Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan reached the Heavenly Corpse Sect headquarters and stayed at its Post House while waiting for the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly. When the event began, he followed the other cultivators to the Ascension Hall and saw the sect’s Flying Sky Coffins.

• Lin Xuan questioned the old man about the Heavenly Corpse Sect as they traveled to the Huiyin Mountain Range.
• The old man opened a passage through the Corpse Qi Swamp and escorted Lin Xuan to the sect’s headquarters.
• Lin Xuan accepted lodging at the Post House and spent three days meditating while outside cultivators gathered for the assembly.
• A Sound Transmission Talisman invited Lin Xuan to the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly at the Ascension Hall.
• Lin Xuan followed the other cultivators to the suspended Ascension Hall and heard them identify the surrounding stone coffins as the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Flying Sky Coffin.

Lin Xuan entered the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s heavily guarded Ascension Hall to attend the high-level Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly, while assessing the risks of his plan against the sect. He passed the entrance checks and entered the assembly area, realizing that the defenses were stronger than he had expected.

• Lin Xuan found that his divine sense could not penetrate the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Flying Sky Coffin, then proceeded to the Ascension Hall.
• Lin Xuan presented his invitation and learned from an armored soldier that Demon-Transformed could disguise themselves with Pseudo-Immortal Pills.
• Two Demon-Transformed were exposed at another entrance and killed by Heavenly Corpse Sect soldiers.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly had ordinary and high-level gatherings, then chose to attend the high-level one.
• Lin Xuan presented the Cold Ice Halberd, paid five thousand Spirit Stones, and entered through a guarded stone gate.

Lin Xuan attended the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly, where Old Devil Gu arrived and opened the event by presenting a powerful Zombie Talisman. Lin Xuan remained wary of the Spirit Division cultivator as he waited to see how the gathering would unfold.

• Lin Xuan observed the assembled cultivators and entertained himself while waiting for the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly to begin.
• Old Devil Gu entered the hall in a Beast Carriage, startling the cultivators, who greeted him with respect.
• Lin Xuan reconsidered his plan to hunt Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators after discovering that Old Devil Gu was present.
• Old Devil Gu began the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly and unveiled a Zombie Talisman made from the corpse qi of his Silver-Winged Corpse King.
• Old Devil Gu explained that the talisman could wield roughly one-third the strength of an early-stage Spirit Division cultivator for half an incense stick.

At the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly, Lin Xuan watched Ancient Old Devil trade three Zombie Talismans for Black Obsidian Stone and saw many rare treasures change hands. The chapter ended when a woman with the Five Yin Absolute Pulse was presented as a cultivation cauldron and Lin Xuan recognized her with a drastic change in expression.

• Ancient Old Devil offered a Zombie Talisman in exchange for a small bottle of Nine Netherworlds Heavenly Water, but no one could provide it.
• A black-robed woman offered two pieces of Black Obsidian Stone, and Ancient Old Devil exchanged all three of his Zombie Talismans for them.
• A shifty-eyed cultivator sold five bottles of ancient pills that could increase Dongxuan Realm cultivators’ magic power to a wealthy Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivator.
• Lin Xuan acquired two useful materials as rare treasures were traded at the assembly.
• Fire Cloud The Venerable of Tianwu Mountain presented an Ascended Cultivator with the Five Yin Absolute Pulse as a cultivation cauldron, and Lin Xuan recognized her.

Lin Xuan recognized Zheng Xuan, Yue'er’s former disciple, among the captives at the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly and decided to rescue her. As Old Monster Gu bid for her, Lin Xuan challenged him, and the auction was left at forty million mid-grade Spirit Stones.

• Lin Xuan saw Zheng Xuan being offered as a captive and realized she had ascended to the Spirit World after disappearing in the Human World.
• The Venerable Fire Cloud revealed Zheng Xuan’s Five Yin Absolute Pulse constitution and set her starting price at ten million mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Old Monster Gu bid twenty million mid-grade Spirit Stones, causing the other bidders to withdraw.
• Lin Xuan disguised his appearance and cultivation, then bid thirty million mid-grade Spirit Stones to save Zheng Xuan.
• Old Monster Gu fixed Lin Xuan with a probing gaze and raised the bid to forty million mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Lin Xuan won Zheng Xuan at the Heavenly Corpse Sect auction, then revealed his identity and freed her from Old Monster Fire Cloud’s restriction. Zheng Xuan began explaining how she had reached the Spirit World, leaving Lin Xuan startled when she mentioned an ancient city in Yanzhou.

• Lin Xuan bid fifty million mid-grade Spirit Stones for Zheng Xuan, and Old Monster Gu stopped bidding; Lin Xuan completed the purchase and received a Heavenly Mystery Mansion as a gift.
• After the auction, Lin Xuan returned to the Post House, set a restriction, and released Zheng Xuan from the Heavenly Mystery Mansion.
• Zheng Xuan recognized Lin Xuan as Ancestor Lin and cried with relief; he removed the restriction sealing her magic power.
• Zheng Xuan asked about her master, Yue'er, and Lin Xuan explained that Yue'er was separated from him after they entered the Asura Gate with Fairy Ruyan.
• Lin Xuan asked how Zheng Xuan had reached the Spirit World, and she recounted traveling to Yanzhou and finding an ancient cultivator city beneath Stream Leap Ravine; Lin Xuan recognized the place and wondered if she had used its Teleportation Array.

Zheng Xuan told Lin Xuan how she had reached the Spirit World and been captured by Fire Cloud Venerable, while Old Devil Gu secretly plotted to seize her and kill Lin Xuan after they left the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s territory.

• Zheng Xuan recounted that she had advanced to Lihe in the Spirit World before Fire Cloud Venerable recognized her Five Yin Absolute Pulse and captured her.
• Lin Xuan listened to Zheng Xuan’s account and learned that Fire Cloud Venerable had brought her to the Heavenly Corpse Sect for the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly.
• Zheng Xuan warned Lin Xuan that Old Devil Gu was a powerful elder of the sect and might retaliate for her rescue.
• Old Devil Gu rejected his disciples’ suggestion to capture Lin Xuan at the sect, saying it would harm the sect’s reputation.
• Old Devil Gu ordered three Dongxuan Realm disciples to ambush Lin Xuan after he left the sect’s sphere of influence and bring Zheng Xuan back unharmed.

Lin Xuan left the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly, unaware that a Heavenly Corpse Sect disciple had secretly marked him and alerted Old Devil Gu’s hunters. He fled far from the sect’s territory and replenished his magic power with Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, but worried that his supply would soon run out.

• Lin Xuan left the assembly aboard a Bone Boat after spending two days keeping up appearances.
• A Core Condensation Realm Heavenly Corpse Sect disciple secretly used a Soul-Marking Orb to place a tracking mark on Lin Xuan and lit Message-Transmitting Incense to summon Old Devil Gu’s three Dongxuan Realm disciples.
• The hunters confirmed the mark on a tracking artifact and pursued Lin Xuan, while Lin Xuan unknowingly sped away from the Corpse Qi Swamp.
• Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape and Thousand-Mile Instantaneous to travel fifty or sixty thousand li from the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s main altar.
• Lin Xuan drank several drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to restore his magic power and worried that his supply was dwindling.

Lin Xuan used a Random Teleportation Talisman to escape the Heavenly Corpse Sect pursuers, but they followed him to a nearby teleportation point. Rather than flee again, he confronted the three Dongxuan Realm cultivators, and their attack began.

• Lin Xuan stored his Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and used Phantom Escape to teleport tens of thousands of li away.
• The three Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators identified the teleportation as a low-grade Random Teleportation Talisman and learned Lin Xuan was heading toward Ivory Mountain.
• Lin Xuan replenished his magic power with a Top-grade Spirit Stone, sensed three powerful spiritual pressures appear nearby, and deduced they had used a sect teleportation point.
• Instead of fleeing, Lin Xuan flew toward the three pursuers, who were surprised by his approach.
• Lin Xuan arrived and asked whether the three cultivators had come to see him off; the Confucian scholar summoned a bone sword and slashed at his head.

Lin Xuan ambushed three Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators, badly injuring the scholar and destroying their Teleportation Array. The scholar then used the Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse to summon a green-faced evil ghost from the Underworld Realm.

• Lin Xuan teleported behind the scholar and struck him with claw rays and a cyan sword light, heavily wounding him.
• Lin Xuan evaded the other two cultivators' attacks and destroyed the Teleportation Array to prevent reinforcements from arriving.
• The scholar treated his injuries and confronted Lin Xuan, while Lin Xuan summoned the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring.
• The scholar transformed his White Bone Sword into a writing brush and used the Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse to tear open a spatial rift.
• A green-faced, tusked evil ghost emerged from the rift into the Human World.

The Confucian-robed cultivator fused with a Fierce Ghost and overwhelmed Lin Xuan in close combat. Lin Xuan secretly feigned weakness and drew his opponent tens of thousands of zhang away from the other Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators, preparing to strike while they could not intervene.

• The Confucian-robed cultivator fused with his Yinhun ghost creature, healing his injuries and greatly increasing his strength.
• The cultivator used spatial techniques to counter Lin Xuan's Teleportation, so Lin Xuan underwent Phoenix Transformation to meet his attack.
• The ghost-fused cultivator battered Lin Xuan and appeared to have him at a disadvantage, while the heavily made-up woman and the sinister cultivator watched from afar.
• Lin Xuan avoided serious injury as he let the fight carry them tens of thousands of zhang from the other two cultivators.
• The Confucian-robed cultivator grew overconfident and lunged at Lin Xuan, who revealed that his apparent weakness had been a ploy to isolate him before striking.

Lin Xuan revealed that he had been feigning weakness and killed the monster formed from the Confucian scholar and Fierce Ghost with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire. He then countered the woman’s ghostly treasures and hidden Flying Fork, vanished with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, and attacked her with a punch.

• Lin Xuan unleashed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, defeating the monster’s Demon Pythons and Mysterious Yin Shield before burning the monster to nothingness.
• The sinister cultivator and the woman in gaudy makeup arrived too late to save their companion and decided they had to fight Lin Xuan to carry out their master’s task.
• The woman in gaudy makeup summoned a multitude of skulls from her silk handkerchief, and Lin Xuan sent his Iron Feather Locust Blades to clash with them.
• Lin Xuan sensed and intercepted the woman’s concealed Flying Fork, then used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to strike it again after she hid it.
• Lin Xuan vanished with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and punched at the woman in gaudy makeup as she raised a White Bone Shield.

Lin Xuan fought off the heavily made-up woman and the sinister cultivator with overwhelming attacks and several treasures. As their insect swarms were destroyed, the sinister cultivator summoned hundreds of Skeleton Soldiers, and Lin Xuan sent the Blood Fire Ants to meet them.

• Lin Xuan shattered the heavily made-up woman's White Bone Shield and broke her left shoulder with a punch.
• A strange beast attacked Lin Xuan, but his Heavenly Thunder Sand revealed it was the sinister cultivator's Wolf-Tooth Mace and destroyed its spiritual power.
• The sinister cultivator emerged and used an Ancient Treasure shaped like a bone-covered mountain to withstand the Heavenly Thunder Sand.
• The heavily made-up woman unleashed Corpse Insects, and Lin Xuan countered with Blood Fire Ants from his Ten Thousand Soul Tower.
• Lin Xuan used the Hundred Spirit Bell to weaken the Corpse Insects, then made the Blood Fire Ants self-detonate and destroy them.
• The sinister cultivator raised hundreds of Lihe-level Skeleton Soldiers from the mountain, and Lin Xuan sent his Blood Fire Ants toward them.

Lin Xuan used the Spirit-Devouring Sword to destroy the mountain treasure and kill the late Dongxuan cultivator. He pursued the fleeing female cultivator, who tried to slow him with several magic tools.

• The Heavenly Corpse Sect cultivators trapped Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens Micro-Steps with a bluish-gray bead and sent a mountain-shaped treasure crashing toward him.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Spirit-Devouring Sword and unleashed four spiritual beasts, which melted the mountain and overwhelmed the sinister cultivator’s defenses.
• The sinister cultivator was swallowed by the sword’s attack, and the heavily made-up woman fled in fear.
• Lin Xuan chased the woman and rapidly closed the distance between them.
• The woman fired several black-lit blades, spears, swords, and halberds at Lin Xuan to buy time.

Lin Xuan killed the heavily made-up woman with his Ink Spirit Drill, but she left a tracking mark on him before he escaped using a Random Teleportation Talisman. Old Devil Gu learned that his three disciples had died and discovered that they had marked Lin Xuan before their deaths.

• The heavily made-up woman destroyed her treasures and tried to activate a silver talisman, but Lin Xuan killed her with the Ink Spirit Drill.
• Lin Xuan caught the woman’s Nascent Soul, but she self-destructed and sent two streaks of black light away, one marking Lin Xuan and the other fleeing into the distance.
• Lin Xuan found the woman’s intact Random Teleportation Talisman and used it to vanish from the area.
• At the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s main helm, Old Devil Gu received the black light and learned that his three disciples had died after planting a tracking mark on Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan used a Random Teleportation Talisman to escape the Heavenly Corpse Sect, but landed only about three hundred thousand li from the Huiyin Mountain Range. As he fled and searched for a way to evade Old Devil Gu, the pursuer caught up behind him.

• Lin Xuan emerged in a desolate wilderness after using a Random Teleportation Talisman and checked that no danger was nearby.
• Lin Xuan found a group of cultivators in the Gravel Wilderness and asked the red-faced old man for the location and a map.
• Lin Xuan learned he was only about three hundred thousand li from the Huiyin Mountain Range, took the Jade Slip, and left a top-grade Spirit Tool in exchange.
• Lin Xuan continued fleeing and considered returning to the Cloud Hidden Sect, but decided the journey would take too long.
• Lin Xuan sensed Old Devil Gu approaching from about ten thousand li behind him.

Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape repeatedly to flee Old Devil Gu, but after more than three months he still could not shake his pursuer. With his Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk running low, he considered using the Five Dragon Seal but feared exposing it to powerful figures in the Nailong Realm.

• Lin Xuan replenished his magic power and used Phantom Escape to create nearly a hundred lifelike copies before teleporting away in rapid succession.
• Old Devil Gu pursued Lin Xuan and was astonished by the vast distance his escape art covered.
• Lin Xuan teleported several dozen times, then used Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and medicinal pills to recover while continuing to flee.
• More than three months after the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly, Lin Xuan remained unable to lose Old Devil Gu, who repeatedly blocked his route back to the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan considered using the Five Dragon Seal to kill Old Devil Gu but feared that revealing it would attract powerful enemies.

After three months of fleeing Old Devil Gu, Lin Xuan planned to hide in Tianfeng City, where cultivators were forbidden, and Zheng Xuan gave him an ancient art that might conceal his cultivation. Lin Xuan headed for the city to study it while Old Devil Gu continued his pursuit.

• Lin Xuan studied a map and decided to try entering Tianfeng City, hoping its Demon-Transformed residents would make pursuit difficult.
• Zheng Xuan gave Lin Xuan a Jade Slip containing the Heavenly Demon Infant Transformation Art, which could conceal magic power and make a Nascent Soul formless.
• Lin Xuan sent Zheng Xuan to rendezvous with him in Yueluo City, then set off toward Tianfeng City while studying the art.
• Lin Xuan considered using the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art and Qi Concealment Technique if he could not master the new art, and resolved to destroy the Heavenly Corpse Sect if he escaped.
• Old Devil Gu reflected on his frustrating three-month pursuit and remained determined to capture Lin Xuan for the Five Yin Absolute Pulse Cauldron.

Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Demon Infant Transformation Art to hide his cultivation and entered Tianfeng City, hoping its Demon-Transformed defenders would help him escape Old Devil Gu. Old Devil Gu continued pursuing him, unaware of whether Lin Xuan’s plan would work.

• Old Devil Gu noticed Lin Xuan’s pace had slowed but dismissed the possibility that his schemes could threaten a Spirit Division cultivator.
• Lin Xuan mastered the Heavenly Demon Infant Transformation Art and used it to make his magic power, Nascent Soul, and Demon Core undetectable.
• Lin Xuan approached Tianfeng City and hoped its powerful defenses and Demon-Transformed inhabitants would hinder Old Devil Gu.
• Lin Xuan walked through the city gate without triggering its restrictions.
• Old Devil Gu continued toward Tianfeng City, confident that he could overcome Lin Xuan’s trap.

Old Devil Gu pursued Lin Xuan to Tianfeng City, where the city’s ancient restriction concealed Lin Xuan and barred immortal cultivators. As the Seven Elders debated whether to resist the powerful intruder, Old Devil Gu’s patience ran out at the city gate.

• Old Devil Gu sensed Lin Xuan inside Tianfeng City, while Lin Xuan ate in a restaurant and waited for the pursuit to unfold.
• Tianfeng City’s warning bell sounded, its protective barrier began to rise, and the Demon-Transformed learned that a Spirit Division cultivator had arrived.
• Old Devil Gu demanded that the city hand over his enemy, but a white-haired elder denied that an immortal cultivator could have entered unnoticed.
• The Seven Elders received a message about Old Devil Gu’s demand and debated whether defending the city’s principles was worth risking a clash with him.
• The Seven Elders flew toward the city gate as Old Devil Gu demanded entry and threatened the white-haired elder.