Recaps

The Tianlan Twin Devils entered the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and defeated its elemental Spirit Beasts, taking the Formation Flags for themselves. As the formation broke, its surroundings began to fade and reveal the outside world.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils entered the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation after the light pillar destroyed Lin Xuan’s other formations.
• The female demon used leaf-shaped Demon Treasures to block the Water Dragon’s attacks while the male demon captured and destroyed it, then took its Formation Flag.
• Four more elemental Spirit Beasts appeared, and the Tianlan Twin Devils trapped and dissolved them with nets of black threads.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils took the remaining four Formation Flags, causing the formation to break and its scenery to begin fading.

The Green-Armored Ancient Demon and his partner fought Lin Xuan’s Silver-Winged Corpse King, killing it after a fierce exchange. As the demons found the narrow valley and prepared to attack Lin Xuan, a huge sphere of gathered spiritual energy crashed down from the sky.

• The Silver-Winged Corpse King ambushed the Tianlan Twin Devils while they were breaking Lin Xuan’s formations, and the male demon shoved his partner aside to protect her.
• The Corpse King pierced the male demon’s abdomen, but he transformed into a Green-Armored Ancient Demon and counterattacked.
• The Corpse King bit through the demon’s throat scales, but the demon smashed it apart and ground it into powder with black ripples.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils spotted a narrow valley and prepared to drag Lin Xuan out of hiding.
• A vast sphere formed from gathered spiritual energy appeared overhead and slammed toward the ground.

Lin Xuan survived the devastating spiritual-energy blast that destroyed the valley and faced the Tianlan Twin Devils, who had underestimated his cultivation. The twins remained alive and were pursuing the Dragon Flame Grass on Lord Saint Ancestor’s orders.

• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon teleported away with the female demon and raised a pearl barrier against the falling sphere of spiritual energy.
• The blast shattered the pearl and engulfed the Tianlan Twin Devils, destroying the valley and carving out a huge pit.
• After the halo receded, Lin Xuan opened his eyes unharmed at the center of the pit.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils reappeared more than a hundred zhang away and exchanged wary looks with Lin Xuan.
• The twins had mistaken Lin Xuan for an early Spirit Division Ancient Demon, but they had risked confronting him to fulfill Lord Saint Ancestor’s task of finding the Dragon Flame Grass.

Lin Xuan broke through to the Spirit Division Stage under attack from the Tianlan Twin Devils, then tested his new power with a sword strike that split a mountain. The Twin Devils realized he could not be judged by the standards of ordinary cultivators, but remained ready to fight him.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils attacked Lin Xuan while he was breaking through, but the gathered Heaven-and-Earth vital energy struck them and Lin Xuan advanced successfully.
• The Twin Devils discovered Lin Xuan had only just entered the Spirit Division Stage, despite commanding Spirit Division-level Corpse Demons.
• Lin Xuan saw the formations destroyed and the Silver-Winged Corpse King gravely wounded, and decided to use the Twin Devils to test his new abilities.
• Lin Xuan flicked out a thread of sword light that missed the Twin Devils and cut a distant mountain cleanly in half.
• Sister Fu and the Green-Armored Ancient Demon recognized Lin Xuan as a dangerous opponent, but Sister Fu refused to back down.

Lin Xuan fought the two Tianlan devils, overpowering the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s bone weapon and breaking several of his wife’s Black Water Asura Blades with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. The woman was injured but kept her composure as the battle continued.

• Lin Xuan attacked first with his Thunder Fire Awl, which clashed with the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s Bone Blade and forced him onto the defensive.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s wife sent seventy-two Black Water Asura Blades to surround Lin Xuan and strike at his vital points.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to intercept the Demon Blades before they could reach him.
• The Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword split three Demon Blades, injuring the woman through their life-bound connection.
• The woman remained composed despite her injury and assessed the small number of lost blades.

Lin Xuan faced the Spirit Division Stage Ancient Demon’s Giant Sword Technique and evaded its devastating strike with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, but the attack continued through nearly a hundred Ink Flood Dragons. He sent out the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows from the Hundred Spirit Bell, and their clash with the dragons left the fight ongoing.

• The woman gathered the Black Water Asura Blades into a hundred-zhang Demon Blade with Ink Flood Dragons coiled around it.
• Lin Xuan dodged the Demon Blade’s strike with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, and it carved a vast ravine that released flowing magma.
• Nearly a hundred enlarged Ink Flood Dragons pursued Lin Xuan as a follow-up attack.
• Lin Xuan rang the Hundred Spirit Bell and released the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows.
• The Ink Flood Dragons’ black water columns collided with the corpse crows’ wind blades, and the crows countered with poisonous Corpse Fire.

Lin Xuan used the Immortal Sword Lotus to bind the female demon’s Black Water Asura Blade and attack her with thousands of sword needles. Before he could finish her, the Green-Armored Ancient Demon broke free and attacked him from behind.

• The Ink Flood Dragons broke through the Corpse Fire barrier and clashed with the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows.
• Lin Xuan gathered his immortal swords into nine Immortal Sword Lotuses and used their threads to bind the female demon’s Black Water Asura Blade.
• Lin Xuan formed thousands of fiery Flying Needles and launched them at the female demon, who defended herself with a leaf-shaped Dharma Treasure and a Brocade Handkerchief.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon escaped the Thunder Fire Awl’s flames and returned to the fight.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon restored his Bone Blade arm and punched toward Lin Xuan’s head.

Lin Xuan and the Green-Armored Ancient Demon traded devastating attacks, briefly tearing open space before Lin Xuan unleashed his Immortal Sword and the Four Spirits. The demon countered Lin Xuan’s giant hand and prepared a strange blade strike against the Four Spirits, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Lin Xuan matched the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s punch, and their collision briefly created a spatial Black Hole.
• Lin Xuan summoned an azure giant hand and drew his Immortal Sword, unleashing the Void Shadows of the Four Spirits.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon destroyed Lin Xuan’s giant hand with a black lightning flood dragon.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon transformed his limbs into Demon Blades and slashed a crescent-petaled blade of light toward the Four Spirits.

Lin Xuan used a feint to trap the female demon with his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire after the first blast left the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s fate unclear. The fire engulfed her, and Lin Xuan’s carefully laid deception began to take effect.

• Lin Xuan unleashed a devastating attack, then turned away as the female demon worried about her husband and reevaluated his strength.
• The female demon resolved to keep fighting because she feared Tianyuan Saint Ancestor’s punishment if she failed to find Dragon Flame Grass.
• Lin Xuan conjured an azure giant hand, and the female demon dismissed it as a weak diversion and sent a Demon Python to destroy it.
• Lin Xuan released several thousand willow-leaf-shaped treasures, but the female demon recognized them as a bluff and prepared another treasure.
• The Demon Python vanished when it struck the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire concealed in the giant hand, and the fire wrapped around the female demon.
• Lin Xuan’s earlier use of the same giant-hand technique against the Green-Armored Ancient Demon had made the female demon underestimate it, setting up his trap.

Lin Xuan used the Sea-Overturning Halberd to overcome the female demon’s Shift and Swap and kill her, though the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire nearly vanished in the spatial vortex. As he thought the remaining Tianlan Twin Devil would be easier to defeat, the Green-Armored Ancient Demon appeared in grief and fury.

• Lin Xuan attacked the female demon trapped in the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire with the Iron Feather Locust Blade, but her Shift and Swap made the blades miss.
• The female demon’s Black Water Asura Blade intercepted Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords while she remained trapped in the flames.
• Lin Xuan wielded the Sea-Overturning Halberd and sent a crescent blade of light toward the female demon.
• The Sea-Overturning Halberd’s spatial power clashed with Shift and Swap, forming a vortex that tore apart the female demon and her Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan recalled the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire from the vortex and saw the Green-Armored Ancient Demon emerge from the dust, roaring in grief and fury.

Lin Xuan tried to exploit the Green-Armored Ancient Demon's grief after his wife died, but the demon blocked the Sea-Overturning Halberd and unleashed a secret art that sent his power surging toward the late Spirit Division Stage. The chapter ended after Lin Xuan struck the demon's forehead with an Ink Spirit Drill and froze at the result.

• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon mourned his wife and howled in grief and fury.
• Lin Xuan attacked the distracted demon with the Sea-Overturning Halberd, but the demon blocked the blow with a Bone Blade.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon's aura surged beyond the peak of the middle Spirit Division Stage as he used a secret art.
• Lin Xuan tried to stop the demon's advance by striking his forehead with an Ink Spirit Drill.
• Lin Xuan's expression froze before the chapter revealed what the attack had done.

The Green-Armored Ancient Demon used Seedling-Pulling Growth to gain terrifying power and attacked Lin Xuan to avenge his wife. After the demon tore through Lin Xuan’s Four Spirits attack, Lin Xuan chose to endure until the secret art’s limited duration ended.

• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon revealed that Seedling-Pulling Growth greatly increased his strength but would cost him two major cultivation realms after it ended.
• Lin Xuan attacked with his Iron Feather Locust Blades, but the Green-Armored Ancient Demon ignored them and struck him dozens of li through several mountain peaks.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon charged into Lin Xuan’s Four Spirits attack, destroyed the White Tiger, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise, and tore the Vermilion Bird apart.
• Lin Xuan climbed from the pit with a broken arm, reset the bone, and treated it with a healing talisman.
• Lin Xuan considered fleeing with a Random Teleportation Talisman but decided to wait out the secret art, believing its backlash would give him a chance to turn the fight around.

Lin Xuan battled the Green-Armored Ancient Demon, using the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to trap him in a contest of Dharma power. When Lin Xuan restored his nearly exhausted power with Jade Dew Nectar, the demon realized he had underestimated him, but the fight continued.

• Lin Xuan sent the Iron Feather Locust Blade and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword against the Green-Armored Ancient Demon, who shattered most of the blade formation and charged at him in spiked armor.
• Lin Xuan dodged the demon's attacks with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, but the demon disrupted the teleportation ability and forced him to evade by a narrow margin.
• Lin Xuan used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to freeze the Green-Armored Ancient Demon and poured in Dharma power to keep repairing the ice armor as the demon repeatedly broke it.
• Lin Xuan's Dharma power nearly ran out, so he drank a drop from a jade-white bottle and instantly replenished it.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon suspected Lin Xuan had used legendary Jade Dew Nectar, but still believed he could win before realizing he had underestimated Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan used the Jade Luo Bees to attack the Green-Armored Ancient Demon while the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire held him in place. The bees’ Time Poison drained the demon’s lifespan and caused his realm to plummet, leaving him near defeat.

• Lin Xuan maintained the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire but struggled to keep it from breaking under the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s assault.
• Lin Xuan released the Jade Luo Bees from his Treasure Pagoda and sent them toward the trapped demon.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon caught the insect cloud in a demonic hand and engulfed it in Demon Flame, but the Jade Luo Bees escaped unharmed.
• The Jade Luo Bees stung the Green-Armored Ancient Demon, draining his lifespan as hundreds of the bees died in the attack.
• Lin Xuan recalled the surviving bees and discovered the demon’s realm had fallen from middle Spirit Division to middle Lihe Realm.
• Lin Xuan told the weakened Green-Armored Ancient Demon that he would be the one sent to the Underworld.

Lin Xuan searched the Green-Armored Ancient Demon's soul, learned that Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor was involved in the Demon World's search for Three-Eyed, and hurried away from the area. Heaven Origin then received the demon's remnant soul and realized that something had gone wrong with the Tianlan Twin Devils.

• Lin Xuan used the Soul Searching Technique on the helpless Green-Armored Ancient Demon, then destroyed him and burned his remains to ash.
• Lin Xuan learned of Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor's ties to Bingpo and Baoshe and suspected that Three-Eyed was someone he had encountered before.
• Lin Xuan collected the demon's Storage Bag and the surviving Black Water Asura Blades before flying away.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor sensed the Green-Armored Ancient Demon's remnant soul arrive and wondered how the Tianlan Twin Devils had met such a disastrous end.

Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor learned that Lin Xuan had reached the Saint World and decided to send his incarnation after him. Lin Xuan traveled toward a small Demon City to rest and noticed a brother and sister being attacked by three Ancient Demons.

• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor discovered Lin Xuan was alive in the Saint World and suspected he still possessed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden’s treasures.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor ruled out acting personally or sending subordinates and chose to dispatch his incarnation instead.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward a small Demon City, intending to rest and cultivate his Second Nascent Soul during his remaining time in the Demon World.
• Near the city gates, Lin Xuan saw three Ancient Demons attacking a young man and woman who appeared to be siblings.

Lin Xuan intervened when three Ancient Demons and their Spirit Beasts nearly killed two Xianyun Sect disciples. After the demons attacked him, he unleashed overwhelming sword energy and destroyed their defenses.

• Lin Xuan recognized the brother and sister's Xianyun Sect emblems and decided to help them.
• A Grassland Magic Wolf pounced on the woman, but Lin Xuan cut it in half with a streak of sword light.
• The three Ancient Demons stopped fighting and demanded to know why Lin Xuan had interfered.
• Lin Xuan told the demons to scram, and the bald Third Leader attacked him with a Sharp Cone-shaped treasure.
• Lin Xuan's azure Sword Qi shattered the treasure and destroyed the demons' summoned defenses as they screamed.

Lin Xuan saved two Xianyun Sect siblings from Ancient Demons, then learned their sect had been devastated by the Thunder Eagle Gang. He agreed to go to the sect’s hidden refuge after hearing its master had an important secret to tell him, but chose to travel alone.

• Lin Xuan killed the attackers, causing the remaining Ancient Demons to flee.
• The siblings recognized Lin Xuan as the Xianyun Sect elder who had defeated more than ten Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons decades earlier.
• The siblings told Lin Xuan that the Thunder Eagle Gang had attacked their sect three months earlier, leaving only about one-third of its disciples alive.
• They relayed the sect master’s message that he had an important secret for Lin Xuan, prompting Lin Xuan to ask where the survivors were hiding.
• Lin Xuan told the siblings to give him a terrain map so he could travel to the refuge alone.

Lin Xuan followed a Jade Slip to the Xianyun Sect’s hidden refuge and discovered that its concealment array hid more than a thousand disciples from his divine sense. He entered the valley and was greeted as their Martial Uncle, though his cold manner made the three Ancient Demons wary.

• Lin Xuan took the Jade Slip and flew toward the refuge while two Xianyun Sect cultivators wondered whether he would help their sect.
• Lin Xuan reached the valley and used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to discover purple qi from an array concealing the disciples.
• Lin Xuan tested the array with a fireball, and the light curtain withstood his attack.
• Three Ancient Demons and the other cultivators recognized Lin Xuan, greeted him as their Martial Uncle, and invited him inside.
• Lin Xuan entered a stone house with the three Ancient Demons, who sensed that something was wrong with his indifferent demeanor.

Lin Xuan met with Xianyun Sect’s leaders and offered to resolve their crisis in exchange for compensation. They revealed that the sect preserved half of a treasure map connected to the Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor, leaving Lin Xuan intrigued but without the full means to locate the treasure.

• Lin Xuan met the three ancient demons and they recognized that he had advanced to the Spirit Division Stage.
• Lin Xuan said he would help Xianyun Sect resolve its crisis, but only in exchange for compensation.
• The Palace-Robed Woman explained that Xianyun Sect’s founding ancestor had served the Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor and been entrusted with hiding his treasures.
• Lin Xuan questioned why the sect had not taken the treasures, and the fat ancient demon revealed that Xianyun Sect possessed only half of the treasure map.

Lin Xuan learned that the treasure map to Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor's treasure had been split, and the demons could offer only half of it. They offered him the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll as compensation, and after identifying it as an exceptionally powerful Houtian Spirit Treasure, he agreed to help them recover the map and asked why they were so determined to reclaim their former sect headquarters.

• The fat Ancient Demon told Lin Xuan that Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor's treasure map had been split and that the sect held only one half.
• The Palace-Robed Woman offered an additional treasure to persuade Lin Xuan to help.
• The Palace-Robed Woman revealed the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll, and Lin Xuan recognized its depiction of Three-Legged Golden Crows.
• Lin Xuan activated the scroll and discovered its treasure-controlling formula, then learned it ranked among the top Houtian Spirit Treasures.
• Lin Xuan accepted the scroll and agreed to help, but asked why the demons insisted on recovering the Xianyun Sect's former main helm.
• The fat Ancient Demon said the recovery was required by their ancestor's dying instruction and because the treasure map had long been enshrined there.

Lin Xuan agreed to help the three demons reclaim their sect’s main helm and spent the night cultivating the Treasure-Controlling Formula from the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll. Nine days later, the three demons waited anxiously outside his sealed cave as its protective barrier began to rumble and flicker.

• Lin Xuan agreed to take the three demons to reclaim the main helm the next day and asked to see their treasure map afterward.
• The three demons escorted Lin Xuan to a temporary cultivation cave, where he recovered his Storage Bags and set up a protective formation.
• Lin Xuan studied the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll and began comprehending its Treasure-Controlling Formula.
• After nine days, the middle-aged man, the Palace-Robed Woman, and the fat Ancient Demon worried that Lin Xuan had left or changed his mind, but could not enter his cave.
• The cave’s multicolored barrier began to rumble and flicker, filling the three demons with hope.

Lin Xuan took three Xianyun Sect demons through Snow Crow City’s Teleportation Array toward their occupied main altar. After reaching the mountains, he led an open attack on the Thunder Eagle Gang and ordered the patrol defeated so they could question a survivor.

• Lin Xuan set out with the three demons for Snow Crow City, leaving the other disciples to follow later.
• Lin Xuan and the three demons paid to use Snow Crow City’s Teleportation Array and arrived near Xianyun Sect’s main altar.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the fat Ancient Demon’s warning about the Thunder Eagle Gang and flew openly toward the occupied mountain stronghold.
• Lin Xuan ordered the three demons to kill a Thunder Eagle Gang patrol and leave one survivor for soul searching.
• The three demons killed nearly all the patrol, leaving scattered remnants.

Lin Xuan broke the Thunder Eagle Gang’s protective formation and slaughtered its disciples while reclaiming the Xianyun Sect’s main altar. He confronted five Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons, revealed his Spirit Division Stage strength, and prepared to fight them when they refused to surrender.

• Lin Xuan ordered a fat Ancient Demon to search the surviving old man’s soul, but the search yielded no useful clues.
• Lin Xuan broke the Thunder Eagle Gang’s Sect Protection Array with a single strike of Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan killed several hundred Thunder Eagle Gang disciples with a storm of sword lights.
• Five Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons arrived, and Lin Xuan revealed that he was a Spirit Division Stage Supreme Elder of the Xianyun Sect.
• Lin Xuan ordered the five demons to surrender, but they summoned their treasures and prepared to fight, so he punched toward them.

Lin Xuan crushed the Thunder Eagle Gang’s strongest demons, retook the Xianyun Sect’s main altar, and followed the sect’s demons to a hidden treasure site. At the cave’s end, a couplet marked “Sword Heart Mortal Dust” stood before a mountain wall, and the Palace-Robed Woman began knocking on its characters.

• Lin Xuan shattered the five Thunder Eagle Gang Ancient Demons’ treasures and killed them when they tried to flee.
• Lin Xuan led the three Xianyun Sect demons into the mountain’s depths and wiped out the Thunder Eagle Gang’s remaining disciples, retaking the main altar.
• Lin Xuan asked the middle-aged Ancient Demon to show him the treasure map’s location, and the demon led him and the others to a hidden cave.
• The middle-aged Ancient Demon opened the concealed entrance by lifting a knot in a pine tree’s bark.
• At the cave’s end, the Palace-Robed Woman knocked three times on “Immortal” and three times on “Quiet” in the couplet marked “Sword Heart Mortal Dust.”