten treasures and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire into the Yin energy, but they vanished without harming it.
• Lin Xuan released the True Spirit Puppet and powered it with three Immortal Stones, but its dragon-like attacks also failed to affect the Yin energy.
• Lin Xuan summoned an enormous claw through a vortex, and although it shook the Yin energy, a black flame melted the claw away.
• The Yin energy parted to reveal a black-armored figure with blood-red eyes and flame-wreathed wings.
• The armored figure gathered black runes in his hand and formed a strange weapon resembling both a long spear and a giant axe.

Lin Xuan faced an opponent whose power had surged and who used a domain-like technique to trap him. After Lin Xuan failed to break through the barrier, the opponent admitted the domain was only an imitation and challenged him to find its weaknesses.

• The opponent used Scale Transformation, increasing his spiritual pressure, and attacked Lin Xuan with black radiance.
• Lin Xuan noticed the attacks were badly aimed, while the black streaks tore open spatial rifts around them.
• The connected rifts sealed off several li of space, and an invisible wall blocked Lin Xuan from escaping.
• Lin Xuan's Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire failed to damage the barrier.
• The opponent revealed that the sealed space was a flawed imitation of a domain and claimed Lin Xuan could not find its weaknesses.

Lin Xuan realized the Yinhun ghost had trapped him inside a counterfeit domain whose power let it create laws, but he could find no way to overcome it. The ghost immobilized Lin Xuan and sucked him into a mysterious black vortex.

• Lin Xuan reasoned that the Yinhun ghost's domain was counterfeit, but still dangerous enough that he could not identify a way to counter it.
• The Yinhun ghost shot a black dot toward Lin Xuan, then used spatial laws to freeze him in place.
• Lin Xuan tried every method he could think of, but remained unable to move or escape the domain.
• The black dot expanded into a bottomless vortex, and its suction pulled Lin Xuan inside.

Lin Xuan survived Yinhun's spatial vortex and emerged holding the Five Dragon Seal. Yinhun abandoned his pursuit of the Immortal Trapping Ring and prepared to kill Lin Xuan to seize the legendary treasure.

• Yinhun withdrew his domain after believing the vortex had killed Lin Xuan, but reopened it when the vortex reappeared.
• The vortex expanded and then collapsed as a powerful force crushed its chaotic laws.
• Lin Xuan flew out of the vortex, battered but confident, with the Five Dragon Seal before him.
• Yinhun recognized the Five Dragon Seal and rejoiced at finding the treasure he had sought for millions of years.
• Yinhun decided to kill Lin Xuan and take the Five Dragon Seal, no longer caring about the Immortal Trapping Ring.

Lin Xuan used the Five Dragon Seal to break Yinhun’s domain and kill him. After searching for spoils, Lin Xuan razed Scorpion Mountain and the surrounding area, then gathered fire-attribute Yuan Qi.

• Yinhun attacked Lin Xuan with the chaotic laws of his domain.
• Lin Xuan poured the specks of light from his dantian into the Five Dragon Seal and sent it crashing toward the domain.
• The Five Dragon Seal dissolved the laws and broke through the domain, then struck Yinhun and turned him to ash.
• Lin Xuan reclaimed the Five Dragon Seal and searched the area, finding no treasures left by Yinhun.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Sword Qi to flatten Scorpion Mountain and everything within a hundred li, then gathered fire-attribute Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi into a huge fireball.

Lin Xuan destroyed the traces at his location and left, while the story shifted to the Nether Dark King's Palace in the Lost Realm. The Nether Dark King emerged from seclusion in a fury, and three of his subordinates came to him.

• Lin Xuan struck the area with a fireball, then used his Escape Light to leave.
• The narration described a Yin-filled mountain range in the Lost Realm and the Palace built at the bottom of its Spirit Spring.
• The Nether Dark King erupted in anger and destroyed part of his Palace.
• Armored guards and Maidservants knelt as the Nether Dark King appeared, radiating power close to a Loose Immortal.
• Two men and a woman flew to the Nether Dark King, including a burly warrior, a scholarly adviser, and a female official.

The Nether Dark King told his three Tribulation Transcendence subordinates that a young Spirit Division cultivator had taken his Immortal Trapping Ring and destroyed both Fourth Brother and his External Incarnation. He ordered them to locate the cultivator, while secretly intending to pursue the Five Dragon Seal himself.

• The Nether Dark King summoned three powerful subordinates and revealed that someone had taken the Immortal Trapping Ring.
• The Nether Dark King said the thief had also destroyed Fourth Brother and his External Incarnation.
• The Nether Dark King identified the thief as a young Spirit Division cultivator from the Spirit World, leaving his subordinates stunned.
• The Nether Dark King gave his subordinates Jade Slips with the cultivator’s appearance and clues, and ordered them to track him without confronting him.
• The three subordinates withdrew, while the Nether Dark King concealed his interest in the Five Dragon Seal and planned to pursue the cultivator himself.

Lin Xuan reunited with his avatar after escaping the Yin Soul Ghost, then destroyed the damaged Teleportation Array and decided to hide in a remote part of the Lost Realm. He obtained a map from a nomadic tribe and studied it to choose a secluded refuge.

• Lin Xuan returned to the grassland and reunited with his avatar, who had guarded the damaged Teleportation Array.
• Lin Xuan considered the threat of the Yin Soul Ghost’s main body and decided to avoid it by hiding somewhere remote.
• Lin Xuan destroyed the Teleportation Array and flew away from the site.
• Lin Xuan encountered a nomadic tribe under attack by Sand Worm Beasts and, disguised as an old immortal master, killed the beasts.
• Lin Xuan asked the tribe for a map engraved on a Jade Slip, resumed his ordinary appearance, and studied it to choose a hiding place.

Lin Xuan hid in an ordinary mountain cave, strengthened its defenses, and set up a Teleportation Array while recuperating from the battle at Scorpion Mountain. Twenty years later, he had replenished his depleted true essence as the Lost Realm was unsettled by the Nether Dark King’s return and a sudden influx of Yin Soul Ghosts.

• Lin Xuan chose an ordinary mountain range instead of a remote dangerous region and carved a hidden cultivation cave behind a waterfall.
• Lin Xuan installed formations around the cave and built a Teleportation Array leading to a concealed underground cavern.
• Lin Xuan took medicine and meditated to restore the true essence he had depleted by repeatedly using Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk in his battle at Scorpion Mountain.
• Twenty years passed as Lin Xuan recuperated in seclusion, unnoticed by cultivators passing nearby.
• The Nether Dark King emerged from seclusion, and Yin Soul Ghosts flooded into Human Race, Demon Race, and Devil Race territories.

Lin Xuan remained in seclusion in the Lost Realm and refined genuine True Dragon Spirit Blood to strengthen his True Spirit Transformation Sword Art. After more than twenty years, he emerged with a stronger aura and signs that he was nearing the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

• Lin Xuan recovered from the battle’s effects and chose to stay in seclusion, wary that Old Devil Thousand Illusions still held a grudge.
• Lin Xuan opened the Jade Bottle containing genuine True Dragon Spirit Blood, which he had traded for with purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan used the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art and Ink Jade True Spirit Art to refine the spirit blood, beginning with a tiny drop that took nearly a hundred days.
• Lin Xuan spent more than twenty years refining the True Dragon Spirit Blood in seclusion.
• Lin Xuan emerged with a more powerful aura and faint signs of an impending advance to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

After refining True Dragon Spirit Blood, Lin Xuan gained an unexpected chance to approach a breakthrough into the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, but he worried that his foundation was not yet firm. He left his ruined cultivation cave to seek a place with abundant spiritual energy and, three days later, discovered two Yin Soul Ghosts had followed him into a wasteland.

• Lin Xuan weighed the risks of advancing so soon after reaching the late Spirit Division stage and decided to make careful use of his opportunity.
• After resting in his cultivation cave, Lin Xuan destroyed it and departed to search for a suitable place to break through.
• Lin Xuan considered the threat posed by the powerful ghost he had angered at Scorpion Mountain, while judging that the ghost might hesitate to enter Human Race territory.
• Three days after leaving, Lin Xuan found a man and a woman following him from a small cultivator city and led them to an isolated wasteland.
• Lin Xuan exposed the pair's concealed ghostly auras, and the two Yin Soul Ghosts revealed themselves.

After discovering that the Nether Dark King was behind the threat pursuing him, Lin Xuan killed two Yin Soul Ghosts and disguised himself to avoid detection. He traveled through several cities without being recognized, but noticed more Yin Soul Ghosts secretly gathering information and grew wary of the Nether Dark King’s reach.

• Lin Xuan confronted two middle-stage Dongxuan Realm Yin Soul Ghosts who had followed him and overwhelmed their defenses with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan subdued the White-Faced Scholar and the red-clothed woman, searched both their souls, and then destroyed them.
• Lin Xuan learned that the old monster’s true body was the Nether Dark King and resolved to stay cautious rather than regret his actions.
• Lin Xuan changed his appearance into that of a white-bearded old man and left the area.
• Lin Xuan passed through several Cultivator cities without being recognized, but saw Yin Soul Ghosts inquiring after information in Human Race territory.

Lin Xuan searched the Lost Realm for a spiritual land suitable for breaking through to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, while avoiding the Nether Dark King and the powerful factions that controlled the best sites. Over a vast lake, he encountered a late-stage Spirit Division elder fleeing a Mountain-Opening Crab and joined their battle.

• Lin Xuan spent three years seeking a suitable spiritual land and news of the Nether Dark King but made little progress.
• Lin Xuan flew across a vast saltwater lake and spotted a Robe-Clad Elder pursued by a late-stage Spirit Division Mountain-Opening Crab.
• The Robe-Clad Elder asked Lin Xuan for help, then turned to attack the crab with his ring-shaped Dharma Treasure.
• Lin Xuan joined the battle by sending a fiery-red Immortal Sword at the Mountain-Opening Crab.

Lin Xuan and the Robe-Clad Elder defeated a Mountain-Opening Crab, then discussed True Person Leikong’s Exchange Meeting. Lin Xuan agreed to attend in hopes of learning useful information about the Lost Realm, but heard no promising news about spiritual lands on the way.

• Lin Xuan and the Robe-Clad Elder trapped and killed the Mountain-Opening Crab, and Lin Xuan took its Demon Core.
• The Robe-Clad Elder collected the crab’s remaining materials and thanked Lin Xuan for helping him.
• The Robe-Clad Elder told Lin Xuan about True Person Leikong’s Exchange Meeting and invited him to attend.
• Lin Xuan accepted the invitation and traveled with the Robe-Clad Elder toward the meeting.
• Lin Xuan gave a cover story that he was a Rogue Cultivator and asked about spiritual lands, but learned nothing useful.

Lin Xuan and the Robe-Clad Elder arrived at Leikong Island for True Person Leikong's Exchange Meeting and were welcomed by his disciples. Three days later, Lin Xuan was summoned to the Phoenix Welcoming Pavilion, where the meeting was about to begin.

• The Robe-Clad Elder explained that Leikong Island was a well-guarded blessed paradise, then sent a Sound Transmission Talisman through its Restrictions.
• Disciples led by a Dongxuan Realm cultivator greeted Lin Xuan and the Robe-Clad Elder and escorted them to the VIP Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan chose a building and meditated there for three days while waiting for the Exchange Meeting.
• Yingxue delivered True Person Leikong's summons and led Lin Xuan toward the Phoenix Welcoming Pavilion.

Lin Xuan entered the Phoenix Welcoming Pavilion and found himself in a strange palace alongside more than a hundred Spirit Division cultivators. As the gathered cultivators confronted True Person Leikong, Leikong revealed that the Exchange Meeting had been a pretext and his master had invited them.

• Lin Xuan examined the floating Phoenix Welcoming Pavilion and flew inside, wary of its powerful formation.
• The passage through the pavilion disoriented Lin Xuan, who then found himself in a narrow rocky corridor ending at a stone door.
• Lin Xuan pushed open the stone door and entered a splendid palace filled with more than a hundred Spirit Division cultivators.
• The cultivators accused True Person Leikong of deceiving them by calling them to an Exchange Meeting and bringing them to a strange place.
• True Person Leikong denied intending them harm and revealed that the Exchange Meeting was a pretext for his master's invitation.

True Person Leikong revealed that his master had ordered him to gather the cultivators, but he could not explain why. When the angry crowd threatened him, Venerable Qingyan appeared and subdued the hall with his spiritual pressure, leaving Lin Xuan curious rather than afraid.

• True Person Leikong told the gathered cultivators that he had brought them there on his master's orders, though he did not know the purpose.
• The cultivators doubted Leikong's explanation and grew increasingly angry, with some preparing to attack him.
• A cold voice claimed responsibility for arranging the gathering, and a terrifying spiritual pressure silenced everyone in the hall.
• Lin Xuan recognized the danger but remained calm, then looked toward the green-robed old man who had appeared in a corner.
• One cultivator identified the old man as Venerable Qingyan.

Venerable Qingyan gathered nearly a hundred powerful cultivators and revealed that he wanted to discuss Lingbo Valley, the legendary treasure-filled realm whose entrance had vanished more than twenty thousand years earlier. The cultivators wondered whether Qingyan knew the valley was about to return.

• Venerable Qingyan recognized the black-faced cultivator as a disciple of Luyu and remarked that Luyu had died beneath Heavenly Tribulation.
• The cultivators in the hall grew uneasy about Venerable Qingyan's hidden plans, and the Robe-Clad Elder demanded that he explain why he had summoned them.
• Venerable Qingyan brought up Lingbo Valley, startling the gathered cultivators.
• The cultivators recalled that Lingbo Valley opened once every three thousand years, admitted cultivators from Lihe through Spirit Division, and contained abundant treasures.
• The cultivators recalled that the Nether Dark King had tried to force his way into Lingbo Valley over twenty thousand years earlier, causing its entrance to vanish.
• One cultivator asked whether Venerable Qingyan's plans were connected to Lingbo Valley.