Recaps

Lin Xuan hesitated to leave the Thunder Roc Remains because he wanted its Spirit Bone, but the Thunder Roc Soul drove him away. Little Fur Ball suddenly emerged from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, and its milky-white domain blocked the Thunder Roc Soul’s attack.

• Lin Xuan prepared his Resurrection Talisman and Random Teleportation Talisman as the Thunder Roc Soul ordered him to leave.
• Lin Xuan considered taking the Thunder Roc Spirit Bone but decided to retreat rather than risk being killed.
• The Ten Thousand Soul Tower flew out of Lin Xuan’s Instantaneous Bag, and Little Fur Ball emerged after sleeping for over a hundred years.
• The Thunder Roc Soul grew wary of Little Fur Ball and launched a feather attack that also threatened Lin Xuan.
• Little Fur Ball spread its milky-white domain around itself and Lin Xuan, and the Thunder Roc Soul’s attack vanished against the barrier.

Lin Xuan and Little Fur Ball struggled against the Thunder Roc Soul until Little Fur Ball merged with Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens God Luo Image and transformed into a Phoenix. Its fire domain turned the battle around, leaving the Thunder Roc Soul badly weakened.

• Little Fur Ball’s shields and chains held back the Thunder Roc Soul’s rune-charged feathers and giant claws, but its domain began to falter.
• Tian Xiaojian reached the Inner Valley exit, decided not to risk investigating Lin Xuan’s fate, and prepared to leave.
• Lin Xuan attacked the Thunder Roc Soul with the Spirit-Devouring Sword, but the soul easily blocked the strike and ignored his intervention.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image and transformed it into the Void Shadow of a Phoenix to help Little Fur Ball.
• Little Fur Ball merged with the Phoenix image, became a tiny true Phoenix, and changed its domain into a fiery Phoenix domain.
• Little Fur Ball used its new Phoenix abilities to overwhelm the Thunder Roc Soul, scattering its form and leaving it in a wretched state.

Lin Xuan watched Little Fur Ball defeat and devour the Thunder Roc Soul, then collected the Thunder Roc’s remains. He realized the Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor who fought the Thunder Roc might also have died nearby, and wondered where that powerful being’s treasures had gone.

• Little Fur Ball bound the Thunder Roc Soul, shrank it with its Phoenix Dharma Image, and swallowed it.
• Little Fur Ball returned to its original form, burped, and fell asleep in Lin Xuan’s palm before he put it into the Ten Thousand Soul Tower.
• Lin Xuan collected the Thunder Roc Spirit Bone and the rest of its remains, pleased that his trip to Ice-Fire Valley had yielded something valuable.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that the Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor who killed the Thunder Roc had likely suffered fatal injuries as well.
• Lin Xuan began thinking about the Saint Ancestor’s possible remains and the treasures a Tribulation Transcendence-stage being might have left behind.

Lin Xuan found Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s remains and learned how he avenged Cold Conch Fairy’s death before succumbing to his wounds. After honoring Cold Conch Fairy’s cenotaph, Lin Xuan obtained the couple’s hidden legacy and discovered it contained many treasures.

• Lin Xuan searched Ice-Fire Valley for more than a month, slew the Magic Beasts guarding a mountain, and entered a cave where he found Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s remains.
• Lin Xuan read Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s Jade Slip and learned that the Saint Ancestor had killed the Thunder Roc to avenge Cold Conch Fairy, then stayed in the valley to die beside her burial place.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Storage Bag beside the remains was a deadly trap and that the true treasures were hidden near Cold Conch Fairy’s cenotaph.
• Lin Xuan flew to the cenotaph, kowtowed three times, and watched a hidden cache emerge from the ground.
• Lin Xuan seized the cache and discovered it was an Instantaneous Bag containing numerous treasures.

After escaping Ice-Fire Valley, Lin Xuan traveled far away and found a secluded place to rest and inspect Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s treasures. He discovered an enormous stash of top-grade Magic Stones, while Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor arrived at the valley too late to catch him.

• Lin Xuan opened a path out of Ice-Fire Valley and left without realizing Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor would arrive less than half a day later.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor entered Ice-Fire Valley to investigate after his delayed arrival, but Lin Xuan had already escaped.
• Lin Xuan flew for half a month, then carved out a crude cultivation cave in a remote wasteland and set up protective formations.
• Lin Xuan released Little Fur Ball, wondered about its connection to the Ink Moon Tribe and the Thunder Roc Soul, then returned it to the Ten Thousand Soul Tower.
• Lin Xuan shook Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s Instantaneous Bag and found a great heap of top-grade Magic Stones, only one-tenth of the bag’s supply.

Lin Xuan finished sorting Snowflake Saint Ancestor and his wife’s treasures, gaining several powerful items that helped him prepare to leave the dangerous Demon World. After setting up a spatial Teleportation Array with the World-Breaking Beads, he stood ready to return to the Spirit World.

• Lin Xuan spent three days inventorying Snowflake Saint Ancestor and his wife’s abundant treasures.
• Lin Xuan recognized the Black Tortoise True Spirit Inkstone as a top-tier Houtian Spirit Treasure and spent about a month learning to control it.
• Lin Xuan identified several beads as highest-grade World-Breaking Beads that could open a brief passage between realms with the aid of a spatial formation.
• Lin Xuan discovered an Instantaneous Cave Abode containing Demon Eye Jades, allowing him to continue cultivating the Demon Infant after returning to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan traveled to a remote location and spent over a month setting up and checking the spatial Teleportation Array, making his departure from the Demon World possible.

Lin Xuan activated the formation and used the World-Breaking Bead to cross into the Spirit World. He arrived in the Nailong Realm, where local cultivators identified their location as Baisong Wasteland.

• Lin Xuan tested the formation with Magic Stones and confirmed that it operated correctly.
• Lin Xuan placed the World-Breaking Bead in the formation, opened a rift, and crossed through before the formation destroyed itself.
• Two clans' young disciples were competing with Spirit Tools when the sky darkened and a spatial rift appeared above them.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the rift and asked the assembled cultivators where he had arrived.
• A Foundation Establishment Realm Daoist told Lin Xuan that he was in Baisong Wasteland in the Nailong Realm.

Lin Xuan returned safely to the Nailong Realm, helped Heaven Ghost Master possess a suitable body, and traveled to Tree Immortal City in Tianhe Prefecture. He planned to return to the Cloud Hidden Sect and began looking for the city’s Marketplace.

• Lin Xuan confirmed he had reached the Nailong Realm and knocked out the cultivators around him.
• Lin Xuan let Heaven Ghost Master possess a youth with the Nine Spirit Sword Body, then protected him while he recovered in a secluded mountain cave.
• Heaven Ghost Master emerged in his new body and thanked Lin Xuan before they parted ways.
• Lin Xuan reached Tree Immortal City in Tianhe Prefecture and decided to return to the Cloud Hidden Sect using the region’s Teleportation Arrays.
• Lin Xuan entered Tree Immortal City, asked a low-level cultivator where the Marketplace was, and headed there.

Lin Xuan toured Tree Immortal City's Marketplace and discovered a bounty notice from Venerable Qingling seeking a rare Demon World medicinal ingredient to cure his son. The notice offered great wealth or a favor in exchange, but Lin Xuan's reaction to the request was left unstated.

• Lin Xuan browsed Zhuifeng Studio and the Marketplace but found nothing that interested him.
• Lin Xuan joined a crowd gathered around a Jade Disk displaying a bounty notice issued by Venerable Qingling.
• The notice revealed that Venerable Qingling's son suffered from the Cold Yin Absolute Vein and needed a pill requiring the rare Ghost Demon Luo Flower.
• Venerable Qingling offered a high price or a promise to fulfill one request in exchange for the flower.

Lin Xuan accepted Venerable Qingling’s offer to trade a Ghost Demon Luo Flower for one favor and followed the jade disk’s instructions to Tianxiang Mountain Range. He reached Qingling’s secluded residence and met an incarnation of the Tribulation Transcendence expert.

• Lin Xuan took down Venerable Qingling’s notice after deciding his Ghost Demon Luo Flower was worth exchanging for a favor.
• The cultivators mocked Lin Xuan, so he revealed Spirit Division Stage spiritual pressure and silenced them before leaving Tree Immortal City.
• Lin Xuan activated the jade disk and learned to travel to Tianxiang Mountain Range in Qi Kingdom, Tianhe Prefecture within one month.
• Lin Xuan found the Tianxiang Mountain Range and was led into the valley by Qingling’s maidservant after confirming he possessed the flower.
• Lin Xuan entered a thatched cottage, recognized the old man inside as Venerable Qingling’s incarnation, and paid his respects.

Lin Xuan traded the Ghost Demon Luo Flower to Venerable Qingling for a promise he could claim at Wangkong Mountain. He then headed back toward Cloud Hidden Sect, but Hanhai City's Teleportation Array could not take him directly to Tianshuang Prefecture.

• Lin Xuan confirmed he had taken the Tree Immortal City notice and showed Venerable Qingling the Ghost Demon Luo Flower.
• Venerable Qingling verified that the flower was over ten thousand years old and offered Lin Xuan a reward, but Lin Xuan requested a promise instead.
• Venerable Qingling gave Lin Xuan a Command Token that would let him visit Wangkong Mountain and make a request within his power.
• Lin Xuan left the Tianxiang Mountain Range and traveled east to Hanhai City, intending to return to Cloud Hidden Sect.
• At Hanhai City's Teleportation Array, Lin Xuan learned it could not reach Chu State in Tianshuang Prefecture, so he asked to travel to the nearest destination.

After returning from the Demon World, Lin Xuan found the Cloud Hidden Sect under attack and its headquarters devastated. He rescued Su Ru, Chang Hu, and the other disciples from defeat, revealing himself as the sect’s legendary Golden Core Peak Master.

• Lin Xuan returned to Chu State and sensed that foreign enemies were attacking the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• He found the sect’s mountain gate ruined, its protective array destroyed, and many disciples dead.
• Lin Xuan reached a valley where Su Ru, Chang Hu, and other Cloud Hidden Sect disciples were fighting black-robed Nascent Soul cultivators.
• When an enemy was about to kill a wounded disciple, Lin Xuan struck with a cold snort that overwhelmed the black-robed cultivators.
• Chang Hu and Su Ru recognized Lin Xuan as their Peak Master, and the other disciples realized that the legendary sect figure had arrived.

Lin Xuan learned that Tianjue Sect was behind the assault on Cloud Hidden Sect and rushed to aid his fellow disciples. He killed a Yellow-robed Elder during a battle against three attackers, while Li Hongxiu remained under siege.

• Lin Xuan told the gathered Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators to join the fight and flew toward the main altar's depths.
• Lin Xuan killed nearly a hundred black-robed invaders and used soul searching on their surviving leader, discovering they belonged to Tianjue Sect.
• Lin Xuan recognized the attackers' reputation and flew toward a fierce battle between peak Dongxuan Realm cultivators.
• Lin Xuan found Li Hongxiu besieged by three Tianjue Sect cultivators and attacked the Yellow-robed Elder with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan's Sword Qi shattered the elder's shield and killed him before his Nascent Soul could escape.

Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect, rescued Li Hongxiu from Tianjue Sect elders, and rushed to Wangchou Valley to aid the besieged Supreme Elders. After secretly observing the Silver-Eyed Maiden fight a Vulture-Faced Cultivator, he launched a surprise attack that pierced the enemy’s skull.

• Lin Xuan arrived and killed three Tianjue Sect elders who were fighting Li Hongxiu.
• Li Hongxiu told Lin Xuan that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s two Supreme Elders were surrounded at Wangchou Valley.
• Lin Xuan flew to Wangchou Valley and found the youth surnamed Long unconscious while the Silver-Eyed Maiden fought a Vulture-Faced Cultivator.
• Lin Xuan concealed himself, confirmed that the Silver-Eyed Maiden had a trace of Demon Race bloodline, and watched the two Spirit Division cultivators fight to a stalemate.
• Lin Xuan secretly struck the Vulture-Faced Cultivator with a black streak of light that pierced his skull.

Lin Xuan rescued the Silver-Eyed Maiden and defeated the invaders threatening Cloud Hidden Sect. He identified Junior Brother Long's poison as Asura Bone Poison and began trying to treat it with pills and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.

• Lin Xuan used a follow-up spell to capture the Vulture-Faced Cultivator's Nascent Soul and sealed it in a Jade Box.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden recognized Lin Xuan, and he explained that their sect's crisis and Senior Brother Long's condition took priority.
• Lin Xuan and the Silver-Eyed Maiden split up and exterminated the remaining invaders.
• Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to discover a skull-shaped wisp of black qi between Junior Brother Long's brows and identified it as Asura Bone Poison.
• Lin Xuan gave Junior Brother Long two pills that could mitigate the poison, then prepared to use the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to fight it with poison.

Lin Xuan learned that the Silver-Eyed Maiden had triggered the conflict with the Tianjue Sect by killing Old Monster Tianjue’s son after he molested her. He warned her that the battle had turned the matter into a war between sects, leaving the Cloud Hidden Sect facing possible destruction.

• Lin Xuan successfully removed the poison from the youth surnamed Long, who woke and learned that Lin Xuan had saved him.
• The youth surnamed Long was astonished to discover how much Lin Xuan’s cultivation had advanced, while Lin Xuan asked what had caused the conflict with the Tianjue Sect.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden explained that Old Monster Tianjue’s son had harassed her in an Immortal City, so she killed him and his attendants after revealing her cultivation.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden resolved to go to the Tianjue Sect alone, but Lin Xuan argued that the recent battle had made the conflict a war between the Cloud Hidden Sect and the Tianjue Sect.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden realized the Tianjue Sect was far stronger than the Cloud Hidden Sect and feared her actions would destroy the sect’s million-year lineage.

Lin Xuan proposed settling the Cloud Hidden Sect’s conflict with the Tianjue Sect through a duel in Star-Moon City, then offered to face the two Supreme Elders to prove he could defeat Old Monster Tianjue. The chapter left them heading to the sect’s sparring area, where Lin Xuan planned to fight them both at once.

• Lin Xuan told the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the youth surnamed Long that a duel in Star-Moon City could spare both sects the losses of a full conflict.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden and the youth surnamed Long explained that Star-Moon City enforced duel agreements absolutely, but feared Old Monster Tianjue would defeat any Cloud Hidden Sect challenger.
• Lin Xuan insisted he could defeat Old Monster Tianjue, though the two Supreme Elders doubted his confidence.
• Lin Xuan invited the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the youth surnamed Long to test his strength, and they agreed.
• Lin Xuan led them to a sparring area and proposed fighting both of them at once.

After defeating the Silver-Eyed Maiden and Long in a sparring match, Lin Xuan planned to challenge Old Monster Tianjue and demand rare materials and concessions from Tianjue Sect. As Tianjue Sect reeled from its failed attack on Cloud Hidden Sect, an unexpected visitor arrived with a card for Old Monster Tianjue.

• Lin Xuan easily defeated the Silver-Eyed Maiden and Long, convincing them he might be able to defeat Old Monster Tianjue.
• Lin Xuan asked the Silver-Eyed Maiden and Long to check a list of rare materials and arranged to demand the materials, protection for Cloud Hidden Sect, and a two-thousand-year deadline from Tianjue Sect if he won the duel.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden explained that the demand would force Tianjue Sect to spend its strength searching for materials, weakening it, while the threat of Liberation by Violence would pressure Old Monster Tianjue to comply.
• Lin Xuan kept Venerable Qingling's promise as a hidden safeguard, then settled into a cultivation cave in the Mingqing Illusion Realm to prepare for the duel.
• At Tianjue Sect's main altar, disciples demanded revenge for Elder Zhong's defeat, while the elders worried about the cost of attacking Cloud Hidden Sect.
• An unexpected visitor presented a card, and the sect master brought it to Old Monster Tianjue at the Cold Pool.

Old Monster Tianjue agreed to duel the Cloud Hidden Sect in Star-Moon City and vowed to destroy the sect if he won. As cultivators flocked to Star-Moon City for its once-in-nine-years auction, the city was already bustling a month before it began.

• The sect master warned Old Monster Tianjue that the Cloud Hidden Sect's duel demand and victory conditions seemed suspicious, but Tianjue dismissed his concerns.
• Old Monster Tianjue accepted the duel and declared that he would erase the Cloud Hidden Sect if his side won.
• The sect master withdrew after promising to obey Tianjue's order.
• The chapter described Bei Ming Prefecture's harsh climate and Star-Moon City's fame as a destination for duels, auctions, and sightings of Tribulation Transcendence Stage incarnations.
• With the major auction a month away, cultivators and important sect figures had already begun gathering in Star-Moon City.

Lin Xuan and the youth surnamed Long arrived at Star-Moon City ahead of the duel, where Long explained that a Tribulation Transcendence being remained there because of a mysterious Heavenly Demon. They secured lodgings for Spirit Division Stage cultivators, and Lin Xuan waited for news about the duel.

• Lin Xuan and the youth surnamed Long traveled toward Star-Moon City and discussed whether a Tribulation Transcendence senior truly guarded it.
• The youth surnamed Long explained that his late master had known Mystic Ice Master, one of Star-Moon City's three Supreme Elders, and that a Tribulation Transcendence being stayed there because of the Heavenly Demon.
• Lin Xuan and the youth surnamed Long reached Star-Moon City and admired its walls of Copper Essence and mystic iron.
• The city guards welcomed Lin Xuan and the youth surnamed Long, and the pair went to a residential area reserved for Spirit Division Stage cultivators.
• Lin Xuan chose a quiet pavilion, while the youth surnamed Long took the one beside it and promised to arrange matters concerning the duel.

Lin Xuan prepared for his duel with Old Monster Tianjue, which would decide Cloud Hidden Sect’s fate. He arrived at Star-Moon City’s Dharma Venerable Hall with the young man surnamed Long and two senior judges, then learned the match would take place in a sealed Spatial Rift.

• Lin Xuan rested for three days before the young man surnamed Long told him the duel had been arranged for two days later.
• The young man surnamed Long brought Lin Xuan to the Dharma Venerable Hall on the morning of the duel.
• Master Jingkong and Lu Yun greeted them and revealed they had come to judge the match after hearing that Lin Xuan had challenged Old Monster Tianjue.
• Master Jingkong led the group through the hall toward the duel site and explained that the arena was inside a sealed Spatial Rift.

Lin Xuan entered a reinforced Spatial Rift to duel Old Monster Tianjue, while four of Star-Moon City's great elders gathered to observe. Tianjue attacked first, and Lin Xuan narrowly blocked a hidden volley of poisoned needles with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

• Lin Xuan, Long, Jingkong, and Lu Yun entered the Spatial Rift, where Lin Xuan recognized the strengthening restrictions of the Origin-Returning Three Talents Array.
• Lu Yun advised Lin Xuan to inspect the terrain while they waited for Tianjue to arrive.
• Tianjue appeared with Madam Yu and Elder Hui, and the elders and Long withdrew as Lin Xuan and Tianjue prepared to fight.
• Tianjue attacked Lin Xuan with an eerie, forceful spell, and Lin Xuan evaded it using Nine Heavens Micro-Steps.
• Lin Xuan sensed danger and summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to deflect hundreds of concealed, poison-coated needles.

Lin Xuan fought Old Monster Tianjue, whose golden book revealed Confucian techniques, and gained the upper hand after the elder underestimated the power of his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. The sword broke through Tianjue’s Haoran Righteous Qi, but an ancient Battle Armor appeared and stopped the attack.

• Lin Xuan grazed Old Monster Tianjue with an Ink Spirit Drill after Tianjue used Spatial Displacement Technique to evade most of the strike.
• Old Monster Tianjue brought out a golden book, and Lin Xuan suspected that he practiced Confucian cultivation arts.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, while Old Monster Tianjue summoned a barrage of spears from his book.
• The spears shattered against Lin Xuan’s sword lights, which then tore through Tianjue’s protective Haoran Righteous Qi.
• Old Monster Tianjue’s ancient Battle Armor emerged and blocked the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword before it could pierce him.

Lin Xuan wounded Old Monster Tianjue with the Sea-Overturning Halberd, but Tianjue survived by splitting into countless real incarnations. Lin Xuan countered with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, yet Tianjue’s incarnations blocked it and prepared another attack.

• Lin Xuan used the Sea-Overturning Halberd’s crescent blade to collapse Old Monster Tianjue’s Spatial Rift and cut him in two.
• The watching cultivators were stunned, while Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and realized Tianjue’s severed body was not an illusion.
• Old Monster Tianjue’s body exploded and became hundreds upon thousands of tiny, genuine incarnations.
• Master Jingkong and Lu Yun recognized that Tianjue’s incarnation technique was unfamiliar, while the youth surnamed Long worried about Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sent myriad Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords against the incarnations, but their Judge’s Pens held the swords off.
• The tiny incarnations puffed out their cheeks and began firing beams of light at Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan countered Old Monster Tianjue’s powerful attack with the Black Tortoise True Spirit Inkstone after his Four Spirits were overwhelmed. His defense weakened the incoming pillars of light, but they still bore down on him as the watching cultivators marveled at his treasures.

• Lin Xuan poured his magic power into the Spirit-Devouring Sword and summoned the Four Spirits to clash with the pillar of light.
• The Old Crone worried that the duel might damage the arena, and Master Jingkong assured her the reinforced space was stable.
• Elder Hui warned that Lin Xuan was at a disadvantage, and Old Monster Tianjue’s attack shattered the Four Spirits and closed in on Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Black Tortoise True Spirit Inkstone and transformed its mist into sword-bearing runes that weakened the pillars of light.
• The inkstone’s shield burst after reducing the attack to half its strength, and the watching cultivators questioned where Lin Xuan had obtained his treasures.