Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan fought the black-robed Ancient Demon with his Mountain-Peak Golden Crow scroll and swords while learning that Tian Xiaojian had destroyed the demon’s other incarnation. The Ancient Demon began forcibly undoing his restriction, and Lin Xuan’s strongest attacks vanished into the demon’s mist, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Lin Xuan unleashed Golden Crows from the Mountain-Peak Golden Crow scroll, and they defeated the Ancient Demon’s Ghost Fire before the demon combined blood-red skulls into a Nine-Headed Bone Demon.
• Lin Xuan’s giant Golden Crow shattered the Bone Demon’s defensive light curtain and smashed its body apart, though the attack left the Golden Crow weakened.
• The black-robed Ancient Demon revealed that Tian Xiaojian had destroyed his other incarnation, then began forcibly undoing the restriction within his body.
• Lin Xuan attacked the Ancient Demon with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, the Four Spirits, and the Spirit-Devouring Sword as the demon enveloped himself in demonic mist.
• After the clash, Lin Xuan’s sword returned and the Four Spirits vanished, while the demonic mist remained intact before drawing inward to reveal the Ancient Demon.

Lin Xuan faced an Ancient Demon whose strength had surged after removing his restrictions, and his attacks failed to harm the enemy. He escaped the demon’s spatial restraint with a spatial treasure and tried to slow his pursuer with Blood Fire Ants.

• Lin Xuan saw that his combined attack had left the Ancient Demon completely unscathed and decided to flee, intending to draw Tian Xiaojian into the fight.
• Lin Xuan unleashed hundreds of spirit talismans, but the Black-Robed Youth extinguished their attacks with sinister wind.
• The Black-Robed Youth struck Lin Xuan while spatial power pinned him in place, leaving him badly injured.
• Lin Xuan used an ancient Long Spear to break the spatial restraint and escaped several thousand zhang with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps.
• Lin Xuan released Blood Fire Ants from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, but the Ancient Demon dismissed them as useless.

Lin Xuan escaped into Ice-Fire Valley’s inner valley while the Jade Luo Bees and Blood Fire Ants held off the Black-Robed Ancient Demon. After replenishing his magic power, he remembered the Thunder Roc’s burial place and stopped, hopeful that it could offer a way out.

• Lin Xuan sent the Blood Fire Ants against the Black-Robed Ancient Demon, but the demon’s strange mouths released ripples that swept the ants away before they could reach him.
• Lin Xuan sent in the Jade Luo Bees, whose defenses withstood the demon’s attacks far better than the Blood Fire Ants, though the Ancient Demon managed to kill a few with a beam of light.
• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon attacked the Jade Luo Bees with a black axe and black-red demonic flames, giving Lin Xuan an opening to order his insects to hold the demon back and flee into the inner valley.
• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon let Lin Xuan escape, believing he could find and catch him later, while Lin Xuan realized Ice-Fire Valley had no other exit and that he could not flee outright.
• Lin Xuan drank a drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to replenish his magic power, then remembered the Thunder Roc’s burial place and stopped in sudden excitement.

Lin Xuan remembered the Thunder Roc’s lingering soul and led the Black-Robed Ancient Demon toward its burial place, hoping to use the spirit’s power against him. Lin Xuan found the Thunder Roc’s remains and its Spirit Bone, but the Ancient Demon appeared behind him.

• Lin Xuan recalled the Wood-Crowned Elder’s account of the Thunder Roc and changed course toward the burial valley, intending to lure the Ancient Demon there.
• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon fought off the Jade Luo Bees after their stings pierced his protective aura and inflicted Time Poison.
• Lin Xuan entered the desolate valley with the Thunder Roc Token and followed ancient battle scars into its depths.
• Lin Xuan found the Thunder Roc’s huge remains beside the skeletons of Devil Race cultivators and spotted its silver Spirit Bone.
• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon appeared in the valley behind Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan led the Black-Robed Ancient Demon to the Thunder Roc Spirit Bone, where the awakened Thunder Roc Soul attacked the demon. After a fierce fight, the Thunder Roc Soul killed the Black-Robed Ancient Demon, leaving Lin Xuan alive to claim the remains.

• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon pursued Lin Xuan and noticed the Thunder Roc Spirit Bone among the remains.
• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon tried to seize the Spirit Bone, but a nearby mountain collapsed and released Primordial Demon Qi.
• The Thunder Roc Soul emerged, recognized the Black-Robed Ancient Demon as a threat to its bones, and attacked him with lightning.
• The Black-Robed Ancient Demon tried to counterattack and escape while Lin Xuan watched from the sidelines.
• The Thunder Roc Soul trapped the Black-Robed Ancient Demon in jade-green lightning and reduced him to ashes, destroying his soul.

Lin Xuan hesitated to leave the Thunder Roc Remains because he wanted its Spirit Bone, but the Thunder Roc Soul drove him away. Little Fur Ball suddenly emerged from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, and its milky-white domain blocked the Thunder Roc Soul’s attack.

• Lin Xuan prepared his Resurrection Talisman and Random Teleportation Talisman as the Thunder Roc Soul ordered him to leave.
• Lin Xuan considered taking the Thunder Roc Spirit Bone but decided to retreat rather than risk being killed.
• The Ten Thousand Soul Tower flew out of Lin Xuan’s Instantaneous Bag, and Little Fur Ball emerged after sleeping for over a hundred years.
• The Thunder Roc Soul grew wary of Little Fur Ball and launched a feather attack that also threatened Lin Xuan.
• Little Fur Ball spread its milky-white domain around itself and Lin Xuan, and the Thunder Roc Soul’s attack vanished against the barrier.

Lin Xuan and Little Fur Ball struggled against the Thunder Roc Soul until Little Fur Ball merged with Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens God Luo Image and transformed into a Phoenix. Its fire domain turned the battle around, leaving the Thunder Roc Soul badly weakened.

• Little Fur Ball’s shields and chains held back the Thunder Roc Soul’s rune-charged feathers and giant claws, but its domain began to falter.
• Tian Xiaojian reached the Inner Valley exit, decided not to risk investigating Lin Xuan’s fate, and prepared to leave.
• Lin Xuan attacked the Thunder Roc Soul with the Spirit-Devouring Sword, but the soul easily blocked the strike and ignored his intervention.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Lesser Luo Heaven Dharma Image and transformed it into the Void Shadow of a Phoenix to help Little Fur Ball.
• Little Fur Ball merged with the Phoenix image, became a tiny true Phoenix, and changed its domain into a fiery Phoenix domain.
• Little Fur Ball used its new Phoenix abilities to overwhelm the Thunder Roc Soul, scattering its form and leaving it in a wretched state.

Lin Xuan watched Little Fur Ball defeat and devour the Thunder Roc Soul, then collected the Thunder Roc’s remains. He realized the Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor who fought the Thunder Roc might also have died nearby, and wondered where that powerful being’s treasures had gone.

• Little Fur Ball bound the Thunder Roc Soul, shrank it with its Phoenix Dharma Image, and swallowed it.
• Little Fur Ball returned to its original form, burped, and fell asleep in Lin Xuan’s palm before he put it into the Ten Thousand Soul Tower.
• Lin Xuan collected the Thunder Roc Spirit Bone and the rest of its remains, pleased that his trip to Ice-Fire Valley had yielded something valuable.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that the Ancient Demon Saint Ancestor who killed the Thunder Roc had likely suffered fatal injuries as well.
• Lin Xuan began thinking about the Saint Ancestor’s possible remains and the treasures a Tribulation Transcendence-stage being might have left behind.

Lin Xuan found Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s remains and learned how he avenged Cold Conch Fairy’s death before succumbing to his wounds. After honoring Cold Conch Fairy’s cenotaph, Lin Xuan obtained the couple’s hidden legacy and discovered it contained many treasures.

• Lin Xuan searched Ice-Fire Valley for more than a month, slew the Magic Beasts guarding a mountain, and entered a cave where he found Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s remains.
• Lin Xuan read Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s Jade Slip and learned that the Saint Ancestor had killed the Thunder Roc to avenge Cold Conch Fairy, then stayed in the valley to die beside her burial place.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Storage Bag beside the remains was a deadly trap and that the true treasures were hidden near Cold Conch Fairy’s cenotaph.
• Lin Xuan flew to the cenotaph, kowtowed three times, and watched a hidden cache emerge from the ground.
• Lin Xuan seized the cache and discovered it was an Instantaneous Bag containing numerous treasures.

After escaping Ice-Fire Valley, Lin Xuan traveled far away and found a secluded place to rest and inspect Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s treasures. He discovered an enormous stash of top-grade Magic Stones, while Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor arrived at the valley too late to catch him.

• Lin Xuan opened a path out of Ice-Fire Valley and left without realizing Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor would arrive less than half a day later.
• Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor entered Ice-Fire Valley to investigate after his delayed arrival, but Lin Xuan had already escaped.
• Lin Xuan flew for half a month, then carved out a crude cultivation cave in a remote wasteland and set up protective formations.
• Lin Xuan released Little Fur Ball, wondered about its connection to the Ink Moon Tribe and the Thunder Roc Soul, then returned it to the Ten Thousand Soul Tower.
• Lin Xuan shook Snowflake Saint Ancestor’s Instantaneous Bag and found a great heap of top-grade Magic Stones, only one-tenth of the bag’s supply.

Lin Xuan finished sorting Snowflake Saint Ancestor and his wife’s treasures, gaining several powerful items that helped him prepare to leave the dangerous Demon World. After setting up a spatial Teleportation Array with the World-Breaking Beads, he stood ready to return to the Spirit World.

• Lin Xuan spent three days inventorying Snowflake Saint Ancestor and his wife’s abundant treasures.
• Lin Xuan recognized the Black Tortoise True Spirit Inkstone as a top-tier Houtian Spirit Treasure and spent about a month learning to control it.
• Lin Xuan identified several beads as highest-grade World-Breaking Beads that could open a brief passage between realms with the aid of a spatial formation.
• Lin Xuan discovered an Instantaneous Cave Abode containing Demon Eye Jades, allowing him to continue cultivating the Demon Infant after returning to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan traveled to a remote location and spent over a month setting up and checking the spatial Teleportation Array, making his departure from the Demon World possible.

Lin Xuan activated the formation and used the World-Breaking Bead to cross into the Spirit World. He arrived in the Nailong Realm, where local cultivators identified their location as Baisong Wasteland.

• Lin Xuan tested the formation with Magic Stones and confirmed that it operated correctly.
• Lin Xuan placed the World-Breaking Bead in the formation, opened a rift, and crossed through before the formation destroyed itself.
• Two clans' young disciples were competing with Spirit Tools when the sky darkened and a spatial rift appeared above them.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the rift and asked the assembled cultivators where he had arrived.
• A Foundation Establishment Realm Daoist told Lin Xuan that he was in Baisong Wasteland in the Nailong Realm.

Lin Xuan returned safely to the Nailong Realm, helped Heaven Ghost Master possess a suitable body, and traveled to Tree Immortal City in Tianhe Prefecture. He planned to return to the Cloud Hidden Sect and began looking for the city’s Marketplace.

• Lin Xuan confirmed he had reached the Nailong Realm and knocked out the cultivators around him.
• Lin Xuan let Heaven Ghost Master possess a youth with the Nine Spirit Sword Body, then protected him while he recovered in a secluded mountain cave.
• Heaven Ghost Master emerged in his new body and thanked Lin Xuan before they parted ways.
• Lin Xuan reached Tree Immortal City in Tianhe Prefecture and decided to return to the Cloud Hidden Sect using the region’s Teleportation Arrays.
• Lin Xuan entered Tree Immortal City, asked a low-level cultivator where the Marketplace was, and headed there.

Lin Xuan toured Tree Immortal City's Marketplace and discovered a bounty notice from Venerable Qingling seeking a rare Demon World medicinal ingredient to cure his son. The notice offered great wealth or a favor in exchange, but Lin Xuan's reaction to the request was left unstated.

• Lin Xuan browsed Zhuifeng Studio and the Marketplace but found nothing that interested him.
• Lin Xuan joined a crowd gathered around a Jade Disk displaying a bounty notice issued by Venerable Qingling.
• The notice revealed that Venerable Qingling's son suffered from the Cold Yin Absolute Vein and needed a pill requiring the rare Ghost Demon Luo Flower.
• Venerable Qingling offered a high price or a promise to fulfill one request in exchange for the flower.

Lin Xuan accepted Venerable Qingling’s offer to trade a Ghost Demon Luo Flower for one favor and followed the jade disk’s instructions to Tianxiang Mountain Range. He reached Qingling’s secluded residence and met an incarnation of the Tribulation Transcendence expert.

• Lin Xuan took down Venerable Qingling’s notice after deciding his Ghost Demon Luo Flower was worth exchanging for a favor.
• The cultivators mocked Lin Xuan, so he revealed Spirit Division Stage spiritual pressure and silenced them before leaving Tree Immortal City.
• Lin Xuan activated the jade disk and learned to travel to Tianxiang Mountain Range in Qi Kingdom, Tianhe Prefecture within one month.
• Lin Xuan found the Tianxiang Mountain Range and was led into the valley by Qingling’s maidservant after confirming he possessed the flower.
• Lin Xuan entered a thatched cottage, recognized the old man inside as Venerable Qingling’s incarnation, and paid his respects.

Lin Xuan traded the Ghost Demon Luo Flower to Venerable Qingling for a promise he could claim at Wangkong Mountain. He then headed back toward Cloud Hidden Sect, but Hanhai City's Teleportation Array could not take him directly to Tianshuang Prefecture.

• Lin Xuan confirmed he had taken the Tree Immortal City notice and showed Venerable Qingling the Ghost Demon Luo Flower.
• Venerable Qingling verified that the flower was over ten thousand years old and offered Lin Xuan a reward, but Lin Xuan requested a promise instead.
• Venerable Qingling gave Lin Xuan a Command Token that would let him visit Wangkong Mountain and make a request within his power.
• Lin Xuan left the Tianxiang Mountain Range and traveled east to Hanhai City, intending to return to Cloud Hidden Sect.
• At Hanhai City's Teleportation Array, Lin Xuan learned it could not reach Chu State in Tianshuang Prefecture, so he asked to travel to the nearest destination.

After returning from the Demon World, Lin Xuan found the Cloud Hidden Sect under attack and its headquarters devastated. He rescued Su Ru, Chang Hu, and the other disciples from defeat, revealing himself as the sect’s legendary Golden Core Peak Master.

• Lin Xuan returned to Chu State and sensed that foreign enemies were attacking the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• He found the sect’s mountain gate ruined, its protective array destroyed, and many disciples dead.
• Lin Xuan reached a valley where Su Ru, Chang Hu, and other Cloud Hidden Sect disciples were fighting black-robed Nascent Soul cultivators.
• When an enemy was about to kill a wounded disciple, Lin Xuan struck with a cold snort that overwhelmed the black-robed cultivators.
• Chang Hu and Su Ru recognized Lin Xuan as their Peak Master, and the other disciples realized that the legendary sect figure had arrived.

Lin Xuan learned that Tianjue Sect was behind the assault on Cloud Hidden Sect and rushed to aid his fellow disciples. He killed a Yellow-robed Elder during a battle against three attackers, while Li Hongxiu remained under siege.

• Lin Xuan told the gathered Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators to join the fight and flew toward the main altar's depths.
• Lin Xuan killed nearly a hundred black-robed invaders and used soul searching on their surviving leader, discovering they belonged to Tianjue Sect.
• Lin Xuan recognized the attackers' reputation and flew toward a fierce battle between peak Dongxuan Realm cultivators.
• Lin Xuan found Li Hongxiu besieged by three Tianjue Sect cultivators and attacked the Yellow-robed Elder with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan's Sword Qi shattered the elder's shield and killed him before his Nascent Soul could escape.

Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect, rescued Li Hongxiu from Tianjue Sect elders, and rushed to Wangchou Valley to aid the besieged Supreme Elders. After secretly observing the Silver-Eyed Maiden fight a Vulture-Faced Cultivator, he launched a surprise attack that pierced the enemy’s skull.

• Lin Xuan arrived and killed three Tianjue Sect elders who were fighting Li Hongxiu.
• Li Hongxiu told Lin Xuan that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s two Supreme Elders were surrounded at Wangchou Valley.
• Lin Xuan flew to Wangchou Valley and found the youth surnamed Long unconscious while the Silver-Eyed Maiden fought a Vulture-Faced Cultivator.
• Lin Xuan concealed himself, confirmed that the Silver-Eyed Maiden had a trace of Demon Race bloodline, and watched the two Spirit Division cultivators fight to a stalemate.
• Lin Xuan secretly struck the Vulture-Faced Cultivator with a black streak of light that pierced his skull.

Lin Xuan rescued the Silver-Eyed Maiden and defeated the invaders threatening Cloud Hidden Sect. He identified Junior Brother Long's poison as Asura Bone Poison and began trying to treat it with pills and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.

• Lin Xuan used a follow-up spell to capture the Vulture-Faced Cultivator's Nascent Soul and sealed it in a Jade Box.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden recognized Lin Xuan, and he explained that their sect's crisis and Senior Brother Long's condition took priority.
• Lin Xuan and the Silver-Eyed Maiden split up and exterminated the remaining invaders.
• Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to discover a skull-shaped wisp of black qi between Junior Brother Long's brows and identified it as Asura Bone Poison.
• Lin Xuan gave Junior Brother Long two pills that could mitigate the poison, then prepared to use the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to fight it with poison.