Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan destroyed Yanshan Ancestor with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but the battle left him severely depleted. Seven Naga Tribe Ancient Demons who had been hunting him appeared, and Lin Xuan tried to hide his weakness as they sized him up.

• Lin Xuan split Yanshan Ancestor and his Demon Infant with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, then burned the remains with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Lin Xuan realized that his victory had depended on luck and that he needed to advance quickly to survive encounters with Spirit Division-stage opponents.
• Seven Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons from the Naga Tribe appeared after secretly watching the battle and identifying Lin Xuan as the murderer they had been seeking.
• The Ancient Demons hesitated to attack because Lin Xuan had just defeated Yanshan Ancestor, though they believed his strength was badly depleted.
• Lin Xuan concealed his exhaustion and challenged the Ancient Demons, implying they intended to take advantage of his weakness.

Lin Xuan tried to escape several Ancient Demons by bluffing and using talismans, but his exhausted magic power left him with few options. Just as he began activating a Random Teleportation Talisman, he spotted someone approaching and froze in shock.

• Lin Xuan bluffed that he could still kill the Ancient Demons, but they kept pursuing him because they were under orders to investigate Magic Snake Fairy’s death.
• Lin Xuan used talismans to delay the demons and fled while replenishing his magic power with Spirit Wine and Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• The demons repeatedly caught up, forcing Lin Xuan to spend more talismans to block their attacks and create room to escape.
• Lin Xuan concluded that he could not recover his magic power while fleeing and decided to use his Random Teleportation Talisman.
• Lin Xuan launched attack talismans to distract the demons, then began activating the Random Teleportation Talisman before a distant Startling Rainbow made him freeze in shock.

Lin Xuan encountered Wang Tinglou in the Ancient Demon Realm and was stunned to discover his former acquaintance had reached mid-stage Spirit Division. A mysterious, immensely imposing cultivator appeared beside Wang Tinglou, leaving Lin Xuan and the Naga Tribe demons frightened and uncertain of his identity.

• Lin Xuan recognized Wang Tinglou and was shocked by his mid-stage Spirit Division cultivation.
• Wang Tinglou recognized Lin Xuan, while the pursuing Naga Tribe demons hesitated to attack because they could not gauge Wang Tinglou's strength.
• An unseen companion spoke to Lin Xuan and remarked that his cultivation had reached late-stage Dongxuan.
• The companion appeared in a flash of light, and Lin Xuan felt the man might be the legendary figure he had heard about.
• The Naga Tribe demons trembled before the mysterious cultivator, overwhelmed by fear despite sensing no obvious pressure.

Lin Xuan encountered Nailong True Person, who effortlessly killed the ancient devils pursuing him and invited Lin Xuan and Wang Tinglou aboard his pleasure boat. The chapter left them traveling together as Lin Xuan marveled that the boat was built entirely from Spirit-Nurturing Wood.

• Lin Xuan recognized the mysterious man as Nailong True Person, a legendary Tribulation Transcendence-stage expert, and wondered why he was in the Ancient Demon Realm.
• Nailong True Person offered to help Lin Xuan because he was Wang Tinglou's friend, and the fleeing ancient devils suddenly died without any visible attack.
• Wang Tinglou asked about Ruyan, but Nailong True Person invited him and Lin Xuan to continue the conversation aboard his pleasure boat.
• Nailong True Person summoned a magnificent, seven-level pleasure boat, and Lin Xuan discovered it was made entirely of Spirit-Nurturing Wood.

Lin Xuan boarded Nailong True Person’s pleasure boat and was astonished by its Spirit Eye Jade and mysterious formations, while fearing that Nailong might discover his secrets. Nailong put him at ease, and the three settled in the lavish top-floor cabin as Lin Xuan wondered whether Nailong’s visit to the Demon World could provoke a conflict.

• Lin Xuan discovered that Spirit Eye Jade lined the pleasure boat’s cabin walls and marveled at how Nailong True Person had made the jade’s spiritual energy grow denser.
• Lin Xuan noticed a Spirit-Restraining Array that confined spiritual energy around the boat and feared Nailong might uncover his Blue Star Sea and Five Dragon Seal secrets.
• Nailong True Person reassured Lin Xuan that he would not make things difficult for him, and Lin Xuan calmed himself and followed him upstairs.
• Tinglou explained that Nailong had helped him advance through pills, cultivation guidance, and treasures, then encouraged Lin Xuan to feel at ease.
• Nailong invited Lin Xuan to sit, and two beautiful maids arrived with wine, melons, and fruit as Lin Xuan wondered whether Nailong’s presence in the Demon World might cause trouble.

Lin Xuan met Nailong True Person and Wang Tinglou in the Demon World, learned that Meng Ruyan’s whereabouts remained unknown after a faulty teleportation, and explained his search for Spirit Division Pill materials. Nailong gave Lin Xuan five Spirit Division Pills, then revealed that he had come to the Demon Realm to seek beautiful female devils, prompting Lin Xuan to worry that his visit could trigger a war between the realms.

• Lin Xuan told Wang Tinglou and Nailong True Person that Meng Ruyan had been separated from him during teleportation, and Nailong explained that the damaged positioning array had sent her to an unknown destination.
• Lin Xuan explained that he had entered the Demon World to find materials for the Spirit Division Pill and described how rare those ingredients were.
• Nailong True Person gave Lin Xuan a jade bottle containing five Spirit Division Pills, and Lin Xuan solemnly promised to repay his kindness.
• Nailong True Person said he had come to travel in the Demon Realm and find beautiful female devils to take as maidservants.
• Lin Xuan asked whether Nailong True Person’s visit might provoke a war between the Spirit World and the Demon Realm.

Lin Xuan learned that Nailong True Person had stayed neutral in conflicts among the Three Realms while pursuing beauties, and he tried to direct Nailong toward Fairy Bingpo. Nailong revealed that he had once flirted with Bingpo and that she had hunted him across the realms for more than a thousand years.

• Nailong True Person explained that his pursuit of beauties had kept him neutral in the Three Realms' conflicts for millions of years.
• Lin Xuan suggested that Nailong seek out Fairy Bingpo, hoping to cause trouble for her.
• Nailong said he had flirted with Bingpo, whom he considered the Demon World's number one beauty.
• Nailong revealed that after he held Bingpo's hand, she hunted him from the Demon World through the Underworld and Spirit Worlds for more than a thousand years.

Lin Xuan left Nailong True Person and Wang Tinglou after receiving a warning, a token, and a request to look for Ruyan. He later found a secluded Spirit Vein in the Demon World and headed to its Spirit Spring to establish a cultivation site.

• Lin Xuan spent two days speaking with Nailong True Person but learned little about the war with the Underworld Realm.
• Nailong True Person gave Lin Xuan a Command Token and warned him to let things follow their natural course, while Wang Tinglou gave him a Ten Thousand Mile Talisman and asked him to report any news of Ruyan.
• After Lin Xuan left, Nailong True Person told Wang Tinglou that his warning had special meaning and urged him to keep his distance from Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan flew away, calmed his fears about Nailong's warning, and considered how the five Spirit Division Pills might change his plans to visit Medicine King Valley.
• After three days, Lin Xuan found a secluded mountain range with a high-quality Spirit Vein and flew to its Spirit Spring.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the bottom of a gorge and released several dozen streaks of sword light.

Lin Xuan established a hidden cultivation cave in the Demon World, restored his magic power, and successfully purified Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk into more potent Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk. After months of alternating purification and rest, he finished processing all fifteen bottles.

• Lin Xuan carved out a cultivation cave, set up the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation, and concealed the mountain with a Transformation Concealment Talisman.
• Lin Xuan meditated for two days and restored his magic power to its peak.
• Lin Xuan used the Blue Star Sea's silver and blue light spots to purify a bottle of five-thousand-year-old Thousand-Year Stalactite Milk into Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan rested until his light spots recovered, then repeated the process over several months and purified all fifteen bottles.

Lin Xuan purified the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Spirit Division Pills, producing three High-Grade Pills that he believed would let him advance to the Spirit Division Stage. Unable to return to the Spirit World for nearly two hundred years, he resolved to advance as soon as possible while remaining in the Ancient Demon Realm.

• Lin Xuan stored the purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and began purifying the Spirit Division Pills with Silver Light Spots.
• Lin Xuan successfully purified the first Spirit Division Pill into a High-Grade Pill after more than half a day of work.
• Lin Xuan failed to purify the second pill into a High-Grade Pill, but continued working through the remaining pills.
• Over ten days, Lin Xuan failed twice and successfully made three High-Grade Spirit Division Pills from the five pills.
• Lin Xuan decided to skip Medicine King Valley because his three High-Grade Pills should be enough to advance.
• Lin Xuan realized he could not return to the Spirit World for nearly two hundred years and resolved to advance as soon as possible in the Ancient Demon Realm.

Lin Xuan entered seclusion in the desert, spent decades cultivating, and advanced to the final bottleneck of the middle Dongxuan Realm. After taking three Top-Grade Pills to force a breakthrough, he struggled to control their fierce medicinal power as he began attacking the bottleneck.

• Lin Xuan sent the injured Silver-Winged Corpse King to recover in a stone chamber with yin-attribute crystals.
• Lin Xuan spent six months purifying Waste Pills, then sealed the Demon Core’s spiritual power before beginning seclusion.
• Lin Xuan cultivated for nearly thirty years and brought his Main Nascent Soul to the final bottleneck of the middle Dongxuan Realm.
• Lin Xuan swallowed three Top-Grade Pills and began refining their medicinal power to break through.
• Lin Xuan endured the rampaging medicinal power and gathered his spiritual power to attack the bottleneck.

After advancing to the late Dongxuan stage, Lin Xuan dreamed that Qin Yan attacked him, then spent two years stabilizing his realm. He left his cultivation cave to rest and wandered through a vast desert, where he detected a gathering of Ancient Demons.

• Lin Xuan advanced his Main Nascent Soul to the late Dongxuan stage after enduring a difficult breakthrough.
• Lin Xuan dreamed that Qin Yan confessed affection for him, then stabbed him with a small Immortal Sword; he woke in a cold sweat and dismissed the dream.
• Lin Xuan meditated for two more years until his realm stabilized, then removed the seal on his Demon Core.
• Lin Xuan left his cultivation cave to rest, flew through the desert for days, and realized he did not know where he was.
• Lin Xuan sensed many Ancient Demons gathered ten thousand li away and flew toward them.

Lin Xuan entered Kuangsha City, bought a map, and learned about the Desert of Lonely Souls and its unusual antiques market. After finding nothing worth buying, he checked into the city’s best inn for the night.

• Lin Xuan concealed his devilish power to appear as an Ancient Demon of the Lihe Realm and entered Kuangsha City.
• He bought a Jade Slip map and read that the area was the Desert of Lonely Souls, a former battlefield between Guanghan True Person’s army and the Ancient Demons.
• Lin Xuan learned that South City’s antiques market sold damaged treasures recovered from the battlefield, then went there to browse.
• He left the market at sunset empty-handed and concluded that his wealth had raised his standards beyond ordinary treasures.
• Lin Xuan booked the finest room at Kuangsha City’s best inn and went to sleep.

Lin Xuan traveled back through the Lone Soul Desert after months of fruitless exploration and encountered two Ancient Demons who mistook him for a weak opponent. Strange spiders attacked, killing the demons while Lin Xuan escaped their swarm.

• Lin Xuan left Kuangsha City with a map and spent nearly half a year exploring the Lone Soul Desert without finding any treasures.
• Lin Xuan noticed a dark cloud following him and confronted the two Ancient Demons concealed within it.
• The demons demanded Lin Xuan's Storage Bag, mistaking him for a Lihe Realm Ancient Demon.
• A swarm of spiders erupted from the sand and attacked; Lin Xuan defended himself with the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield and fire-attribute Sword Qi before escaping.
• The spiders ignored Lin Xuan, overwhelmed the demons' defensive black bowl, and dragged the pair underground.

Lin Xuan uncovered and destroyed a sealing formation after encountering Sky Wolf Spiders in the desert. He descended into the passage beneath it and found an empty hall with another stone door, while the spiders and two Ancient Demons had vanished.

• Lin Xuan recognized the attackers as Sky Wolf Spiders and sensed a mysterious force blocking his Spirit Eye and divine sense underground.
• Lin Xuan swept away the desert sand, revealed a sealing formation, and decided to investigate what lay beneath it.
• Lin Xuan overwhelmed the formation with successive waves of fire-attribute sword lights and destroyed it with a giant sword.
• Lin Xuan descended a long staircase into an oval hall, where he found no Sky Wolf Spiders or Ancient Demons.
• Lin Xuan noticed another stone door on the hall's left side.

Lin Xuan entered a hidden underground space and fought a swarm of Sky Wolf Spiders with his Blood Fire Ants. He discovered the spiders were controlled by a possessed woman, sensed demonic qi gathering elsewhere, and unleashed a vast second swarm as the woman summoned more spiders.

• Lin Xuan entered a separate space filled with demonic qi and was attacked by Sky Wolf Spiders.
• Lin Xuan released his Blood Fire Ants, and the two insect swarms clashed.
• The Sky Wolf Spiders trapped the Blood Fire Ants in sticky silk, but Lin Xuan ordered the trapped ants to self-detonate, devastating the spiders.
• Lin Xuan recognized the woman from the demon pair as possessed and realized she controlled the Sky Wolf Spiders.
• Lin Xuan sensed demonic qi gathering elsewhere as the woman summoned countless more Sky Wolf Spiders.
• Lin Xuan expanded the Ten Thousand Soul Tower's vortex and released countless Blood Fire Ants, shocking the woman.

Lin Xuan defeated the Demon Witch and her Sky Wolf Spiders, then found the powerful Ancient Demon drawing demonic qi into a body. The being awakened as an Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor and reached late Dongxuan Realm strength, leaving Lin Xuan facing a foe he could not afford to underestimate.

• Lin Xuan used the Hundred Spirit Bell to scatter the Sky Wolf Spiders while his Blood Fire Ants overwhelmed them, then killed the Demon Witch with his Immortal Swords.
• The Blood Fire Ants devoured the Sky Wolf Spiders and returned to the Ten Thousand Soul Tower as demonic qi began gathering elsewhere.
• Lin Xuan followed the demonic qi to a mountain, where he saw an Ancient Demon body being strengthened inside a sphere of condensed demonic liquid.
• Lin Xuan tried to destroy the body with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but a curtain of light blocked his attacks.
• The demonic liquid entered the body, and a purple shadow occupied it as its aura rose from Lihe to late Dongxuan Realm.
• The awakened Ancient Demon called himself a Saint Ancestor and said the body needed further strengthening to restore his former power.

Lin Xuan encountered an Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor beneath Mount Lu and discovered that the remnant soul had taken over a body and regained late Dongxuan Realm cultivation. After the Saint Ancestor recognized Lin Xuan’s abilities and tried to seize his body, Lin Xuan escaped and flew back the way he had come.

• The Saint Ancestor absorbed the demonic mist and transformed from a two-headed monster into a handsome youth with a sealed Third Eye.
• The Saint Ancestor saw through Lin Xuan’s disguise, declared he would kill him, and attacked with a destructive purple flame.
• Lin Xuan countered with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, then summoned the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield and eighty-one Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords.
• The Saint Ancestor recognized the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and inferred that Lin Xuan had five Spirit Roots and ties to the Ink Moon Tribe, then coveted his body.
• Lin Xuan launched his swords, used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to evade the Saint Ancestor’s claw-beams, and fled several thousand zhang toward the exit.

Lin Xuan fought off the mysterious youth with talismans and the Sea-Overturning Halberd, then escaped four thousand li using Phantom Escape. The youth recognized the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art and speculated about Lin Xuan’s other abilities, but did not pursue him.

• The mysterious youth pursued Lin Xuan through the air and urged him to surrender.
• Lin Xuan unleashed several dozen talismans, but the youth used a spatial secret art to let their attacks pass through him.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Sea-Overturning Halberd, forcing the youth to block its spatial blade with a purple crystal secret art.
• Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape to create nearly a hundred illusions and vanish four thousand li away.
• The youth recognized Phantom Escape and the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art, guessed that Lin Xuan cultivated additional secret arts, and decided not to pursue him.

Lin Xuan escaped the mysterious Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor by repeatedly using Phantom Escape, while the Ancient Demon planned to pursue him in the Saint World. At Bingpo Wasteland, Baoshe encountered Heaven Origin, who knelt before her and identified her as a True Devil Progenitor.

• Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape dozens of times and fled more than a hundred thousand li, escaping the Ancient Demon’s divine sense.
• The mysterious youth realized he could no longer locate Lin Xuan and planned to wait for him to seek Spirit Division Pill ingredients in the Saint World before trying to possess him.
• The mysterious youth left to avoid being discovered by the old monsters who had imprisoned him.
• Baoshe entered Saint Ancestor Bingpo’s palace at Bingpo Wasteland, where Heaven Origin appeared and tried to stop her with his aura.
• Heaven Origin recognized Baoshe as a True Devil Progenitor, knelt before her, and Baoshe asked why he was there and whether he was serving Bingpo.