Recaps

Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy entered Spirit Herb Mountain’s secret Treasure Pavilion to seek the Jingyang Divine Pill, only to encounter a blood-red mist that blocked divine sense and inflicted vivid illusions of pain. Lin Xuan recognized the mist as an illusion formation and endured it until he emerged on the other side, while Peacock Fairy’s progress remained unknown.

• Lin Xuan explained how Spirit Herb Mountain’s Library Pavilion was a decoy and revealed that he had found the hidden Treasure Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan used a command token to open the mountain entrance, and Peacock Fairy agreed to enter despite suspecting danger.
• Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy flew into the mountain and found blood-red mist that resisted their divine senses.
• Peacock Fairy entered the mist first behind her seven-colored barrier, and Lin Xuan followed with his sword and Runic Ancient Shield.
• Blood-colored lightning appeared to shatter Lin Xuan’s shield and strike him, but he realized the attacks and pain were illusions created by the mist.
• Lin Xuan endured the changing illusions and walked through the blood mist until he emerged from it.

Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy escaped the illusion formation and found an ancient chamber filled with puppets. After destroying the weaker puppets, they faced a swift Nascent Soul Realm Naga puppet, and Peacock Fairy attacked it with a golden sword.

• Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy left the illusion formation and gathered strange plants as they made their way through the mountain.
• Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy entered a cavern and discovered that its statues were ancient puppets.
• Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy destroyed the Foundation Establishment Realm puppets, leaving the Nascent Soul Realm Naga as their main enemy.
• The Naga puppet vanished and struck at Lin Xuan, but his Runic Ancient Shield blocked the attack.
• Peacock Fairy summoned a golden sword of demonic power and sent it toward the Naga puppet.

Lin Xuan escaped a surprise attack while Peacock Fairy fought the intelligent Naga, then crossed the poisonous underground river and reached the Treasure Pavilion. He hid when he heard human voices nearby.

• Peacock Fairy and Naga traded powerful spells and weapons as Lin Xuan decided to search ahead alone.
• A shattered Wolf-Headed Puppet ambushed Lin Xuan, but he melted its spear with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and escaped.
• Peacock Fairy held off the Naga while Lin Xuan crossed the poisonous underground river and passed the third trial.
• Lin Xuan reached the Treasure Pavilion, heard human voices, and concealed himself.

Lin Xuan secretly listened as Elder Hu revealed his revenge plot and the hidden purpose of the Treasure Pavilion. Elder Hu planned to exploit an ancient Forbidden Array against Spirit Herb Mountain, while Lin Xuan remained concealed outside.

• Lin Xuan swallowed a Hidden Spirit Pill and used a thread of divine sense to eavesdrop through the Treasure Pavilion’s barrier.
• Lin Xuan recognized Elder Hu, a peak Core Condensation Realm Enforcement Elder, and realized the seemingly blunt old man had concealed his true nature.
• Elder Hu told his Seventh Brother that Spirit Herb Mountain had destroyed their Hu Family and manipulated him into nurturing hatred and seeking revenge.
• Elder Hu explained that he and his brother had infiltrated Spirit Herb Mountain and that the Treasure Pavilion’s pill formulas were mostly unusable to them.
• Elder Hu revealed that the Treasure Pavilion concealed an ancient Forbidden Array that gathered Earth Fire and would serve as the key to their revenge.

Lin Xuan overheard Elder Hu and his accomplice planning to unleash an ancient formation that would destroy Spirit Herb Mountain, so he confronted them before they could act. He battled Elder Hu while Yue'er went after the hidden accomplice.

• Lin Xuan learned that Elder Hu was a spy who intended to use an ancient array to destroy Spirit Herb Mountain and avenge his family.
• Elder Hu and the short, stout cultivator agreed to activate the array, but Lin Xuan broke through the manor's warning restriction and confronted them.
• Lin Xuan attacked Elder Hu with the Floating Cloud Falling Snow Sword, while Elder Hu defended himself with a self-repairing earthen wall.
• The short, stout cultivator vanished using an ancient invisibility art, and Lin Xuan sent Yue'er to deal with him.

Lin Xuan faced Elder Hu, who unleashed a powerful Corpse Talisman, and countered with an ancient golden talisman enhanced by Azure Phantom Nether Fire. The two enormous hands clashed as Elder Hu sent his ghost claw sweeping toward Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan recognized Elder Hu's Corpse Talisman as a rare earth-rank evil talisman capable of threatening even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
• Elder Hu activated the Corpse Talisman, forming a vast ghost claw from corpse fire while Lin Xuan protected himself with a fiery-red shield.
• Lin Xuan summoned a golden talisman and shaped its flames into a giant golden hand to match the ghost claw.
• Lin Xuan added Azure Phantom Nether Fire to the golden hand, unsettling Elder Hu with its enhanced power.
• Elder Hu sent the gray-white ghost claw sweeping toward Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan fought Elder Hu while Yue'er countered a concealed attack from Elder Hu's younger brother. The younger brother died, and Elder Hu prepared another treasure as he faced Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan used the Gold Talisman and Azure Phantom Nether Fire to contend with Elder Hu's Corpse Flood Dragon and corpse fire.
• Lin Xuan drew out a Jade Flute, but the short, fat cultivator emerged from concealment and launched the Purple Lightning Shadowless Needle at him.
• Yue'er appeared and killed the short, fat cultivator with two streaks of cold light.
• Lin Xuan kept the Purple Lightning Shadowless Needle at bay with his Runic Ancient Shield and used the Jade Flute to transform into a giant python that attacked the Corpse Flood Dragon.
• Elder Hu mourned his younger brother, recognized Lin Xuan's strength, and took another treasure from his chest, making Lin Xuan's expression turn strange.

Lin Xuan broke free of Elder Hu’s porcelain Demon-Trapping Treasure before its thunderfire could kill him, then destroyed Elder Hu’s defenses as he tried to activate the Forbidden Array. Elder Hu continued setting up the array eye, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Elder Hu trapped Lin Xuan and Yue'er beneath his porcelain bowl, then fled to the room containing the Forbidden Array’s central array eye.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Nine Heavens Bright Moon Rings and broke the porcelain bowl, revealing it to be Elder Hu’s life-bound magic treasure.
• Elder Hu suppressed his injuries with a talisman and raised the Yellow Kerchief Ancient Treasure to hold Lin Xuan back while continuing to arrange the formation flags.
• Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens Bright Moon Rings shattered the earthen wall and broke the Yellow Kerchief into pieces.

Lin Xuan destroyed Elder Hu’s talisman attacks and cornered him, prompting Elder Hu to mistake the Ice-Fire Twin Rings for Spirit World treasures and beg for mercy. Lin Xuan ignored his pleas and sent an ice-and-snow Evil Flood Dragon to attack him.

• Elder Hu fled after Lin Xuan destroyed his Yellow Kerchief and threw eight attacking talismans behind him.
• Lin Xuan used the Ice-Fire Twin Rings’ Southern Bright Separation Fire to consume the fire ants and defeat the golden lightning bolts.
• Lin Xuan caught up with Elder Hu, who realized he could neither fight nor escape.
• Elder Hu mistook Lin Xuan for a Lihe-stage senior and knelt, begging him to spare his life.
• Lin Xuan sent an ice-and-snow Evil Flood Dragon to bite Elder Hu.

Lin Xuan killed Elder Hu, recovered the medicinal pill and Jade Slip he had sought, and fled as the tampered Forbidden Array destabilized. On his way back, he found Peacock Fairy fighting Xu Jinqing after she had defeated the Naga.

• Lin Xuan froze Elder Hu, destroyed his body, and took a jade box and Jade Slip containing the items he had come to find.
• Lin Xuan discovered that Elder Hu had tampered with the Forbidden Array, and underground fire began erupting around the manor.
• Lin Xuan took Elder Hu’s golden and Corpse Talismans and raced through the poisonous underground river toward the exit.
• Lin Xuan heard fighting ahead and found Peacock Fairy battling Xu Jinqing, with the Naga already smashed to pieces.
• Peacock Fairy and Xu Jinqing remained evenly matched as she worried about her limited time and Lin Xuan’s return.

Lin Xuan returned from the Treasure Pavilion with the spirit pills and stopped Peacock Fairy and Xu Jinqing from continuing their fight. They escaped the collapsing pavilion, but Spirit Herb Mountain was still shaking as the Earth Fire grew increasingly violent.

• Xu Jinqing and Peacock Fairy prepared their strongest attacks while the ground shook and Xu Jinqing feared the ancient formation had been damaged.
• Lin Xuan arrived in demonic clouds, and Xu Jinqing received a Sound Transmission Talisman before flying away.
• Lin Xuan told Peacock Fairy he had obtained the treasure, and she stopped pursuing Xu Jinqing.
• Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy left the Treasure Pavilion and found Spirit Herb Mountain in chaos as the destroyed formation made the Earth Fire more violent.
• Peacock Fairy questioned what was happening, while Lin Xuan worried whether Xu Jinqing could save Spirit Herb Mountain.

As strange phenomena shook Spirit Herb Mountain, the Law Enforcement Hall concealed the unexplained absence of Martial Uncle Xu and sent patrols across the mountain. Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy encountered a patrol, subdued its disciples, and left as the tremors intensified.

• Three law enforcement elders hid Martial Uncle Xu's disappearance and ordered the disciples to stay alert and patrol Spirit Herb Mountain.
• Elder Ma led a patrol west and spotted Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy, mistaking them for the source of the strange phenomena.
• Elder Ma tried to send a Sound Transmission Talisman and ordered his disciples to flee, but Lin Xuan destroyed the talisman.
• Peacock Fairy bound Elder Ma and the patrol with demonic chains, and Lin Xuan confirmed that they had only been knocked unconscious.
• As the shaking grew more violent, Lin Xuan urged Peacock Fairy to leave.

Lin Xuan escaped Spirit Herb Mountain with the injured Peacock Fairy and gave her the Jingyang Divine Pill and an antidote. After recovering, she absorbed the lingering power of the Peacock Great Wisdom King, advanced to the peak of Transformation Mid-Stage, and grew closer to Lin Xuan; he began to ask her about the spiritual-light restriction inside his body.

• Lin Xuan and Peacock Fairy slipped away from Spirit Herb Mountain as its strange phenomena worsened, then traveled a thousand li to a remote wilderness.
• Lin Xuan showed Peacock Fairy the Jingyang Divine Pill and the pill that would remove the deadly poison he had planted in her, and she swallowed both.
• While Lin Xuan rested, Peacock Fairy healed and absorbed the remaining power of the Peacock Great Wisdom King, advancing to the peak of Transformation Mid-Stage.
• Peacock Fairy thanked Lin Xuan for helping her, and he recognized that their new friendship gave him a powerful ally.
• Lin Xuan began asking Peacock Fairy about the spiritual-light restriction inside his body.

Peacock Fairy temporarily paralyzed Lin Xuan so she could lend him her Demon Core and remove the restriction on his Life Essence Light. The process unexpectedly fused his yin and yang spiritual powers, helping him break through to the late stage of Core Condensation, and he began to recover his movement.

• Peacock Fairy agreed to remove the restriction on Lin Xuan's Life Essence Light but hesitated because the process required her to lend him her Demon Core.
• Peacock Fairy struck Lin Xuan with pink demonic mist, paralyzing his body and Primordial Spirit, then approached him without any intent to kill.
• Peacock Fairy spat out her Demon Core and helped remove the restriction, while Lin Xuan's Golden Core absorbed clashing blue-green and black spiritual powers.
• Lin Xuan's yin and yang spiritual powers fused into a new form, cleansing and remolding his body as he advanced to the late stage of Core Condensation.
• Lin Xuan focused on escaping the demonic mist's restraint and found that he could move again.

Lin Xuan mistook Peacock Fairy’s attempt to remove his Spirit Light Restriction for an effort to hand over her Demon Core and attacked her. After realizing his error and fearing her strength, he watched as she withdrew the Demon Core and began performing a ritual to remove the restriction.

• Lin Xuan attacked Peacock Fairy after sensing the demon mist restriction lift, believing he could take her Demon Core.
• Peacock Fairy held back from retaliating, and the two stopped fighting several zhang apart.
• Lin Xuan reconsidered Peacock Fairy’s actions and realized she had intended to remove the Spirit Light Restriction.
• Lin Xuan feared that Peacock Fairy would kill him for attacking her, but she showed less hostility and retrieved her Demon Core.
• Peacock Fairy formed ancient hand gestures and sent golden runes into Lin Xuan’s body.

After Peacock Fairy removed Lin Xuan’s restriction and departed, Lin Xuan discovered that his cultivation had advanced and that his spiritual power could combine orthodox and demonic spells. He remembered the favor he had planned to ask of her and hesitated over whether to pursue her, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Peacock Fairy removed Lin Xuan’s restriction, kept her promise, and flew away.
• Lin Xuan realized he had advanced to the Late Core Condensation Realm and gained remaining Life Essence Light.
• Lin Xuan discovered that his spiritual power had harmonized yin and yang, allowing him to cast orthodox and demonic spells at the same time.
• Lin Xuan took out the Storage Bag he had obtained from the spy surnamed Hu, then remembered the favor he had intended to ask Peacock Fairy.
• Lin Xuan weighed the risks of chasing Peacock Fairy against the importance of his request, but could not decide what to do.

Ghost Emperor Litian led a Yinhun force into You Province through an ancient teleportation array, slaughtering the Bitter Mirror Sect and preparing to attack the righteous and demonic factions from within. The Yinhun revealed their allies and learned that Lin Xuan had destroyed the array they had used before.

• Loose Cultivator Kujing and the Bitter Mirror Sect’s disciples encountered a ghostly teleportation array that brought several hundred Yinhun, including two Ghost Emperors, into their camp.
• The Yinhun pursued and killed the fleeing Bitter Mirror Sect cultivators.
• Ghost Emperor Litian praised Niu for repairing the Ancient Teleportation Array, which had brought their forces deep into the rear of the righteous and demonic factions.
• Niu reported that Ghost Emperors Hao Tian and Miaotian and True Person Qingxiang had gone to Nine Dragon Mountain to delay the leaders of the righteous and demonic factions and Spirit Herb Mountain.
• The burly Ghost Emperor revealed that the Qingxiang Sect was secretly supported by the Yinhun, and Niu identified Lin Xuan as the person who had destroyed their previous Ancient Teleportation Array.

Lin Xuan chased after Peacock Fairy to ask for a few drops of fresh blood from a Transformation Realm Demon Cultivator. She gave him the blood, and as he prepared to leave, she suddenly called him back.

• Lin Xuan decided to risk pursuing Peacock Fairy and caught up with her as she waited in midair.
• Peacock Fairy wondered why Lin Xuan had followed her, then relaxed when he said he needed her help.
• Lin Xuan asked for a few drops of her fresh blood, and Peacock Fairy agreed without requiring an explanation.
• Peacock Fairy collected seven or eight drops of blood in a jade bottle and gave it to Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan thanked Peacock Fairy and prepared to leave, but she suddenly told him to wait.

Lin Xuan obtained Peacock Fairy’s jade pendant and revealed to Yue'er that he planned to escape You Province through a dangerous spatial rift before the Yinhun war engulfed the region. As he set out to find the teleportation array, the Yinhun launched a surprise assault on Black Stone City and secretly approached its rear.

• Peacock Fairy gave Lin Xuan a jade pendant that would protect him from Demon Race members in the Transformation Realm and warned him that You Province was in peril.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er he intended to use a spatial rift to leave You Province, despite the teleportation method having only a half chance of success.
• Lin Xuan explained that the array required Transformation Realm demon blood, a High-Grade Spirit Stone, and a dual-attribute magic treasure, then flew off to locate it.
• At Black Stone City, True Person Withered Wood heard explosions and rushed to defend the city as the Yinhun began a large-scale assault.
• While most of Black Stone City's cultivators fought at the front, several hundred Yinhun silently arrived behind them.

The Yinhun trapped several Nascent Soul cultivators at Nine Dragon Sect with a vast ghost formation while Lin Xuan traveled south through You Province. After confirming that the Yinhun had breached the border restrictions, he realized the entire province was facing disaster.

• The Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil, Taixu Master, Perfected Master Tongyu, and two other Nascent Soul cultivators examined the purple mist around Tianyun Peak and suspected the Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Locking Array.
• A scouting party returned and reported that the strange mist covered a hundred li and that ghostly creatures had killed most of their fellow disciples.
• Perfected Master Tongyu warned that the Ghost Emperors might be trapping them while the Yinhun pursued another plan, so the cultivators needed to escape quickly.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward southern You Province and heard that the Yinhun had broken through restrictions bordering the Fallen Region.
• Lin Xuan captured a cultivator who claimed to have witnessed the breach and used the Soul-Searching Technique to confirm the report was true.
• Lin Xuan killed the cultivator and concluded that no part of You Province would escape the coming calamity.

Lin Xuan searched Cangling Mountain for the Ancient Teleportation Array but found no trace of it, so he investigated a group of local cultivators for clues. He learned that the Giant Wood Sect was searching for a rare treasure that could let it dominate the Southern Border.

• Lin Xuan reached Cangling Mountain and searched the area described in the Jade Slip, but found nothing despite several days of searching.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er considered that the landscape might have changed over the tens of thousands of years since the Jade Slip was made.
• Lin Xuan noticed several low-level cultivators searching deep in the dangerous mountains and decided to learn what they were seeking.
• Lin Xuan concealed his aura and approached the cultivators, who revealed that the Giant Wood Sect's master had ordered them to find a secret treasure.
• The Second Senior Brother explained that the Giant Wood Sect hoped the treasure would let it surpass the Divine Water Sect and Holy Shade Sect and dominate the Southern Border.

Lin Xuan learned that the Giant Wood Sect was searching Cangling Mountain for a ten-thousand-year peach tree spirit and suspected it was connected to the Ancient Teleportation Array. After secretly tracking the sect’s cultivators, he found the Peach Tree Spirit fighting two of them and suppressed it with demonic mist.

• Lin Xuan overheard the Giant Wood Sect cultivators reveal the peach tree spirit’s immense value, while a green-robed woman secretly sent the news to the Divine Water Sect.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that a spatial disturbance from the Ancient Teleportation Array might have awakened the peach tree and decided to search for both at once.
• Lin Xuan secretly marked passing cultivators so he could follow them if they found the Peach Tree Spirit.
• Lin Xuan sensed one of his tracking marks and rushed to a small lake, where Second Senior Brother and the bearded cultivator were holding the Peach Tree Spirit with fire talismans.
• Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Peach Tree Spirit’s azure strands with demonic mist and trapped it inside a black cocoon.

Lin Xuan seized the Spirit-Connecting Divine Wood, erased two cultivators’ memories, and used the wood spirit to locate an Ancient Teleportation Array hidden in a canyon. He prepared the array with a High-Grade Spirit Stone and the blood from a jade bottle, beginning its activation.

• Lin Xuan sealed the Spirit-Connecting Divine Wood, knocked out two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, and erased their memories before leaving.
• Lin Xuan used a Soul-Searching Technique on the Peach Tree Spirit and obtained a clue to the Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Lin Xuan followed the clue to a hidden canyon, uncovered a cave entrance with Sword Qi, and found the array in a stone chamber.
• Lin Xuan inspected the warm-jade array and placed a High-Grade Spirit Stone into its center.
• Lin Xuan released the blood from a jade bottle, condensed it into a ball of light, and ignited it with pill fire.

Lin Xuan used the array and Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to open a spatial rift and escape You Province, arriving in a lush mountain range. Severely weakened after the teleportation, he began restoring his strength and flew deeper into the mountains to find a safe place to recover.

• Lin Xuan expended his magic power and natal essence blood to activate the array and open a spatial rift.
• Lin Xuan followed the rift's suction out of You Province, and the rift vanished behind him as the array broke apart.
• Lin Xuan arrived safely in an unfamiliar green mountain range but found himself and Yue'er too weak to defend themselves.
• Lin Xuan swallowed medicinal pills and meditated until sunset to recover some strength.
• Lin Xuan flew deeper into the mountains to find a place to establish a temporary cave residence.

After recovering his cultivation and Yue'er, Lin Xuan explored the unfamiliar region and discovered that he was on a small island floating in a vast sea of clouds. He entered Tian Shi disguised as a mortal to learn more about the place.

• Lin Xuan emerged from the mountain wall with his cultivation restored, and found that Yue'er had recovered as well.
• Lin Xuan flew around the island and learned that it was surrounded on every side by an immense sea of clouds.
• Lin Xuan attempted to descend into the clouds, but their growing resistance forced him to give up investigating their depths.
• Lin Xuan decided to seek information from the island's inhabitants and flew toward a nearby city.
• Lin Xuan concealed his spiritual energy, recognized the city as Tian Shi, and approached its gate after confirming that the nearby people were mortals.