Chapter Summaries

Xueling told Lin Xuan how the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons stole the Blue Star Sea from the Ink Moon Tribe, triggering a disastrous war with experts from over a thousand interfaces. The Heavenly Witch Goddess escaped while most of the tribe perished, leaving the story with only a few clansmen surviving.

• Xueling explained that the Ink Moon Tribe had agreed to hand over the Blue Star Sea rather than face the gathered experts from over a thousand interfaces.
• On the night before the handover, the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons attacked the altar, possessed the Great Elder, and stole the Blue Star Sea.
• The Heavenly Witch Goddess and several elders fought the invaders, but the Heavenly Demon Lord escaped with the treasure.
• When the Ink Moon Tribe could not produce the stolen Blue Star Sea, the otherworldly experts accused them of breaking their agreement and attacked.
• The Ink Moon Tribe was crushed, and the Heavenly Witch Goddess escaped gravely wounded while most clansmen perished.

Lin Xuan learned how the Ink Moon Tribe was hunted into extinction after the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon stole the Blue Star Sea. Xueling said the Heavenly Witch Goddess had survived and later disappeared after vowing to give the tribe an accounting.

• Lin Xuan sympathized with Xueling and learned that only one or two in ten Ink Moon Tribe members had survived the initial attack.
• Xueling explained that the surviving clansmen were pursued by the powerful experts’ disciples and followers for a hundred thousand years because the Blue Star Sea remained missing.
• Lin Xuan concluded that the Ink Moon Tribe had eventually vanished, unable to recover from the prolonged persecution.
• Xueling told Lin Xuan that the Heavenly Witch Goddess had rescued her and several companions, then given them guidance, pills, and treasures.
• Xueling said the Heavenly Witch Goddess had later vowed to give the Ink Moon Tribe an accounting for its downfall, but she did not know where the Goddess went.

Lin Xuan learned that the Heavenly Witch Goddess had entrusted the Ink Moon Tribe’s treasures to Xueling and the other guardians, hoping a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator who practiced the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art would inherit them. Xueling explained that she and the other early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivators could not survive seven million years naturally, then began to explain the secret art they used to keep their promise.

• Xueling told Lin Xuan that the Heavenly Witch Goddess had hidden the Ink Moon Tribe’s treasures and instructed the guardians to aid a qualified inheritor.
• Lin Xuan realized the Heavenly Witch Goddess had likely gone to the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons’ realm to seek the Blue Star Sea, but Xueling did not know how to reach that realm.
• Lin Xuan asked why Xueling had remained in the ruins for more than seven million years, and she explained that early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivators could not live that long.
• Xueling said she and the other guardians had used a secret art when their lifespans ran low and they feared they would fail the Heavenly Witch Goddess’s entrustment.

Xueling explained that the Ink Moon Tribe preserved its treasures for Lin Xuan to inherit, and Lin Xuan agreed to help the tribe if he could. Xueling began activating an ancient scroll, whose purpose remained unclear as it expanded in a burst of light.

• Xueling told Lin Xuan that an Ink Moon Tribe secret art had prolonged her remnant soul's existence at the cost of her true body and several clansmen's lives.
• Xueling explained that the Heavenly Witch Goddess had entrusted the tribe's remaining treasures to her to await Lin Xuan's arrival.
• Lin Xuan accepted the inheritance and promised to help the Ink Moon Tribe if it was within his power.
• Xueling formed an ancient scroll resembling Lin Xuan's Treasure Map and activated it with incantations, spiritual energy, and light from nearby statues.
• The scroll came alive with flowing water, fish, a soaring goshawk, and blooming flowers, then grew more than tenfold in size.

Xueling opened a passage to an unfamiliar plane and retrieved the Ink Moon Witch Palace, revealing that the treasure held the Ink Moon Tribe’s inheritance and was a Xiantian Spirit Treasure. Lin Xuan learned of its extraordinary power, though its full abilities and contents remained to be explored.

• Xueling used lightning Laws to cleave the ancient scroll and open a passage to another plane.
• A spiritual-light-wrapped object emerged from the passage and flew into Xueling’s palm.
• Xueling revealed the object to be the Ink Moon Witch Palace, a spatial treasure containing the Ink Moon Tribe’s treasures.
• Xueling explained that the palace could be used for both defense and attack.
• Xueling revealed that the Ink Moon Witch Palace was originally a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, shocking Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan accepted the Ink Moon Witch Palace and discovered that Xueling was fading after using the laws of thunder and lightning. He promised to help the Ink Moon Tribe and revealed that he had a possible way to save her, bringing out a jade-white bottle.

• Lin Xuan found that his divine sense could not inspect the Ink Moon Witch Palace and decided to refine it later.
• Lin Xuan noticed Xueling's body turning transparent and realized her remnant soul was rapidly weakening.
• Xueling reassured Lin Xuan that her death was not his fault and asked him to help the Ink Moon Tribe in the future.
• Lin Xuan promised to help the tribe and said he had thought of a way to save Xueling.
• Lin Xuan produced a jade-white Jade Bottle covered in tiny pale cyan runes.

Lin Xuan sealed Xueling’s remnant soul inside Spirit-Sealing Jade, preserving her life while planning to seek Soul-Nurturing Wood to help her recover. After leaving the Palace, he extracted Spirit Eye Lake and prepared to depart.

• Xueling recognized Lin Xuan’s Spirit-Sealing Jade and rejoiced that it could prevent her soul from dissipating.
• Lin Xuan placed Xueling in a jade bottle made from the Spirit-Sealing Jade and confirmed that her soul was safe inside.
• Lin Xuan stored the jade bottle in his Instantaneous Bag and flew out of the Palace.
• Lin Xuan found Spirit Eye Lake below the mountaintop and decided to take it.
• Lin Xuan used spell seals and a formation to remove Spirit Eye Lake.

After collecting the Spirit Eye Lake, Lin Xuan spent several years buying rare treasures across the Lost Realm while disguising himself. When the Nether Dark King's generals finally exposed and ambushed him, Lin Xuan defeated them and went into hiding as he prepared to leave the realm.

• Lin Xuan stored the Spirit Eye Lake in a Jade Box and flew away.
• Over the next several years, Lin Xuan visited Marketplaces across the Lost Realm and bought rare treasures while changing his appearance.
• Several dozen Yin Soul Ghosts, including two Tribulation Transcendence-level generals of the Nether Dark King, surrounded Lin Xuan after his identity was exposed.
• Lin Xuan unleashed his treasures, Golden Body Dharma Image, Jade Luo Bees, and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to fight the ghosts.
• The Nether Dark King learned that Lin Xuan had killed his generals and personally searched for him, but found no trace.
• Lin Xuan stopped searching for treasures, disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, and prepared to leave using the Small Xuyu Universe Array.

Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave after years of evading the Nether Dark King and learned that the Small Xuyu Universe Array was ready. However, Fairy Shi and the Brocade-Clad Big Man revealed that it needed Ancient Spirit Stones to activate, leaving Lin Xuan unable to depart the Lost Realm yet.

• Lin Xuan reached the mist-shrouded valley and sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to announce his return.
• Fairy Hongling and Lu Ying'er welcomed Lin Xuan, and he saw that Lu Ying'er had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave, rested, and later gave Lu Ying'er pills, treasures, and cultivation guidance.
• Lin Xuan summoned Fairy Shi and the Brocade-Clad Big Man to ask about the Small Xuyu Universe Array.
• Fairy Shi and the Brocade-Clad Big Man explained that they had completed the array, but ordinary and Top-grade Spirit Stones could not power it.
• The Brocade-Clad Big Man said that the ancient array required Ancient Spirit Stones to activate.

Lin Xuan learned that the Small Xuyu Universe Array required Ancient Spirit Stones and accompanied Fairy Shi and the Brocade-Clad Big Man to inspect it. He supplied more than ten Ancient Spirit Stones, and the Brocade-Clad Big Man began installing them in the array.

• Fairy Shi told Lin Xuan that ordinary and Top-grade Spirit Stones could not activate the Small Xuyu Universe Array, and he said he had an idea.
• Lin Xuan followed Fairy Shi and the Brocade-Clad Big Man to a hidden oasis, where the Brocade-Clad Big Man revealed the array by removing an illusion Restriction.
• Lin Xuan inspected the fully assembled array and learned that it likely required Top-grade Ancient Spirit Stones to activate.
• Lin Xuan produced more than ten Ancient Spirit Stones, astonishing Fairy Shi and the Brocade-Clad Big Man.
• The Brocade-Clad Big Man began embedding the Ancient Spirit Stones into the array.

Lin Xuan watched the Brocade-Clad Big Man activate the Small Xuyu Universe Array with Ancient Spirit Stones. Fairy Shi and Xu asked to leave the Lost Realm with Lin Xuan, and he offered to introduce them to his sect as Guest Elders instead of accepting them as servants.

• The Brocade-Clad Big Man installed the Ancient Spirit Stones and activated the Small Xuyu Universe Array.
• Fairy Shi asked Lin Xuan to take her to the Spirit World and offered to acknowledge him as her master.
• Xu realized the opportunity Fairy Shi was pursuing and also asked Lin Xuan to take him to the Spirit World as his master.
• Lin Xuan agreed to bring them back and offered to introduce them to his sect as Guest Elders.

Lin Xuan prepared the Small Xuyu Universe Array and gave the cultivators protective talismans before using the World-Breaking Bead to open a passage out of the Lost Realm. The passage drew him and the others inside as they began their return to the Spirit World.

• After Lin Xuan left, Fairy Shi apologized to the Brocade-Clad Big Man for making arrangements without consulting him, and they agreed to cooperate in the future.
• The Brocade-Clad Big Man and his disciples spent three days checking the Small Xuyu Universe Array.
• Lin Xuan gave the cultivators protective talismans to shield them from the dangers of traveling between realms.
• Lin Xuan activated the array, formed a huge rune, and used it with the World-Breaking Bead to open a spatial vortex.
• Lin Xuan and the nearby cultivators were pulled into the vortex.

A group of cultivators fleeing Three-Eyed Corpse Crows ran out of spirit talismans and prepared to fight, but a spatial disturbance opened a crack in the sky. A spinning black ball of light emerged from the crack, leaving its nature unknown.

• A middle-aged Core Condensation cultivator and several Foundation Establishment disciples fled across a grassland as Three-Eyed Corpse Crows pursued them.
• A young disciple asked to rest, but the crows caught up before the group could stop.
• The middle-aged cultivator revealed that they had used all three spirit talismans bestowed by his Master.
• With no way to escape, the cultivators brought out their weapons and fought the approaching crows.
• The sky dimmed as spatial fluctuations unsettled the crows and disrupted the heaven and earth origin energy.
• A spatial crack opened, spun into a black ball of light, and sent it flying out.

Lin Xuan and his companions returned safely to the Spirit World, where Fairy Shi destroyed a flock of Three-Eyed Corpse Crows threatening Snow Feather Sect cultivators. Learning that they had arrived in the Nailong Realm, Lin Xuan obtained a map and set his sights on the nearest Immortal City, Falling Leaf City.

• Lin Xuan and more than ten companions emerged from the Small Xuyu Universe Array and found themselves in the Spirit World.
• A Snow Feather Sect cultivator asked Lin Xuan for help against the Three-Eyed Corpse Crows, and Lin Xuan sent Fairy Shi to deal with them.
• Fairy Shi destroyed the entire flock of Three-Eyed Corpse Crows with her fiery-red magic.
• Lin Xuan asked where they were, and a young cultivator told him they had arrived in the Nailong Realm.
• The middle-aged cultivator gave Lin Xuan a map marking nearby Immortal Cities, including Falling Leaf City.

After returning to Nailong Realm, Lin Xuan brought Lu Ying'er and the others back toward Cloud Hidden Sect, but their Spirit Boat was suddenly attacked near the sect’s headquarters. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan reinforcing the boat’s defenses as a flood of weapons flew toward them.

• Lin Xuan summoned his Spirit Boat and departed with the Cultivators he had rescued.
• The Snow Feather Sect survivors discussed Lin Xuan’s power and left the dangerous area.
• After half a year of travel and using Teleportation Arrays, Lin Xuan reached the Cloud Hidden Mountain Range with Lu Ying'er and his companions.
• The Spirit Boat struck an unseen obstruction and was battered by waves of attacks.
• Lin Xuan strengthened the boat’s protective barrier as Dharma Treasures and Spirit Tools rushed toward them, leaving his companions wondering why the Cloud Hidden Sect was attacking its own Supreme Elder.

Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect and found its disciples attacking his Spirit Boat, so he subdued them without injuring anyone. His restrained display of power left the disciples terrified until Martial Nephew Liao recognized him as another Supreme Elder of their sect.

• Lin Xuan trapped the attacking Dharma Treasures and Spirit Tools with a fishing net spell, then used his divine sense to identify the attackers as Cloud Hidden Sect disciples.
• Lin Xuan released overwhelming spiritual pressure that knocked more than a thousand hidden disciples down without harming them.
• Brother Yun and the Black-faced Man wondered who Lin Xuan was and feared the difference in their power.
• Martial Nephew Liao recognized Lin Xuan from a portrait in the Ancestral Hall and revealed that he was another Supreme Elder of the sect.

Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect, where its disciples mistakenly attacked him before recognizing him as their long-missing Supreme Elder. He reunited with the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long, who discovered that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

• Liao convinced two Dongxuan Realm cultivators that Lin Xuan was their sect's Supreme Elder, and they worried over having attacked him.
• Lin Xuan waited as the two cultivators and nearly a thousand disciples arrived, bowed, and welcomed him back to Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan questioned the disciples about their attack, but paused when the Youth surnamed Long and the Silver-Eyed Maiden arrived.
• Lin Xuan greeted his senior brother and senior sister, who expressed joy at his return after several hundred years away.
• The Youth surnamed Long examined Lin Xuan and realized he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, leaving the Silver-Eyed Maiden stunned.

Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect as a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, astonishing the Silver-Eyed Maiden, the Youth Surnamed Long, and the sect disciples. He insisted that his fellow disciples continue to treat him as a junior, promised to protect the sect, and noticed their lingering gloom.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden doubted Junior Brother Long's report of Lin Xuan's advancement, so she examined Lin Xuan with her divine sense and confirmed he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Lin Xuan admitted he had advanced, and the Cloud Hidden Sect disciples celebrated the arrival of their first Tribulation Transcendence ancestor.
• Lin Xuan asked the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth Surnamed Long to keep treating him as their fellow junior, but the Youth Surnamed Long hesitated to disregard the customary rites.
• Lin Xuan threatened to leave if his fellow disciples insisted on treating him as an elder, and the Silver-Eyed Maiden persuaded the Youth Surnamed Long to accept his wishes.
• Lin Xuan promised to protect Cloud Hidden Sect as its Supreme Elder, then noticed that the Youth Surnamed Long and the Silver-Eyed Maiden still looked gloomy.

Lin Xuan reunited with the Cloud Hidden Sect and learned it had fallen into serious trouble, though the Silver-Eyed Maiden postponed explaining the details until they reached headquarters. He introduced Lu Ying'er as his disciple, and the Silver-Eyed Maiden gave her a valuable sword while the Youth surnamed Long searched for a fitting gift.

• Lin Xuan asked the Silver-Eyed Maiden why Cultivators had ambushed his Spirit Boat, and she said the Cloud Hidden Sect was in trouble and would explain more at headquarters.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long noticed Lin Xuan's companions, and Lin Xuan explained that he had spent several hundred years in another interface before introducing Lu Ying'er as his disciple.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden gave Lu Ying'er the Green Brilliance Sword as a meeting gift.
• The Youth surnamed Long worried that he had no suitable gift to match the sword, then produced a jade box.

Lin Xuan and Lu Ying'er received a lavish welcome from the Youth surnamed Long, who gave her a powerful Talisman Treasure. As Lin Xuan returned to the Cloud Hidden Sect with his senior brother and senior sister, he discovered the sect had activated its Sect Protection Array, suggesting it faced a serious crisis.

• The Youth surnamed Long presented Lu Ying'er with a Talisman Treasure refined from his lifebound treasure, and she thanked her Martial Uncle.
• Lin Xuan and his companions traveled toward the Cloud Hidden Sect's main headquarters while he recounted his experiences with True Person Thousand Illusions and the Lost Realm.
• Lin Xuan noticed that the Cloud Hidden Sect had expanded and that its Sect Protection Array was active.
• Lin Xuan concealed his alarm and continued chatting with his senior brother and senior sister as they approached a familiar jeweled palace.