Recaps

Jin Ling lured the bald old man into a Tremor Thunder Bead blast, but his demonification turned him into a mindless monster that overwhelmed her defenses. As the monster struck at her, Lin Xuan prepared to intervene.

• The bald old man attacked Jin Ling as she tried to escape, but she survived the blow and pretended to be unconscious to lure him close.
• Jin Ling spat out Old Monster Jin's Tremor Thunder Bead and blasted the bald old man, who survived by demonifying his body but lost his soul and reason to the backlash.
• The mindless monster attacked Jin Ling, shattered her silver hooks, and chased her when she fled.
• Jin Ling used talismans and a shield to hold off the monster, but it broke her shield and brought its blade down near her forehead.
• Yue'er urged Lin Xuan to save Jin Ling, and Lin Xuan agreed as her shield was about to fail.

Lin Xuan rescued Jin Ling from a demon, then offered her the top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills she needed in exchange for Purple Lotus Wood. Jin Ling agreed to provide the wood and gave him the location of Offline Gorge, where Lin Xuan planned to meet her after the assembly.

• Lin Xuan intervened when a demon attacked Jin Ling and killed it after a prolonged fight.
• Jin Ling recognized Lin Xuan, thanked him for saving her, and offered him the Three-Headed Golden Python beast egg.
• Lin Xuan gave Jin Ling a top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and showed her a bottle of more pills.
• Lin Xuan refused the beast egg and asked whether Jin Ling could provide more Purple Lotus Wood from Offline Gorge.
• Jin Ling agreed to exchange Purple Lotus Wood for the pills, and Lin Xuan said he would visit Offline Gorge after the assembly.
• Jin Ling recorded Offline Gorge's location in a jade cylinder and gave it to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan left Jin Ling with a promise to visit her sect, then returned to the Reception Pavilion and studied an introductory alchemy book. He discovered that Demon Spirit Island's alchemy differed from that of other regions and planned to seek pill formulas for Nascent Soul Cultivators at the Mang Mountain trade fair.

• Jin Ling gave Lin Xuan a sachet to help him at Offline Gorge, and he promised to visit her after settling his affairs.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Reception Pavilion, where Xing'er was reading an alchemy book, and rewarded her for gathering trade-fair information.
• Lin Xuan told Xing'er not to disturb his seclusion until the Mang Mountain Assembly began, then borrowed her introductory alchemy book.
• Lin Xuan sealed the pavilion with a formation talisman and quickly studied the book.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Demon Spirit Island's alchemy had its own lineage and resolved to look for pill formulas for Nascent Soul Cultivators at the trade fair.

Lin Xuan discovered that Jade Luo Bees were drawn to Purple Lotus Wood and might benefit from it, then prepared to attend the Mang Mountain Assembly. As he flew toward Tianyun Square, Madam Black Python’s flower carriage stopped and her gaze settled on him.

• Lin Xuan released his Jade Luo Bees, which swarmed over the Purple Lotus Wood and stripped away its purple color and fragrance.
• Lin Xuan spent three days cultivating until a maid told him the Mang Mountain Assembly was about to begin.
• The maid gave Lin Xuan a detailed Jade Slip about Tianyun Square and the auction, and he rewarded her with pills and spirit stones.
• Lin Xuan flew toward Tianyun Square and passed Madam Black Python riding in a flower carriage with a bewitched Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
• Madam Black Python’s carriage stopped, and she fixed her gaze on Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan met Madam Black Python after she singled him out and invited him into her carriage. She revealed she wanted his help with a Fire Qilin ruin, leaving Lin Xuan eager but uncertain why she needed him.

• Madam Black Python summoned Lin Xuan to her carriage, and he agreed to meet her after realizing he could not avoid the invitation.
• Madam Black Python recognized Lin Xuan as an immortal cultivator from the Human World, and he confirmed he had arrived through a spatial rift.
• Madam Black Python offered Lin Xuan a great benefit in exchange for his aid, and he questioned her motives.
• Madam Black Python told Lin Xuan she had discovered a Fire Qilin ruin, and he recalled his thwarted plans to use a Qilin Fire Vein to refine pills.
• Lin Xuan asked why Madam Black Python needed his help, and she replied that she had her reasons.

Lin Xuan agreed to work with Madam Black Python to seek the Qilin Fire Vein, despite suspecting she planned to betray him. He entered the Seven Star Island trade fair and found its middle-level market stocked with rare treasures.

• Lin Xuan agreed to cooperate with Madam Black Python, then told Yue'er he knew she might betray him but would not abandon the chance to find the Qilin Fire Vein.
• Lin Xuan flew with the crowd to an enormous plaza and learned that the trade fair was divided into three levels by cultivation rank.
• Lin Xuan paid five thousand crystal stones to enter the Nascent Soul-level trade fair and received a Command Token.
• Lin Xuan searched the Foundation Establishment-level market, found nothing worthwhile, and used a teleportation array to reach the second floor.
• Lin Xuan saw that the second-floor shops were filled with rare materials and treasures, and he was stunned by their quality.

Lin Xuan exploited the Mang Mountain Assembly to buy up nearly all third-rank demonic beast materials, disguising himself as he went to avoid suspicion. He entered the Nascent Soul-level trade fair and was astonished by its hidden valley setting, where he spotted an exceptionally powerful Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

• Lin Xuan bought a shop’s third-rank demonic beast materials with crystals, claiming he represented a sect.
• Lin Xuan changed his appearance and identity between shops, using magic treasures as payment while buying up the remaining materials.
• By the afternoon, Lin Xuan had cleared out nearly every third-rank demonic beast material stall, leaving cultivators and major sects puzzled.
• Lin Xuan presented his pass and used a teleportation array to reach the Nascent Soul-level trade fair in a hidden valley.
• Lin Xuan sat among hundreds of cultivators and recognized an old man with yellow eyebrows as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

Lin Xuan disguised himself before joining the Nascent Soul-level auction, where he outbid a Nascent Soul cultivator to acquire rare Black Iron Profound Mother. The auction continued with lavish sales and difficult exchange requests.

• After Ancestor Yellow-Brow’s divine sense injured him, Lin Xuan left the trade fair and changed his appearance with the Heavenly Demon Appearance Alteration Technique.
• Bailu Boy opened the Nascent Soul-level auction and announced that items had to be worth at least thirty thousand crystal stones.
• Bailu Boy offered Black Iron Profound Mother, and the horse-faced old man bid eighty thousand crystal stones for it.
• Lin Xuan bid ninety thousand, then raised his offer to one hundred thousand and claimed his hidden master had ordered him to obtain the material.
• The horse-faced old man backed down, and Lin Xuan won the Black Iron Profound Mother as the auction continued with further trades.

Lin Xuan offered an ancient Longevity Pill in exchange for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, hoping to obtain what he needed to return to the Human World. Nascent Soul experts confirmed the pill’s reputed ability to add a hundred years of life, but doubts remained about whether Lin Xuan’s pill was genuine.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator asked to trade several hundred thousand Spirit Stones for cultivation pills, but no one agreed.
• A Core Condensation Demon Cultivator sold Seven Profound Heaven-Returning Liquid for three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan took the jade table and offered a Longevity Pill for a single Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Core Condensation cultivators mocked Lin Xuan, while Nascent Soul experts recognized the pill from ancient records and confirmed its effects.
• Bailu Boy raised a talisman as the assembly’s host while cultivators continued to question whether Lin Xuan’s pill was genuine.

Lin Xuan offered a verified Longevity Pill in exchange for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, but none of the gathered cultivators had one. The Yellow-Browed True Person then offered to take Lin Xuan as his disciple and help him condense a Nascent Soul, leaving Lin Xuan to choose between the offer and his original demand.

• Bailu Boy summoned Elder Ding, who used a Hundred Herb Pearl to verify that Lin Xuan's pill was a Longevity Pill.
• Lin Xuan insisted that he would exchange the pill only for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, despite offers of other terms and one million Spirit Stones.
• The gathered cultivators failed to produce a Top-grade Spirit Stone, and some began plotting to seize the pill from Lin Xuan by force.
• The Yellow-Browed True Person offered to accept Lin Xuan as his disciple and help him condense a Nascent Soul in exchange for the Longevity Pill.

Lin Xuan considered how to refuse Yellow-Browed True Person’s offer when the Poison Flood Dragon King broke through Mang Mountain Assembly’s restrictions and arrived. After threatening the gathered cultivators with the prospect of war, the demon king claimed he had come to join the auction and approached Lin Xuan.

• Yellow-Browed True Person offered to help Lin Xuan form a Nascent Soul in exchange for the Longevity Pill, but Lin Xuan decided not to become his disciple.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King broke the island’s restrictions, and his demon cloud swallowed the Core Condensation Realm cultivators sent to investigate.
• Elder Ding recognized the intruder, and the Poison Flood Dragon King revealed himself as a late Transformation Realm demon beast.
• Yellow-Browed True Person challenged the Poison Flood Dragon King, who mocked his defeat in their previous fight and warned that attacking him could provoke a war between humans and demons.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King said he had come to participate in the auction, and Bailu Boy reluctantly welcomed him.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King ignored Bailu Boy and walked up to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan watched Yellow-Browed True Person and Poison Flood Dragon King compete for the Longevity Pill, hoping to obtain a Top-grade Spirit Stone. After Poison Flood Dragon King revealed and proved he had one, Lin Xuan accepted it and prepared to hand over the pill.

• Poison Flood Dragon King offered to trade for the Longevity Pill, and Yellow-Browed True Person challenged him to produce a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Poison Flood Dragon King revealed an ordinary-looking fire-attribute spirit stone, then cracked its outer shell to expose a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Lin Xuan examined the stone, confirmed its power to absorb spiritual energy, and agreed to the exchange.
• Lin Xuan secured the Top-grade Spirit Stone in his Storage Bag and brought out the Longevity Pill for Poison Flood Dragon King.

Yellow-Browed True Person ambushed the Poison Flood Dragon King and tried to seize the Longevity Pill from Lin Xuan, but the Poison Flood Dragon King intervened. The two powerful foes prepared to fight while Lin Xuan escaped their restraints with the pill still in hand.

• Yellow-Browed True Person struck the Poison Flood Dragon King from behind and demanded that Lin Xuan hand over the Longevity Pill.
• Yellow-Browed True Person restrained Lin Xuan and summoned a giant yellow hand, but the Poison Flood Dragon King pierced it with a beam of light.
• The Poison Flood Dragon King teleported in front of Yellow-Browed True Person and blocked his attempt to reach Lin Xuan.
• Yellow-Browed True Person threatened to destroy the Poison Flood Dragon King's physical body, but the Poison Flood Dragon King refused to surrender the pill.
• Lin Xuan broke free and withdrew as Yellow-Browed True Person and the Poison Flood Dragon King gathered their power for battle.

Yellow-Browed True Person and the Poison Flood Dragon King began a fierce battle at the trade fair while Lin Xuan watched the other cultivators grow greedy for his Longevity Pill and Top-grade Spirit Stones. When He the Fourth’s revenge attack and self-destruction shattered the fragile balance, an old monster lunged at Lin Xuan to seize the pill.

• The Enforcement Envoys and other cultivators stayed out of the fight, while Lin Xuan realized they were eyeing his treasures and hid his confidence behind a frightened act.
• Yellow-Browed True Person unleashed forty-nine powerful Sword Rays at the Poison Flood Dragon King, whose poisonous cloud quickly reformed after being cut apart.
• Yellow-Browed True Person and the Poison Flood Dragon King continued clashing, forcing nearby cultivators to retreat from the aftershocks.
• He the Fourth stabbed Zhang, accused him of defiling his Dao companion, and attacked again as Bailu Boy ordered the Enforcement Envoys to arrest him.
• He the Fourth self-destructed, killing Zhang and several Enforcement Envoys and disrupting the cultivators’ fragile standoff.
• An old monster suddenly pounced toward Lin Xuan and demanded the Longevity Pill.

Lin Xuan scattered a mixture of the Longevity Pill and lookalike pills to spark a fierce scramble among the old monsters, then fled toward the teleportation formation. Several cultivators pursued him, but he activated the array before they could reach him.

• The old monsters abandoned their duels and joined the chaotic fight over Lin Xuan’s Longevity Pill and Top-grade Spirit Stone, while many Core Condensation Realm cultivators were killed.
• Lin Xuan mixed the Longevity Pill with similar-looking pills and tossed them into the air, sending the old monsters into a frantic scramble.
• Lin Xuan escaped as the cultivators fought over the scattered pills, and several old monsters failed to pursue him because others mistook their movements for attempts to seize pills.
• Lin Xuan reached the teleportation formation and activated it just before the pursuing old monsters could catch him.

Lin Xuan escaped the third-floor trade fair by destroying teleportation formations and using his Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon to deter the guards. He reached Mang Mountain’s exit, but its guards had sealed it and refused to let him leave while they searched for the fugitive.

• Lin Xuan destroyed the second-floor teleportation formations and used his Corpse Demon to frighten the guards before teleporting to the first floor.
• The stewards speculated that Lin Xuan was a disguised Nascent Soul Realm expert and connected the disturbance to the red-clad woman who had caused trouble at Mang Mountain.
• Lin Xuan destroyed the first-floor teleportation formation and hurried through the panicked trade fair toward the exit.
• Lin Xuan restored his original appearance and reached the exit, where guards confirmed he was not the fugitive described in their alert.
• The guard in charge refused Lin Xuan’s request to leave, citing orders to keep everyone inside until the fugitive was found.

Lin Xuan revealed his Nascent Soul Realm strength, killed the cultivators guarding a restriction, and used their Command Token to escape. Nascent Soul Realm Enforcement Envoys investigated the scene and suspected he was the same hidden expert who had disrupted the Mang Mountain Assembly, but decided not to pursue him.

• Lin Xuan attacked the cultivators who refused to let him pass and revealed his Nascent Soul Realm strength.
• Lin Xuan killed the fleeing cultivators, took their Storage Bag, and found the Command Token.
• Lin Xuan used Azure Phantom Nether Fire to erase the Command Token's former owner's imprint and lift the restriction, then escaped.
• Bailu Boy and four other Nascent Soul Realm Enforcement Envoys arrived and examined the traces of battle.
• The Enforcement Envoys suspected Lin Xuan was the hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator who controlled a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon and disrupted the exchange meeting.
• The hunchbacked old man argued against pursuing Lin Xuan, warning that the conflict over the Longevity Pill could reignite war between the human race and the Demon Race.

After the Mang Mountain Assembly, Lin Xuan traveled to Li Python Valley to meet Madam Black Python and obtain the Qilin Fire Vein. Madam Black Python welcomed him with unexpected courtesy, and Lin Xuan entered her domain despite suspecting she had another purpose.

• Lin Xuan left the Mang Mountain area and resolved to raise his cultivation before pursuing the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art.
• Lin Xuan arrived at Li Python Valley and sent a Sound Transmission Talisman through the poisonous purple mist.
• Xiaoling met Lin Xuan and questioned whether he truly knew Madam Black Python.
• Madam Black Python recognized Lin Xuan, welcomed him, and ordered Xiaoling to escort him to the Blood Python Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan rejected Yue'er's suspicion that Madam Black Python had seen through his concealment and chose to enter the valley to pursue the Qilin Fire Vein.

Lin Xuan visited Madam Black Python in Li Python Valley and waited aboard her painted pleasure boat while she remained away. After nearly two hours, a woman dressed in black entered the room.

• Lin Xuan entered Li Python Valley and observed its narrow Demon Vein and countless pythons.
• A Core Condensation Realm woman led Lin Xuan through the inner-valley barrier to the painted boat by Madam Black Python’s mountain dwelling.
• The woman offered Lin Xuan Hundred Flower Cake and Li Python Tea, which he sampled without concern after checking for danger with his divine sense.
• Lin Xuan ended the conversation and meditated while the woman waited quietly beside him.
• Nearly two hours later, a woman dressed in black entered the room.

Lin Xuan met Madam Black Python to discuss breaking the restrictions guarding the Fire Qilin’s cave estate. After learning why she needed his pure yang spiritual power, he demanded safeguards against betrayal and proposed placing her soul and spirit in a Soul-Restricting Tablet, leaving her furious.

• Madam Black Python dismissed her Core Condensation Realm disciple and met with Lin Xuan.
• Madam Black Python explained that three Nascent Soul cultivators and a Core Condensation cultivator trained in the Daoist School were needed to break the Qilin cave’s restrictions.
• Lin Xuan questioned Madam Black Python’s intentions and rejected her Heart Demon Oath as insufficient protection.
• Lin Xuan asked Madam Black Python to place one soul and one spirit in his Soul-Restricting Tablet.
• Madam Black Python flew into a rage and demanded that Lin Xuan explain his proposal.

Lin Xuan forced Madam Black Python to hand over one soul and one spirit as protection against betrayal, then discovered she had tampered with them. After more than half a month of waiting in Li Python Valley, a Sound Transmission Talisman arrived, leaving him about to learn what came next.

• Lin Xuan insisted that Madam Black Python give him a protective guarantee before he helped her find the Qilin's treasure, and she eventually agreed to hand over one soul and one spirit.
• Lin Xuan used the Soul-Restricting Tablet to absorb Madam Black Python's soul and spirit, and she told him to wait until the other two Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived.
• After leaving Lin Xuan, Madam Black Python endured a painful cultivation episode and vowed to make him regret restraining her.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er that the restriction would be effective in his hands, then detected a faint wisp of gray-white qi and realized Madam Black Python had tampered with her soul and spirit.
• Lin Xuan stayed in the painted pleasure boat for more than half a month, until a Sound Transmission Talisman flew in through the window.

Lin Xuan arrived at a meeting hosted by Madam Black Python and unexpectedly encountered Bailu Boy and the notorious Old Devil Kunnan. Madam Black Python revealed that she had invited Kunnan after Fellow Daoist He died, leaving Bailu Boy displeased but facing the prospect of working with the more powerful devil.

• Lin Xuan went to the mountaintop pavilion and greeted Madam Black Python and Bailu Boy, concealing that he recognized Bailu Boy.
• After half a day, a vast cloud of demonic qi arrived, and Madam Black Python revealed that Old Devil Kunnan had come.
• Lin Xuan recalled Kunnan's brutal history, including his slaughter of mortals and his revenge against the cultivators who had nearly killed him.
• Bailu Boy demanded to know why Madam Black Python had invited Kunnan instead of Fellow Daoist He.
• Madam Black Python explained that Fellow Daoist He had died and argued that Kunnan's greater cultivation would improve their chances of success.

Madam Black Python revealed that the Ancient Qilin Cave lay in the Ice Desert Wasteland beyond Ice Soul Peak, and the group agreed to continue despite the danger. She began explaining the wasteland to Lin Xuan, leaving the peril of crossing Ice Soul Peak still ahead.

• Bailu Boy and Patriarch Kunnan challenged Madam Black Python about leading them north into the Ice Desert Wasteland without explaining their destination.
• Madam Black Python confirmed the Ancient Qilin Cave was beyond Ice Soul Peak, and Lin Xuan recalled an Ice Fire Mountain that made her claim plausible.
• Patriarch Kunnan calmed the quarrel, and Madam Black Python apologized; Bailu Boy agreed to continue the expedition but warned her not to hide anything else.
• Lin Xuan asked Madam Black Python to explain the Ice Desert Wasteland and Ice Soul Peak, and she described a vast, freezing region inhabited by ice-attribute demonic beasts.
• Madam Black Python explained that Nascent Soul Realm cultivators avoided crossing Ice Soul Peak, which stood deep within the wasteland.

Lin Xuan learned that the land beyond Ice Soul Peak weakened cultivators by suppressing five-element treasures, then continued with the three old monsters into the Ice Desert Wasteland. Their journey was interrupted by a swarm of Ice Bats, which Patriarch Kunnan attacked with his three-headed Strange Tiger.

• Bailu Boy gave Lin Xuan a Jade Slip describing the perilous region north of Ice Soul Peak, where five-element treasures could not be used and demonic beasts held the advantage.
• Lin Xuan accepted the danger without considering giving up, and the group set out the next morning.
• Three days later, the group reached the snowy Ice Desert Wasteland and used Spirit Power Shields to withstand its freezing weather.
• Madam Black Python stopped when a gray-white cloud of Ice Bats appeared on the horizon.
• Patriarch Kunnan sent a three-headed Strange Tiger made from black qi to attack the Ice Bats, killing several as the swarm charged fearlessly.

Lin Xuan and the three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators continued toward Ice Soul Peak after Patriarch Kunnan used a black fan to destroy a swarm of Ice Bats. Lin Xuan sensed more danger ahead, while two hidden demons discussed the remarkable birth of the Snow Fox Clan’s three-tailed princess and the powerful guests expected at her celebration.

• Patriarch Kunnan opened a black fan and sent out whirlwinds that devoured and killed several dozen Ice Bats.
• Lin Xuan sensed more demon beasts nearby, but Bailu Boy and the other old monsters dismissed his warning and flew on.
• Lin Xuan used a Spirit Division secret art to possess the Jade Luo Bee and sent it into the snow before following the others.
• After the party departed, a mammoth-linked demon and a leopard-headed female demon emerged from a hidden cloud and speculated that the cultivators might be seeking treasure.
• Brother Xiang told the Leopard Demon that the Snow Fox King’s newborn daughter already had three tails, prompting invitations to powerful demon beasts including the Poison Flood Dragon King and Green-Eyed Patriarch.