Chapter Summaries

The Silver-Eyed Maiden survived her Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to the Minor Tribulation Transcendence Stage, while the Cloud Hidden Sect mistakenly believed she had reached the true Tribulation Transcendence Stage. Lin Xuan kept the misunderstanding intact and gave her the Spirit Formula Cauldron as a congratulatory gift, leaving her to send an unexplained Flying Sword Message.

• The Silver-Eyed Maiden absorbed the origins of heaven and earth after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, while the Cloud Hidden Sect disciples celebrated her as a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.
• Lin Xuan chose to let the sect keep believing the Silver-Eyed Maiden had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, believing the misconception would protect the Cloud Hidden Sect after his departure.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the gathered disciples and accompanied the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long to her cultivation cave.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden thanked Lin Xuan for helping her survive the tribulation and offered to return the Spirit Formula Cauldron.
• Lin Xuan gave the Spirit Formula Cauldron to the Silver-Eyed Maiden as a congratulatory gift, and she accepted it gratefully.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden sent out a Flying Sword Message whose destination and purpose were not revealed.

Sun Ying brought Lin Xuan a rare piece of Soul-Nurturing Wood, which he had sought to help restore Xueling’s weakened Primordial Spirit. Delighted by the discovery, Lin Xuan rewarded Sun Ying with a Spirit Division Pill before taking his leave.

• Sun Ying arrived and congratulated the Silver-Eyed Maiden on her supposed advancement.
• Sun Ying presented Lin Xuan with a Jade Box containing Soul-Nurturing Wood.
• Lin Xuan tested the wood and confirmed that it could nourish a Primordial Spirit, then thanked the Silver-Eyed Maiden for finding it.
• Lin Xuan learned that Sun Ying had discovered the wood and gave her a Spirit Division Pill as a reward.
• Sun Ying accepted the pill with gratitude, and Lin Xuan later took his leave.

Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect and prepared for a long journey after his Senior Sister advanced, leaving the sect with a powerful defender. He recovered Xueling and gave her Soul-Nurturing Wood, then considered how to care for his disciples while he was away.

• Lin Xuan returned to his cultivation cave, where Spirit Eye Lake had made the surrounding spiritual energy extraordinarily dense and deterred other forces from challenging Cloud Hidden Sect.
• Lin Xuan released Xueling from the Spirit-Sealing Jade and showed her the Soul-Nurturing Wood he had found.
• Xueling thanked Lin Xuan and entered the Soul-Nurturing Wood to restore her Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Xuan decided that his three disciples and Zheng Xuan should remain at Cloud Hidden Sect while he traveled, but worried that no one he trusted could guide their cultivation.

Lin Xuan asked Xueling to guide his disciples while he went on a long journey, then learned that the Ink Moon Witch Palace contained ancient cultivation arts suited to Gongsun Yu'er and Ye Ying. He prepared to enter the palace and retrieve its treasures.

• Lin Xuan asked Xueling to temporarily guide his disciples, and she readily agreed.
• Lin Xuan summoned the girls, but Gongsun Yu'er and the others mistakenly thought he meant to expel them before he explained the arrangement.
• Xueling examined the four girls and praised their aptitudes; Lin Xuan identified Gongsun Yu'er’s Wood Spirit Body and Ye Ying’s Wind Spirit Body.
• Xueling revealed that the Ink Moon Witch Palace held ancient cultivation arts, and Lin Xuan realized it might contain arts suited to Gongsun Yu'er and Ye Ying.
• Lin Xuan reassured Lu Ying'er and Zheng Xuan about their prospects, explained Xueling’s origins to the girls, and brought out the Ink Moon Witch Palace to retrieve its treasures.

After retrieving the Ink Moon Tribe’s ancient treasures, Lin Xuan arranged for his disciples to study suitable cultivation arts and asked his senior brother and sister to find two long-lost disciples. With his preparations complete, he left to search for clues about Yue'er, suspecting she might be in the Underworld Realm.

• Lin Xuan retrieved the Heavenly Witch Goddess’s treasures from Ink Moon Witch Palace, including ancient cultivation arts for his disciples and cultivation insights that matched his own practice.
• Lin Xuan concealed Yue'er’s past from the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long, gave them treasures for Cloud Hidden Sect, and asked them to find Shangguan Ling and Shangguan Yan.
• Lin Xuan reflected on the whereabouts of Yue'er, Yuanyuan, Ouyang Qinxin, and Qin Yan, worrying most about Ouyang Qinxin, who had entered the Spirit World alone as a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.
• Lin Xuan set out to search for Yue'er, believing she might have ascended to the Underworld Realm.

After receiving a desperate message from Talisman Ghost Sect, Lin Xuan rushed to its ruined headquarters and found the sect destroyed. He fought through several ambushes and reached the stone gates guarding the Underworld Space Node, where he found a corpse.

• Lin Xuan caught a Flying Sword Message from Talisman Ghost Sect calling for help and hurried to its headquarters.
• Lin Xuan arrived to find the headquarters razed, its Sect Protection Array broken, and Talisman Ghost Sect cultivators dead.
• Several dozen cultivators ambushed Lin Xuan, but his spiritual pressure shattered their treasures and killed them all.
• Lin Xuan fought through further ambushes as he pressed toward the Underworld node.
• Lin Xuan reached the underground stone gates guarding the Space Node and saw a corpse lying before them.

After discovering that the Talisman Ghost Sect had been wiped out, Lin Xuan realized its destruction was connected to his search for Yue'er and confronted the five Spirit Division cultivators responsible. He captured all five effortlessly, leaving their fate in his hands.

• Lin Xuan found the Talisman Ghost Sect's Supreme Elder dead among the Puppet fragments and concluded that the sect had been exterminated.
• The five Spirit Division cultivators who had destroyed the sect debated their master's order and decided to leave the Underworld node before the Cloud Hidden Sect learned what they had done.
• Lin Xuan arrived with overwhelming spiritual pressure, and the five recognized him as a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator.
• Lin Xuan warned them to submit, but the five fled in different directions.
• Lin Xuan shattered the stone doors and caught all five, defeating them without allowing them to resist.

Lin Xuan searched for the mastermind behind the attack on the Talisman Ghost Sect, but hidden restrictions killed his captives and concealed the enemy’s identity. After finding and neutralizing a trap in the Space Node, he searched for clues and returned to the fallen cultivators, where he noticed something in a dead woman’s hand.

• Lin Xuan tried to search the fatty’s soul, but a hidden restriction blocked him from learning anything.
• The gray-clothed man awoke and self-destructed under another restriction, killing the other three captives and cutting off Lin Xuan’s lead.
• Lin Xuan examined the Space Node and found a covert trap that would have killed him if he had entered recklessly.
• Lin Xuan searched the vicinity for clues but found nothing and eventually returned to the fallen cultivators.
• Lin Xuan noticed an object in the hand of a dead woman dressed in white.

Lin Xuan found a jade pendant identifying Spirit Fox Venerable and decided to confront him, believing he was likely behind the schemes against him. At Spirit Fox Venerable’s secluded mountain, the chapter revealed that Baoshe Saint Ancestor was with him.

• Lin Xuan took a jade pendant from the white-clad woman’s remains and read the inscription “Spirit Fox Venerable.”
• Lin Xuan reasoned that the dying woman had exposed the name to take revenge on the person who had used her as a pawn.
• Lin Xuan recalled that Spirit Fox Venerable was a cunning human cultivator at the early Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and judged him highly likely to be the mastermind.
• Lin Xuan decided to seek out Spirit Fox Venerable and flew out from underground.
• Spirit Fox Venerable strolled through his herb garden with Baoshe Saint Ancestor.

Baoshe’s avatar confronted Spirit Fox Venerable over his failure to eliminate Lin Xuan, while he explained that Talisman Ghost Sect concealed a Space Node leading to the Underworld Realm. The chapter ended as Spirit Fox Venerable’s disciples’ Origin Pearls shattered, prompting him to suspect Lin Xuan had arrived nearby.

• Baoshe appeared at Spirit Fox Mountain as an avatar and accused Spirit Fox Venerable of only pretending to pursue Lin Xuan.
• Spirit Fox Venerable refused to risk his life against Lin Xuan and revealed that Talisman Ghost Sect contained a Space Node leading to the Underworld Realm.
• Baoshe suspected Lin Xuan had obtained the Bracelet of the Asura Seven Treasures and resolved that he had to be eliminated.
• Spirit Fox Venerable discovered that the Origin Pearls of several disciples had shattered and concluded that Lin Xuan might be nearby.

Baoshe persuaded Spirit Fox Venerable to help her intercept Lin Xuan by offering him an Ice Soul Snow-Melting Pill and three Nine-Turn Spirit Snake Pills. Unaware of their plan, Lin Xuan flew toward Spirit Fox Mountain and encountered the two Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators racing toward him.

• Baoshe asked Spirit Fox Venerable to help her kill Lin Xuan, but he demanded sufficient compensation.
• Baoshe offered Spirit Fox Venerable three Nine-Turn Spirit Snake Pills and an Ice Soul Snow-Melting Pill, and he agreed to help.
• Baoshe and Spirit Fox Venerable set out to intercept Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan flew across a desert toward Spirit Fox Mountain while considering how to confirm whether Spirit Fox Venerable was behind the events.
• Lin Xuan sensed two Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators approaching and flew to meet them.

Lin Xuan confronted Baoshe and the Spirit Fox Venerable after discovering they were connected to the destroyed Space Node. Baoshe demanded the Asura Seven Treasures, and the chapter ended as Lin Xuan attacked her and she resolved to kill him.

• Lin Xuan recognized Baoshe’s Avatar and the Spirit Fox Venerable as they approached him.
• Baoshe demanded that Lin Xuan hand over the Asura Seven Treasures, but he pretended not to know what she meant.
• Lin Xuan insulted Baoshe, citing her Avatar’s limits and his anger over the destroyed Space Node.
• Lin Xuan launched the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and its countless sword lights at Baoshe.
• Baoshe recognized the danger of Lin Xuan’s sword attack and resolved to exterminate him before he grew stronger.

Baoshe attacked Lin Xuan with corrosive devil arts and a devastating Demon Axe, but Lin Xuan countered with the Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder and met her strike with a law-filled sword technique. As their powers clashed, Spirit Fox Venerable joined Baoshe and unleashed a horde of fire-born monsters against Lin Xuan.

• Baoshe shielded herself from Lin Xuan’s sword-light and released five-colored poison mist that weakened his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Lin Xuan used the Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder to consume the poison mist, while Baoshe summoned a Demon Axe and struck with overwhelming force.
• Lin Xuan formed a half-transparent Immortal Sword and clashed with Baoshe’s axe radiance, setting two powers of law against each other.
• Baoshe urged Spirit Fox Venerable to attack Lin Xuan, and he decided to join her in exchange for promised benefits.
• Spirit Fox Venerable summoned a blood-red Gourd Artifact and released more than a hundred strange fire-born monsters to charge at Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan faced Baoshe and Spirit Fox Venerable’s combined assault, relying on his Nine Heavens God Luo Image to counter their attacks. After Baoshe identified him as an inheritor of the Ink Moon Tribe, Spirit Fox Venerable sent his flame beasts at Lin Xuan as the battle continued.

• Spirit Fox Venerable summoned a hurricane and hundreds of powerful Wind Blades while Baoshe pressed Lin Xuan with her Demon Axe.
• Lin Xuan gained the upper hand against Baoshe’s Avatar even as Spirit Fox Venerable added a giant tiger’s blood-red beam to his assault.
• Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens God Luo Image appeared and swallowed the beam, shocking Spirit Fox Venerable.
• Baoshe recognized the Dharma Image as the minor-accomplishment Nine Heavens God Luo Image and identified Lin Xuan as an inheritor of the Ink Moon Tribe.
• Lin Xuan’s Dharma Image broke Spirit Fox Venerable’s Wind Blade attack, then faced the charging flame beasts while Lin Xuan continued fighting Baoshe.

Lin Xuan’s dharma-image overwhelmed Spirit Fox Venerable’s attacks, while his hidden avatar ambushed and mortally wounded him. Lin Xuan severed Baoshe’s arm, but as the avatar moved to join the fight, a mysterious ambush pierced it with a green beam.

• Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens God Luo Image swallowed most of Spirit Fox Venerable’s flame Phantom Beasts and destroyed the rest.
• Baoshe attacked Lin Xuan to keep him from striking Spirit Fox Venerable while the Venerable recovered from his shock.
• Lin Xuan’s hidden avatar pierced Spirit Fox Venerable through the chest and dantian with three black ice cones.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to cut off one of Baoshe’s arms, and she quickly regenerated it.
• Lin Xuan’s avatar flew to join the fight, but a green pillar of light pierced it, and an unseen attacker spoke of an ambush Supernatural Power.

Lin Xuan’s Avatar survived Spirit Fox Venerable’s attack and fought him with the Ten Thousand Soul Banner while Lin Xuan and Baoshe escalated their battle with Dharma Images. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens God Luo Image clashing with Baoshe’s Three-Headed Monster Snake.

• Spirit Fox Venerable revealed that his apparent death had been avoided by sacrificing an Avatar through the Substitute Tribulation Transcendence Art.
• Lin Xuan’s Medicine Spirit Body Avatar healed its pierced heart, leaving Spirit Fox Venerable shocked before he attacked with lightning and curved blades.
• Lin Xuan’s Second Nascent Soul summoned the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, unleashing 108 skulls and green Demon Fire against Spirit Fox Venerable.
• Lin Xuan’s true body joined the fight against Baoshe with his eighteen-armed Dharma Image, forcing her onto the defensive.
• Baoshe summoned a Three-Headed Monster Snake Dharma Image, and Lin Xuan sent his enlarged Nine Heavens God Luo Image to meet it.

Lin Xuan and Baoshe escalated their battle by bringing out Xiantian treasures, and Baoshe tried to trap him with a venomous-snake flying sword. Lin Xuan escaped with the Ink Moon Tribe’s inherited Palace and used the Immortal Sword Map to break her restraint, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Baoshe resolved to kill Lin Xuan and summoned a damaged Xiantian Demon Treasure shaped like a venomous snake.
• Lin Xuan revealed the Immortal Sword Map, another Xiantian Object, and Baoshe was shocked that he possessed it.
• Baoshe used the snake-shaped flying sword and the Laws of Heaven and Earth to confine Lin Xuan before attacking him.
• Lin Xuan vanished using the Space Laws and reappeared with the Ink Moon Tribe’s inherited Palace above his head.
• Baoshe recognized the Palace and coveted it, while Lin Xuan unfurled the Immortal Sword Map and cut through her restraint.

Lin Xuan fought Baoshe’s avatar, whose damaged demon treasure and willingness to sacrifice herself pushed the battle toward mutual destruction. Lin Xuan unleashed the Immortal Sword Map’s full power but faced a deadly choice, while his avatar’s separate fight with the Spirit Fox Venerable could not last indefinitely.

• Lin Xuan broke free of Baoshe’s restraint and sent more than a hundred sword projections against her.
• Baoshe used her Heaven-Reaching Demon Treasure to summon countless Magic Snakes, and the two Innate Objects collided, injuring her.
• Baoshe ignited her Source Fire and intensified her attack, hoping to defeat Lin Xuan even at the cost of her avatar and cultivation.
• Lin Xuan expanded the Immortal Sword Map’s power, revealing nine sacred mountains that produced many powerful Immortal Swords.
• Lin Xuan realized Baoshe had forced him into a deadlock: he could not match her without igniting his own Source Fire, which would play into her trap.
• Lin Xuan recognized that he could not prolong the fight because his avatar was also battling the Spirit Fox Venerable.

Lin Xuan used the Ink Moon Witch Palace’s spatial laws to escape Baoshe’s overwhelming attack and appear at close range, then struck her Ancient Demon dharma idol with a punch empowered by the Law of Power. Baoshe’s advantage vanished, and she released dozens of Magic Snakes as the fight continued.

• Baoshe poured her source power into her treasure and drove Lin Xuan into a desperate position.
• Lin Xuan enlarged the Ink Moon Witch Palace and used its Space Laws to appear in front of Baoshe.
• Baoshe summoned a Two-Headed Four-Armed Monster with her Dharma Image Secret Technique.
• Lin Xuan punched the Ancient Demon dharma idol with the Law of Power and shattered its defense.
• Baoshe panicked as Lin Xuan seized the advantage, then sent dozens of Magic Snakes flying from her sleeve.

Lin Xuan used the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art to form True Spirit Armor and counter Baoshe’s Bone-Eroding Magic Snakes with Phoenix flames infused with Hundun Taiyin Qi. With the snakes frozen and Baoshe weakened, Lin Xuan seized the opening to strike.

• Lin Xuan recognized Baoshe’s Bone-Eroding Magic Snakes and decided to risk confronting them rather than surrender his advantage.
• Lin Xuan summoned the True Spirit Void Shadows and transformed them into a suit of True Spirit Armor.
• Baoshe strengthened the Bone-Eroding Magic Snakes with her blood essence, further weakening her Avatar.
• Lin Xuan released miniature Phoenixes whose flames froze the Bone-Eroding Magic Snakes, and Baoshe realized they contained Hundun Taiyin Qi.
• Lin Xuan punched toward the frozen snakes with the Law of Power enhanced by his True Spirit Armor.