Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan broke True Person Thousand Illusions' illusion and discovered that the Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator had followed him to steal his True Dragon Spirit Blood. When Thousand Illusions demanded the blood, Lin Xuan refused, leaving the two on the verge of a fight.

• Lin Xuan struck the empty landscape with an ancient spear, breaking the illusion and revealing a hidden opponent.
• True Person Thousand Illusions appeared and introduced himself as a renowned master of illusion arts.
• Lin Xuan questioned why Thousand Illusions had targeted him and warned that he had defeated Heaven Origin Saint Ancestor.
• True Person Thousand Illusions demanded Lin Xuan hand over the True Dragon Spirit Blood, explaining that he had followed him after the trade fair.
• Lin Xuan refused to surrender the blood and rebuked Thousand Illusions, accepting that they would have to fight.

Lin Xuan confronted True Person Thousand Illusions, who trapped him in an illusion and unleashed a vast Ten Thousand Corpse Array. Lin Xuan began testing the attacking Refined Corpses with his sword lights, but their poisonous fog dissolved several of them.

• Lin Xuan concluded that True Person Thousand Illusions would not spare him, and the old cultivator attacked with a golden Ancient Mirror.
• Lin Xuan struck at the mirror with the Sea-Overturning Halberd, but the apparent hit revealed itself as an illusion that shrouded the desert in mist.
• True Person Thousand Illusions announced his Ten Thousand Corpse Array as the mist spread into a vast sea of fog.
• Lin Xuan saw countless bronze-armored Refined Corpses, including a Spirit Division Corpse King, charging through the fog.
• Lin Xuan sent out his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword lights, and the Refined Corpses met them with poisonous fog and corpse aura that dissolved several blades.

Lin Xuan saw through Old Devil Thousand Illusions’ ambush and counterattacked, injuring him and destroying his illusion treasure. The mist dispersed, but the Refined Corpses remained as the wounded old devil faced Lin Xuan directly.

• Lin Xuan used the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords to keep the Refined Corpses at bay while Old Devil Thousand Illusions attacked with misleading phantom strikes.
• Lin Xuan spotted Old Devil Thousand Illusions approaching in disguise with the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and pretended not to notice.
• Lin Xuan struck Old Devil Thousand Illusions with a punch, then sent an Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder bolt after him.
• Old Devil Thousand Illusions used his golden Ancient Mirror to block the lightning, but the bolt extinguished its power and sent it falling.
• The illusion mist dispersed, while the Refined Corpses remained; Old Devil Thousand Illusions was injured and furious.

Lin Xuan fought True Person Thousand Illusions and used his Blood Fire Ants to tie up the old monster’s Refined Corpses. He then unleashed Jade Luo Bees, which pierced through True Person Thousand Illusions’s protective light and struck him with their stingers.

• True Person Thousand Illusions attacked Lin Xuan with a black gourd’s thunderfire and two Short Halberds, forcing Lin Xuan to spend his magical power defending himself.
• Lin Xuan used Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder to foul the Short Halberds, but True Person Thousand Illusions summoned more treasures and continued his assault.
• Lin Xuan released Blood Fire Ants from the Treasure Pagoda, and their vast numbers entangled True Person Thousand Illusions’s Refined Corpses.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Jade Luo Bees from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower, and they flew through the gourd’s Samadhi True Fire unharmed.
• True Person Thousand Illusions tried to retreat, but the Jade Luo Bees pierced his Body-Protecting Spirit Light and stabbed him with their tail needles.

Lin Xuan fought True Person Thousand Illusions, using Jade Luo Bees, his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder to pressure the Tribulation Transcendence cultivator. He unleashed the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art, and the chapter ended as his Phoenix form clashed with Thousand Illusions’ black axe and devil-qi pythons.

• A Jade Luo Bee stung True Person Thousand Illusions, and he spent his Life Essence to suppress the Time Poison draining his lifespan.
• True Person Thousand Illusions used Thunder Beads to blast open the Jade Luo Bee swarm and escape its encirclement.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and Thousand Illusions countered with his Black Short Axe in a clash that wounded Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder against the axe, but Thousand Illusions used Yinhun and Fierce Ghosts to protect his lifebound treasure.
• Lin Xuan transformed his eighty-one swords into a Phoenix with the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art, and Thousand Illusions attacked it with his axe and two devil-qi pythons.

Lin Xuan and his Avatar unleashed their strongest attacks against Old Devil Thousand Illusions, but the Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator protected himself with a blood-essence defense. The chapter ended with the two sides locked in a fierce battle, Lin Xuan’s attacks unable to break through the red cloud.

• Lin Xuan summoned the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and split into a true body and an Avatar.
• Lin Xuan’s Avatar released 108 Skull Artifacts that spewed demonic fire at Old Devil Thousand Illusions.
• Lin Xuan used the Thunder-Crushing Ancient Mirror to summon over a hundred lightning-formed Magic Crows.
• Old Devil Thousand Illusions cut off part of his palm and turned its blood essence into a defensive red cloud.
• Lin Xuan’s Heaven Fire, Skull Artifacts, and Magic Crows attacked together, but the red cloud withstood their assault.

Lin Xuan brought out his True Spirit Puppet and three Immortal Stones against True Person Thousand Illusions, transforming the puppet into a terrifying force. As Thousand Illusions wavered, Lin Xuan launched a powerful sword attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Xuan released the True Spirit Puppet, and Old Devil Thousand Illusions mocked him for relying on puppet techniques.
• Lin Xuan revealed three Immortal Stones, which True Person Thousand Illusions recognized and coveted.
• Lin Xuan sent the three Immortal Stones into the puppet, summoning a tremendous pressure that shook Thousand Illusions’ confidence.
• Lin Xuan drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and swung the Spirit-Devouring Sword, gathering the four sacred beasts’ illusory forms into a ball of light that shot toward Thousand Illusions.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed True Person Thousand Illusions with the True Spirit Puppet and his other attacks, leaving the old devil grievously wounded and struggling to survive. As Lin Xuan pressed the assault with more treasures and Refined Corpses, True Person Thousand Illusions pleaded for him to stop.

• Lin Xuan and the True Spirit Puppet battered True Person Thousand Illusions until his blood-mist barrier collapsed.
• Lin Xuan unleashed his Avatar, Spirit-Devouring Sword, Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and Ten Thousand Soul Banner in a fierce attack that left the old devil missing an arm, a leg, and half his body.
• The Jade Luo Bees swarmed the injured old devil, who used a cauldron-shaped treasure to fend them off while considering escape.
• Lin Xuan summoned three Refined Corpses and sent the Phoenix from the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword after True Person Thousand Illusions, destroying several of his treasures, including his lifebound treasure.
• True Person Thousand Illusions begged Lin Xuan to stop and offered to owe him a favor.

Lin Xuan rejected Old Devil Thousand Illusions's pleas and continued attacking, determined to kill him. Cornered, Old Devil Thousand Illusions unleashed a life-consuming Spatial Storm, trapping Lin Xuan as he tried to retreat.

• Old Devil Thousand Illusions begged Lin Xuan for mercy, offering his wealth and swearing not to seek revenge, but Lin Xuan refused to stop attacking.
• Old Devil Thousand Illusions offered to become Lin Xuan's slave and sign a divine soul oath, but Lin Xuan remained determined to kill him.
• Old Devil Thousand Illusions, driven to desperation, began casting a secret art, and Lin Xuan briefly mistook it for self-detonation before resuming his attack.
• Old Devil Thousand Illusions revealed he was unleashing a Spatial Storm at the cost of his life and drew the surrounding Yuan Qi and Space Laws into a violent force.
• Lin Xuan sensed the danger and tried to flee, but Old Devil Thousand Illusions released a gray sinister wind that swept outward around him.

Lin Xuan tried to escape the Spatial Storm unleashed by Old Devil Thousand Illusions, but his defenses failed and the storm swallowed him. He lost consciousness as his fate remained unknown.

• Old Devil Thousand Illusions sacrificed himself to unleash a powerful Spatial Storm, then perished as it continued to spread.
• Lin Xuan used the Spirit Formula Cauldron to cast an Azure Water Curtain, but the storm shattered it instantly.
• Lin Xuan abandoned escape and fused with the Heavenly Phoenix to unleash Phoenix Nirvana as a final defense.
• The Spatial Storm broke through the Phoenix’s fiery protection, swallowed Lin Xuan, and left him unconscious.

After surviving the Spatial Storm, Lin Xuan recovered from his severe injuries in a hidden mountain cave. Once fully healed, he flew out of the mountain, while his location remained unknown.

• Lin Xuan used his divine sense to confirm that no cultivators were nearby and swallowed healing pills to restore his strength.
• Lin Xuan gathered the scattered fragments of his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and used Sword Spirit Transformation into Void to reassemble it.
• Lin Xuan found a concealed valley, burrowed into the mountainside, and sheltered there to recuperate.
• Lin Xuan spent more than half a year taking medicine and meditating, seeing no cultivators or demonic beasts.
• After his injuries healed completely, Lin Xuan roared and burst through the mountain summit into the sky.

After surviving a Spatial Storm, Lin Xuan searched an immense grassland and discovered a forest whose world origin energy mixed spiritual, devilish, and yin energy, convincing him he was outside the Spirit World. He followed distant battle sounds and found human cultivators fighting an Ancient Demon, arriving just as a mistake threatened to break their formation.

• Lin Xuan flew across the grassland for several days without finding signs of habitation or demon beasts.
• Lin Xuan discovered a vast forest where spiritual, devilish, and yin energies coexisted, and entered it.
• Lin Xuan sensed explosions far away and flew toward them at full speed.
• Lin Xuan found more than twenty human cultivators fighting a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Ancient Demon.
• A young girl made a mistake in the formation, creating a flaw as the Ancient Demon charged and prompting the leading elder to cry out.

Lin Xuan saved a group of Sea Sand Sect cultivators from an Ancient Demon and learned that he was in the Illusion Ghost Forest. The elder revealed that the forest lay in a lost interface that no longer belonged to the Spirit World.

• The Ancient Demon attacked Xing'er while the Sea Sand Sect cultivators struggled to defend themselves.
• Lin Xuan secretly shattered the Ancient Demon's purple fist shadows, then revealed himself and overwhelmed the group with his spiritual pressure.
• Lin Xuan killed the Ancient Demon with a flick of his sleeve, leaving its Nascent Soul no chance to escape.
• The Sea Sand Sect elder thanked Lin Xuan, who asked where he was and whether the place was still in the Spirit World.
• The elder identified the location as the Illusion Ghost Forest and explained that it was a lost interface outside the Spirit World.

Lin Xuan learned that the Lost Realm lay outside the Spirit, Demon, and Underworld Realms, and that it was created after an ancient war involving the three realms and the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons. The old man confirmed Lin Xuan’s guess that the demons had been the shared enemy, leaving him to hear more about the war’s aftermath.

• Lin Xuan questioned the brocade-robed old man about the Lost Realm’s place among the realms, and learned it belonged to none of the three great upper realms.
• The old man began recounting the Lost Realm’s origins and asked Lin Xuan whether he had heard of Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.
• Lin Xuan recalled his past battles with Heavenly Demons and was astonished that a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator knew of them.
• The old man explained that the Lost Realm had not existed before an ancient war and that the conflict was not the invasion Lin Xuan associated with the Asura King.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Spirit World, Demon World, and Underworld Realm had faced a powerful enemy together, and guessed that it was the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.
• The brocade-robed old man confirmed Lin Xuan’s guess.

Lin Xuan learned that the Three Realms had once united against the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons, a clue that matched the ancient battlefield recorded in an Image Pearl and involved Yue'er as Asura. He connected the two accounts and asked the Brocade-Clad Elder how the Lost Realm had formed.

• The Brocade-Clad Elder told Lin Xuan that the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons had invaded the Spirit World, the Demon World, and the Underworld Realm, forcing their powerhouses to unite against them.
• Lin Xuan recalled an incomplete Image Pearl showing Asura, Guanghanzi, the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, Bingpo, and other powerful figures fighting a common enemy on an ancient battlefield.
• Lin Xuan linked the Image Pearl's battle to the invasion described by the Brocade-Clad Elder and concluded that further clues might be found in ancient records or from higher-level cultivators.
• Lin Xuan stopped questioning the Brocade-Clad Elder about the battle and asked how the Lost Realm had formed.
• The Brocade-Clad Elder said he knew how the Lost Realm had formed.

A Brocade-Clad Elder explained to Lin Xuan that the Lost Realm formed when parts of the Spirit World, Demon World, and Underworld Realm broke away and fused during an ancient war. Lin Xuan studied a map, learned the nearest city was Colorful Cloud City, and arrived there after leaving the Illusion Ghost Forest.

• The Brocade-Clad Elder told Lin Xuan that the three realms’ elders drove the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons to where the realms met, and a piece broke away to become the Lost Realm.
• Lin Xuan questioned the elder, then took his Jade Slip map and copied its information before letting him and his companions leave.
• Lin Xuan considered the Lost Realm’s dangers and its possible clues to Yue'er’s reincarnation, then resolved to settle in and seek a way back to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Lost Realm’s spiritual, demonic, and Yin-energy terrains were interwoven, and that Colorful Cloud City lay west of the Illusion Ghost Forest.
• Lin Xuan flew through the forest without trouble and reached the outskirts of Colorful Cloud City after two days.

Lin Xuan arrived at Colorful Cloud City and discovered an Immortal Trapping Ring made with the lost Cloud Forging Technique. After buying it, he learned that its maker, Master Yu, had used it as practice for a more important treasure.

• Lin Xuan entered Colorful Cloud City, restrained his cultivation, and went to the central Marketplace.
• At Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Lin Xuan recognized the Cloud Forging Technique in an Immortal Trapping Ring and examined the treasure.
• Lin Xuan bought the Immortal Trapping Ring for five hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan asked the shop assistant about Master Yu and learned the ring had been an experimental piece made while Master Yu prepared to refine another treasure.

Lin Xuan traveled into the Great Wild Marsh to find Master Yu and obtain the Cloud Forging Technique, which could strengthen his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword. After fighting off several monsters, he reached a valley guarded by Three-Eyed Blood Bats and flew toward them, suspecting Master Yu might be an Ancient Demon.

• Lin Xuan left Colorful Cloud City and set out for Scorpion Mountain in search of Master Yu and the Cloud Forging Technique.
• Lin Xuan spent over a month traveling through several prefectures and reached the Great Wild Marsh.
• Lin Xuan entered the poisonous miasma and killed a strange fish monster that attacked him above a lake.
• Lin Xuan fought off several more monsters as he traveled deeper into the marsh.
• Lin Xuan found a valley inhabited by thousands of Three-Eyed Blood Bats and flew toward them as they swarmed to attack.

Lin Xuan cleared the Three-Eyed Blood Bats near Scorpion Mountain, then encountered two Spirit Division-level Yin-Yang Demon Corpses. They attacked him, but Lin Xuan countered their powers and gained the advantage.

• Lin Xuan transformed his spiritual energy into azure birds that wiped out the Three-Eyed Blood Bats.
• Lin Xuan sensed two Spirit Division-level figures approaching and waited for them to arrive.
• Lin Xuan recognized the young man and woman as legendary Yin-Yang Demon Corpses, each at the peak of the Mid-Spirit Division Stage.
• The demon corpses attacked Lin Xuan with claw lights and Corpse Fire.
• Lin Xuan countered with fiery-red claw radiance and the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, overpowering their attacks.

Lin Xuan defeated the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse and continued toward his goal of obtaining the Cloud Forging Technique. At Scorpion Mountain, a Ghost Saint learned of the demons’ defeat and set out personally, while his subordinates guarded the Sword Washing Pool and the artifact refinement taking place there.

• Lin Xuan swiftly killed the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse, grew wary of its hidden manipulator, and continued onward under a concealment technique.
• At Scorpion Mountain, a Ghost Saint learned that his Yin-Yang Demon Corpse had fallen and considered whether their plans had been discovered.
• The Ghost Saint told his subordinates that the Immortal Trapping Ring was being refined at the Sword Washing Pool by Master Yu, Venerable Blazing Fire, and Venerable Ancient Mirror.
• The Ghost Saint ordered his subordinates to guard the Sword Washing Pool and left to investigate the enemy himself.