Recaps

Lin Xuan learned that escaping Demon Spirit Island required reaching the Lihe stage or activating an ancient teleportation formation, then pursued information and resources at the Mang Mountain Assembly. After helping Fairy Hongling escape her pursuers, he left the gathering while Jin Ling was forced to flee Zhang.

• Lin Xuan reached the Mystic Phoenix Sect with Zhou Xuehen and learned that the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art could provide an inheritance needed to activate Demon Spirit Island’s ancient teleportation formation.
• Lin Xuan accepted a Guest Elder Command Token, explored the island, and rescued Ye Ping'er from Jin, whom he killed after Jin tried to make her his Cauldron.
• Lin Xuan traveled to the Mang Mountain Assembly with Zhang Song and learned about the island’s cultivation powers and the Ye Family’s destruction.
• Fairy Hongling pursued and killed Huangmu True Person, then fought the Enforcement Envoys as Lin Xuan secretly restrained Madam Black Python and the One-Eyed Elder with his formation.
• Lin Xuan sent his Corpse Demon to help Hongling escape Bailu Boy, then returned to the Assembly after the other Demon Cultivators abandoned their pursuit.
• Lin Xuan entered Mang Mountain, joined a private trade fair, and bought and sold treasures while Jin Ling sought high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Lin Xuan left the Assembly, while Zhang confronted Jin Ling over the trade fair and demanded her beast egg and Storage Bag, forcing her to flee with a golden talisman.

Lin Xuan traded a Longevity Pill for a Top-grade Spirit Stone, escaped the ensuing battle, and joined Madam Black Python’s expedition to the Ancient Qilin Cave. The group entered the Ice Desert Wasteland, where Lin Xuan secretly scouted ahead as powerful demons began gathering.

• Jin Ling used Old Monster Jin’s Tremor Thunder Bead against the bald old man, and Lin Xuan saved her from the mindless demon before trading pills for information about Purple Lotus Wood.
• Lin Xuan studied alchemy, prepared Purple Lotus Wood, and encountered Madam Black Python, who offered him a share of a Fire Qilin ruin in exchange for his help.
• Lin Xuan bought demonic beast materials at the Mang Mountain Assembly and offered a Longevity Pill in exchange for a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Poison Flood Dragon King supplied the spirit stone, but Yellow-Browed True Person attacked him, and a chaotic battle erupted over Lin Xuan’s treasures.
• Lin Xuan scattered lookalike pills to distract the fighting cultivators, escaped through the trade fair, and revealed his Nascent Soul Realm strength when guards tried to stop him.
• Lin Xuan met Madam Black Python at Li Python Valley and made her surrender a soul and spirit to his Soul-Restricting Tablet before agreeing to help find the Qilin’s treasure.
• Madam Black Python gathered Bailu Boy and Patriarch Kunnan for an expedition north to the Ancient Qilin Cave beyond Ice Soul Peak, and the group set out across the Ice Desert Wasteland.
• After the group fought off Ice Bats, Lin Xuan sensed more beasts nearby and sent a Jade Luo Bee to scout, and hidden demons discussed the party’s possible treasure hunt and summoned powerful allies.

Lin Xuan fought his way into the Ancient Qilin Cave, refined Heaven Dust Pills, and formed his Nascent Soul while Yue'er befriended the missing Snow Fox princess, Xiang'er. The arc left Lin Xuan facing two demons who had come searching for Xiang'er.

• Lin Xuan concealed his Spirit Division's destruction and continued across Ice Soul Peak with Madam Black Python, while the Elephant Demon and Leopard-Headed Demoness pursued them.
• Madam Black Python fought the Leopard-Headed Demoness, but Lin Xuan waited until her demonic transformation failed, then captured her Nascent Soul and took her Storage Bag.
• Lin Xuan found the entrance to the Ancient Qilin Cave and opened its fiery barrier with two Jade Profound Sect command tokens.
• Lin Xuan uncovered the Earth Fire formation, prepared the Purple Dragon Cauldron, and refined Heaven Dust Pills after supplementing the fire with spiritual power from a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Yue'er encountered Xiang'er, the missing Three-Tailed Demon Fox, while the Snow Fox King investigated her disappearance and rival demons searched for her.
• Lin Xuan purified the Heaven Dust Pills and befriended Xiang'er, hoping to gain a powerful ally in the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan consumed the pills and formed his Nascent Soul as Xiang'er swallowed the Five-Colored Lotus that appeared during his breakthrough.
• Blue Flood Dragon and the gray-robed elder confronted Lin Xuan after recognizing Xiang'er, and Lin Xuan wounded Blue Flood Dragon before attacking the elder with his sword and Azure Phantom Nether Fire.

Lin Xuan stabilized his Nascent Soul, refined a new treasure, and infiltrated the Mystic Phoenix Sect as the Snow Fox Clan attacked to retrieve Xiang'er. Searching the Cold Pool for the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art, he was transported to a Top-grade Demon Vein, where he and Yuanke joined forces against a Demon Monster.

• Lin Xuan killed Blue Flood Dragon and drove off the transformed gray-robed monster, then collected the fleeing beast’s abandoned treasures before retreating to recover his unstable Nascent Soul.
• After stabilizing his Nascent Soul, Lin Xuan refined the Azure Fire sword and learned that the little snow fox was Xiang'er, the Snow Fox King’s daughter.
• The Snow Fox King led an assault on the Mystic Phoenix Sect, whose Mystic Heaven Spirit Phoenix Array was eventually broken as Lin Xuan slipped into the sect amid the battle.
• Yuanke detected Xiang'er’s scent on Lin Xuan and pursued him, but he masked it with Red Blood Plum flowers and continued searching for the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art.
• Lin Xuan learned that the art was in the Cold Pool and entered it, while the Snow Fox King fought Yue Xianfeng and Yuanke activated an ancient formation in the Purple Bamboo Forest.
• Lin Xuan discovered an ancient formation on a gray stone, defeated the Octopus Monster, and was transported through the stone into a Top-grade Demon Vein.
• Xiang'er revealed Lin Xuan’s hiding place as Yuanke fought a Nascent Soul Realm Demon Monster, and the monster wounded Yuanke with its demonic spear.
• Lin Xuan helped Yuanke fight the Demon Monster, and they attacked together as she destroyed its regenerating tentacles and he sent his giant python after it.