Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan waited near the Yangzhi Bird’s corpse until a Spirit Vein emerged with a new mountain covered in spiritual treasures. As three Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons arrived to gather the treasures, Lin Xuan concealed himself and prepared to kill them so no one would learn of the Spirit Vein.

• Lin Xuan searched the area for a Spirit Vein, then harvested the Yangzhi Bird’s remains and waited nearby.
• After three quiet days, Lin Xuan began to leave, but the ground shook and a Spirit Vein appeared where he had been waiting.
• A mountain rose from the earth, became covered in vegetation, and revealed numerous spirit herbs and treasures.
• Lin Xuan sensed three approaching Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons and decided to kill them to protect his secluded cultivation plans.
• Lin Xuan hid his presence as the Silver-Haired Elder, a one-eyed big man, and a Devil Race woman arrived; the big man sensed danger.

Lin Xuan ambushed three Ancient Demons in Spirit Source Valley and killed them in moments, leaving no survivors or traces of their bodies. He collected their Storage Bags and then flew toward another location after searching with his divine sense.

• The three demons grew wary when their Second Brother sensed danger, and their leader brought out Spirit Wine that could temporarily expand divine sense.
• Lin Xuan snatched the Spirit Wine, revealed himself as a late-stage Dongxuan Realm cultivator, and attacked the three demons with sword light.
• The Demon Witch and the one-eyed demon were killed by Lin Xuan's sword light before they could escape.
• Lin Xuan trapped the surviving old man with a golden Force Cyclone and cleaved him in two with a giant sword.
• Lin Xuan took the three demons' Storage Bags, burned their corpses to ash, and flew toward the horizon after releasing his divine sense.

Lin Xuan cleared the area around a Spirit Vein and prepared to break through the Spirit Division Stage in Spirit Source Valley. He sealed the site behind layered formations, an illusion, and the Silver-Winged Corpse King, then entered his cultivation cave.

• Lin Xuan killed the Devil Race members within ten thousand li and collected the nearby treasures.
• He opened a crude stone cave by the Spirit Spring to use for his breakthrough.
• Lin Xuan set up the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation, the Ghostly Array, the Ten Thousand Bat Array, and the Six-Pointed Heavenly Star Array.
• He concealed the mountain range beneath an illusion that made it appear to be a barren plain.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Silver-Winged Corpse King and placed it in a false-death state as his final defense.
• He entered the cultivation cave and closed the stone door behind him.

Lin Xuan swallowed a top-grade Spirit Division Pill and began breaking through to the Spirit Division Stage in his cultivation cave. After several months, a vast heavenly omen drew nearby Ancient Demons, including members of the Demon Ape Sect, to his concealed Spirit Vein.

• Lin Xuan recovered his strength and swallowed a top-grade Spirit Division Pill, guiding its medicinal power through his body to attack his bottleneck.
• For more than two months, Lin Xuan's cultivation cave remained silent as he continued his breakthrough.
• Thunder and surging spiritual energy exposed the hidden Spirit Mountain and formed a massive vortex above Lin Xuan's cave.
• Lin Xuan sensed the heavenly omen but remained focused on his breakthrough, hoping no powerful Ancient Demons would arrive.
• Eight demonic cultivators from the Demon Ape Sect reached the Spirit Vein and stared at the omen with alarm.

As Lin Xuan struggled through a critical bottleneck breakthrough in his cultivation cave, the strange heavenly omen drew Devil Race cultivators to Spirit Source Valley. Two middle-stage Dongxuan Realm old devils joined forces to approach the mountain, leaving Lin Xuan to rely on his formations while he feared even stronger arrivals.

• Shao volunteered to scout the mist-shrouded mountain in exchange for Sun Miaodao's Huanglong Pill, but he did not return.
• Sun Miaodao and the other Demon Ape Sect cultivators tried to leave, but a hidden dwarf Devil Race cultivator appeared and killed them with purple lightning.
• The dwarf speculated that the heavenly omen signaled an extraordinary treasure, while Blood Old Devil suggested it could be caused by someone cultivating or breaking through.
• The dwarf and Blood Old Devil agreed to join forces and rushed toward the mountain range.
• Lin Xuan sensed their approach but could not interrupt his bottleneck assault, and he worried that stronger cultivators might arrive before he reached the Spirit Division Stage.

Lin Xuan focused on breaking through while his Ghostly Array trapped two Devil Race cultivators. Nearby, Dongfang Zhuo joined the Ancient Demons gathering around the strange omen, where the newcomers learned that even a late-Dongxuan expert had vanished into the mist; then two Spirit Division Stage Ancient Demons arrived.

• Lin Xuan set aside distractions and concentrated on breaking through as the dwarf and Blood Old Devil entered his Ghostly Array and were attacked by its yin winds and wronged souls.
• Dongfang Zhuo recalled leaving her clan to seek opportunities, then risked entering Spirit Source Valley after years of hardship and little progress.
• After spotting the celestial omen, Dongfang Zhuo flew toward it and hid among the Ancient Demons gathered outside Lin Xuan's cultivation cave.
• Dongfang Zhuo overheard that several cultivators had vanished inside the mist, including a late-Dongxuan Devil Race member who entered and never returned.
• Two Ancient Demons arrived, and the gathered cultivators realized they were both at the Spirit Division Stage.

The Tianlan Twin Devils arrived at the mist-shrouded valley, where Devil Race cultivators recognized the infamous Spirit Division Stage couple. Suspecting Dragon Flame Grass lay inside and seeking to fulfill Lord Saint Ancestor’s task, they planned to use the gathered cultivators to test the arrays around the valley.

• The gathered Devil Race cultivators watched in awe as a male and female Spirit Division Stage pair arrived.
• A green-robed big man identified the pair as the Tianlan Twin Devils, whose history of slaughter terrified the surrounding cultivators.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils discussed whether Dragon Flame Grass had appeared in the valley, and the man said his divination gave it a strong chance of being there.
• The female devil said capturing the cultivator in secluded cultivation would complete Lord Saint Ancestor’s task and earn them promised benefits.
• The male devil proposed sending the gathered cultivators to probe the valley’s arrays before the couple approached.

The Tianlan Twin Devils forced a group of Ancient Demons to attack Lin Xuan’s formations, killing one who tried to flee. Lin Xuan sensed the danger but stayed focused on breaking through his bottleneck as the formations began to activate.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils ordered the Devil Race cultivators to break the formation and threatened to kill anyone who refused.
• Zhou attempted to escape, but the man of the Tianlan Twin Devils stopped him with a sonic attack and killed him.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils gave the remaining Ancient Demons a choice between attacking the formation and being massacred.
• The Ancient Demons charged toward the mist and Lin Xuan’s formations under pressure from the Tianlan Twin Devils.
• Lin Xuan sensed the invasion from his cultivation cave but continued concentrating on his breakthrough while his formations activated automatically.

The Tianlan Twin Devils forced the Ancient Demons to charge into Lin Xuan’s deadly formations, where most of them perished. The survivors agreed to join forces with Lin Xuan, who promised to emerge from seclusion soon, while the Tianlan Twin Devils noticed the demonic mist had stopped churning.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils drove the Ancient Demons forward by threatening them, and one demon died in the Spirit Division Stage man's Demon Flame.
• Lin Xuan activated all four formations, and they killed eighty to ninety percent of the demon cultivators.
• A Two-Headed Ancient Demon persuaded the survivors to resist the Tianlan Twin Devils with the formation's master, despite their fears he might turn against them.
• Lin Xuan spoke through his Second Nascent Soul and promised the demons safety once he emerged from seclusion.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils noticed that the demonic mist in the depths of the formation had stopped churning.

The Tianlan Twin Devils broke through Lin Xuan’s array and killed the ancient devils who tried to ambush them. Lin Xuan abandoned distractions and focused on advancing, while the Twin Devils prepared to destroy the array.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils charged into Lin Xuan’s array and brushed aside its Yinhun and thousands of black fireballs.
• A surviving Two-Headed Ancient Demon used the array’s cover to attack the male devil, but he dodged and burned it alive with Demon Flame.
• The female devil killed the remaining ancient devils and swallowed their Nascent Souls as Lin Xuan watched from his cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan realized he had to advance as quickly as possible and refocused on his cultivation.
• The male devil gathered black light around himself and began expanding it into a pillar while Sister Fu prepared to cover him.

The Tianlan Twin Devils entered the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and defeated its elemental Spirit Beasts, taking the Formation Flags for themselves. As the formation broke, its surroundings began to fade and reveal the outside world.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils entered the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation after the light pillar destroyed Lin Xuan’s other formations.
• The female demon used leaf-shaped Demon Treasures to block the Water Dragon’s attacks while the male demon captured and destroyed it, then took its Formation Flag.
• Four more elemental Spirit Beasts appeared, and the Tianlan Twin Devils trapped and dissolved them with nets of black threads.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils took the remaining four Formation Flags, causing the formation to break and its scenery to begin fading.

The Green-Armored Ancient Demon and his partner fought Lin Xuan’s Silver-Winged Corpse King, killing it after a fierce exchange. As the demons found the narrow valley and prepared to attack Lin Xuan, a huge sphere of gathered spiritual energy crashed down from the sky.

• The Silver-Winged Corpse King ambushed the Tianlan Twin Devils while they were breaking Lin Xuan’s formations, and the male demon shoved his partner aside to protect her.
• The Corpse King pierced the male demon’s abdomen, but he transformed into a Green-Armored Ancient Demon and counterattacked.
• The Corpse King bit through the demon’s throat scales, but the demon smashed it apart and ground it into powder with black ripples.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils spotted a narrow valley and prepared to drag Lin Xuan out of hiding.
• A vast sphere formed from gathered spiritual energy appeared overhead and slammed toward the ground.

Lin Xuan survived the devastating spiritual-energy blast that destroyed the valley and faced the Tianlan Twin Devils, who had underestimated his cultivation. The twins remained alive and were pursuing the Dragon Flame Grass on Lord Saint Ancestor’s orders.

• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon teleported away with the female demon and raised a pearl barrier against the falling sphere of spiritual energy.
• The blast shattered the pearl and engulfed the Tianlan Twin Devils, destroying the valley and carving out a huge pit.
• After the halo receded, Lin Xuan opened his eyes unharmed at the center of the pit.
• The Tianlan Twin Devils reappeared more than a hundred zhang away and exchanged wary looks with Lin Xuan.
• The twins had mistaken Lin Xuan for an early Spirit Division Ancient Demon, but they had risked confronting him to fulfill Lord Saint Ancestor’s task of finding the Dragon Flame Grass.

Lin Xuan broke through to the Spirit Division Stage under attack from the Tianlan Twin Devils, then tested his new power with a sword strike that split a mountain. The Twin Devils realized he could not be judged by the standards of ordinary cultivators, but remained ready to fight him.

• The Tianlan Twin Devils attacked Lin Xuan while he was breaking through, but the gathered Heaven-and-Earth vital energy struck them and Lin Xuan advanced successfully.
• The Twin Devils discovered Lin Xuan had only just entered the Spirit Division Stage, despite commanding Spirit Division-level Corpse Demons.
• Lin Xuan saw the formations destroyed and the Silver-Winged Corpse King gravely wounded, and decided to use the Twin Devils to test his new abilities.
• Lin Xuan flicked out a thread of sword light that missed the Twin Devils and cut a distant mountain cleanly in half.
• Sister Fu and the Green-Armored Ancient Demon recognized Lin Xuan as a dangerous opponent, but Sister Fu refused to back down.

Lin Xuan fought the two Tianlan devils, overpowering the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s bone weapon and breaking several of his wife’s Black Water Asura Blades with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. The woman was injured but kept her composure as the battle continued.

• Lin Xuan attacked first with his Thunder Fire Awl, which clashed with the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s Bone Blade and forced him onto the defensive.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s wife sent seventy-two Black Water Asura Blades to surround Lin Xuan and strike at his vital points.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to intercept the Demon Blades before they could reach him.
• The Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword split three Demon Blades, injuring the woman through their life-bound connection.
• The woman remained composed despite her injury and assessed the small number of lost blades.

Lin Xuan faced the Spirit Division Stage Ancient Demon’s Giant Sword Technique and evaded its devastating strike with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, but the attack continued through nearly a hundred Ink Flood Dragons. He sent out the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows from the Hundred Spirit Bell, and their clash with the dragons left the fight ongoing.

• The woman gathered the Black Water Asura Blades into a hundred-zhang Demon Blade with Ink Flood Dragons coiled around it.
• Lin Xuan dodged the Demon Blade’s strike with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, and it carved a vast ravine that released flowing magma.
• Nearly a hundred enlarged Ink Flood Dragons pursued Lin Xuan as a follow-up attack.
• Lin Xuan rang the Hundred Spirit Bell and released the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows.
• The Ink Flood Dragons’ black water columns collided with the corpse crows’ wind blades, and the crows countered with poisonous Corpse Fire.

Lin Xuan used the Immortal Sword Lotus to bind the female demon’s Black Water Asura Blade and attack her with thousands of sword needles. Before he could finish her, the Green-Armored Ancient Demon broke free and attacked him from behind.

• The Ink Flood Dragons broke through the Corpse Fire barrier and clashed with the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows.
• Lin Xuan gathered his immortal swords into nine Immortal Sword Lotuses and used their threads to bind the female demon’s Black Water Asura Blade.
• Lin Xuan formed thousands of fiery Flying Needles and launched them at the female demon, who defended herself with a leaf-shaped Dharma Treasure and a Brocade Handkerchief.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon escaped the Thunder Fire Awl’s flames and returned to the fight.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon restored his Bone Blade arm and punched toward Lin Xuan’s head.

Lin Xuan and the Green-Armored Ancient Demon traded devastating attacks, briefly tearing open space before Lin Xuan unleashed his Immortal Sword and the Four Spirits. The demon countered Lin Xuan’s giant hand and prepared a strange blade strike against the Four Spirits, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Lin Xuan matched the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s punch, and their collision briefly created a spatial Black Hole.
• Lin Xuan summoned an azure giant hand and drew his Immortal Sword, unleashing the Void Shadows of the Four Spirits.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon destroyed Lin Xuan’s giant hand with a black lightning flood dragon.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon transformed his limbs into Demon Blades and slashed a crescent-petaled blade of light toward the Four Spirits.

Lin Xuan used a feint to trap the female demon with his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire after the first blast left the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s fate unclear. The fire engulfed her, and Lin Xuan’s carefully laid deception began to take effect.

• Lin Xuan unleashed a devastating attack, then turned away as the female demon worried about her husband and reevaluated his strength.
• The female demon resolved to keep fighting because she feared Tianyuan Saint Ancestor’s punishment if she failed to find Dragon Flame Grass.
• Lin Xuan conjured an azure giant hand, and the female demon dismissed it as a weak diversion and sent a Demon Python to destroy it.
• Lin Xuan released several thousand willow-leaf-shaped treasures, but the female demon recognized them as a bluff and prepared another treasure.
• The Demon Python vanished when it struck the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire concealed in the giant hand, and the fire wrapped around the female demon.
• Lin Xuan’s earlier use of the same giant-hand technique against the Green-Armored Ancient Demon had made the female demon underestimate it, setting up his trap.

Lin Xuan used the Sea-Overturning Halberd to overcome the female demon’s Shift and Swap and kill her, though the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire nearly vanished in the spatial vortex. As he thought the remaining Tianlan Twin Devil would be easier to defeat, the Green-Armored Ancient Demon appeared in grief and fury.

• Lin Xuan attacked the female demon trapped in the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire with the Iron Feather Locust Blade, but her Shift and Swap made the blades miss.
• The female demon’s Black Water Asura Blade intercepted Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords while she remained trapped in the flames.
• Lin Xuan wielded the Sea-Overturning Halberd and sent a crescent blade of light toward the female demon.
• The Sea-Overturning Halberd’s spatial power clashed with Shift and Swap, forming a vortex that tore apart the female demon and her Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan recalled the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire from the vortex and saw the Green-Armored Ancient Demon emerge from the dust, roaring in grief and fury.