Recaps

Lin Xuan escaped his pursuers, secured a place on Xuankong Island, and prepared for Nascent Soul Formation by refining his flame and cultivating the Devil Infant Art. After forming a Devil Infant, he avenged the Ma Family against Haoran Sect attackers and left as the two sects drew closer to conflict.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er escaped Hongling through a teleportation formation, then fled across several islands until Lin Xuan lost his pursuers on Xuankong Island.
• Lin Xuan traded his Spirit-Awakened Peach Tree to Hunyuan Ancestor for a Demon Nether Sect elder Command Token and settled at Huangqi Mountain with the Ma Family’s support.
• Lin Xuan established a cave residence, refined the Fire Charm into a powerful new weapon, and spent years reaching great perfection in the Core Condensation Realm.
• Lin Xuan studied and cultivated the Devil Infant Art, split his Golden Core, and used Ginseng Essence Powder to stabilize his two cores before forming a Devil Infant.
• Lin Xuan accepted the Ma Family’s tribute and gave Ma Tianming a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill in exchange for a ten-thousand-year spirit herb.
• Haoran Sect cultivators killed Old Man Ma and Ma Tianming, then attacked Lin Xuan, who revealed his power and killed them after they had slaughtered the Ma Family.
• Lin Xuan captured the young scholar’s soul, destroyed the traces of his cave abode, and left while the Demon Nether Sect delayed retaliation against the Haoran Sect until its plan was complete.

Lin Xuan entered the Yin Spirit Plains seeking a powerful Yin Vein, where he defeated the Corpse Demon and forged a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse King while helping Yue'er advance. After the Ning Family head died and its successor vanished, Lin Xuan answered a subordinate’s call for help and arrived at the family’s market town in disguise.

• Lin Xuan reached the Yin Spirit Plains to find a powerful Yin Vein for Yue'er and to refine the Corpse Infant into a powerful refined corpse.
• Lin Xuan followed directions from a suspicious couple into the Corpse Demon Swamp, where he joined cultivators searching for the missing Ning Family Young Master.
• Lin Xuan defeated the Corpse Demon, discovered its connection to the Ning Family, and killed the Ning Family Young Master after searching his soul.
• Lin Xuan made a gray-robed Ning Family cultivator his subordinate and began refining the Corpse King while erasing the Corpse Infant’s consciousness.
• Lin Xuan helped Yue'er break through to the Late Core Condensation Realm, then spent a year fusing the Corpse King’s husk into a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse King.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Ning Family head had died after a cultivation deviation and decided to answer the gray-robed elder’s request for help.
• Lin Xuan collected his belongings and left the Yin Vein with Yue'er, then reached the Ning Family’s market town in disguise as rival powers gathered around the leaderless clan.

Lin Xuan helped the Ning Family reunite under the Corpse Demon’s authority, then led it to victory over its enemies. After setting out to investigate a Fire Spirit Vein, he killed Master Ku and Lei Bao and found unusual items among Master Ku’s spoils.

• Lin Xuan freed Ning Wanshan, then presented the Corpse Demon as the Ning Family’s Old Ancestor and secured Ning Wanshan’s appointment as family head.
• When the Zhang Family, Cloud Ghost Sect, and Rogue Cultivators attacked Lei Yin Mountain, Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon turned the battle around and killed the Mang Brothers and Mysterious Yin Ghost Lady.
• The Corpse Demon appointed Lin Xuan Guest Elder, and Lin Xuan later led the Ning Family in destroying the weakened Cloud Ghost Sect and Zhang Family.
• After the Demon Nether Sect’s Command Token tried to seize his soul, Lin Xuan destroyed it and learned from Mrs. Ning Third of a possible Earth Vein Fire at the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Lin Xuan traveled to Seven Star Island and, while seeking a way to investigate the Blazing Sun Sect’s fire vein, encountered Master Ku fleeing Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators.
• Lin Xuan killed Master Ku and his Nascent Soul, then defeated Lei Bao and the other Ten Thousand Ghost Lake cultivators with Yue’er and the Corpse Demon.
• After Lin Xuan and Yue’er left the scene, Lin Xuan hid from two arriving Nascent Soul experts and searched Master Ku’s Storage Bag, finding a bone, a dagger, and a plate-like object among its contents.

Lin Xuan infiltrated the Blazing Sun Sect to pursue the Heaven Dust Pill, then clashed with Fairy Hongling over a Jade Pendant. A spatial rift forced them onto a strange island where Lin Xuan suspected they had reached Demon Spirit Island and encountered a Demon Cultivator.

• Lin Xuan evaded Ten Thousand Ghost Lake’s search, waited underground for more than a year, and traveled to Yan Province to pursue the Heaven Dust Pill.
• Lin Xuan joined the Blazing Sun Sect by refining a Three Yang Soul-Forging Pill for Elder Lei, earning a cave residence and the attention of Lei Zhentian and Gu Changfeng.
• After ten years at the sect, Lin Xuan met Fairy Hongling and concealed his intentions from Divine Lord Lieyan.
• Hongling demanded the Jade Pendant she believed was her sect’s Command Token, and Lin Xuan refused, leading them into a fierce battle.
• A spatial rift opened during their fight, and Lin Xuan and Hongling entered it to escape the Sword Qi before emerging on an unfamiliar plain.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er explored the strange landscape, found purple mist and rare Demon Veins, and suspected they were on Demon Spirit Island.
• Lin Xuan encountered a Demon Cultivator fighting a giant ape, and Yue'er explained that imitating demon beasts could not change the natural limits of lifespan.