Recaps

Xueling, a dying Nascent Soul, entrusted Lin Xuan with her family’s jade Longevity Lock and asked him to deliver it to her children in Xuanyuan City in the Spirit World. After Lin Xuan accepted the task, Xueling’s Nascent Soul collapsed and dispersed, leaving him reflecting on the dangers of the immortal path.

• Xueling insisted she was dying and asked Lin Xuan to hear her request before he left.
• Xueling gave Lin Xuan her family’s jade Longevity Lock and explained that she wanted it delivered to her son and daughter in Xuanyuan City.
• Xueling used a Jade Slip to record her children’s portraits, and Lin Xuan agreed to seek them out if the Longevity Lock proved to be only a keepsake.
• Xueling’s Nascent Soul briefly regained vitality before cracking apart and dispersing into the air.
• Lin Xuan watched Xueling fall and reminded himself to remain cautious on the immortal path.

Lin Xuan stopped concealing his cultivation and flew into the mist, while a group of Underworld monsters attacked a restriction on Penglai Mountain’s Jade Stone Stairs. Iron Tyrant King and the green-robed old man guarded the assault and worried about two powerful pursuers trapped elsewhere, as another set of stairs stood sealed by six copper pillars.

• Lin Xuan revealed his cultivation and flew swiftly into the mist, believing Princess Xinyue would not pursue him.
• Twenty-three Underworld monsters attacked the white fog blocking the Jade Stone Stairs, but their powerful strikes had no effect.
• Iron Tyrant King and the green-robed old man maintained their strength while discussing two Lihe Late Stage cultivators who had followed them and been caught by a restriction.
• Iron Tyrant King and the green-robed old man identified one pursuer as an Ancient Demon and wondered why he traveled with a human cultivator.
• Elsewhere, six enormous copper pillars linked their light into a curtain that enclosed another stretch of Jade Stone Stairs.

Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon were trapped by the Buddhist Sect’s Six-Word Demon-Subduing Curse, exposing their presence as they worked to break free. While they attacked the restriction, Wang Tinglou pressed Nailong True Person about the treasure atop Penglai Mountain, but learned only that it was immensely valuable to the upper-realm beings and might be useless to him.

• Wang Tinglou recognized the Six-Word Demon-Subduing Curse and warned the Ancient Demon that their exposed whereabouts would make tracking the Underworld ghosts difficult.
• The Ancient Demon persuaded Wang Tinglou to continue their alliance by promising to help him reach the Dongxuan stage and possibly Spirit Division after they obtained the treasure.
• The Ancient Demon struck the light screen with a fist of devil qi while Wang Tinglou attacked it with a golden Ancient Treasure sword.
• Wang Tinglou privately questioned Nailong True Person about the treasure atop Penglai Mountain, but Nailong refused to reveal what it was.
• Nailong True Person said the treasure was precious to him and the Ancient Demon but might not interest Wang Tinglou, leaving Wang Tinglou bewildered.

Lin Xuan used a hidden Teleportation Array to cross the Heavenly Chasm and reached the Jade Stone Stairs, where he sensed someone had gone ahead. As the array behind him activated again, he attacked it with Sword Qi.

• Lin Xuan chose the middle path and found that a Heavenly Chasm blocked his way under a powerful No-Fly Restriction.
• Lin Xuan consulted his map of Penglai Mountain, found a marked boulder, and uncovered an intact short-distance Teleportation Array beneath it.
• Lin Xuan used two Spirit Stones to activate the array and teleported across the chasm to the Jade Stone Stairs.
• Lin Xuan heard distant explosions and realized someone had already climbed ahead, then decided to continue while hoping Fairy Ruyan was safe.
• The teleportation array behind Lin Xuan lit up, and he slashed toward it with Sword Qi.

Lin Xuan discovered that his Sword Qi could not damage the Teleportation Array and waited for the person arriving through it. He was astonished to meet Tian Xiaojian, who had also advanced to Lihe, and both men greeted each other while concealing their wariness.

• Lin Xuan struck the Teleportation Array with Sword Qi, but the array remained undamaged.
• Lin Xuan held back from attacking the arriving cultivator and recognized him as Tian Xiaojian.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian each reacted with disbelief at the other's advancement to Lihe.
• Tian Xiaojian greeted Lin Xuan warmly while feeling frustrated that Lin Xuan had again surpassed him.
• Yue'er suggested that Lin Xuan join her in killing Tian Xiaojian, but Lin Xuan refused because the fight could cost them too much.
• Lin Xuan greeted Tian Xiaojian with a smile and called him his worthy younger brother.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian reunited at a Teleportation Array and agreed to fight together when the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King appeared. They unleashed a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and an imitation Spirit Treasure at him as he emerged from the array.

• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian exchanged polite greetings, and Tian Xiaojian concealed how he had escaped the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King.
• Tian Xiaojian attacked the Teleportation Array as a new figure arrived, but his demonic blade failed to damage it.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian recognized the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King as their common enemy and silently agreed to join forces.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, while Tian Xiaojian brought out a Jade Comb imitation Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Xuan's silver Qilin and Tian Xiaojian's golden threads attacked the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King as he arrived through the Teleportation Array.

The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King unleashed his Black Hole spatial ability against a deadly attack, while Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon fought through Iron Tyrant King's vast Yin Soldier army. Wang Tinglou sensed that the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King was battling nearby, and the two sides continued toward the treasure atop the mountain.

• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King transformed into his demon body and created a vortex that swallowed the incoming attack and everything around it.
• Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon blasted through the Yin Soldiers, killing nearly ten thousand before the soldiers reappeared.
• Iron Tyrant King checked his Formation Map and said his nine million Yin Soldiers could delay the Lihe cultivators for at most two hours.
• The Ancient Demon asked Wang Tinglou to help destroy the Yin Soldiers, and Wang Tinglou agreed while concealing what he had sensed.
• Wang Tinglou recognized the nearby spatial fluctuation as the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King's Black Hole spell and recalled facing it centuries earlier.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian failed to injure the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King with their surprise attack, and the three prepared to fight as the Teleportation Array brought five Rogue Cultivators to the scene. The chapter left the newcomers facing the standoff between the three Lihe Realm cultivators.

• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian struck the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King with the Demonic Fate Sword and Jade Comb Spirit Treasure, but his spatial vortex blocked their combined attack.
• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King collapsed the vortex and dispelled their weakened attacks with Demon Qi, emerging unharmed.
• Lin Xuan readied the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield and Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring while Tian Xiaojian brought out his White Bone Shield and Nether Heart-Shattering Sword; neither attacked first.
• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King transformed into a human-bodied, dragon-headed monster, and he and the two cultivators faced off amid surging spiritual pressure.
• The Teleportation Array activated, bringing three men and two women—Nascent Soul Realm Rogue Cultivators, including two at the late stage—into view.

Lin Xuan, Tian Xiaojian, and the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King agreed to join forces and seek the treasure on Penglai Mountain, setting aside their past conflicts for the time being. The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King also pressured several Nascent Soul cultivators into joining them as the mountain trembled and strange firelight appeared near its summit.

• Lin Xuan and his companions saw several Nascent Soul cultivators arrive, while the five Rogue Cultivators were stunned by the presence of three Lihe Realm cultivators.
• Penglai Mountain shook, and Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian spotted what seemed to be firelight near its summit.
• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King proposed that he, Lin Xuan, and Tian Xiaojian set aside their grievances and join forces to pursue the treasure.
• Lin Xuan agreed to the alliance on the condition that they would each claim treasure according to their own ability, and Tian Xiaojian accepted.
• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King invited the Nascent Soul cultivators to join them, and they agreed under pressure.

Lin Xuan’s group encountered Wang Tinglou and an Ancient Demon fighting through the Yin Soldiers, and the rival factions agreed to a temporary alliance. They prepared to clear the soldiers together before the Underworld Realm’s forces claimed the treasure.

• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King led Lin Xuan and the others toward the treasure, while the five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators were forced to follow the three Lihe Realm experts.
• Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon fought their way through the overwhelming Yin Soldiers on the Jade Stone Stairs as Iron Tyrant King’s forces delayed them.
• Lin Xuan’s group met Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon, and Lin Xuan recognized Wang Tinglou while sensing a dangerous aura from the Ancient Demon.
• The Ancient Demon urged the newcomers to cooperate against the Yin Soldiers, warning that Underworld Realm ghosts and monsters had already reached the mountaintop.
• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King set aside his anger and agreed to join forces, and Lin Xuan, Tian Xiaojian, and Wang Tinglou also accepted the temporary alliance.

The Devil Ancestor and the others destroyed the Yin Soldiers and climbed to the mountaintop, where he revealed that the treasure in Penglai Mountain was an item from the immortal realm. Lin Xuan and the others pressed him to explain how such a treasure had appeared in the Human World.

• The Devil Ancestor, Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King, Lin Xuan, Wang Tinglou, Tian Xiaojian, and five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators attacked and wiped out the Yin Soldiers.
• The group climbed the long steps for two hours and approached the mountaintop cautiously, aware that Underworld Realm monsters had arrived ahead of them.
• Tian Xiaojian asked the Devil Ancestor whether the monsters might already have obtained the treasure, and the Devil Ancestor said it would not be easy to collect.
• The Devil Ancestor claimed that the treasure was an item of the immortals that had fallen into the Human World millions of years earlier.
• Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King doubted the claim, but Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian asked the Devil Ancestor to explain what had happened.

The Ancient Demon explained how the Asura King's death led the Saint Race Grand Commander to battle two wounded True Immortals, whose clash tore Penglai Mountain from the Spirit World. The group reached the summit seeking the remaining treasure of a True Immortal, but the chapter ended before they identified what lay before them.

• The Ancient Demon rejected the account that Spirit World cultivators defeated the Asura King and revealed that she died after fighting three immortal emissaries, leaving two wounded survivors.
• The Ancient Demon said the Saint Race Grand Commander challenged the two wounded True Immortals after learning of the Asura King's death, and all three perished together.
• The Ancient Demon explained that the battle's aftershocks tore a piece of the Spirit World into Penglai Mountain, which neither remained in the Spirit World nor reached the Human World.
• The Ancient Demon told the group that only one True Immortal's belongings remained on Penglai Mountain, while others had been taken by Spirit World cultivators and Saint Race seniors.
• The group reached the mountaintop and stared in shock at what they found.

Lin Xuan and the others entered a ruined ancient city after discovering that the Underworld Realm Demon Ghosts had broken through its gate and were already inside. As they advanced, the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King forced five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to scout ahead, while distant blasts signaled a fierce battle nearby.

• Lin Xuan, the Ancient Demon, and the others questioned why an intact city stood where the Devil Ancestor's grand commander and two True Immortals had perished, and Wang Tinglou urged them to search it.
• The group found the city's damaged gate and concluded that the Underworld Realm Demon Ghosts had broken its restrictions and entered at least two hours earlier.
• Lin Xuan and the others entered the city and saw towering ruins as the Ancient Demon warned them that broken Spirit World restrictions could still be dangerous.
• Wang Tinglou explained that damaged Spirit World formations could retain their power, and the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King ordered five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to scout ahead.
• The five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators reluctantly moved to the front, and violent explosions and the sounds of an ongoing battle rang out nearby.

Lin Xuan and the other cultivators reached the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion, where powerful Underworld Realm ghosts were blocked by its restrictions. With the treasure still inaccessible and more Lihe Realm cultivators possibly on the way, the two sides argued over whether to cooperate or fight.

• After hearing an explosion from the city center, Lin Xuan and the others hurried toward the suspected treasure while he resolved to avoid risking his life for it.
• The group passed the corpses of yin souls and ghostly things killed by damaged restrictions and reached the ancient city's center.
• Lin Xuan saw the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion and recognized it from the Jade Slip as the likely location of the immortal's relic.
• The group found Iron Tyrant King and a green-robed old man leading ghostly forces, all stopped by restrictions outside the pavilion.
• The green-robed old man proposed that both sides retrieve the treasure together and settle ownership afterward, but the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King threatened the ghosts instead.
• The green-robed old man warned that more Lihe Realm cultivators could arrive through the Asura Gate, making a battle dangerous for everyone.

Lin Xuan and the other cultivators failed to break the hall’s restriction with force, so they searched for someone skilled in formations. A woman from Lei Province’s Situ Family offered to examine it, giving the group new hope.

• The Ancient Demon, Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King, Wang Tinglou, Lin Xuan, and Tian Xiaojian agreed that whoever obtained the treasure after the restriction was broken would rely on their own abilities.
• Lin Xuan and the others bombarded the multicolored barrier for half an hour, but its spiritual Qi did not weaken.
• Wang Tinglou stopped the attacks and asked whether anyone present understood formations, while Lin Xuan chose not to volunteer his own knowledge.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage woman said she had learned a little about formations as a disciple of Lei Province’s Situ Family.
• The human cultivators and Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King reacted with delight because the Situ Family was renowned for its formations.

Situ Fang revealed her descent from the Situ Family of Lei Province and agreed to examine the restriction after securing protection for herself and her five siblings. As she prepared to break the mysterious Five Elements array, she produced an unassuming round disc that caught Lin Xuan’s attention.

• Wang Tinglou questioned whether Situ Fang truly descended from the Situ Family of Lei Province, and she explained that her ancestors had escaped the family’s destruction.
• Situ Fang asked the old monsters to spare her and her five siblings from being used as cannon fodder if she broke the restriction.
• Wang Tinglou and the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King promised protection and rewards, and Situ Fang approached the restriction.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the restriction contained all five elements and realized its composite array was beyond his current understanding.
• Situ Fang studied the restriction and summoned a palm-sized round disc that appeared to be only a Spirit Tool.

Lin Xuan recognized Situ Fang’s formation-breaking tools and hoped to claim her Restriction-Breaking Disk, while she used it and other ancient artifacts to investigate the barrier. Situ Fang identified it as the World's Absolute Formation but admitted she could not break it, leaving Lin Xuan fearing that his plan to obtain the treasure would fail.

• Lin Xuan recognized Situ Fang’s disc as the legendary Restriction-Breaking Disk and secretly planned to take it for himself.
• Situ Fang used the disk to measure the formation’s energy and discovered that all five elements contributed roughly equally.
• Situ Fang tested the barrier with other ancient formation-breaking artifacts while the gathered cultivators watched anxiously.
• Situ Fang told the Lihe Realm cultivators that she had identified the formation but could not break it.
• Situ Fang named it the World's Absolute Formation, and Lin Xuan turned pale because he had read about it in a formation book.

Situ Fang explained that the World's Absolute Formation drew on the heaven-and-earth Yuan Qi across a hundred li, making it extremely difficult to exhaust or break. The old monsters were left searching for a way through until the Ancient Demon said he had an idea.

• The Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King and Iron Tyrant King demanded that Situ Fang explain the World's Absolute Formation, while Lin Xuan noticed the Ancient Demon react to its name.
• Situ Fang identified the restriction as a top-five ancient Forbidden Array and explained the usual ways formations received spiritual power.
• After Lin Xuan defended her from the impatient Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King, Situ Fang explained that this formation merged with nature and drew on the Yuan Qi within a hundred li.
• Lin Xuan recognized the formation from the Heaven Origin Array Book and understood that its energy could be replenished continuously from Penglai Mountain.
• The Ancient Demon said the formation might not be unsolvable and that he had an idea for breaking it.

The Ancient Demon revealed that he could break the World's Absolute Formation, then seized the five Nascent Soul cultivators and demanded them and Iron Tyrant King's ghosts as Blood Sacrifice offerings. Iron Tyrant King agreed to sacrifice his subordinates, leaving Lin Xuan, Tian Xiaojian, Wang Tinglou, and the trapped cultivators facing the ritual.

• The Ancient Demon said he could break the World's Absolute Formation but needed to borrow the Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The Ancient Demon sent five phantoms to seal the five Nascent Soul cultivators, including Situ Fang, before they could resist.
• The Ancient Demon admitted he had broken his promise and explained that their bodies and souls were needed for a Blood Sacrifice.
• The Ancient Demon said Iron Tyrant King's Nascent Soul Realm ghosts were also required, and Iron Tyrant King agreed to sacrifice them for the immortal's legacy treasure.
• Iron Tyrant King used his restriction to immobilize his ghosts, while Lin Xuan, Tian Xiaojian, and Wang Tinglou remained silent and Situ Fang trembled in despair.

The Ancient Demon prepared to break the restriction and use the captured cultivators as Blood Sacrifice, but Lin Xuan intervened to secure a share of their Storage Bags. The group agreed to divide the bags, though Lin Xuan had to contend with Tian Xiaojian also wanting a share.

• The Ancient Demon gave the Lihe Realm cultivators a Jade Slip explaining how to break the restriction, and Lin Xuan quietly memorized its contents.
• As the Ancient Demon prepared to begin, Lin Xuan stopped him and raised the possibility of further restrictions ahead, prompting the others to reconsider sacrificing Situ Fang immediately.
• Lin Xuan proposed dividing the captured Nascent Soul cultivators’ Storage Bags before using them as Blood Sacrifice, and the Ancient Demon and several powerful cultivators dismissed the belongings as worthless.
• Tian Xiaojian said he wanted a share too, and Iron Tyrant King suggested that Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian each take one Storage Bag.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian collected the Storage Bags while the old monsters prepared to break the World's Absolute Formation. After a blood sacrifice powered their combined attack, a giant demonic claw appeared, and Yue'er recognized it as the Sinful Dragon.

• Lin Xuan took Situ Fang's Storage Bag, and Tian Xiaojian collected the beggar's and the Old Crone's bags while concealing his resentment.
• The Ancient Demon began dissolving the restriction around the captives, and Lin Xuan and the other old monsters joined forces above the formation eye.
• The Ancient Demon sacrificed the captives and ghosts, turning their blood-red demonic mist into fuel for the formation-breaking attack.
• The seven powers merged into a disc, whose beast phantoms exploded to reveal an enormous demonic claw.
• Yue'er recognized the claw as the Sinful Dragon, pet of the Demon World's grand commander.

Lin Xuan watched the Ancient Demon summon a claw of the Sinful Dragon to break the World's Absolute Formation. The Ancient Demon then turned on Iron Tyrant King and the Green-Robed Elder, and the claw killed Iron Tyrant King as the attack continued.

• Lin Xuan recognized the Ancient Demon's God Descent Technique and retreated as the Sinful Dragon's claw descended.
• The claw shattered the tiger-headed manifestation of the World's Absolute Formation and broke through its light curtain.
• The Ancient Demon ordered the claw to attack Iron Tyrant King and the Green-Robed Elder, turning against his former allies.
• Iron Tyrant King summoned a black seal while the Green-Robed Elder revealed his White Jade Bone Demon form and struck back with an enormous hand.
• The claw shattered Iron Tyrant King's seal, injured him, and pierced his skull with a streak of black energy.

The Ancient Demon and Wang Tinglou discussed the aftermath of the Sinful Dragon’s attack while Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian rushed into the main hall to claim the Immortal’s treasure. They found it empty, leaving them trapped between powerful enemies with no treasure to justify their risk.

• The Sinful Dragon’s claw killed the White Jade Bone Demon and another late-Lihe Realm Yinhun, then vanished after its borrowed power ran out.
• Wang Tinglou revealed a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, while the Ancient Demon reaffirmed their alliance and warned that Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian had already entered the main hall.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian rushed toward the main hall, while the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King fled after witnessing the two Yinhun’s deaths.
• The Ancient Demon explained why the long-lived Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King had chosen survival over risking his life for the treasure.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian found the main hall empty and realized their powerful pursuers had little reason to let them escape.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian uncovered an underground passage and entered a vast hall with four branching routes, where they split up. Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon arrived afterward and pursued them through separate passages, while Wang Tinglou remained suspicious of the Ancient Demon's motives.

• Lin Xuan smashed the patterned floor tiles in the upper hall, revealing a hidden underground passage, and he and Tian Xiaojian entered it.
• Lin Xuan traveled through the dark passage and emerged in a huge hall filled with skeletons, where Yue'er noted its resemblance to an underground mausoleum in Stream Leap Ravine.
• Lin Xuan chose the left passage, while Tian Xiaojian followed more slowly and entered the passage to the right after sensing something calling to him.
• Wang Tinglou and the Ancient Demon reached the hall after surviving a weakened Minor Void Space Restriction, and the Ancient Demon said the immortal's legacy treasure lay ahead.
• The Ancient Demon urged Wang Tinglou to pursue the two cultivators through separate passages, and Wang Tinglou entered one while continuing to doubt the Ancient Demon's intentions.

Lin Xuan entered a passage filled with poisonous mist and fell into an illusion restriction that stirred his Inner Demon, while Yue'er appeared to help him. In another passage, Wang Tinglou fought a regenerating earth Puppet, found a way to stop its recovery, and continued deeper.

• Lin Xuan continued through the underground passage despite its poisonous purple mist and the ghostly cries ahead.
• Gray mist filled Lin Xuan’s passage, where faces appeared on the walls and the illusion restriction began stirring his Inner Demon.
• Yue'er appeared before Lin Xuan, unaffected by the illusion that was causing him pain.
• Wang Tinglou repeatedly cut down a Lihe Realm earth Puppet, which regenerated from the abundant earth origin energy around it.
• Wang Tinglou mixed golden light of another attribute into the Puppet’s wounds, stopped its regeneration, and moved deeper into the passage.