Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan accompanied Jingkong to meet a Tribulation Transcendence senior, traveling from Star-Moon City through a hidden Teleportation Array to the secluded island residence of the True Lord of the North Sea. They reached a pavilion suspended above the island, where Jingkong said the senior was waiting.

• Lin Xuan found that Senior Brother Long was away, then sent a Sound Transmission Talisman before leaving with Jingkong in a Beast Carriage.
• After traveling north for about four hours, Lin Xuan and Jingkong reached a modest mountain range and entered a concealed cave.
• Jingkong activated a complex Teleportation Array with top-grade Spirit Stones and a Jade Talisman, transporting them to a desolate island in the sea.
• Lin Xuan learned that the nearby great island was the secluded residence of the True Lord of the North Sea.
• Jingkong showed a Command Token to the island's spear-bearing guards, and they let him and Lin Xuan pass.
• Jingkong led Lin Xuan through the island's ornate grounds to a pavilion suspended in midair, where he said the senior was waiting.

Lin Xuan met True Lord of the North Sea, who summoned him to discuss a transaction after hearing of his victory over Tianjue. The chapter ended with True Lord asking Lin Xuan to reveal the item that had replenished his magic power, and Lin Xuan reluctantly agreeing.

• Jingkong led Lin Xuan into the hall, where he met True Lord of the North Sea seated on a Cold Jade Bed.
• True Lord of the North Sea dismissed Jingkong and questioned Lin Xuan about his strength and victory over Tianjue.
• True Lord of the North Sea told Lin Xuan that he wanted to make a transaction with him.
• True Lord of the North Sea asked Lin Xuan to show him the item that had replenished his magic power, and Lin Xuan agreed despite his reluctance.

True Lord of the North Sea examined Lin Xuan’s jade bottle and identified its contents as inferior-grade Taixu Spirit Milk, a rare treasure that could restore magic power. He put the bottle away and offered to exchange for it, insisting he would not simply take a junior’s possession.

• Lin Xuan presented the jade bottle he had used to replenish his magic power during his battle with Tianjue.
• True Lord of the North Sea inspected the bottle and identified the contents as inferior-grade Taixu Spirit Milk.
• True Lord of the North Sea explained how Taixu Spirit Milk compared with Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Nine Heavens Immortal Dew.
• Lin Xuan said the bottle was all he had, aside from the drops he had already used.
• True Lord of the North Sea put the bottle away and offered to exchange for it, while Lin Xuan pretended to feel dejected.

Lin Xuan negotiated with True Lord of the North Sea to trade Taixu Spirit Milk for rare materials needed to refine the other attributes of the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. True Lord of the North Sea agreed to seek the materials at a gathering of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, and Lin Xuan asked to trade for Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk as well.

• True Lord of the North Sea invited Lin Xuan to name his price for the Taixu Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan gave True Lord of the North Sea a Jade Slip listing rare materials he wanted in exchange.
• True Lord of the North Sea challenged Lin Xuan's request, and Lin argued that the Taixu Spirit Milk's rarity and life-saving value justified it.
• True Lord of the North Sea agreed to the trade and offered to gather the listed materials at a small trade fair for Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
• Lin Xuan asked to exchange for Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, surprising True Lord of the North Sea.

Lin Xuan traded Taixu Spirit Milk to the True Lord of the North Sea for Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and materials, secretly gaining a major advantage. After returning to Star-Moon City in disguise, he reunited with the worried Youth surnamed Long, who asked what had happened.

• Lin Xuan persuaded the True Lord of the North Sea to give him several bottles of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, which he planned to refine into Taixu Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan completed the exchange, then left the hall and met Master Jingkong, who accompanied him back toward Star-Moon City.
• Lin Xuan and Jingkong parted outside the city, and Lin Xuan changed his appearance before entering to avoid attention.
• Lin Xuan arrived at his rented residence and found the anxious Youth surnamed Long waiting for him.
• The Youth surnamed Long led Lin Xuan inside, put up a soundproof barrier, and asked whether the senior who summoned him had caused trouble.

Lin Xuan returned from Star-Moon City with the youth surnamed Long after declining to attend its grand auction and keeping a low profile. At the Cloud Hidden Mountain Range, thousands of Cloud Hidden Sect disciples welcomed him as a celebrated elder.

• The youth surnamed Long asked Lin Xuan about his meeting with True Lord of the North Sea, and Lin Xuan said they had exchanged things without revealing details.
• Lin Xuan considered attending the Star-Moon City auction but decided to stay in the VIP Building and meditate to avoid drawing attention.
• The youth surnamed Long attended the auction and acquired the treasures he needed, though he spent a great number of Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan and the youth surnamed Long left Star-Moon City quietly and traveled back to the Cloud Hidden Mountain Range.
• The youth surnamed Long sent a signal ahead, and more than ten thousand Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators gathered to welcome Lin Xuan as Elder Lin.

After defeating Old Monster Tianjue, Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect, where the Silver-Eyed Maiden thanked him and the sect celebrated his victory. In his new cultivation cave, he purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk into a silver liquid that seemed to be Taixu Spirit Milk, then went to the Library Pavilion to research it.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden knelt and kowtowed three times to thank Lin Xuan for saving Cloud Hidden Sect, and Lin Xuan affirmed his commitment to the sect.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden arranged a grand celebration, while Lin Xuan accepted a new cultivation cave in the Tomorrow Illusion Mirror and chose not to join the festivities.
• Lin Xuan purified Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk with the Blue Star Sea, producing a pale silver liquid that he suspected was Taixu Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan drank a drop of the purified liquid, endured its surge of magic power, and refined a hundred Ink Spirit Drills with the excess energy.
• Lin Xuan purified the remaining spirit milk, stored the resulting liquid together, and went to Cloud Hidden Sect's Library Pavilion to consult ancient records.

Lin Xuan confirmed that Taixu Spirit Milk was a superior form of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, then began fusing water-attribute materials into the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. After three days of refining the Black Water Asura Blade, he added another material to the cauldron.

• Lin Xuan consulted the Library Pavilion’s third-floor classics and confirmed that Taixu Spirit Milk and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk were the same substance, with Taixu Spirit Milk being higher quality.
• Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave and decided to refine the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword’s water-attribute component using the materials he had collected.
• Lin Xuan notified the other two Supreme Elders that he was entering seclusion, then prepared the water-attribute materials in the Cultivation Room.
• Lin Xuan placed the Black Water Asura Blade inside the Fierce Ghost Cauldron and refined it with Infant Fire for three days.
• The Black Water Asura Blade melted into liquid, and Lin Xuan poured a powdery substance from a Jade Box into the cauldron.

Lin Xuan reforged the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword first with water and fire attributes, then with lightning as well, making it a three-attribute treasure. After considering how to strengthen his Second Nascent Soul, he wondered whether he could separate it so it could cultivate independently.

• Lin Xuan spent three months reforging the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword with water and fire attributes, using a Lava Snow Lotus to mediate their opposing forces.
• True Lord of the North Sea delivered the agreed treasures, while the Tianjue Sect sent roughly one-third of the materials Lin Xuan had demanded.
• Lin Xuan gathered enough materials and a Thunder Roc's Demon Core and Spirit Bone to add the lightning attribute to the sword, completing the reforging in about a month.
• Lin Xuan considered how to strengthen his early Dongxuan Second Nascent Soul and wondered if he could separate it to cultivate on its own.

Lin Xuan studied incarnation techniques and learned how an Internal Incarnation could let his Second Nascent Soul cultivate independently without weakening his true body. The method required an exceptionally rare spirit grass or flower, leaving its cultivation difficult even for someone with Lin Xuan’s advantages.

• Lin Xuan decided he could give his Second Nascent Soul a separate body so it could cultivate independently and serve as a safeguard for his life.
• Lin Xuan studied an emerald-green Jade Slip for several hours and learned about different incarnation techniques.
• Lin Xuan learned that an External Incarnation could use a seized cultivator’s body but would separate the Second Nascent Soul from his true body and remove its magic-power boost.
• Lin Xuan learned that an Internal Incarnation used a spirit grass or wondrous flower as its body, allowing it to be withdrawn into the dantian without weakening the true body.
• Lin Xuan learned that Internal Incarnations required a Nascent Soul and that suitable spirit grasses and flowers were exceedingly rare.

Lin Xuan searched Cloud Hidden Sect’s ancient records for a suitable spirit body for his Second Nascent Soul’s Internal Incarnation but found no useful lead. After meeting the Silver-Eyed Maiden, he explained his problem, and she said there might still be a way to solve it.

• Lin Xuan decided to pursue an Internal Incarnation and searched the Library Pavilion for records about suitable spirit bodies.
• After three months of reading, Lin Xuan found only fragmentary accounts of rare possession objects, including the vanished Seven-Orifice Vermilion Fruit.
• Lin Xuan met the Silver-Eyed Maiden at the Library Pavilion, and she invited him to her cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan told the Silver-Eyed Maiden about his Second Nascent Soul and his search for a suitable spirit body.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden said there were still ways for Lin Xuan to cultivate an Internal Incarnation.

Lin Xuan learned from the Silver-Eyed Maiden that the Ice Sea Realm was a place where spirit flowers and rare trees were unusually likely to gain sentience, making it a promising destination for cultivating an incarnation. After obtaining directions to the inter-boundary teleportation array, he left Cloud Hidden Mountain to travel there.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden told Lin Xuan that cultivators seeking an Internal Incarnation often went to the Ice Sea Realm because its plants were unusually likely to gain sentience.
• She explained that a super teleportation array could take Lin Xuan to another realm and offered to have the Cloud Hidden Sect pay the enormous cost, but he declined.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden gave Lin Xuan a Jade Slip with the teleportation array's location, and he said he intended to leave soon to advance his incarnation's cultivation.
• Half a month later, Lin Xuan flew south from Cloud Hidden Mountain, and news spread that the Cloud Hidden Sect's Supreme Elder had gone roaming.
• With Star-Moon City standing guarantee, the Tianjue Sect continued searching for heavenly materials and earthly treasures to repay its debt.

Lin Xuan found the Cross-boundary Teleportation Array jointly operated by the ten greatest sects of the Nailong Realm and arranged passage to another realm. After paying the required price, he stepped into the array and vanished.

• A cowherd boy glimpsed Lin Xuan’s Startling Rainbow over a small town, but it disappeared before he could be sure of what he had seen.
• Lin Xuan entered a hidden palace complex through layered restrictions and met cultivators from the ten great sects guarding the teleportation array.
• Qin Song of the Huayi Sect recognized Lin Xuan and agreed to arrange his teleportation to another realm.
• Lin Xuan paid the agreed price, and Qin Song activated the prepared array, enveloping Lin Xuan in azure light and sending him away.

A group of Human Race cultivators searched the Ice Plain for snow foxes until a Demon Race member at the Transformation Late Stage ambushed them. As the demon began slaughtering the group, Brother Qiu revealed that he had brought a Combination Puppet and threw two puppets to his companions.

• Brother Qiu, Fellow Daoist Chu, and Fairy Min led their disciples across the ice plain in search of a snow fox, despite gaining no clues after several days.
• A powerful attack nearly struck Brother Qiu, who escaped as it destroyed a mountain peak.
• A barefoot Demon Race member at the Transformation Late Stage appeared and killed the Core Condensation cultivators with a strange wind.
• Brother Qiu said he could not defeat the demon but would use his Combination Puppet, then threw two puppets toward his companions.

Lin Xuan emerged from a spatial rift onto the Cold Soul Ice Plain and accidentally killed a fleeing Demon Race cultivator with a casual strike. He forced the three cultivators inside a giant puppet to come out and prepared to question them about the Ice Sea Realm.

• Three cultivators combined their puppets into a Giant Ape-shaped puppet and fought a Demon Cultivator to a standstill.
• A spatial crack opened nearby, and a lightning ball appeared before Lin Xuan emerged from it.
• The Demon Cultivator fled in fear, and Lin Xuan unconsciously struck him down with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan examined the giant puppet and ordered the three cultivators controlling it to come out.
• The three cultivators left the puppet, while Lin Xuan welcomed the chance to learn about the plane.

After arriving in the Ice Sea Realm, Lin Xuan questioned three local cultivators and learned that the nearest city was Mingxue City. As they traveled toward it, he heard that the Human Race relied on Misty Immortal Palace and its Puppet-making to withstand the Demon Race, leaving him wondering how weak the local Human Race was.

• Lin Xuan told the three Nascent Soul cultivators he was unfamiliar with the Ice Sea Realm and asked them to explain it.
• The Robe-Clad Elder identified their location as the Cold Soul Ice Plain and said Mingxue City was about one million li away.
• Lin Xuan summoned a Spirit Boat and invited the three cultivators to travel with him, while examining their assembled Giant Ape Puppet.
• The Robe-Clad Elder said the Puppet came from Misty Immortal Palace, the Ice Sea Realm's greatest Human Race power and a renowned maker of Puppets.
• Lin Xuan asked why the Human Race was being bullied by the Demon Race, and the three cultivators sighed together.

Lin Xuan learned about the balance between the Human Race and Demon Race in the Ice Sea Realm, then concealed his identity and entered Mingxue City. He began searching for information about the realm by buying ancient texts at a bookstore.

• The Robe-Clad Elder told Lin Xuan that the Demon Race had the Tribulation Transcendence Mystic Ice Ancestor, while the Human Race relied on Misty Immortal Palace and its ancient combined Puppet to resist him.
• Lin Xuan asked about spiritual flowers and fruits in the Ice Sea Realm, but the three Nascent Soul Cultivators said they knew nothing about them.
• Near Mingxue City, Lin Xuan knocked out the three cultivators, erased their memories of him, and left them on a Desolate Mountain.
• Lin Xuan disguised his cultivation as that of a Dongxuan Realm cultivator, entered Mingxue City, and arranged lodging at an inn.
• Lin Xuan went to the Marketplace and bought a large pile of ancient texts from a bookstore to learn more about the realm.

Lin Xuan searched Mingxue City for wondrous flowers and spirit trees that could channel spirits but found no clues after more than a month. Just before leaving the city, he met Fan, an old cultivator who claimed to know something about his search, and agreed to hear him out elsewhere.

• Lin Xuan searched the Marketplace and gathering places for clues about spirit-channeling flowers and trees, but found nothing.
• After more than a month, Lin Xuan decided to leave Mingxue City and planned to depart in two days.
• Lin Xuan noticed an old man following him and confronted him in a desolate part of the Marketplace.
• The old man introduced himself as Fan and said he had learned of Lin Xuan's search from friends who ran local shops.
• Fan denied possessing the treasure but invited Lin Xuan to discuss what he knew elsewhere, and Lin Xuan agreed to go with him.

Lin Xuan followed Fan to a guarded courtyard, where he learned Fan had brought him to join a secret plan rather than to find spiritual flowers and trees. The group revealed that the plan involved the very plants Lin sought and urged him to cooperate.

• Fan led Lin Xuan through a hidden formation to a courtyard where four Dongxuan Realm cultivators were waiting.
• Fan introduced Lin Xuan as a prospective helper, prompting Lady Mu and Lady Yi to question his background and object to his involvement.
• Lin Xuan confronted Fan for misleading him, then waited while Fan explained that he had found him after hearing he was searching for spiritual flowers and trees.
• Lin Xuan said he had come from another interface and wanted no part in the group's plan, but the cultivators concluded he was unrelated to their enemies.
• The man in brocade robes told Lin Xuan that the treasure they were pursuing was connected to the plants he sought, so cooperating could help him achieve his goal.

Lin Xuan learned that Fan and the others wanted him to join an expedition to the Cold Soul Ice Plain to find the cultivation cave of the ancient Druid, the Spirit Flower Fairy. He agreed to leave in three days, hoping to find psychic plants while concealing his true strength.

• Fan told Lin Xuan that the group wanted to travel to the dangerous Cold Soul Ice Plain in search of treasure.
• Lin Xuan questioned the risks, and Fan claimed the group could handle them together and that psychic plants grew near the treasure.
• Fan revealed that they were searching for the Spirit Flower Fairy’s cultivation cave, and Lin Xuan recognized her as an ancient Druid who practiced the Natural Immortal Art.
• Lin Xuan pretended to deliberate before agreeing to join the expedition and set out with the group in three days.
• Lin Xuan swore a Heart Demon Oath not to reveal their plans, then left to prepare for the journey.