Recaps

Lin Xuan infiltrated the Ning Family’s main altar after learning that Ning Wanshan had been captured amid a struggle between the family branches. He found Ning Wanshan in prison and began breaking through the restriction that held him, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• After waiting in the market for the Ning Family’s contact, Lin Xuan decided to infiltrate the family’s main altar with Yue’er.
• Ning Qi learned that Ning Wanshan had been detained and that the family’s branches were locked in a power struggle, then mistook the warning from his Command Token for an illusion.
• Lin Xuan slipped through the Sect Protection Array, knocked Ning Qi unconscious, searched his soul for information, and burned his body to conceal his entry.
• Lin Xuan used what he learned to locate Ning Wanshan in the heavily guarded prison and appeared before him.
• Ning Wanshan warned Lin Xuan about the prison’s dangerous light barrier, but Lin Xuan pressed Azure Phantom Nether Fire against it and began destroying its ghostly attacks.

Lin Xuan freed Ning Wanshan and learned that rival Ning Family branches were competing to choose the next family head. He planned to make Ning Wanshan head without weakening the family, then arrived at the selection gathering as thousands of cultivators assembled around Lei Yin Mountain.

• Lin Xuan broke the restriction imprisoning Ning Wanshan and heard how the Eldest Branch had lost power while the Second Branch and Third Branch sought the vacant family-head position.
• Ning Wanshan asked Lin Xuan to kill the rival branch leaders, but Lin Xuan rejected the plan and promised to unite the Ning Family behind him.
• Lin Xuan re-imprisoned Ning Wanshan and left Lei Yin Mountain, then revealed to Yue'er that he would disguise the Corpse King as the slain Ning Family ancestor.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er cultivated in a cave abode for three days while the Corpse King practiced the Heavenly Corpse Incarnation Art.
• On the day of the family-head selection, thousands of cultivators gathered around Lei Yin Mountain, including factions and rogues hoping to profit from the Ning Family's possible downfall.

Lin Xuan infiltrated the Ning Family ancestral hall and watched the Second Branch and Third Branch leaders dispute the succession. The two agreed to settle the contest through a duel, while Lin Xuan waited for the right moment to act.

• Lin Xuan entered Lei Yin Mountain unnoticed after finding its outer defenses undermanned.
• Lin Xuan concealed himself in a tree at the ancestral hall and identified the yellow-robed old man and red-clad woman as the rival branch leaders.
• Mr. Ning Second and the beautiful woman in red argued over the family head position and exchanged reminders of past favors.
• Mr. Ning Second proposed that the duel’s winner would become family head and the loser would accept the result, and both swore oaths.
• The two leaders flew away from the ancestral hall to fight without endangering the gathered disciples.

Lin Xuan secretly sent a message as Ning Wanshan escaped captivity and interrupted the battle between Mr. Ning Second and the beautiful woman in red over the Ning Family leadership. When the two attacked Ning Wanshan, an unknown expert intervened with overwhelming spiritual pressure, leaving the crowd to wonder if a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator had arrived.

• Lin Xuan secretly sent out a concealed Sound Transmission Talisman while the Ning Family disciples watched the impending duel.
• Mr. Ning Second and the beautiful woman in red brought out their magical treasures, but Ning Wanshan arrived with Eldest Branch cultivators and stopped their fight.
• Mr. Ning Second and the beautiful woman in red challenged Ning Wanshan over the old ancestor and the missing young master, and the branches' disciples turned against one another.
• Mr. Ning Second and the beautiful woman in red attacked Ning Wanshan while their followers blocked the Eldest Branch from helping him.
• Two black beams intercepted the attacks, and an unknown expert's spiritual pressure forced many Foundation Establishment Realm disciples to the ground.

Lin Xuan revealed himself as the Ning Family’s returning Old Ancestor and ended Mr. Ning Second and the Red-Clad Beauty’s challenge to Ning Wanshan. He appointed Ning Wanshan family head and promoted the defeated leaders to law-enforcement elders to ease tensions among the family’s branches.

• Mr. Ning Second challenged the unseen intruder, warning that the Ning Family would oppose outside interference in its internal affairs.
• The Corpse Demon arrived in a cloud of corpse aura and revealed himself as the Ning Family’s long-absent Old Ancestor.
• Ning Wanshan and the family’s elders and disciples bowed to the Old Ancestor, while Mr. Ning Second and the Red-Clad Beauty accepted that their plan had failed.
• The Old Ancestor declared that Ning Wanshan would become family head and promoted Mr. Ning Second and the Red-Clad Beauty to law-enforcement elders.
• Lin Xuan used the appointments to address the divisions between the Ning Family’s branches and strengthen the clan.

Lin Xuan used the Corpse Demon Ancestor to reconcile the Ning Family’s branches and organize them under his control. When the Zhang Family, Cloud Ghost Sect, and Mang Mountain Duo joined the attack on Lei Yin Mountain, the Corpse Demon ordered the family to defend the stronghold and said he would face their strongest cultivators himself.

• Lin Xuan appointed Ning Wanshan and the Red-Clad Beauty to serve the family, easing tensions among the Ning Family’s branches.
• The Red-Clad Beauty received a Sound Transmission Talisman reporting that attackers had breached the mountain’s defenses and were advancing.
• The Corpse Demon ordered Mr. Ning Second to investigate and sent Ning Wanshan and the Red-Clad Beauty to reinforce the patrols.
• Mr. Ning Second learned that the Zhang Family, Cloud Ghost Sect, and Mang Mountain Duo had joined thousands of Rogue Cultivators outside Lei Yin Mountain.
• The Corpse Demon told the Ning Family to meet the attackers while he faced the enemy’s high-level cultivators.

The Cloud Ghost Sect and Zhang Family prepared to attack the Ning Family on Lei Yin Mountain, each wary of the other’s motives. As the siege began, five Rogue Cultivators entered Ning territory hoping to earn rewards, despite fearing the risks and doubting the promises made to them.

• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady and Zhang Family Head Wu agreed to attack the Ning Family, while each suspected the other of pursuing hidden aims.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady warned Wu that the Zhang Family’s past losses to the Ning Family meant they must destroy their common enemy completely.
• After the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady departed, Wu ordered his elders to attack from the side, avoid direct clashes, and minimize Zhang Family casualties.
• Five Rogue Cultivators cautiously entered the Ning Family’s territory, discussing the promised rewards and the dangers of joining the siege.

Invading cultivators fought the Ning Family across Lei Yin Mountain, while Lin Xuan set out to target the enemy leaders and protect the family from heavy losses. At Cangyue Peak, the Fourth Branch’s formation fell to the Mang Brothers, leaving its black-faced elder to face them as he ordered the disciples to seek a chance to escape.

• A red-clad Ning Family woman killed five invaders who attacked her with spiritual weapons.
• Seven attackers overwhelmed three Ning Family disciples, and a vicious old man’s ghostly face swallowed one of them before the other two were killed.
• Core Condensation Realm experts began probing attacks across Lei Yin Mountain, where the Ning Family’s formations helped them withstand the larger invading force.
• Lin Xuan instructed the Corpse Demon to relay orders to Ning Wanshan, then flew toward Cangyue Peak to strike at the enemy leaders.
• The Mang Brothers breached Cangyue Peak’s formation and attacked the Fourth Branch, while their allies clashed with its disciples.
• The black-faced elder ordered the Fourth Branch disciples to escape when they could, then rose to confront the Mang Brothers.

The Mang Brothers attacked the Ning Family, destroying the Fourth Branch elder’s treasures and driving him to flee before a mysterious expert intervened. The Ning Family hailed the newcomer as their Old Ancestor, and Lin Xuan prepared to reveal the Corpse Demon’s identity to the Mang Brothers.

• The Mang Brothers rejected the black-faced Fourth Branch elder’s offer and attacked him with their Mourning Staffs.
• The elder fought back with Flying Needles and a Beast Talisman, but the Mang Brothers destroyed both his treasures and forced him to flee.
• The Mang Brothers sent Soul-Devouring Snakes after the fleeing elder, but a giant gray-white hand seized the snakes.
• A black cloud appeared over Cangyue Peak, and its immense pressure pinned down the outside cultivators while the Ning Family disciples greeted their Old Ancestor.
• The Mang Brothers asked the figure in the cloud to identify himself, and Lin Xuan began revealing the Corpse Demon.

Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon defeated the Mang Brothers and helped the Ning Family repel the invading forces. The Corpse Demon’s power won the Fourth Branch’s loyalty, and he turned to address Ning Wuxin.

• The Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon attacked the fleeing Mang Brothers, who used defensive treasures to block his halberds.
• Lin Xuan appeared before the brothers and killed them with sword lights after they failed to stop his assault.
• The invaders’ morale collapsed, and the Corpse Demon ordered the Ning Family disciples to kill them all.
• The Corpse Demon used ghost heads formed from his severed arm to hunt down every fleeing enemy.
• The Ning Family disciples praised the Corpse Demon, who quieted them and asked the black-faced cultivator his name; the cultivator introduced himself as Ning Wuxin.

The Corpse Demon rewarded Ning Wuxin and urged the Ning Family to unite before leaving to aid the fighting elsewhere. At Lei Yin Mountain, the Cloud Ghost Sect gained the upper hand until Mrs. Ning Third confronted the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady, and the two prepared to fight.

• The Corpse Demon praised the Fourth Branch, gave Ning Wuxin the Mang Brothers' Mourning Staff, and called on the Ning Family to fight as one.
• The Corpse Demon departed to support the other battlefronts, while the Fourth Branch disciples prepared to follow.
• At the foot of Lei Yin Mountain, the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady joined the fighting and killed Ning Family experts, shifting the battle toward the Cloud Ghost Sect.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady's magic treasure nearly struck a Ning Family elder, but Mrs. Ning Third intercepted it with her red light.
• Mrs. Ning Third and the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady traded insults and revealed their magic treasures, preparing to clash.

Mrs. Ning Third fought the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady as Cloud Ghost Sect attacked the Ning Family, until word arrived that Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon had turned the battle with their Nascent Soul Realm strength. The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady ordered a retreat, but Mrs. Ning Third rallied her side and provoked her into empowering the Two-Headed Black Snake.

• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady sent the Two-Headed Black Snake and a strange six-legged spirit beast against Mrs. Ning Third, forcing her to use multiple magic treasures to defend herself.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady received a Sound Transmission Talisman reporting that Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon had joined the battle, and she ordered Cloud Ghost Sect to retreat.
• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady told the Silver-Haired Elder that two Nascent Soul Realm experts had arrived and that Cloud Ghost Sect might have fallen into a trap.
• Mrs. Ning Third announced that the Ancestor had arrived, raising the Ning Family cultivators' morale and encouraging them to hold the retreating attackers in place.
• Mrs. Ning Third taunted the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady and struck at her with a giant seal, prompting the enraged sect master to feed blood essence into the Two-Headed Black Snake.

Lin Xuan helped the Ning Family defeat the invading forces and killed the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady, saving the family from destruction. After the battle, the Corpse Demon announced that Lin Xuan had agreed to become the Ning Family’s esteemed guest elder before he left to travel the outside world.

• The Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady transformed her spirit snake into an Evil Flood Dragon and overwhelmed Mrs. Ning Third until Lin Xuan arrived to help.
• Lin Xuan summoned his emerald python, shattered the Evil Flood Dragon, and killed the Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady, causing the Cloud Ghost Sect’s remaining fighters to flee.
• The Ning Family pursued the invaders, and the battle ended with heavy losses for the Cloud Ghost Sect, the Zhang Family, and their allies.
• At White Tiger Hall, the Corpse Demon introduced Lin Xuan as his close friend and credited him with helping save the Ning Family.
• The Corpse Demon told the Ning Family he would travel the outside world and revealed that Lin Xuan had agreed to serve as an esteemed guest elder.

Lin Xuan took control of the Ning Family, established a base at Lei Yin Mountain, and led the family to destroy the Cloud Ghost Sect and Zhang Family while searching for Earth Vein Fire. The chapter ended when a Demon Nether Sect Command Token activated a Soul-Absorbing Technique against him, revealing itself as a trap.

• The Corpse Demon appointed Lin Xuan as the Ning Family's Guest Elder and ordered the clan to obey him as they would the old ancestor.
• Lin Xuan chose a secluded valley on Lei Yin Mountain, built a cave residence, and fortified it with formations.
• After three months, Lin Xuan led the Ning Family in attacking and eliminating the weakened Cloud Ghost Sect and Zhang Family, raising the clan's standing among the Yin Spirit Plains factions.
• Lin Xuan ordered the Ning Family to search across the islands for Earth Vein Fire while he continued cultivating for two years without news.
• During meditation, a Demon Nether Sect Command Token flew from Lin Xuan's Storage Bag and unleashed a Soul-Absorbing Technique that tried to seize his soul.

Lin Xuan destroyed the elder Command Token that was trying to absorb his soul, disrupting the Demon Nether Sect master's attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Mrs. Ning Third then brought Lin Xuan a clue about the Earth Vein Fire he sought, pointing him toward the Blazing Sun Sect.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to destroy the elder Command Token and stop its soul-absorbing power.
• At the Demon Nether Sect's main altar, the destruction of a lifebound beast injured the Sect Master and ruined his breakthrough attempt.
• The Sect Master and a red-haired old man realized that a cultivator had escaped the Soul-Absorbing Technique, possibly because that person had achieved Nascent Soul Formation.
• Lin Xuan resolved to remember the Demon Nether Sect's attack but postponed any revenge until he was stronger.
• Mrs. Ning Third visited Lin Xuan and reported that she had found a clue to the Earth Vein Fire.
• Mrs. Ning Third named the Blazing Sun Sect, whose fire-attribute Spirit Vein Lin Xuan had already considered as a possible source.

Mrs. Ning Third told Lin Xuan that the Blazing Sun Sect had discovered a high-quality Fire Spirit Vein, possibly once inhabited by an ancient Qilin, and Lin Xuan decided to seek its Earth Vein Fire. He traveled to Seven Star Island and arrived near Stone Tiger City, preparing to pursue the dangerous lead.

• Mrs. Ning Third reported that the Blazing Sun Sect had found a Fire Spirit Vein that might have been a Qilin's habitat.
• Lin Xuan rewarded Mrs. Ning Third with top-grade Primordial Yang Pills and resolved to investigate the Fire Spirit Vein despite the risks.
• Lin Xuan warned the Ning Family leaders, then left Lei Yin Mountain the next morning.
• Lin Xuan paid seven thousand crystal stones to teleport from Xuankong Island to Seven Star Island.
• Lin Xuan arrived near Stone Tiger City, where Stone Tiger Academy had been founded by a pair of Dao companions.

Two Stone Tiger Academy disciples searched for an ancient ginseng guarded by a Single-Horned Python, but a powerful youth suddenly appeared in a lightning-filled formation. The youth asked them where he was, leaving the women uncertain whether the encounter meant fortune or danger.

• A red-clad Stone Tiger Academy disciple persuaded her green-clad junior sister to skip morning lesson and help retrieve a six- or seven-hundred-year-old ginseng.
• The women reached the ginseng near a cave and prepared to fight the guarding Single-Horned Python with their spiritual tools.
• A strange formation appeared overhead, unleashed a storm of lightning, and vanished after a youth emerged beneath several protective barriers.
• The two women sensed that the youth was far stronger than their academy master and watched warily as he dismissed his barriers.
• The youth looked around, saw the women, and asked them what place this was.

Lin Xuan survived a teleportation error and discovered that he had arrived in Eastern Edge Province, still within Seven Star Island. After helping two sisters defeat a powerful spirit beast, he discussed with Yue'er how difficult it would be to approach the Blazing Sun Sect's fire vein.

• Lin Xuan confirmed with two sect disciples that he was still on Seven Star Island and learned a nearby market city’s direction.
• Lin Xuan warned the sisters that a newly advanced second-rank Single-Horned Python guarded their ginseng.
• Lin Xuan seized and killed the python with an azure spell and lightning, then gave it to the sisters before flying away.
• The sisters collected the ginseng and python and bowed in gratitude toward Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er that he had been careless about the teleportation formation and had no plan for dealing with the Blazing Sun Sect’s fire vein, which was likely guarded by Nascent Soul elders.

Lin Xuan encountered his old adversary Master Ku fleeing a group of demonic cultivators on Seven Star Island and attacked him while disguised. The chase continued as Master Ku was cornered, and his pursuers demanded that he surrender a treasure.

• Lin Xuan recognized the wounded Master Ku inside a dark cloud as he fled seven or eight Core Condensation Realm cultivators.
• Lin Xuan disguised himself as a gaunt old man, attacked Master Ku, and blocked his escape.
• Master Ku pleaded with Lin Xuan, then tried to escape by splitting his demonic cloud into three illusions.
• Lin Xuan saw through the illusions and attacked the real cloud as Master Ku’s pursuers caught up and surrounded him.
• The demonic cultivators’ leader demanded that Master Ku surrender a treasure, and Master Ku rejected his offer of mercy.

Master Ku fought off a group of Core Condensation Realm cultivators while Lin Xuan waited for an opportunity. Master Ku escaped their encirclement with a Substitute Talisman, but Lin Xuan attacked him as he fled.

• Master Ku refused to surrender his treasure and prepared to fight despite his severe injuries.
• The round-eyed cultivator warned the others and led them in attacking Master Ku with their magic treasures.
• Lin Xuan stayed out of the battle while the cultivators overwhelmed Master Ku’s demonic defenses and struck his body.
• Master Ku’s body turned out to be a Substitute Talisman, allowing his true body to escape the encirclement.
• Lin Xuan sent a jade-green flame after Master Ku, blocking his attempt to flee.

Lin Xuan killed Master Ku by exploiting the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, then used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to stop and destroy his fleeing Nascent Soul. He claimed Master Ku’s Storage Bag, but several Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators confronted him, leaving the treasure and their intentions unresolved.

• Master Ku attacked Lin Xuan with a bone spear, but Lin Xuan blocked it with the Three Yin White Bone Shield.
• The Azure Phantom Nether Fire struck Master Ku, burned through his demonic qi, and destroyed his body.
• Master Ku’s Nascent Soul tried to teleport away with his Storage Bag, but Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring stopped it and Lin Xuan killed it.
• Lin Xuan took Master Ku’s Storage Bag as the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators approached, their gazes fixed on it.
• Lei Bao introduced himself as an outer hall steward of Ten Thousand Ghost Lake and thanked Lin Xuan, who gave the name Li Yaotian and said he was a Rogue Cultivator.

Lin Xuan refused Lei Bao's demand to share Master Ku's Storage Bag and revealed that he was a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. He attacked the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators as they fled, then sent Yue'er and the Corpse Demon into the fight.

• Lei Bao demanded Master Ku's Storage Bag and offered to split its treasures, but Lin Xuan refused to share them.
• The horse-faced cultivator attacked Lin Xuan, and Lei Bao ordered the others to join in.
• Lin Xuan revealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, prompting Lei Bao to apologize and offer the Storage Bag.
• Lin Xuan attacked the cultivators, killed one with sword light, and drove the rest to flee.
• Yue'er volunteered to pursue Lei Bao, while Lin Xuan summoned the Corpse Demon and sent it after the fleeing cultivators.

Lin Xuan sent ghost heads after the fleeing Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators while Yue'er intercepted Lei Bao. Yue'er held off his attacks and trapped him in a fight, leaving him afraid that Lin Xuan would arrive.

• Lin Xuan sent six ghost heads to pursue the fleeing Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators and waited for news.
• Lei Bao fled for several dozen li, then encountered Yue'er blocking his path.
• Yue'er used the Beast Soul Banner to withstand Lei Bao's flood-dragon attack, while he failed to break through her defenses.
• Lei Bao hurled earth-grade talismans at Yue'er and tried to escape, but she countered them with waves of light from illusory Magic Beasts.
• Yue'er sent the Mandarin Duck Blades after Lei Bao, forcing him to turn back and fight as he feared Lin Xuan would arrive.

Yue'er defeated Lei Bao after he used a Li Po Pill to raise his cultivation to the peak of the Core Condensation Realm. She killed him as he tried to flee and captured his soul, while Lin Xuan prepared to continue their journey.

• Lei Bao swallowed a Li Po Pill, causing his cultivation to surge to the peak of the Core Condensation Realm.
• Lin Xuan finished off the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators with the Corpse Demon and urged Yue'er to end her fight quickly.
• Yue'er summoned a huge fiend from her Beast Soul Banner, which overpowered Lei Bao's two-headed flood dragon.
• Lei Bao destroyed his bonded Black Iron Crutches to damage Yue'er's fiend, then fled when he thought she was injured.
• Yue'er revealed she had only pretended to be hurt and killed Lei Bao with the Mandarin Duck Blades as he tried to escape.
• Yue'er pulled Lei Bao's soul from his body with the Beast Soul Banner.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er escaped after killing the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators, but two Nascent Soul experts arrived to investigate their deaths. After they left, Lin Xuan searched Master Ku's Storage Bag and discovered a vast trove of treasures, including several mysterious items.

• Yue'er destroyed the bodies of the Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators, and she and Lin Xuan left the scene.
• Lin Xuan hid on a hill when two Nascent Soul experts arrived and discussed the deaths of Lei and seven other cultivators.
• The two experts suspected Master Ku had stolen a treasure from Ten Thousand Ghost Lake and split up to search for clues near a market.
• Lin Xuan inferred that Master Ku's theft had angered Ten Thousand Ghost Lake's sect master and became excited about the spoils he had gained.
• Lin Xuan emptied Master Ku's Storage Bag and found crystal stones, medicines, Earth-rank talismans, the Five Ghost Soul-Splitting Formation, and a bone, a dagger, and a plate-like object.