Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan reunited with Lu Ying'er and the other women, told them how he had reached the Spirit World and become separated from Yue'er, and vowed to find her. A disturbance outside the Exquisite Pagoda interrupted their reunion, and they went to investigate.

• Lu Ying'er asked Lin Xuan what had happened after he entered the Asura Gate, and he explained that he had ascended to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan told the women that Yue'er had been separated from him during cross-interface teleportation and vowed to find her.
• Lu Ying'er grew quiet as she worried that her age and limited lifespan would prevent her from serving Lin Xuan for long.
• A commotion outside the great hall angered Lu Ying'er, but Lin Xuan chose to go see what was happening with her and the other women.
• Lin Xuan and the four women reached the entrance of the Exquisite Pagoda, where three law-enforcement cultivators faced a man and a woman.

Lin Xuan and Lu Ying'er learned that the liaison envoys from Horizon Sea Pavilion and Pine Wind Academy had forced their way into the Exquisite Pagoda to ask for help. Remembering his ties to both factions, Lin Xuan acknowledged his oversight and prepared to consider their plea.

• Lu Ying'er recognized Fairy Wang of Horizon Sea Pavilion and Fellow Daoist Qiu of Pine Wind Academy as liaison envoys who had helped Baisuan Pavilion resist the Ancient Demons.
• Fairy Wang and Fellow Daoist Qiu knelt before Lin Xuan and Lu Ying'er, then explained that their factions remained under siege.
• The envoys asked Lu Ying'er to request Lin Xuan's aid because they feared approaching the powerful senior themselves.
• Lu Ying'er and the other Pavilion Masters realized they had neglected the plight of the other two factions while celebrating Lin Xuan's return.
• Lin Xuan admitted he had overlooked the sieges and recalled his bonds with Fairy Ruyan and Horizon Sea Pavilion.

Lin Xuan agreed to lift the sieges of Horizon Sea Pavilion and Pine Wind Academy, revealing his identity as Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Ancestor to Fairy Wang. He left Baisuan Pavilion protected by a force of powerful Puppets and set out to aid both sects at once.

• Lin Xuan recognized his obligations to Horizon Sea Pavilion and Pine Wind Academy and asked Fairy Wang about Horizon Sea Pavilion’s situation.
• Lin Xuan showed the Horizon Sea Pavilion Supreme Elder’s Command Token, and Fairy Wang recognized him as Ancestor Lin.
• Lin Xuan reassured the Confucian-robed cultivator that he would assist both sects simultaneously.
• Lin Xuan summoned more than a hundred powerful Puppets to protect Baisuan Pavilion from a possible Ancient Demon counterattack.
• Lin Xuan prepared to leave for Pine Wind Academy and Horizon Sea Pavilion while Lu Ying'er and the other women wished him well.

Lin Xuan split up to rescue Horizon Sea Pavilion and Pine Wind Academy, sending his Second Nascent Soul toward Pine Wind Academy while he hurried to Horizon Sea Pavilion with Fairy Wang. He reached the besieged sect and found its defenses still holding, though its cultivators faced relentless attacks.

• Lin Xuan sent his Second Nascent Soul to aid Pine Wind Academy and traveled with Fairy Wang toward Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• The Second Nascent Soul summoned a blue Flood Dragon with the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation flags and carried a scholar-robed cultivator toward Pine Wind Academy.
• Lin Xuan and Fairy Wang passed through the ruined Sea Entry City, where Ancient Demons had slaughtered the inhabitants.
• At Horizon Sea Pavilion, Liu Ying used the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation to hold off the late-Lihe Iron-Winged Demon.
• The Iron-Winged Demon ordered Magic Beasts, Demon Insects, and demonized Puppet cultivators to continue attacking Horizon Sea Pavilion's defenses day and night.

Liu Ying gathered Horizon Sea Pavilion’s cultivators to assess the Ancient Demon siege and learned that their Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation would fail within three days without more rare resources. She reassured them that reinforcements were being brought, but a Heaven Soul Transmission Talisman arrived bearing the remnant soul of Senior Sister Lu.

• A purple-clad cultivator reported that Horizon Sea Pavilion’s disciples had suffered heavy casualties during a month of siege.
• Jing Qing told Liu Ying that the formation’s Top-grade Spirit Stones and Demon Cores were more than eighty percent depleted and would last only three days.
• Liu Ying calmed the gathered cultivators by revealing that she had sent people to collect more supplies.
• A Heaven Soul Transmission Talisman arrived with the remnant soul of Senior Sister Lu, and the cultivators recognized her and grieved.

Liu Ying learned that Horizon Sea Pavilion disciples were trapped on Tianlan Island and left the headquarters to rescue them, despite recognizing the Ancient Demons’ ambush. Lin Xuan encountered a besieged group of seven Horizon Sea Pavilion cultivators and discovered they were being kept alive as bait for the sect’s Supreme Elder.

• Liu Ying received Lu Lingshuang’s dying message that Ancient Demons had surrounded the disciples on Tianlan Island and destroyed their return route.
• Liu Ying ordered the Tianlan Island Teleportation Array destroyed, entrusted the headquarters to her disciples, and set out alone to recover the spirit stones and Demon Cores needed for the sect’s protective formation.
• Lin Xuan hurried toward Yingzhou Island, then diverted toward a distant battle after sensing familiar spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan found tens of thousands of Ancient Demons attacking seven Horizon Sea Pavilion women, all Nascent Soul cultivators, who were struggling to survive.
• Two Ancient Demons watched from a hidden devil cloud, and one asked his lord whether Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Supreme Elder would take their bait.

Lin Xuan encountered the Iron-Winged Demon, the Ancient Devil leader plotting to lure Liu Ying into a trap, and revealed his Dongxuan Realm cultivation. He attacked the Iron-Winged Demon, who tried to flee, and the chapter ended as the demon prepared to fight back against Lin Xuan’s sword.

• The Iron-Winged Demon told the purple-clad devil woman that he planned to use the captive Horizon Sea Pavilion cultivators and their supplies to draw Liu Ying into a trap.
• The Iron-Winged Demon spotted Lin Xuan approaching and realized he was a Dongxuan Realm cultivator.
• Lin Xuan discovered the Iron-Winged Demon and launched dozens of streaks of Sword Qi at him.
• The Iron-Winged Demon summoned Magic Crows and devil fire to delay Lin Xuan, then used a talisman to flee, abandoning the purple-clad devil woman and his army.
• Lin Xuan’s Sword Qi swept aside the defenses and merged into a giant five-colored sword that caught up to the Iron-Winged Demon.
• The Iron-Winged Demon changed hand seals as Lin Xuan’s sword closed in.

Lin Xuan rescued seven Horizon Sea Pavilion cultivators by destroying the Ancient Demon army, then reunited with Li Zhilan and was recognized as Ancestor Lin. Liu Ying arrived at Tianlan Island and, astonished to find him alive, asked whether he truly was Uncle-Master Lin.

• Lin Xuan killed the Iron-Winged Demon with a single palm and destroyed the rest of the Ancient Demon army as they fled.
• The surviving cultivators introduced themselves, and Li Zhilan recognized Lin Xuan as the benefactor who had helped her join Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Liu Qingru identified Lin Xuan from his portrait in the Ancestral Hall, and the other women bowed to him as Ancestor Lin.
• Lin Xuan noticed Liu Ying approaching and recognized her through his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye.
• Liu Ying arrived at Tianlan Island, greeted the women, and asked Lin Xuan if he truly was Uncle-Master Lin.

Lin Xuan reunited with Liu Ying and confirmed that he had killed the ancient devils threatening Baisuan Pavilion. He took Liu Ying toward Yingzhou Island to help Horizon Sea Pavilion, where the sect’s battle against the invading army was still underway.

• Lin Xuan told Liu Ying that he had slain the ancient devils, and Liu Qingru revealed that he had also killed the Iron-Winged Demon and more than ten thousand foes.
• Fairy Wang confirmed Lin Xuan’s strength, and Liu Ying and the other women thanked him for resolving Baisuan Pavilion’s crisis.
• Lin Xuan and Liu Ying set off for Yingzhou Island while the remaining women followed behind.
• At Horizon Sea Pavilion, the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation held back the attacking Magic Beasts as cultivators fought the demonized forces and ancient devils.
• Two early-stage Lihe ancient devils, a Flame Demon and a Stone Demon, appeared and challenged the island’s defenses.

The ancient demons breached Horizon Sea Pavilion’s protective array, allowing the Flame Demon and Stone Demon to enter Yingzhou Island. As Jing Qing prepared to lure them into the inner Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation, Lin Xuan and Liu Ying returned, and Lin Xuan brought out a treasure to confront the demons.

• The Flame Demon summoned demonic monsters while the Stone Demon called down meteors, weakening the cultivators defending Yingzhou Island.
• Horizon Sea Pavilion’s rookies used high-grade talismans to slow the ancient demons, but the Flame Demon and Stone Demon tore open the protective array and led their forces inside.
• The cultivators sealed the breach after suffering heavy losses, while Jing Qing and eight Nascent Soul women planned to trap the two demons in the inner layer of the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation.
• Lin Xuan and Liu Ying arrived at the battle, and Liu Ying learned that Lin Xuan had reached the Dongxuan Realm and had visited the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan brought out a treasure to deal with the ancient demons quickly.

Lin Xuan annihilated the Ancient Demon army attacking Yingzhou Island and was recognized as Horizon Sea Pavilion’s ancestor. He learned that the Flame Demon and Stone Demon had entered the sect’s headquarters, and followed Liu Ying there while the battle at Nine Swords Pavilion continued.

• Lin Xuan unleashed tens of thousands of flying daggers and swiftly killed the Ancient Demons surrounding him.
• Liu Ying told the gathered cultivators that Lin Xuan was their ancestor, who had returned from the Spirit World to rescue the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces.
• Cultivators recognized Lin Xuan from the Ancestral Hall and bowed to him in gratitude for saving them.
• Qing'er reported that Jing Qing had lured the Flame Demon and Stone Demon into the headquarters to face the inner formation.
• Liu Ying and Lin Xuan hurried toward the headquarters while the fierce battle at Nine Swords Pavilion continued.

Lin Xuan arrived at Yingzhou Island in time to save Horizon Sea Pavilion from two Lihe Realm Ancient Demons, then learned that the invaders were searching for something in You Province. He suspected they were after the Blue Star Sea and realized the demonic invasion posed a personal threat.

• Xu Jingqing and the wounded cultivators of Horizon Sea Pavilion struggled to defend the formation eye as Stone Demon intercepted their calls for reinforcements.
• Lin Xuan arrived and killed both Ancient Demons with two strikes of Sword Qi, then gave the injured Ma a Limb Regeneration Pill.
• Liu Ying and the pavilion’s other leaders thanked Lin Xuan at Water-Sky Unity Hall, where he questioned them about the Ancient Demons’ purpose.
• Yun Feng reported that the Ancient Demons had been searching occupied territories and had concentrated forces in You Province, including the area around abandoned Baisuan Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan connected the search in You Province to Yanzhou and suspected the Ancient Demons were seeking the Blue Star Sea, causing him to sense a new danger.

Lin Xuan asked Liu Ying about the origins of the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation and went to Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Ancestral Hall to look for records. He arrived there with Xu Jing Qing, where the young disciple guarding the hall recognized him as the sect’s Ancestor.

• Lin Xuan sent the other female cultivators away and privately asked Liu Ying about the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation.
• Liu Ying said Fairy Tianlan had established the formation tens of thousands of years after Horizon Sea Pavilion was founded, and suggested its origins might be recorded in the Ancestral Hall.
• Liu Ying summoned Xu Jing Qing and ordered her to take Lin Xuan to the Ancestral Hall and assist him.
• Xu Jing Qing led Lin Xuan to the Ancestral Hall, where its young guard was startled to learn he was a Dongxuan Realm cultivator from the Spirit World.
• The young guard recognized Lin Xuan from his portrait and spirit tablet, and Xu Jing Qing left him in her care.

Lin Xuan visited Horizon Sea Pavilion’s ancestral hall to investigate the connection between its Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation and the Ink Moon Tribe. Fairy Tianlan’s record confirmed the link and pointed him toward an Ink Moon Tribe settlement in Sky Continent, which Lin Xuan decided to investigate.

• Lin Xuan asked a baby-faced disciple to lead him to Fairy Tianlan’s spirit tablet, though she first brought him to his own shrine.
• Lin Xuan read Fairy Tianlan’s jade slip and learned that she had visited Sky Continent, saved an Ink Moon Tribe Witcher, and lived among the tribe.
• Lin Xuan confirmed that the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation was connected to the Ink Moon Tribe and resolved to seek the settlement’s ruins in Sky Continent.
• Lin Xuan offered incense to Fairy Tianlan, gave the disciple a Spirit World Dharma Treasure, and left the ancestral hall.
• Lin Xuan stayed at Horizon Sea Pavilion for two days while waiting for his Second Nascent Soul to return from Pine Wind Academy and advising Liu Ying and the others.

Lin Xuan’s Second Nascent Soul returned after destroying the Ancient Demon army besieging Pine Wind Academy, and Lin Xuan told Horizon Sea Pavilion that he would leave for Linglong Valley. He promised he would continue helping against the demonic tribulation, then departed Yingzhou Island.

• Lin Xuan shared cultivation insights with Liu Ying and eight other Nascent Soul Late Stage women at Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan’s Second Nascent Soul returned to Water-Sky Unity Hall and merged with him, bringing news from Pine Wind Academy.
• Lin Xuan told the women that Pine Wind Academy’s crisis had been resolved and the Devil Race army besieging its headquarters had been wiped out.
• Lin Xuan announced that he would leave for Linglong Valley, and Liu Ying accepted his decision.
• Lin Xuan promised Horizon Sea Pavilion he would not abandon the demonic tribulation and might call on them for help.
• Lin Xuan departed Yingzhou Island in a flash of azure light.

Lin Xuan returned to Linglong Valley, reunited with Lu Ying'er and the other women, and learned that Zheng Xuan had been missing for over a century while Fairy Hongling had ascended to the Spirit World. He decided to attack the Ancient Demons' headquarters in Sky Continent, where their leaders were gathering after learning their elite forces had been wiped out.

• Lin Xuan returned to Linglong Valley and was welcomed by Lu Ying'er and the other three women.
• Lin Xuan heard that Baisuan Pavilion had recovered, then learned Zheng Xuan had disappeared more than a hundred years earlier but was believed alive because her Life-Bound Origin Pearl remained intact.
• Lu Ying'er told Lin Xuan that Fairy Hongling had shattered the void and ascended to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan resolved to strike the Ancient Demons' headquarters and learned it was located in Sky Continent, which the demons had conquered and laid waste.
• The Ancient Demons at their Sky Continent main altar learned that the forces sent against Baisuan Pavilion, Pine Wind Academy, and Horizon Sea Pavilion had been annihilated.

Ancient Demons learned that their forces attacking the three great sects of Cloud Province had been completely wiped out, apparently by a powerful Dongxuan Realm cultivator. Lord Qiaoyun, a maidservant of Devil Ancestor Bingpo, reassured them that her young lady would handle the threat without descending in her true body.

• Fellow Daoist Mei reported that the Iron-Winged Demon, the Blood-Transforming Demon, and the Two-Headed Demon armies had been annihilated without survivors.
• The Ancient Demons debated whether a Dongxuan Realm cultivator could have appeared in the Human World and destroyed their forces.
• Lord Qiaoyun confirmed the report and warned that the attacker was likely no ordinary Dongxuan Realm cultivator.
• The Succubus and the other Ancient Demons asked Lord Qiaoyun how they could occupy the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces with such an opponent present.
• Lord Qiaoyun said her young lady would deal with the cultivator, but clarified that Devil Ancestor Bingpo would not descend in her true body.

The ancient devils learned that Lady Bingpo planned to send a Split Soul to the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces and ordered them to strengthen Sky Continent's defenses while continuing their search for her desired item. Meanwhile, reports of Lin Xuan's return and victory over three Devil Race armies spread, restoring the cultivators' hope of surviving the devil tribulation.

• Miss Qiaoyun told the ancient devils that Lady Bingpo's Split Soul would descend to deal with Lin Xuan and urged them to find the item Lady Bingpo wanted.
• Miss Qiaoyun warned the ancient devils about the Ice Peak Devil Prison and said Lady Bingpo might reward whoever found the item with a chance to become a Devil Ancestor.
• Miss Qiaoyun told the ancient devils to ease their attacks and strengthen Sky Continent's defenses until Lady Bingpo's Split Soul arrived.
• News spread that Lin Xuan had returned from the Spirit World and annihilated the Devil Race armies besieging Baisuan Pavilion, Horizon Sea Pavilion, and Pine Wind Academy.
• Cultivators exaggerated Lin Xuan's feats, and his victory raised morale across the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces.

Lin Xuan and the three great powers issued the Immortal Alliance Order, rallying cultivators from across the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces to Linglong Valley to fight the Ancient Demons. The Ancient Demons responded by attacking the gathering forces and strengthening their defenses in Sky Continent.

• Cultivators from afar joined a battle in Cloud Province, forcing the Ancient Demons to retreat and helping the Thunder Sword Sect avoid heavy losses.
• The Thunder Sword Sect and another group of cultivators agreed to travel together to Linglong Valley in response to the Immortal Alliance Order.
• Millions of cultivators from Cloud Province and other provinces began converging on Linglong Valley after learning that Lin Xuan was leading the resistance.
• Lin Xuan arranged for Baisuan Pavilion, Pine Wind Academy, and Horizon Sea Pavilion to issue the order and unite the immortal cultivation world against the Ancient Demons.
• The Ancient Demons learned of the mass gathering and sent elite forces to hunt the traveling cultivators while strengthening Sky Continent's defenses.

As the cultivators and Ancient Demons prepared for a decisive battle, Lin Xuan reassured the women of Baisuan Pavilion that his guidance and Spirit World medicines could give them a chance to reach Lihe. Liu Xin feared she would be the only one he could not help, and Lin Xuan began to comfort her.

• The Ancient Demons prepared to lure Lin Xuan and the cultivators into a trap at Linglong Valley, while cultivators gathered there without seeing Lin Xuan.
• Lu Ying'er lamented that her remaining lifespan might not be enough to advance, and Liu Xin and Wu Yun'er shared her worry.
• Lin Xuan said his cultivation insights and Spirit World pills could give the women a fifty to seventy percent chance of reaching Lihe if they worked hard.
• Liu Xin silently feared that her weaker cultivation and limited lifespan would leave her unable to advance like her sisters.
• Lin Xuan noticed Liu Xin's sorrow and told her not to cry.