Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan realized Thin Demon had force-ripened the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect into a temporary Spirit Division-level threat and fought to delay it. The Hundred Spirit Bell initially stopped the insect, but it adapted and charged through its sound waves.

• Lin Xuan deduced that Thin Demon had sacrificed himself to force the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect into a temporary false maturity.
• Lin Xuan tested the insect with the Ink Spirit Drill, Heavenly Thunder Sand, and Iron Feather Locust Blade, but its power and barrier defeated or blunted his attacks.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to retreat and brought out the Hundred Spirit Bell, whose sound waves stopped the insect and forced it to teleport away.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly struck the Hundred Spirit Bell and retreated, keeping the insect at bay while he tried to buy time.
• The Purple Patterned Corpse Insect lit its purple markings, formed a solid barrier, and charged Lin Xuan through the bell's sound waves.

Lin Xuan fought the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect with his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures, enduring its powerful attacks until its mature form faded. He then used the Hundred Spirit Bell to trap the weakened insect alive.

• Lin Xuan attacked the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect with the Spirit-Devouring Sword, but it survived the devastating clash inside a protective purple cocoon.
• Lin Xuan transformed the Hundred Spirit Bell’s sound waves into weapons and forced the insect to dodge, but it countered with sound waves powerful enough to destroy a mountain.
• The Purple Patterned Corpse Insect shrank as its mature form ended, and Lin Xuan realized its strength had fallen to the Dongxuan Realm.
• Lin Xuan chose to capture the weakened insect alive and formed a giant net from the Hundred Spirit Bell’s sound waves.
• The insect tried to escape through a gap in Lin Xuan’s Sword Qi, but he had set a trap there, and the purple net caught it.

Lin Xuan captured the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect and flew to Fire Cloud Venerable’s mountain lair, but a vast, powerful Fire Cloud suddenly covered the mountains and the valley collapsed. Fire Cloud Venerable appeared amid the wreckage and told Lin Xuan he had expected him.

• Lin Xuan trapped the Purple Patterned Corpse Insect with the Hundred Spirit Bell and stored it in the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, hoping to raise it as a future ally.
• Lin Xuan followed the Jade Disk’s directions to a secluded valley with a Pure Yang Fire Vein, where he expected to find Fire Cloud Venerable.
• A vast Fire Cloud swept over Tianwu Mountain, and Lin Xuan sensed its immense spiritual power as it covered the surrounding mountains.
• The valley collapsed amid thunderous blasts, and Fire Cloud Venerable appeared seated among the rubble.
• Fire Cloud Venerable looked at Lin Xuan and said that he had known Lin Xuan was coming.

Lin Xuan confronted Fire Cloud Venerable and revealed that he had attacked him to avenge Zheng Xuan, his disciple. Fire Cloud Venerable admitted he had summoned an unusually powerful Tribulation of Vital Energy to kill Lin Xuan, leaving them facing the descending tribulation.

• Fire Cloud Venerable questioned why Lin Xuan had come after him, and Lin Xuan summoned Zheng Xuan to explain that Fire Cloud Venerable had captured and sold his disciple.
• Fire Cloud Venerable said he would not surrender, and Lin Xuan learned that the Fat and Thin Twin Devils were Fire Cloud Venerable's cousins.
• Lin Xuan deduced that Fire Cloud Venerable had invited the Twin Devils to protect him during his Tribulation of Vital Energy.
• Fire Cloud Venerable threatened to use the tribulation to take Lin Xuan down with him, revealing that he had spent vital energy to make it stronger than usual.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the danger, arguing that a Tribulation of Vital Energy could not match the power of a Spirit Division-level Heavenly Tribulation.

Fire Cloud Venerable died after triggering an enhanced Dongxuan-level Tribulation of Vital Energy against Lin Xuan, while trying to distract him with the promise of hidden treasures. Lin Xuan steadied himself, prepared his defenses, and faced the first wave of the tribulation’s fireballs.

• Fire Cloud Venerable turned to dust after telling Lin Xuan that his treasures were hidden in the back mountain and that surviving the tribulation would erase their grudge.
• Lin Xuan recognized Fire Cloud Venerable’s promise as a scheme meant to stir his greed and weaken his focus.
• Lin Xuan sent Zheng Xuan into the Heavenly Mystery Mansion so she would not become a burden during the tribulation.
• Lin Xuan recalled the Tribulation of Vital Energy’s risks and benefits, then deployed the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield and drank Spirit Wine to recover magic power.
• The tribulation clouds released more than a thousand tracking fireballs that struck within a small area around Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan struggled to endure an enhanced Tribulation of Vital Energy as increasingly powerful fire attacks tested his defenses and rapidly drained his magic power. After surviving a massive pillar of fire with the help of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, he braced himself for the next strike.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to send ice against successive waves of fireballs while the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield protected him.
• When a huge hole opened in the Fire Cloud, Lin Xuan began forming ice dragons with Hundred Dragon Fangs, but a pillar of fire struck before the technique was ready and melted them.
• Lin Xuan poured magic power into the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield and drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk as the pillar engulfed him.
• Lin Xuan transformed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire into an azure ice wall and sustained it against the pillar until the attack finally ended.
• As the Tribulation Cloud grew denser and its central opening widened, Lin Xuan drank another drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and took out two Top-grade Spirit Stones to replenish his magic power.

Lin Xuan endured three days of relentless fire rain during his Tribulation of Vital Energy, conserving his strength as the shrinking Tribulation Cloud grew brighter and more concentrated. As the final, most dangerous stage approached, he steeled himself to survive.

• Lin Xuan faced continuous fire rain that gradually weakened his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire ice wall.
• After three days, Lin Xuan relied on the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield, spirit stones, Spirit Wine, and his remaining Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to withstand the fire rain and recover his magic power.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the Tribulation Cloud had shrunk to a fraction of its original size but had become brighter and more condensed.
• Lin Xuan recalled that the final stage of a tribulation brought its fiercest attacks and that failure meant death.
• Lin Xuan resolved to survive the final stage, drawing on his past hardships and powerful will to live.

Lin Xuan used his recovered magic power, defensive treasures, and talismans to withstand successive waves of the Heavenly Tribulation. After surviving attacks formed from countless flame beasts, he faced a final, unprecedented assault of magical runes as the tribulation cloud vanished.

• Lin Xuan restored his magic power with Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and prepared the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield, Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and defensive talismans.
• Countless flame weapons descended, and Lin Xuan sacrificed wave after wave of high-grade talismans to block them while preserving his magic power.
• The tribulation sent down more than a thousand flame beasts, and Lin Xuan fought them with thousands of Ice Flood Dragons.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly used Hundred Dragon Fangs five times to replenish his dragons and survived the flame beasts’ attack after spending nearly half his magic power.
• Lin Xuan watched the tribulation cloud vanish as magical runes filled the sky, realized the final wave was coming, and resolved to face it without surrendering.

Lin Xuan faced the final attack of his Tribulation of Vital Energy, a fiery strike empowered by a formed array, and exhausted his defenses trying to survive it. The tribulation ended after the attack left a vast crater, but Lin Xuan's fate remained unknown.

• The runes above Lin Xuan formed an array that launched a massive fireball containing a one-legged Void Shadow resembling Bi Fang.
• Lin Xuan used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to form Mystic Ice, but the fireball pierced through the ice and shattered it.
• Lin Xuan activated Phoenix Transformation and prepared to endure the tribulation with his body if his shield failed.
• The Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield collapsed, and Lin Xuan's attempt to escape with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps was stopped by the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Lin Xuan activated the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield as the fireball engulfed him and struck the ground, leaving a huge crater.
• The Tribulation of Vital Energy ended and the Tribulation Cloud dispersed, but no one knew whether Lin Xuan had survived.

Two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators arrived at the ruined Fire Cloud Valley, believing Fire Cloud Venerable had died during Tribulation Transcendence and hoping to claim his treasures. As they uncovered the object that erupted from a vast hole, the chapter left its identity unrevealed.

• Murong and Situ surveyed the ruined valley and debated whether Fire Cloud Venerable had perished in the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Murong explained that Fire Cloud Venerable’s treasure vault could only be opened by someone of his bloodline, and he persuaded Situ to cooperate for an equal share.
• A sudden tremor shook the valley, and magma erupted violently from the huge hole.
• A mysterious object shot from the hole and flattened a nearby mountain, prompting Murong and Situ to fly over and investigate.
• Murong swept the rocks away with a gale to reveal the buried object.

Lin Xuan emerged from an enormous fiery cocoon after two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators discovered it. When Murong Shuo attacked him, Lin Xuan awakened and repelled the strike, leaving Murong Shuo pleading for his life.

• The Silver-Haired Elder and the black-haired elder found a huge, mysterious cocoon beneath the rubble, and the black-haired elder’s magic power drained when he touched it.
• The cocoon absorbed the surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, cracked, and exploded to reveal Lin Xuan sealed inside an amber-like crystal.
• Murong Shuo attacked the motionless Lin Xuan with his Immortal Sword, but Lin Xuan opened his eyes and shattered the crystal.
• The Immortal Sword struck Lin Xuan’s head and was knocked away, damaging Murong Shuo through their connection.
• Lin Xuan identified himself and rebuked Murong Shuo, who begged for his life and claimed the attack was a misunderstanding.

Lin Xuan survived Fire Cloud Venerable’s tribulation, gained a greatly strengthened body, more Silver Light Spots, and a late-stage Demon Core. After subduing two Nascent Soul cultivators, he forced the black-haired old man to lead him to Fire Cloud Venerable’s hidden treasure.

• Lin Xuan knocked out the Silver-Haired Elder and spared the black-haired old man surnamed Situ, who stayed rather than attempt to flee.
• Lin Xuan recalled how the Blue Star Sea and Five Dragon Seal absorbed the tribulation fire and saved him, while the influx of vital energy strengthened him and advanced his Demon Core to the late Dongxuan stage.
• Lin Xuan searched the Silver-Haired Elder’s soul, learned he had come seeking treasure, and burned him to ash.
• Lin Xuan ordered the black-haired old man to help break the restrictions on Fire Cloud Venerable’s treasure cache, promising to let him go afterward.
• The black-haired old man led Lin Xuan to a desolate valley where Fire Cloud Venerable had hidden his treasure.

Lin Xuan searched for a safe way to open a hidden hall and used Zheng Xuan’s keen eye to find its entrance. After the black-haired old man disabled the restriction, Lin Xuan promised to release him but knocked him unconscious and began removing his memories.

• Lin Xuan sensed a restriction inside the mountain and summoned Zheng Xuan to help search for a mechanism.
• Zheng Xuan spotted a lone stone, and Lin Xuan twisted it to reveal a passage into the mountain.
• Lin Xuan brought Zheng Xuan and the black-haired old man through the passage to a hall sealed by a fiery-red restriction.
• The black-haired old man passed through the restriction using his shared bloodline with Old Monster Fire Cloud and disabled it.
• Lin Xuan told the old man he could leave, then struck him unconscious and began stripping away his memories.

Lin Xuan found that all twenty chests in Fire Cloud Venerable's treasury were filled with Top-grade Spirit Stones, then left Tianwu Mountain with Zheng Xuan. The destruction at the mountain drew attention from nearby cultivators, who fought over treasures that Lin Xuan had already taken.

• Lin Xuan opened the twenty chests and discovered they contained only Top-grade Spirit Stones, divided evenly among the five elements.
• Lin Xuan collected the chests, then departed Tianwu Mountain with Zheng Xuan aboard his Spirit Boat.
• Several days later, news of the devastation at Tianwu Mountain spread, but the black-haired old man remembered nothing and kept silent.
• Cultivators investigated the scene and fought over Fire Cloud Venerable's presumed treasures before discovering Lin Xuan had taken them.

Lin Xuan traveled to remote Yu Kingdom to avoid trouble and find a quiet place to settle while he handled his accumulated affairs. When he reached a promising spiritual land, he found a battle already underway between five human cultivators and a powerful Demon Race being.

• Lin Xuan chose to stay away from the Cloud Hidden Sect and traveled west into Yu Kingdom to avoid attention after the destruction of Tianfeng City.
• Lin Xuan shared cultivation insights with Zheng Xuan as they traveled by Spirit Boat.
• Lin Xuan sensed a suitable spiritual land and headed there, despite Zheng Xuan's concern that someone might already occupy it.
• Lin Xuan discovered that another party had arrived first and found five Lihe cultivators battling a late-stage Lihe Demon Race expert.
• Lin Xuan concealed his Spirit Boat as nearly a thousand onlookers watched the battle from nearby.

The Ye Family’s Grand Elder agreed to surrender her Nascent Soul to the Demon Race cultivator Wu in exchange for sparing her clan, but she and the other elders launched a coordinated ambush instead. Wu blocked the first attack and dodged aside, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Wu outmatched the five Ye Family elders and forced the Grand Elder to consider abandoning Bamboo Sea Snow Mountain.
• Wu demanded the five elders’ Nascent Souls and threatened to exterminate the entire Ye Family if they refused.
• The Grand Elder accepted Wu’s demand despite protests from the other elders and the Ye Family disciples.
• As the Grand Elder appeared to offer her Nascent Soul, she fired two streaks of yellow light at Wu and shouted for the others to strike.
• The four elders attacked with their Dharma Treasures, but Wu blocked the yellow lights with a shield and dodged to the side.

The Ye Family’s ambush against the Demon Race member Wu failed, and he began slaughtering the clan’s cultivators. As Wu attacked a young Ye Family woman, Lin Xuan recognized her, and an unseen expert’s green light stopped the fatal blow.

• The Palace-dressed Woman rejected Wu’s offer to surrender, and the Ye Family elders and cultivators joined the fight against him.
• Wu split into nine identical figures, deceived the Ye Family cultivators, and killed three Nascent Soul cultivators in one exchange.
• The Palace-dressed Woman ordered the clan’s disciples to flee while the five elders held Wu back, but Wu broke through and charged toward the weaker cultivators.
• Lin Xuan recognized a young woman among the disciples as Wu sent claw lights toward her.
• A green light emerged from the rippling void and dissolved Wu’s attack, leaving him demanding that the hidden expert reveal themselves.

Lin Xuan arrived as the Ye Family was under threat, subdued the Demon Race cultivator, and accepted the family’s invitation to stay at Bamboo Forest Snow Mountain. He then noticed that Ye Ying looked remarkably like Ye Ping’er, leaving him and Zheng Xuan wondering whether their resemblance was more than coincidence.

• The Demon Race cultivator refused to give up the Ye Family’s land until Lin Xuan appeared with Zheng Xuan and revealed an overwhelming aura.
• The Demon Race cultivator knelt and begged for mercy, but Lin Xuan bound him and sealed his demon power, then left him for the Ye Family to handle.
• The Ye Family’s Great Elder thanked Lin Xuan, and he asked permission to open a cultivation cave at Bamboo Forest Snow Mountain.
• Lin Xuan called Ye Ying over and remarked that she looked like Ye Ping’er, and Zheng Xuan agreed that their features were nearly identical despite their different bearings.

Lin Xuan learned that Ye Hongxue’s clan descended from White Crane Master, whose descendants had settled in the Spirit World after he ascended. After the Ye Family built Lin Xuan a cultivation cave, he secured the valley with formations and prepared to stay there for several years.

• Lin Xuan chose a scenic valley for his cultivation cave and spent the night at the Ye Family’s post house.
• Lin Xuan asked Ye Hongxue about the clan’s origins and learned that it descended from White Crane Master, an ancestor who had ascended from Demon Spirit Island.
• Ye Hongxue explained that White Crane Master’s descendants abandoned his Demon Cultivation techniques and practiced Daoist arts instead.
• Ye Hongxue and Ye Ying escorted Lin Xuan to the completed cultivation cave, which the Ye Family had furnished lavishly.
• Lin Xuan set up protective formations around the valley and gave Zheng Xuan medicinal pills before entering the Cultivation Room.

Lin Xuan decided to seal part of his Demon Core’s magic power because its rapid advancement to the late Dongxuan Realm had made it stronger than his Nascent Souls and left its foundation unstable. He began a five-element sealing technique, leaving the Demon Core’s power not yet sealed.

• After surviving the Tribulation of Vital Energy, Lin Xuan’s Demon Core had advanced from the early to the late Dongxuan Realm, while his Nascent Souls remained weaker.
• Lin Xuan considered raising his Main Nascent Soul or adapting to the Demon Core as primary, but rejected both options because they were difficult or risky.
• Lin Xuan chose to seal away part of the Demon Core’s magic power so he could keep the First Nascent Soul primary until it reached the late stage.
• Lin Xuan used the Internal Vision Technique and had the two Nascent Souls form seals, raising a black water pillar that transformed into a dragon.
• Four more pillars of green, red, white, and yellow water rose from the lake, joining the black pillar to represent the five elements.