Recaps

Lin Xuan cultivated secretly within Cloud Hidden Sect, advanced to mid-stage Dongxuan, and became Golden Core Peak's lineage master. His search for sect contribution led him into the Heavenly Corpse Sect's assembly, where he challenged Old Monster Gu's bid for the captive Zheng Xuan.

• Lin Xuan joined Golden Core Peak, helped Chang Hu, Jingxu, and Su Ru establish their foundations, and secured the Waste Pill Room post.
• Lin Xuan stole the stored waste pills under cover of a Corpse Demon's death and secretly cultivated in the Spirit Clear Mist Sea for centuries.
• Lin Xuan advanced to mid-stage Dongxuan, defeated Cloud Hidden Sect's challengers, and accepted Martial Uncle Long's offer to become Golden Core Peak's lineage master.
• Lin Xuan learned that access to Purple Heart Earth Fire required sect contribution and left to hunt Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators.
• Lin Xuan won a statue connected to the Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image at Yuanwu City's auction and escaped with it after fighting erupted.
• Lin Xuan rescued Zhang Delei from the Zhong Brothers and used his invitation to enter the Heavenly Corpse Sect's Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly.
• Lin Xuan reconsidered his hunting plans after Old Devil Gu appeared and acquired two materials during the assembly.
• Lin Xuan recognized Zheng Xuan among the captives offered for sale and bid to save her, but Old Monster Gu raised the price to forty million mid-grade Spirit Stones.

After rescuing Zheng Xuan, Lin Xuan killed the three Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators sent to capture them, but Old Devil Gu pursued him to Tianfeng City. Lin Xuan raided the city’s treasury and faced Old Devil Gu in battle, which continued as both unleashed their strongest forces.

• Lin Xuan rescued Zheng Xuan from the Heavenly Mystery Mansion, learned how she had reached the Spirit World, and left the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly with her.
• Old Devil Gu sent three Dongxuan Realm disciples after Lin Xuan, who killed them after destroying their Teleportation Array and escaped with a Random Teleportation Talisman.
• Old Devil Gu pursued Lin Xuan across the wilderness for months, while Lin Xuan mastered the Heavenly Demon Infant Transformation Art and entered Tianfeng City in disguise.
• Old Devil Gu attacked Tianfeng City, but the Seven Elders trapped him in the Black Tortoise Seven Heroes Formation as Lin Xuan slipped away and raided the city’s treasury.
• The elders sacrificed themselves to unleash the formation’s final attack, but Old Devil Gu survived and confronted Lin Xuan, who froze him with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and struck with the Spirit-Devouring Sword.
• Old Devil Gu escaped the attack and wounded Lin Xuan, who countered with his treasures and Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image before Old Devil Gu summoned a Void Shadow.
• Lin Xuan released more than a hundred million Blood Fire Ants from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, and Old Devil Gu chose to keep fighting.

Lin Xuan defeated Old Devil Gu, avenged Zheng Xuan by confronting Fire Cloud Venerable, and survived the resulting tribulation. After taking Fire Cloud Venerable’s Spirit Stones, Lin Xuan traveled west with Zheng Xuan and discovered a battle between cultivators and a Demon Race expert.

• Lin Xuan annihilated Old Devil Gu’s Corpse Insects, killed him with his Jade Luo Bees and spirit beasts, then captured and destroyed his hidden Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan met Zheng Xuan in Yueluo City, reforged the Water Cloud Awl into the Thunder Fire Awl, and set out with her for Tianwu Mountain to confront Fire Cloud Venerable.
• Lin Xuan defeated the Fat and Thin Twin Devils, captured the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect, and found Fire Cloud Venerable preparing to undergo a Tribulation of Vital Energy.
• Lin Xuan endured Fire Cloud Venerable’s tribulation through successive waves of fire, survived its final attack, and emerged strengthened after the Blue Star Sea and Five Dragon Seal absorbed the tribulation fire.
• Lin Xuan subdued Murong Shuo and Situ, searched Murong Shuo’s soul, and forced Situ to lead him and Zheng Xuan to Fire Cloud Venerable’s treasure vault.
• Lin Xuan opened the vault and took its twenty chests of Top-grade Spirit Stones, then left Tianwu Mountain with Zheng Xuan.
• Lin Xuan traveled west into Yu Kingdom to avoid attention and, after finding a spiritual land, concealed his Spirit Boat near a battle between five Lihe cultivators and a late-stage Lihe Demon Race expert.

Lin Xuan rescued the Ye Family, took Ye Ying as his disciple, and strengthened his abilities before returning to the Cloud Hidden Sect. He entered the auction for the Purple Heart Earth Fire and used five Soul Beads to secure enough contribution points to keep bidding.

• Lin Xuan defeated Wu and saved the Ye Family, then established a cultivation cave at Bamboo Forest Snow Mountain.
• Lin Xuan advanced his Demon Core, studied the Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse, and used a Second Primordial Spirit to control the Silver-Winged Corpse King.
• Lin Xuan rejected Ye Hongxue’s offer of Ye Ying as a concubine and accepted Ye Ying as his disciple after discovering her Wind Spirit Body.
• Lin Xuan forced the Mu Family to relinquish its claim to Hundred Treasures Hall and gave Ye Hongxue compensation for the Ye Family.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect, punished Shi Yu and the yellow-robed elder for attacking Golden Core Peak’s disciples, and discovered the True Explanation of Hundred Spirits.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the Purple Heart Earth Fire gathering, met Lin Yujiao, and faced Heavenly Pivot Sword Venerable before the exchange ceremony began.
• Lin Xuan watched the auction and waited as the Purple Heart Earth Fire’s price climbed past fifty million contribution points.
• Lin Xuan bid fifty-four million contribution points and revealed five Soul Beads, which the auctioneer valued at ten million contribution points each.