Recaps

Lin Xuan tracked down Seven Absolutes Heaven’s secret auction near Guiluo City, hoping to find treasures that could help Yue’er’s injuries. After revealing his Core Condensation cultivation and overpowering the guards, he was welcomed inside.

• Lin Xuan stabilized Yue’er’s injuries, recovered his magic power, and flew north from Guiluo City to search for the secret auction.
• Lin Xuan spotted a scholar who used a Sound Transmission Talisman to open a hidden entrance in the wasteland.
• Lin Xuan stopped Huang Yin from summoning help and explained that he only wanted to attend the auction.
• Huang Yin welcomed Lin Xuan and explained that Seven Absolutes Heaven sometimes killed unexpected visitors but let powerful cultivators attend to avoid trouble.

Lin Xuan attended Seven Absolutes Heaven’s underground auction, where the Blue Ice Sword’s unusual ability to freeze Innate True Fire drew the crowd’s interest. A wealthy Foundation Establishment Middle Stage youth won the sword, and the auction continued with expectations rising.

• Huang Yin led Lin Xuan and the Green-Robed Scholar to the underground trade fair, where Lin Xuan received a seat among the Core Condensation cultivators.
• Lie Haipeng began the auction after most invited cultivators had arrived.
• Lie Haipeng revealed the Blue Ice Sword and demonstrated that it could freeze his Innate True Fire.
• Bidders drove the Blue Ice Sword’s price up to three thousand five hundred crystal stones, and a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage youth bought it.

At the Seven Absolutes Heaven auction, Lin Xuan bought Yin Spirit Pills to help treat Yue'er’s injuries. After the auction ended without the promised ghost servants being sold, a maid invited him to meet her master, and Lin Xuan followed her to learn why.

• The auction offered rare treasures, including an ancient treasure that a short, stout cultivator bought for twenty thousand crystal stones.
• Lie Haipeng presented Yin Spirit Pills, and Lin Xuan bought the bottle for five thousand crystal stones after judging the pills genuine and useful for Yue'er.
• Two hours later, Lie Haipeng ended the auction without explaining why no ghost servants had been sold, despite the cultivators’ complaints.
• A palace-dressed maid invited Lin Xuan to meet her master and hinted at information about the missing ghost servants, so he agreed to follow her.
• The maid led Lin Xuan through the vast underground passages to an open space, where he reacted with surprise.

Lin Xuan entered Seven Absolutes Heaven’s Bamboo Listening Pavilion after the auction and met the Core Condensation cultivators who had been invited there. As You Province’s conflicts pushed sects to recruit more cultivators, Yuan Dahai urged Lin Xuan to join the Sea Sand Sect, but Lin Xuan delayed giving an answer; then two more guests arrived.

• Lin Xuan followed Lie Haipeng through a bamboo-forest formation to the Bamboo Listening Pavilion and found five Core Condensation cultivators waiting inside.
• Yuan Dahai introduced himself to Lin Xuan and invited him to join the Sea Sand Sect after learning that Lin Xuan claimed to be a Rogue Cultivator.
• Lin Xuan considered the sects’ efforts to recruit cultivators amid the chaos spreading across You Province and recognized Yuan Dahai’s wish to strengthen his sect.
• Lin Xuan told Yuan Dahai he would consider the invitation and answer in a few days, avoiding a direct refusal.
• Lie Haipeng brought in a haughty man and woman, addressing them as Senior Fu and Senior Liao.

Lie Haipeng told the Core Condensation cultivators that a high-grade Ghost King had stolen Seven Absolutes Heaven’s eight ghost servants and asked them to join forces to retrieve them. The cultivators agreed after negotiating compensation, leaving the group poised to confront the Ghost King.

• Lie Haipeng gathered the auction’s eight Core Condensation cultivators and explained that the promised ghost servants had been seized.
• Lie Haipeng revealed that a Ghost King had stolen the servants and lived in a mountain hollow a hundred li away, outside Yinhun Canyon.
• The cultivators learned the thief was a high-grade Ghost King whose strength could rival a great-perfection Core Condensation expert.
• Lie Haipeng offered each cultivator one ghost servant in exchange for helping defeat the Ghost King.
• Fu challenged the offer, so Lie Haipeng added five thousand crystal stones for each cultivator, and the group accepted.

Lin Xuan tested a Yin Spirit Pill on Yue'er before joining Lie Haipeng and the others on their journey to the Ghost King's cave residence. As they traveled, Yuan Dahai tried to recruit Lin Xuan and dismissed concerns about the mission, while Lin Xuan questioned why Seven Absolutes Heaven needed outside help.

• Lin Xuan inspected his lodging, set up an alarm formation, and brought Yue'er out to check her injuries.
• Lin Xuan gave Yue'er a Yin Spirit Pill, which slightly stabilized her injuries but could not heal her fully.
• Lin Xuan gave Yue'er another pill to refine overnight, and she apologized for troubling him before they meditated.
• Lie Haipeng gathered the cultivators the next morning, and they set out toward the Ghost King's cave residence.
• Yuan Dahai tried to recruit Lin Xuan during the journey and claimed that eight Core Condensation cultivators could easily defeat the Ghost King.
• Lin Xuan questioned why Seven Absolutes Heaven had hired them if the task was so easy, and Yuan Dahai speculated that the alliance lacked enough experts in Guiluo City.

Lin Xuan and the other cultivators attacked the Ghost King’s cave at Hundred Flower Valley, but the supposedly high-grade Ghost King seemed much weaker than expected while its vicious ghosts fought with surprising strength. As the battle continued, Lin Xuan suspected that Seven Absolutes Heaven’s intelligence concealed a deeper problem.

• Lin Xuan inspected the mountains and recognized the area as a suitable Yin Vein where the Ghost King had built its cave residence.
• Lie Haipeng led the cultivators to Hundred Flower Valley, where they broke through the illusion spells and charged into the flower-filled valley.
• The Ghost King emerged in a cloud of black mist and withstood the cultivators’ combined attack before calling for help.
• Seven or eight vicious ghosts appeared, and the cultivators split up to fight them while Lin Xuan joined Yuan Dahai, the hooked-nosed cultivator, and the beautiful middle-aged woman against the Ghost King.
• Lin Xuan noticed that the Ghost King seemed far weaker than Lie Haipeng had claimed, while the vicious ghosts fought at unexpectedly high strength, and he began to doubt Seven Absolutes Heaven’s intelligence.

Lin Xuan and the other cultivators discovered that Lie Haipeng had lured them into an ambush with four additional ghost kings. Lie Haipeng revealed that Seven Absolutes Heaven was allied with the yin souls and planned to use the cultivators’ Golden Cores to create a Fourth Ghost Emperor.

• Lin Xuan noticed Lie Haipeng’s anxiety and quietly moved toward the canyon entrance as the group battled a ghost king.
• Four mid-stage Core Condensation yin souls arrived, and Lie Haipeng fled to join them, revealing his hidden cultivation.
• Lie Haipeng admitted that Seven Absolutes Heaven served the yin souls and described their alliance with human ghost cultivators.
• Lie Haipeng revealed that the yin souls had trapped the cultivators to consume their Golden Cores and help a ghost king reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

Lin Xuan and the other cultivators discovered that Lie Haipeng and the Ghost Kings had trapped them for the newly advanced Ghost Emperor Haotian. As the cultivators were overwhelmed and escape routes closed, Lin Xuan fled deeper into Hundred Flower Valley while Yuan Dahai ran into an ambush at the entrance.

• Lie Haipeng and the Ghost Kings attacked the cultivators, but Lin Xuan suspected they were waiting for the Fourth Ghost Emperor.
• A short, thin cultivator wounded a Ghost King and tried to escape, but Ghost Emperor Haotian appeared and seized him, extracting his Golden Core.
• Yuan Dahai urged the cultivators to attack Haotian together, then used their assault as a diversion to flee toward the valley entrance.
• Lin Xuan saw through Yuan Dahai's plan and fled deeper into the valley, reasoning that the entrance was likely guarded.
• Yuan Dahai reached the entrance and discovered a formation and a host of monsters waiting for him.

Lin Xuan lured Gu Lian away from Hundred Flower Valley and killed him with the Immortal Binding Ball and Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword, obtaining the inner core Yue'er needed. Ghost Emperor Haotian learned that Gu Lian had died but dismissed the danger of Lin Xuan exposing Seven Absolutes Heaven.

• Lin Xuan failed to shake the pursuing Ghost King and stopped to confront him; Gu Lian introduced himself and attacked.
• Lin Xuan trapped Gu Lian with the Immortal Binding Ball, preventing him from turning into mist, then killed him with the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword.
• Lin Xuan collected Gu Lian's black-red inner core, stored it for Yue'er, and flew away.
• Ghost Emperor Haotian discovered that Gu Lian had died after he and Lie Haipeng killed Yuan Dahai and the other cultivators in Hundred Flower Valley.
• Lie Haipeng worried that Lin Xuan would reveal Seven Absolutes Heaven, but Ghost Emperor Haotian said no one would believe him.

After escaping Ghost Emperor Haotian, Lin Xuan gathered ingredients and rented an Earth Fire room in Guiluo City to prepare a healing pill for Yue'er while waiting out possible pursuit. On his way to the Earth Fire site, he recognized Elder Li, a fugitive from Yanzhou's fallen Fire Spirit Sect.

• Ghost Emperor Haotian ordered his Ghost Kings to leave him in seclusion while he stabilized his Nascent Soul cultivation and consumed Golden Cores.
• Lin Xuan escaped to Guiluo City with the Ghost King's inner core and bought the ingredients needed to treat Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan rented a high-quality Earth Fire room for three months so he could refine the Yangyuan Pill without exhausting his magic power.
• Lin Xuan chose to remain in Guiluo City to avoid possible pursuit by Haotian's subordinates while the inner core's medicinal power remained usable.
• At the extinct volcano where he planned to refine the pill, Lin Xuan recognized Elder Li, a middle-stage Core Condensation cultivator who had fled Yanzhou after the Fire Spirit Sect was destroyed.

Lin Xuan rented a fire cavern in Guiluo City and spent forty-nine days refining a Yangyuan Pill to help Yue'er recover from her injuries. After she took it and began refining its power, Lin Xuan reflected on how much harder it would be to advance his cultivation now that he had reached Core Condensation.

• Lin Xuan met Li Yaotian of the Fire Spirit Sect, who invited him to visit his cave abode before leaving after receiving a message.
• Lin Xuan rented a stone chamber in the small volcano, set up the Extreme Yin Evil Spirit Array, and began refining a Yangyuan Pill.
• After forty-nine days, Lin Xuan completed and tempered the Yangyuan Pill with Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lin Xuan summoned Yue'er, who swallowed the pill and began circulating the Profound Demon Great Art while he guarded her.
• Lin Xuan cultivated beside Yue'er and considered his ambition to reach the Nascent Soul Realm and the difficulty of finding enough resources as a Core Condensation cultivator.

Lin Xuan sought a way to cultivate despite having no spiritual roots and pinned his hopes on an ancient medicine that could grant mortals spiritual roots. The complete pill formula required an Origin Gold Fruit, which seemed extinct in his realm, leaving him without a practical way forward.

• Lin Xuan considered using an ancient spirit medicine to gain spiritual roots and cultivate more effectively.
• Lin Xuan learned that a Nascent Soul cultivator had created the medicine to give his mortal beloved spiritual roots, but the pill produced only poor-quality roots in mortals and had no effect on cultivators.
• Lin Xuan found the complete pill formula in a damaged Jade Slip and discovered that it required nine ingredients, including the scarce Origin Gold Fruit.
• Lin Xuan searched for Origin Gold Fruit during his travels, but the evidence suggested it had vanished from his realm.
• Lin Xuan considered substituting another ingredient for Origin Gold Fruit, but the option was only theoretical and would not work in practice.

Lin Xuan discovered that Yue'er’s Yangyuan Pill was driving her toward Core Condensation, despite her recent injuries. He worked to conceal the heavenly omens around their cave in Guiluo City, but as his defenses strained, the Spirit Beast Bag at his waist suddenly moved.

• Lin Xuan meditated with a Red Origin Pill and found Yue'er’s injuries had improved after taking the Yangyuan Pill.
• Five-colored light and surging spiritual energy revealed that Yue'er was entering Core Condensation, which she said she could not stop because the pill’s power was swelling inside her.
• Lin Xuan realized the Yangyuan Pill might help ghostly beings form a Golden Core and told Yue'er to focus on condensing hers.
• Lin Xuan began concealing the heavenly omens by igniting formation talismans and using his Beast Soul Banner to create a dark-green shield around the cave.
• As Lin Xuan strained to reinforce the shield, the Spirit Beast Bag at his waist suddenly moved.

Lin Xuan helped Yue'er through a dangerous Golden Core formation after her newly formed core began to collapse. Yue'er succeeded, while the Red-Haired Ancestor had already noticed the strange attempt near Guiluo City, and Lin Xuan was left astonished by something after Yue'er awoke.

• Lin Xuan released a strange spirit beast that absorbed the spiritual energy spilling from Yue'er and concealed the signs of her Core Formation from nearby cultivators.
• The Red-Haired Ancestor sensed a yin soul forming a Core near the volcano but stayed in meditation because his Six-Pulse Golden Sun Art had reached a critical juncture.
• After a week, Yue'er told Lin Xuan that her newly formed Golden Core was beginning to collapse, and he decided to help her with his own magical power.
• Lin Xuan sent black mist into Yue'er, and they worked together for thirty days to stabilize her Golden Core.
• Yue'er successfully formed her Golden Core, while the strange spirit beast expanded and absorbed the escaping spiritual energy.
• Yue'er thanked Lin Xuan with a smile, and Lin Xuan raised his head in astonishment at something he had noticed.

After Yue'er stabilized her Golden Core, Lin Xuan prepared to leave Guiluo City and gave her his Beast Soul Banner. Li Yaotian invited him to a Core Condensation exchange meeting, but Lin Xuan was astonished to learn that True Person Linglong was hosting it.

• The little beast absorbed spiritual energy, began advancing, and Lin Xuan returned it to his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er spent the winter and spring cultivating in their cave residence, and Yue'er stabilized her realm.
• Lin Xuan explained why he would not reveal Seven Absolutes Heaven's plans and gave Yue'er his Beast Soul Banner to nourish.
• Li Yaotian arrived and invited Lin Xuan to a Core Condensation exchange meeting being held that day.
• Li Yaotian led Lin Xuan toward the meeting, and Lin Xuan reacted with shock when he learned True Person Linglong was hosting it.

Lin Xuan accompanied Li Yaotian to an exchange meeting supposedly hosted by True Person Linglong, but he saw through the trap laid for him. He exposed Li Yaotian’s disguise and recognized his past, while Li Yaotian’s plan to build a force in You Province was revealed.

• Li Yaotian told Lin Xuan that True Person Linglong managed Seven Absolutes Heaven’s business in southwestern You Province and brought him to the meeting.
• Li Yaotian opened a hidden passage through a bare mountain wall, and they followed it to a great hall.
• Lin Xuan refused to enter until the concealed formation was withdrawn and declared that the amiable old man was not True Person Linglong.
• The disguised man transformed into a tall, ugly middle-aged cultivator, while Li Yaotian admitted the deception had been exposed.
• Lin Xuan accused Li Yaotian of trying to lure him in and kill him for his goods, then revealed he knew Li Yaotian’s history in Yanzhou.
• Li Yaotian was shocked that Lin Xuan knew his background, as the chapter revealed he had gathered surviving Fire Spirit Sect cultivators in You Province to build a force.

Li Yaotian recounted how he rebuilt the Fire Spirit Sect in Guiluo City through ambushes and robbery before attempting to trap Lin Xuan. When Lin Xuan resisted with an ancient treasure and Yue'er appeared, Li Yaotian feared that Lin Xuan might be the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil.

• Li Yaotian led the Fire Spirit Sect in an attack on a small clan, but its formation and iron-armored demon corpses drove them away.
• After a year of wandering, Li Yaotian settled the Fire Spirit Sect in Guiluo City and funded its growth by luring and robbing Rogue Cultivators.
• Li Yaotian and Wang Hu laid a trap for Lin Xuan using an exchange meeting, but Lin Xuan saw through their scheme and challenged them.
• Wang Hu summoned Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and attacked Lin Xuan with a writing-brush treasure, while Lin Xuan countered with the Green Scale Needle.
• Yue'er appeared to protect Lin Xuan, and Li Yaotian recognized her as a powerful yin soul and began to suspect Lin Xuan was the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil.

Lin Xuan pretended to be the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil to make Li Yaotian and Wang Hu lower their guard, but a blood-red monster broke free of its restriction and attacked. Lin Xuan recognized it as a Demon Monster, a supposedly extinct intelligent race, leaving the group facing a threat from the ancient past.

• Yue'er displayed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and Li Yaotian mistook Lin Xuan for the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil and begged for mercy.
• Lin Xuan played along with Li Yaotian's mistake and planned to attack him and Wang Hu when they let down their guard.
• A rumble and screams alerted Lin Xuan that Li Yaotian and Wang Hu knew something about a nearby danger.
• Bloodied cultivators ran into the hall, but a red cloud appeared and killed them before they could explain what had happened.
• The red cloud sent out blood-red snakes that killed the Fire Spirit Sect cultivators, while Lin Xuan activated the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield.
• A three-headed, six-armed creature emerged from the cloud, and Lin Xuan recognized it as a Demon Monster thought to have been exterminated in ancient times.

Lin Xuan faced a powerful ancient Demon Monster while Li Yaotian and Wang Hu begged him for protection. Li Yaotian explained how he had found the monster sealed in ice and how the two men’s blood sacrifice had unexpectedly led to its escape.

• Lin Xuan assessed the Demon Monster’s danger as Li Yaotian and Wang Hu pleaded for his help.
• Lin Xuan questioned Li Yaotian about the monster’s origins while it watched them without attacking.
• Li Yaotian recounted finding the monster sealed in an ancient cave and discovering it was still alive after more than a million years in ice.
• Li Yaotian took the frozen monster back, and he and Wang Hu used an ancient blood-sacrifice technique in an attempt to make it their pet.
• The blood sacrifice initially went smoothly, but the monster broke free when Li Yaotian and Wang Hu’s attempted robbery brought them into danger.

The Demon Monster ambushed Lin Xuan, Li Yaotian, and Wang Hu, killing Li Yaotian and Wang Hu and consuming their Golden Cores. Lin Xuan fought back with his treasures, including the Spirit-Absorbing Mirror, and the battle continued as the Demon Monster began chanting an ancient incantation.

• The Demon Monster attacked the three cultivators with blood-red weapons and a hidden tentacle, but Lin Xuan dodged the tentacle's strike.
• The Demon Monster impaled Li Yaotian and Wang Hu, took their Golden Cores, and consumed them.
• Lin Xuan summoned his sword, Carefree Fan, Yue'er, and the Spirit-Absorbing Mirror to face the Demon Monster.
• The Spirit-Absorbing Mirror's black light clusters clashed with the Demon Monster's bloody lights, and both attacks vanished.
• Lin Xuan prepared to wear down the Demon Monster with the mirror while the Demon Monster began chanting in an ancient language.
• Lin Xuan pointed his Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword at the Demon Monster and sent it forward.

Lin Xuan fought the invisible Blood Demon and used the Immortal Binding Ball to expose and restrain it. The Demon Monster triggered Demonic Transformation, grew far stronger, and cut through the ancient treasure’s threads, leaving Lin Xuan facing a more dangerous enemy.

• The Demon Monster vanished from Lin Xuan’s sight and struck through the Carefree Fan’s protective barrier while taunting him as Blood Demon.
• Lin Xuan used the Immortal Binding Ball to locate and bind the hidden Demon Monster, which recognized the treasure and struggled against it.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Green Scale Needle and Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword, but the Demon Monster’s blood-red barrier repelled both ancient treasures.
• The Demon Monster unleashed Demonic Transformation, changing its form and releasing even stronger demonic Qi.
• The transformed Demon Monster cut apart the Immortal Binding Ball’s threads with two streaks of white light, shocking Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan struggled against a demon monster whose Demonic Transformation gave it overwhelming speed and a deadly Bone Blade, while Yue'er used the Beast Soul Banner to hold it back. After using a Thousand-Mile Instantaneous talisman to boost his speed, Lin Xuan struck with the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword, surprising his opponent.

• Lin Xuan recalled the damaged Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword and dodged the demon monster’s rapid attacks, but his Spirit-Absorbing Mirror failed to hit it.
• The demon monster broke Lin Xuan’s Carefree Fan with three Bone Blade strikes, forcing him to retreat.
• Yue'er released venomous snakes from the Beast Soul Banner, temporarily restraining the demon monster.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword and applied the Thousand-Mile Instantaneous talisman to himself to increase his speed.
• Lin Xuan dodged the demon monster and landed a dazzling sword strike, leaving it startled by the clash.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er killed the demon after restraining it with their treasures and the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword. While searching Li Yaotian and Wang Hu's belongings, Lin Xuan found pills and a Jade Slip that surprised him, leaving its contents unrevealed.

• Lin Xuan used the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword's frigid light to slow the demon while Yue'er bound it with the Beast Soul Banner and he trapped it with the Immortal Binding Ball.
• Lin Xuan enlarged the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword and killed the demon with a direct strike.
• Lin Xuan stored the demon's corpse and took the Storage Bags from Li Yaotian and Wang Hu's bodies.
• Lin Xuan found mid-grade crystal stones and about three hundred Biying Pills in the two men's Storage Bags, though he lamented that they would do little to overcome his cultivation difficulties.
• Lin Xuan searched further and found a Jade Slip; when he examined it with his divine sense, he was surprised by what he discovered.

After defeating the Fire Spirit Sect, Lin Xuan learned the location of an ancient cave from Li Yaotian’s Jade Slip and traveled into the dangerous Hundred Thousand Mountains to find it. He came across the Heaven Mountain Sect’s Xu Siblings fighting several demon beasts and flew to help them.

• Lin Xuan read Li Yaotian’s Jade Slip, memorized the ancient cave’s location, and destroyed the Fire Spirit Sect members’ corpses.
• Lin Xuan explained to Yue'er that powerful ancient illusion restrictions might have hidden the cave from Li Yaotian, then set off for the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Xuan rested at a market on the mountains’ outskirts before entering, and he drove off would-be robbers by revealing his Core Condensation cultivation.
• After two days of searching, Lin Xuan heard fighting near his campsite and used his divine sense to find the Xu Siblings surrounded by demon beasts.
• Lin Xuan recognized Xu Yin and her brother, saw they were close to being overwhelmed, and flew toward them to intervene.