Recaps

Lin Xuan escaped the Kui Yin Mountain Range, learned that Yinhun had overrun much of You Province, and strengthened the Beast Soul Banner while searching the occupied region for resources. The arc ended with Lin Xuan confronting a childlike figure released from a jade box after it killed the cultivators who had opened a ghostly carriage.

• Lin Xuan met Hundred Poisons Divine Lord in a hidden cave, agreed to avenge him by killing Old Ancestor Hun Yuan when strong enough, and received an ancient secret-art fragment and a route to a teleportation array.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Heavenly Azure Tribe, tempered his Spirit Root, advanced to the middle stage of Core Condensation, and repaired the ancient array in Cangming Mountain.
• Peacock Fairy forced her way through the array with Lin Xuan, then abandoned him after they arrived in You Province, allowing him to flee toward Spirit Herb Mountain.
• Lin Xuan helped Luo Tianren and the Morning Sun Sect, learned that Yinhun had occupied a third of You Province after Guiluo City fell, and chose to search the fallen territory for materials.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er defeated a Yinhun squad and refined the Beast Soul Banner, enabling it to absorb fierce-ghost souls directly.
• Lin Xuan hid near a group of cultivators preparing to ambush a ghost convoy, then watched them destroy the carriage's restriction and divide its treasure.
• A childlike figure emerged from a jade box, killed the red-robed old man and the Ghost Path female cultivator with Yin Fire, and burned the disheveled-haired cultivator as the others fled.
• Lin Xuan took the disheveled-haired cultivator's Storage Bag and confronted the figure, which became wary when he claimed the great opportunity.

Lin Xuan escaped Ghost Emperor Haotian, defeated Sword Immortal Taibai, and reunited with Ouyang Qinxin. He agreed to refine a Nine Suns Heaven-Returning Pill for the gravely injured Taixu Master in exchange for a Saint Origin Token, then obtained a cauldron and the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Crystal.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er escaped Ghost Emperor Haotian and Peacock Fairy after destroying Haotian’s incarnation, then sought materials and found the Morning Sun Sect under attack.
• Lin Xuan saved the Morning Sun Sect and received a token and directions to Qingxiang Sect’s secret market from Luo Tianren.
• Lin Xuan intervened when Sword Immortal Taibai attacked Ouyang Qinxin, and he and Yue'er helped defeat Taibai and capture his Primordial Spirit.
• Ouyang Qinxin revealed Azure Cloud Mountain’s hidden branch altar and told Lin Xuan that Haotian’s yin energy was corroding Taixu Master’s Nascent Soul.
• Ouyang Qinxin asked Lin Xuan to refine a Nine Suns Heaven-Returning Pill, and Lin Xuan agreed after Taixu Master offered him a Saint Origin Token.
• Lin Xuan took the Purple Dragon Cauldron from Azure Cloud Mountain’s treasure chamber and received the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Crystal from Ouyang Qinxin, giving her Spirit Returning Dew in return.

Lin Xuan refined a powerful poisonous flame, uncovered Zhou Mian and Cao Yue’s connection to Blood Demon Venerable, and defeated Zhou Mian’s Devil Infant transformation. He returned to find the Branch Altar under attack, with Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin in danger.

• Lin Xuan purified a Nine Suns Heaven-Returning Pill, received the Purple Dragon Cauldron from Taixu Master, and left Five Finger Mountain.
• Lin Xuan rescued Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin from Spirit Herb Mountain’s corrupt Enforcement Envoys, revealed his Young Sect Master token, and brought them back to the Branch Altar.
• Lin Xuan made Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin his Blood Pact subordinates and planned to have them manage a Secret Shop that would collect ancient pill recipes and buy Waste Pills.
• Lin Xuan learned Zhou Mian and Cao Yue had fallen into Blood Demon Venerable’s grasp, then refined an Absolute Poison Pill into the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan trapped Zhou Mian and Cao Yue in a formation, defeated Zhou Mian’s Devil Infant transformation with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, and captured the Devil Infant while killing Cao Yue after searching her soul.
• Lin Xuan learned Zhou Mian’s transformation involved Blood Demon Venerable and chose not to confront the Nascent Soul demon, then headed back to the Branch Altar to rescue Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin.
• Lin Xuan found brocade-robed cultivators attacking the Branch Altar, while Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin struggled against a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage attacker.

Lin Xuan evacuated Spirit Herb Mountain’s branch altar, forged the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Rings, and fought off the Pink Powder Old Devil while escorting Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin. Back at the main sect, he learned Tong Yu was attempting a Nascent Soul breakthrough and began preparing to exploit the sect’s divisions to obtain the Heaven Dust Pill formula.

• Lin Xuan defeated the Qingxiang Sect attackers, evacuated the surviving disciples, and established a new Branch Altar where he named Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin his nominal disciples.
• Lin Xuan recovered the Purple Jade Crystal and spent more than half a year forging the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Rings before setting out with Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin for Spirit Herb Mountain.
• Lin Xuan traveled back to You Province through an Ancient Teleportation Array, then killed the Pink Powder Old Devil when he tried to buy Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin.
• Lin Xuan rescued Xu Jia from a Demon Cultivator and learned that fifty Ghost Kings and their Yinhun army had conquered Yanzhou, then erased Xu Jia’s memory and left her spirit stones.
• Lin Xuan and his companions met Zhang Youfu, and Lin Xuan cured his twin children in exchange for an ancient Jade Slip describing travel through spatial fissures.
• Lin Xuan returned to Spirit Herb Mountain and learned that Tong Yu was attempting a Nascent Soul breakthrough while more than a hundred Core Condensation elders gathered inside the locked-down sect.
• Lin Xuan met Xu Jinqing and six peak Core Condensation cultivators, accepted a command token, and resolved to use the sect’s divisions to steal the Heaven Dust Pill formula.
• Lin Xuan settled Lu Ying'er and Liu Xin near his cave, refined an Absolute Poison Pill to strengthen the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, and cultivated for three months.