Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan tried to exploit the Green-Armored Ancient Demon's grief after his wife died, but the demon blocked the Sea-Overturning Halberd and unleashed a secret art that sent his power surging toward the late Spirit Division Stage. The chapter ended after Lin Xuan struck the demon's forehead with an Ink Spirit Drill and froze at the result.

• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon mourned his wife and howled in grief and fury.
• Lin Xuan attacked the distracted demon with the Sea-Overturning Halberd, but the demon blocked the blow with a Bone Blade.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon's aura surged beyond the peak of the middle Spirit Division Stage as he used a secret art.
• Lin Xuan tried to stop the demon's advance by striking his forehead with an Ink Spirit Drill.
• Lin Xuan's expression froze before the chapter revealed what the attack had done.

The Green-Armored Ancient Demon used Seedling-Pulling Growth to gain terrifying power and attacked Lin Xuan to avenge his wife. After the demon tore through Lin Xuan’s Four Spirits attack, Lin Xuan chose to endure until the secret art’s limited duration ended.

• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon revealed that Seedling-Pulling Growth greatly increased his strength but would cost him two major cultivation realms after it ended.
• Lin Xuan attacked with his Iron Feather Locust Blades, but the Green-Armored Ancient Demon ignored them and struck him dozens of li through several mountain peaks.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon charged into Lin Xuan’s Four Spirits attack, destroyed the White Tiger, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise, and tore the Vermilion Bird apart.
• Lin Xuan climbed from the pit with a broken arm, reset the bone, and treated it with a healing talisman.
• Lin Xuan considered fleeing with a Random Teleportation Talisman but decided to wait out the secret art, believing its backlash would give him a chance to turn the fight around.

Lin Xuan battled the Green-Armored Ancient Demon, using the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to trap him in a contest of Dharma power. When Lin Xuan restored his nearly exhausted power with Jade Dew Nectar, the demon realized he had underestimated him, but the fight continued.

• Lin Xuan sent the Iron Feather Locust Blade and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword against the Green-Armored Ancient Demon, who shattered most of the blade formation and charged at him in spiked armor.
• Lin Xuan dodged the demon's attacks with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, but the demon disrupted the teleportation ability and forced him to evade by a narrow margin.
• Lin Xuan used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to freeze the Green-Armored Ancient Demon and poured in Dharma power to keep repairing the ice armor as the demon repeatedly broke it.
• Lin Xuan's Dharma power nearly ran out, so he drank a drop from a jade-white bottle and instantly replenished it.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon suspected Lin Xuan had used legendary Jade Dew Nectar, but still believed he could win before realizing he had underestimated Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan used the Jade Luo Bees to attack the Green-Armored Ancient Demon while the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire held him in place. The bees’ Time Poison drained the demon’s lifespan and caused his realm to plummet, leaving him near defeat.

• Lin Xuan maintained the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire but struggled to keep it from breaking under the Green-Armored Ancient Demon’s assault.
• Lin Xuan released the Jade Luo Bees from his Treasure Pagoda and sent them toward the trapped demon.
• The Green-Armored Ancient Demon caught the insect cloud in a demonic hand and engulfed it in Demon Flame, but the Jade Luo Bees escaped unharmed.
• The Jade Luo Bees stung the Green-Armored Ancient Demon, draining his lifespan as hundreds of the bees died in the attack.
• Lin Xuan recalled the surviving bees and discovered the demon’s realm had fallen from middle Spirit Division to middle Lihe Realm.
• Lin Xuan told the weakened Green-Armored Ancient Demon that he would be the one sent to the Underworld.

Lin Xuan searched the Green-Armored Ancient Demon's soul, learned that Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor was involved in the Demon World's search for Three-Eyed, and hurried away from the area. Heaven Origin then received the demon's remnant soul and realized that something had gone wrong with the Tianlan Twin Devils.

• Lin Xuan used the Soul Searching Technique on the helpless Green-Armored Ancient Demon, then destroyed him and burned his remains to ash.
• Lin Xuan learned of Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor's ties to Bingpo and Baoshe and suspected that Three-Eyed was someone he had encountered before.
• Lin Xuan collected the demon's Storage Bag and the surviving Black Water Asura Blades before flying away.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor sensed the Green-Armored Ancient Demon's remnant soul arrive and wondered how the Tianlan Twin Devils had met such a disastrous end.

Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor learned that Lin Xuan had reached the Saint World and decided to send his incarnation after him. Lin Xuan traveled toward a small Demon City to rest and noticed a brother and sister being attacked by three Ancient Demons.

• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor discovered Lin Xuan was alive in the Saint World and suspected he still possessed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden’s treasures.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor ruled out acting personally or sending subordinates and chose to dispatch his incarnation instead.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward a small Demon City, intending to rest and cultivate his Second Nascent Soul during his remaining time in the Demon World.
• Near the city gates, Lin Xuan saw three Ancient Demons attacking a young man and woman who appeared to be siblings.

Lin Xuan intervened when three Ancient Demons and their Spirit Beasts nearly killed two Xianyun Sect disciples. After the demons attacked him, he unleashed overwhelming sword energy and destroyed their defenses.

• Lin Xuan recognized the brother and sister's Xianyun Sect emblems and decided to help them.
• A Grassland Magic Wolf pounced on the woman, but Lin Xuan cut it in half with a streak of sword light.
• The three Ancient Demons stopped fighting and demanded to know why Lin Xuan had interfered.
• Lin Xuan told the demons to scram, and the bald Third Leader attacked him with a Sharp Cone-shaped treasure.
• Lin Xuan's azure Sword Qi shattered the treasure and destroyed the demons' summoned defenses as they screamed.

Lin Xuan saved two Xianyun Sect siblings from Ancient Demons, then learned their sect had been devastated by the Thunder Eagle Gang. He agreed to go to the sect’s hidden refuge after hearing its master had an important secret to tell him, but chose to travel alone.

• Lin Xuan killed the attackers, causing the remaining Ancient Demons to flee.
• The siblings recognized Lin Xuan as the Xianyun Sect elder who had defeated more than ten Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons decades earlier.
• The siblings told Lin Xuan that the Thunder Eagle Gang had attacked their sect three months earlier, leaving only about one-third of its disciples alive.
• They relayed the sect master’s message that he had an important secret for Lin Xuan, prompting Lin Xuan to ask where the survivors were hiding.
• Lin Xuan told the siblings to give him a terrain map so he could travel to the refuge alone.

Lin Xuan followed a Jade Slip to the Xianyun Sect’s hidden refuge and discovered that its concealment array hid more than a thousand disciples from his divine sense. He entered the valley and was greeted as their Martial Uncle, though his cold manner made the three Ancient Demons wary.

• Lin Xuan took the Jade Slip and flew toward the refuge while two Xianyun Sect cultivators wondered whether he would help their sect.
• Lin Xuan reached the valley and used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to discover purple qi from an array concealing the disciples.
• Lin Xuan tested the array with a fireball, and the light curtain withstood his attack.
• Three Ancient Demons and the other cultivators recognized Lin Xuan, greeted him as their Martial Uncle, and invited him inside.
• Lin Xuan entered a stone house with the three Ancient Demons, who sensed that something was wrong with his indifferent demeanor.

Lin Xuan met with Xianyun Sect’s leaders and offered to resolve their crisis in exchange for compensation. They revealed that the sect preserved half of a treasure map connected to the Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor, leaving Lin Xuan intrigued but without the full means to locate the treasure.

• Lin Xuan met the three ancient demons and they recognized that he had advanced to the Spirit Division Stage.
• Lin Xuan said he would help Xianyun Sect resolve its crisis, but only in exchange for compensation.
• The Palace-Robed Woman explained that Xianyun Sect’s founding ancestor had served the Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor and been entrusted with hiding his treasures.
• Lin Xuan questioned why the sect had not taken the treasures, and the fat ancient demon revealed that Xianyun Sect possessed only half of the treasure map.

Lin Xuan learned that the treasure map to Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor's treasure had been split, and the demons could offer only half of it. They offered him the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll as compensation, and after identifying it as an exceptionally powerful Houtian Spirit Treasure, he agreed to help them recover the map and asked why they were so determined to reclaim their former sect headquarters.

• The fat Ancient Demon told Lin Xuan that Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor's treasure map had been split and that the sect held only one half.
• The Palace-Robed Woman offered an additional treasure to persuade Lin Xuan to help.
• The Palace-Robed Woman revealed the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll, and Lin Xuan recognized its depiction of Three-Legged Golden Crows.
• Lin Xuan activated the scroll and discovered its treasure-controlling formula, then learned it ranked among the top Houtian Spirit Treasures.
• Lin Xuan accepted the scroll and agreed to help, but asked why the demons insisted on recovering the Xianyun Sect's former main helm.
• The fat Ancient Demon said the recovery was required by their ancestor's dying instruction and because the treasure map had long been enshrined there.

Lin Xuan agreed to help the three demons reclaim their sect’s main helm and spent the night cultivating the Treasure-Controlling Formula from the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll. Nine days later, the three demons waited anxiously outside his sealed cave as its protective barrier began to rumble and flicker.

• Lin Xuan agreed to take the three demons to reclaim the main helm the next day and asked to see their treasure map afterward.
• The three demons escorted Lin Xuan to a temporary cultivation cave, where he recovered his Storage Bags and set up a protective formation.
• Lin Xuan studied the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow Scroll and began comprehending its Treasure-Controlling Formula.
• After nine days, the middle-aged man, the Palace-Robed Woman, and the fat Ancient Demon worried that Lin Xuan had left or changed his mind, but could not enter his cave.
• The cave’s multicolored barrier began to rumble and flicker, filling the three demons with hope.

Lin Xuan took three Xianyun Sect demons through Snow Crow City’s Teleportation Array toward their occupied main altar. After reaching the mountains, he led an open attack on the Thunder Eagle Gang and ordered the patrol defeated so they could question a survivor.

• Lin Xuan set out with the three demons for Snow Crow City, leaving the other disciples to follow later.
• Lin Xuan and the three demons paid to use Snow Crow City’s Teleportation Array and arrived near Xianyun Sect’s main altar.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the fat Ancient Demon’s warning about the Thunder Eagle Gang and flew openly toward the occupied mountain stronghold.
• Lin Xuan ordered the three demons to kill a Thunder Eagle Gang patrol and leave one survivor for soul searching.
• The three demons killed nearly all the patrol, leaving scattered remnants.

Lin Xuan broke the Thunder Eagle Gang’s protective formation and slaughtered its disciples while reclaiming the Xianyun Sect’s main altar. He confronted five Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons, revealed his Spirit Division Stage strength, and prepared to fight them when they refused to surrender.

• Lin Xuan ordered a fat Ancient Demon to search the surviving old man’s soul, but the search yielded no useful clues.
• Lin Xuan broke the Thunder Eagle Gang’s Sect Protection Array with a single strike of Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan killed several hundred Thunder Eagle Gang disciples with a storm of sword lights.
• Five Dongxuan Realm Ancient Demons arrived, and Lin Xuan revealed that he was a Spirit Division Stage Supreme Elder of the Xianyun Sect.
• Lin Xuan ordered the five demons to surrender, but they summoned their treasures and prepared to fight, so he punched toward them.

Lin Xuan crushed the Thunder Eagle Gang’s strongest demons, retook the Xianyun Sect’s main altar, and followed the sect’s demons to a hidden treasure site. At the cave’s end, a couplet marked “Sword Heart Mortal Dust” stood before a mountain wall, and the Palace-Robed Woman began knocking on its characters.

• Lin Xuan shattered the five Thunder Eagle Gang Ancient Demons’ treasures and killed them when they tried to flee.
• Lin Xuan led the three Xianyun Sect demons into the mountain’s depths and wiped out the Thunder Eagle Gang’s remaining disciples, retaking the main altar.
• Lin Xuan asked the middle-aged Ancient Demon to show him the treasure map’s location, and the demon led him and the others to a hidden cave.
• The middle-aged Ancient Demon opened the concealed entrance by lifting a knot in a pine tree’s bark.
• At the cave’s end, the Palace-Robed Woman knocked three times on “Immortal” and three times on “Quiet” in the couplet marked “Sword Heart Mortal Dust.”

Lin Xuan discovered that the incomplete treasure map found in the chamber matched the half he had previously obtained, and learned that even the Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor did not know the treasure’s exact hiding place. Before he could act on this good fortune, a distant explosion shook the mountain and began bringing the peak down.

• Lin Xuan opened the wooden box and recognized its map as the other half of one he had found in a Half-Demon village.
• Lin Xuan recalled rescuing the Half-Demon girl, settling her in a secluded place, and keeping her incomplete map.
• Lin Xuan feigned doubt that the treasure still remained, and the Ancient Demons explained that it was hidden so secretly that only the map could lead to it.
• The Palace-Robed Woman said the Three-Eyed Saint Ancestor had only known the treasure’s general location because his followers hid it while he was in peril.
• A distant explosion shook the mountain peak, which began to collapse.

Lin Xuan and the three Xianyun Sect demons escaped the collapse of their mountain range and discovered a powerful enemy had arrived. Lin Xuan recognized Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor, whose External Incarnation confronted him, leaving the two locked in a tense standoff.

• Lin Xuan led the three Xianyun Sect demons out of the collapsing mountain and took the Treasure Map with him.
• The entire mountain range around the Xianyun Sect’s main altar collapsed, leaving the demons shocked and furious.
• Lin Xuan sensed a powerful presence locking onto him and held his position rather than risk revealing an opening by fleeing.
• A silver-lit figure approached, and Lin Xuan recognized him as Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor, an enemy whose Split Soul he had destroyed on Penglai Mountain.
• Lin Xuan determined that Heaven Origin was an External Incarnation, then used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to counter the hidden pressure he directed at him.
• Heaven Origin was surprised by Lin Xuan’s resistance as the three Xianyun Sect demons suffered from the pressure of their standoff.

Lin Xuan confronted Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor in the Saint World and used a series of attacks to buy time as the stronger opponent tried to kill him. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan unleashing a sword technique that summoned the Four Spirits, which briefly surprised Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor.

• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor ambushed Lin Xuan with spiritual pressure, and Lin Xuan met it with a fist strike that split the impact evenly.
• The aftershock killed the three Lihe Realm Ancient Demons of Xianyun Sect despite their attempts to flee and call for help.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor dismissed Lin Xuan’s talismans, which Lin Xuan had used only to buy time.
• Lin Xuan poured his magic power into the Immortal Sword and summoned the Four Spirits to attack Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor recognized the sword technique as resembling the Four Symbols Sword and guessed that Lin Xuan wielded an imitation.

Lin Xuan escaped the Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor by using Phantom Escape to reach a nearby Teleportation Array and teleporting away. He arrived in Snow Crow City, destroyed its long-distance array, and faced the furious cultivators guarding it.

• Lin Xuan used illusions and Phantom Escape to flee the Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor, who pursued him across more than a hundred thousand li.
• Lin Xuan reached a nearby Teleportation Array and teleported away just before the Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor arrived, then the pursuer found the array destroyed.
• Lin Xuan emerged in Snow Crow City and immediately split its Teleportation Array in two with Sword Qi.
• The demonic cultivators guarding the array cursed Lin Xuan and charged at him, demanding that he be seized and brought to judgment.

Lin Xuan destroyed Snow Crow City’s eight Teleportation Arrays to delay Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor, then fled Tianhe Province and found a secluded devil vein where he could rest and plan his next steps.

• Lin Xuan knocked down the devils guarding the arrays, destroyed all eight Teleportation Arrays, and left the guards alive before escaping Snow Crow City.
• The city’s elders discovered the destruction, punished the guards, and sent cultivators after Lin Xuan, but they failed to catch him.
• Lin Xuan traveled day and night for more than three months and finally left Tianhe Province, shaking off Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor’s pursuit.
• Lin Xuan found a small devil vein, carved out a simple cave dwelling, and concealed the area with formations.
• Lin Xuan slept for three days, took a bath, and entered the Cultivation Room refreshed.