Recaps

Lin Xuan caught Little Fur Ball after their old contract shattered and pressured it into agreeing to become his spirit beast again. He began a master-recognition ceremony on a remote reef, and the chapter ended as the array absorbed his blood and primordial qi into Little Fur Ball.

• The old contract broke, and Lin Xuan caught Little Fellow when it tried to flee.
• Little Fur Ball bit Lin Xuan, broke a tooth, and submitted after he threatened to pull out the rest.
• Lin Xuan took Little Fur Ball to a small reef and spent the day setting up a high-grade master-recognition formation.
• Little Fur Ball entered the formation, and Lin Xuan mixed his blood with his primordial qi before the array absorbed it.

After completing the master-recognition ceremony, Lin Xuan named his new spirit pet Little Fur Ball and went to retrieve the slain Ancient Beast’s remains. He intervened when he recognized the old man among the cultivators fighting over the corpse, leaving both sides bowing before his overwhelming power.

• Lin Xuan completed the master-recognition ceremony with Little Fellow and named it Little Fur Ball, though the spirit pet remained resentful.
• Lin Xuan found two groups of cultivators battling over the Ancient Beast’s corpse and saw that one group had cornered an old man and his granddaughter.
• Lin Xuan recognized the old man as someone he had met more than four hundred years earlier, when he had first arrived in the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan released his spiritual pressure, incapacitating three Core Condensation cultivators and stopping the fight.
• The old man, his granddaughter, and the surviving opposing cultivators bowed respectfully to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan learned that Huang and his granddaughter Yue'e possessed a bottle of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, a rare treasure he urgently needed, and Huang offered it to him. When the golden-robed cultivators’ leader tried to withdraw peacefully, one foolish cultivator kept objecting, and Lin Xuan made clear that no one would take the treasure from him.

• Lin Xuan recognized Huang from a meeting centuries earlier, greeted him, and learned that Yue'e was his granddaughter.
• Huang explained that he and Yue'e had fled to the area after obtaining Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and that the golden-robed cultivators had pursued them for it.
• Lin Xuan reacted with excitement because he had searched for the rare spirit milk for centuries and needed it to use Phantom Escape.
• Huang presented Lin Xuan with the Jade Bottle containing the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, accepting that he could not safely keep it.
• A short golden-robed cultivator protested that his sect master wanted the treasure, but his leader silenced and slapped him before offering to leave without challenging Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan refused to let the five gold-robed cultivators go, fearing they would retaliate later. He killed four with sword light and caught and burned the leader’s fleeing Nascent Soul, leaving none alive.

• The gold-robed cultivators begged Lin Xuan for mercy, but he refused to risk letting them escape and seek revenge.
• The five men tried to flee and defend themselves as Lin Xuan sent azure sword light at them.
• Lin Xuan’s attack killed four cultivators, while their leader escaped as a Nascent Soul using Teleportation.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to catch up with the Nascent Soul and seize it despite its defensive vortex.
• Lin Xuan burned the Nascent Soul to ash with Pure Yang True Fire.

After Lin Xuan killed the five attackers, he accepted the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk from the frightened grandfather and granddaughter. He reassured them, then gave them valuable pills in return, and they left with their lives and a generous reward.

• Lin Xuan killed the five attackers in an instant, leaving the grandfather and granddaughter terrified of him.
• Lin Xuan assured them he would not harm innocent people, and the old man offered him the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan accepted the Jade Bottle and inspected the spirit milk inside.
• When the grandfather tried to leave, Lin Xuan stopped him and offered compensation for the treasure.
• Lin Xuan gave them several bottles of pills that could increase magic power and help break through bottlenecks, and the old man gladly accepted them.

Lin Xuan traded pills and Ancient Treasures to the grandfather and granddaughter for their Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, then traveled to the Red Leaf Sea Region while concealing his cultivation. As he neared Red Leaf Island, Huangting Sect of the Four Friends of Yan Mountain invited him aboard their Spirit Boat, and Lin Xuan wondered whether they had recognized him.

• Lin Xuan gave the old man and young girl pills and Ancient Treasures in exchange for the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and they left grateful.
• Lin Xuan harvested the Ancient Beast's Demon Core and useful materials, then resumed his journey aboard his Spirit Boat.
• After two months, Lin Xuan reached the Red Leaf Sea Region and concealed his cultivation while planning to investigate the island's secrets and take revenge on Poison Dragon Old Ancestor.
• Huangting Sect stopped his Spirit Boat and invited him aboard for a chat, praising his supposedly remarkable bones.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the praise as a joke and claimed he was only a Rogue Cultivator.

Lin Xuan accepted an invitation from the Four Friends of Yan Mountain and learned that Holy City had taken control of Red Leaf Island, where he was headed. The group sat down together as Huangting Sect prepared to explain the Red Leaf Sea Region’s current situation.

• Huangting Sect praised Lin Xuan’s appearance-reading signs and invited him to join the Four Friends of Yan Mountain’s Spirit Boat, and Lin Xuan accepted.
• Lin Xuan introduced himself and met Zhuge Heaven Origin, Yu Miaorong, and Zi Xuan, learning that Zi Xuan could not speak because of an unusual speech ailment.
• Lin Xuan asked why the Four Friends of Yan Mountain were traveling to Red Leaf Island, and Huangting Sect explained they were looking for suitable work rather than seeking Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s patronage.
• Yu Miaorong told Lin Xuan that Holy City had taken control of Red Leaf Island and appointed new high-level cultivators to govern it, while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor remained powerful but was no longer Island Master.
• Lin Xuan admitted he had been in seclusion and asked the group to explain the Red Leaf Sea Region’s situation, so Huangting Sect invited him to drink as they talked.

Lin Xuan learned that Holy City and the Sea Race were fighting over Red Leaf Island, which seemed to hide a valuable secret. He concealed his excitement and asked the Four Friends of Yan Mountain what the island’s secret might be.

• Lin Xuan let Little Fellow drink the wine after making it agree to obey him.
• The scholar apologized for asking to paint Little Fellow, and Lin Xuan judged the Four Friends of Yan Mountain to be genuine people worth befriending.
• Huangting Sect told Lin Xuan that Holy City had stationed cultivators on Red Leaf Island and that Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone Old Devil were also there.
• Lin Xuan inferred that several Dongxuan-level cultivators guarded the island and that Giant Whale King was determined to seize it for a valuable reason.
• Lin Xuan asked whether Red Leaf Island concealed an unknown secret despite its sparse resources.

Lin Xuan learned why the Four Friends of Yan Mountain were traveling to Red Leaf Island and arrived there with them. Seeing the island’s massive protective formation and the many cultivators gathered to serve the Holy City, he resolved to proceed cautiously while pursuing his own plans.

• Zhuge Heaven Origin told Lin Xuan that no one knew what the Sea Race were doing on Red Leaf Island, and Lin Xuan considered learning the truth from Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s soul.
• The Four Friends of Yan Mountain explained that Fourth Brother had nearly died from qi deviation, leaving them short of funds, so they planned to earn rewards by accepting missions on Red Leaf Island.
• Huangting Sect invited Lin Xuan to take missions with them, and Lin Xuan said he would decide after seeing what was available.
• Lin Xuan and the four siblings shared food, drink, and cultivation insights during their journey to Red Leaf Island.
• Lin Xuan arrived at Red Leaf Island, saw its enormous protective light curtain and gathered cultivators, and recognized the Holy City’s formidable strength.

Lin Xuan arrived at Red Leaf Island and learned how the Holy City kept the island secure and disciplined during the tense conflict. He entered the city without trouble, keeping Little Fur Ball hidden in its Spirit Beast Bag.

• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain approached Red Leaf Island’s guarded entrance, where cultivators were inspected with Mind-Clearing Discs.
• Lin Xuan put the sleeping, drunken Little Fur Ball into his Spirit Beast Bag before leaving the Spirit Boat.
• Lin Xuan learned that Red Leaf Island enforced strict order after a Dongxuan Realm cultivator killed Devil Lord Tianfeng for breaking the rules and injuring guards.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain passed inspection and entered the city smoothly.

Lin Xuan and his companions entered Linhai City and went to the guest pavilions to find lodging. When the Four Friends of Yan Mountain balked at the high price, Lin Xuan paid for five connected pavilions and accepted their thanks.

• Lin Xuan and his companions traveled through Linhai City to the northern district, where Rogue Cultivators lived.
• The group hired a Beast Carriage and arrived at the guest pavilions for high-rank cultivators.
• Cui'er quoted a rental price of ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones per pavilion for one year, and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain showed concern over the cost.
• Lin Xuan paid for five connected pavilions with high-grade Spirit Stones and told the others to accept the lodging as friends.
• Huangting Sect and the other members of the Four Friends of Yan Mountain accepted Lin Xuan's generosity with thanks.

Lin Xuan joined the Four Friends of Yan Mountain to inspect the Holy City's mission board and became curious about the unusually generous reward for Heaven Heart Stones. He questioned a one-armed Daoist about the mission, who began explaining why it was far more difficult than it appeared.

• Lin Xuan settled into his new cultivation cave after helping the Four Friends of Yan Mountain secure their lodgings.
• The next morning, Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain visited the square where the Holy City posted missions.
• Lin Xuan found that the mission offered one high-grade Spirit Stone for each Heaven Heart Stone taken from a low-ranked Heaven Heart Toad.
• Lin Xuan suspected the generous reward concealed a catch and approached a one-armed Daoist who had shown skepticism about the mission.
• The one-armed Daoist told Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain that collecting Heaven Heart Stones was much harder than new arrivals expected, then began to explain.

Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain learned why the Heaven Heart Stone mission was so dangerous: cultivators of the Human Race, Demon Race, and Sea Race fought over the rare stones on a remote island. Despite the One-Armed Daoist’s grim account of losing his arm and treasures there, Lin Xuan decided to accept the mission.

• Yu Miaorong questioned why capturing weak Heaven Heart Toads was considered difficult, and the One-Armed Daoist explained that rival cultivators made the mission dangerous.
• The One-Armed Daoist revealed that the Human Race, Sea Race, and Demon Race had all flocked to a remote island to hunt Heaven Heart Toads for their valuable stones.
• The One-Armed Daoist recounted how he lost his right arm and treasures after fighting a Demon Race cultivator and being ambushed by a Human Race cultivator.
• Yu Miaorong urged Huangting Sect to choose another mission, but Huangting Sect hesitated because the group needed the Heaven Heart Stone’s valuable reward.
• Lin Xuan told the group that he planned to accept the Heaven Heart Stone mission, despite Yu Miaorong warning that it was nearly certain death.

Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain accepted the Heaven Heart Stone mission and traveled toward the mysterious deserted island. Near their destination, they discovered a Sea Race cultivator about to defeat seven human cultivators.

• Lin Xuan refused to abandon the dangerous mission, and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain agreed to accompany him.
• Lin Xuan and the four siblings registered for the mission, learned that its instructions omitted the dangers, and left Linhai City.
• After traveling for a day and night, Huangting Sect warned that they were nearing territory where they could encounter the Sea Race or hostile cultivators.
• Lin Xuan detected a fierce battle nearby and persuaded the others to approach and investigate.
• Lin Xuan and his companions arrived to find an early-stage transformed Demon Cultivator overwhelming five Core Condensation cultivators and two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain killed a Transformation Realm Demon Cultivator and divided the Heaven Heart Stones they found among themselves. They continued toward the deserted island more cautiously, and an enormous island came into view.

• A Core Condensation cultivator fled the battle, causing the remaining cultivators to scatter and the Demon Cultivator to kill them one by one.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain revealed themselves, surrounded the Demon Cultivator, and killed him.
• The group collected the Demon Cultivator's materials and Storage Bags, finding 152 Heaven Heart Stones among the spoils.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain split the Heaven Heart Stones, with Lin Xuan giving them the two extra stones.
• The five flew toward the deserted island with greater caution, and an enormous island appeared before them.

White Bone True Lord and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor sailed toward the barren island, discussing their decision to join Holy City and their resentment at being commanded by Enforcement Elder Qiu. White Bone argued that Holy City's support was necessary to defend Red Leaf Island from the Giant Whale faction, though neither elder had expected Holy City to wield such formidable Enforcement Elders.

• White Bone True Lord and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor traveled aboard an Ancient Warship toward the barren island.
• Poison Dragon complained that Enforcement Elder Qiu treated them like subordinates despite their decision to ally with Holy City.
• White Bone explained that Qiu was a peak mid-stage Lihe Realm cultivator whose strength made their obedience unsurprising.
• The two elders discussed how Holy City's Six Great Enforcement Elders and Nine Immortals Palace revealed the depth of powerful factions' hidden foundations.
• Poison Dragon recalled expecting Holy City to leave them in charge of the Red Leaf Sea Region, but instead Qiu had taken command.
• White Bone defended their alliance, arguing that Holy City's aid was needed to resist the Giant Whale faction and protect Red Leaf Island.

Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord discussed the Human Race and Sea Race racing to gather Heaven Heart Stones and activate their World-Breaking Arrays. They prepared to hunt a Heaven Heart Toad King for its core, while worrying that Sea Race Dongxuan experts might interfere.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord reviewed how both races had seized one entrance to the mysterious space and become locked in a stalemate over Red Leaf Island and Ten Thousand Beasts Island.
• The two discussed how both sides had shifted from open warfare to covert attacks and sent cultivators to gather Heaven Heart Stones for their World-Breaking Arrays.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor complained that the array masters had only recently discovered the array required the Inner Core of a Heaven Heart Toad King.
• White Bone True Lord explained that the array masters had struggled to understand the complex formation, and said Old Monster Qiu had assigned the hunt to the two of them because the toad would be dangerous.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor worried that the Sea Race might send Dongxuan-level experts to interfere, and White Bone True Lord argued that the Giant Whale King would not leave his post to hunt personally.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor agreed the Giant Whale King probably would not come but warned that other Sea Race Dongxuan experts might appear.

Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord flew toward Desolate Island, both intent on claiming the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core and the Holy City's promised rewards. A Giant Whale lineage force also approached, while Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain arrived at the island and prepared to enter.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor recalled how Lin Xuan had destroyed Poison Dragon Island, killed his External Incarnation, and taken the wealth he had hidden.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord agreed to do their utmost to seize the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core and secure the Holy City's promised benefits.
• A Giant Whale lineage force aboard a Mystic Turtle Puppet headed for Desolate Island, led by Aunt Xiu and an old monster surnamed Li, both Dongxuan Realm cultivators.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain reached the vast Desolate Island after a long journey.
• Huangting Sect consulted a Jade Slip and asked whether they should enter the island, and Lin Xuan agreed.

Lin Xuan entered Desolate Island with the Four Friends of Yan Mountain, but a strange force teleported them to separate locations. While Lin Xuan explored the island’s dangerous landscape, a Core Condensation cultivator waiting in a desert for Heaven Heart Toads faced a much larger Spatial Rift than before.

• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain flew into the mist, where darkness and powerful restrictions teleported them away separately.
• Lin Xuan emerged in a canyon, found the mist’s restrictions gone, and flew out to inspect the island.
• Lin Xuan tested the island’s storm-filled sky and saw lightning destroy a boulder sent a thousand zhang upward.
• A bearded Core Condensation cultivator discovered Heaven Heart Toads emerged from a small Spatial Rift in the desert and collected fifty Heaven Heart Stones by waiting for them.
• The cultivator saw a Spatial Rift over ten feet wide open early, heard roars from within, and found himself unable to move as terror overtook him.

A spatial rift opened on Desolate Island, allowing powerful beings from the Underworld Realm to enter the Spirit World. The newcomers began killing cultivators across the island, while Sea Race members faced a gigantic stone creature.

• A Dongxuan woman emerged from a spatial rift, identified the Spirit World as the place where the Underworld Army had once been defeated, and killed a Core Condensation cultivator who tried to flee.
• A Lihe Realm Fierce Ghost killed a Nascent Soul cultivator by decapitating him and swallowing his escaping Nascent Soul.
• Several Core Condensation members of the Sea Race formed a battle array against a towering Black Granite stone man on a snowy plain.
• The Sea Race members realized the stone man had emerged from a spatial rift and feared that creatures from the Underworld Realm had become involved in their Heaven Heart Stone mission.

Underworld Realm forces began slaughtering cultivators across Red Leaf Island as Biyou Fairy and Fellow Daoist Luo discussed their mission to find the Five Dragon Seal. Lin Xuan encountered a Stone Gargoyle while searching for a breakthrough opportunity and moved to evade its attack.

• A Stone Man killed several Sea Race cultivators, while a Demon Race cultivator defeated a Lihe Realm Corpse Demon near a volcanic crater.
• Biyou Fairy and Fellow Daoist Luo discussed their orders to search for the Five Dragon Seal and eliminate cultivators who discovered them.
• Biyou Fairy and Fellow Daoist Luo sent orders to their subordinates to begin killing cultivators on the island.
• Lin Xuan flew across Red Leaf Island, studied the Heaven Heart Stone, and wondered whether it could help him break through his bottleneck.
• Lin Xuan detected a concealed Underworld Realm Stone Gargoyle, which attacked him with a powerful punch.
• Lin Xuan vanished from the Gargoyle's attack and reappeared beside it.

Lin Xuan tested the Stone Monster’s strength and discovered that his control over heaven-and-earth elemental energy could overpower it. He left the monster battered but alive, using it as a target to practice his techniques.

• Lin Xuan dodged the Stone Monster’s attack and struck its arm with a giant sword, opening a wound without severing the limb.
• The enraged Stone Monster fired a barrage of arrows from holes in its chest, but Lin Xuan protected himself with talismans and trapped the arrows with an elemental-energy hand.
• Lin Xuan formed a giant fist from heaven-and-earth elemental energy and blasted the Stone Monster underground when it tried to block the blow.
• Lin Xuan reformed the fist into hundreds of smaller fists and sent them hammering down on the Stone Monster.

Lin Xuan defeated the giant Stone Monster and retrieved a mysterious blue crystal from its remains. Elsewhere, a worried Nascent Soul couple received their disciples and asked about the tasks they had assigned.

• Lin Xuan battered the giant Stone Monster with Earth Elemental Energy until cracks spread across its body.
• The monster tried to flee, but Lin Xuan slowed it with Wood Elemental Energy and smashed it apart with a giant fist.
• Lin Xuan found a palm-sized blue crystal among the black stones and stored it in his Instantaneous Bag.
• Lin Xuan restrained his aura to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and flew off to search for clues.
• A Nascent Soul man and woman met dozens of disciples on a mountain summit, and the man asked how their assigned tasks had gone.

Cultivators across the Desolate Island discovered that the teleportation points had vanished, leaving them trapped with no way out. Lin Xuan remained unaware of the crisis as he continued killing attackers and investigating why his Soul Searching Technique failed on Underworld Realm ghosts.

• A Tianhe Sect elder reported that his group had searched the surrounding area but could not find any teleportation exits.
• The Tianhe Sect leader recalled a divination that had predicted great calamity and realized the vanished exits might be connected to their danger.
• Cultivators of the Human Race, Sea Race, and Demon Race found that the teleportation points had disappeared, trapping everyone on the island.
• Lin Xuan killed five groups of attackers from the Human Race, Sea Race, and Underworld Realm after they attacked him.
• Lin Xuan found that his Soul Searching Technique could not extract information from Underworld Realm ghosts, even when he captured them and tried repeatedly.

Lin Xuan realized the island was a Passage Interface linking the Spirit World and the Underworld Realm, then confronted a hidden female cultivator whose power suggested she could be far stronger than he was. As a whirlpool swallowed his spiritual pressure, a graceful figure emerged from the darkness.

• Lin Xuan saw the island's spirit vein transform into a yin vein at night and recognized the area as a Passage Interface.
• Lin Xuan considered whether the Underworld ghosts had arrived by chance or whether the Underworld Realm had deliberately found the passage, then thought wistfully of Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan sensed someone hiding nearby and warned the stranger before sending out spiritual pressure to probe her strength.
• A whirlpool appeared and swallowed Lin Xuan's spiritual pressure, making him fear that his opponent was a middle-stage Dongxuan cultivator.
• A bell-like sound came from the whirlpool, and a slender female figure appeared before Lin Xuan.