Recaps

As the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon continued enduring its Heavenly Tribulation, Lin Xuan and the two Ancient Devils encountered a powerful Naga party led by an arrogant woman. She ordered her attendants to eliminate the two devils, who prepared to fight back as the women formed a battle formation.

• The Scorpion-Tailed Elder and the dark-faced big man discovered that the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon had a self-healing body and chose to wait before deciding whether to attack it.
• Lin Xuan spotted an ornate Beast Carriage approaching the valley with several dozen attendants, and recognized them as members of the Naga clan.
• A snake-featured woman at the peak of the Dongxuan Realm emerged from the carriage and declared that she would claim the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon as her devil pet if it failed its tribulation.
• The woman ordered Xuehe and the other attendants to eliminate the Scorpion-Tailed Elder and the dark-faced big man.
• The dark-faced big man and the Scorpion-Tailed Elder rejected the attendants' demand to surrender and readied themselves to fight.
• Xuehe and the other demonesses arranged themselves in a formation and summoned their weapons, leaving Lin Xuan wondering what advantage they possessed.

Lin Xuan watched as the black-faced big man overwhelmed the fifteen devil women, only for their mysterious leader to reveal herself as a late-stage Dongxuan expert. She killed him with a single attack, leaving Lin Xuan to assess the threat from the shadows.

• Lin Xuan withdrew to observe the fight while the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon continued its Heavenly Tribulation.
• The black-faced big man transformed and fought the fifteen devil women, quickly overpowering them and killing several.
• The mysterious woman condemned her maidservants and appeared before the black-faced big man as he pursued one of them.
• The black-faced big man recognized that the woman was a late-stage Dongxuan expert and called for Brother Lou while launching an all-out attack.
• The woman erased his Force Cyclone with a milky-white halo and reduced him to ashes.

The mysterious woman killed the Scorpion-Tailed Elder with overwhelming force, then exposed Lin Xuan despite his concealment. She recognized him by name, leaving Lin Xuan stunned as their confrontation began.

• The mysterious woman claimed descent from Saint Ancestor Baoshe and refused to let the Scorpion-Tailed Elder leave alive.
• The Scorpion-Tailed Elder attacked with his black gourd, but the mysterious woman defeated him with her Green Jade Bracelet and killed him with a beam of light.
• The mysterious woman sensed Lin Xuan hiding nearby and ordered him to come out.
• Lin Xuan revealed himself and challenged the woman, then prepared to kill her when he thought she had seen through his disguise.
• The mysterious woman stared at Lin Xuan in astonishment and asked whether he was Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan discovered that Magic Snake Fairy knew his identity through Tian Xiaojian and intended to capture him as a gift for him. After she threatened to extract Lin Xuan’s soul, he provoked her, and she attacked with her emerald bracelet.

• Magic Snake Fairy recognized Lin Xuan from a portrait in Tian Xiaojian’s cultivation cave and confirmed his identity by questioning him about Tian Xiaojian.
• Magic Snake Fairy recalled her unrequited affection for Tian Xiaojian and decided to capture Lin Xuan to win his favor.
• Lin Xuan learned that Magic Snake Fairy was connected to Tian Xiaojian and mocked her threat to extract his soul.
• Magic Snake Fairy flew her enlarged emerald bracelet toward Lin Xuan, preparing to trap him as she had the Scorpion-Tailed Elder.

Lin Xuan revealed himself as a human cultivator and overwhelmed Magic Snake Fairy with his lightning-and-fire treasure and sword techniques. With her Inkstone destroyed and her defenses strained, she was surrounded by his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords.

• Lin Xuan countered Magic Snake Fairy's bracelet with the Thunder Fire Awl, revealing that he was a human immortal cultivator.
• Magic Snake Fairy released poisonous mist and demonic snakes from her Inkstone while her Pearl Earrings shielded her from Lin Xuan's attack.
• Lin Xuan's red sword lights sliced through the snakes and combined into a giant sword that shattered the Inkstone.
• Lin Xuan split the giant sword into eighteen Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords and surrounded the trapped Magic Snake Fairy.

Lin Xuan wounded Magic Snake Fairy and faced her defective Talisman Treasure made by Baoshe Saint Ancestor, but they halted their fight when the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s final tribulation began. After surviving a devastating wave of lightning and thunderfire, the dragon faced a vast net of lightning descending from the Ghost Faces in the Tribulation Cloud.

• Lin Xuan broke through Magic Snake Fairy’s defense and struck her shoulder with the Ink Spirit Drill as she attempted to ambush him.
• Magic Snake Fairy produced a defective Talisman Treasure made by Baoshe Saint Ancestor and threatened Lin Xuan, who refused to surrender.
• A tremendous crash from the valley alerted Lin Xuan and Magic Snake Fairy that the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s tribulation was nearing its end, so they paused their fight to watch.
• The final wave of black lightning and red thunderfire engulfed the valley, leaving the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon amid melted land and magma.
• The Tribulation Cloud split into nearly a hundred Ghost Faces, which formed a massive lightning net that descended toward the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon.

The Earth Rhinoceros Dragon used its Magic Crystal to shield itself as Ghost Faces unleashed a barrage of attacks during its Heavenly Tribulation. Lin Xuan maneuvered Magic Snake Fairy into striking the trapped beast, leaving its chances of survival uncertain.

• The Earth Rhinoceros Dragon spat out its Magic Crystal and formed a black defensive barrier against the Tribulation Lightning and the Ghost Faces' attacks.
• Lin Xuan moved to the valley entrance, prompting Magic Snake Fairy to attack him with two Flying Daggers and a pillar of light.
• Lin Xuan pretended to be cornered, then used the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to vanish and evade the attacks.
• The Flying Daggers and pillar of light continued onward and struck the immobile Earth Rhinoceros Dragon as it underwent its tribulation.

Lin Xuan’s attack broke the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s barrier and drew Magic Snake Fairy into the Heavenly Tribulation. As she defended herself with a rare Chain Talisman Treasure and another mysterious technique, Lin Xuan watched and discerned what she was doing.

• Lin Xuan’s attack helped the lightning and fire shatter the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s barrier, leaving the beast exposed to the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Magic Snake Fairy realized Lin Xuan had shifted the disaster onto her, and a Tribulation Cloud formed over her head.
• Magic Snake Fairy used a Round Disc treasure to defend herself, but the Heavenly Tribulation destroyed it within moments.
• Magic Snake Fairy activated a Chain Talisman Treasure, summoning a shield, brick, and gauze to form three layers of defense.
• Magic Snake Fairy covered herself in churning black demonic qi, and Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see through it and understand her actions.

Lin Xuan waited for Magic Snake Fairy’s Heavenly Tribulation to weaken her, then taunted her about Tian Xiaojian to distract her. Magic Snake Fairy’s venomous-snake shield was destroyed by the tribulation, leaving her exposed as Lin Xuan’s plan began to work.

• Lin Xuan held back from attacking Magic Snake Fairy during her Heavenly Tribulation so he would not draw its fire onto himself.
• Magic Snake Fairy demonized herself with Venomous Snake Armor, strengthening her magic power as her protective talisman treasures broke apart.
• Magic Snake Fairy formed a shield from countless venomous snakes and sprayed venom at the descending lightning and fire.
• Lin Xuan mocked Magic Snake Fairy’s appearance and suggested Tian Xiaojian only kept her close for her status as Baoshe’s descendant.
• Magic Snake Fairy’s doubts about Tian Xiaojian distracted her, and the Heavenly Tribulation shattered her venomous-snake shield.

Lin Xuan watched the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon survive its tribulation by awakening its Sinful Dragon bloodline and advancing to the Spirit Division stage. Magic Snake Fairy survived the thunderfire as well, but she blamed Lin Xuan and planned to attack him with her Saint Ancestor’s Talisman Treasure.

• Lin Xuan waited for the Heavenly Tribulation to finish while watching Magic Snake Fairy suffer beneath the thunderfire.
• The Earth Rhinoceros Dragon stirred a Magma Lake into a tornado, cast off the thunderfire, and awakened its Sinful Dragon bloodline.
• The Earth Rhinoceros Dragon tore apart the electric net, swept away the Tribulation Cloud, and advanced to the Spirit Division stage.
• Magic Snake Fairy survived when the Tribulation Cloud vanished, though she was badly wounded and nearly out of magic power.
• Magic Snake Fairy blamed Lin Xuan and resolved to use the Saint Ancestor’s Talisman Treasure against him.

Magic Snake Fairy faced the newly advanced Earth Rhinoceros Dragon while Lin Xuan waited for an opening to attack her. After her decoy let her begin activating her ancestral Talisman Treasure, an unseen attacker struck her dantian, leaving her unable to escape.

• Magic Snake Fairy realized the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon blamed her for nearly dying during its tribulation and understood Lin Xuan had planned to use it against her.
• The Spirit Division-stage Earth Rhinoceros Dragon attacked, and Magic Snake Fairy used a blood-fed flower basket to hold off its claw rays while preparing her Talisman Treasure.
• Lin Xuan attacked Magic Snake Fairy with sword lights and a Force Cyclone, but the cyclone destroyed only one of her incarnations.
• Magic Snake Fairy reappeared at a distance and began activating her Talisman Treasure, believing she had outmaneuvered Lin Xuan.
• An unseen attacker struck Magic Snake Fairy in the dantian, and she could not send her Nascent Soul fleeing.

Lin Xuan captured Magic Snake Fairy’s Nascent Soul with the Silver-Winged Corpse King and summoned Little Fur Ball to fight the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon. Little Fur Ball’s domain failed to fully suppress the beast, leaving Lin Xuan expecting to join the battle.

• The Silver-Winged Corpse King ambushed Magic Snake Fairy, seized her Nascent Soul, and let Lin Xuan seal it in a Jade Box.
• Lin Xuan turned to the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon and summoned Little Fur Ball from the Treasure Pagoda.
• Little Fur Ball recognized the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon as tempting but dangerous prey, while the dragon sensed it as a natural enemy.
• Little Fur Ball spread its domain over the battlefield, but the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon resisted its effects.
• Little Fur Ball attacked with lightning and fire, and the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon countered with a pillar of black light that became Evil Ghosts and Ghost Fire.

Lin Xuan and his allies cornered the Spirit Division-stage Earth Rhinoceros Dragon with coordinated attacks. Lin Xuan beheaded it with his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

• Lin Xuan unleashed thousands of Iron Feather Locust Blades, but the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s Bone Spikes met them in an even clash.
• The Silver-Winged Corpse King attacked with its Two-Headed Strange Python while Lin Xuan sent sword lights after the beast and Little Fur Ball restrained it with chains.
• The Corpse King’s python turned into corpse mist that slowed the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon, letting Lin Xuan strike its head with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Little Fur Ball froze and restrained the beast as the Silver-Winged Corpse King pierced it near the heart.
• Lin Xuan formed his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and cut off the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s head.

Lin Xuan escaped the Demon Flame Mountain Range after killing the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon and securing its Magic Crystal and remains. He then prepared a fortified cultivation cave and trapped the Magic Snake Fairy’s Nascent Soul, which contained a sleeping Split Soul of Baoshe Saint Ancestor.

• Little Fur Ball stopped the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s Magic Crystal from escaping and swallowed its devil soul.
• Lin Xuan collected the Magic Crystal and the dragon’s materials, then flew away from the Demon Flame Mountain Range.
• Lin Xuan deliberately diverted from the route to Baifu City and opened a guarded cultivation cave in the mountains.
• Lin Xuan set up the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and prepared Child-Mother Yin Thunder before opening the Jade Box.
• A Nascent Soul resembling the Magic Snake Fairy emerged, and Lin Xuan recognized the presence of Baoshe Saint Ancestor’s Split Soul.
• Lin Xuan activated the formation and trapped the Nascent Soul inside five linked spheres of light.

Lin Xuan destroyed Baoshe Saint Ancestor’s Split Soul after extracting it from a Nascent Soul, then used Soul Searching Technique on the Nascent Soul. At Baoshe Palace, Baoshe learned that Seventh Girl had likely died and ordered Lei Yan to investigate and capture the killer, unaware that Lin Xuan was responsible.

• Lin Xuan used the Five Elements formation to immobilize the Nascent Soul and pulled Baoshe Saint Ancestor’s Split Soul from it.
• Lin Xuan struck the Split Soul with Child-Mother Yin Thunder, then destroyed it with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• At Baoshe Palace, Baoshe realized her Split Soul had been destroyed and concluded that Seventh Girl’s chances were grim.
• Baoshe told Lei Yan to investigate Seventh Girl’s recent movements and capture the person who killed her.
• Lei Yan summoned seven or eight Dongxuan-level Devils and relayed the Saint Ancestor’s order.
• Lin Xuan, unaware of Baoshe’s response, used Soul Searching Technique on the Nascent Soul.

After destroying the traces of his stay, Lin Xuan reached Baifu City and learned that the Fu Family had settled there because Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk was abundant. He hoped to find five-thousand-year milk that he could purify into Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

• Lin Xuan learned that Tian Xiaojian had advanced remarkably quickly and resolved to be cautious if they met.
• Lin Xuan counted Magic Snake Fairy's treasures, razed the mountain peak to conceal his traces, and flew away.
• Two days later, Lin Xuan arrived near Baifu City and wondered why the renowned Fu Family lived in such a small, remote place.
• Heaven Ghost Master's soul told Lin Xuan that Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk was produced in Baifu City and explained that it was the reason the Fu Family settled there.
• Lin Xuan recalled that his Blue Star Sea could not purify young stalactite milk into Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, but that five-thousand-year milk might suffice.

Lin Xuan arrived in Baifu City to seek the Fu Family’s talismans and learned that its Ten Thousand Talisman Conference would take place in a year. He decided to stay in the city until then, and Man Niu offered to show him to an inn.

• Lin Xuan entered Baifu City and hired the mortal devil Man Niu as his guide.
• Man Niu explained that ordinary talismans were sold at markets on the first and fifteenth of each month.
• Man Niu told Lin Xuan that the Fu Family’s Ten Thousand Talisman Conference offered premium talismans once every ten years.
• Lin Xuan learned the next conference was only a year away and rewarded Man Niu with another Magic Stone.
• Lin Xuan asked about staying in Baifu City, and Man Niu offered to take him to an inn.

Lin Xuan settled into a rented stone house in Baifu City and later visited the Fu Family’s exchange market to inspect its talisman trade. He found a crowded valley of stalls run mostly by low-level disciples, leaving him to browse and assess their wares.

• Lin Xuan took a Beast Carriage to the city’s shabby Post House, rented room one hundred and twenty-three, and set up warning formations in its stone house.
• Lin Xuan spent the days meditating until the fifteenth, when he decided to visit the Fu Family’s exchange market and judge its talisman craft for himself.
• Lin Xuan followed other foreign Devil Race members to an empty-looking space, where an invitation revealed a hidden path into a valley.
• Lin Xuan surveyed the market’s crowded stalls and saw that most Fu Family sellers were low-level disciples with few customers.
• Lin Xuan began strolling leisurely through the valley to inspect the stalls.

Lin Xuan visited the Fu Family’s market and encountered Xiao Liu, a young collateral disciple being expelled after a talisman mishap. Recalling his own difficult youth, Lin Xuan stopped the others from harassing Xiao Liu and stayed to inspect his stall.

• Lin Xuan surveyed the market and judged the Fu Family’s talisman craft impressive, though nothing there interested him.
• Fu Family youths mocked Xiao Liu for causing a Heavenly Dipper Water Devil Talisman to fail and being expelled from the family.
• Lin Xuan sympathized with Xiao Liu and approached his stall, while Third Sister dispersed the mocking youths.
• When a youth insulted Xiao Liu’s talismans, Lin Xuan frightened him into silence and ordered the group to leave.
• Lin Xuan stopped Xiao Liu from packing up, leaving the two of them alone at the stall.

Lin Xuan discovered a pattern resembling a half Residual Talisman in a tattered book on Xiao Liu’s stall. He offered to buy the book and everything else on the stall, leaving Xiao Liu to inspect a bag of Magic Stones.

• Lin Xuan examined Xiao Liu’s stall and heard why the young Fu Family collateral disciple had been expelled and abandoned Talisman Crafting.
• Lin Xuan encouraged Xiao Liu to focus on cultivation, and the youth warmed to him.
• Lin Xuan recognized a talisman pattern in a worn book, though he could not read its writing.
• Xiao Liu explained that his maternal grandfather had found the book in ruins and that the Fu Family elders had failed to understand it.
• Lin Xuan offered Xiao Liu a bag of Magic Stones for the book and all the items on his stall.

Lin Xuan hid in a remote cave to study an ancient book that matched his damaged talisman, then returned to Baifu City for the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference. After entering the Fu Family’s hidden realm, he heard how the family had transformed it into the legendary Baifu Wonderland.

• Lin Xuan paid the Devil Race youth generously for the old book, then left Baifu City and took precautions to conceal his trail.
• Lin Xuan established a secluded cave, brought out the book and his damaged talisman from the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, and began studying them together.
• Lin Xuan spent a year researching the talisman and made progress, then headed back to Baifu City for the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference.
• Lin Xuan paid three thousand Magic Stones to enter the conference and stepped through the passage opened by his token.
• Lin Xuan arrived in Baifu Wonderland, where a Devil Race cultivator told Brother Zhu how the Fu Family had created the hidden realm by transplanting devil veins.

Lin Xuan attended the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference, observed the powerful Devil Race gathering, and began searching for talismans during the opening free-trade period. After finding several promising talismans, he heard an argument nearby and turned toward the crowd.

• Lin Xuan learned more about the Fu Family and spotted the Spirit Division Realm Yanshan Ancestor among the attending Devil Race members.
• Nearly ten thousand Devil Race members gathered in the plaza while Fu Family cultivators remained absent, prompting complaints from newcomers.
• A gate appeared in the sky, and more than five thousand Fu Family cultivators crossed a rainbow bridge into the plaza.
• The Ten Thousand Talisman Conference began with three days of free trade followed by a Fu Family auction.
• Lin Xuan strolled through the plaza, found several talismans that pleased him, and heard an argument among a nearby crowd of Ancient Demons.

Lin Xuan came across a dispute over a rare talisman and learned that Devil Heart Grass seeds were being offered in the trade. The chapter left the horned Ancient Demon urgently negotiating to buy the talisman for his son, while Lin Xuan recognized the seeds as a valuable ingredient for the Spirit Division Pill.

• Lin Xuan overheard a horned Ancient Demon arguing with a stall owner over a talisman and Devil Heart Grass seeds.
• The stall owner revealed a gray Universe Blood Demon Talisman that could increase the chance of breaking through a bottleneck by about twenty percent for blood-attribute cultivators below the Lihe Realm.
• Many onlookers lost interest after learning the talisman's effect was limited to cultivators below the Lihe Realm.
• The horned Ancient Demon explained that his son was stuck at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck and offered the Devil Heart Grass seeds plus two million Spirit Stones for the talisman.

Lin Xuan traded a Thunder Roc bird's Spirit Bone for the Universe Blood Demon Talisman, then let a horned Ancient Demon follow him because the demon wanted the talisman for his son. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan hinting that he would not part with it easily.

• A Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demon offered Demonheart Grass seeds and two million Magic Stones for Fu's Universe Blood Demon Talisman, but Fu refused any trade without a Thunder Roc bird's Spirit Bone.
• Lin Xuan offered a Thunder Roc bird's Spirit Bone, and Fu inspected it before exchanging the talisman for it.
• Lin Xuan and Fu completed the trade, and the other Ancient Demons left while the horned Ancient Demon stayed behind, grieving that he had failed to obtain the talisman for his son.
• The horned Ancient Demon followed Lin Xuan and explained that his Nascent Soul Middle Stage son needed the talisman to improve his chances of breaking through.
• Lin Xuan acknowledged the demon's request but said the talisman was also useful to him.

Lin Xuan negotiated with the horned Ancient Demon over the Universe Blood Demon Talisman, demanding Devil Heart Grass seeds and one rare plant from a list in exchange. They agreed to wait while the Ancient Demon searched for the plant, leaving Lin Xuan to keep the talisman until then.

• The horned Ancient Demon asked Lin Xuan to hand over the Universe Blood Demon Talisman, explaining that his son needed it to advance.
• Lin Xuan agreed to negotiate for the talisman and took the Ancient Demon to a rented secret room.
• Lin Xuan demanded Devil Heart Grass seeds and one plant from a list of rare medicines in exchange for the talisman.
• The Ancient Demon said he would search for one of the plants, a task that could take seven or eight years or more than a decade.
• Lin Xuan refused to hand over the talisman early and warned that he would destroy it if the Ancient Demon tried to seize it by force.
• The Ancient Demon gave Lin Xuan a Parent-Child Ten Thousand Mile Talisman so he could send word once he found the required plant.