Recaps

The Elephant Demon and the female demon decided to follow Lin Xuan’s group and attack only if they crossed Ice Soul Peak. Lin Xuan’s Jade Luo Bee was accidentally killed after overhearing their plan, and the chapter ended as the four cultivators reached a colossal ice mountain.

• The female demon persuaded the Elephant Demon to wait and see whether Lin Xuan’s group crossed Ice Soul Peak before deciding to attack.
• The Elephant Demon and the female demon turned into a cloud of demonic mist and continued following the cultivators.
• A white lizard swallowed Lin Xuan’s Jade Luo Bee, and the bee’s venom killed them both, destroying Lin Xuan’s Spirit Division.
• Lin Xuan concealed his pain from Madam Black Python and continued onward, unwilling to abandon the search for the Heaven Dust Pill.
• Half an hour later, Lin Xuan and the others arrived at an ice mountain more than ten thousand zhang tall.

Lin Xuan and his companions crossed Ice Soul Peak into the frozen lands near the Snow Fox Clan, where Five Elements treasures could no longer be controlled. Two Transformation Realm demons pursued them, forcing the group to split up as Madam Black Python fled with Lin Xuan toward the Ancient Qilin Cave.

• Madam Black Python, Bailu Boy, Patriarch Kunnan, and Lin Xuan crossed Ice Soul Peak, while two demons followed in pursuit.
• Lin Xuan tested an immortal sword and found that an inexplicable force severed his connection to it, making it fall like ordinary iron.
• Two Transformation Realm demons caught up with the group, and Bailu Boy proposed that they flee separately and meet again.
• Madam Black Python arranged for Patriarch Kunnan and Bailu Boy to delay the pursuers while she escaped with Lin Xuan, giving them a map and a meeting place for the next day.
• Madam Black Python fled with Lin Xuan, and Patriarch Kunnan and Bailu Boy moved to intercept the two demons.

Madam Black Python fled with Lin Xuan while the Elephant Demon and Bailu Boy kept two Nascent Soul cultivators occupied, but the Leopard-Headed Demoness caught up. After Madam Black Python threw Lin Xuan away as a distraction, he pretended to be subdued and secretly followed the chase to profit from the conflict.

• The Elephant Demon attacked Bailu Boy and Patriarch Kunnan, preventing them from stopping the Leopard-Headed Demoness from pursuing Madam Black Python and Lin Xuan.
• Madam Black Python used her escape light to flee with Lin Xuan, but the Leopard-Headed Demoness rapidly closed the distance.
• Madam Black Python threw Lin Xuan toward the demoness to distract her and aid her own escape.
• Lin Xuan pretended to fall unconscious under the demoness's restriction, then freed himself and followed them, telling Yue'er he intended to profit from the situation.
• The Leopard-Headed Demoness caught up with Madam Black Python as she continued fleeing.

Madam Black Python faced the Leopard Demon on Demon Spirit Island, where five-element artifacts could not be used, and revealed a secret art that transformed her severed arm into a horned python. Lin Xuan watched from hiding nearby as the two prepared to resume their battle.

• Madam Black Python tried to dissuade the Leopard Demon, but the demon refused to let her go because she wanted to consume her Nascent Soul.
• Madam Black Python attacked with a two-headed black python, which split into two snakes after the Leopard Demon cut it apart.
• The Leopard Demon brought out her Demon Core, so Madam Black Python cut off her own arm and used a rune and vital essence to transform it into a horned python.
• The Leopard Demon grew wary of Madam Black Python's strange secret art, and the two faced off for another battle.
• Lin Xuan hid behind an ice boulder nearby and told Yue'er he had no reason to intervene.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er watched as Madam Black Python fought the Leopard-Headed Demoness, who revealed her Wind Escape and Body of Hundred Transformations. Madam Black Python gained a slight advantage with poison moths and an Infant Fire Needle Transformation, but the battle remained undecided.

• Yue'er questioned whether Madam Black Python's death would jeopardize Lin Xuan's search for the Qilin Fire Vein, and Lin Xuan said he would wait for the right moment to act.
• Madam Black Python attacked with the Silver-Horned Python's demon fog, but the Leopard-Headed Demoness used Wind Escape to evade it and transformed into a vulture.
• The demoness changed into a giant bear and battered Madam Black Python's protective barrier, while Madam Black Python released Five-Colored Poison Moths from a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Madam Black Python's python unleashed the Infant Fire Needle Transformation, piercing the demoness after the moths occupied her attention.
• The demoness crushed several poison moths, turned back into a vulture, and escaped several dozen zhang away, leaving the fight unresolved.

Madam Black Python pressed the demoness into a desperate fight while Patriarch Kunnan revealed his demonic power and captured Bailu Boy’s Nascent Soul. The Elephant Demon learned that Kunnan was once a Demon Race soul, and Kunnan began recounting how he came to possess a human body.

• Madam Black Python and her creatures drove the demoness into revealing her leopard form and continued their fierce battle.
• Patriarch Kunnan secretly struck Bailu Boy, then revealed his pure demonic power and transformed into a bizarre one-eyed beast.
• Patriarch Kunnan trapped Bailu Boy’s escaping Nascent Soul in the Heaven Origin Net, which prevented it from using magic power.
• Patriarch Kunnan told the Elephant Demon that he had once been a Transformation Mid-Stage Demon Race being whose body was destroyed, leaving only his damaged demon soul.
• Patriarch Kunnan explained that, unable to find a body of his rare original kind, he encountered a human Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Patriarch Kunnan successfully possessed Bailu Boy and began rebuilding his strength in the stolen body. Meanwhile, Madam Black Python revealed a grotesque transformation during her fight with the Leopard Demon, leaving Lin Xuan and Yue'er stunned.

• Patriarch Kunnan successfully merged his demon soul with Bailu Boy's body and planned to demonize it as his cultivation recovered.
• The Leopard Demon gained the advantage over Madam Black Python, whose preparations could not match the power of her long-cultivated magic treasure.
• Madam Black Python tried to negotiate, but the Leopard Demon rejected her plea and attacked again.
• Madam Black Python allowed the Leopard Demon to wound her, then trapped her with the Silver-Horned Giant Python and the remaining Poison Moths.
• Madam Black Python's wounds sprouted barbed tentacles, and her body became covered in demonic features as Lin Xuan and Yue'er watched in shock.

Madam Black Python used an irreversible full-body demonization technique to defeat the Leopard Demon and capture her escaping soul with its Demon Core. As Madam Black Python prepared to abandon her failing body, she sensed someone hiding behind an ice rock.

• Lin Xuan explained to Yue'er that Madam Black Python had demonized her entire body, staking everything on a temporary increase in strength.
• Madam Black Python fought through the Leopard Demon's attacks, using her tentacles and monstrous body to overpower her.
• The Leopard Demon asked to stop, but Madam Black Python refused; both suffered grave wounds before Madam Black Python cut them apart with her Bone Blade.
• The Leopard Demon's soul fled with its Demon Core, but Madam Black Python trapped it in demonic mist and sealed it inside a jade box.
• Madam Black Python sensed someone behind an ice rock and demanded that they come out.

Lin Xuan confronted Madam Black Python after the treasure hunt fell apart and used her expiring Demonic Transformation Body to force her Nascent Soul out. He revealed his own Nascent Soul-level power and cornered her with a Corpse Demon, but her desperate Sword Qi strike destroyed part of its corpse qi.

• Madam Black Python decided to abandon the treasure hunt, but Lin Xuan demanded the location of Ancient Qilin Cave and threatened her with the soul wisp he held.
• Lin Xuan activated the Soul-Restricting Tablet, which could not affect Madam Black Python in the five-element-rejecting area, and revealed he had only been delaying her until her Demonic Transformation Body failed.
• Madam Black Python's body suffered wounds, forcing her Nascent Soul to flee, and Lin Xuan revealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.
• Madam Black Python tried to teleport away, but Lin Xuan sent an azure hand after her and a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon appeared in her path.
• Madam Black Python unleashed dozens of sword lights in a desperate attack, destroying nearly half of the Corpse Demon's corpse qi.

Lin Xuan defeated Madam Black Python, searched her Nascent Soul, and fled with her Storage Bag, while the Elephant Demon and Patriarch Kunnan failed to track him and continued toward the Snow Fox Clan. At Hundred Flower Mountain, the Snow Fox King received a message that made him leap to his feet in alarm.

• Lin Xuan trapped Madam Black Python’s Nascent Soul with the Spirit Restricting Technique, searched it, and let the Corpse Demon consume it before fleeing with her Storage Bag.
• The Elephant Demon and Patriarch Kunnan discovered the Leopard Demon’s corpse and failed to find Lin Xuan or Madam Black Python with their search.
• Patriarch Kunnan persuaded the Elephant Demon to attend the Snow Fox King’s ceremony before pursuing their enemies.
• The Snow Fox King received a streak of firelight in his cave residence, read its message, and sprang to his feet in shock.

The Snow Fox King ordered a secret search for his missing infant daughter, Xiang'er, while Lin Xuan continued toward the Qilin Fire Vein. Lin Xuan reached the far north and uncovered the entrance to the Ancient Qilin Cave ruins.

• The Snow Fox King learned Xiang'er had gone missing and ordered the clan to search for her while keeping the incident secret.
• Lin Xuan dismissed Yue'er's concerns about the cave's restrictions, relying on his knowledge of formations to find another way in.
• Lin Xuan hid as two Transformation Realm demons flew past and learned that at least seventeen or eighteen such demons had appeared nearby.
• Lin Xuan traveled cautiously for three days, then flew north at full speed after the demons stopped appearing.
• Lin Xuan used the Corpse Demon to move a massive ice boulder, revealing a deep hole that he identified as the entrance to the ruins.

Lin Xuan descended into the underground cave and discovered the Qilin Cave Mansion behind a powerful fiery restriction. He used his Azure Phantom Nether Fire and Demon Infant to attack the barrier, but it began to counterattack and swallow his flame.

• Lin Xuan sent the Corpse Demon into the cave to scout, then entered and found human and Demon Race remains along the way.
• Lin Xuan reached a vast cavern, broke the illusion hiding a jade pavilion, and saw the fiery-red barrier around the Qilin Cave Mansion.
• Lin Xuan checked the Xuanji Insights but found no information about the restriction, then decided to try breaking it with his Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan fed blood essence to the poisonous flame, shaped it into a bird, and sent it against the barrier.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Demon Infant to assist, and their attacks opened a crack that widened to about a finger's width before the barrier's flames counterattacked and swallowed the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.

Lin Xuan struggled to break the restriction blocking the Fire Vein at the Ancient Qilin Cave, but every attack failed. After three days of exhausting his methods, he and Yue'er were left with no way forward.

• Lin Xuan used the Corpse Demon to draw the restriction's fire spirit energy away from the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, then severed the Corpse Demon's burning arms to save it.
• Lin Xuan studied the Xuanji Insights and discovered that he could summon the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring inside the Ancient Qilin Cave.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er attacked the restriction with ice awls, flames, and beast-soul beams, but could not break through it.
• Lin Xuan spent three days trying magic treasures, formation-breaking tools, and secret techniques, then admitted that he had exhausted his options.

Lin Xuan used two jade talismans to break the barrier sealing the pavilion, then entered despite the thick mist inside severing his connection to the Corpse Demon. The chapter left him stepping into the mist-covered pavilion under layers of protection.

• Lin Xuan discovered that the Jade Profound Sect command token reacted to the barrier and brought out a second, identical jade talisman.
• Lin Xuan spent most of his magical power charging the jade talismans, then used the Spirit Storage Bag to replenish it and continue.
• The talismans released small fish and birds that entered the barrier and caused it to vanish.
• Lin Xuan found the pavilion built from Blood Jade and discovered that thick white mist inside suppressed his divine sense and swallowed his Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan sent the Corpse Demon into the pavilion, lost his mental connection to it, then used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring and defensive talismans before entering himself.

Lin Xuan explored the Ancient Qilin Cave in search of the Fire Vein and uncovered several treasures hidden in its chambers. He reached the Fire Cloud Cave and activated its ancient formation, leaving the Earth Fire below still to be accessed.

• Lin Xuan entered the cave, found three Ancient Treasures in an Iron Mother chest, and identified the chambers leading to the Cultivation Room, Treasure Vault, and Fire Cloud Cave.
• Lin Xuan searched the Treasure Vault with Yue'er and found a concealed mechanism that revealed three jade boxes containing Transformation Realm Demon Cores.
• Lin Xuan entered the Fire Cloud Cave and recognized the complex formation that sealed the Earth Fire beneath the hall.
• Lin Xuan located the formation's disk, placed nine spirit stones in its grooves, and triggered a violent shaking of the ground.

Lin Xuan prepared the Earth Vein Fire and began refining the Heaven Dust Pill in Fire Cloud Cave. Far away, Poison Flood Dragon King told Green-Eyed Patriarch that the Snow Fox Clan’s newborn princess had gone missing, and the two discussed finding her.

• Lin Xuan shaped Iron Mother into a Beast Head, joined it to the fire outlet, and confirmed the Earth Vein Fire could refine the Heaven Dust Pill.
• Lin Xuan rested overnight, then returned to Fire Cloud Cave and set up the Purple Dragon Cauldron and its formation for the pill-making process.
• Lin Xuan added rare ingredients to the cauldron and carefully controlled the Earth Fire as he began refining the Heaven Dust Pill.
• Poison Flood Dragon King told Green-Eyed Patriarch that the Snow Fox Clan’s newborn girl had gone missing, and Green-Eyed Patriarch questioned his motives for sharing the information.
• Poison Flood Dragon King suggested that Green-Eyed Patriarch wanted to find the missing princess.

The Poison Flood Dragon King and Green-Eyed Patriarch secretly agreed to search for the missing Snow Fox princess and seize the opportunity to weaken the Snow Fox Clan. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan struggled to finish refining the Heaven Dust Pill when his Earth Fire and Infant Fire proved too weak, and he brought out a rare crimson crystal as a possible solution.

• The Poison Flood Dragon King persuaded the Green-Eyed Patriarch to secretly search for the missing Snow Fox princess and join forces against the Snow Fox Clan.
• The two patriarchs agreed to attend the Snow Fox Clan gathering while leaving the search to their subordinates.
• After forty-nine days of refining, Lin Xuan discovered that the Earth Fire could not reach the temperature needed for the Heaven Dust Pill’s final fusion.
• Lin Xuan used his Nascent Soul’s Infant Fire to raise the flame’s temperature, but it still fell short.
• Lin Xuan took a rare crimson crystal he had obtained from the Poison Flood Dragon King in exchange for Longevity Pills.

Lin Xuan used his only Top-grade Spirit Stone to raise the Earth Fire temperature and continued refining the Heaven Dust Pill while Yue'er left the cave and chased a clever Little Fox. At Hundred Flower Mountain, the Snow Fox King remained worried about his missing daughter Xiang'er as his son Jian'er arrived with news related to her.

• Lin Xuan shattered his Top-grade Spirit Stone and carefully fed its fire spiritual power into the Earth Fire, stabilizing the Purple Dragon Cauldron as the Heaven Dust Pill continued to brew.
• Yue'er left Lin Xuan to watch over the pill, heard a strange sound, and found a Little Fox playing with a walnut.
• Yue'er tried to lure the Little Fox with a Fragrance Pill, but it stole the bottle and broke her Sword Qi with rosy light before fleeing.
• Yue'er chased the Little Fox out of the cave while Lin Xuan remained unaware of their encounter.
• At Hundred Flower Mountain, the Snow Fox King rebuked his subordinates for failing to find Xiang'er after more than fifty days.
• Jian'er arrived and told the Snow Fox King that he had news related to Xiang'er, prompting the King to dismiss the other demons.

The Snow Fox King learned that unfamiliar demonic beasts had gathered in the Ice Desert Wasteland and suspected a traitor had exposed Xiang'er’s disappearance. While he sent Jian'er to search for her and secretly attack the outsiders, Xiang'er remained with Yue'er near Hundred Flower Mountain, unaware of the danger.

• Jian'er told the Snow Fox King that many flood dragons and other demonic beasts from the southern Swamp had appeared in the Ice Desert Wasteland.
• The Snow Fox King and Jian'er suspected that a traitor had revealed Xiang'er’s disappearance to the Poison Flood Dragon King and the Green-Eyed Patriarch.
• The Snow Fox King ordered Jian'er to split reliable clansmen between searching for Xiang'er and secretly slaughtering the foreign demonic beasts.
• Xiang'er played with Yue'er near Hundred Flower Mountain and eagerly ate spirit pills while Lin Xuan continued refining the Heaven Dust Pill.
• Yue'er sensed something just as Xiang'er returned to ask for another spirit pill.

Lin Xuan finished refining a batch of ruined black pills that he planned to purify with the Star Sea, while Yue'er remained unaware that Xiang'er’s identity had made them targets. Two demon leaders learned that their subordinates had found the little princess and were killed, but they knew only her approximate location.

• Lin Xuan completed the pill refinement, stored the black pills, and began meditating with crystal stones.
• Yue'er burned the corpses of several demon beasts and wondered why they had reacted strangely to Xiang'er.
• Blue Flood Dragon discovered that his demon subordinates had died, and the old man told him that other demon cultivators had also been killed, including Fellow Daoist He of White Stone Cave.
• Blue Flood Dragon revealed that his subordinates had found the little princess and that their killer was not from the Snow Fox Clan.
• The old man urged Blue Flood Dragon to pursue the princess, but Blue Flood Dragon explained that his subordinates had sent only her approximate location, tens of thousands of li to the north.

Lin Xuan finished purifying the Heaven Dust Pills and befriended Xiang'er, a newborn Three-Tailed Demon Fox whose extraordinary potential made her a valuable future ally. He explained to Yue'er that he was cultivating Xiang'er's trust for the day they might both reach the Spirit World.

• Blue Flood Dragon and the one-horned old man left the snowy wasteland to search for the girl.
• Lin Xuan successfully purified the Heaven Dust Pills, though he had ruined two of the spiritual medicines.
• Yue'er introduced Xiang'er to Lin Xuan, who recognized her as a Three-Tailed Demon Fox with extraordinary potential.
• Lin Xuan gave Xiang'er Blood Extension Pills, and the fox eagerly ate them as candy.
• Yue'er asked whether Lin Xuan planned to make Xiang'er his spirit beast, and he explained that her Sky Fox bloodline made a contract with a human impossible.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er he was befriending Xiang'er in hopes of gaining a powerful ally in the Spirit World.

Lin Xuan began forming his Nascent Soul in Fire Cloud Cave, using Heaven Dust Pills and the Devil Infant Art to refine his Golden Core. As his cultivation entered the crucial heart-devil tempering stage, Blue Flood Dragon and a gray-robed old man searched the northern wilderness for the Snow Fox Clan’s runaway princess.

• Lin Xuan sent Yue'er away, set up defensive formations, and summoned the Corpse Demon to guard him in Fire Cloud Cave.
• Lin Xuan spent several days preparing, then began consuming Heaven Dust Pills and guiding their power through his dantian.
• Blue Flood Dragon and the gray-robed old man encountered the Snow Fox Clan’s Seventh Elder and sent out flying ants and fire birds to search for the runaway princess.
• On the ninth day, Lin Xuan swallowed a high-grade Heaven Dust Pill, causing violent changes in his dantian as the Devil Infant used Infant Fire to temper his Golden Core.
• Lin Xuan entered an illusion and recognized that he had reached the heart-devil tempering stage of Nascent Soul Formation.

Lin Xuan endured visions of humanity’s ancient struggle and fought Demon Monsters during his Nascent Soul tribulation, while Yue'er and Xiang'er watched the celestial anomaly outside the Ancient Qilin Cave. The signs suggested Lin Xuan had succeeded, but Xiang'er swallowed the Five-Colored Lotus, leaving Yue'er afraid that she had endangered Young Master.

• Yue'er waited anxiously outside the Ancient Qilin Cave as Lin Xuan's Nascent Soul Formation stirred spiritual energy and transformed the sky.
• Xiang'er absorbed the gathered spiritual motes, while the Blue Flood Dragon and the gray-robed elder noticed the anomaly and flew toward it.
• Lin Xuan saw visions of humanity's ancient origins and cultivation, then fought attacking Demon Monsters to resist the heart demon.
• The ground caved in near Yue'er and Xiang'er, and spiritual energy formed a Five-Colored Lotus amid signs that Lin Xuan might have succeeded.
• Xiang'er swallowed the Five-Colored Lotus, and Yue'er feared that the little fox had caused trouble for Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan successfully formed his Nascent Soul, but the celestial phenomenon drew two Transformation Realm demons to the Ancient Qilin Cave. The demons recognized the little snow fox as the Snow Fox Clan’s princess, and Lin Xuan faced them alone.

• Yue'er saw Lin Xuan awaken after forming his Nascent Soul, with his Nascent Soul and Demon Infant returning to his dantian.
• Lin Xuan sensed two Transformation Realm demons approaching and told Yue'er to stay out of the fight.
• Blue Flood Dragon and Brother Zhu learned from a Fire Bird that the Snow Fox Clan’s girl was at the center of the strange phenomenon and assumed Lin Xuan had captured her.
• Lin Xuan flew out of the Ancient Qilin Cave with the little demon fox and met the two demons, who recognized her and positioned themselves on either side of him.

Lin Xuan fought the two Transformation Realm Demon Race monsters and demonstrated the power of his newly mastered Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and other abilities. After his attacks threatened the gray-robed monster, it revealed its true form and unleashed a storm of yellow sand against Lin Xuan’s Azure Phantom Nether Fire.

• Lin Xuan sent crescent blades from the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, wounding Blue Flood Dragon’s scaled arms and startling both monsters.
• The gray-robed old monster attacked with a Ghost Head and demonic flame, but Lin Xuan evaded with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps.
• Lin Xuan appeared behind the gray-robed monster and attacked its protective barrier with a blue Sword Ray, then set the barrier alight with an emerald-green flame.
• The gray-robed monster transformed into an ugly demonic beast and filled the sky with yellow sand to attack Lin Xuan’s Azure Phantom Nether Fire.