Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan learned that Flower Ancestor had been abducting female cultivators and imprisoning them in Hundred Flowers Garden, where Red Leaf Fairy might be held. He entered Nine Immortals Palace to investigate, but stopped before a compound formation guarding the garden.

• Lin Xuan appeared before a Lihe Realm elder, sealed his magic power, and killed him after searching his soul.
• Lin Xuan learned that Flower Ancestor controlled Nine Immortals Palace and had been using female cultivators as cultivation cauldrons.
• Lin Xuan discovered that the selected women were imprisoned in Hundred Flowers Garden and decided to investigate because Red Leaf Fairy might be among them.
• Lin Xuan traveled through the palace's restrictions and reached a plaza concealed by an illusion formation combined with a killing formation.
• Lin Xuan judged that forcing his way through the formation would expose him and considered how to proceed.

Lin Xuan eavesdropped on Cheng and Ye discussing a plan to rescue Cheng’s junior sister from Hundred Flowers Garden, where she had been imprisoned as a Cauldron. As Ye demanded Cheng’s ancestral treasure as additional payment, Lin Xuan watched for a chance to use the scheme to enter the garden.

• Lin Xuan used his divine sense to overhear Cheng asking Ye whether the guard of Hundred Flowers Garden had agreed to help rescue his junior sister.
• Ye explained that the guard required a female Nascent Soul cultivator as a substitute, and Cheng admitted he could not easily find one.
• Lin Xuan observed Ye’s smug expression and suspected that he was scheming against Cheng, so he continued listening.
• Ye offered an alternative plan in exchange for greater payment, and Cheng agreed to gather another five hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Ye said the guard wanted Cheng’s ancestral treasure instead, and Cheng’s startled reaction revealed that he had one.

Lin Xuan overheard Ye persuading Cheng to trade his family treasure for the release and escape of Fairy Xue, and followed the pair toward Hundred Flowers Garden to learn more and possibly seize the treasure. The two reached a formation and used Ye’s token to open a passage.

• Ye played on Cheng’s love for Fairy Xue, promising that Fu would release her and help them leave the Nine Immortals Palace if Cheng surrendered his family treasure.
• Cheng agreed but insisted that Fairy Xue be rescued before he handed over the treasure, which he carried under a seal only a direct blood relative could remove.
• Lin Xuan realized Ye and Fu were likely conspiring to swindle Cheng, then decided to follow them and watch for a chance to obtain the treasure.
• Cheng and Ye left their cultivation cave at night and headed toward Hundred Flowers Garden, with Lin Xuan following them unseen.
• The pair encountered a formation, and Ye used a token to open a passage through the fog.

Lin Xuan secretly followed Scholar and the lean man into the Hundred Flowers Garden, where they negotiated with Senior Fu to rescue Scholar’s junior martial sister. The lean man manipulated Scholar into offering his family heirloom, but Scholar hesitated when Senior Fu demanded it, leaving the bargain unresolved.

• Lin Xuan followed the lean man and Scholar through a great gate into the Hundred Flowers Garden, a separate space filled with rare flowers and plants.
• Senior Fu appeared and reprimanded the pair for arriving late, explaining that he had diverted the other guards while they plotted to rescue a woman from the Yuanchu Realm.
• The lean man urged Scholar to hand over Spirit Stones and materials to Senior Fu, who inspected them and then demanded a female cultivator as a replacement for the person they wanted to rescue.
• When the pair had no suitable woman, the lean man proposed that Scholar trade his family heirloom instead, and Scholar reluctantly agreed.
• Senior Fu accepted the proposed trade and promised to help them leave the palace, then demanded Scholar produce the heirloom; Scholar hesitated and began to explain.

The Scholar persuaded the Grey-Robed Elder to let him see Fairy Xue before handing over his family heirloom. Lin Xuan followed them into the pavilion, where he spotted the imprisoned Red Leaf Fairy, and the chapter ended as Fairy Xue realized the Scholar was offering up his ancestral treasure to save her.

• The Scholar resisted the Grey-Robed Elder and the Lean Man until the elder agreed to take him to see his junior sister first.
• The Grey-Robed Elder led the Scholar and the Lean Man through the pavilion’s restrictions, while Lin Xuan followed and discovered hundreds of imprisoned female cultivators, including Red Leaf Fairy.
• The Grey-Robed Elder opened the courtyard where Fairy Xue was imprisoned, and the Scholar rushed to reunite with her.
• Fairy Xue asked how the Scholar planned to save her, and he explained that Senior Fu had agreed to help.
• The Scholar produced a jade box sealed with blood-red restriction talismans, and Fairy Xue recognized it as his ancestral family heirloom.

Scholar and Fairy Xue began opening the Jade Box when Flower Ancestor appeared and revealed that the gathering had been a trap. He called out Lin Xuan, who emerged from hiding and faced the Nine Immortals Palace Master, still uncertain of his true purpose.

• Scholar used his blood to remove the Jade Box’s restrictions while Fairy Xue watched.
• Flower Ancestor appeared, accused the group of secretly releasing his Cauldron, and threatened them with Ten Thousand Snakes Soul Search.
• The gray-robed cultivator recognized Flower Ancestor as the Palace Master and begged for mercy.
• Flower Ancestor called out Lin Xuan, who appeared behind the others and calmly confronted him.
• Lin Xuan recalled how suspiciously smooth his visit and nighttime exploration had been, and wondered why Flower Ancestor had set a trap for him.

Flower Ancestor trapped Lin Xuan in a fire-origin small space, hoping to weaken his wood-attribute abilities and seize his Nascent Soul to advance his cultivation. Lin Xuan learned Flower Ancestor had one-quarter Demon Race bloodline, while the others were left to face the Palace Master's attendants.

• Flower Ancestor activated a hidden Teleportation Array that transported him and Lin Xuan away from the grand hall.
• The array vanished, leaving the grey-robed cultivator, Scholar, the cultivator Ye, and Fairy Xue behind as more than ten of the Palace Master's attendants confronted them.
• Lin Xuan found himself in a small space filled with fire-origin energy, where Flower Ancestor's Nine Departures True Fire Art would be strengthened and Lin Xuan's wood-attribute abilities weakened.
• Flower Ancestor revealed that he wanted Lin Xuan's Nascent Soul to help him reach the late Dongxuan Realm.
• Flower Ancestor admitted he had one-quarter Demon Race bloodline, and Lin Xuan recognized him as a half-demon.

Lin Xuan rejected Flower Ancestor’s demand to surrender and fought back inside the fire-attribute space. Flower Ancestor triggered the volcanoes and attacked with fire techniques, but Lin Xuan countered with his Flame Corpse Crows, leaving Flower Ancestor shocked and still convinced the battle favored him.

• Lin Xuan asked Flower Ancestor about his sudden appearance and the Nine Immortals Palace Master’s disappearance, but Flower Ancestor refused to answer and demanded Lin Xuan’s Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan refused to surrender and challenged Flower Ancestor, who attacked with a date-pit-shaped treasure aimed at Lin Xuan’s heart.
• Lin Xuan blocked the treasure with a shield, while Flower Ancestor sent a fiery glow toward the volcanoes and triggered their eruptions.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the increased fire spiritual energy and summoned his Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring as Flower Ancestor used a Feather Fan to send thousands of fire snakes toward him.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Hundred Spirit Bell and released his Flame Corpse Crows, whose Corpse Fire blades cut through the fire snakes and whose mouths absorbed the surrounding fire energy.
• Flower Ancestor was shocked and furious, but he still believed the fire-attribute space favored him and continued his attack.

Lin Xuan fought Flower Ancestor and recognized the Three-Headed Bone-Melting Snake as an Artifact Spirit. He unleashed his Dharma Image, Demon Insects, and a fiery-red monk’s staff, leaving the two sides locked in a clash of staff attacks.

• The Three-Headed Bone-Melting Snake blocked Lin Xuan’s Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield with its left head, then attacked him with its python head and Fragrant Mist.
• Lin Xuan recognized the snake’s origins, summoned his Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image, and teleported away from its attacks.
• Flower Ancestor sent the snake after Lin Xuan and struck at him with a black Zen Staff that cast tens of thousands of staff shadows.
• Lin Xuan released Blood Fire Ants from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, but the snake’s three heads slaughtered them.
• Lin Xuan produced a fiery-red monk’s staff and clashed head-on with Flower Ancestor’s staff shadows.

Lin Xuan crippled Flower Ancestor’s Three-Headed Bone-Melting Snake and prepared several powerful attacks as Flower Ancestor began gathering fire vitality for a major technique. The chapter left both cultivators readying their strongest moves for the next clash.

• Lin Xuan used swarms of Blood Fire Ants, sword lights, and Corpse Crow fire to distract Flower Ancestor and damage the Three-Headed Bone-Melting Snake’s spirituality.
• Lin Xuan froze the weakened snake with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, severing Flower Ancestor’s connection to the treasure.
• Flower Ancestor gathered fire vitality and swallowed a black pill, which enabled him to command far more surrounding fire vitality.
• Lin Xuan merged his Golden Body Dharma Images into the Three-Headed Six-Armed Form and summoned the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring and Thousand Dragon Fangs.
• Lin Xuan prepared to unleash the Demonic Fate Sword, Hundred Dragon Fangs, and True Spirit Strike together as Flower Ancestor formed hand seals.

Lin Xuan and Flower Ancestor unleashed powerful attacks against each other, with Flower Ancestor summoning a Bi Fang Split Soul. The battle reached a stalemate until Lin Xuan replenished his magic power with spiritual liquid, leaving Flower Ancestor shocked.

• Flower Ancestor summoned a Bi Fang Split Soul by gathering the space's fire elemental energy.
• Lin Xuan attacked Flower Ancestor with the Demonic Fate Sword, his Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image, and a True Spirit Strike that formed a White Tiger.
• The Bi Fang and Lin Xuan's attacks collided, creating two opposing walls of light and a stalemate.
• Flower Ancestor expected Lin Xuan to run out of magic power first, but Lin Xuan drank spiritual liquid from a jade bottle and rapidly recovered.

Lin Xuan defeated Bi Fang and drove Flower Ancestor into a desperate escape, then pursued the surviving Nascent Soul through several deceptive tricks. He ultimately killed Flower Ancestor but failed to capture him alive, and the pearl he recovered left him shocked after he examined it.

• Lin Xuan used the ancient Long Spear to cut through the blood-red curtain and behead Bi Fang.
• Lin Xuan trapped Flower Ancestor with the Iron Feather Locust Blade and Flying Daggers, forcing him to self-destruct and send out a disguised Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan saw through Flower Ancestor's decoy and ambushed him, but Flower Ancestor split his Nascent Soul into three real parts to flee.
• Lin Xuan and his two Nascent Souls chased down Flower Ancestor's three fleeing parts, but he failed to capture Flower Ancestor alive.
• Lin Xuan regrouped with his Dual Infant One Core, examined a pearl-like treasure, and reacted with shock.

Lin Xuan entered Flower Ancestor’s Heavenly Mystery Mansion and found a late-stage Dongxuan cultivator sealed inside an amber-like crystal. The imprisoned man questioned Lin Xuan about Flower Ancestor, and Lin showed him Flower Ancestor’s remnant spirit as proof that he had killed him.

• Lin Xuan entered the Heavenly Mystery Mansion and used the Demonic Fate Sword to break through its formations and restrictions.
• Lin Xuan opened a cultivation cave and discovered a white-haired cultivator sealed inside a huge amber-like crystal.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the sealed cultivator was at the late stage of the Dongxuan Realm, and the man opened his eyes and demanded to know who Lin Xuan was and where Flower Ancestor had gone.
• Lin Xuan asked the man who he was and how he had been imprisoned, then said he had killed Flower Ancestor.
• The man doubted Lin Xuan’s claim, so Lin showed him Flower Ancestor’s tiny, nearly transparent remnant spirit.

Lin Xuan learned that Gu Tianyang, the Nine Immortals Palace Master, had been betrayed and sealed by his own Second Nascent Soul, Flower Ancestor. After Flower Ancestor’s death, Lin Xuan agreed to break the amber crystal holding Gu Tianyang, and his Sword Qi began to crack it.

• Gu Tianyang identified himself as the Nine Immortals Palace Master and revealed that Flower Ancestor had been his Second Nascent Soul.
• Gu Tianyang explained that Flower Ancestor had gained independent intelligence, attacked him during seclusion, and sealed him so he could later devour Gu Tianyang’s main Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan agreed to help Gu Tianyang escape the amber crystal without asking for payment.
• Gu Tianyang told Lin Xuan to strike the crystal while avoiding his body, and Lin Xuan’s Sword Qi began splitting its surface.

Lin Xuan freed Gu Tianyang, helped him recover, and followed him out of the fiery small world using a hidden Boundary-Breaking Talisman. They emerged somewhere in Nine Immortals Palace, where a Lihe cultivator was lecturing several hundred Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Lin Xuan gave Gu Tianyang Essence Replenishing Pills, and both men meditated until they had recovered enough to move.
• Lin Xuan and Gu Tianyang returned to the volcanic small world, where Lin Xuan concealed how he had defeated Xianhua.
• Gu Tianyang blamed Xianhua’s cultivation deviation on the backlash from exploiting female cultivators through dual cultivation.
• Gu Tianyang retrieved a Boundary-Breaking Talisman hidden in a stone box beneath the lava and opened a spatial rift.
• Lin Xuan and Gu Tianyang entered the rift and emerged in Nine Immortals Palace as a Lihe cultivator lectured Nascent Soul cultivators.

Lin Xuan helped Gu Tianyang reclaim control of Nine Immortals Palace and secured rewards for Red Leaf and two other cultivators. Gu Tianyang agreed to give Lin Xuan the Snow Yang Thunder Fire Crystal, which was brought into the hall for his inspection.

• Gu Tianyang appeared at Nine Immortals Palace with Lin Xuan, and Outer Palace steward Xue Bufan and the assembled cultivators recognized and saluted him as Palace Master.
• Gu Tianyang retook control of Nine Immortals Palace, freed the female cultivators of Hundred Flowers Garden, and promoted Red Leaf to Caiyi Elder and his final disciple.
• Lin Xuan met Red Leaf, who thanked him for helping restore her fortunes, then discussed repayment with Gu Tianyang.
• Lin Xuan asked Gu Tianyang to release Fairy Xue and her dual-cultivation partner, and Gu Tianyang agreed.
• Lin Xuan asked about Snow Yang Thunder Fire Crystal, and Gu Tianyang confirmed Nine Immortals Palace had one and offered it to him.
• An old cultivator and a female cultivator brought the Snow Yang Thunder Fire Crystal into the hall, and Lin Xuan uncovered it for inspection.

Lin Xuan learned that Nine Immortals Palace could send him out of the East Sea using a repaired Inter-boundary Teleportation Array, but the journey might end in disaster. He stayed at the palace as a guest to consider the risk.

• Lin Xuan accepted the Snow Yang Thunder Fire Crystal from Gu Tianyang and asked how he could leave the East Sea.
• Gu Tianyang explained that Nine Immortals Palace had repaired its ancient Inter-boundary Teleportation Array, but warned that errors could cause certain death.
• Lin Xuan asked for several days to decide, and Gu Tianyang welcomed him to stay at Nine Immortals Palace.
• Red Leaf Fairy used her command token to have the attendants admit Lin Xuan to the palace’s guest pavilion, then left to attend to Gu Tianyang’s instructions.
• Lin Xuan entered the VIP pavilion and found that its elaborate restrictions guarded against spying and attacks.

Lin Xuan weighed the risks of leaving through the damaged Teleportation Array, then summoned Scholar and Fairy Xue to obtain their heirloom. He recognized the broken sword as the other half of his Demonic Fate Sword and offered Scholar a reward, while Scholar asked only to leave Nine Immortals Palace with Fairy Xue.

• Lin Xuan considered whether to risk the damaged Teleportation Array or leave through Nine Immortals Palace, but decided to postpone choosing.
• A Palace-Robed Girl brought Scholar and Fairy Xue to meet Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan told the couple he had no ill will and asked for their heirloom treasure.
• Scholar willingly handed Lin Xuan a Jade Box containing a broken sword.
• Lin Xuan recognized the sword as the other half of his Demonic Fate Sword and offered Scholar any benefit he could provide.
• Scholar asked only to leave Nine Immortals Palace with Fairy Xue.

Lin Xuan agreed to help Scholar and his wife leave the Nine Immortals Palace, then chose to use its inter-boundary teleportation array despite the risks. He visited Shayang Sect to inspect the puppets collected for him and approved of the effort, while Shayang Old Devil revealed that the cost had nearly emptied the sect.

• Lin Xuan agreed to arrange for Scholar and his wife to leave the Nine Immortals Palace.
• After half a month of deliberation, Lin Xuan told Gu Tianyang he would use the palace's teleportation array, which would take at least three months to activate.
• Lin Xuan left to handle other matters and arrived at Shayang Sect half a month later.
• True Person Shayang presented seven Storage Bags of puppets that Shayang Sect had collected at great cost.
• Lin Xuan approved of the collection, and Shayang Old Devil said the sect had exhausted its wealth to obtain the puppets.

Lin Xuan returned to Black Wind Island after removing Shayang Old Devil’s Soul Prohibition Technique and told Shangguan Muyu and his two disciples that he planned to leave the East Sea to find Yue'er and Qin Xin. The Shangguan Sisters asked to accompany him, but Lin Xuan refused because he could not protect them during cross-realm travel, leaving them to part with the hope of meeting again.

• Lin Xuan refused to remove Shayang Old Devil’s Soul Prohibition Technique while they were inside the Shayang Sect, then removed it after they left the sect’s sphere of influence.
• Lin Xuan returned to Black Wind Island and reunited with the Shangguan Sisters, whose emotional greetings revealed how reluctant he was to leave them.
• Lin Xuan told Shangguan Muyu and the Shangguan Sisters that he planned to leave the East Sea because it offered poor prospects for cultivation and Yue'er and Qin Xin were elsewhere.
• The Shangguan Sisters knelt and asked Lin Xuan to take them with him, but he refused because cross-realm travel would make it difficult to protect them.
• Lin Xuan encouraged the Shangguan Sisters to cultivate carefully and said they might meet again someday.