Recaps

Lin Xuan subdued and collected Venerable Qingyan’s Moment Cave Heaven Map, then noticed a low-level disciple in green before the clan’s Supreme Elder arrived. Unable to sense Lin Xuan’s realm, the Supreme Elder asked whether he was a Tribulation Transcendence-level cultivator.

• Lin Xuan used a hand seal to capture the deep vortex inside the Moment Cave Heaven Map and stored the treasure in his Storage Bag.
• Lin Xuan scanned the gathered cultivators and was surprised by the green-clothed Spirit Movement Stage disciple.
• The clan’s Supreme Elder arrived in a Beast Carriage after receiving a plea for help from the clan cultivators.
• The Supreme Elder probed Lin Xuan with his divine sense, found him unfathomable, and asked whether he was a Tribulation Transcendence-level cultivator.

Lin Xuan met the Spirit Division Stage leader of the family that had settled on Leikong Island and was treated with great deference after revealing his Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivation. He learned that the family had moved there three years earlier and prepared to ask a more important question, promising benefits for truthful answers.

• The middle-aged Confucian Scholar realized Lin Xuan was a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator and became deeply respectful.
• Lin Xuan reassured the gathered cultivators and agreed to speak with the middle-aged Confucian Scholar at the Reception Pavilion.
• The middle-aged Confucian Scholar escorted Lin Xuan to the pavilion, where the disciples and servants received him.
• Lin Xuan asked when the family had moved to Leikong Island, and the middle-aged Confucian Scholar answered that they had arrived three years earlier.
• Lin Xuan noted that the timing followed True Person Leikong's departure and promised benefits if the middle-aged Confucian Scholar answered his next questions truthfully.

Lin Xuan questioned the Lu Family patriarch about the green-clothed girl who had won the contest and learned that she was a direct-line disciple named Lu Ying'er. Sensing a familiar trace in her soul, he suspected she was the reincarnation of the Lu Ying'er he had known and summoned her to ask her about it.

• Lin Xuan asked the middle-aged Confucian Scholar about his family's origins and whether it accepted disciples without blood ties.
• Lin Xuan asked whether the green-clothed girl was a direct-line disciple or an outsider, and the patriarch sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to find out.
• The patriarch reported that Lu Ying'er was a pure-blooded direct-line disciple of the Lu Family whose parents had died more than ten years earlier.
• Lin Xuan reacted strongly to her name and wondered whether she was connected to reincarnation.
• The patriarch summoned Lu Ying'er, who arrived and respectfully paid her respects to Lin Xuan and her Ancestor.
• Lin Xuan sensed a familiar trace in Lu Ying'er's soul and suspected she was the reincarnation of the Lu Ying'er he had known.

Lin Xuan privately tested whether Lu Ying'er was the reincarnation of the Lu Ying'er he had known in the Human World. He showed her scenes from her past life, leaving her immersed in a memory of being pursued with Liu Xin.

• Lin Xuan asked the Confucian Scholar to leave so he could question Lu Ying'er alone.
• Lin Xuan set up a soundproof barrier and confirmed that Lu Ying'er had grown up within her family.
• Lin Xuan used spiritual power to create butterflies that made Lu Ying'er experience a vision.
• Lu Ying'er saw two women being chased through a forest and felt a mysterious familiarity with one of them.
• Lin Xuan recreated selected memories from Lu Ying'er's previous life to test for traces of her former soul.

After confirming with eighty percent confidence that Lu Ying'er was the reincarnation of his former companion, Lin Xuan asked her to become his disciple. Lu Ying'er was stunned by the offer, and Lin Xuan said he would leave if she refused.

• Lin Xuan told Lu Ying'er that his investigation had convinced him she was likely the reincarnation of the Lu Ying'er he had known before.
• Lu Ying'er struggled to accept the revelation and wondered what Lin Xuan intended to do with her.
• Lin Xuan asked Lu Ying'er if she was willing to take him as her master.
• Lu Ying'er was shocked by the offer, and Lin Xuan assured her that he would not force her and would leave if she wished to keep her peaceful life.

Lu Ying'er accepted Lin Xuan as her master and left Leikong Island with him to continue her cultivation. After teaching her and helping her break through to the bottleneck before Foundation Establishment, Lin Xuan sent her into seclusion with a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Lu Ying'er accepted Lin Xuan's offer and respectfully greeted him as her master.
• Several days later, Lin Xuan took Lu Ying'er from Leikong Island after receiving the Lu Family ancestor's agreement.
• Lin Xuan instructed Lu Ying'er on her cultivation aboard the Painted Boat and assessed her aptitude.
• Lin Xuan gave Lu Ying'er a Foundation Establishment Pill and used his spiritual power to advance her cultivation to the Foundation Establishment bottleneck.
• Lu Ying'er thanked Lin Xuan and went into seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.

Lin Xuan sensed two Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators fighting and decided to secretly investigate, leaving Lu Ying'er protected in a hidden cave. When he reached the battle and used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to identify the fighters, he was shocked to recognize one of them.

• Lu Ying'er broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm three days after Lin Xuan helped her.
• Lin Xuan sensed two Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators clashing far away and decided to go observe them.
• Lin Xuan flew Lu Ying'er to a hidden cave, set up formations to protect her, and left her there.
• Lin Xuan concealed his aura as he approached the battle and used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see the fighters.
• Lin Xuan recognized one of the fighters and reacted with shock.

Lin Xuan discovered Bingpo, whose Avatar was battling Fairy Yang Tong, and concealed himself in hopes of exploiting their conflict. Yang Tong launched a fierce assault, but Bingpo met it without yielding, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lin Xuan recognized Bingpo, the True Devil Progenitor, and realized she was the only one who knew how to leave the Lost Realm.
• Lin Xuan saw Bingpo facing Fairy Yang Tong, Mingxi Pavilion’s Supreme Elder, and hid his presence while considering how to benefit from their clash.
• Fairy Yang Tong animated her bamboo forest and sent a storm of sharp leaves at Bingpo, whose Devil Qi swallowed the attack.
• Fairy Yang Tong summoned a jade-green Immortal Sword and unleashed Sword Qi and more bamboo-leaf attacks at Bingpo.
• Bingpo summoned a black long-saber Dharma Treasure to meet Yang Tong’s Sword Qi, and the two continued fighting without either gaining a decisive advantage.

Lin Xuan tried to intervene as Fairy Yang Tong fell behind in her battle with Bingpo, but Bingpo’s feint exposed him and nearly wounded him with a surprise attack. The three powerful cultivators faced one another, with Bingpo wary of Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong newly aware that he was a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator.

• Fairy Yang Tong’s defenses shattered under Bingpo’s demon claw, and Bingpo followed with a deadly blade strike as she fell.
• Lin Xuan moved to intervene, but he dodged Bingpo’s hidden spear attack after sensing it at the last moment.
• Bingpo recognized Lin Xuan and realized he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, prompting her to consider retreating.
• Fairy Yang Tong reappeared unharmed, revealing that Bingpo’s blade strike had been a feint intended to draw Lin Xuan’s attention away from the spear attack.
• Fairy Yang Tong sensed Lin Xuan’s cultivation and wondered who the unfamiliar young-looking Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator was.

Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong joined forces against Bingpo’s Avatar, but Lin tried to negotiate for information about leaving the Lost Realm. When Bingpo denied knowing the way out, Fairy Yang Tong attacked, leaving the confrontation on the brink of battle.

• Fairy Yang Tong proposed joining forces with Lin Xuan, and he agreed to fight Bingpo with her.
• Bingpo appealed to Lin Xuan’s past restraint on Penglai Immortal Island, but he rejected her claim that she had shown him kindness.
• Lin Xuan offered to let Bingpo go peacefully if she answered his question about leaving the Lost Realm.
• Bingpo denied knowing how to leave, but Lin Xuan noticed her reaction and threatened to fight her Avatar for the answer.
• Fairy Yang Tong launched a streak of Sword Qi at Bingpo before Lin Xuan could act.

Fairy Yang Tong attacked before Lin Xuan and Fairy Bingpo could reconcile, but Bingpo unleashed her Flying Needle Dharma Treasure and caught Lin Xuan with a devastating close-range strike. Lin Xuan vanished into a deep, lava-filled pit, leaving his fate uncertain as Bingpo doubted that her attack had killed him.

• Fairy Yang Tong launched a powerful sword attack to prevent Lin Xuan and Fairy Bingpo from reaching an agreement.
• Lin Xuan answered with three sword threads, and Fairy Bingpo rebuked them before summoning countless Flying Needles.
• Lin Xuan escaped the needles through a Spatial Rift, but Fairy Bingpo tracked him and appeared beside him.
• Fairy Bingpo struck Lin Xuan in the chest with the power of Laws, sending him crashing into the ground and opening a deep pit.
• Lava surged from the pit as Fairy Yang Tong worried about Lin Xuan, while Fairy Bingpo suspected he had survived her attack.

Lin Xuan ambushed Bingpo, wounded her, and used Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder to cripple her Life-Bound Dharma Treasure. Fairy Yang Tong joined the fight with a towering tree Dharma Image, leaving Bingpo under a coordinated assault.

• Lin Xuan emerged from concealment and cut off one of Bingpo's arms, though he had also suffered injuries from her earlier attack.
• Lin Xuan sent hundreds of sword lights at Bingpo, who split her flying needles to meet them.
• Lin Xuan infused his sword lights with Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder, weakening Bingpo's flying needles and allowing his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to destroy many of them.
• Fairy Yang Tong summoned a towering great-tree Dharma Image and attacked Bingpo with its branches.
• Lin Xuan formed a giant sword and struck at Bingpo while Fairy Yang Tong pressed her attack, placing Bingpo in grave danger.

Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong attacked Bingpo, but her avatar revealed a domain that turned their attacks against them and summoned powerful demonic creatures. As Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong faced mounting danger, a purplish-red Immortal Bird emerged from the flames engulfing Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong launched a pincer attack on Bingpo, who stayed in place and released a sphere of demonic Qi surrounded by a vast white hurricane.
• Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong struck the hurricane, but the domain inside severed Lin Xuan’s connection to his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and sent its Sword Qi back at him.
• Bingpo summoned a Dark Heavenly Phoenix to attack Lin Xuan and a three-headed giant python to attack Fairy Yang Tong.
• Lin Xuan was swallowed by the returning silver Sword Qi as the Dark Heavenly Phoenix pressed its attack, while Bingpo grew confident of victory.
• Purplish-red flames spread through the silver radiance, and an Immortal Bird appeared before Bingpo.

Lin Xuan turned the fight against Bingpo after the Domain that had suppressed him expired, then counterattacked with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and Jade Luo Bees. Bingpo met his fire with Crystal Luo Fire as the bees closed in.

• Lin Xuan summoned the Vermilion Bird Ring, whose Void Shadow and Red Lotus Fire overcame Bingpo's black Phoenix and helped him regain the upper hand against the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Fairy Yang Tong was swallowed by Bingpo's green radiance and severely injured, while Bingpo's intensified attacks kept Lin Xuan from helping her.
• Bingpo's Domain abruptly vanished when the golden spirit talisman in her hand crumbled, restoring Lin Xuan's connection to the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Lin Xuan sent the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire at Bingpo and released tens of thousands of Jade Luo Bees from his Treasure Pagoda.
• Bingpo recognized the bees as carriers of Time Poison and countered Lin Xuan's fire with Crystal Luo Fire as the swarm approached.

Lin Xuan used a fiery Phoenix connected to the King of Hundred Birds to unleash Space Laws against Saint Ancestor Bingpo. Bingpo survived by using a costly secret technique but was wounded and recognized the Phoenix’s extraordinary power.

• Bingpo summoned Heavenly Demon Spiders that trapped Lin Xuan’s Jade Luo Bees in webs of spider silk.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Vermilion Bird Ring while Bingpo countered it with a golden hairpin that released beast roars, and Fairy Yang Tong joined the assault.
• Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword surrounded Bingpo, then one sword-light transformed into a fiery Phoenix.
• The Phoenix sent mobile spatial rifts at Bingpo, who escaped with a secret technique but suffered a wound.
• Bingpo recognized that the Phoenix’s Space Laws were connected to the King of Hundred Birds.

Lin Xuan used the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art to overwhelm Bingpo with attacks from a Phoenix, a Qilin, and a True Dragon. Bingpo was badly injured and seemed close to defeat.

• Bingpo dodged the Phoenix's spatial-rending attack, then calmly deflected Lin Xuan's repeated sword threads.
• Lin Xuan transformed his sword light into a Qilin, whose sound wave shattered Bingpo's hastily raised shield and sent her flying as she spat blood.
• Lin Xuan followed with a giant dragon's claw, which tore apart Bingpo's leaf-shaped treasure and sent her flying again.
• Lin Xuan's successive transformations and carefully timed attacks left Bingpo showing signs of defeat.

Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong drove Bingpo into a desperate fight, but her apparent self-destruction was a ruse to escape. Lin Xuan caught her with his Golden Moon True Toad transformation and bound her in its tongue.

• Lin Xuan overwhelmed Bingpo with attacks from his Spirit transformations, while Fairy Yang Tong joined the fight with emerald radiance.
• Bingpo threatened to destroy her Avatar, then unleashed an explosion that fooled Lin Xuan and Fairy Yang Tong into thinking she had self-destructed.
• Bingpo revealed that she had used the explosion as cover to flee and taunted Lin Xuan as she escaped.
• Lin Xuan's apparent body proved to be an illusion, and he transformed into a Golden Moon True Toad.
• The Golden Moon True Toad extended its enormous tongue through the gray-white void and bound Bingpo before she could escape.

Lin Xuan killed Bingpo’s Avatar in the Lost Realm and searched her soul, while Bingpo learned of the loss in the Demon World and suspected Lin Xuan had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage. Baoshe doubted that Lin Xuan could have defeated Bingpo’s powerful Avatar.

• Lin Xuan ignored Bingpo’s threats and cut off her head with a silver sword thread.
• Lin Xuan captured Bingpo’s Nascent Soul, used the Soul Searching Technique, and destroyed it.
• Fairy Yang Tong watched Lin Xuan’s ruthless actions in shock.
• In the Demon World, Bingpo told Baoshe that her Avatar in the Lost Realm had fallen.
• Bingpo identified Lin Xuan as the one who killed her Avatar and suspected he had advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Baoshe reacted with disbelief, questioning how Lin Xuan could have defeated Bingpo’s Avatar.

Bingpo and Baoshe learned that Lin Xuan had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and discussed finding Spirit World allies to eliminate him. In the Lost Realm, Lin Xuan found a way out after defeating Bingpo's Avatar, and Yang Tong thanked him and promised to repay his help.

• Baoshe was shocked that Lin Xuan had advanced from Spirit Division to Tribulation Transcendence in only a few hundred years, while Bingpo speculated that rare spiritual objects might have helped him.
• Bingpo reassured Baoshe that Lin Xuan had not learned the secret of the Asura Seven Treasures and said they could not attack him directly.
• Bingpo proposed finding suitable Spirit World experts to kill Lin Xuan on their behalf, and Baoshe understood the plan.
• Lin Xuan found little useful information by searching Bingpo's Avatar's soul because she had erased most of her memories, but he discovered how to leave the Lost Realm.
• Lin Xuan noticed Bingpo's Storage Bag was missing, then accepted the loss because he had secured a way out.
• Yang Tong thanked Lin Xuan for saving her and promised to help him in the future.

Lin Xuan learned how to leave the Lost Realm using the Small Xuyu Universe Array, a World-Breaking Bead, and his ability to Shatter the Void. Near Lu Ying'er’s shelter, he discovered black-robed cultivators attacking its protective array and rushed to defend his disciple.

• Fairy Yang Tong left to recuperate from her injuries after inviting Lin Xuan to visit Mingxi Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan considered the danger of having destroyed Bingpo’s Tribulation-level avatar, but realized he could escape the Lost Realm by setting up the Small Xuyu Universe Array.
• Lin Xuan flew toward Lu Ying'er’s shelter and sensed several black-robed Nascent Soul cultivators attacking its array while a hook-nosed middle-aged Lihe cultivator watched nearby.
• Lin Xuan was shocked that the attackers were close to breaking through the array he had set up to protect Lu Ying'er’s cave.
• Lin Xuan recalled accepting Lu Ying'er as his disciple and resolved not to let anyone bully her.

Lin Xuan discovered that a freak bolt of heavenly lightning had nearly broken the Restriction protecting Lu Ying'er, leading passing cultivators to mistake the disturbance for a treasure appearing. After learning that his and Bingpo’s powers had caused the lightning, he spared the cultivators and prepared to leave with Lu Ying'er, but something he noticed made him suddenly look surprised.

• Lin Xuan arrived at Lu Ying'er's residence and revealed his Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivation, frightening the cultivators who had gathered there.
• Lin Xuan asked Lu Ying'er what had happened, and she explained that heavenly lightning had struck near her cultivation cave and weakened his Restriction.
• The hawk-nosed cultivator explained that he and the Grey-robed Cultivators had mistaken the lightning for a sign of a treasure emerging into the world.
• Lin Xuan realized that his and Bingpo’s Supernatural Powers had disturbed the world's origin energy and caused the lightning, then let the cultivators leave.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Painted Boat and prepared to depart with Lu Ying'er, but turned with surprise after noticing something.

Lin Xuan accepted a Treasure Map said to lead to a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator’s treasure and rewarded the middle-aged man who offered it. After Lin Xuan departed, the man’s younger sister questioned why he had not sold the map at auction.

• The middle-aged man returned to Lin Xuan and offered him a damaged Jade Slip containing a Treasure Map.
• Lin Xuan confirmed that the map bore the divine sense imprint of a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator and accepted it.
• Lin Xuan gave the middle-aged man a pile of treasures in exchange, then departed with Lu Ying'er aboard the Painted Boat.
• The middle-aged man’s younger sister complained that he had given away the Wang Family heirloom for too little.
• The middle-aged man explained that his family lacked the power to use the map or claim its treasure.

A cultivator clan exchanged an ancient Treasure Map for pills and treasures from Lin Xuan, then left with their rewards. Lin Xuan discovered that the map’s spiritual imprint might lead to lost cultivation methods suited to Shangguan Ling and Shangguan Yan’s Thunder Soul Ice Soul physiques.

• The middle-aged cultivator explained that the clan could not safely auction the Treasure Map and persuaded the young girl to accept their exchange with Lin Xuan.
• The clan discovered Biying Luoxue Pills and powerful Dharma Treasures among Lin Xuan’s gifts, then hurried away with them.
• Lin Xuan examined the Jade Slip and recognized similarities between its spiritual imprint and those of Shangguan Ling and Shangguan Yan.
• Lin Xuan conjectured that ancient cultivators with Thunder Soul Ice Soul physiques had left behind specialized cultivation methods that could unlock the sisters’ potential.
• Lin Xuan considered seeking the map’s treasures and bringing Shangguan Ling and Shangguan Yan to his side after leaving the Lost Realm.

Lin Xuan brought Lu Ying'er to Fairy Hongling's valley, where her reaction to Hongling strengthened his belief that she was the reincarnation of an old acquaintance. After settling Lu Ying'er and securing the valley, Lin Xuan prepared to cultivate and refine the Hundun Taiyin Qi.

• Lin Xuan arrived at Fairy Hongling's valley with Lu Ying'er and reunited with Hongling.
• Lu Ying'er felt an inexplicable familiarity with Hongling, and Lin Xuan became more certain that Lu Ying'er was his old acquaintance reincarnated.
• Lin Xuan told Hongling how he had destroyed Venerable Qingyan, then said he planned to cultivate before searching for treasure.
• Lin Xuan opened cultivation caves for himself and Lu Ying'er, gave her pills and treasures, and instructed her to continue cultivating the Nine Heavens Profound Art.
• Lin Xuan strengthened the valley's defenses with formations so he could refine the Hundun Taiyin Qi without disturbance.

Lin Xuan refined a wisp of Hundun Taiyin Qi into the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to increase its power. After succeeding, he rested briefly and resumed cultivating the fire, which still had a long way to go before reaching its full potential.

• Lin Xuan decided to strengthen the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire now that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence level.
• Lin Xuan released a wisp of Hundun Taiyin Qi from a gourd and transformed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire into a Nine-Headed Bird that swallowed it.
• Lin Xuan spent three days refining the Hundun Taiyin Qi into the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire without mishap.
• Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see silver motes of origin power within the fire, then rested and continued refining it.