Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan’s theft crippled Ethereal Immortal Palace and cost it its place as the Human Race’s foremost sect in the realm. After fleeing tens of millions of li, he found a remote mountain range with a Spirit Vein and decided to stay there for a while.

• The women surnamed Zhou and Ding decided to return to their sect and ask Senior Sister Jingxu for instructions about the incident involving Mystic Ice Ancestor.
• Disciples of Ethereal Immortal Palace discovered that Lingxu True Person and other elders were gone and that the sect’s treasures had been looted, so they sent messages summoning the Supreme Elders.
• News spread that Lingxu True Person and two late-stage Spirit Division elders had perished and that a mysterious cultivator had stolen the sect’s treasures.
• Ethereal Immortal Palace’s depleted resources weakened its cultivators and led to Universe Sacred Island replacing it as the realm’s leading sect, while the elders failed to identify the culprit.
• Lin Xuan left the area after killing Taowu and taking Mystic Ice Ancestor’s treasures, then stopped at a remote mountain Spirit Vein and chose to stay there temporarily.

Lin Xuan secluded himself in a temporary cave to organize the treasures he had taken from Ethereal Immortal Palace. He discovered a powerful Medicine Spirit and several Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pills, including a Tribulation-Transformation Pill, and continued sorting through his spoils.

• Lin Xuan carved out a temporary cultivation cave and protected it with the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and a high-grade Concealment Talisman.
• Lin Xuan rested on his Cold Jade Bed before entering the Cultivation Room to sort his treasures.
• Lin Xuan emptied Lingxu True Person's Storage Bag and caught a Medicine Spirit that tried to escape from its Jade Bottle.
• Lin Xuan identified different Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pills, including healing, cultivation-enhancing, and bottleneck-breaking pills.
• Lin Xuan recognized a white Tribulation-Transformation Pill that could increase the chance of advancing to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage by ten percent.

Lin Xuan sorted through the treasures taken from the Ethereal Immortal Palace and found enough materials to bring his Nine Palaces Moment Swords close to completion. He considered the sword formation’s potential and his future strength, while acknowledging that challenging a true Tribulation Transcendence cultivator remained a distant prospect.

• Lin Xuan stored the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pills in separate Jade Bottles and began sorting the Storage Bags he had collected.
• Lin Xuan spent three days organizing materials from the Ethereal Immortal Palace’s treasury and the Cultivation Caves he had looted.
• Lin Xuan found that materials for the six remaining attribute Flying Swords were almost eighty percent complete, and expected Tianjue Sect to help locate more within two thousand years.
• Lin Xuan reflected on the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation’s potential and compared its prospects with the legendary power of the Heavenly Witch Goddess’s sword.
• Lin Xuan considered how a stronger cultivation realm and his other methods might let him challenge a true Tribulation Transcendence existence, though such a feat remained far beyond his current level.

Lin Xuan examined the Flat Peach he had obtained in the Ethereal Immortal Palace and found a hidden inscription explaining its origins. The inscription linked the fruit to Guanghan True Person and Princess Xinyue, leaving Lin Xuan eager to learn more about the connection.

• Lin Xuan considered whether his treasures and secret arts could let him challenge Tribulation Transcendence cultivators after reaching the late Spirit Division Stage.
• Lin Xuan opened a Jade Box and found a fruit that resembled a Flat Peach, but hesitated to eat it because its origins and possible dangers were unclear.
• Lin Xuan discovered tiny writing at the bottom of the Jade Box and read its account of the fruit.
• Lin Xuan learned that the fruit was a Flat Peach personally obtained by Guanghan True Person one hundred thousand years earlier.
• Lin Xuan recognized Princess Xinyue, who had once shared a body with Xiahou Lan, and continued reading about her connection to the Flat Peach.

Lin Xuan learned the history and risks of an impurity-tainted Flat Peach and realized the Blue Star Sea could purify it. He decided to consume it in seclusion and attempt to advance his Main Nascent Soul to the middle stage of Spirit Division.

• The Jade Box’s description explained how Princess Xinyue contaminated a Flat Peach in the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox’s garden, and how Guanghan True Person exchanged treasures for it.
• Lin Xuan learned that the contaminated Flat Peach had an equal chance of advancing a cultivator or making their cultivation regress.
• Lin Xuan realized he could use the Blue Star Sea to purify the impurities and considered whether the fruit could also advance his Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core.
• Lin Xuan decided to attempt his advancement where he was, then sorted his counted treasures into his Storage Bag before preparing.

Lin Xuan prepared himself carefully before purifying the Flat Peach, a rare sacred fruit meant to help him advance. After three days of work, he completed the purification and found the fruit even more potent than a ripe Flat Peach.

• Lin Xuan rested overnight and returned to the Cultivation Room refreshed, with his magic power, spirit, and physical strength restored.
• He opened the Jade Box and inspected his Blue Star Sea, deciding that its Silver Light Spots would be enough to purify the Flat Peach.
• Lin Xuan sent the Silver Light Spots into the floating fruit and carefully controlled the difficult purification for three days.
• He completed the purification and saw that the Flat Peach had shrunk, grown more vivid, and developed mysterious spiritual patterns.
• Lin Xuan concluded that the purified fruit would be more effective than a ripe Flat Peach because he had removed impurities and toxins from it.

Lin Xuan prepared a remote cultivation site and strengthened its defenses before taking the purified Flat Peach. After spending half a month restoring his state, he swallowed the fruit, and its pure spiritual power began flooding his body.

• Lin Xuan searched the surrounding wasteland with his divine sense and confirmed that no powerful cultivators or Demon Race members were nearby.
• Lin Xuan set up several additional formations and concealed them with the Illusion Formation.
• Lin Xuan erased Lingxu True Person’s imprints from several dozen powerful Puppets and refined them for his own control.
• Lin Xuan spent half a month adjusting his state of mind until his essence, Qi, and spirit reached their peak.
• Lin Xuan used magic arts to shrink the purified Flat Peach, swallowed it, and felt its spiritual power rapidly spread through his body.

Lin Xuan endured the violent effects of the Flat Peach and refined its medicinal power in a seclusion that lasted a hundred years. When the story shifted to the wasteland, an Ethereal Immortal Palace group fleeing the Hundred Poisons Sect approached his cave, and their leader sensed danger.

• Lin Xuan suspected the Flat Peach had been altered, then endured Blazing Body Incineration and began refining its medicinal power.
• Lin Xuan remained in his cultivation cave as the seasons passed and a hundred years went by without any sign of advancement.
• A rabbit-like creature heard a faint sound and fled into a nearby cave as more than ten cultivators flew across the wasteland.
• The Palace-Robed Cultivator led Ethereal Immortal Palace disciples fleeing the Hundred Poisons Sect and gave Lian'er diluted Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to replenish her magic power.
• Martial Nephew Li lamented the decline of the Ethereal Immortal Palace, and the Palace-Robed Cultivator suddenly exclaimed that something was wrong.

The Palace-Robed Woman and the Ethereal Immortal Palace disciples prepared to face Old Devil Jia after he caught up with them. When Martial Nephew Zhang fled alone, Jia’s Seven-Colored Demon Scorpion swiftly killed him, leaving the remaining cultivators confronting Jia with little hope of survival.

• The Palace-Robed Woman ordered the disciples to share the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and prepare to face Old Devil Jia.
• Martial Nephew Zhang urged the group to split up and flee, then used the Earth Escape Technique to abandon them.
• Old Devil Jia unleashed a Seven-Colored Demon Scorpion, which poisoned and devoured Martial Nephew Zhang while leaving his Nascent Soul unconscious.
• The Palace-Robed Woman recognized Jia’s scorpion and realized the disciples had lost their fighting spirit.
• Old Devil Jia arrived before the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators, whose leader understood that his superior cultivation made him a formidable enemy.

Old Devil Jia tried to force the Palace-Robed Woman to marry him after she offered the Heaven Heart Stone in exchange for her group’s lives, then attacked when she refused. A sudden celestial upheaval stopped the battle and left Jia unable to use his magic power.

• The Palace-Robed Woman offered Old Devil Jia the Heaven Heart Stone if he spared her and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators.
• Old Devil Jia demanded that the Palace-Robed Woman marry him, but she refused and chose to fight rather than submit.
• Old Devil Jia unleashed his Seven-Colored Demon Scorpions, which overwhelmed the Ethereal Immortal Palace disciples and destroyed many of their Life-Bound Dharma Treasures.
• As the Palace-Robed Woman fought back, the sky darkened, a vast cloud vortex formed, and immense spiritual pressure halted the battle.
• Old Devil Jia tried to restrain the Palace-Robed Woman and flee, but an unknown force prevented him from using his magic power.

Old Devil Jia and the Misty Immortal Palace and Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators found their spiritual power sealed as a vast celestial phenomenon gathered overhead. The spiritual energy infused Lin Xuan inside his cultivation cave, and the chapter left him advancing in an unexpected way after eating the Flat Peach.

• Old Devil Jia and the other cultivators fell from the sky when they could no longer use their magic power.
• Old Devil Jia and the female cultivator from Ethereal Immortal Palace recognized the gathering spiritual energy as a sign of an immensely powerful cultivator nearby.
• A huge vortex formed overhead, and its spiritual pressure pinned the cultivators to the ground.
• A beam from the vortex struck a small mountain range, where Old Devil Jia recognized the phenomenon as spiritual energy infusion.
• Lin Xuan absorbed the beams of spiritual energy inside his cultivation cave while five-colored halos flowed over his body.

After a hundred years of advancement, Lin Xuan successfully reached the middle stage of Spirit Division, while his Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core also advanced. Outside his cave, the cultivators who endured the celestial phenomenon waited anxiously for him to emerge.

• The celestial phenomenon ended after three days and nights, but Old Devil Jia and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators remained afraid to leave in case they angered the powerful senior.
• Lin Xuan inspected his condition and found that his Main Nascent Soul had reached the middle stage of Spirit Division, while his Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core had entered the early stage.
• Lin Xuan discovered that his magic power had increased more than threefold and that his body had grown stronger after the advancement.
• Lin Xuan saw that his Demon Core had turned pale silver and now released five-colored spiritual light and mysterious runes, a change he suspected might relate to the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art.
• Lin Xuan finished examining his body, opened his eyes, and found that even clenching his fist distorted the space nearby.

After advancing to the middle stage of Spirit Division with the Flat Peach Sacred Fruit, Lin Xuan reflected on the difficulty of the path to immortality and left seclusion to deal with the cultivators waiting outside. Old Devil Jia and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators bowed to him, but Lin Xuan remained silent.

• Lin Xuan completed his breakthrough and recognized how greatly the Flat Peach Sacred Fruit had accelerated his cultivation.
• Lin Xuan dismissed his thoughts of becoming immortal and reminded himself that the road ahead would be difficult.
• Lin Xuan used the divided spirit he had left in a Puppet to learn about Old Devil Jia and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators waiting outside.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the stone gate, and the cultivators sensed that his power was unfathomable.
• Old Devil Jia and the Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators bowed and greeted Lin Xuan, who did not answer.

Lin Xuan saved the disciples of Ethereal Immortal Palace by claiming ties to their late Great Elder, Lingxu True Person. When Old Devil Jia tried to flee, Lin Xuan killed him with a casual gesture, leaving the disciples grateful and awed.

• Lin Xuan asked the cultivators whether they were disciples of Ethereal Immortal Palace and said he had known Lingxu True Person.
• Lin Xuan decided to protect the disciples, while Old Devil Jia realized the danger and prepared to escape.
• Old Devil Jia used a wood-attribute spirit talisman to speed away toward the horizon.
• Lin Xuan twisted the space around Old Devil Jia, tearing him apart into a cloud of blood mist.
• The Ethereal Immortal Palace cultivators thanked Lin Xuan for saving their lives.

Lin Xuan sent the Misty Immortal Palace cultivators away after making them promise to conceal their encounter, then returned to sort through the treasures he had obtained from Ethereal Immortal Palace. He planned to finish examining them before returning to the Snow Fox Clan, and discovered a powerful True Spirit Puppet that needed Immortal Stones to operate.

• Lin Xuan told the Palace-Robed Woman and her fellow disciples to rest before leaving, and warned them not to reveal that they had met him.
• After flying nearly ten thousand li, the Palace-Robed Woman ordered the disciples to swear they would keep Lin Xuan's whereabouts secret and warned them of his immense power.
• Lin Xuan monitored the group with his divine sense until they swore their oaths, then withdrew it, satisfied that they would not expose him.
• Lin Xuan returned to his Cultivation Room to finish sorting the treasures from Ethereal Immortal Palace before going back to the Snow Fox Clan.
• Lin Xuan reviewed the treasures and identified the True Spirit Puppet, whose strength approached that of an ordinary early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator but which required Immortal Stones for power.

Lin Xuan selected several treasures from the Ethereal Immortal Palace treasury and refined the Thunder-Crushing Ancient Mirror, discovering its formidable power against evil demons. He then refined an ancient Confucian scroll and turned his attention to the Xuantian-level Spirit Formula Cauldron.

• Lin Xuan put away the founding ancestor's last Talisman Treasure and chose several additional Dharma Treasures from the treasury.
• Lin Xuan studied the Thunder-Crushing Ancient Mirror's Treasure-Controlling Formula for three days and refined the mirror over the next two days.
• Lin Xuan tested the mirror with a lightning strike that nearly broke his protective restriction and was pleased by its power.
• Lin Xuan refined an ancient Confucian scroll with his blood essence and returned it to his robe.
• Lin Xuan took out the Spirit Formula Cauldron, a Xuantian Spirit Treasure that had held the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill.

Lin Xuan learned that the Spirit Formula Cauldron could unleash powerful ancient Five Elements spells almost instantly, overcoming their long casting times. Because the Blue Star Sea could replenish his magic power, he began studying the cauldron’s techniques.

• Lin Xuan examined the Treasure-Controlling Formula and learned how the Spirit Formula Cauldron worked.
• Lin Xuan discovered that the cauldron could greatly shorten the casting time of powerful Five Elements spells, though they consumed immense magic power.
• Lin Xuan realized the Blue Star Sea could offset the cauldron’s high magic-power cost by purifying Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Lin Xuan began comprehending the cauldron’s control method and its more than ten powerful spells, including Absolute Freezing, Meteor Fire Rain, and Tornado Storm.

After spending three years mastering his treasures in the desert, Lin Xuan returned to the Cold Soul Ice Plain, where Xiang'er had waited anxiously for a hundred years. He arrived at the thriving Ice City and Xiang'er rushed out after receiving news of him, leaving their reunion imminent.

• Lin Xuan finished mastering his treasures and left the desert to return to the Cold Soul Ice Plain.
• During Lin Xuan's absence, Xiang'er strengthened the Snow Fox Clan's rule, improved relations with human cultivators, and established a Marketplace.
• Xiang'er worried that Lin Xuan might have died at the Ethereal Immortal Palace, but she stayed to fulfill her responsibilities to the Demon Race.
• A Fire Dragon message reached Xiang'er, and she flew out delightedly after reading it.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the newly built Ice City and remarked on how much the Cold Soul Ice Plain had changed.

Lin Xuan returned to the Snow Fox Clan after a hundred years and reunited with Xiang'er, who greeted him with an emotional embrace. Xiang'er then noticed he had advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Division, leaving her astonished.

• Lin Xuan entered the Cold Soul Ice Plain using the token Xiang'er had given him, but Snow Fox Clan guards stopped him near their territory and doubted the token was genuine.
• The guards sent a message to Xiang'er, who quickly arrived and joyfully threw herself into Lin Xuan's arms.
• The guards realized Lin Xuan might be the powerful cultivator rumored to have saved the Snow Fox Clan a hundred years earlier.
• Xiang'er stepped back, blushed, and asked Lin Xuan why he had taken so long to return.
• Xiang'er noticed Lin Xuan had reached the middle stage of Spirit Division and marveled that he had advanced in only a hundred years.

Lin Xuan reunited with Xiang'er and told her a partly fabricated account of his hundred-year absence, while concealing how he had advanced. He revealed that he had obtained the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill, giving Xiang'er hope for Princess Yuanke, and the chapter ended as he entered the hall where Yuanke remained sealed in Mystic Ice.

• Xiang'er made the Demon Race members promise to keep Lin Xuan's return secret, then flew with him toward Ice City.
• Xiang'er asked about Lin Xuan's journey, and he recounted his dangerous adventures while claiming he had been trapped in a spatial rift for a hundred years.
• Lin Xuan told Xiang'er that he had obtained the Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill, and she rejoiced that it could save Princess Yuanke.
• Xiang'er brought Lin Xuan to the palace's forbidden area, where he entered the hall and saw Yuanke still sealed in Mystic Ice.