Recaps

Lin Xuan defeated the Corpse King, advanced his cultivation, and refined the Mystic Fire Divine Pearl into a heart-connected magic treasure. He then traveled to Heavenly Eye Mountain seeking the final ingredient for a Spirit-Condensing Pill, as the sect faced pressure to choose between the righteous and demonic factions.

• Zhang Yi and Chen Yu found the Corpse King and fought it, but Zhang Yi destroyed his Golden Core to keep it from being devoured before fleeing with the unconscious Chen Yu.
• Lin Xuan lured the weakened Corpse King into the Extreme Yin Evil Spirit Array, destroyed its Corpse Bead with Yue'er, captured its essence soul, and took its husk and the unconscious cultivators' belongings.
• Perfected Master Tongyu explained to the One-Eyed Elder how he had exposed traitors and concealed Spirit Herb Mountain's strength, while Lin Xuan refined zombies and cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lin Xuan selected his main treasures, gave Yue'er the Strange Dagger, and risked his essence energy to refine the Mystic Fire Divine Pearl into a heart-connected magic treasure.
• Lin Xuan searched You Province for the Spirit-Condensing Pill's ingredients and traveled to Heavenly Eye Mountain after learning it had once sold the Myriad Phenomenon Herb.
• Lin Xuan registered as an outsider at the Immortal Guest House and received a Jade Token to enter Heavenly Eye Mountain, though he sensed an unexplained omen.
• True Person Withered Wood and the Heavenly Eye Sect elders debated whether to side with the righteous or demonic factions, then learned that the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil's disciple was coming to the mountain.
• Ning Tianyu and the elders agreed to protect the visiting disciple and identify him by his yin spiritual power and Mystic Demon True Scripture aura.

Lin Xuan entered Heavenly Eye Mountain’s contest to reach its trade fair, defeated the other cultivators in his group, and won a place alongside Tian Xiaojian. At the fair, the Red-Haired Ancestor offered to take Lin Xuan as a disciple, and Lin Xuan claimed he already belonged to Azure Cloud Mountain.

• Lin Xuan traveled with Tian Xiaojian to Heavenly Eye Mountain, where Tian Xiaojian revealed that his ancestor’s forces planned to weaken the Cloud Sea Splitting Light Array by destroying the mountain’s Spirit Vein.
• Yellow Crane Loose Immortal directed Lin Xuan to the higher-level trade fair, where Zhou Hai announced a contest for three places based on gathering Wood Spirit Fruits.
• Lin Xuan killed Hu Fan and the Luo Brothers, took their treasures, and gathered the Wood Spirit Fruits from his group’s area.
• Lin Xuan, Tian Xiaojian, and Xu Han won places at the trade fair, where Lin Xuan bought True Person Withered Wood’s Thousand-Mile Instantaneous talisman but did not find the Myriad Phenomenon Herb.
• The Red-Haired Ancestor arrived and announced that he would take a Foundation Establishment cultivator as a servant, then considered Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian as possible disciples.
• The Red-Haired Ancestor privately asked Lin Xuan to become his disciple, and Lin Xuan claimed that Azure Cloud Mountain’s Supreme Elder had already taken him as a disciple.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian destroyed the Heavenly Eye Sect’s Spirit Spring and escaped, while the resulting crisis drove the sect toward war. After years of cultivation, Lin Xuan condensed a Golden Core, but an intruder attacked Yue'er as he emerged.

• Xu Han accepted a servant position from the Red-Haired Ancestor, while Lin Xuan rejected the Ancestor’s offer and later agreed to Tian Xiaojian’s plan to raid Strange Herb Valley.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian infiltrated the valley, killed Elder Liu Yuzhou, and survived Duan San’s betrayal before destroying the Spirit Spring and taking the Myriad Phenomenon Herb.
• The Spirit Spring’s destruction weakened the Heavenly Eye Sect’s defenses, and Fu Biao rallied allied sects to attack Heavenly Eye Mountain.
• Lin Xuan escaped the mountain after killing Gu Feng, then returned to Spirit Herb Mountain and spent five years cultivating to the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Xuan left Spirit Herb Mountain and began condensing a Golden Core in a secluded mountain, while Yue'er used a talisman to conceal the site’s spiritual disturbance.
• Zhao Shouguang attacked Yue'er as she tried to keep him away from Lin Xuan, and their battle escalated when she summoned a Ghost Immortal remnant against his Buddhist statue.
• Lin Xuan formed and stabilized his Golden Core, then sensed that Yue'er was losing her fight and flew to help her.

After returning to Spirit Herb Mountain, Lin Xuan took a mission to aid the Ye family and became entangled in Tian Xiaojian’s search for Nether Cold Iron. A battle in the ancient mine scattered the group and brought Lin Xuan and Mo Mang together as they explored its ruins and approached a sealed stone door.

• Lin Xuan returned to Spirit Herb Mountain, refined the Mystic Fire Divine Pearl, and discovered that the Jade Pendant could unlock a jade slip containing the lost Battle Armor Technique.
• Lin Xuan met Perfected Master Tongyu and Xu Jinqing, learned they believed he had the Bitter Spirit Root, and received ancient treasures before setting out to help the Ye family.
• On Green Leaf Mountain, Lin Xuan stopped Liu Jian from killing Ye Ru and discovered that Tian Xiaojian was secretly seeking Nether Cold Iron for a sword.
• Lin Xuan joined Ye Qingcheng’s expedition under a false identity, and the Ye and Liu families used their combined map to locate the Ancient Relic Mine.
• Inside the mine, the group found a vast hoard of spirit stones and faced Mo Mang, a transformed demon python who killed Liu Yan before an ancient formation trapped them.
• Lin Xuan weakened the formation, but its purple vortex swallowed him, Mo Mang, and Tian Xiaojian, while Ye Qingcheng and Liu Junhao turned against each other outside.
• Lin Xuan and Mo Mang agreed to share the Immortal Mine’s treasures, explored its passages, divided rare materials, and found Xuanji the Rogue’s array-insight Jade Slip.
• Lin Xuan and Mo Mang reached a massive stone door whose inscription required blood from a Transformation Realm demon and a human cultivator above Core Condensation, and they prepared to test it.