Chapter Summaries

Magic Snake Fairy faced the newly advanced Earth Rhinoceros Dragon while Lin Xuan waited for an opening to attack her. After her decoy let her begin activating her ancestral Talisman Treasure, an unseen attacker struck her dantian, leaving her unable to escape.

• Magic Snake Fairy realized the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon blamed her for nearly dying during its tribulation and understood Lin Xuan had planned to use it against her.
• The Spirit Division-stage Earth Rhinoceros Dragon attacked, and Magic Snake Fairy used a blood-fed flower basket to hold off its claw rays while preparing her Talisman Treasure.
• Lin Xuan attacked Magic Snake Fairy with sword lights and a Force Cyclone, but the cyclone destroyed only one of her incarnations.
• Magic Snake Fairy reappeared at a distance and began activating her Talisman Treasure, believing she had outmaneuvered Lin Xuan.
• An unseen attacker struck Magic Snake Fairy in the dantian, and she could not send her Nascent Soul fleeing.

Lin Xuan captured Magic Snake Fairy’s Nascent Soul with the Silver-Winged Corpse King and summoned Little Fur Ball to fight the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon. Little Fur Ball’s domain failed to fully suppress the beast, leaving Lin Xuan expecting to join the battle.

• The Silver-Winged Corpse King ambushed Magic Snake Fairy, seized her Nascent Soul, and let Lin Xuan seal it in a Jade Box.
• Lin Xuan turned to the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon and summoned Little Fur Ball from the Treasure Pagoda.
• Little Fur Ball recognized the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon as tempting but dangerous prey, while the dragon sensed it as a natural enemy.
• Little Fur Ball spread its domain over the battlefield, but the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon resisted its effects.
• Little Fur Ball attacked with lightning and fire, and the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon countered with a pillar of black light that became Evil Ghosts and Ghost Fire.

Lin Xuan and his allies cornered the Spirit Division-stage Earth Rhinoceros Dragon with coordinated attacks. Lin Xuan beheaded it with his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

• Lin Xuan unleashed thousands of Iron Feather Locust Blades, but the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s Bone Spikes met them in an even clash.
• The Silver-Winged Corpse King attacked with its Two-Headed Strange Python while Lin Xuan sent sword lights after the beast and Little Fur Ball restrained it with chains.
• The Corpse King’s python turned into corpse mist that slowed the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon, letting Lin Xuan strike its head with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Little Fur Ball froze and restrained the beast as the Silver-Winged Corpse King pierced it near the heart.
• Lin Xuan formed his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and cut off the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s head.

Lin Xuan escaped the Demon Flame Mountain Range after killing the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon and securing its Magic Crystal and remains. He then prepared a fortified cultivation cave and trapped the Magic Snake Fairy’s Nascent Soul, which contained a sleeping Split Soul of Baoshe Saint Ancestor.

• Little Fur Ball stopped the Earth Rhinoceros Dragon’s Magic Crystal from escaping and swallowed its devil soul.
• Lin Xuan collected the Magic Crystal and the dragon’s materials, then flew away from the Demon Flame Mountain Range.
• Lin Xuan deliberately diverted from the route to Baifu City and opened a guarded cultivation cave in the mountains.
• Lin Xuan set up the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and prepared Child-Mother Yin Thunder before opening the Jade Box.
• A Nascent Soul resembling the Magic Snake Fairy emerged, and Lin Xuan recognized the presence of Baoshe Saint Ancestor’s Split Soul.
• Lin Xuan activated the formation and trapped the Nascent Soul inside five linked spheres of light.

Lin Xuan destroyed Baoshe Saint Ancestor’s Split Soul after extracting it from a Nascent Soul, then used Soul Searching Technique on the Nascent Soul. At Baoshe Palace, Baoshe learned that Seventh Girl had likely died and ordered Lei Yan to investigate and capture the killer, unaware that Lin Xuan was responsible.

• Lin Xuan used the Five Elements formation to immobilize the Nascent Soul and pulled Baoshe Saint Ancestor’s Split Soul from it.
• Lin Xuan struck the Split Soul with Child-Mother Yin Thunder, then destroyed it with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• At Baoshe Palace, Baoshe realized her Split Soul had been destroyed and concluded that Seventh Girl’s chances were grim.
• Baoshe told Lei Yan to investigate Seventh Girl’s recent movements and capture the person who killed her.
• Lei Yan summoned seven or eight Dongxuan-level Devils and relayed the Saint Ancestor’s order.
• Lin Xuan, unaware of Baoshe’s response, used Soul Searching Technique on the Nascent Soul.

After destroying the traces of his stay, Lin Xuan reached Baifu City and learned that the Fu Family had settled there because Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk was abundant. He hoped to find five-thousand-year milk that he could purify into Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

• Lin Xuan learned that Tian Xiaojian had advanced remarkably quickly and resolved to be cautious if they met.
• Lin Xuan counted Magic Snake Fairy's treasures, razed the mountain peak to conceal his traces, and flew away.
• Two days later, Lin Xuan arrived near Baifu City and wondered why the renowned Fu Family lived in such a small, remote place.
• Heaven Ghost Master's soul told Lin Xuan that Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk was produced in Baifu City and explained that it was the reason the Fu Family settled there.
• Lin Xuan recalled that his Blue Star Sea could not purify young stalactite milk into Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, but that five-thousand-year milk might suffice.

Lin Xuan arrived in Baifu City to seek the Fu Family’s talismans and learned that its Ten Thousand Talisman Conference would take place in a year. He decided to stay in the city until then, and Man Niu offered to show him to an inn.

• Lin Xuan entered Baifu City and hired the mortal devil Man Niu as his guide.
• Man Niu explained that ordinary talismans were sold at markets on the first and fifteenth of each month.
• Man Niu told Lin Xuan that the Fu Family’s Ten Thousand Talisman Conference offered premium talismans once every ten years.
• Lin Xuan learned the next conference was only a year away and rewarded Man Niu with another Magic Stone.
• Lin Xuan asked about staying in Baifu City, and Man Niu offered to take him to an inn.

Lin Xuan settled into a rented stone house in Baifu City and later visited the Fu Family’s exchange market to inspect its talisman trade. He found a crowded valley of stalls run mostly by low-level disciples, leaving him to browse and assess their wares.

• Lin Xuan took a Beast Carriage to the city’s shabby Post House, rented room one hundred and twenty-three, and set up warning formations in its stone house.
• Lin Xuan spent the days meditating until the fifteenth, when he decided to visit the Fu Family’s exchange market and judge its talisman craft for himself.
• Lin Xuan followed other foreign Devil Race members to an empty-looking space, where an invitation revealed a hidden path into a valley.
• Lin Xuan surveyed the market’s crowded stalls and saw that most Fu Family sellers were low-level disciples with few customers.
• Lin Xuan began strolling leisurely through the valley to inspect the stalls.

Lin Xuan visited the Fu Family’s market and encountered Xiao Liu, a young collateral disciple being expelled after a talisman mishap. Recalling his own difficult youth, Lin Xuan stopped the others from harassing Xiao Liu and stayed to inspect his stall.

• Lin Xuan surveyed the market and judged the Fu Family’s talisman craft impressive, though nothing there interested him.
• Fu Family youths mocked Xiao Liu for causing a Heavenly Dipper Water Devil Talisman to fail and being expelled from the family.
• Lin Xuan sympathized with Xiao Liu and approached his stall, while Third Sister dispersed the mocking youths.
• When a youth insulted Xiao Liu’s talismans, Lin Xuan frightened him into silence and ordered the group to leave.
• Lin Xuan stopped Xiao Liu from packing up, leaving the two of them alone at the stall.

Lin Xuan discovered a pattern resembling a half Residual Talisman in a tattered book on Xiao Liu’s stall. He offered to buy the book and everything else on the stall, leaving Xiao Liu to inspect a bag of Magic Stones.

• Lin Xuan examined Xiao Liu’s stall and heard why the young Fu Family collateral disciple had been expelled and abandoned Talisman Crafting.
• Lin Xuan encouraged Xiao Liu to focus on cultivation, and the youth warmed to him.
• Lin Xuan recognized a talisman pattern in a worn book, though he could not read its writing.
• Xiao Liu explained that his maternal grandfather had found the book in ruins and that the Fu Family elders had failed to understand it.
• Lin Xuan offered Xiao Liu a bag of Magic Stones for the book and all the items on his stall.

Lin Xuan hid in a remote cave to study an ancient book that matched his damaged talisman, then returned to Baifu City for the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference. After entering the Fu Family’s hidden realm, he heard how the family had transformed it into the legendary Baifu Wonderland.

• Lin Xuan paid the Devil Race youth generously for the old book, then left Baifu City and took precautions to conceal his trail.
• Lin Xuan established a secluded cave, brought out the book and his damaged talisman from the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, and began studying them together.
• Lin Xuan spent a year researching the talisman and made progress, then headed back to Baifu City for the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference.
• Lin Xuan paid three thousand Magic Stones to enter the conference and stepped through the passage opened by his token.
• Lin Xuan arrived in Baifu Wonderland, where a Devil Race cultivator told Brother Zhu how the Fu Family had created the hidden realm by transplanting devil veins.

Lin Xuan attended the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference, observed the powerful Devil Race gathering, and began searching for talismans during the opening free-trade period. After finding several promising talismans, he heard an argument nearby and turned toward the crowd.

• Lin Xuan learned more about the Fu Family and spotted the Spirit Division Realm Yanshan Ancestor among the attending Devil Race members.
• Nearly ten thousand Devil Race members gathered in the plaza while Fu Family cultivators remained absent, prompting complaints from newcomers.
• A gate appeared in the sky, and more than five thousand Fu Family cultivators crossed a rainbow bridge into the plaza.
• The Ten Thousand Talisman Conference began with three days of free trade followed by a Fu Family auction.
• Lin Xuan strolled through the plaza, found several talismans that pleased him, and heard an argument among a nearby crowd of Ancient Demons.

Lin Xuan came across a dispute over a rare talisman and learned that Devil Heart Grass seeds were being offered in the trade. The chapter left the horned Ancient Demon urgently negotiating to buy the talisman for his son, while Lin Xuan recognized the seeds as a valuable ingredient for the Spirit Division Pill.

• Lin Xuan overheard a horned Ancient Demon arguing with a stall owner over a talisman and Devil Heart Grass seeds.
• The stall owner revealed a gray Universe Blood Demon Talisman that could increase the chance of breaking through a bottleneck by about twenty percent for blood-attribute cultivators below the Lihe Realm.
• Many onlookers lost interest after learning the talisman's effect was limited to cultivators below the Lihe Realm.
• The horned Ancient Demon explained that his son was stuck at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck and offered the Devil Heart Grass seeds plus two million Spirit Stones for the talisman.

Lin Xuan traded a Thunder Roc bird's Spirit Bone for the Universe Blood Demon Talisman, then let a horned Ancient Demon follow him because the demon wanted the talisman for his son. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan hinting that he would not part with it easily.

• A Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demon offered Demonheart Grass seeds and two million Magic Stones for Fu's Universe Blood Demon Talisman, but Fu refused any trade without a Thunder Roc bird's Spirit Bone.
• Lin Xuan offered a Thunder Roc bird's Spirit Bone, and Fu inspected it before exchanging the talisman for it.
• Lin Xuan and Fu completed the trade, and the other Ancient Demons left while the horned Ancient Demon stayed behind, grieving that he had failed to obtain the talisman for his son.
• The horned Ancient Demon followed Lin Xuan and explained that his Nascent Soul Middle Stage son needed the talisman to improve his chances of breaking through.
• Lin Xuan acknowledged the demon's request but said the talisman was also useful to him.

Lin Xuan negotiated with the horned Ancient Demon over the Universe Blood Demon Talisman, demanding Devil Heart Grass seeds and one rare plant from a list in exchange. They agreed to wait while the Ancient Demon searched for the plant, leaving Lin Xuan to keep the talisman until then.

• The horned Ancient Demon asked Lin Xuan to hand over the Universe Blood Demon Talisman, explaining that his son needed it to advance.
• Lin Xuan agreed to negotiate for the talisman and took the Ancient Demon to a rented secret room.
• Lin Xuan demanded Devil Heart Grass seeds and one plant from a list of rare medicines in exchange for the talisman.
• The Ancient Demon said he would search for one of the plants, a task that could take seven or eight years or more than a decade.
• Lin Xuan refused to hand over the talisman early and warned that he would destroy it if the Ancient Demon tried to seize it by force.
• The Ancient Demon gave Lin Xuan a Parent-Child Ten Thousand Mile Talisman so he could send word once he found the required plant.

Lin Xuan traded a flawless Dongxuan-level Scorpion-Tailed Mouse pelt for talismans and revealed that he had thirty more, prompting the Fu Family woman to arrange an exchange. After Lin Xuan left, she reported his haul and unsettling presence to a black-robed elder, but her explanation remained unfinished.

• Lin Xuan found the Palace-dressed Woman offering Dongxuan-level talismans in exchange for rare Magic Beast materials.
• Lin Xuan showed her a flawless ice-attribute mutated Scorpion-Tailed Mouse pelt, which she valued at fifty Dongxuan attack talismans.
• The Palace-dressed Woman asked to buy more pelts, and Lin Xuan revealed thirty in his Storage Bag.
• The woman arranged to gather talismans from the Fu Family and meet Lin Xuan the next day to negotiate the exchange.
• Lin Xuan rented a pavilion and returned to his quarters while the Palace-dressed Woman reported his pelts and unclear origins to a black-robed elder.
• The woman told the elder that Lin Xuan's presence had made her feel dread, but her explanation was cut off.

Lin Xuan traded thirty-one Scorpion-Tailed Mouse pelts to the Fu Family for a large supply of Dongxuan-level talismans, unaware that the family mistook him for a Spirit Division expert. After the exchange, he asked the Palace-dressed Woman to help him obtain Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk.

• The old man concluded that the Palace-dressed Woman had encountered a Spirit Division-level expert and advised her to be cautious while trading with him.
• The Palace-dressed Woman arrived early to meet Lin Xuan and offered him one thousand attack talismans and two hundred defensive talismans for his thirty-one Scorpion-Tailed Mouse pelts.
• Lin Xuan and the Palace-dressed Woman inspected the goods and completed the trade.
• Both Lin Xuan and the Palace-dressed Woman tried to build a connection while concealing their own motives.
• Lin Xuan asked whether the Palace-dressed Woman could help him buy Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk, preferably more than five thousand years old.

Lin Xuan sought five-thousand-year-old Stalactite from the Fu Family and was told its ancestor had to approve the exchange. He attended the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference auction, where the Fu Family patriarch began selling powerful talismans, while Lin Xuan watched a two-headed Devil Race bidder spend heavily on a matching pair.

• The Palace-dressed Woman told Lin Xuan that only the Fu Family ancestor could approve an exchange for the scarce Stalactite, and promised to seek an answer after the auction.
• Lin Xuan returned to his pavilion, kept out of sight for two days, then went to the Ten Thousand Talisman Conference auction.
• Fu Tianheng opened the auction and explained that items would be sold either for Magic Stones or in exchange for specified materials.
• A two-headed Devil Race member bought a Heavenly Dipper Magic Light Talisman for one million two hundred thousand Magic Stones.
• Fu Tianheng offered the matching Heavenly Dipper Magic Shield Talisman, and the same bidder bought it for one million eight hundred thousand Magic Stones.

At the Fu Family auction, Fu Tianheng unveiled the first of three ultra-premium talismans, the Resurrection Talisman, and explained its extraordinary healing power. The bidders’ attention was captured as he claimed it could rapidly restore even a badly wounded person who was still alive.

• After nearly two hours of bidding, Fu Tianheng paused the auction before introducing the finale items, raising the crowd’s anticipation.
• Fu Tianheng returned with several Devil Race maids carrying wooden boxes and announced that the finale consisted of three spirit talismans.
• Fu Tianheng opened the first box and revealed a pale-green talisman with a fragrant aroma that made people feel at ease.
• Fu Tianheng identified it as the Resurrection Talisman, prompting skeptical reactions from the Ancient Demons.
• Fu Tianheng explained that the talisman could rapidly heal even severe injuries, provided the user had not died.

Fu Tianheng auctioned a Resurrection Talisman, which Lin Xuan won after outbidding Yanshan Ancestor. The auction then introduced a Perfect Substitute Tribulation Talisman with a guaranteed success rate, and the chapter ended as its immense value became clear.

• Fu Tianheng opened bidding on the Resurrection Talisman at five million Magic Stones, and Ancient Demons began raising the price.
• Lin Xuan waited as bids climbed, then bid nine million after Yanshan Ancestor offered eight million.
• Lin Xuan raised Yanshan Ancestor’s bid to twelve million and won the Resurrection Talisman despite the older cultivator’s threatening glare.
• Fu Tianheng presented a pale silver talisman and identified it as a Perfect Substitute Tribulation Talisman with a one-hundred-percent success rate.