Recaps

Lin Xuan refused to surrender Cloud Hidden Sect’s Spirit Eye Lake and went alone to attack Sword Lake Palace. After breaking through its Ten Thousand Sword Map, he reached the lake and began killing the sect’s fleeing elders, leaving the battle still underway.

• Lin Xuan learned that Sword Lake Palace wanted Cloud Hidden Sect’s Spirit Eye Lake and resolved to defend both the treasure and his sect’s headquarters.
• Sword Lake Palace dismissed warnings about Lin Xuan and attacked Cloud Hidden Sect, prompting Lin Xuan to leave secretly and infiltrate its headquarters alone.
• Lin Xuan broke through Sword Lake Palace’s restrictions and killed his way past its disciples, including the cultivators guarding the Heaven Origin Five Elements Sword Array.
• Sword Lake Palace’s Sect Master activated the Ten Thousand Sword Map, trapping Lin Xuan among its stone swords and Five Elements attacks.
• Lin Xuan used the Vermilion Bird Ring and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to defeat the formation, seize the weakened Ten Thousand Sword Map, and reach Spirit Eye Lake.
• Lin Xuan pursued Sword Lake Palace’s fleeing elders and killed Wu, the Old Crone, and a pale-gold-faced cultivator.

Lin Xuan defeated Sword Lake Palace’s Supreme Elders and brought the sect under Cloud Hidden Sect’s protection. He then fused two scrolls into the Immortal Sword Map, strengthened his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword with Sword Souls, and prepared to meet several powerful visitors.

• Lin Xuan killed the Palace-Robed Woman and defeated the Green-Robed Man after he drained Spirit Eye Lake and unleashed his Sword Domain.
• Sword Lake Palace’s master asked Lin Xuan for mercy, then offered to make the sect an affiliate of Cloud Hidden Sect, and Lin Xuan gave the elders a day to decide.
• Sword Lake Palace agreed to affiliate with Cloud Hidden Sect, and Lin Xuan returned home to recover and study the Ten Thousand Sword Map.
• Lin Xuan fused the Ten Thousand Sword Map with the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll, creating the Xiantian Spirit Treasure called the Immortal Sword Map.
• Lin Xuan comprehended the Immortal Sword Map’s Treasure-Controlling Formula and began sealing the Sword Souls from the Green-Robed Man’s collection into his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Lin Xuan and his Second Nascent Soul merged the sealed Sword Souls, completing the process after three months as the mountain around his cave collapsed.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long arrived, and Lin Xuan chose to meet the approaching Tribulation Transcendence cultivators rather than activate the Sect Protection Array.

Lin Xuan defeated Old Demon Xue, strengthened his treasures, and sought the Law of Power in the Flying Cloud Wasteland. His confrontation with Taowu escalated into a desperate battle against revived Primordial King Beasts, leaving Lin Xuan wounded as more enemies closed in.

• Lin Xuan defeated Old Demon Xue by breaking the Five Elements Heaven-Extinguishing Great Array, then killed him and returned to Cloud Hidden Sect as news of the victory spread.
• Lin Xuan refined the Outer-Domain Heavenly Gold into the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and began mastering the Ink Moon Witch Palace, whose awakening destroyed his cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan completed the Ink Moon Witch Palace’s refinement in the Flying Cloud Wasteland and comprehended the Law of Power while fighting savage Ancient Beasts.
• Lin Xuan reached a battle between a Primordial King Beast and Taowu, seized the King Beast’s Inner Core, and challenged Taowu.
• Lin Xuan fought Taowu with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and Immortal Sword Map, but Taowu trapped him with the Law of Time and prepared to kill him.
• The Ink Moon Witch Palace awakened, broke Taowu’s time restraint, and protected Lin Xuan as Taowu summoned the souls of nearly a hundred Primordial King Beasts.
• Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye, the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and the Immortal Sword Map against Taowu’s avatars and beast souls, but struggled to control his treasures as their attacks overwhelmed him.
• Lin Xuan struck back with the law of force and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, then used the Spirit Formula Cauldron and Nine Stars in a Row to kill ambushing Ancient Beasts as more enemies rushed toward him.

Lin Xuan killed Taowu, found a possible route to the Underworld, rescued Ye Ying and Zheng Xuan, and sealed a passage used by the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons. Back at the Cloud Hidden Sect, he helped the Silver-Eyed Maiden survive her Heavenly Tribulation before setting out to search for Yue'er.

• Lin Xuan killed Taowu after its avatar technique failed, then gave its Demon Core to Little Fur Ball in exchange for promises of obedience.
• Lin Xuan found the Talisman Ghost Sect at the Ye Family’s abandoned homeland, discovered a Space Node leading toward the Underworld, and made the sect a subordinate force of the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan rescued the Ye Family from the demonized Young Sect Master of the Ancient Sword Sect and learned that Ye Ying and Zheng Xuan had both reached the Dongxuan level.
• Lin Xuan uncovered and sealed an interface passage to the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons, while the Devil Lords learned that the Blue Star Sea had been subdued and planned to pursue its treasure.
• Lin Xuan took Ye Ying and Zheng Xuan toward the Cloud Hidden Sect, where he recognized that the Silver-Eyed Maiden was undergoing Heavenly Tribulation.
• Lin Xuan arrived as the Silver-Eyed Maiden faced the final bolts, healed her, and lent her the Spirit Formula Cauldron.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden used Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix to weaken the merged Dragon-Shaped Heavenly Tribulation until it dissipated.