Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan learned that Young Master Wu, an arrogant cultivator backed by Fire Spirit Old Ancestor, had repeatedly come to the Cloud Hidden Sect to challenge him over his fame. Lin Xuan went out to meet him, with the Youth surnamed Long and the Silver-Eyed Maiden following close behind.

• The Youth surnamed Long explained that Young Master Wu had come to challenge Lin Xuan after Lin Xuan defeated Old Monster Tianjue and gained fame as the realm's strongest below the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long recounted how Young Master Wu had defeated the Silver-Eyed Maiden, entered the sect, and returned repeatedly seeking Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan decided to meet Young Master Wu rather than hide, despite the danger of provoking Fire Spirit Old Ancestor.
• Lin Xuan flew out of the hall, and the Youth surnamed Long and the Silver-Eyed Maiden followed him toward the approaching figure.

Lin Xuan confronted Young Master Wu, who proposed a wager on their duel and offered a contract for a Top-grade Mineral Vein. The Silver-Eyed Maiden then staked Cloud Hidden Sect’s Treasure Vault, leaving Lin Xuan to face the challenge with the sect’s inheritance at risk.

• Young Master Wu arrived to challenge Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan answered his threats without concern.
• Young Master Wu proposed a wager and handed Lin Xuan a contract for a Top-grade Mineral Vein.
• Lin Xuan examined the extravagant stake and asked Young Master Wu if he had truly considered it.
• When Lin Xuan hesitated over what to wager, the Silver-Eyed Maiden offered Cloud Hidden Sect’s Treasure Vault.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden told Lin Xuan she had confidence in him.

The Silver-Eyed Maiden backed Lin Xuan in a duel against Young Master Wu, hoping to secure Lin Xuan’s loyalty to Cloud Hidden Sect. The duel began in a remote desert, where Young Master Wu’s overwhelming Burning Heaven Demon Fire filled the sky as Lin Xuan’s small Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire flew toward him.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden revealed that she had wagered the sect treasury to support Lin Xuan and strengthen his ties to Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan, Young Master Wu, the Silver-Eyed Maiden, and the youth surnamed Long flew to a vast desert to avoid damaging Cloud Hidden Sect’s headquarters.
• Lin Xuan confirmed that Young Master Wu had truly staked a top-grade Spirit Vein, then summoned his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Young Master Wu, contemptuous of Lin Xuan’s small flame, unleashed a massive Burning Heaven Demon Fire that spread across half the sky.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden and the other Cloud Hidden Sect elders recognized that Young Master Wu had inherited Fire Spirit Old Ancestor’s authentic teachings.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed Young Master Wu’s Burning Heaven Demon Fire with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, then faced his volley of Soul-Snatching Needles with silver sword lights. The sword lights vanished and became silver threads around Lin Xuan, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Long worried that Junior Brother Lin was underestimating Young Master Wu, but knew no one could interfere in the duel.
• Lin Xuan’s Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire froze Young Master Wu’s Burning Heaven Demon Fire, then changed into a vortex and devoured it.
• Young Master Wu attacked Lin Xuan with hundreds of Flying Needle-type treasures after deciding to try a different divine ability.
• Lin Xuan withdrew the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and sent out countless silver sword lights to meet the Soul-Snatching Needles.
• Young Master Wu fed blood essence into his needles and prepared to kill Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan’s sword lights vanished and strands of silver thread appeared around him.

Lin Xuan defeated Young Master Wu in a duel and accepted his concession without seriously injuring him. He gave the beast-hide deed for a Top-grade Spirit Stone mineral vein to Cloud Hidden Sect to manage, agreeing to receive seventy percent of its proceeds before returning to the sect headquarters.

• Lin Xuan used the Sword into Silk Technique to match Young Master Wu’s Soul-Snatching Needles and wrap the Flying Needle Dharma Treasures, severing Young Master Wu’s connection to them.
• Lin Xuan vanished, broke through Young Master Wu’s Body-Protecting Spirit Light, and placed a hand on his shoulder; Young Master Wu admitted defeat.
• Young Master Wu took his leave, and the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the youth surnamed Long were relieved that he had not been seriously hurt.
• Lin Xuan gave the Silver-Eyed Maiden the beast hide representing the Top-grade Spirit Stone mineral vein and offered to let Cloud Hidden Sect manage it.
• Lin Xuan and the Silver-Eyed Maiden agreed to divide the mineral vein’s proceeds seventy-thirty, with Lin Xuan receiving seventy percent, and the two elders escorted him back to Cloud Hidden Sect’s main headquarters.

Lin Xuan accepted a secluded cultivation cave in Hundred Flower Valley from the Silver-Eyed Maiden and secured it with powerful formations. After witnessing the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox's might, he returned to the Cultivation Room intent on refining his Internal Incarnation.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden showed Lin Xuan a small but exceptionally high-quality Spirit Vein in Hundred Flower Valley and offered it as his new cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan gladly accepted the cave, and Fairy Caiyun reported that the valley had been trouble-free before being released from her assignment.
• Lin Xuan inspected the prepared cave, thanked the Silver-Eyed Maiden, and escorted her out.
• Lin Xuan set up the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and the Inverted Universe Formation to protect his new residence.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Cultivation Room, determined to refine his Internal Incarnation so he could grow stronger.

Lin Xuan spent three years refining an Internal Incarnation using the sentient Medicine Spirit from a Piaomiao Nine Immortal Pill. He entered Demon Lake to test its abilities and faced a Spirit Division-level Ancient Beast.

• Lin Xuan prepared the Medicine Spirit and erased its divine sense to use it as the body for his Internal Incarnation.
• After more than three years, Lin Xuan emerged from his sealed cultivation cave having successfully refined the incarnation.
• Lin Xuan traveled to Demon Lake to test the incarnation's divine abilities.
• A Shark-like Ancient Beast attacked Lin Xuan shortly after he entered the lake.
• Lin Xuan separated from his incarnation, dodged with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, and watched as the incarnation reached toward the beast.

Lin Xuan tested his Internal Incarnation against the Ancient Beasts of Demon Lake and found it greatly strengthened his power. Back in his cultivation cave, he separated the Second Nascent Soul and chose the Snow Shadow True Demon Art for it to cultivate.

• Lin Xuan demonized his incarnation's arm, struck down an Ancient Beast, and collected its Demon Core.
• Lin Xuan spent three months fighting Ancient Beasts in Demon Lake to test the Internal Incarnation's strength.
• Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave, separated the Second Nascent Soul from the Main Nascent Soul, and sent it to cultivate on its own.
• Lin Xuan reviewed demon-realm Jade Slips and selected the Snow Shadow True Demon Art, which the Snowflake Saint Ancestor had practiced.

Lin Xuan comprehended the Snow Shadow True Demon Art and began cultivating it with his Second Nascent Soul in a demonic-qi-rich Instantaneous Cave Abode. After a century of seclusion, a fleeing cultivator pursued by two attackers raced toward the valley where Lin Xuan lived.

• Lin Xuan chose the Snow Shadow True Demon Art as the cultivation art for his Second Nascent Soul and Internal Incarnation.
• After three months of study, Lin Xuan recognized that the art could cultivate its user from the Spirit Movement Stage to the great completion of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Lin Xuan spent another half a year comprehending the art, then entered an Instantaneous Cave Abode supplied with demonic qi by thousands of Demon Eye Jade stones.
• Lin Xuan and his true body remained in seclusion, cultivating separately, while the Cloud Hidden Sect elders left him undisturbed.
• A hundred years passed without anyone visiting Lin Xuan's valley, until a fleeing cultivator pursued by two attackers headed toward it.

Lin Xuan appeared just as the Heavenly Fate Twin Devils were about to capture Lin Yujiao, saving her and revealing himself to the startled fiends. The chapter ended with the devils recognizing him as the Cloud Hidden Sect’s famed Lin Xuan.

• Lin Yujiao fled the Heavenly Fate Twin Devils, but their bracelet treasure slowed her and trapped her between them.
• The Heavenly Fate Twin Devils demanded that Lin Yujiao surrender, and she fought back with her Green Brilliance Sword.
• The yellow-robed man shattered Lin Yujiao’s Life-Bound treasure, leaving her unable to resist as the bewitching woman sent the Blood Demon Rope to bind her.
• A silver thread cut the Blood Demon Rope into pieces, and Lin Xuan appeared from concealment.
• Lin Yujiao greeted Lin Xuan as her uncle-master, and the Heavenly Fate Twin Devils recognized him as the renowned cultivator who had defeated Old Monster Tianjue.

Lin Xuan revealed his overwhelming strength by killing the Heavenly Fate Twin Devils when they tried to flee. Lin Yujiao then told him that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s main headquarters had been breached, leaving him facing the sect’s crisis.

• The Heavenly Fate Twin Devils sensed Lin Xuan’s Spirit Division Stage cultivation and tried to escape.
• Lin Xuan stopped them with a gesture and crushed them into blood mist, destroying their Nascent Souls as well.
• Lin Yujiao was stunned by Lin Xuan’s strength, then rejoiced that he might save the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan asked Lin Yujiao what had happened to the sect.
• Lin Yujiao revealed that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s main headquarters had already been breached by the enemy.

Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect and found its headquarters under attack by forces from three sects. After killing several enemy cultivators, he reached the main battle and saw the sect’s defenders locked in fierce combat.

• Lin Xuan took Lin Yujiao toward the Cloud Hidden Sect after she told him the sect faced a crisis.
• Lin Xuan found the sect’s protective array breached and its outer grounds occupied by enemy cultivators.
• Lin Xuan killed several enemy guards who mistook him for one of their own.
• Lin Xuan reached the main hall and saw dozens of Dongxuan cultivators fighting across the headquarters.
• A wealthy-looking enemy cultivator urged Fellow Daoist Bai and the Cloud Hidden Sect to surrender, while Bai continued fighting him.
• Lin Xuan observed several other battles between Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators and their attackers.

The Cloud Hidden Sect’s defenders struggled against the invading Taixuan Sect, Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley, while a white-robed cultivator refused to betray his sect after hearing its Supreme Elders had fallen. The arrival of Spirit Ghost Sect’s old monster Wu sent the defenders fleeing, though a few stayed to fight.

• A squire-like Taixuan Sect cultivator told Bai that the Cloud Hidden Sect’s two Supreme Elders had fallen and urged him to give up.
• Bai rejected the offer to betray the Cloud Hidden Sect and insisted he would stand by his sect.
• Old monster Wu appeared in black Battle Armor, unleashing spiritual pressure that overwhelmed cultivators across the Cloud Hidden Sect’s headquarters.
• The Cloud Hidden Sect’s cultivators recognized the Spirit Division Stage expert and scattered in fear.
• Bai and a few others refused to retreat, while most defenders fled or remained trapped in battle.

A white-robed Cloud Hidden Sect cultivator fought off a group of outsiders until Lin Xuan arrived and saved him. Lin Xuan confronted Old Monster Wu, who attacked him with an enormous battle axe.

• The white-robed cultivator used his Life-Bound sword’s flood dragon Artifact Spirit to destroy the squire-dressed cultivator’s coin-shaped treasure and kill him.
• Old Monster Wu’s axe strike was silently dissolved by Lin Xuan, who appeared alongside Lin Yujiao.
• The white-robed cultivator and the other Cloud Hidden Sect members welcomed Lin Xuan, while Old Monster Wu challenged his reputation and cultivation.
• Lin Xuan told Old Monster Wu to surrender or die, and Old Monster Wu enlarged himself and his axe before swinging at Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan defeated Old Monster Wu with a single punch, revealing overwhelming strength and a grasp of the Laws of Heaven and Earth. As the attackers fled the Cloud Hidden Sect, Lin Xuan sent silver sword-lights after them to stop their escape.

• Old Monster Wu struck first with his giant axe, while Lin Xuan calmly met the attack with his bare fist.
• Lin Xuan's punch shattered the axe and killed Old Monster Wu, destroying his body and Nascent Soul.
• The Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators cheered, and the attackers fled in fear.
• Lin Xuan declared that the attackers could not leave freely and sent silver sword-lights after them, killing many as they ran.

Lin Xuan rescued the Cloud Hidden Sect from an assault by an alliance of three powerful sects, then learned they had attacked over a Top-grade Spirit Stone mineral vein and Immortal Stones discovered there. The revelation left Lin Xuan shaken, since Immortal Stones were something he urgently needed, and he began thinking of the treasures he had acquired in the Ice Sea Realm.

• Lin Xuan killed old monster Wu with a single strike, turning the battle around as the Cloud Hidden Sect drove off the remaining attackers.
• The Cloud Hidden Sect elders escorted Lin Xuan to the grand hall, where he demanded to know who had attacked and why the other Supreme Elders were absent.
• Li Hongxiu explained that the Taixuan Sect, the Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley had joined forces against the Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Yujiao revealed that the three sects coveted the Top-grade Spirit Stone mineral vein Lin Xuan had won from Young Master Wu.
• Li Hongxiu disclosed that Immortal Stones had been found in the vein, startling Lin Xuan because he urgently needed them.

Lin Xuan learned that Cloud Hidden Sect’s Immortal Stone had attracted Taixuan Sect, Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley, while Senior Brother Long and Senior Sister Lin had gone silent at the mining vein. Elsewhere, leaders of the three forces and two Demon Race cultivators met to discuss their failed assault on Cloud Hidden Sect.

• Lin Xuan heard from Li Hongxiu that Cloud Hidden Sect had mined an Immortal Stone about a year earlier and that a traitor had leaked the news to the three sects.
• Li Hongxiu said Senior Brother Long and Senior Sister Lin had gone to oversee the mine and had not contacted the sect for a long time, leaving their fate uncertain.
• Several late Spirit Division cultivators, including two members of the Demon Race, gathered in an abandoned stone hall far from Cloud Hidden Sect.
• An elderly cultivator challenged Fellow Daoist Sun over Spirit Ghost Sect’s failed attack, noting that nearly all the disciples sent into battle had been killed.

The leaders of Spirit Ghost Sect, Taixuan Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley discussed Cloud Hidden Sect’s failed assault and learned that Lin Xuan had killed Wu with one punch. They agreed to use the Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array against him, but still needed a way to lure him into the trap.

• The black-robed man blamed the failed attack on Cloud Hidden Sect on unexpected events, and Earth Spirit Boy revealed that Lin Xuan had appeared and killed Wu with one punch.
• The gathered leaders doubted the report, but the Brocade-robed Big Man warned that Lin Xuan’s strength was real and that they should not underestimate him.
• The Brocade-robed Big Man proposed that the three sects overwhelm Lin Xuan with their combined forces, and Lady Black warned that a direct fight could bring heavy losses.
• Lady Black proposed using Spirit Ghost Sect’s Spirit Ghost Five Elements Array with cultivators from all three sects, and the leaders approved the plan.
• Earth Spirit Boy pointed out that the array had to be set up at a fixed location and asked how they could lure Lin Xuan into it.

Lin Xuan ignored the Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators’ calls for caution and traveled alone to the contested mine to rescue the sect’s Supreme Elders and protect its Immortal Stones. Near the Tianyan Mountain Range, he spotted a Cloud Hidden Sect disciple fleeing from pursuers of the Three Sects Alliance.

• The black-robed woman and the others discussed how to lure Lin Xuan into their ambush.
• Lin Xuan set out alone for the mine despite the Cloud Hidden Sect cultivators’ objections, determined to save the Supreme Elders and prevent the Immortal Stones from being taken.
• Lin Xuan traveled to the Tianyan Mountain Range, where the Three Sects Alliance had taken most of the mine and Cloud Hidden Sect forces were still resisting.
• Lin Xuan concealed his aura as he approached the mine, then saw a Cloud Hidden Sect disciple fleeing from several pursuers.

Lin Xuan recognized Su Ru as she fled from three pursuers and intervened to save her. Su Ru told him that Cloud Hidden Sect had lost thousands of cultivators in the battle for a mine vein, while Grandmasters Long and Lin and over a thousand disciples remained trapped.

• Lin Xuan noticed Su Ru among the cultivators being pursued and decided to help his old acquaintance.
• Su Ru stopped to fight, but Lin Xuan killed her three pursuers with a silver thread.
• Lin Xuan revealed himself, and Su Ru recognized him as the sect’s Supreme Elder.
• Lin Xuan saw that Su Ru was badly injured and asked what had happened at the mine vein.
• Su Ru said more than ten thousand sect cultivators had died, Grandmasters Long and Lin were trapped with over a thousand disciples, and she begged Lin Xuan to rescue them.