Recaps

Venerable Qingyan revealed that he could send Spirit Division cultivators into Lingbo Valley and offered rewards if they retrieved a treasure for him. He showed them a conjured image of a delicate bracelet, leaving the cultivators wondering what made it important.

• Venerable Qingyan told the gathered cultivators that a treasure linked to Lingbo Valley could let them enter the vanished valley again.
• He explained that only Spirit Division cultivators could enter and said he wanted them to retrieve certain treasures in exchange for rewards and insights into Tribulation Transcendence.
• The cultivators weighed the risks and benefits, and Venerable Qingyan assured them he would not punish them if they failed to find what he wanted.
• Venerable Qingyan conjured an image of a delicate bracelet and told the cultivators to search for one like it in Lingbo Valley.

Venerable Qingyan promised a rich reward to the cultivators who found a Bracelet in Lingbo Valley and warned them that they could stay there for only one hundred days. He led them toward a mysterious formation, leaving Lin Xuan uncertain whether it was a teleportation array.

• Venerable Qingyan said the Bracelet was probably in a grand Palace or its ruins and promised pills and cultivation guidance to whoever found it.
• Venerable Qingyan explained that anyone who stayed in Lingbo Valley beyond one hundred days would be trapped unless they advanced to Tribulation Transcendence within one hundred years and gained the ability to Shatter the Void.
• A timid young cultivator asked about the time limit, and a bald big man explained the rumored exception while admitting he did not know its source.
• Venerable Qingyan opened a hidden passage and led the cultivators through it to a square hall containing a strange formation.
• Lin Xuan suspected the formation might be a teleportation array but could not identify it with certainty.

Lin Xuan and the other Spirit Division Stage cultivators were teleported into Lingbo Valley with Jade Talismans that could bring them back. Venerable Qingyan then revealed his secret alliance with Bingpo’s External Incarnation, who had sent the cultivators to search for a treasure in exchange for helping him leave the Lost Realm.

• Venerable Qingyan gave the cultivators Jade Talismans and activated the array, sending more than a hundred of them into Lingbo Valley.
• After the cultivators vanished, Venerable Qingyan spoke to an empty space and admitted they had been lured inside to search for a treasure.
• Bingpo’s External Incarnation appeared and said she believed the cultivators would have a good chance of finding the treasure she wanted.
• Venerable Qingyan warned Bingpo to honor their agreement, since he had risked offending the Nether Dark King by helping her.
• Bingpo assured Venerable Qingyan that she would keep her promise to take him out of the Lost Realm.

Venerable Qingyan reflected on his long-standing desire to escape the Lost Realm and pursue a chance to reach the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage. Saint Ancestor Bingpo offered to take him outside in exchange for his help, revealing that his search for the mysterious bracelet served her plans.

• Venerable Qingyan considered how the Lost Realm trapped even powerful cultivators and believed escape was nearly impossible.
• Venerable Qingyan learned that Saint Ancestor Bingpo claimed she could take him to the Spirit World or the Demon World.
• Venerable Qingyan trusted Bingpo's demonstrated ability and agreed to perform a task for her.
• Venerable Qingyan's search for the mysterious bracelet became part of Bingpo's scheme, with him acting as her vanguard pawn.

Bingpo questioned Venerable Qingyan about the Bracelet and confirmed that the Jade Talisman would return Lingbo Valley’s entrants to her after a hundred days. Lin Xuan arrived in the vast valley and saw it as a chance to find a secluded spiritual land where he could advance to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

• Bingpo warned Venerable Qingyan not to covet the Bracelet, then reassured him that she would honor her promise if he helped find it.
• Bingpo asked whether the entrants would all be teleported back after a hundred days, and Venerable Qingyan explained that only those who crushed his Jade Talisman would return.
• Lin Xuan surveyed Lingbo Valley’s vast mountains and found no cultivators within a hundred thousand li.
• Lin Xuan recognized a Raincoat Grass and sensed the valley’s abundant spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan resolved to seek a suitable spiritual land in Lingbo Valley and advance without fear of interruption.

Lin Xuan decided to wait out the other cultivators in Lingbo Valley before searching for Venerable Qingyan’s Bracelet and preparing to advance. Elsewhere, Tian Chenxi fought a swarm of strange snakes, while Xiao Er investigated a mysterious Cold Pool.

• Lin Xuan weighed the risks of advancing in Lingbo Valley and chose to wait a hundred days before attempting it.
• Lin Xuan planned to search for Venerable Qingyan’s Bracelet and remembered that he had yet to refine the Vermilion Bird Ring.
• Tian Chenxi appeared amid tens of thousands of strange Magic Snakes and used her Brocade Handkerchief to dissolve them.
• Xiao Er appeared in a snowy valley, noticed a Cold Pool, and walked toward it to investigate.

Xiao Er encountered a Linglong Frost Centipede in Lingbo Valley and was frozen to death, while other cultivators found valuable spiritual herbs. Lin Xuan began searching for Venerable Qingyan’s bracelet and a suitable spiritual land for his planned breakthrough.

• Xiao Er investigated the Cold Pool, where a Linglong Frost Centipede burst out of the water.
• Xiao Er attacked the centipede with his treasures, but its cold breath froze both his defenses and him in one strike.
• Zhong Lin found Red Lotus Polygonum, while a Robe-Clad Elder and a woman in palace dress each discovered a spiritual treasure.
• Lin Xuan began hunting for treasures, prioritizing Venerable Qingyan’s bracelet and a place with a dense Spirit Vein.

Lin Xuan entered a strange desert in Lingbo Valley where his divine sense dispersed, then spent thirty days inside and lost his way. He fought a remarkably tough Scorpion Monster as the desert’s dangers continued to trap him.

• Lin Xuan found few spirit medicines during his first ten days in Lingbo Valley because the herbs were too low-grade to interest him.
• Lin Xuan discovered a desert where his divine sense dispersed completely and decided to enter despite suspecting it held great danger.
• Lin Xuan attacked a Scorpion Monster with Sword Qi, but the monster survived and struck back with a venomous needle.
• After thirty days in the desert, Lin Xuan realized he had lost his way because his divine sense failed and shifting dunes erased his sense of direction.

Lin Xuan became trapped in a vast desert after discovering that his sense of direction and attempts to escape were thwarted by a powerful illusion formation, possibly involving Space Laws. After thirty days of searching on foot, he noticed something astonishing at noon, but the chapter ended before revealing what it was.

• Lin Xuan realized he had lost all sense of direction and flew at full speed for seven days without finding the desert’s edge.
• Lin Xuan suspected a profound illusion formation was trapping him and found that his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye could not see through it.
• Lin Xuan used the Sea-Overturning Halberd and his understanding of Space Laws to try to break through, but his powerful strike failed.
• Lin Xuan continued on foot, enduring the desert without trouble from its harsh temperatures, lack of food and water, or solitude.
• On the thirtieth day, Lin Xuan discovered something astonishing at noon.

Lin Xuan discovered the remains of a Spirit Division cultivator in the desert and fought a deadly Scorpion Monster. After killing it, he found himself surrounded by a swarm of more than a hundred scorpions and unleashed the Nine Palaces Moment.

• Lin Xuan uncovered a skeleton carrying a damaged sword forged from Glazed Meteorite Iron and suspected its owner had been a Spirit Division cultivator.
• Lin Xuan continued through the desert cautiously, then spotted a sand dune moving toward him.
• Lin Xuan split the dune with Sword Qi and revealed a huge Scorpion Monster whose venomous needles made him wary.
• Lin Xuan killed the monster with the Sword into Silk Technique after ordinary Sword Qi failed to harm it.
• Lin Xuan saw more than a hundred scorpions surrounding him and released the Nine Palaces Moment.

Lin Xuan fought through a tide of Poison Scorpions in the strange desert, then encountered their transformed leader, who demanded his Nascent Soul. Seeing a chance to learn how to escape the desert, Lin Xuan attacked the scorpion monster.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to kill hundreds of Poison Scorpions as more swarmed toward him.
• As Lin Xuan tried to fly away, a soul-shaking insect cry stunned him and alerted him to danger.
• A powerful, four-armed humanoid scorpion emerged from the sand and revealed that it ruled the desert.
• The scorpion king accused Lin Xuan of killing its subordinates and demanded his Nascent Soul in exchange for sparing his soul.
• Lin Xuan decided to capture the scorpion king for clues about escaping the desert and launched a sudden sword attack.
• The scorpion king roared and raised two shields of Black Qi with its pincers to block Lin Xuan's strike.

Lin Xuan battled a powerful scorpion transformed into a strange man, using the Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder and his sword techniques against its defenses. When the scorpion blocked his sword threads with black strands and vortexes, Lin Xuan summoned the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to attack it.

• Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword struck the strange man’s forelimbs but was knocked aside by their hard shells.
• Lin Xuan hit the strange man with Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder, then sent countless silver sword threads at him.
• The strange man spun up black qi and formed a massive two-tailed scorpion Dharma Image to defend himself.
• The scorpion’s black threads entangled Lin Xuan’s sword threads and prevented them from breaking through.
• Lin Xuan enlarged the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and sent it crashing toward the strange man as he produced more black threads.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed the poison scorpion monster with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but the monster fought back with its Inner Core and venom. Lin Xuan unleashed his newly strengthened Hundred Dragon Fangs, leaving the battle unresolved as the Flood Dragons charged the monster.

• Lin Xuan's Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire burned through the strange man's black net and engulfed his Poison Scorpion Dharma Image, forcing him to retreat.
• Lin Xuan pressed the strange man with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but the monster sacrificed his Inner Core and used venom to block their attacks.
• Lin Xuan recalled his attacks, and the monster mistook his pause for exhaustion before revealing his enormous poison scorpion form and lashing at Lin Xuan with hundreds of tails.
• Lin Xuan transformed the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword into more than a hundred Flood Dragons and sent them charging at the scorpion monster with the Hundred Dragon Fangs.

Lin Xuan destroyed the Poison Scorpion with Hundred Dragon Fangs, then exposed the scorpion monster’s attempt to survive as a Primordial Spirit. The monster was left cornered as Lin Xuan prepared to finish it off.

• Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Poison Scorpion with Hundred Dragon Fangs, tearing apart its body and killing it.
• The ordinary scorpions fled, and Lin Xuan left the desert without pursuing them.
• The scorpion monster’s Primordial Spirit emerged from a black pearl after Lin Xuan had apparently departed and vowed revenge.
• Lin Xuan revealed that he had secretly returned and explained that he had seen through the monster’s Deceive the Heavens Strategy with his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye.

Lin Xuan defeated the scorpion monster and searched his soul for a way out of the Nightmare Desert, but found that no one had ever escaped. He was left trapped in the desert with no clear means of breaking its illusion restriction.

• The scorpion monster tried to self-destruct rather than let Lin Xuan capture him alive.
• Lin Xuan reached through space and seized the scorpion monster before he could explode.
• Lin Xuan drew out the scorpion monster’s soul and searched it for clues to leaving the desert.
• Lin Xuan learned that the scorpion monster had spent tens of thousands of years trying and failing to escape, and that every cultivator who entered had died there.
• Lin Xuan realized that only a being far stronger than himself could break the desert’s restriction or tear open the void.

Lin Xuan learned from the Scorpion Monster’s memories that Palace ruins in the Nightmare Desert might hold clues to escape and could be connected to Venerable Qingyan’s Bracelet. He reached the nearby oasis, heard fighting ahead, and concealed himself before approaching.

• Lin Xuan concluded that he could not escape the Nightmare Desert through cultivation alone and decided to investigate the Palace ruins.
• He recalled that Venerable Qingyan had sent cultivators to search for a Bracelet and suspected the Palace might reveal how to leave the desert.
• Using the Scorpion Monster’s memories to guide him, Lin Xuan flew toward the ruins despite the monster’s deep-rooted fear of them.
• After two days, Lin Xuan spotted an oasis and realized the Palace ruins lay within it.
• Lin Xuan heard explosive sounds ahead, suspected other cultivators were nearby, and concealed his figure and aura as he moved toward them.

Lin Xuan reached a vast oasis and found three Spirit Division Stage Cultivators fighting a swarm of stone Puppets. He joined them to help defeat the Puppets, leaving the group free to investigate the mysterious Palace.

• Lin Xuan arrived at the oasis and suspected that a powerful Spirit Vein lay beneath it.
• Lin Xuan spotted the Robe-Clad Elder and two other Cultivators struggling against numerous stone Puppets.
• Lin Xuan decided to help the Robe-Clad Elder, whom he had met before, and revealed himself to the group.
• Lin Xuan joined the fight with a fiery-red Immortal Sword, helping the four Cultivators turn the battle around.
• Lin Xuan cut apart the final stone Puppet, ending the fight.

Lin Xuan joined forces with three cultivators to destroy stone puppets, then met Tian Chenxi of Mingxi Pavilion and Venerable Iron Pagoda. They compared their experiences trapped in the Nightmare Desert and agreed that the Palace ruins might hold clues to escape and lead to Venerable Qingyan’s promised bracelet.

• The Robe-Clad Elder thanked Lin Xuan for helping defeat the stone puppets, and Lin Xuan credited their victory to everyone working together.
• The Robe-Clad Elder introduced Tian Chenxi, whose master was Fairy Yang Tong of Mingxi Pavilion.
• The Robe-Clad Elder introduced Fellow Daoist Yin, nicknamed Venerable Iron Pagoda, and described his formidable Body Refining Technique.
• Lin Xuan learned that the three cultivators had also become trapped in the Nightmare Desert and had slain and refined the spirits of monsters they encountered.
• The group explained that the monsters’ memories pointed to the Palace ruins, which they hoped might reveal a way out and help them obtain Venerable Qingyan’s bracelet.

Lin Xuan warned Tian Chenxi and the others that the Jade Talisman might not let them escape the strange desert, so they decided to seek clues in the oasis. They reached a ruined Palace and hurried toward it, hoping to find a way out.

• Tian Chenxi suggested they could use Venerable Qingyan's Jade Talisman to leave after one hundred days, but Lin Xuan warned that Lingbo Valley's barriers might render it useless.
• Lin Xuan revealed that he had already failed to tear open the desert's space, and the others grew worried about being trapped.
• Tian Chenxi asked Lin Xuan what they should do, and he proposed exploring the oasis and its Palace ruins for clues.
• Lin Xuan, Tian Chenxi, the Robe-Clad Elder, and the bald big man entered the oasis and traveled cautiously for about two days.
• The four spotted the ruined Palace in the distance and quickened their pace toward it.

Lin Xuan and the others discovered a strange mountain in the Lost Realm and identified it as Asura Palace, a place Lin Xuan had visited in the Human World. They began investigating its entrance, where Lin Xuan wondered what awaited inside and whether Yue'er’s Bracelet was hidden there.

• A towering mountain appeared before Lin Xuan, Tian Chenxi, Venerable Iron Pagoda, and the Robe-Clad Elder, and they agreed to investigate rather than turn back.
• Lin Xuan examined the mountain with the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye before following the others to its foot, where they found a No-Fly Restriction and a flight of Jade Stone Stairs.
• The group gathered around an ancient stone stele, but the Robe-Clad Elder and Tian Chenxi could not read its inscription.
• Venerable Iron Pagoda recognized the inscription as “Asura Palace” and explained that his study of ancient scripts came from his body-refinement practice.
• Lin Xuan recalled visiting the Asura King’s Palace in the Human World and resolved not to let a possible treasure Yue'er left behind fall into another person’s hands.

Lin Xuan and the others climbed toward the Asura King's Palace after confirming its identity, finding the mountain's spiritual energy increasingly dense. Near the summit, Lin Xuan recognized multicolored flakes as spiritual energy crystallization, and the group continued cautiously rather than stopping to cultivate.

• Lin Xuan confirmed that the stone tablet named the Asura Palace, alarming the Robe-Clad Elder and Tian Chenxi.
• Lin Xuan, the Robe-Clad Elder, Tian Chenxi, and Iron Pagoda Venerable climbed the Jade Stone Stairs cautiously and found the spiritual energy growing denser.
• Lin Xuan considered whether the mountain could support a breakthrough but decided he needed to investigate its safety first.
• Tian Chenxi noticed multicolored flakes falling near the summit, and Lin Xuan identified them as spiritual energy crystallization.
• The Robe-Clad Elder recognized the phenomenon, while Tian Chenxi and Iron Pagoda Venerable absorbed the spiritual energy but refrained from meditating in the ruins.

Lin Xuan and three other cultivators reached the Asura King's Palace ruins and found four treasures radiating brilliant aura on a preserved altar. They agreed to divide the treasures equally, though Lin Xuan remained cautious as they approached them.

• Lin Xuan and the others climbed to the summit and saw the luxurious ruins of the Asura King's Palace.
• Tian Chenxi recognized the distant radiance as treasure aura, and she and the others hurried toward it while Lin Xuan lagged behind warily.
• The group found a preserved altar holding a saber, a sword, a Bamboo Tube, and a Jade Bowl, all surrounded by pure, brilliant treasure aura.
• The Robe-Clad Elder, Tian Chenxi, Iron Pagoda the Venerable, and Lin Xuan agreed to divide the four treasures equally.

Tian Chenxi and the Robe-Clad Elder seized two Xiantian Spirit Treasures, which transformed into Black Qi and poisoned them to death. Lin Xuan survived alongside Iron Pagoda Venerable, who questioned whether Lin Xuan already knew about the Illusion Moon Poison.

• Tian Chenxi took the Bamboo Tube while the Robe-Clad Elder seized the Jade Bowl, leaving Lin Xuan and Iron Pagoda Venerable to decide between the Flying Dagger and Flying Sword.
• When the Robe-Clad Elder tried to take the remaining treasures, the Bamboo Tube and Jade Bowl turned into Black Qi and entered their owners' bodies.
• Tian Chenxi swallowed a Rose Snow Ginseng Pill, but it accelerated the poison, and she and the Robe-Clad Elder died.
• Lin Xuan asked Iron Pagoda Venerable whether he had set a trap, and Iron Pagoda Venerable denied it.
• Iron Pagoda Venerable said the poison was the Illusion Moon Poison and asked whether Lin Xuan had heard about the place's wonders.

Lin Xuan recognized the poison as Illusion Moon Poison and recalled how the Asura King had defeated its infamous former master. He suspected the apparent Xiantian Spirit Treasures were transformed poison and began wondering whether Iron Pagoda Venerable knew the palace’s secrets or had laid a trap.

• Lin Xuan identified the poison as Illusion Moon Poison and recalled its history and the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons’ challenge to the Asura King.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons razed one of the Asura King’s palaces and killed its maidservants, provoking her to accept his challenge.
• The Asura King defeated the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons with one move, then extracted his soul and refined his spirit.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that the four apparent Xiantian Spirit Treasures could be transformed Illusion Moon Poison, which even his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye could not identify at his current strength.
• Lin Xuan eyed Iron Pagoda Venerable and wondered whether he had visited the palace before or was behind a conspiracy.

Lin Xuan fought the Iron Pagoda Venerable and discovered that his opponent was an Ancient Demon, then overwhelmed him with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. The demon’s body was dismembered, but its Demon Infant tried to flee before Lin Xuan could stop it.

• Lin Xuan recognized the Iron Pagoda Venerable as an Ancient Demon and challenged him to battle.
• The Iron Pagoda Venerable blocked Lin Xuan’s probing Sword Qi with his fists, surprising Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and multiplied its sword lights into several hundred.
• The Iron Pagoda Venerable used demonic Qi and summoned monsters from his treasures, but Lin Xuan’s sword lights destroyed them and dismembered him.
• The Iron Pagoda Venerable’s Demon Infant fled, and Lin Xuan used Space Laws to interrupt its Teleportation.