Recaps

Little Fur Ball used its domain to defeat the Ice Demon Heart Toad, turning the beast’s attack against it and consuming its demon soul. After the fight, Little Fur Ball fell asleep, leaving Lin Xuan with the toad’s Demon Core.

• Little Fur Ball’s domain nullified the Ice Demon Heart Toad’s Sound Wave Technique.
• The Ice Demon Heart Toad launched a destructive ball of light, but Little Fur Ball used law power to send it back and bind the toad with an iron chain.
• The reflected attack wounded the Ice Demon Heart Toad, and Little Fur Ball cut it into eight pieces with a flying sword.
• The Demon Core tried to escape, but Little Fur Ball’s domain rebounded it and pulled out the demon soul.
• Little Fur Ball swallowed the demon soul, then lay down and fell asleep.

Lin Xuan collected the Ice Demon Heart Toad and the remaining Top-grade Spirit Stones, then searched for a spatial node to escape the sealed space. After finding a rare, fluctuating node, he used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to freeze it and attacked it with his Long Spear.

• Lin Xuan stored the Ice Demon Heart Toad's carcass and confirmed that the Jade Luo Bees had weakened the seal by consuming Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan mined the remaining Top-grade Spirit Stones and searched the independent space for a spatial node with his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye.
• After a day and night of searching, Lin Xuan discovered a node that periodically shifted between strong and weak.
• Lin Xuan waited until the node became clear, then sent the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire forward and froze the patch of space.
• Lin Xuan poured his magic power into the Long Spear and struck the frozen Spatial Rift with a blood-red wave of light.

Lin Xuan escaped through a spatial rift and emerged in a crowded East Sea marketplace instead of Red Leaf Island. As cultivators reacted to his late-stage Lihe spiritual pressure, he asked where he was.

• Lin Xuan tore open the spatial node, entered the passage, and prepared for a possible ambush with his shield and talismans.
• News spread through the East Sea that the Yinhun ghost creatures had captured Red Leaf Island and Ten Thousand Beasts Island, causing the three-race war to halt and marketplaces to fill with cultivators seeking supplies.
• A stall owner tried to sell an Azure Dragon Sea-Overturning Whip to a suspicious buyer at the marketplace.
• A spatial rift appeared above the marketplace, and Lin Xuan crashed onto the stall, smashing its goods.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the pit, realized he had arrived somewhere other than Red Leaf Island, and demanded to know what the place was.

Lin Xuan gathered a nautical chart and news about the Underworld ghostly beings in the White Elephant Sea Region before setting off for Black Wind Island. He learned that the three-race war had stopped, but he remained uncertain about what would come next.

• Jin Wu identified the White Elephant Sea Region, and Lin Xuan asked the gathered cultivators for a detailed nautical chart.
• A young cultivator offered Lin Xuan a Jade Slip chart, and Lin Xuan rewarded him with two mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan questioned the cultivators about the Underworld ghostly beings and heard the situation had become known throughout the East Sea.
• Lin Xuan left the island and hurried toward Black Wind Island, reflecting that the three-race war had halted against the ghostly invasion.
• Lin Xuan considered his recent escape and encounters, and felt recovering Little Fur Ball had helped make his trip worthwhile.

Lin Xuan hurried back toward the Chaotic Sea Region while gathering news and visiting Marketplaces amid the Yinhun invasion. At a large three-race Marketplace, he heard about an underground trade fair for Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators and considered attending.

• Lin Xuan learned that the Yinhun had taken over the Red Leaf Sea Region and were spreading into Human, Sea, and Demon territories.
• Lin Xuan stopped at Marketplaces along his journey to gather information and search for useful treasures.
• After more than twenty days of travel, Lin Xuan visited a large Marketplace where cultivators of all three races gathered.
• Lin Xuan heard Dongfang tell several cultivators about an upcoming underground trade fair for Nascent Soul Middle Stage experts and learned that Demon and Sea Race cultivators would attend.

Lin Xuan joined an underground auction after paying its steep entrance fee and discovered that powerful cultivators, possibly even Dongxuan Realm old monsters, were attending. The auctioneer warned the assembled human, Demon, and Sea Race cultivators that every item for sale had been seized by killing its former owner.

• Lin Xuan overheard Dongfang Shuo invite cultivators to an auction and asked to accompany them.
• Lin Xuan paid the shopkeeper two hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones, and the group entered the underground auction hall.
• Lin Xuan spotted private boxes above the hall and wondered whether Dongxuan Realm cultivators occupied them.
• Nearly twelve hundred cultivators from the three races gathered, and Lin Xuan waited quietly for the auction to begin.
• Jin Tong opened the auction by warning that every item had been obtained through killing and taking its owner's treasures.

Lin Xuan attended an auction where the first lots included a prized Sea Race treasure and two rare pills. The chapter ended as the Wangli Pills went up for auction at a starting price of two hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.

• The Silver-Haired Elder began the auction after the cultivators accepted the risks of bidding on treasures that might bring trouble.
• The Silver-Haired Elder presented the Cold Ice Halberd, prompting cultivators to bid until a concealed Sea Race Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator won it for seventy-five thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• The buyer collected the Cold Ice Halberd and left the auction immediately, while Lin Xuan judged that leaving was a wise way to avoid being robbed.
• The Silver-Haired Elder revealed two Wangli Pills, which could improve a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator's chance of advancing to Lihe, and set their starting price at two hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.

The auction for a Wangli Pill became a desperate contest between Dong Cheng, a Nascent Soul cultivator near the end of his lifespan, and a wealthy mid-stage Lihe woman. Dong Cheng died after spending his entire fortune and surrendering his life-bound Dharma Treasure, while the woman’s wealth drew the attention of a Dongxuan Realm cultivator in a private box.

• The Silver-Haired Elder auctioned a Wangli Pill, and Lin Xuan recognized that its low starting price was meant to provoke fierce bidding.
• Dong Cheng bid up to 950,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, hoping the pill would let him break through to Lihe before his remaining decades ran out.
• A mid-stage Lihe woman bid one million mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Lin Xuan noticed a Dongxuan Realm cultivator secretly examining her from a private box.
• Dong Cheng offered his life-bound Green Willow Sword as collateral, had its ownership imprint erased, and raised his bid to 1.2 million mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• The woman bid 1,205,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Dong Cheng spat blood and died after realizing he could not raise his offer.

Lin Xuan waited through a long auction, hoping a treasure worth his time would appear, until the final lot was revealed as a mysterious set of Formation Flags. As the Silver-Haired Elder demonstrated one flag’s power, Lin Xuan recognized its extraordinary nature and sensed that a powerful cultivator was also interested.

• The auction continued with rare treasures selling briskly, but Lin Xuan found none of the items worth bidding on.
• Lin Xuan considered leaving because he was eager to return to Black Wind Island, but stayed in case the auction’s later lots included something he needed.
• A bell-ringing woman cultivator brought several multicolored Formation Flags onto the platform, and Lin Xuan recognized them as extraordinary.
• The Silver-Haired Elder announced the Formation Flags as the auction’s final treasure, explaining that they had been unearthed from the Sea of Ruins.
• The Silver-Haired Elder enlarged a blue Formation Flag, whose mysterious runes drew in the surrounding water-attribute Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.

Lin Xuan recognized that the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation suited his abilities and planned to acquire it at auction. A mysterious old man challenged a private-room bidder, driving the price to thirty million and fifty thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones as the other bidder accused him of lacking the funds.

• The Silver-Haired Elder demonstrated the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and explained that its full power could rival an ordinary Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Xuan realized that his spiritual power and ability to command all five elements made the formation an ideal treasure for him, and he waited as the bids rose.
• A private-room bidder suddenly offered twenty million mid-grade Spirit Stones, halting the crowd's bids and prompting Lin Xuan to prepare to act.
• A thin, mysterious old man bid twenty million and fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and the private-room bidder's divine sense failed to affect him.
• The private-room bidder raised the price repeatedly, but the old man answered each time with the minimum increment until the price reached thirty million and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• The private-room bidder accused the old man of causing trouble and doubted that he could pay the amount.

A Thin Old Man challenged Gongsun Old Devil at the auction, and the two revealed a bitter history between them. Old Mo explained that his Second Nascent Soul had let him survive Gongsun's attempt to kill him, and he had come to seek justice.

• The Silver-Haired Elder asked the Thin Old Man to prove he could afford his bid, and the Thin Old Man challenged the private-box bidder's ability to pay.
• The Silver-Haired Elder confirmed that the private-box cultivator was a Dongxuan Realm immortal cultivator, but the Thin Old Man accused him of swaggering and swindling.
• Gongsun Old Devil unleashed his baleful aura, but the Thin Old Man dispersed it and accused him of ambushing him at Water Wave Cave.
• The Thin Old Man revealed his Dongxuan Realm cultivation, and Gongsun Old Devil recognized him as Old Mo, whom he believed he had killed centuries earlier.
• Old Mo explained that his Second Nascent Soul survived Gongsun's betrayal and declared that he had come to seek justice.
• Gongsun Old Devil sneered at Old Mo for daring to confront him and threatened him with death.

The Thin Old Man revealed that he had poisoned the auction gathering with the ancient poison Immortal Drunkenness, leaving the cultivators unable to use their magic power. Lin Xuan discovered that his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire absorbed the poison, leaving him free to act as the others fell under the Thin Old Man’s control.

• The Thin Old Man threatened Gongsun Old Devil and every cultivator present, while Lady Fenfang demanded that he settle his grudge elsewhere.
• Gongsun Old Devil tried to turn Lady Fenfang against the Thin Old Man, but she warned the Thin Old Man to leave the auction.
• Cultivators began collapsing, and the Thin Old Man revealed that Immortal Drunkenness had poisoned the gathering.
• Gongsun Old Devil and Lady Fenfang failed to gather their magic power as the poisoned cultivators pleaded for their lives.
• Lin Xuan realized that his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire absorbed Immortal Drunkenness, leaving him unaffected.

Lin Xuan concealed his immunity to Immortal Drunkenness while Elder Mo killed Gongsun Old Devil and prepared to eliminate the poisoned auction attendees. Lady Fenfang invoked her father, True Person Qingling, but Elder Mo attacked her anyway.

• Lin Xuan pretended that Immortal Drunkenness had incapacitated him as Gongsun Old Devil begged Elder Mo for mercy.
• Elder Mo rejected Gongsun Old Devil’s offer of servitude, extracted and refined his soul, and took his Storage Bag.
• Elder Mo turned toward the poisoned auction attendees, who pleaded for their lives as he prepared to kill them.
• Lady Fenfang revealed that she was the daughter of True Person Qingling, an Enforcement Elder of the Holy City, and asked Elder Mo to spare her.
• Elder Mo ignored Lady Fenfang’s warning and struck her with a purple-red Immortal Sword.

Mo Lao killed Lady Fenfang and the other auction attendees, then gathered their Storage Bags and tried to erase the evidence. As he left, Lin Xuan ambushed and killed him, leaving the fate of the stolen treasures unresolved.

• Mo Lao refined Lady Fenfang's Nascent Soul and killed the other immobilized cultivators to keep his identity secret.
• Mo Lao collected more than a thousand Storage Bags and bundled them in his clothing because they could not be placed inside another Storage Bag.
• Mo Lao set the auction hall ablaze to erase traces of the killings and headed for the stone stairs.
• Lin Xuan launched a surprise attack, broke Mo Lao's bundle, and split his body with a crescent-shaped blade of light.
• Lin Xuan burned Mo Lao's Nascent Soul and corpse to ash.

Lin Xuan searched the underground battlefield, collected the spoils, and slipped out of the Marketplace without revealing that he was the auction’s sole survivor. He entered the Chaotic Sea Region and headed for Black Wind Island as Nine Immortals Palace patrols kept the area unusually orderly.

• Lin Xuan used his divine sense and Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to confirm that no hidden cultivators remained nearby.
• Lin Xuan collected the Storage Bags and auction treasures, then found a palm-sized piece of black hide near Mo Lao’s remains and stored it.
• Lin Xuan left the underground site and Marketplace in disguise, posing as a middle-stage Core Condensation Realm cultivator.
• After traveling beyond the Marketplace, Lin Xuan revealed his cultivation and sped toward the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Lin Xuan noticed that Nine Immortals Palace law-enforcement cultivators were patrolling the calmer-than-expected region and continued toward Black Wind Island.

Lin Xuan returned safely to Black Wind Island and reunited with the Hundred Herb Sect, then decided to enter seclusion after gaining new insights from his clash with the Giant Whale King. He arranged for his Second Nascent Soul to guide the Shangguan Sisters and prepared cultivation supplies for them.

• Lin Xuan reached Black Wind Island and reassured the patrolling Hundred Herb Sect disciples, who summoned the sect to welcome him.
• Shangguan Ling, Shangguan Yan, and Shangguan Muyu greeted Lin Xuan and reported that the sect had remained safe while he was away.
• Lin Xuan told Shangguan Muyu and his disciples about his travels, including escaping Yinhun and Fierce Ghosts and surviving a clash with the Giant Whale King.
• After dining and resting, Lin Xuan considered his gains and planned to cultivate in seclusion to improve his chances of breaking through his bottleneck.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Second Nascent Soul and filled an empty Storage Bag with cultivation supplies for the Shangguan Sisters, intending for it to guide them while he cultivated.

Lin Xuan planned to focus on advancing his main Nascent Soul while repairing his injured Corpse Demon. After three months of work, he traveled to a desolate ancient battlefield in the Chaotic Sea Region.

• Lin Xuan sent the Second Nascent Soul away with a Storage Bag to guide the two sisters in their cultivation.
• Lin Xuan decided to slow the Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core’s cultivation and concentrate on advancing his main Nascent Soul before the Yinhun ghosts attacked.
• Lin Xuan examined the severely injured Corpse Demon and spent three months repairing it in his secret chamber.
• Lin Xuan left Hundred Flower Valley and flew to an abandoned sea region that had once been the site of a great war between the Chaotic Sea Region and the Sea Race.

Lin Xuan searched the Ancient Battlefield for a place where the Corpse Demon could recover and discovered a Corpse Well on a remote island. After breaking its restriction, he confronted its owner, a powerful Zombie who transformed and attacked him.

• Lin Xuan searched the desolate waters for concentrated yin energy to help the Corpse Demon recover.
• Lin Xuan found a small island shrouded in corpse energy and discovered a Corpse Well hidden behind a restriction.
• Lin Xuan broke the restriction and realized the Corpse Well already had an owner.
• A perfected late-Lihe Zombie arrived and demanded that Lin Xuan leave his cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan refused to yield the Corpse Well, and the Zombie transformed and launched an attack.

Lin Xuan effortlessly defeated a late-Lihe Zombie and discovered it had left behind a rare Corpse Bead. He entered the valley to investigate the Corpse Well and released his recovering Corpse Demon, which immediately rushed toward it.

• Lin Xuan trapped the Zombie’s attacks with Azure Glow, vanished, and struck it with a powerful punch.
• Lin Xuan crushed the Zombie’s dark lightning and broke its right hand, then beat it to death with punches and kicks.
• Lin Xuan found a Corpse Bead in the Zombie’s remains and considered whether it could help his own Corpse Demon.
• Lin Xuan entered the valley and found a well emitting dense, milky-white corpse qi.
• Lin Xuan released his recovering Corpse Demon, which rushed toward the Corpse Well without being commanded.

Lin Xuan left the Corpse Demon to recover in a hidden Corpse Well, then returned to Black Wind Island and sorted the spoils from the auction. He found Glazed Five-Colored Stone and Nine Yang Heaven Fire Liquid, leaving five rare materials still needed to refine the Fire Sword.

• Lin Xuan gave the Corpse Demon the Corpse Bead, and it swallowed the treasure before meditating above the Corpse Well to restore its vitality.
• Lin Xuan concealed the island with an illusion formation and left the Corpse Demon there under orders to defend itself.
• Lin Xuan returned to Black Wind Island and began sorting more than a thousand Storage Bags taken from the auction’s cultivators.
• Lin Xuan counted over five thousand Dharma Treasures and Ancient Treasures and collected spirit pills, Formation Flags, and talismans.
• Lin Xuan found Glazed Five-Colored Stone and Nine Yang Heaven Fire Liquid among the treasures, leaving five materials to find for the Fire Sword.

Lin Xuan placed Little Fur Ball in the Ten Thousand Soul Tower and inspected his Jade Luo Bees, discovering that they had begun forming cocoons and mutating after consuming many Top-grade Spirit Stones. He awaited their awakening, hoping to see what their new form could do.

• Lin Xuan summoned Little Fur Ball and opened the Ten Thousand Soul Tower to give it a more spacious place to live.
• Little Fur Ball eagerly tried to enter the tower but bumped its head until Lin Xuan guided it inside.
• Lin Xuan entered the tower with his Primordial Spirit and inspected the Jade Luo Bees’ enormous hives.
• Lin Xuan found a Jade Luo Bee cocoon and discovered that the bee had shrunk and gained pale silver markings.
• Lin Xuan concluded that the Jade Luo Bees had begun mutating after devouring many Top-grade Spirit Stones and wondered what would happen when they awakened.

Lin Xuan finished binding the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation Flags to himself and prepared to cultivate through his bottleneck. A desperate message from his Second Nascent Soul revealed that Lie Kong True Person had attacked it, leaving Lin Xuan intent on rescuing it and taking revenge.

• Lin Xuan inspected his Blood Fire Ants and the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation Flags, then began a secret art to make the flags recognize him as their master.
• After three days, Lin Xuan completed the binding and resolved to cultivate toward the Dongxuan Realm before the Yinhun ghosts became a greater threat.
• A blood-red Flying Sword Message from the Second Nascent Soul reached Lin Xuan despite his cave's restrictions, and its warning filled him with killing intent.
• Lin Xuan learned that Lie Kong True Person, an early Dongxuan Realm Demon Race cultivator, had tried to devour his Second Nascent Soul while it gathered information near a Marketplace.
• The Second Nascent Soul resisted Lie Kong True Person but was at a disadvantage because it lacked Lin Xuan's full strength.

Lin Xuan rushed to rescue his Second Nascent Soul, who was trapped on a small island by Lie Kong True Person. He reached the island and reunited with the Second Nascent Soul, leaving Lie Kong True Person outside the formation as Lin Xuan’s fury grew.

• The Second Nascent Soul fled to a small island, raised a formation to hold off Lie Kong True Person, and secretly sent a message for help.
• Lin Xuan learned of the danger and hurried across several hundred thousand li toward Black Wind Island.
• Lin Xuan arrived to find Lie Kong True Person bombarding the island’s weakening formation while the Second Nascent Soul defended it with his vital energy.
• Lin Xuan attacked Lie Kong True Person with a giant sword, then used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to slip past him and enter the formation.
• The Second Nascent Soul returned to Lin Xuan’s dantian, transferring his memories and experiences to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan confronted Lie Kong True Person over his attempt to devour Lin Xuan’s Second Nascent Soul and demanded his Demon Core as compensation. Lie Kong True Person attacked, and Lin Xuan tested his newly refined Formation Flag, summoning a powerful Water Dragon as the fight escalated.

• Lin Xuan left the island and confronted Lie Kong True Person, who recognized that the Second Nascent Soul he had fought was Lin Xuan’s.
• Lie Kong True Person tried to retreat, but Lin Xuan blocked his path and demanded his Demon Core as an apology.
• Lie Kong True Person transformed into his half-human, half-demon battle form and attacked Lin Xuan with a Snake Bone Whip.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield and Green Flame Qilin Armor to survive the whip’s strike, then sent a winged tiger to distract Lie Kong True Person.
• Lin Xuan poured his Dharma power into a Formation Flag, gathering water-attributed Yuan Qi and summoning a massive Water Dragon that unleashed ice attacks.

Lin Xuan used a Demon Race spatial treasure to break Lie Kong True Person’s defense and wound him, then pressed the attack with a Flood Dragon. Lie Kong True Person unleashed his Iron Feather Locust Blade, leaving Lin Xuan facing a vast storm of iron feathers.

• Lin Xuan’s ice-cone arrows struck Lie Kong True Person’s spatial defense but hit only empty space.
• Lin Xuan used his Long Spear to conjure a crescent blade that cut through the mist and severed half of Lie Kong True Person’s arm.
• Lie Kong True Person blocked Lin Xuan’s next blade with two Thunder Beads and retreated, while Lin Xuan sent a Flood Dragon after him.
• Lie Kong True Person’s Snake Bone Whip transformed into a Demon Python that fought the Flood Dragon and quickly fell behind.
• Lie Kong True Person spread his wings and launched tens of thousands of iron feathers at Lin Xuan with his Iron Feather Locust Blade.