Recaps

Lin Xuan fought Old Monster Tianjue, whose countless incarnations regenerated and resisted his attacks with a golden body. Lin Xuan suspected Tianjue’s true soul was hidden in one incarnation, but Tianjue shifted to a sword formation that surrounded him from every direction.

• Lin Xuan destroyed six of Old Monster Tianjue’s incarnations with Ink Spirit Drills, but six replacements appeared immediately.
• Lin Xuan used the Immortal Sword Lotus and Sword into Silk Technique, but Tianjue’s incarnations hardened their bodies and blocked the sword threads.
• Lin Xuan struck with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and destroyed about one-third of the incarnations, only for thousands more to appear.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that Tianjue’s regeneration must have a cost and that his Nascent Soul and soul were hidden in one incarnation.
• Old Monster Tianjue sent Immortal Swords toward Lin Xuan from every direction, and Lin Xuan recognized the attack as a sword formation.

Lin Xuan faced Old Monster Tianjue’s undying body and massive sword array, whose linked incarnations could coordinate without flaw. After a test revealed the array’s immense power and its attacks sealed off every escape route, Lin Xuan began preparing to counter it with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

• Lin Xuan recognized that Old Monster Tianjue’s hundreds of linked incarnations formed a sword array without the coordination weaknesses of ordinary formations.
• The gray-robed cultivator and Lu Yun believed Old Monster Tianjue had the advantage, while the youth surnamed Long hoped Lin Xuan still had a hidden move.
• Old Monster Tianjue urged Lin Xuan to admit defeat, but Lin Xuan refused and reasoned that the undying body and sword array must consume considerable power.
• Old Monster Tianjue activated the array, and Lin Xuan’s jade-green curved blade shattered when it struck one golden sphere.
• Old Monster Tianjue sent the golden spheres to surround Lin Xuan from every direction, and Lin Xuan began directing incantations toward the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

Lin Xuan unleashed successive treasures and techniques against Old Monster Tianjue’s sword formation, briefly weakening it but failing to overcome its power. Old Monster Tianjue restored the formation’s advantage and resolved to kill Lin Xuan before he could grow stronger.

• Lin Xuan transformed the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword’s light into Fire Dragons and sent them against Old Monster Tianjue’s Mysterious Sword Array, but the array began to overwhelm them.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image and used the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll to send Golden Crows and enlarged mountain peaks crashing into the spirit cloud, briefly shifting the battle’s momentum.
• Old Monster Tianjue intensified the sword formation and claimed he had shown only thirty percent of its power, leaving Lin Xuan at a disadvantage again.
• Lin Xuan sent an ancient Long Spear and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire into the spirit cloud, but neither could reverse the battle.
• Old Monster Tianjue judged Lin Xuan’s strength and many treasures a future threat and resolved to kill him before he grew stronger.

Lin Xuan unleashed nearly all his usable treasures to withstand Old Monster Tianjue’s full-powered sword formation. The two exhausted their options and reached a stalemate.

• Old Monster Tianjue unleashed the full power of his sword formation, making the space tremble with its spiritual pressure.
• Master Jingkong reassured the judges that the reinforced space could withstand the battle unless it reached the Tribulation Transcendence level.
• Lin Xuan sent his Thunder Fire Awl into the spirit cloud and summoned a five-headed monster with the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation.
• Lin Xuan brought out nearly all his usable treasures, astonishing the watching cultivators with the number and power he controlled.
• Master Jingkong said Lin Xuan’s divine sense was likely stronger than that of cultivators of the same rank.
• Lin Xuan’s treasures blocked Old Monster Tianjue’s sword formation, and both combatants reached a stalemate.

Lin Xuan and Old Monster Tianjue remained locked in a contest of magic power, with the spectators expecting Lin Xuan to lose. Lin Xuan’s purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk let him outlast Tianjue, who was left desperately sustaining his sword formation with no way to retreat.

• Master Jingkong and the youth surnamed Long believed Lin Xuan was at a disadvantage because his magic power was shallower and his treasures consumed more of it.
• As Lin Xuan’s magic power dwindled, he drank a drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and quickly restored his strength.
• Old Monster Tianjue revealed his own bottle of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, but Lin Xuan stayed calm and continued the stalemate.
• After more than a day and night, Tianjue’s bottle ran dry while Lin Xuan continued recovering by drinking the purified spirit milk.
• Tianjue realized he could not match Lin Xuan’s recovery and kept the sword formation in place, fearing Lin Xuan would destroy him if he withdrew it.

As Lin Xuan’s battle with Old Monster Tianjue neared its end, the spectators realized that Lin Xuan’s seemingly inexhaustible Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk might actually be Nine Heavens Immortal Dew. After learning Lin Xuan had only recently reached the Spirit Division Stage, the Four Elders of Star-Moon City marveled at his potential, while the Youth surnamed Long resolved to secure his loyalty to the Cloud Hidden Sect.

• The Four Elders of Star-Moon City watched Lin Xuan withstand Old Monster Tianjue’s attacks and assumed the old monster’s sword formation had sealed Lin Xuan’s eventual defeat.
• Lin Xuan’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk shifted the battle’s outcome, and Master Jingkong asked the Youth surnamed Long about it.
• Lu Yun and the white-haired old woman suggested that Lin Xuan might be using the legendary Nine Heavens Immortal Dew, which could restore magic power and heal injuries.
• The Youth surnamed Long said he knew little about Lin Xuan, who had entered the Cloud Hidden Sect a thousand years earlier and only recently advanced to the Spirit Division Stage.
• The Four Elders of Star-Moon City expressed amazement at Lin Xuan’s strength and predicted that his arrival could make the Cloud Hidden Sect a first-rate sect.
• The Youth surnamed Long decided he and his senior sister should do whatever it took to keep Lin Xuan with the Cloud Hidden Sect.

Old Monster Tianjue made one last attempt to escape defeat, but Lin Xuan’s spirit-cloud storm swallowed him and left him badly injured. Old Monster Tianjue survived by sacrificing both arms and one leg, and Lin Xuan narrowly avoided his counterattack.

• Old Monster Tianjue, nearly depleted and unwilling to lose, withdrew his magic power and retreated to stake everything on one final gamble.
• Lin Xuan drove the crimson spirit cloud after Old Monster Tianjue, and its storm engulfed him.
• A Black Hole appeared before Lin Xuan, and a bluish-gray giant claw struck through his Black Tortoise True Spirit Inkstone and Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield before the True Spirit Armor stopped it.
• Old Monster Tianjue escaped the storm by using the Substitute Tribulation Transcendence Art and sacrificing both arms and one leg.

Lin Xuan defeated Old Monster Tianjue after countering his Sky Blade Snail Insects with the Hundred Spirit Bell. His victory saved the Cloud Hidden Sect, and Master Jingkong congratulated Long on turning danger into safety.

• Old Monster Tianjue released a swarm of Sky Blade Snail Insects in a final attempt to defeat Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan used the Hundred Spirit Bell to repel and kill the insects.
• Old Monster Tianjue admitted defeat, regretting that he had challenged Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan reflected that Tianjue had been stronger and that he would likely lose if they fought again.
• Long rejoiced at Lin Xuan's victory, and Master Jingkong congratulated him on the Cloud Hidden Sect's good fortune.

Lin Xuan defeated Old Monster Tianjue but refused the offer to become Cloud Hidden Sect’s Grand Elder, choosing instead to focus on cultivation. As news of the victory spread through the Nailong Realm, the Four Elders of Star-Moon City confirmed it, leaving cultivators stunned.

• Old Monster Tianjue silently resolved to seek revenge, while Lin Xuan watched him with an unreadable smile.
• On their way back to the Guest Pavilion, the Youth surnamed Long offered Lin Xuan the position of Grand Elder, but Lin Xuan refused and asked to remain an ordinary Supreme Elder.
• The Youth surnamed Long questioned Lin Xuan about his background, but Lin Xuan only admitted that he was an Ascended Cultivator and avoided further details.
• The Youth surnamed Long sent a Flying Sword Message to his senior sister, while Lin Xuan bathed and slept to recover from the battle.
• News that Lin Xuan had defeated Old Monster Tianjue spread through Star-Moon City, but many cultivators doubted it, especially after hearing Lin Xuan had only recently entered the Spirit Division Stage.
• The Four Elders of Star-Moon City confirmed Old Monster Tianjue’s defeat, leaving the cultivators astonished.

News that Lin Xuan defeated Old Monster Tianjue spread throughout the Nailong Realm, making Lin Xuan and the Cloud Hidden Sect famous. The day before Star-Moon City's auction, Master Jingkong arrived to summon Lin Xuan on behalf of an unnamed senior, and Lin Xuan agreed to go after leaving a message for his senior brother.

• Reports of Old Monster Tianjue's defeat spread across the Nailong Realm, and his silence led cultivators to believe the news was true.
• Lin Xuan became famous, and the Cloud Hidden Sect attracted many prospective disciples as a result.
• Lin Xuan stayed in seclusion until Master Jingkong came to his pavilion the day before the Star-Moon City auction.
• Jingkong told Lin Xuan that an unnamed senior had summoned him but did not know the reason.
• Lin Xuan decided to go, suspecting the summons might bring an opportunity, and asked to leave a message for his senior brother.

Lin Xuan accompanied Jingkong to meet a Tribulation Transcendence senior, traveling from Star-Moon City through a hidden Teleportation Array to the secluded island residence of the True Lord of the North Sea. They reached a pavilion suspended above the island, where Jingkong said the senior was waiting.

• Lin Xuan found that Senior Brother Long was away, then sent a Sound Transmission Talisman before leaving with Jingkong in a Beast Carriage.
• After traveling north for about four hours, Lin Xuan and Jingkong reached a modest mountain range and entered a concealed cave.
• Jingkong activated a complex Teleportation Array with top-grade Spirit Stones and a Jade Talisman, transporting them to a desolate island in the sea.
• Lin Xuan learned that the nearby great island was the secluded residence of the True Lord of the North Sea.
• Jingkong showed a Command Token to the island's spear-bearing guards, and they let him and Lin Xuan pass.
• Jingkong led Lin Xuan through the island's ornate grounds to a pavilion suspended in midair, where he said the senior was waiting.

Lin Xuan met True Lord of the North Sea, who summoned him to discuss a transaction after hearing of his victory over Tianjue. The chapter ended with True Lord asking Lin Xuan to reveal the item that had replenished his magic power, and Lin Xuan reluctantly agreeing.

• Jingkong led Lin Xuan into the hall, where he met True Lord of the North Sea seated on a Cold Jade Bed.
• True Lord of the North Sea dismissed Jingkong and questioned Lin Xuan about his strength and victory over Tianjue.
• True Lord of the North Sea told Lin Xuan that he wanted to make a transaction with him.
• True Lord of the North Sea asked Lin Xuan to show him the item that had replenished his magic power, and Lin Xuan agreed despite his reluctance.

True Lord of the North Sea examined Lin Xuan’s jade bottle and identified its contents as inferior-grade Taixu Spirit Milk, a rare treasure that could restore magic power. He put the bottle away and offered to exchange for it, insisting he would not simply take a junior’s possession.

• Lin Xuan presented the jade bottle he had used to replenish his magic power during his battle with Tianjue.
• True Lord of the North Sea inspected the bottle and identified the contents as inferior-grade Taixu Spirit Milk.
• True Lord of the North Sea explained how Taixu Spirit Milk compared with Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Nine Heavens Immortal Dew.
• Lin Xuan said the bottle was all he had, aside from the drops he had already used.
• True Lord of the North Sea put the bottle away and offered to exchange for it, while Lin Xuan pretended to feel dejected.

Lin Xuan negotiated with True Lord of the North Sea to trade Taixu Spirit Milk for rare materials needed to refine the other attributes of the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. True Lord of the North Sea agreed to seek the materials at a gathering of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, and Lin Xuan asked to trade for Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk as well.

• True Lord of the North Sea invited Lin Xuan to name his price for the Taixu Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan gave True Lord of the North Sea a Jade Slip listing rare materials he wanted in exchange.
• True Lord of the North Sea challenged Lin Xuan's request, and Lin argued that the Taixu Spirit Milk's rarity and life-saving value justified it.
• True Lord of the North Sea agreed to the trade and offered to gather the listed materials at a small trade fair for Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
• Lin Xuan asked to exchange for Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, surprising True Lord of the North Sea.

Lin Xuan traded Taixu Spirit Milk to the True Lord of the North Sea for Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and materials, secretly gaining a major advantage. After returning to Star-Moon City in disguise, he reunited with the worried Youth surnamed Long, who asked what had happened.

• Lin Xuan persuaded the True Lord of the North Sea to give him several bottles of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, which he planned to refine into Taixu Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan completed the exchange, then left the hall and met Master Jingkong, who accompanied him back toward Star-Moon City.
• Lin Xuan and Jingkong parted outside the city, and Lin Xuan changed his appearance before entering to avoid attention.
• Lin Xuan arrived at his rented residence and found the anxious Youth surnamed Long waiting for him.
• The Youth surnamed Long led Lin Xuan inside, put up a soundproof barrier, and asked whether the senior who summoned him had caused trouble.

Lin Xuan returned from Star-Moon City with the youth surnamed Long after declining to attend its grand auction and keeping a low profile. At the Cloud Hidden Mountain Range, thousands of Cloud Hidden Sect disciples welcomed him as a celebrated elder.

• The youth surnamed Long asked Lin Xuan about his meeting with True Lord of the North Sea, and Lin Xuan said they had exchanged things without revealing details.
• Lin Xuan considered attending the Star-Moon City auction but decided to stay in the VIP Building and meditate to avoid drawing attention.
• The youth surnamed Long attended the auction and acquired the treasures he needed, though he spent a great number of Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan and the youth surnamed Long left Star-Moon City quietly and traveled back to the Cloud Hidden Mountain Range.
• The youth surnamed Long sent a signal ahead, and more than ten thousand Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators gathered to welcome Lin Xuan as Elder Lin.

After defeating Old Monster Tianjue, Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect, where the Silver-Eyed Maiden thanked him and the sect celebrated his victory. In his new cultivation cave, he purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk into a silver liquid that seemed to be Taixu Spirit Milk, then went to the Library Pavilion to research it.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden knelt and kowtowed three times to thank Lin Xuan for saving Cloud Hidden Sect, and Lin Xuan affirmed his commitment to the sect.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden arranged a grand celebration, while Lin Xuan accepted a new cultivation cave in the Tomorrow Illusion Mirror and chose not to join the festivities.
• Lin Xuan purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk with the Blue Star Sea, producing a pale silver liquid that he suspected was Taixu Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan drank a drop of the purified liquid, endured its surge of magic power, and refined a hundred Ink Spirit Drills with the excess energy.
• Lin Xuan purified the remaining spirit milk, stored the resulting liquid together, and went to Cloud Hidden Sect's Library Pavilion to consult ancient records.

Lin Xuan confirmed that Taixu Spirit Milk was a superior form of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, then began fusing water-attribute materials into the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. After three days of refining the Black Water Asura Blade, he added another material to the cauldron.

• Lin Xuan consulted the Library Pavilion’s third-floor classics and confirmed that Taixu Spirit Milk and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk were the same substance, with Taixu Spirit Milk being higher quality.
• Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave and decided to refine the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword’s water-attribute component using the materials he had collected.
• Lin Xuan notified the other two Supreme Elders that he was entering seclusion, then prepared the water-attribute materials in the Cultivation Room.
• Lin Xuan placed the Black Water Asura Blade inside the Fierce Ghost Cauldron and refined it with Infant Fire for three days.
• The Black Water Asura Blade melted into liquid, and Lin Xuan poured a powdery substance from a Jade Box into the cauldron.

Lin Xuan reforged the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword first with water and fire attributes, then with lightning as well, making it a three-attribute treasure. After considering how to strengthen his Second Nascent Soul, he wondered whether he could separate it so it could cultivate independently.

• Lin Xuan spent three months reforging the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword with water and fire attributes, using a Lava Snow Lotus to mediate their opposing forces.
• True Lord of the North Sea delivered the agreed treasures, while the Tianjue Sect sent roughly one-third of the materials Lin Xuan had demanded.
• Lin Xuan gathered enough materials and a Thunder Roc's Demon Core and Spirit Bone to add the lightning attribute to the sword, completing the reforging in about a month.
• Lin Xuan considered how to strengthen his early Dongxuan Second Nascent Soul and wondered if he could separate it to cultivate on its own.

Lin Xuan studied incarnation techniques and learned how an Internal Incarnation could let his Second Nascent Soul cultivate independently without weakening his true body. The method required an exceptionally rare spirit grass or flower, leaving its cultivation difficult even for someone with Lin Xuan’s advantages.

• Lin Xuan decided he could give his Second Nascent Soul a separate body so it could cultivate independently and serve as a safeguard for his life.
• Lin Xuan studied an emerald-green Jade Slip for several hours and learned about different incarnation techniques.
• Lin Xuan learned that an External Incarnation could use a seized cultivator’s body but would separate the Second Nascent Soul from his true body and remove its magic-power boost.
• Lin Xuan learned that an Internal Incarnation used a spirit grass or wondrous flower as its body, allowing it to be withdrawn into the dantian without weakening the true body.
• Lin Xuan learned that Internal Incarnations required a Nascent Soul and that suitable spirit grasses and flowers were exceedingly rare.

Lin Xuan searched Cloud Hidden Sect’s ancient records for a suitable spirit body for his Second Nascent Soul’s Internal Incarnation but found no useful lead. After meeting the Silver-Eyed Maiden, he explained his problem, and she said there might still be a way to solve it.

• Lin Xuan decided to pursue an Internal Incarnation and searched the Library Pavilion for records about suitable spirit bodies.
• After three months of reading, Lin Xuan found only fragmentary accounts of rare possession objects, including the vanished Seven-Orifice Vermilion Fruit.
• Lin Xuan met the Silver-Eyed Maiden at the Library Pavilion, and she invited him to her cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan told the Silver-Eyed Maiden about his Second Nascent Soul and his search for a suitable spirit body.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden said there were still ways for Lin Xuan to cultivate an Internal Incarnation.

Lin Xuan learned from the Silver-Eyed Maiden that the Ice Sea Realm was a place where spirit flowers and rare trees were unusually likely to gain sentience, making it a promising destination for cultivating an incarnation. After obtaining directions to the inter-boundary teleportation array, he left Cloud Hidden Mountain to travel there.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden told Lin Xuan that cultivators seeking an Internal Incarnation often went to the Ice Sea Realm because its plants were unusually likely to gain sentience.
• She explained that a super teleportation array could take Lin Xuan to another realm and offered to have the Cloud Hidden Sect pay the enormous cost, but he declined.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden gave Lin Xuan a Jade Slip with the teleportation array's location, and he said he intended to leave soon to advance his incarnation's cultivation.
• Half a month later, Lin Xuan flew south from Cloud Hidden Mountain, and news spread that the Cloud Hidden Sect's Supreme Elder had gone roaming.
• With Star-Moon City standing guarantee, the Tianjue Sect continued searching for heavenly materials and earthly treasures to repay its debt.

Lin Xuan found the Cross-boundary Teleportation Array jointly operated by the ten greatest sects of the Nailong Realm and arranged passage to another realm. After paying the required price, he stepped into the array and vanished.

• A cowherd boy glimpsed Lin Xuan’s Startling Rainbow over a small town, but it disappeared before he could be sure of what he had seen.
• Lin Xuan entered a hidden palace complex through layered restrictions and met cultivators from the ten great sects guarding the teleportation array.
• Qin Song of the Huayi Sect recognized Lin Xuan and agreed to arrange his teleportation to another realm.
• Lin Xuan paid the agreed price, and Qin Song activated the prepared array, enveloping Lin Xuan in azure light and sending him away.

A group of Human Race cultivators searched the Ice Plain for snow foxes until a Demon Race member at the Transformation Late Stage ambushed them. As the demon began slaughtering the group, Brother Qiu revealed that he had brought a Combination Puppet and threw two puppets to his companions.

• Brother Qiu, Fellow Daoist Chu, and Fairy Min led their disciples across the ice plain in search of a snow fox, despite gaining no clues after several days.
• A powerful attack nearly struck Brother Qiu, who escaped as it destroyed a mountain peak.
• A barefoot Demon Race member at the Transformation Late Stage appeared and killed the Core Condensation cultivators with a strange wind.
• Brother Qiu said he could not defeat the demon but would use his Combination Puppet, then threw two puppets toward his companions.

Lin Xuan emerged from a spatial rift onto the Cold Soul Ice Plain and accidentally killed a fleeing Demon Race cultivator with a casual strike. He forced the three cultivators inside a giant puppet to come out and prepared to question them about the Ice Sea Realm.

• Three cultivators combined their puppets into a Giant Ape-shaped puppet and fought a Demon Cultivator to a standstill.
• A spatial crack opened nearby, and a lightning ball appeared before Lin Xuan emerged from it.
• The Demon Cultivator fled in fear, and Lin Xuan unconsciously struck him down with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan examined the giant puppet and ordered the three cultivators controlling it to come out.
• The three cultivators left the puppet, while Lin Xuan welcomed the chance to learn about the plane.