Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan emerged into a barren desert inside the True Immortal's cultivation cave and suspected it was an Illusion Restriction. After his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye failed to reveal the truth, he used his illusion-attribute swords to attack it, but the desert remained unchanged.

• Lin Xuan passed through the passage prepared for an ambush, but found no sign of the Blood Moon Demon Toad.
• Lin Xuan surveyed the barren desert and wondered whether it was an Illusion Restriction concealing the True Immortal's relics.
• Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see through the scene, but it had no effect.
• Lin Xuan formed his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Swords into a silver lotus and unleashed Sword Qi across the area.
• Lin Xuan's Sword Qi failed to change the desert, leaving the Illusion Restriction intact.

Lin Xuan broke the Restriction guarding the silver Lotus, only to find a vast landscape of real palaces that obscured the True Immortal’s cultivation cave. He sent Blood Fire Ants to scout and, guided by their findings, flew toward a likely location while remaining wary of the hidden Blood Moon Demon Toad.

• Lin Xuan used a strand of crystal Sword Qi to shatter the Restriction and reveal a grassland and mountain range filled with palaces.
• Lin Xuan released Blood Fire Ants from his Treasure Pagoda and sent them to scout the buildings.
• A small group of Blood Fire Ants returned, helping Lin Xuan rule out locations and infer where the True Immortal Ruins might be.
• Lin Xuan found no clues about the Blood Moon Demon Toad and stayed alert to its possible presence.
• Lin Xuan flew past several palaces and stopped after traveling for the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Lin Xuan entered a likely part of the True Immortal Ruins while the Blood Moon Demon Toad searched for the correct teleportation array. Lin Xuan chose a nearby hall and discovered that its ordinary stone guardians had been refined into powerful puppets.

• Lin Xuan crossed a plaza and examined a plain Bronze Furnace before considering which of the nearby halls to explore.
• The Blood Moon Demon Toad tested the suspended Teleportation Arrays, sensed immortal spirituality from one, and teleported through it.
• Lin Xuan chose a nearby hall instead of the tallest palace and entered it.
• Two stone men attacked Lin Xuan with saber light, but he destroyed them with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan examined the shattered puppets and realized that their ordinary stone bodies had been refined to Dongxuan Realm strength.

Lin Xuan discovered that the Jade Slip in the Palace contained a True Immortal’s diary rather than a cultivation technique or secret art. The diary revealed the Blue Star Sea’s Immortal World origins and the True Immortal’s deadly struggle with the Heavenly Demon Lord, leaving Lin Xuan to learn how the wounded survivor fared.

• Lin Xuan passed the Stone Man Puppet ambushes and reached the Palace’s interior, where he found a Jade Slip on a table.
• Lin Xuan checked the Jade Slip for traps and read its ancient script, discovering that it recorded a True Immortal’s experiences.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Blue Star Sea came from the Immortal World and that three True Immortals had descended to the lower realms to retrieve it.
• The diary revealed that two True Immortals died battling the Heavenly Demon Lord, while the sole survivor escaped with the Blue Star Sea and reached the Spirit World by mistake.
• The Heavenly Demon Lord caught up with the wounded True Immortal, who killed it after a fierce battle but was left gravely injured.

Lin Xuan learned that the Blue Star Sea came from the Immortal World, while the Blood Moon Demon Toad entered a tomb chamber and was attacked by a corpse-like humanoid. Lin Xuan then found a hidden underground passage in the final building and descended into its depths.

• Lin Xuan read that a dying True Immortal had lost the Blue Star Sea in a spatial crack and found no further useful information in the Jade Slip.
• The Blood Moon Demon Toad appeared in a vast tomb chamber decorated with murals of chained Primordial Era beasts and spotted a bronze coffin on a raised platform.
• The Blood Moon Demon Toad approached the coffin, whose lid suddenly opened, and black strands pierced it and drained its True Spirit Origin.
• A corpse-like humanoid rose from the coffin and said that absorbing the Blood Moon Demon Toad's origin had restored its ability to move.
• Lin Xuan explored the remaining buildings, found the last one resembled an ancient tomb, and descended a staircase into a deep underground passage.

Lin Xuan entered the True Immortal’s mausoleum and discovered a powerful Zombie guarding the Bronze Coffin. He launched a sword attack against the Zombie, beginning a dangerous fight with the outcome still unknown.

• Lin Xuan used a Puppet controlled by his Split Soul to open the mausoleum’s stone door, but hidden black threads destroyed the Puppet and the soul fragment.
• A middle-aged man with a corpse aura revealed himself beside the Bronze Coffin and threatened Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan recognized the man as a Zombie and suspected it had killed the Blood Moon Demon Toad.
• Lin Xuan decided he had to defeat the Zombie and summoned hundreds of sword lights to attack it.

Lin Xuan battled a Corpse King whose supernatural speed and strength overcame his initial sword attacks. He turned the fight around with his Sword into Silk Technique and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, leaving the Corpse King under pressure.

• Lin Xuan's Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword was blocked by the Corpse King's purplish-black hair, and the Corpse King mocked his early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivation.
• The Corpse King revealed his original form and dodged Lin Xuan's sword lights before rushing in to attack him at close range.
• Lin Xuan summoned a nine-headed, eighteen-armed Dharma Image to block the Corpse King's claws, then retreated through the passage to open ground.
• Lin Xuan used his divine sense to locate the concealed Corpse King and unleashed the Sword into Silk Technique, forcing it to defend with a shield of corpse qi.
• Lin Xuan sent his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire crashing into the Corpse King, putting it under pressure.

Lin Xuan faced a zombie who revealed mastery of the Law of Speed and nearly struck him down. Lin Xuan used the Law of Power to force the zombie to retreat, then escaped a two-sided attack with Space Laws, leaving the Corpse King wary but confident that Lin Xuan’s power would consume too much magic energy.

• The zombie unleashed the Law of Speed and charged Lin Xuan before he could activate a defense.
• Lin Xuan countered with a punch carrying the Law of Power, forcing the zombie to dodge and giving Lin Xuan room to retreat.
• The zombie summoned a Bone Dragon and attacked Lin Xuan from the front and behind with its corpse flames and Law of Speed.
• Lin Xuan vanished with Space Laws, causing the Corpse King to realize he had mastered spatial power.
• The Corpse King judged that Space Laws consumed far more magic power than the Law of Speed and believed he could still prevail.

Lin Xuan fought a powerful Zombie whose Law of Speed seemed to make him nearly impossible to defeat. After the Zombie survived the destruction of its Corpse Bead, Lin Xuan used the Ink Moon Witch Palace to suppress its speed, leaving it surrounded by his sword attacks.

• Lin Xuan struck the Bone Dragon with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, splitting it apart and shattering its Corpse Bead.
• The Zombie ambushed Lin Xuan despite the Bone Dragon’s destruction and pierced the right side of his chest.
• Lin Xuan treated his wound with a talisman and summoned the Ink Moon Witch Palace, a Xiantian Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Xuan used the palace’s spatial power to interfere with the Zombie’s Law of Speed and slow it down.
• Lin Xuan sent thousands of strands of Sword Qi to surround the slowed Zombie, hoping to end the fight quickly.

Lin Xuan battered the Zombie with sword light and a Law of Power punch, then attacked with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire. The Zombie swallowed the flame, severed Lin Xuan’s mental connection to it, and escaped the sword strikes at his full speed.

• The Zombie used his hair and claw beams to fend off Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Lin Xuan struck the Zombie with a Law of Power punch, sending him through several peaks and burying him beneath a collapsed mountain.
• Lin Xuan sent the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire’s Phoenix after the injured Zombie, and the flames turned deep blue with intense cold.
• The Zombie’s Nascent Soul emerged and swallowed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, cutting off Lin Xuan’s connection to it.
• The Zombie returned to his body, regained his extreme speed, and mocked Lin Xuan for giving him a flame that was a great tonic.

Lin Xuan delayed the Zombie until the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire he had devoured began to disrupt his magic power. Lin Xuan then shifted to a full assault, leaving the Zombie weakened and struggling to resist.

• Lin Xuan guessed the Zombie had absorbed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire because it believed its ice-attribute cultivation could withstand it, and he focused on defending while waiting for the fire's other attributes to emerge.
• The Zombie cornered Lin Xuan among Spatial Rifts and launched a powerful claw strike, but the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire suddenly froze its magic power and spoiled its aim.
• The Zombie realized the fire had multiple attributes and was causing trouble inside its body, but it could not expel or quickly digest it.
• Lin Xuan stopped hiding his strength and attacked with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and Sword Law while the Zombie struggled against the fire with much of its magic power depleted.

Lin Xuan defeated the Zombie formed from a True Immortal’s body and searched the tomb for the Immortal’s hidden treasures. He discovered a box beneath the Altar, protected by a Restriction that was deadly to Yin Soul Ghosts.

• Lin Xuan used the Vermilion Bird Ring’s Red Lotus Fire and the Law of Extreme Cold to overwhelm the Zombie.
• Lin Xuan struck the Zombie with a law-infused Immortal Sword, destroying its body and Nascent Soul and leaving behind the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Lin Xuan returned to the enormous tomb and disabled the Restriction suppressing divine sense.
• Lin Xuan used his divine sense and Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to locate the Immortal’s treasure beneath the Altar, then smashed the Altar apart.
• Lin Xuan found a small box protected by a Restriction that could kill Yin Soul Ghosts, which explained why the Zombie had not taken the Immortal’s treasures.

Lin Xuan opened the True Immortal's chest and discovered three treasures: a spiritual pill, three ancient spirit talismans, and a defensive Xiantian Spirit Treasure. He secured the items and learned that the shield was the Mystic Turtle Dragon Shell Shield, forged from Black Tortoise shell and True Dragon scales.

• Lin Xuan retrieved the chest through the light curtain and opened it to reveal a jade bottle, a wooden box, and a palm-sized shield.
• Lin Xuan caught the spiritual pill after it flew from the bottle, examined its wondrous manifestations, and named it the Nine-Turn Mystic Spirit Pill.
• Lin Xuan found three spirit talismans made with materials connected to true spirits and put them away.
• Lin Xuan recognized the shield as a defensive Xiantian Spirit Treasure and learned its Treasure-Controlling Formula.
• Lin Xuan identified the shield as the Mystic Turtle Dragon Shell Shield, made from Black Tortoise shell and scales shed by a True Dragon.

Lin Xuan found the Black Tortoise True Spirit Shield and thoroughly searched the Immortal’s nearby Palaces, uncovering a vast collection of puppets and Immortal Stones. After finding no further treasures or clues about the Immortal’s legacy, he opened a passage through a Space Node and left.

• Lin Xuan confirmed that the Black Tortoise True Spirit Shield was a Xiantian Spirit Treasure and realized Fairy Miaoyin’s defeat would make rescuing Qin Xin easier.
• Lin Xuan spent a month searching the nearby Palaces and discovered tens of thousands of puppets, including about a hundred at the Spirit Division level.
• Lin Xuan collected roughly a hundred Immortal Stones alongside the puppets.
• Lin Xuan searched for several more days but found no lifebound treasure, cultivation method, or secret to ascending in rosy clouds.
• Lin Xuan found a Space Node, opened a passage, and vanished through it.

After escaping the Azure Cloud Desert, Lin Xuan chose to stay there and master the True Immortal’s treasures so he could be better prepared to rescue Qin Xin from Heavenly Sound Palace. He refined the Puppets and Mystic Turtle Dragon Shell Shield, then turned his attention to an unidentified immortal pill.

• Lin Xuan decided that Qin Xin was safe for now and that strengthening himself before confronting Heavenly Sound Palace was worth the delay.
• Lin Xuan found a secluded mountain in the Azure Cloud Desert, killed a dragon-headed, lion-bodied beast, and opened a temporary cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan spent several days refining the True Immortal’s control treasures and gained command of all the Puppets.
• Lin Xuan spent half a year comprehending the Mystic Turtle Dragon Shell Shield’s Treasure-Controlling Formula and another month refining it until he could use over eighty percent of its power.
• Lin Xuan named the remaining unidentified immortal pill the Nine-Turn Mystic Spirit Pill, though he did not know its effects.

Lin Xuan analyzed an immortal elixir and concluded that it could greatly increase his magic power and give him a chance to break through to the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence. After swallowing it and refining its power for a month, he reached the peak of the early stage and stood on the brink of advancing.

• Lin Xuan studied the immortal elixir for half a month and estimated it gave him roughly a fifty percent chance of reaching the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lin Xuan decided to take the elixir to strengthen himself before confronting Heavenly Sound Palace and rescuing Qin Xin.
• Lin Xuan prepared himself, entered the Cultivation Room, and swallowed the Nine-Turn Mystic Spirit Pill.
• Lin Xuan refined the pill’s power as it circulated through his body, causing his magic power to grow unusually quickly.
• After a month of careful cultivation, Lin Xuan reached the peak of the early stage of Tribulation Transcendence and came within one step of advancing.

Lin Xuan struggled to break through from early to mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence after taking a Nine Heavens Profound Spirit Pill, while its excess magic power threatened to overwhelm him. After a year of failed attempts, he remained at the early stage and began one final try before seeking other opportunities.

• Lin Xuan repeatedly attacked the bottleneck but could not advance, even as the pill's magic power filled him to capacity.
• Lin Xuan tried sending the excess magic power to the Blue Star Sea, but it was rejected.
• Lin Xuan discovered that the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire could absorb the excess magic power, and he spent several days feeding it into the flame.
• Lin Xuan spent a year continually attempting to break through, but remained in the early stage of Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lin Xuan decided to make one last attempt before giving up for now and searching for other opportunities.

Lin Xuan broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Middle Stage, gained a stronger Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and left the Azure Cloud Desert to rescue Qin Xin. He flew toward a group of cultivators surrounded by demon birds, arriving just as they were about to be overwhelmed.

• Lin Xuan unexpectedly broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Middle Stage and confirmed his cultivation with the Internal Vision Technique.
• Lin Xuan realized the Nine Heavens Profound Spirit Pill had also greatly strengthened the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Lin Xuan flew out of the Azure Cloud Desert after nearly half a month and decided to rescue Qin Xin from Heavenly Sound Palace.
• Lin Xuan released his divine sense, detected activity nearby, and flew toward it.
• A middle-aged cultivator and several young disciples were surrounded by demon birds, and Lin Xuan arrived as they fought for their lives.

Lin Xuan rescued a group of cultivators from demon birds and used their map to find a nearby settlement, where he purchased a detailed map of the Heavenly Sound Realm. He traveled for two months toward Heavenly Sound Palace to rescue Qin Xin and stopped near Zhenhuan Mountain to rest before approaching.

• Lin Xuan destroyed the demon birds surrounding the cultivators with a gesture and asked their middle-aged leader for a map.
• Lin Xuan memorized the map, left the group, and the cultivators headed back to their sect.
• Lin Xuan reached a settlement near the Azure Cloud Desert and bought a detailed map that showed Zhenhuan Mountain, headquarters of Heavenly Sound Palace.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward Heavenly Sound Palace by the nearest route, crossing dangerous areas over two months.
• Lin Xuan stopped a little over ten thousand li from Zhenhuan Mountain to conserve his strength before trying to rescue Qin Xin.

Lin Xuan disguised himself and entered Heavenly Sound Palace during its thousand-year Trading Assembly, intending to rescue Qin Xin. After following information obtained from Miao Yin, he headed toward Qin Xin’s residence, but a woman in the Supreme Elder’s secluded cultivation cave sensed his arrival.

• Lin Xuan set out for Heavenly Sound Palace to rescue Qin Xin and noticed unusual crowds near Zhenhuan Mountain.
• Lin Xuan disguised his appearance, learned that Heavenly Sound Palace was holding its thousand-year Trading Assembly, and decided to use the crowds to cover his movements.
• Lin Xuan concealed his cultivation at the Nascent Soul Realm, paid the entrance fee, and entered Heavenly Sound Palace without trouble.
• Lin Xuan wandered through the Marketplace to avoid suspicion, then followed information from soul-searching Miao Yin toward Qin Xin’s residence.
• A young woman in the Supreme Elder’s cultivation cave opened her eyes and remarked that Lin Xuan had killed Miao Yin yet dared to enter the sect’s headquarters.