Recaps

Lin Xuan rescued the Mysterious Woman from Ghost Saint Tianyou, who was pursuing her to seize the Asura Seven Treasures necklace. After the Thunder Fire Awl was destroyed, Lin Xuan counterattacked with his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, leaving Tianyou in danger.

• The Mysterious Woman raced toward the King with the necklace, but Ghost Saint Tianyou caught up and attacked her with a huge black hand.
• Lin Xuan intervened, cut down the black hand, and confronted Tianyou while the Mysterious Woman recognized him.
• Lin Xuan used the Thunder Fire Awl to test Tianyou, but Tianyou cleaved the treasure in two with his blood-red saber.
• Tianyou attacked Lin Xuan with the saber, but Lin Xuan's Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword split it and swept toward him.

Lin Xuan fought Ghost Saint Tianyou, who used the Yinyun Bead to swallow Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. Lin Xuan froze two of Ghost Saint Tianyou’s Ink Flood Dragon treasures and brought out the Immortal Sword Map, while Ghost Saint Tianyou continued trying to refine Lin Xuan’s sword.

• Ghost Saint Tianyou released a black bead that transformed into a strange beast and swallowed Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, severing their mental connection.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou sent two black Short Halberds at Lin Xuan, and they transformed into Ink Flood Dragons.
• Lin Xuan used Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to freeze the Ink Flood Dragons and damage their spirituality.
• The strange beast vanished and reformed as the Yinyun Bead, which Ghost Saint Tianyou recalled and used to refine Lin Xuan’s sword.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Immortal Sword Map, revealing it as a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, and urged Ghost Saint Tianyou to surrender.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou refused and continued refining Lin Xuan’s lifebound treasure.

Lin Xuan pressed Ghost Saint Tianyou with the Immortal Sword Map while Tianyou tried to buy time to refine Lin Xuan’s lifebound treasure. Tianyou unleashed a Tribulation Transcendence-level fierce ghost to distract Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan kept attacking both the ghost and Tianyou’s defenses.

• Ghost Saint Tianyou tried to destroy Lin Xuan’s lifebound treasure with the Yinyun Bead, while Lin Xuan anticipated his plan and sent thousands of strands of Sword Qi at him.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou released more than ten defensive treasures, including a Xuan Tian object, and layered their light screens around himself to buy time.
• Lin Xuan’s Sword Law shattered the first layer of Tianyou’s defenses, forcing Tianyou to open a sealed wooden box.
• A Tribulation Transcendence-level ghost emerged from the box and attacked Tianyou, but Tianyou subdued it with a bronze bell and a spirit fruit, then ordered it to kill Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sent some Sword Qi against the fierce ghost while the rest continued striking Tianyou’s defenses, breaking another light screen.

Lin Xuan countered Ghost Saint Tianyou’s ambush with the Nine Heavens God Luo Image and pursued the Fierce Ghost through its spatial hiding arts. He continued battering Tianyou’s defenses, leaving only the Turtle Shell intact, and prepared to strike again.

• Ghost Saint Tianyou sent a hidden Ghost Claw at Lin Xuan while the Fierce Ghost vanished, but Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens God Luo Image crushed the claw with a punch.
• Lin Xuan used the Heaven Wind Divine Eyes to locate the Fierce Ghost inside a Spatial Rift and left the Nine Heavens God Luo Image to attack it.
• The Nine Heavens God Luo Image overwhelmed the Fierce Ghost with weapons, beams, thunder, and fire.
• Lin Xuan’s Immortal Sword Map wore down Ghost Saint Tianyou’s protective treasures until only his Xuan Tian Treasure Turtle Shell remained.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou grew anxious as the Yinyun Bead still failed to break the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and Lin Xuan began forming another attack.

Lin Xuan and Ghost Saint Tianyou fought a stalemate as their treasures consumed their magic power. Ghost Saint Tianyou believed Lin Xuan was nearing exhaustion, unaware that Lin Xuan was still misleading him.

• Lin Xuan summoned the Immortal Sword Map and sent a massive sword of Sword Qi crashing down on Ghost Saint Tianyou.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou sacrificed Life Origin Yin Energy to strengthen his shield, then ignited his Source Fire when the shield began to fail.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou forced the fight into a contest of magic power, while Lin Xuan feigned panic to keep him committed.
• After half a day of stalemate, Ghost Saint Tianyou noticed Lin Xuan had not ignited his Source Fire but dismissed his doubts after seeing Lin Xuan appear worried and exhausted.

Lin Xuan used purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to outlast Ghost Saint Tianyou in their contest of magical power, then attacked as Tianyou’s defenses weakened. After Tianyou sacrificed his body and fled as a Nascent Soul, Lin Xuan used the Sea-Overturning Halberd to intercept and capture him.

• Lin Xuan drank purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, strengthening his magical power and leaving Ghost Saint Tianyou desperate as his shield began to fail.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword while Ghost Saint Tianyou struggled to defend himself.
• Ghost Saint Tianyou self-detonated his fleshly body and fled as a Nascent Soul, but a Talisman blocked Lin Xuan’s attempt to stop his escape with spatial power.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Sea-Overturning Halberd and used its Space Laws to expose Ghost Saint Tianyou’s Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan seized Ghost Saint Tianyou’s Nascent Soul with a giant hand of Azure Glow.

Lin Xuan captured Ghost Saint Tianyou and met a loyal Ghost Race woman who knew of Yue'er but suspected he was an impostor. The woman refused to reveal Yue'er's hiding place until he proved his identity, leaving Lin Xuan at a loss.

• Lin Xuan sealed Ghost Saint Tianyou's magic power, confined his Nascent Soul in a Jade Box, and flew onward.
• Lin Xuan met the surviving Ghost Race woman and learned she had recognized his appearance from a portrait in the King's boudoir.
• The woman explained that enemies had impersonated Yue'er's beloved to discover her hiding place, so she would not trust Lin Xuan's claim or his Heart Demon Oath.
• Lin Xuan learned that Yue'er's followers privately called him Young Master, but he could not prove who he was without meeting Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan considered seeking witnesses in the Spirit World but realized returning there would take too long and would not solve his immediate predicament.

Lin Xuan traveled with Xing'er, a loyal servant of the Asura King, after she offered a way to prove his identity as the Young Master. She explained that a Heart Inquiry Fruit could test whether someone spoke the truth, giving Lin Xuan a possible path to earn her trust and learn more about Yue'er.

• Xing'er offered to show Lin Xuan a way to prove he was the Young Master, and he followed her through the Underworld Hell while concealing his human identity with Yin Energy.
• Lin Xuan tried to ask Xing'er about Yue'er, but she refused to reveal anything related to the Asura King.
• Xing'er shared general information about the Underworld Hell and explained that she belonged to the Asura King's servant race and had no name before being called Xing'er.
• Lin Xuan asked how he could prove his identity, and Xing'er told him about the Heart Inquiry Fruit, which could test whether a person's words were true.

Lin Xuan and Xing'er traveled through the desolate Underworld Realm toward Black Stone City so he could buy a Heart Inquiry Fruit. Near the city, Lin Xuan sensed a high-level cultivator and recognized Tian Xiaojian, leaving him shocked that his old acquaintance had also come to the Underworld Hell.

• Lin Xuan learned from Xing'er that a Heart Inquiry Fruit prevented its bearer from lying and could be bought in large marketplaces.
• After three days of travel, Lin Xuan and Xing'er reached a forest near Black Stone City, where Xing'er described the city and its Tribulation Transcendence Middle Stage lord, Black Stone Ancestor.
• Lin Xuan and Xing'er passed several clashes between low-level cultivators and Underworld creatures as they continued toward the city.
• Near Black Stone City, Lin Xuan concealed his cultivation by reducing his aura to the Spirit Division Stage.
• Lin Xuan sensed a powerful cultivator, withdrew his Divine Sense, and recognized Tian Xiaojian, wondering how he had reached the Underworld Hell.

Lin Xuan spotted Tian Xiaojian in the Underworld Realm but avoided contact so he could continue searching for Yue'er. After Lin Xuan left, Tian Xiaojian sensed someone watching him and questioned his foster father about the Styx River Divine Fruit, which they had come to find.

• Lin Xuan recognized Tian Xiaojian and reflected on their long history as wary rivals whose strength and cultivation speed were nearly matched.
• Lin Xuan told Xing'er he had encountered an old acquaintance, then flew with her toward Black Stone City to search for Yue'er.
• After Lin Xuan left, Tian Xiaojian released his divine sense but found no one and told his foster father he had sensed someone spying on him.
• Tian Xiaojian asked whether the Styx River Divine Fruit was truly in the Underworld Realm, and his foster father took offense at his doubts.

Tian Xiaojian asked the Lord of the Demon World about the Styx River Divine Fruit and learned that it belonged to a set of three great divine fruits tied to the mysteries of domains. The Lord of the Demon World began explaining why some Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage cultivators could comprehend domains while others could not, leaving Tian Xiaojian eager to learn more.

• Tian Xiaojian and the Lord of the Demon World set aside their earlier verbal clash and resumed speaking cordially.
• Tian Xiaojian asked whether the Styx River Divine Fruit grew in Underworld Hell, and the Lord of the Demon World confirmed it and named the other two great divine fruits.
• Tian Xiaojian wondered whether the Styx River Divine Fruit could help him reach the late stage of Tribulation Transcendence, but the Lord of the Demon World said its uses went beyond that breakthrough.
• The Lord of the Demon World explained that domain comprehension distinguished true peak experts from ordinary late-stage cultivators.
• Tian Xiaojian guessed that the three divine fruits were connected to domains, and the Lord of the Demon World confirmed it before asking why only some late-stage cultivators could comprehend one.
• Tian Xiaojian proposed that opportunity, cultivation methods, and personal strength affected a cultivator's chances of comprehending a domain.

Tian Xiaojian learned that comprehending a domain had no predictable connection to a cultivator’s strength, but that three divine fruits could greatly improve the chance. The Devil Race Grand Commander explained that he could not obtain the fruits because their growing places repelled domain experts.

• The Devil Race Grand Commander told Tian Xiaojian that even powerful late-stage cultivators could fail to comprehend a domain, while the unimpressive Saint Ancestor Duobao had succeeded and become one of the nine True Devil Progenitors.
• Tian Xiaojian realized his exceptional strength would not give him an advantage in comprehending a domain and briefly grew dejected.
• Tian Xiaojian pressed his foster father about why he had brought him to Underworld Hell, prompting the Grand Commander to reveal that three divine fruits could increase the chance of comprehending a domain.
• The Grand Commander explained that the Styx River Divine Fruit, Guanghan Dao Fruit, and Flat Peach Sacred Fruit could each be consumed once and together, but their growing places repelled domain experts, preventing him from obtaining them.

Tian Xiaojian learned how rare and fiercely contested the Styx River Divine Fruit was, and his Foster Father warned him not to underestimate weaker cultivators. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan and Xing'er arrived safely at Black Stone City.

• Tian Xiaojian asked his Foster Father about his chances of obtaining the Styx River Divine Fruit and learned that Tribulation Transcendence cultivators sought it for its rarity and trading value.
• Tian Xiaojian learned that even Spirit Division Stage cultivators would join the hunt, but initially dismissed them as no threat.
• The Devil Race Grand Commander warned Tian Xiaojian that weaker cultivators might possess powerful treasures or self-detonate their Nascent Souls, and Tian Xiaojian agreed to be careful.
• Lin Xuan and Xing'er reached Black Stone City and entered through one of its many gates without obstruction.

Lin Xuan and Xing'er reached Black Stone City's Marketplace in search of the Heart Inquiry Fruit, but Lin Xuan realized he had brought no Nether Stones. Xing'er helped him enter and led him to a Yulan Trade Alliance branch so he could exchange for some.

• Lin Xuan rode with Xing'er through Black Stone City and marveled at the many kinds of Ghost Race members he saw.
• Lin Xuan discovered that entering the Marketplace cost ten Nether Stones, which he had forgotten to bring.
• Xing'er paid the entrance fee and helped Lin Xuan enter the busy Marketplace.
• Lin Xuan decided to exchange for Nether Stones, and Xing'er led him to a stone hall belonging to the Yulan Trade Alliance.

Lin Xuan exchanged spirit stones for Nether Stones at the Yulan Trade Alliance and searched Black Stone City's Marketplace for a Heart Inquiry Fruit, which he needed to verify his identity to Xing'er. After Xing'er said the fruit might appear at an auction, they waited three days and hurried to attend it.

• Lin Xuan and Xing'er entered the Yulan Trade Alliance, where Lin Xuan exchanged three spirit stones for two Nether Stones of the same grade.
• Lin Xuan and Xing'er searched the Marketplace for a Heart Inquiry Fruit but found none.
• Xing'er told Lin Xuan that the Heart Inquiry Fruit might be available at an auction beginning in about three days.
• Lin Xuan and Xing'er left the Marketplace and waited at an inn for the auction.
• Xing'er woke Lin Xuan on the day of the auction and hurried with him toward the venue.

Lin Xuan and Xing'er attended a major auction held in an ancient tomb, where Lin Xuan hoped to find the Heart Inquiry Fruit and reunite with Yue'er. The auction began with a fierce bidding war over a Cold Yin Sword, while Lin Xuan waited for more valuable treasures to appear.

• Lin Xuan followed Xing'er to the ancient tomb auction and paid the entrance fee for both of them.
• Lin Xuan and Xing'er used a short-distance Teleportation Array to reach a private stone house protected from divine sense probes.
• The auction began, and Lin Xuan recognized that the refined-looking host's strength was comparable to that of a late-Spirit Division cultivator.
• The host introduced the Cold Yin Sword, and bidders drove its price from two million to three million seven hundred thousand Nether Stones.
• Lin Xuan judged that a Dongxuan-level cultivator had likely won the sword and waited for the later auction items.

At the Black Stone City auction, the Snow Luo Fruit drew fierce bidding after Xing'er revealed it could help her advance in cultivation. Lin Xuan offered to lend her the Nether Stones, and the price climbed to thirty million as only a few bidders remained.

• The auctioneer introduced the ten-thousand-year Snow Luo Fruit as the second item, exciting the crowd.
• Xing'er told Lin Xuan that Snow Luo Pills made from the fruit could greatly aid her cultivation, and Lin Xuan offered to lend her the money to bid.
• The auctioneer set the starting price at two million Nether Stones, and bidders quickly drove it several times higher.
• A high-level bidder offered ten million Nether Stones, and a new round of bidding pushed the price upward.
• The Snow Luo Fruit reached thirty million Nether Stones, leaving only a few bidders as the price became too steep for most of the crowd.

Xing'er won the Snow Luo Fruit for forty million Nether Stones, while Lin Xuan waited for the auction's Heart Inquiry Fruit. Its three-million starting price drew no bids, leaving the fruit unsold.

• A bidder offered thirty-five million Nether Stones for the Snow Luo Fruit, then competed with Xing'er as she raised the price to forty million.
• The other bidder yielded, and Xing'er won the Snow Luo Fruit, relieved that Lin Xuan would not need to lend her more Nether Stones.
• The auction sold a refining stone and two other items for modest prices, while Lin Xuan rested through the lull.
• Lin Xuan perked up when the host introduced the Heart Inquiry Fruit and explained that it could distinguish sincere words from lies.
• The host set the Heart Inquiry Fruit's starting price at three million Nether Stones, but the Cultivators refused to bid.

Lin Xuan bought the Heart Inquiry Fruit at its starting price and stayed to watch the auction’s grand finale. The Yulan Trade Alliance sealed the venue with a defensive restriction and revealed a jade box holding an unidentified plant-type treasure.

• Lin Xuan bid three million Nether Stones for the Heart Inquiry Fruit, and no one offered more.
• Lin Xuan and Xing'er watched the remaining auction items without bidding.
• The Yulan Trade Alliance activated a defensive restriction around the venue before the final auction item.
• A maidservant brought a silk-covered silver disc to the platform, and Lin Xuan found that the silk blocked his divine sense.
• The auction host opened a Ten Thousand Year Profound Jade box, releasing a refreshing fragrance from the hidden treasure.

Lin Xuan watched the auction’s final item turn out to be a mysterious Bronze Furnace called the Styx River Furnace, whose purpose the auction host could not explain. Tian Xiaojian learned from his foster father that it was a key to entering the Styx River Land, and that powerful cultivators from multiple realms might be competing for it.

• Lin Xuan was surprised when the final auction item appeared as a Bronze Furnace rather than a rare plant or fruit.
• The auction host announced that the Styx River Furnace was essential for entering the Styx River Land, but admitted he did not know how it worked.
• The cultivators in the hall stopped challenging the auction host after he said a Yulan Trade Alliance elder had ordered the brief introduction.
• Tian Xiaojian asked his foster father about the furnace, and the Demon World's Grand Commander explained that it was one of over a hundred scattered keys to the Styx River Land.
• The Demon World's Grand Commander warned Tian Xiaojian that several Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators from other realms were likely present to seek the Styx River Divine Fruit.

Tian Xiaojian and the Devil Race Grand Commander discussed the danger of competing for the Bronze Furnace, which could reveal the key to the Styx River Land and lead bidders to risk offending the Yulan Trade Alliance. The final auction began with fierce bidding, and the Grand Commander urged Tian Xiaojian to join before the price climbed further.

• The Devil Race Grand Commander warned Tian Xiaojian that powerful cultivators might risk provoking the Yulan Trade Alliance to obtain the Styx River Divine Fruit.
• Tian Xiaojian decided that the key to the Styx River Land would become his, whether he won it at auction or by force.
• The refined man announced the Bronze Furnace's starting price as eighty million Nether Stones, and the auction began in silence.
• A bidder offered one hundred million Nether Stones, another raised it to one hundred and thirty million, and an aged voice bid two hundred million.
• The Devil Race Grand Commander urged Tian Xiaojian to bid before the price rose even higher.

Tian Xiaojian bid five hundred million Nether Stones for the Bronze Furnace, but an unseen bidder raised the price to one billion. The auction ended with the mysterious bidder claiming the Furnace, while Tian Xiaojian and the Devil Race Grand Commander remained wary of his true intentions.

• Tian Xiaojian bid five hundred million Nether Stones for the Bronze Furnace.
• An unseen cultivator countered with a bid of one billion Nether Stones, silencing the great hall.
• The Devil Race Grand Commander warned Tian Xiaojian that the price was suspiciously high for a key that only granted entry to the Styx River Land.
• No one else bid, and the auction host declared the Bronze Furnace sold to the mysterious senior.
• The bidder destroyed his stone chamber and appeared as a mass of Yin Energy before taking the treasure.
• Tian Xiaojian questioned the bidder’s motives, and the Devil Race Grand Commander advised him to remain cautious.

At the Yulan Trade Alliance auction in Black Stone City, two Tribulation Transcendence Stage siblings attacked the refined auctioneer and tried to seize the Bronze Furnace. A Yulan Trade Alliance elder confronted them, while Lin Xuan suspected other powerful cultivators were hiding nearby.

• A Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator demanded to inspect the Bronze Furnace before paying one billion Nether Stones.
• After the refined man opened the Restriction around the platform, the attacker revealed two siblings in the Yin Energy and pierced him with a Bone Spear.
• The siblings transformed their Yin Energy into a Magic Snake and sent it toward the Bronze Furnace.
• A furious Yulan Trade Alliance elder appeared as an Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor and attacked them with a bronze Long Spear.
• The siblings' Bone Spear clashed with the elder's Long Spear, and the shockwaves shattered the nearby stone rooms.
• Lin Xuan found no other Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators with his divine sense and suspected more were concealed at the auction.

Lin Xuan watched the battle at the auction and learned from Xing'er about the fearsome Feng Siblings Demons. Their revealed identities and extraordinary origins left him impressed as the fight against the Ancient Demon continued.

• Lin Xuan suspected the Tribulation Transcendence cultivators at the auction were concealing their strength, possibly waiting for a chance to seize the Bronze Furnace.
• The Yin Energy around the two siblings broke apart, revealing a bald, sturdy man and a petite young woman whom many attendees recognized as the Feng Siblings Demons.
• Lin Xuan asked Xing'er about the siblings, and she explained that they had begun as ordinary mortals in the Underworld Realm.
• Xing'er said the elder brother's corpse had become a Zombie after his soul dispersed, while his younger sister became a wild ghost after her body vanished.
• Xing'er recounted that the siblings had once slaughtered sects and clans, then escaped an old monster at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage after being pursued for three days and nights.

Lin Xuan listened as Xing'er recounted the Feng Siblings Demons' rise to Tribulation Transcendence and their revenge on a powerful senior, then watched the siblings confront an Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor at the Yulan Trade Alliance. The chapter ended with the demon's Bronze Long Spear closing in on the ten-thousand-year Corpse King while their summoned beasts fought.

• Xing'er told Lin Xuan that the Feng siblings had returned as Tribulation Transcendence-level Cultivators and killed the senior who had once hunted them.
• Lin Xuan decided to watch the confrontation at the Yulan Trade Alliance before choosing how to act.
• The Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor transformed into a scaled Demon Monster and summoned his Bronze Long Spear to attack the Feng siblings.
• The Feng siblings' elder brother transformed into a ten-thousand-year Corpse King and formed a fierce tiger from claw arcs to fight the demon's electric Python.
• The Bronze Long Spear approached within three feet of the Corpse King as the two summoned beasts clashed.