Recaps

Lin Xuan arrived in the Ancient Demon Realm, disguised his human aura with an Imitation Demon Pill, and searched the wasteland for a settlement. He rescued a strange young girl from pursuing Ancient Demons, and she mistook him for a newly ascended cultivator.

• Lin Xuan recovered from Shattering the Void and swallowed an Imitation Demon Pill to hide his human aura.
• Lin Xuan restrained his cultivation and flew across the wasteland for half a month without finding a settlement.
• Lin Xuan spotted a strange young girl fleeing several three-headed, six-armed Ancient Demons.
• Lin Xuan stopped the pursuers with his spiritual pressure and prevented the girl from taking her own life.
• Lin Xuan killed the Ancient Demons with a Sword Ray, and the girl asked if he had just ascended from the lower realm.
• Lin Xuan confirmed that he was an Ascended Cultivator and let the girl believe her assumption.

Lin Xuan learned that the young woman he rescued was a Half-Demon and agreed to visit her village for the night. When they arrived, they found the village destroyed and her clansmen dead.

• The young woman explained to Lin Xuan that Half-Demons descended from Spirit World cultivators and Ancient Devils who had fallen in love during the war between the realms.
• She told Lin Xuan about her difficult life and how Ancient Devils had attacked her after she found spiritual herbs in the Mo Shi Wasteland.
• The young woman invited Lin Xuan to her village, and he agreed to learn more about the realm and rest there.
• As they neared the village, Lin Xuan noticed that he could detect no spiritual energy fluctuations.
• The young woman and Lin Xuan found the village razed and her clansmen's corpses scattered across the ruins; Lin Xuan turned toward the lower left.

Lin Xuan investigated the slaughter of a Half-Demon village, sheltered its surviving girl, and later discovered a fierce battle while traveling through the Mo Shi Wasteland. The person surrounded by five Ancient Demons was Tian Xiaojian, whom Lin Xuan had not expected to meet again.

• Lin Xuan found two dead Lihe Realm Ancient Demons near the ruined village and inferred that another powerful expert had killed them.
• Lin Xuan noticed that the villagers’ Storage Bags had been searched and learned that the Half-Demon girl possessed an incomplete ancestral map.
• Lin Xuan took the girl to a secluded mountain cave, set up a formation to protect her, and then continued toward the nearest demon city.
• On the third day, Lin Xuan sensed a battle and secretly approached, where he saw five middle-stage Lihe Ancient Demons fighting one man.
• Lin Xuan recognized the man as Tian Xiaojian, whom he had last seen on Penglai Mountain.

Lin Xuan discovered that Tian Xiaojian was fighting five Ancient Demons and watched as they swallowed Baleful Demon Pills to strengthen themselves. Tian Xiaojian overwhelmed their attacks, while Lin Xuan remained hidden and continued to assess his old rival.

• Lin Xuan recognized Tian Xiaojian and reflected on their wary, competitive history before deciding to observe him from hiding.
• Tian Xiaojian blocked the Ancient Demons’ attacks and demanded that they surrender.
• The five Ancient Demons swallowed Baleful Demon Pills, boosting their demonic power despite knowing the pills would destroy their Nascent Souls.
• The Two-Headed Four-Armed Monster Ancient Demon charged Tian Xiaojian, but Tian Xiaojian defeated him in a clash of fists.
• The remaining Ancient Demons attacked with their Dharma Treasures, and Tian Xiaojian’s black rainbows quickly overwhelmed them and weakened their treasures.

Tian Xiaojian’s incarnation defeated five Ancient Demons before Lin Xuan revealed himself and overpowered him. Lin Xuan realized that the Tian Xiaojian he had captured was a Spirit Division incarnation without the memories to recognize him, leaving him wary of Tian Xiaojian’s true strength.

• Tian Xiaojian killed the last surviving Ancient Demon after defeating the other four and searching it for clues.
• Tian Xiaojian’s strange Demon Insect detected Lin Xuan, who appeared from hiding.
• Tian Xiaojian failed to recognize Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan attacked him with azure Sword Qi.
• Tian Xiaojian summoned Demon Treasures and hid in a Demon Cloud, but Lin Xuan seized him with a large azure hand.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Tian Xiaojian was a Spirit Division incarnation and wondered how strong his true body was.

Lin Xuan’s victory over Tian Xiaojian’s External Incarnation ended in a draw when the incarnation self-destructed before he could search its memories. Far away, Tian Xiaojian learned of its destruction and wanted to investigate personally, but his adoptive father forbade him from leaving seclusion to protect his cultivation of the Nine Baleful True Devil Art.

• Tian Xiaojian’s External Incarnation self-destructed, leaving Lin Xuan without its memories or possessions.
• Lin Xuan searched the area, confirmed the incarnation was gone, and flew away wary of Tian Xiaojian.
• Tian Xiaojian learned that his Spirit Division had self-destructed after encountering someone he seemed to know.
• Tian Xiaojian asked to leave seclusion and investigate, but the Void Shadow refused, warning that a failed advancement could damage his true demon body.
• The Void Shadow explained that his own failed advancements had left flaws in his true demon body and limited his strength.

Lin Xuan entered a city in the Ancient Demon Realm and rented a manor at the Yuelai Inn while keeping his cultivation and identity concealed. He began exchanging Spirit Stones for Magic Stones, but the large amount he offered drew the attention of the pawnshop’s Young Owner.

• Lin Xuan approached the city, submitted to its No-Fly Restriction, and entered on foot without attracting attention.
• He used his divine sense to find the Yuelai Inn and rented a manor for two hundred Spirit Stones a year.
• Lin Xuan secured the manor with its restrictions and his own Formation Flags, then slept there overnight.
• The next day, Lin Xuan disguised himself as a green-skinned Devil Race member and went to a pawnshop to exchange Spirit Stones for Magic Stones.
• After seeing the amount in Lin Xuan’s Storage Bag, the Two-Headed Ancient Demon brought him to the Young Owner, who welcomed him and had tea and refreshments served.

Lin Xuan exchanged Spirit Stones for Magic Stones, bought ancient records to learn about the Demon World, and went to the Hundred Forges Workshop to purchase Demon Treasures. He was presented with three sealed boxes, whose contents had not yet been revealed.

• Lin Xuan exchanged twenty million mid-grade Spirit Stones at a pawnshop and left with ten million mid-grade Magic Stones, while two concealed auras followed him.
• Lin Xuan entered the Hundred Scrolls Tower and bought thousands of ancient records to study the Demon World.
• Lin Xuan decided to buy Demon Treasures so he could avoid revealing his identity as an immortal cultivator during future conflicts.
• Lin Xuan went to the Hundred Forges Workshop and requested the best attack and defensive treasures.
• A Devil Race girl brought three sealed wooden boxes into Lin Xuan's VIP room.

Lin Xuan examined three demon treasures offered by a middle-aged Devil Race merchant, finding the Heaven Ghost Axe and Soul-Losing Drum especially impressive. He asked whether the merchant had any defensive treasures as the presentation ended.

• The middle-aged Devil Race man showed Lin Xuan the Heaven Ghost Axe, and Lin Xuan tested its powerful lightning-attribute magic.
• The man presented nine Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Needles, which Lin Xuan judged average compared with the axe.
• When the merchant doubted Lin Xuan could afford the treasures, Lin Xuan claimed he was purchasing on behalf of a sect.
• The merchant demonstrated the Soul-Losing Drum's spirit-disrupting sound attack and its ability to form demonic skulls.
• Lin Xuan said the drum was acceptable but asked to see defensive treasures.

Lin Xuan sought a defensive treasure and selected four powerful items from a Devil Race shop. He suspected the remarkably low price concealed a conspiracy, but paid anyway, leaving the shopkeeper’s true purpose unknown.

• Lin Xuan asked the middle-aged Devil Race shopkeeper for a rare defensive treasure because using his Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield would reveal his identity.
• The shopkeeper showed Lin Xuan several treasures, and Lin rejected the Life-Taking Ring before choosing the Ghost-Face Turtle shield.
• Lin Xuan agreed to buy the Heaven Ghost Axe, Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Needle, Soul-Losing Drum, and Magic Turtle Shield for two million five hundred thousand low-grade Magic Stones.
• Lin Xuan suspected the shopkeeper’s implausibly low price and one-hundred-thousandth-customer discount hid a scheme, then sent over his Storage Bag to pay.

Lin Xuan accepted several treasures from a Devil Race shopkeeper, who secretly arranged for Heaven Ghost Master to possess him. The shopkeeper later explained the scheme to his ailing Second Uncle, while Lin Xuan left knowing more than they suspected.

• Lin Xuan completed the transaction and left the shop after the middle-aged Devil Race cultivator accepted his Magic Stones without checking them.
• The shopkeeper watched Lin Xuan leave, then opened a hidden passage with a command tablet and descended to a chamber beneath the shop.
• The middle-aged Devil Race cultivator told his Second Uncle that Lin Xuan had taken the Heaven Ghost Axe and three other treasures to serve as Heaven Ghost Master's new host.
• The Second Uncle explained that Heaven Ghost Master had survived his apparent death by splitting his Nascent Soul and had cursed him into finding a suitable body.
• The shopkeeper questioned why Heaven Ghost Master had chosen Lin Xuan, but his Second Uncle said they should be glad to escape further entanglement.

After discovering that the Heaven Ghost Axe had once belonged to the renowned Heaven Ghost Master, Lin Xuan suspected it concealed a danger and prepared for a possible possession. When he picked up the axe, Heaven Ghost Master’s remnant Primordial Spirit emerged and failed to possess Lin Xuan, who invited him to talk.

• Lin Xuan returned to his inn, secured his Cultivation Room, and examined the four treasures he had bought, wondering why the shopkeeper had sold the Heaven Ghost Axe so cheaply.
• Lin Xuan read more than a thousand Demon World texts and learned that Heaven Ghost Master had killed numerous Demon Venerables before being slain by an Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor, and that the axe had been his natal treasure.
• Unable to determine the axe’s secret, Lin Xuan decided against interrogating the shopkeeper and chose to handle the treasure himself.
• Lin Xuan grasped the Heaven Ghost Axe, and black devil qi burst from it in an attempt to possess him.
• Lin Xuan dodged the attack, and the black light formed the face of an old man who recognized Lin Xuan as a mid-stage Dongxuan cultivator.
• Lin Xuan asked the remnant Primordial Spirit if he was Heaven Ghost Master and invited him to talk.

Lin Xuan fought Heaven Ghost Master, whose remnant soul tried to seize his body, and revealed the overwhelming power of his Nine Palaces Moment Sword. After surrounding the weakened ghost with eighty-one swords, Lin Xuan asked if he was ready to talk.

• Heaven Ghost Master refused to negotiate and lunged at Lin Xuan to take his body.
• Lin Xuan revealed his cultivation and struck Heaven Ghost Master with a force cyclone, destroying the Cultivation Room in their clash.
• Lin Xuan summoned eighty-one red Immortal Swords, and Heaven Ghost Master realized they were unusually powerful Life-Bound treasures.
• Heaven Ghost Master charged again, but Lin Xuan used one sword to tear apart his protective membrane and force him to shed part of his soul.
• Lin Xuan surrounded Heaven Ghost Master with all eighty-one swords and asked whether they could talk now.

Lin Xuan subdued Heaven Ghost Master and decided to make the remnant soul his guide and ally in the Demon Realm. Heaven Ghost Master yielded to survive and asked Lin Xuan to withdraw the swords surrounding him.

• Heaven Ghost Master realized Lin Xuan had been pretending to be weaker and that the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword left him at Lin Xuan's mercy.
• Unwilling to risk losing his memories through reincarnation, Heaven Ghost Master surrendered and asked Lin Xuan to discuss matters peacefully.
• Lin Xuan decided to spare Heaven Ghost Master and use his knowledge of the Demon Realm to help with his journey and search for Spirit Division Pill ingredients.
• Heaven Ghost Master apologized for underestimating Lin Xuan and asked him to withdraw the Flying Swords.

Lin Xuan survived Heaven Ghost Master's attempt to possess him and turned the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation against the remnant soul. As Heaven Ghost Master neared defeat, he tried to save himself by offering spirit herbs for refining the Spirit Division Pill.

• Lin Xuan recalled his Immortal Swords and formed nine sword lotuses, while Heaven Ghost Master hid his hostility behind a fawning smile.
• Heaven Ghost Master sent a concealed Ghost Mist clone to possess Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan escaped with the Substitute Tribulation Talisman and left a false body to be destroyed.
• Lin Xuan surrounded Heaven Ghost Master's Ghost Face with the nine sword lotuses and attacked despite the remnant soul's pleas for mercy.
• Heaven Ghost Master defended himself with a whirlwind of wind blades and Life Essence, but Lin Xuan's Sword Rays broke through and rapidly weakened him.
• Heaven Ghost Master urged Lin Xuan to stop, offering spirit herbs for refining the Spirit Division Pill.

Lin Xuan forced Heaven Ghost Master to reveal that Medicine King Valley might contain spirit herbs needed for the Spirit Division Pill. He threatened the weakened ghost into accepting a master-slave bond, then demanded one soul and one spirit to seal the agreement.

• Heaven Ghost Master explained that he recognized Lin Xuan as a Spirit World visitor because he had once captured and refined the soul of a trial participant.
• Heaven Ghost Master said he knew places where some Spirit Division Pill ingredients grew and pointed Lin Xuan toward Medicine King Valley in Tianyuan Province.
• Lin Xuan recalled the valley’s deadly ancient restrictions, beasts, and concealed plants, then demanded proof that Heaven Ghost Master was telling the truth.
• Lin Xuan ordered Heaven Ghost Master to become his slave, and when the ghost resisted, he attacked him with Sword Rays until he begged for mercy.
• Heaven Ghost Master agreed to serve Lin Xuan as a ghost slave, and Lin Xuan produced a black wooden token and demanded one soul and one spirit.

Lin Xuan forced Heaven Ghost Master to surrender his soul and spirit, binding him with a Soul Prohibition Technique. Heaven Ghost Master revealed that Medicine King Valley might contain herbs for the Spirit Division Pill, but the Soul-Devouring Demon Mist barred entry until it receded in ten years.

• Lin Xuan threatened Heaven Ghost Master until he surrendered his soul and spirit, then sealed him into a wooden plaque with the Soul Prohibition Technique.
• Lin Xuan questioned Heaven Ghost Master about Medicine King Valley, and Heaven Ghost Master said it might contain some herbs needed to refine the Spirit Division Pill.
• Heaven Ghost Master warned Lin Xuan that the Soul-Devouring Demon Mist surrounded the valley and had reportedly killed even an Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor.
• Heaven Ghost Master explained that the mist receded every fifty years for three months and that it had been over forty years since its last retreat.
• Heaven Ghost Master said cultivators below Spirit Division could enter during the first three days, while mid-stage Spirit Division and stronger cultivators remained barred afterward.
• Lin Xuan concluded that he had ten years to prepare and planned to search the valley during its first three days without the mist.

Lin Xuan secured Heaven Ghost Master's cooperation by promising to free him after two hundred years, then learned that the old cultivator had once ascended from Seven Star Island in Cloud Sea. He placed Heaven Ghost Master inside Soul-Nurturing Wood to preserve him and conceal Lin Xuan's secrets, then began erasing the imprint on the Heaven Ghost Axe.

• Lin Xuan promised to return Heaven Ghost Master's freedom after two hundred years, and Heaven Ghost Master vowed to assist him wholeheartedly.
• Heaven Ghost Master revealed that he had ascended from Seven Star Island in Cloud Sea, and Lin Xuan said he had once traveled there through an Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Lin Xuan placed Heaven Ghost Master inside a box made from Soul-Nurturing Wood and sealed it with a Restriction Talisman.
• Lin Xuan picked up the Heaven Ghost Axe and used Infant Fire to refine away Heaven Ghost Master's divine sense imprint.

After refining the Heaven Ghost Axe, Lin Xuan decided to seek high-rank talismans from the famed Fu Family in Baifu City to prepare for Medicine King Valley. He left Demon City and chose a dangerous route through the Demon Flame Mountain Range, where powerful Magic Beasts roamed.

• Lin Xuan refined the Heaven Ghost Axe with his Infant Fire and decided to leave Demon City to prepare for Medicine King Valley.
• Heaven Ghost Master told Lin Xuan that the Fu Family of Baifu City was renowned for crafting powerful talismans and gave him a route map.
• Lin Xuan departed Demon City and killed several Devil Race members who tried to rob him along the way.
• Lin Xuan reached the Demon Flame Mountain Range and chose to travel through it despite Heaven Ghost Master's warning about its dangerous Magic Beasts.

Lin Xuan planned to test whether Little Fur Ball’s domain could subdue Magic Beasts, hoping to hunt them for materials needed by the Fu Family. He found a Nascent Soul-level Magic Beast and summoned Little Fur Ball, who woke up confused by the seemingly easy opponent.

• Lin Xuan decided that the Demon Flame Mountain Range could be a source of valuable Magic Beast materials if Little Fur Ball’s domain worked on them.
• Lin Xuan sealed Heaven Ghost Master inside the Wooden Box, then used his divine sense to locate a Nascent Soul-level Magic Beast nearby.
• Lin Xuan flew to a valley and found a boar-shaped Magic Beast that seemed to lack intelligence.
• Lin Xuan summoned Little Fur Ball from the pagoda, waking him from sleep.
• Little Fur Ball questioned why Lin Xuan had summoned him to fight such a weak opponent, and Lin Xuan told him to attack.

Lin Xuan watched Little Fur Ball defeat a wild boar, then hid when a Ghost-Face Centipede and a Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake arrived at the valley. He planned to let the two rare creatures fight before claiming the surviving one’s valuable materials.

• Little Fur Ball was caught off guard by the wild boar’s bone spurs, but Lin Xuan shielded it with Azure Glow.
• Little Fur Ball unleashed its domain, roasted the wild boar, and showed Lin Xuan that its power worked on magic beasts.
• After sensing something approach, Lin Xuan concealed himself and spotted a Ghost-Face Centipede drawn by the roasted boar’s scent.
• A Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake burst from the ground, and Lin Xuan recognized the value of both creatures’ materials.
• Lin Xuan stayed hidden and waited for the Ghost-Face Centipede and the Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake to fight.

Lin Xuan watched the Ghost-Face Centipede and the Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake battle over a roasted wild boar, then waited as they exhausted and wounded each other. He judged that the moment to act had arrived, but the chapter ended before he made his move.

• The Ghost-Face Centipede and the Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake confronted each other over a fragrant roasted wild boar while Lin Xuan concealed himself nearby.
• The Ghost-Face Centipede attacked with its corrosive cold wind, melting a massive boulder and injuring the Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake's head.
• The Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake pounced on the Ghost-Face Centipede, and the two monsters grappled, bit, and tore at each other across the valley.
• The fighting wrecked the valley and left both monsters badly wounded, while the roasted boar disappeared.
• Lin Xuan waited until the monsters had weakened further, then decided the opportunity to act had come.

Lin Xuan hunted hundreds of Magic Beasts in the Demon Flame Mountain Range and ventured into its depths, hoping to find a Spirit Division-level beast. After Heaven Ghost Master warned that the absence of other beasts signaled a powerful creature’s territory, Lin Xuan headed farther in, intending to hunt it.

• Lin Xuan killed the Red-Scaled Twin-Tailed Snake and the Ghost-Face Centipede with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, then collected their valuable remains.
• Over the next month, Lin Xuan hunted hundreds of Magic Beasts, relying on Little Fur Ball against powerful foes and storing the materials in his Instantaneous Bag.
• On the forty-fifth day, Lin Xuan noticed he had found no Magic Beasts for twelve hours and summoned Heaven Ghost Master for advice.
• Heaven Ghost Master reasoned that an exceptionally powerful Magic Beast, likely at the Spirit Division level, had claimed the surrounding area as its territory.
• Lin Xuan sealed Heaven Ghost Master away and continued deeper into the mountain range, hoping to hunt the powerful beast with Little Fur Ball’s help.

Lin Xuan followed a group of Devil Race cultivators who were searching for an Earth Rhinoceros Dragon, hoping to claim the powerful beast for himself. When a vast tribulation appeared ahead, the group realized the dragon might be advancing to the Spirit Division stage, leaving them to face a far greater threat than expected.

• The scorpion-tailed old man, Lou, assured Gu that the group was searching in the right territory for an Earth Rhinoceros Dragon with a trace of Sinful Dragon bloodline.
• Lin Xuan secretly followed the cultivators in a cloud illusion and decided to pursue the beast after hearing that it was full of treasures.
• A blood-red pillar of light and a vast surge of devilish qi darkened the sky, startling Lin Xuan and the Devil Race cultivators.
• Gu guessed that the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon was undergoing tribulation, but Lou warned that it was likely a late-stage Dongxuan beast advancing to the Spirit Division stage.
• Gu grew alarmed and asked whether the group should flee before the dragon completed its advancement.

Lin Xuan followed two Ancient Demons to a valley where an Earth Rhinoceros Dragon was undergoing the Spirit Division Heavenly Tribulation. The demons waited for it to weaken, while Lin Xuan stayed hidden and watched for his chance to act.

• The Scorpion-Tailed Elder persuaded the hesitant black-faced big man to stay and hunt the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon after its tribulation.
• Lin Xuan followed the two demons, and they reached a vast valley shrouded in black fog and filled with thunder and fire.
• The demons and Lin Xuan saw the enormous Earth Rhinoceros Dragon withstand the opening attacks of its Heavenly Tribulation.
• The black-faced big man urged the Scorpion-Tailed Elder to retreat, but the elder chose to wait for the beast to weaken, and the big man agreed to watch.
• Lin Xuan remained calm and waited for the best moment to strike as the tribulation continued.