Chapter Summaries

Old Devil Gu broke through Tianfeng City's ancient protection array and slaughtered its defenders after accusing them of sheltering Lin. He summoned a vast Corpse Cloud filled with armored Refined Corpses to destroy the city and prevent anyone from escaping.

• Old Devil Gu summoned two Single-Horned Giant Pythons and attacked Tianfeng City's defenders, but the ancient restrictions repelled them.
• Old Devil Gu used a lightning-covered Sharp Cone Dharma Treasure to pierce the Sect Protection Array and rushed through the shrinking gap.
• Old Devil Gu released Corpse Poison, killing several hundred Demon-Transformed as the survivors fled.
• Old Devil Gu summoned a black pouch and filled the sky above Tianfeng City with a Corpse Cloud containing countless armored soldiers.
• The armored Refined Corpses emerged from the Corpse Cloud as Old Devil Gu prepared to raze the city and eliminate all witnesses.

Old Devil Gu attacked Tianfeng City with tens of thousands of refined corpses, but seven elders used the Black Tortoise Seven Heroes Formation to draw him into a battle inside its cloud-shaped formation. While the fighting continued, Lin Xuan slipped away and removed his disguise, keeping his identity concealed with the Qi Concealment Technique.

• Old Devil Gu sent his Copper Armored Corpses to attack the city wall, and they overwhelmed the Demon-Transformed defending that section.
• Seven Dongxuan Realm elders arrived, and Old Devil Gu wounded the bald elder with a surprise attack before the elders activated the Black Tortoise Seven Heroes Formation.
• The formation formed a vast Black Tortoise-shaped cloud and pulled Old Devil Gu inside, where he fought the seven elders.
• Lin Xuan judged that the formation could hold Old Devil Gu, then left the crowd and secretly undid the Heavenly Demon Infant Transformation Art.
• Lin Xuan immediately used the Qi Concealment Technique so his identity remained hidden.

Lin Xuan searched Tianfeng City for its treasure vault, found it guarded by a Dongxuan-stage Demon-Transformed, and learned its location after defeating him. As Old Devil Gu’s battle with Tianfeng City’s elders worsened, Lin Xuan reached the cliff concealing the vault.

• Lin Xuan searched Tianfeng City for treasures and flew to the mountain where the seven Dongxuan-level Demon-Transformed had come from.
• Lin Xuan spotted a hunchbacked Demon-Transformed guarding the summit and froze him with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Lin Xuan used the Soul-Searching Technique to learn that the Demon-Transformed had guarded the treasure vault, then shattered the ice sculpture and killed him.
• The Silver-Haired Elder realized Fellow Daoist Hu had fallen and accused Old Devil Gu of sending an accomplice into Tianfeng City for the treasure.
• Old Devil Gu released his Silver-Winged Corpse King, intensifying the battle as the elders faced a grave crisis and the Demon-Transformed gained the upper hand inside the city.
• Lin Xuan used the dead guard’s memories to find the cliff face concealing the treasure vault.

Lin Xuan found a hidden hall and struggled to break through the blue barrier protecting its treasures. Outside Tianfeng City, the Silver-Winged Corpse King killed one of the Demon-Transformed, and the white-haired old woman fled as the others faced defeat.

• Lin Xuan entered a cave whose restrictions blocked his divine sense and found a hall containing several racks and boxes behind a blue protective barrier.
• Lin Xuan's Sword Qi failed to affect the barrier, so he unleashed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, but its freezing power was blocked.
• Lin Xuan infused the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire with more magic power and used its poison, devouring, and corrosion attributes against the barrier.
• The Silver-Winged Corpse King fatally wounded the bald Demon-Transformed, leaving the remaining fighters alarmed and trapped between fleeing and staying to fight.
• The white-haired old woman, Fellow Daoist Long, turned and fled, shocking and enraging the remaining Demon-Transformed.

Old Devil Gu killed the fleeing Old Crone and a black-clothed Demon-Transformed, leaving the remaining defenders of Tianfeng City to unleash a life-sacrificing formation. The formation sealed Old Devil Gu inside a dense dark cloud, trapping him as it continued to absorb the region’s spiritual energy.

• The Old Crone fled, but a Ghost Claw seized and killed her before Old Devil Gu appeared beside her.
• Old Devil Gu attacked the black-clothed man with a Lightning Dragon and killed him, leaving four of the seven defenders alive.
• The Silver-Haired Elder and the other three defenders activated their final move with Formation Flags and sacrificed their lives to create a Black Tortoise-shaped dark cloud.
• Old Devil Gu tried to escape the shrinking cloud, but its barrier repelled him and his Sharp Cone treasure could not break through.
• The dark cloud continued drawing spiritual energy from across ten thousand li while Old Devil Gu remained trapped inside.

Lin Xuan broke into a hidden treasury and gathered ancient martial arts manuals, demon beast crystal cores, and rare Spirit Division-stage materials. A devastating explosion then destroyed nearly half of Tianfeng City, and just as Lin Xuan assumed Old Devil Gu had died, a gray-white pillar of light shot toward him.

• Lin Xuan broke the treasury’s barrier and collected its ancient manuals, including the Bixue Luoyu Manual, which taught top-tier martial arts for Demon-Transformed.
• Lin Xuan opened the first chest and found over two hundred demon beast crystal cores, including more than a dozen from Dongxuan-level beasts.
• Lin Xuan found Spirit Division-stage demonic beast materials in the second chest and stored the chest away without inspecting all its boxes.
• A tremendous explosion shook the area, so Lin Xuan left the cave and saw that nearly half of Tianfeng City had been destroyed.
• Lin Xuan realized the remaining four elders had sacrificed themselves to unleash the Black Tortoise Seven Heroes Formation’s final attack against Old Devil Gu, and he assumed the old devil had perished.
• A gray-white pillar of light burst from the cloud layer and shot straight toward Lin Xuan’s head.

Lin Xuan narrowly dodged Old Devil Gu’s surprise attack, then faced the battered Spirit Division cultivator after the Silver-Winged Corpse King had shielded him from an explosion. Lin Xuan taunted Old Devil Gu into attacking, but the old devil’s next strike sent Lin and his defensive treasure flying.

• Lin Xuan dodged a gray-white pillar of light that blasted a huge hole into the ground.
• Lin Xuan found Old Devil Gu alive but badly injured, while the Silver-Winged Corpse King was too damaged to fight and was returned to the Spirit Ghost Bag.
• Old Devil Gu blamed Lin Xuan for the battle’s losses, including the destruction of his Copper Armored Corpses, and vowed revenge.
• Lin Xuan mocked Old Devil Gu to provoke him and watched for an attack.
• Old Devil Gu fired a black spiritual radiance at Lin Xuan, who blocked it with the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield, but the impact hurled him dozens of zhang away.

Lin Xuan used the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation to conceal the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and freeze Old Devil Gu, then attacked the immobilized Spirit Division cultivator with the Spirit-Devouring Sword. As the Sword Ray struck, Old Devil Gu revealed a fierce glint, leaving Lin Xuan unsure whether his opponent had another trick.

• Lin Xuan tested Old Devil Gu with a giant sword and Flying Daggers, but the Spirit Division cultivator easily blocked both attacks.
• Lin Xuan brought out the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and filled the area with ice crystals, disguising the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire among them.
• The concealed Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire caught Old Devil Gu off guard and froze him inside Mystic Ice.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Spirit-Devouring Sword and unleashed a silver Sword Ray at the trapped Old Devil Gu.
• Just as the Sword Ray struck, Old Devil Gu's eyes flashed fiercely, hinting that he might still resist.

Lin Xuan’s sword strike failed to harm Old Devil Gu, who escaped the explosion with a spatial secret art and broke free of the Mystic Ice. The two continued their desperate fight, leaving Lin Xuan injured by the old monster’s Bone Spear.

• Lin Xuan watched Old Devil Gu vanish from the explosion and reappear unharmed, realizing he had used a spatial secret art that weakened him.
• Lin Xuan prepared to attack again, but Old Devil Gu shattered the Mystic Ice and broke free.
• Lin Xuan decided to press his advantage and fight Old Devil Gu rather than flee, while Old Devil Gu renewed his attack in a fury.
• Old Devil Gu launched a grayish-white Bone Spear that pierced the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to escape the Bone Spear, but the attack still wounded his right shoulder.

Lin Xuan used a succession of treasures and techniques to fend off Old Devil Gu, but the Spirit Division-stage cultivator overpowered each attack. The chapter ended as Lin Xuan unleashed a vast swarm of Blood Fire Ants from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, forcing Old Devil Gu to face a new threat.

• Lin Xuan healed his wound and sent the Iron Feather Locust Blades and Zen Staff to intercept Old Devil Gu's Bone Spear.
• Old Devil Gu's Bone Spear damaged the Zen Staff with black liquid, so Lin Xuan detonated the treasure to knock the spear off course.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Hundred Dragon Fangs, but Old Devil Gu emerged from the attack and continued pressing him.
• Lin Xuan used the Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image to destroy Old Devil Gu's five balls of light, then saw the old devil summon a three-headed, six-armed Void Shadow with the Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse.
• Lin Xuan opened the Ten Thousand Soul Tower and released more than a hundred million Blood Fire Ants, while Old Devil Gu chose to fight rather than retreat.

Lin Xuan used his Blood Fire Ants to destroy Old Devil Gu’s corpse-insect attack and force him to defend himself. As Old Devil Gu charged through Lin Xuan’s insect barriers, Lin Xuan brought out his Jade Luo Bees for the first time in centuries.

• Old Devil Gu summoned a hive-shaped treasure and transformed corpse mist mixed with his essence blood into a cloud of Corpse Insects.
• Lin Xuan sent his Blood Fire Ants to attack, and the front ranks self-destructed, damaging the Corpse Insects while strengthening their surviving kin.
• Lin Xuan sent wave after wave of Blood Fire Ants, eventually annihilating the Corpse Insects and forcing Old Devil Gu to shelter behind a White Bone Shield.
• Old Devil Gu flew toward Lin Xuan, breaking through walls of spiked Blood Fire Ants as Lin Xuan changed tactics.
• Lin Xuan released more than a thousand newly advanced Jade Luo Bees from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower to confront Old Devil Gu.

Lin Xuan used the Jade Luo Bees’ Time Poison to force Old Devil Gu to divert his power from controlling his Life-Bound Dharma Treasure, which turned against him. Lin Xuan finished Old Devil Gu with the Spirit-Devouring Sword and the Four Spirits’ attack, then surveyed the ruined Tianfeng City.

• Old Devil Gu sacrificed his essence blood and two fingers to empower his Bone Spear and Ghost Face for a decisive attack.
• Lin Xuan sent the Jade Luo Bees through Old Devil Gu’s defenses, and their Time Poison began draining his lifespan.
• Old Devil Gu spent his Life Essence suppressing the poison and lost control of the Ghost Face, which attacked him with a devastating wave of black light.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Spirit-Devouring Sword and the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise against Old Devil Gu.
• Old Devil Gu’s body turned to sand, and Lin Xuan concluded that even his Nascent Soul had been destroyed before looking toward the devastated Tianfeng City.

Lin Xuan returned to the ruins of Tianfeng City and caught Old Devil Gu, who had survived by abandoning his body and hiding his Nascent Soul. After defeating his escape attempt, Lin Xuan imprisoned him in Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and began searching his soul.

• Lin Xuan left Tianfeng City after directing the Demon-Transformed survivors’ hatred toward the Heavenly Corpse Sect.
• Old Devil Gu emerged from hiding as a weakened Nascent Soul and vowed to take revenge on Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan revealed he had returned after noticing Old Devil Gu’s Storage Bag was missing from his abandoned body.
• Old Devil Gu used Lightning Evasion to escape Lin Xuan’s Sword Qi, but Lin Xuan struck him with the spatial Long Spear and forced him back into view.
• Lin Xuan seized Old Devil Gu’s Nascent Soul, froze it with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and began using a soul-searching divine ability.

Lin Xuan destroyed the Spirit Division cultivator’s Nascent Soul and collected the treasures left behind, including an incomplete Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse. He then left the battle site, and the story shifted to Yueluo City, where an undercurrent of unrest was beginning to stir.

• Lin Xuan burned the Nascent Soul with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, choosing to destroy it rather than risk keeping it.
• Lin Xuan retrieved two Storage Bags and gathered the Spirit Division cultivator’s Spirit Stones, treasures, pills, and other valuables.
• Lin Xuan found the Water Cloud Awl and an incomplete Six-Word Evil Ghost Curse recorded on a black bead.
• Lin Xuan collected the Old Devil’s Bone Spear and left the trouble behind.
• Yueluo City, a small Immortal City controlled by the Yue and Luo clans, began facing an uneasy undercurrent beneath its usual calm.

After recovering from his battle with Old Devil Gu, Lin Xuan reached Yueluo City to reunite with Zheng Xuan. He found her safe, though she had provoked local cultivators who threatened revenge, and prepared to deal with them.

• Lin Xuan recovered his strength in seclusion after defeating Old Devil Gu, then flew to Yueluo City to meet Zheng Xuan.
• Lin Xuan entered Yueluo City and followed the mark he had placed on Zheng Xuan to her secluded courtyard.
• Zheng Xuan's defensive restrictions attacked Lin Xuan, but he easily dispelled them and she recognized him.
• Zheng Xuan explained that she had fought several lecherous cultivators who threatened to bring their sect elders after her.
• Lin Xuan decided the men would face retribution for threatening Zheng Xuan, and she invited him inside.

Lin Xuan refined Old Devil Gu’s Water Cloud Awl into the thunder-and-fire Thunder Fire Awl. After emerging from seclusion, he told Zheng Xuan he planned to head to Tianwu Mountain to confront Fire Cloud Venerable, whom he had secretly marked.

• Lin Xuan told Zheng Xuan how he had killed Old Devil Gu, astonishing her with his account of defeating a Spirit Division cultivator.
• Lin Xuan spent several days removing Old Devil Gu’s imprint from the Water Cloud Awl, then used rare materials and treasures to reforge it.
• Lin Xuan successfully transformed the Water Cloud Awl into the Thunder Fire Awl, with both lightning and fire attributes.
• Zheng Xuan waited outside while Lin Xuan refined the treasure and asked whether they would return to the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan said he would go to Tianwu Mountain to pursue Fire Cloud Venerable, who had captured Zheng Xuan and charged him fifty million mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Lin Xuan took Zheng Xuan to Tianwu Mountain to confront Fire Cloud Venerable, driven both by his protectiveness of Yue'er's disciple and by his desire to recover his losses. After breaking through the mountain's fiery restriction, he faced a group of Fire Cloud Venerable's followers.

• Zheng Xuan thanked Lin Xuan, who resolved to avenge her suffering at Fire Cloud Venerable's hands.
• Lin Xuan and Zheng Xuan traveled by Spirit Boat toward Tianwu Mountain, and he shared cultivation insights with her while thinking of Yue'er.
• After a month, Lin Xuan used a jade disk to confirm Fire Cloud Venerable was at Tianwu Mountain and steered toward his location.
• Lin Xuan broke through a fiery fog restriction with a giant azure sword, alerting the cultivators below.
• Fifty or sixty of Fire Cloud Venerable's followers flew up to confront Lin Xuan, and their Bearded Man leader began shouting at him.

Lin Xuan killed Fire Cloud Venerable’s disciples at Tianwu Mountain, then faced the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Fat and Thin Twin Devils. Zheng Xuan withdrew to safety as Lin Xuan prepared for battle, still unsure why the two brothers had appeared in Fire Cloud Venerable’s territory.

• Lin Xuan revealed his Dongxuan Realm cultivation to Fire Cloud Venerable’s disciples and dismissed their claim that he had come to visit a friend.
• Lin Xuan killed the disciples with sword light and told Zheng Xuan to collect their Storage Bags.
• Lin Xuan sensed two Dongxuan Realm cultivators approaching and recognized their sinister aura as belonging to the Heavenly Corpse Sect.
• The Fat and Thin Twin Devils arrived and confirmed their identities to Lin Xuan, who recognized them as the sect’s famed brothers.
• Lin Xuan told Zheng Xuan to retreat several thousand zhang and protect herself before he faced the brothers.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Fat and Thin Twin Devils with his Thunder Fire Awl, Heavenly Thunder Sand, and formidable physical strength. As his punch shattered the Fat Devil’s defenses, the Thin Devil recovered and used a talisman to intervene.

• Lin Xuan attacked the Fat and Thin Twin Devils with his Thunder Fire Awl, which overpowered the Thin Devil’s Black Water Bone Blade and wounded him.
• The Fat Devil sent two tiger-shaped treasures at Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan used Heavenly Thunder Sand to blast them back and damage them.
• Lin Xuan destroyed the Thin Devil’s life-bound bone blade and sent his Iron Feather Locust Blade against the Fat Devil’s defenses.
• Lin Xuan appeared beside the Fat Devil and struck his shield with a punch, nearly breaking through its defenses.
• The Thin Devil recovered enough to throw out a talisman as Lin Xuan’s next punch shattered the Fat Devil’s protective barrier and shield wall.

Lin Xuan killed the Fat Devil after the Twin Devils used a Substitute Tribulation Talisman, but the Thin Devil released a Purple Patterned Corpse Insect by exploding his own body. The powerful insect emerged to confront Lin Xuan.

• The Fat and Thin Twin Devils vanished using a Substitute Tribulation Talisman, but Lin Xuan found them with his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and pierced the Fat Devil’s head with an Ink Spirit Drill.
• The Thin Devil mourned his brother and vowed to die alongside Lin Xuan, then used Thunder Beads and talismans to hold Lin Xuan off while preparing a secret art.
• The Thin Devil swelled up and exploded, releasing a Purple Patterned Corpse Insect from his body.
• Lin Xuan recognized the insect as a rare, dangerous corpse insect capable of contending with a Spirit Division cultivator when mature.