Recaps

Lin Xuan and Yue'er impersonated Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance to deceive the Nascent Soul cultivators gathered in the hall. Lin Xuan began claiming that the Grand Elder had sent news, leaving the group eager for details about Yingzhou Island.

• Lin Xuan killed Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance, captured their nascent souls, searched them, and fed them to the Beast Soul Banner.
• Yue'er transformed into Fairy Fragrance, while Lin Xuan disguised himself as Kong Neng and prepared forged transmissions.
• Lin Xuan summoned the gathered cultivators and told them that a Ten Thousand Mile Talisman had arrived from the Grand Elder.
• The cultivators assumed Yingzhou Island had fallen and began asking about captives and spoils, but Lin Xuan rebuked them for jumping to conclusions.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er impersonated Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance to convince Li Soul Valley’s Nascent Soul cultivators that the Grand Elder ordered them to attack powerful Outer Seas factions. After silencing Zhao Xuedong’s objections, Lin Xuan sent Venerable Leilin to attack the Demon Whale Gang, leaving the plan poised to expose him to danger.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er claimed Horizon Sea Pavilion had allied with Outer Seas sects through marriage alliances and said the Grand Elder ordered a preemptive strike against the strongest factions.
• Zhao Xuedong questioned the order and demanded to inspect the Ten Thousand Mile Talisman, which revealed instructions to destroy more than thirty major sects and clans.
• Yue'er threatened Zhao Xuedong, and Lin Xuan calmed her; Zhao backed down, and the other cultivators agreed to obey the decree.
• Lin Xuan assigned Venerable Leilin three thousand disciples to raze the Demon Whale Gang’s headquarters, and Leilin eagerly accepted.

Lin Xuan sent the sect’s cultivators to attack the Outer Seas clans and sects while secretly preventing Zhao Xuedong from warning anyone. After wiping out the remaining defenders on Kuijin Island, Lin Xuan and Yue'er raced toward Horizon Sea Pavilion, which faced an attack by three Lihe Realm cultivators.

• Lin Xuan assigned nearly a hundred thousand cultivators to attack the Outer Seas sects and clans, then learned that Zhao Xuedong had grown suspicious.
• Lin Xuan intercepted Zhao Xuedong’s Secretly Crafted Sound Transmission Talisman and discovered that the elder had sent a warning.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er ambushed Zhao Xuedong, killed him, and erased every trace of the elder’s death.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er slaughtered the roughly thousand cultivators left on Kuijin Island, refined their souls into the Beast Soul Banner, and seized the island’s wealth.
• Lin Xuan learned that three Lihe Realm cultivators, including the newly advanced Hui Xuan, threatened Horizon Sea Pavilion, so he and Yue'er hurried there to aid Sister Ruyan.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley attacked sects across the Outer Seas, drawing them into a war that Lin Xuan had intended to ease the pressure on Horizon Sea Pavilion. On Yingzhou Island, Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenders fought back amid brutal losses, and the siege remained at a stalemate.

• The Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley slaughtered Kuijin Island’s cultivators, then attacked more than thirty sects and clans across the Outer Seas.
• Outraged sects, clans, and rogue cultivators joined forces against the invaders, creating a stalemate that fulfilled Lin Xuan’s plan to draw away their main forces.
• Senior Sister Ji reassured four junior sisters that Ancestor Ruyan could defend Horizon Sea Pavilion, but the women soon faced an old monster from Li Soul Valley.
• Senior Sister Ji activated a restriction, and the five women used their Small Five Elements Sword Formation to hold off the attacker’s demonic cloud and treasures.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage Toutuo broke through the restrictions protecting seven women from clans allied with Horizon Sea Pavilion, killed them with a tiger-shaped treasure, and captured the survivors.
• Fighting continued across Yingzhou Island, where both sides suffered heavy losses and even Core Condensation cultivators killed Nascent Soul cultivators with the aid of restrictions and formations.

During the battle between Horizon Sea Pavilion and its enemies, Liu Ying killed three Nascent Soul cultivators and faced Hui Xuan, who exposed her betrayal in exchanging the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation’s weakness for Heavenly One True Water. Meng Ruyan appeared at the confrontation’s end and revealed that she had deliberately exposed the formation’s weakness to identify the mole, leaving Liu Ying kneeling in shame.

• Liu Ying used her Fragrant Mist and Pink Powder Skeleton technique to kill three fleeing Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators.
• Hui Xuan confronted Liu Ying and accused her of revealing the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation’s weakness to obtain Heavenly One True Water.
• Liu Ying explained that she had betrayed Horizon Sea Pavilion only to secure the treasure needed to complete her Withered Countenance Art, and refused Hui Xuan’s offer to join the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• Hui Xuan revealed that he had reached the Lihe Middle Stage and prepared to attack Liu Ying.
• Meng Ruyan appeared and challenged Hui Xuan, then told Liu Ying she had deliberately exposed the Nine Palaces Sword Array’s weakness to find the sect’s mole.
• Liu Ying realized Meng Ruyan knew about her betrayal and fell to her knees in shame.

Meng Ruyan forgave Liu Ying for betraying Horizon Sea Pavilion and sent her to help the other disciples while she faced Hui Xuan alone. The two Lihe cultivators began their duel, and Meng Ruyan revealed the Giant Spirit Art as Hui Xuan transformed his Zen Staff into a Buddha.

• Meng Ruyan forgave Liu Ying after she confessed, while warning that she would still face punishment after the battle.
• Meng Ruyan ordered Liu Ying to leave and help the other disciples, assuring her that Hui Xuan could not kill her.
• Liu Ying obeyed and flew away, leaving Meng Ruyan and Hui Xuan alone to face their long-standing enmity.
• Hui Xuan and Meng Ruyan recalled meeting three hundred years earlier before summoning their lifebound Dharma Treasures and beginning their fight.
• Meng Ruyan used the Giant Spirit Art to enlarge the Green Shadow Falling Snow Sword to over a thousand zhang, surprising Hui Xuan.
• Hui Xuan dismissed the threat and began a spell that transformed his emerald Zen Staff into a Buddha.

Hui Xuan and Meng Ruyan brought out their sects’ imitation spirit treasures as their battle intensified. Meng Ruyan recalled how Wang Tinglou had recovered the Dinghai Divine Bell from Ten Thousand Flood Dragon Valley to fulfill her late sister’s wish, and the story ended with the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King surrendering it.

• Hui Xuan struck Meng Ruyan with the Tathagata Palm, and she countered with the Green Shadow Falling Snow Sword, leaving both injured.
• Hui Xuan summoned the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s Great Compassion Golden Wheel, and Meng Ruyan answered with Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Dinghai Divine Bell.
• Meng Ruyan recalled that Wang Tinglou had sworn to recover the lost bell after her elder sister died troubled by its disappearance.
• Wang Tinglou fought the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King, his Lihe Realm Dao companion, and hundreds of demons with a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Wang Tinglou fought on despite his wounds until the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King feared the cost of continuing and handed over the Dinghai Divine Bell.

Meng Ruyan fought Hui Xuan with the Dinghai Divine Bell and faced an even fiercer magical battle. At Cangling Peak, Kong Hui broke through Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenses, and Ji Yueru confronted him as the disciples tried to escape and seek reinforcements.

• Meng Ruyan invoked the Dinghai Divine Bell and unleashed Spirit World beasts against Hui Xuan, but his Golden-Bodied Arhat destroyed them.
• Meng Ruyan struck Hui Xuan with the bell’s sound waves, and the two paused before their battle intensified.
• Kong Hui led an assault on Cangling Peak, where Ji Yueru and Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenders failed to stop him from breaking the great restriction formation.
• Ji Yueru ordered the disciples to seek a chance to escape and request reinforcements, then refused Kong Hui’s offer to surrender.
• Kong Hui began reciting scripture and formed a golden light screen as Ji Yueru attacked him with her Ivory Jade Comb Dharma Treasure.

Lin Xuan arrived on Yingzhou Island and rescued Ji Yueru from Kong Hui, the abbot of Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect. After revealing that he had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, Lin Xuan challenged Kong Hui to surrender or die.

• Kong Hui summoned a winged Strange Tiger and used his Precept Blade to overwhelm Ji Yueru, destroying her sword and wounding her Poison Flood Dragon.
• As Kong Hui's attacks trapped Ji Yueru with no way to escape, an azure hand pulled her out of danger.
• Kong Hui searched for the unseen rescuer, who appeared as Lin Xuan and moved to face him.
• Kong Hui recognized Lin Xuan as the man who killed Kong Xuan and learned that he had advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Lin Xuan taunted Kong Hui and told him to surrender or undergo Liberation by Violence.

Lin Xuan fought Kong Hui, the abbot of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, and discovered that the monk’s power matched his own despite Lin Xuan’s advantages. After Kong Hui severed his damaged arm, Lin Xuan sensed that a dangerous turn was coming.

• Lin Xuan’s Sword Rays failed to penetrate Kong Hui’s five-colored Buddhist light, and Kong Hui sent a fierce tiger and flaming Zen Staff after him.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to evade the attacks and struck Kong Hui with a silver fist, while Kong Hui countered with the Dragon-Elephant Polo Palm.
• Lin Xuan gained only a slight advantage in their clash, while Kong Hui’s right hand was crippled and both cultivators were injured.
• Kong Hui realized Lin Xuan might possess twin Nascent Souls, then severed his damaged right arm and sealed the wound with golden light.
• Lin Xuan sensed danger and prepared to act as Kong Hui shouted at him.

Lin Xuan fought Kong Hui, who revealed a monstrous demonic arm, and overwhelmed him with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring’s Hundred Dragon Fangs. Kong Hui detonated his body to escape, but Lin Xuan spotted a trace of golden light in the aftermath.

• Kong Hui sent his Strange Tiger and Zen Staff to attack Lin Xuan while black mist transformed his wounded shoulder into a monstrous arm.
• Lin Xuan used the Purple Cauldron Whip and Azure Phantom Nether Fire to defeat Kong Hui’s attacks as Kong Hui completed his transformation.
• Kong Hui attacked with the Precept Blade, but Lin Xuan’s Azure Fire resisted it while he summoned the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Hundred Dragon Fangs, shattering Kong Hui’s Buddhist barrier and swallowing him in a horde of Ice and Fire Flood Dragons.
• Kong Hui detonated his body, and Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to spot a faint trace of golden light.

Lin Xuan defeated the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect cultivators and learned that Su Jiangchun’s Demon Suppression Tower was under attack by two Lihe Realm enemies. He set out to aid her, while Su Jiangchun was immobilized and faced with death at the tower.

• Lin Xuan captured Kong Hui’s two Nascent Souls after stopping them from escaping or self-detonating, then helped Ji Yueru and the Horizon Sea Pavilion women defeat the remaining enemies.
• Ji Yueru told Lin Xuan that Su Jiangchun’s Demon Suppression Tower was the formation eye of the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation and that its attackers were a powerful Lihe Realm couple.
• Lin Xuan decided to aid Su Jiangchun, took a map of Yingzhou Island from Ji Yueru, and flew toward the Demon Suppression Tower.
• At the tower, Fairy Scorpion and Corpse King Qingyuan overwhelmed Su Jiangchun, Liu Ying, and the elders guarding the formation.
• Fairy Scorpion immobilized Su Jiangchun and threatened to feed her to her spirit insects.

Lin Xuan intervened when Fairy Scorpion was about to kill Su Jiangchun, and the two exchanged powerful attacks. After Su Jiangchun escaped her seal, Lin Xuan and Yue'er prepared to face the two Lihe Realm opponents separately.

• Fairy Scorpion released a Heavenly Purple Human-Faced Scorpion to attack the helpless Su Jiangchun.
• Lin Xuan used Azure Phantom Nether Fire to trap the scorpion, then destroyed Fairy Scorpion's Pink Powder Skeleton with his Broken Sword.
• Fairy Scorpion blocked Lin Xuan's sword strike with a powerful Banana Leaf Fan, and Lin Xuan attacked with his Azure Fire Sword.
• Fairy Scorpion evaded the giant sword with Wind Evasion Technique, while Su Jiangchun broke free of her seal and recognized Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sent Yue'er to face Fairy Scorpion while he prepared to deal with her dual-cultivation partner and rescue Liu Ying.

Lin Xuan split the battle, leaving Yue'er and Liu Ying to fight Fairy Scorpion while he confronted Corpse King Qingyuan. Qingyuan transformed into his true corpse-king form, and Lin Xuan launched an attack as their fight began.

• Lin Xuan sent Yue'er to hold off Fairy Scorpion and flew to confront Corpse King Qingyuan.
• Yue'er used the Beast Soul Banner to intercept Fairy Scorpion's ghost-head attack, while Liu Ying blocked Qingyuan's corpse-qi pythons with her umbrella treasure.
• Lin Xuan arrived beside Liu Ying, sent her to assist Yue'er, and faced Qingyuan alone.
• Qingyuan recognized Lin Xuan's formidable spiritual pressure but insisted that his Nascent Soul cultivation could not match a Lihe Realm expert.
• Qingyuan transformed into his ten-thousand-year corpse-king form, and Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring before readying a shield.

Lin Xuan fought Corpse King Qingyuan, using his refined shield, dragon formations, and Demon Flames to withstand the Corpse King's attacks. Lin Xuan broke the Corpse King's wind escape and struck him with the Demonic Fate Sword, but a regenerative White Bone Shield stopped the Sword Ray.

• Lin Xuan used the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield to block Corpse King Qingyuan's corpse fire and repel its cold aura.
• Lin Xuan and Corpse King Qingyuan sent dragons and more than a thousand swords clashing against each other.
• Corpse King Qingyuan vanished to attack Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan dodged with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and countered his corpse fire with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan struck with the Demonic Fate Sword and used his Long Spear to break the Corpse King's wind escape.
• Corpse King Qingyuan raised a White Bone Shield that regenerated against the Sword Ray and stopped it from breaking through.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er gained the upper hand against the two Lihe Realm opponents, while Horizon Sea Pavilion activated its Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation. A message revealed that the enemy’s main forces were fighting the Outer Seas sects instead, and the chapter ended with Wang Tinglou arriving to save Meng Ruyan from Hui Xuan.

• Lin Xuan used the Five Dragon Seal to weaken Corpse King Qingyuan’s White Bone Shield, then wounded him with sword energy and Azure Fire.
• Yue'er’s Asura God Blood and Mysterious Yin Treasure Box weakened Fairy Scorpion, allowing Yue'er, Su Jiangchun, and Liu Ying to pressure her.
• Corpse King Qingyuan emerged badly wounded and prepared to retaliate against Lin Xuan.
• Horizon Sea Pavilion activated the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation, and a Flying Sword Message told Corpse King Qingyuan that Li Soul Valley and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect were fighting the Outer Seas forces.
• As Hui Xuan moved to kill the exhausted Meng Ruyan, Wang Tinglou appeared before them.

Wang Tinglou’s External Incarnation intervened in the battle at Horizon Sea Pavilion, forcing Hui Xuan to retreat, while Lin Xuan faced Corpse King Qingyuan amid the activation of the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan recognizing Qin Yan above the formation, apparently controlling its nine swords.

• Wang Tinglou’s External Incarnation caught Hui Xuan’s immortal sword, and Hui Xuan retreated after learning his main force had clashed with other Outer Seas sects.
• Fairy Ruyan attacked Hui Xuan as he withdrew, and Wang Tinglou fought back with his Golden Ripple Brush.
• Lin Xuan absorbed corpse poison into the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and sent it, a Phoenix, and an insect cloud after Corpse King Qingyuan.
• Corpse King Qingyuan fled from Lin Xuan’s attacks, while Lin Xuan struggled to keep pursuing him.
• The Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation began releasing more than a hundred thousand strands of Sword Qi from its giant swords.
• Lin Xuan saw Fairy in the Clouds, Qin Yan, hovering above the formation with nine immortal swords around her.

Lin Xuan and Qin Yan joined forces against Corpse King Qingyuan and Fairy Scorpion, while Qin Yan’s sword array spared the allies and focused on the two enemies. Lin Xuan pressed his attack on Qingyuan, who summoned a Ten-Thousand-Year Corpse Bead as the assault closed in.

• Lin Xuan continued attacking Corpse King Qingyuan while his Phoenix and Azure Phantom Nether Fire clashed with the Corpse King’s defenses.
• Qin Yan sent tens of thousands of red sword rays toward the battlefield, and Lin Xuan and Yue'er raised layered defenses.
• Qin Yan’s sword rays targeted only Corpse King Qingyuan and Fairy Scorpion, tearing through Qingyuan’s white bone walls as he searched for a way to escape.
• Lin Xuan used his Spirit Storage Belt to replenish his true essence, then attacked Qingyuan with Hundred Dragon Fangs and a wolf-shaped sword strike.
• Corpse King Qingyuan summoned a Ten-Thousand-Year Corpse Bead that transformed into three enormous skeletons to confront the sword rays and Lin Xuan’s attacks.

Yue'er joined Lin Xuan's battle against Fairy Scorpion, but their attacks could not pierce the Jade Ruyi's unusual defense. Yue'er used Baleful Ghost Ink to defile the treasure, then destroyed Fairy Scorpion with the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box, leaving her soul trapped inside it.

• Lin Xuan poured his true essence into his Demonic Fate Sword and natal Dharma Treasure as the battle raged.
• Yue'er transformed the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box into the Illusion Moon Profound Light Sword and struck Fairy Scorpion's pale-blue defensive sphere, but it rebounded.
• Su Jiangchun and Liu Ying added their Flying Daggers and immortal sword to the assault, yet the Jade Ruyi's defense held.
• Yue'er sent Baleful Ghost Ink into the sphere as a false flood dragon, weakening Fairy Scorpion's connection to the Jade Ruyi.
• Yue'er shattered the defiled defense with another Illusion Moon Profound Light Sword strike, killing Fairy Scorpion and drawing her Primordial Spirit essence into the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box.

Lin Xuan pressed Corpse King Qingyuan with the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation, forcing him to use blood and secret arts to escape. When Qingyuan tried to retreat, Lin Xuan unleashed the Jade Luo Bees, whose self-destruction drenched the Corpse King in corrosive fluid.

• Corpse King Qingyuan reconsidered fighting after Fairy Scorpion's death and began looking for a chance to flee.
• Lin Xuan charged the Demonic Fate Sword with his magic power and struck at Qingyuan with a powerful Sword Ray.
• Qingyuan used black corpse mist and a mouthful of essence blood to block the sword attack, then retreated as another wave of formation Sword Qi gathered.
• Lin Xuan sent tens of thousands of Jade Luo Bees to block Qingyuan's retreat, and Qingyuan attacked them with transformed Flying Needles.
• Lin Xuan made the Jade Luo Bees self-destruct, covering Qingyuan in their corrosive liquid.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er were swallowed by the Hundun Thunder Bead's white light and vanished, leaving Su Jiangchun and Liu Ying to face the Corpse Infant. The two women attacked him, while the chapter left Lin Xuan and Yue'er's fate unexplained.

• Lin Xuan destroyed Corpse King Qingyuan's body, but the Corpse Infant revealed a Hundun Thunder Bead and unleashed its power.
• Lin Xuan tried to protect Yue'er and escape, but the bead stripped them of their spiritual power and engulfed them in white light.
• Su Jiangchun and Liu Ying found Lin Xuan and Yue'er gone and confronted the Corpse Infant.
• The Corpse Infant attacked the two women with Magic Snakes, while Su Jiangchun summoned a Giant Eagle and Liu Ying released poisonous pink mist.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er survived the Hundun Thunder Bead and found themselves inside a Spirit Gathering Space, an independent realm with spiritual energy comparable to a supreme-grade Spirit Vein. After learning from a dead former Horizon Sea Pavilion sect master’s Jade Slip that the space could only be escaped by advancing to the Lihe Realm, Lin Xuan realized their refuge could become a lifelong prison.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er emerged unharmed from the strange white light and found themselves in a small independent space filled with dense spiritual energy.
• Lin Xuan searched the space and discovered an ancient skeleton, a Storage Bag, and a Jade Slip beneath a large rock.
• Lin Xuan used his Puppet to retrieve the Jade Slip, which identified the skeleton as Mei, the fourth-generation sect master of Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan learned that the space was one of nine Spirit Gathering Spaces created to imitate a supreme-grade Spirit Vein.
• Lin Xuan realized Corpse King Qingyuan had mistaken a Spirit Gathering Bead for a Hundun Thunder Bead and sent them into the space.
• Lin Xuan concluded that they could escape only by advancing to the Lihe Realm, or remain trapped until their lifespans ended.

Lin Xuan tried and failed to break out of the Spirit Gathering Space, then recovered from his exertions while accepting that he might be trapped until he advanced to Lihe Realm. After noticing a mystery about the bones and their owner, he took the ancient Storage Bag beside the skeleton.

• Lin Xuan attacked the white light curtain with Azure Fire and a Broken Sword, but could not break through it.
• Lin Xuan gave up trying to escape for the moment and took medicinal pills to recover his strength.
• After two days and one night, Lin Xuan awoke beside Yue'er and acknowledged that they might remain trapped for a long time.
• Lin Xuan reread the Jade Slip and wondered how the skeleton's owner had entered the Spirit Gathering Space despite creating only nine Spirit Gathering Beads.
• Lin Xuan drew the ancient Storage Bag from beside the skeleton and noted that its capacity far exceeded modern bags.

Lin Xuan explored the abandoned cave residence of Mei, found Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and discovered an astonishingly mature Purple Aster Herb in its herb garden. He remained trapped in the Spirit Gathering Space and needed to advance to Lihe before he could leave.

• Lin Xuan buried Mei's remains and flew with Yue'er to the mountain summit to use the abandoned cave residence as a place to advance to Lihe.
• Lin Xuan searched the cave residence and tore through a powerful restriction to retrieve a bottle of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the rare spirit milk could restore magic power and some Life Essence, then carefully stored the small amount he had found.
• Lin Xuan entered the cave residence's herb garden, where Yue'er spotted a Purple Aster Herb that had reached an extraordinarily mature form.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er explored the ancient Herb Garden and discovered priceless spirit herbs, including a Purple Aster Herb and a Nine Heavens Red Lotus. Searching the belongings of the ancient cultivator Mei, they found various treasures and an unknown red powder that Yue'er appeared to recognize.

• Lin Xuan identified the Purple Aster Herb and Nine Heavens Red Lotus as exceptionally valuable treasures among the Herb Garden's spirit herbs.
• Lin Xuan worried that he did not know which pills to refine from most of the ancient herbs, and Yue'er suggested their former owner might have left pill formulas.
• Lin Xuan searched the Storage Bag of the woman surnamed Mei and gave Yue'er a defensive Ice Silkworm Garment.
• Lin Xuan opened a Jade Box containing fragrant red powder, tasted a little, and could not identify it.
• Yue'er asked to examine the powder with an excited, yearning expression.