Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan infiltrated the forbidden grounds of Miaoyin Pavilion and followed a blue-robed woman to what he recognized as Qin Xin’s secluded dwelling. As the woman broke the powerful restriction and someone inside called out to her, Lin Xuan prepared to learn what was happening to Qin Xin.

• Lin Xuan carefully crossed Zhenhuan Mountain and found the restricted grounds surrounding Miaoyin Pavilion.
• A blue-robed Spirit Division cultivator arrived and used a Jade Talisman to open a path through the mist.
• Lin Xuan followed her through the opening while remaining concealed.
• The woman stopped at a guarded cultivation cave that Lin Xuan recognized from Miaoyin’s memories as Qin Xin’s secluded dwelling.
• The woman used a Formation Disk to break the cave’s restriction, and a voice from inside asked, “Outside—is that Junior Sister Qin?”

Lin Xuan secretly found Ouyang Qinxin, who had reached the Spirit Division Stage while being groomed by Fairy Miaoyin for a sinister purpose. As Qinxin and Junior Sister Qin prepared to escape the Heavenly Sound Palace, an unknown group arrived and surrounded them.

• Lin Xuan followed the blue-clad young girl into the Palace and found Ouyang Qinxin, whom he had not seen for a thousand years.
• Lin Xuan realized Fairy Miaoyin had supplied Qinxin with pills, medicine, and cultivation guidance so she could withstand Miaoyin's Heavenly Tribulation.
• Junior Sister Qin told Qinxin she had taken the restriction Command Token and came to help her escape.
• Qinxin hesitated because she feared implicating Junior Sister Qin, but Junior Sister Qin insisted she would leave the sect with her to repay Qinxin's past kindness.
• Before Qinxin could decide, a familiar icy voice declared that neither of them would leave, and several figures arrived to surround them.

Ouyang Qinxin and Qin Yu were cornered by five Spirit Division Cultivators after Qin Yu freed Qinxin from the Restrictions. Lin Xuan arrived and reunited with Qinxin, who wept with joy as he held her and promised to take her home.

• The Eldest Senior Sister confronted Qin Yu for betraying Fairy Miaoyin by using the Command Token to free Ouyang Qinxin.
• The Eldest Senior Sister and four other Spirit Division Cultivators surrounded Ouyang Qinxin and Qin Yu, threatening to summon more Heavenly Sound Palace disciples.
• Lin Xuan appeared and challenged the Cultivators for threatening his wife.
• Ouyang Qinxin recognized Lin Xuan, and he crossed the distance to stand beside her.
• Lin Xuan told Qin Xin he had come to take her home, and she threw herself into his arms and cried with joy.

After reuniting with Ouyang Qinxin in Heavenly Sound Palace, Lin Xuan revealed that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and rescued her from her fellow disciples. As he agreed to spare them, he sensed another cultivator hiding nearby and demanded that they show themselves.

• Ouyang Qinxin recalled being separated from Lin Xuan after ascending to the Spirit World, spending a thousand years without news of him, and eventually becoming bound to Fairy Miaoyin.
• Qin Yu tried to help Ouyang Qinxin escape Heavenly Sound Palace, but Miaoyin's disciples caught them and surrounded them.
• Lin Xuan arrived, and Ouyang Qinxin anxiously urged him to flee before he was caught as well.
• Lin Xuan released his spiritual pressure, frightening the Spirit Division Stage cultivators and revealing himself as a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator.
• Qin Yu pleaded for the disciples to be spared, and Lin Xuan agreed before sensing someone concealed in the dark and challenging them to appear.

Lin Xuan confronted Fairy Heavenly Sound, the Palace Master, after she accused him of killing Fairy Miaoyin. He stopped denying the accusation and asked how she knew Miaoyin had died at his hands.

• Lin Xuan sensed someone hiding nearby, and Fairy Heavenly Sound appeared from the void.
• The Spirit Division cultivators recognized Fairy Heavenly Sound as their Palace Master, while Lin Xuan eased the pressure on Qinxin and the blue-clad woman with his magic power.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound accused Lin Xuan of killing Miaoyin and threatened that Heavenly Sound Palace would keep him there.
• Lin Xuan denied knowing Miaoyin, then admitted that denying the charge was useless and asked how Fairy Heavenly Sound had learned of her death.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound responded with mockery and asked whether Lin Xuan truly wanted to know.

Fairy Heavenly Sound explained that Miaoyin’s Primordial Spirit Lamp and lingering resentment revealed Lin Xuan had killed her, then attacked him at Heavenly Sound Palace. Lin Xuan’s Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword met her musical sword techniques evenly, but she summoned a crimson Flood Dragon and a Golden Lion to press the assault.

• Fairy Heavenly Sound told Lin Xuan that Miaoyin’s resentment in his soul had exposed him as her killer.
• Lin Xuan tried to reason with Fairy Heavenly Sound, but she rejected his plea and prepared to fight.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and Fairy Heavenly Sound blocked it with golden Flying Swords formed from musical notes.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound shaped more notes into a crimson Flood Dragon and a Golden Lion, sending both creatures toward Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan fought the Heavenly Sound Palace Master, whose zither trapped him in an illusion filled with deadly attacks. He escaped the illusion’s restraints and destroyed its monsters, but remained inside the dangerous illusion realm.

• Lin Xuan used the Sword into Silk Technique to destroy the palace master’s golden Flying Swords, but his sword threads failed to quickly defeat her Flood Dragon and Golden Lion.
• The Heavenly Sound Palace Master played her zither and trapped Lin Xuan in an illusion, separating him from Qin Xin and the other cultivators.
• Lin Xuan dodged a barrage of Bone Spikes by opening a Spatial Rift, then appeared elsewhere and was bound by vines as more monsters attacked.
• Lin Xuan summoned his External Incarnation, which used protective Talismans to buy time while Lin Xuan broke free with the Law of Power.
• Lin Xuan released Sword Qi that decapitated the illusionary monsters, which vanished into nothingness.

Lin Xuan struggled to survive the Heavenly Sound Palace Master's Spirit Domain as its illusions turned into deadly attacks. He avoided several traps but remained trapped in a changing domain, facing a pursuing Magma Giant.

• The Heavenly Sound Palace Master launched her Ambush from Ten Sides while Ouyang Qinxin and her friend could only watch anxiously.
• Lin Xuan prepared to use the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but the grassland changed into a snowy wasteland.
• Lin Xuan destroyed waves of ice swords and used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to spot hidden Flying Needles, then evaded them.
• The snow vanished and Lin Xuan found himself in a sea of magma, where a massive Magma Giant attacked him with fireballs, a punch, and fiery tentacles.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to retreat, but the Magma Giant quickly caught up and struck again.

Lin Xuan broke the Heavenly Sound Palace Master's Spirit Domain and returned to the palace, but she claimed she had only used a fraction of her power. Facing a stronger enemy with Ouyang Qinxin beside him, Lin Xuan refused to surrender and searched for a way to survive.

• Lin Xuan summoned the Vermilion Bird Ring and used its flames to destroy the Magma Giant.
• Lin Xuan combined the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and Illusionary Yin Divine Thunder to break the Spirit Domain.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Heavenly Sound Palace headquarters, where Ouyang Qinxin rejoiced to see him safe.
• The Heavenly Sound Palace Master said Lin Xuan had killed her Junior Sister and warned that she had not yet used her true strength.
• Lin Xuan rejected her demand to surrender and considered how he could force her to negotiate rather than fight.

Lin Xuan armed himself with his strongest treasures and Jade Luo Bees to make the Heavenly Sound Palace Master fear the cost of pushing him too far. The Heavenly Sound Palace Master recognized the danger of his methods and was left visibly shocked by the Immortal Sword Map.

• Lin Xuan was pulled into a changed Spirit Domain, where the Heavenly Sound Palace Master appeared in person.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Flying Swords, Nine-Heads and eighteen arms, Vermilion Bird Ring, and Jade Luo Bees.
• The Heavenly Sound Palace Master recognized the Jade Luo Bees' Time Poison and stopped underestimating Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan revealed the Immortal Sword Map, and the Heavenly Sound Palace Master identified it as an Innate Object.

Lin Xuan fought Fairy Heavenly Sound and realized she had opened a powerful Life-Bound Spirit Domain that let her use abilities beyond sound techniques. He sent the Jade Luo Bees after her, intending to use Time Poison, as the battle continued.

• Lin Xuan attacked Fairy Heavenly Sound with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but discovered that the apparent beheading was a Substitution Technique.
• Heavenly Sound Palace Master ambushed Lin Xuan with a law-powered strike, and he barely repelled her with a punch.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Heavenly Sound Palace Master’s Spirit Domain let her wield the powers of a body-and-dharma cultivator.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound launched two golden streaks that nearly struck Lin Xuan, who narrowly dodged them.
• Lin Xuan released the Jade Luo Bees and prepared to use Time Poison against her.

Heavenly Sound Palace's Trading Assembly drew Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy, but the Palace Master was absent and could not be reached. As the guests reached the mountain gate, the gathered elders prepared to welcome them without her.

• Heavenly Sound Palace began its once-in-a-thousand-years Trading Assembly, attracting powerful cultivators from across the Spirit World.
• Two Supreme Elders learned that Nailong True Person and his wife had arrived, and they sent a Sound Transmission Talisman asking the Palace Master to come greet them.
• The Supreme Elders received no reply because Fairy Heavenly Sound was fighting Lin Xuan inside a Spirit Domain.
• The elders learned that Hundred Flowers Fairy had joined Nailong True Person and would reach the mountain gate soon, so they sent more talismans and summoned other elders.
• The Palace Master remained unreachable, and the gathered elders went to welcome Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy themselves.

Heavenly Sound Palace welcomed Nailong True Person, Qianqian Fairy, and Hundred Flowers Fairy, whose arrival drew a crowd and showcased Nailong’s extravagant Spirit-Nurturing Wood boat. The powerful guests accepted the palace elders’ explanation for the absent Palace Master and Great Elder, but a sudden boom from the headquarters disrupted the reception.

• Heavenly Sound Palace’s Supreme Elders led hundreds of cultivators to greet the arriving guests as thousands gathered to watch.
• Nailong True Person’s seven-level Painted Boat, made entirely of Spirit-Nurturing Wood, shocked the assembled cultivators.
• The Robe-Clad Elder explained that Fairy Heavenly Sound was in seclusion and the Great Elder was away roaming the clouds.
• Nailong True Person arrived with Qianqian Fairy, and Hundred Flowers Fairy appeared shortly afterward.
• A thunderous boom suddenly sounded from deep within Heavenly Sound Palace’s headquarters.

Lin Xuan fought Fairy Heavenly Sound, the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage Palace Master, to a mutually damaging draw after using his True Immortal Talisman. Heavenly Sound Palace’s elders and visiting powerhouses arrived to find both fighters badly injured and the secluded residence destroyed.

• A violent clash deep within Heavenly Sound Palace sent a multicolored pillar into the sky and revealed two powerful cultivators fighting.
• The Robe-Clad Elder suspected that the Palace Master was in danger and led Heavenly Sound Palace’s Supreme Elders and disciples to help her.
• Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy recognized one of the fighting auras as familiar and followed the elders to the scene with Qianqian Fairy.
• The arrivals found the secluded residence reduced to rubble and Fairy Heavenly Sound injured, with many strings on her life-bound zither snapped.
• Lin Xuan, also gravely injured, recalled using his abilities and the Jade Luo Bee against Fairy Heavenly Sound before activating the True Immortal Talisman to bring their battle to a draw.

After Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin were cornered by Fairy Heavenly Sound and more than ten Tribulation Transcendence elders, Lin Xuan spotted Nailong True Person, Qianqian Fairy, and Hundred Flowers Fairy among the arrivals. Their presence gave him a chance to seek help, though the danger remained.

• Lin Xuan comforted Ouyang Qinxin and resolved to fight rather than let Heavenly Sound Palace kill them without a cost.
• More than ten Tribulation Transcendence elders arrived, leaving Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin seemingly without a way to escape.
• Lin Xuan recognized Nailong True Person, Qianqian Fairy, and Hundred Flowers Fairy among the newcomers and saw a possible thread of hope.
• Nailong True Person recognized Lin Xuan as his brother, while Qianqian Fairy and Hundred Flowers Fairy were astonished by his cultivation and remembered their past ties.

Lin Xuan sought to defuse Heavenly Sound Palace’s hostility after Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy revealed their ties to him. He admitted that Fairy Miaoyin had died by his hand but offered compensation, and Fairy Heavenly Sound agreed to hear his account after they recovered.

• The Supreme Elders of Heavenly Sound Palace hesitated to pursue Lin Xuan after learning he was connected to Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound greeted Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy, who confirmed their ties to Lin Xuan and offered him support.
• Lin Xuan urged Fairy Heavenly Sound to reconcile, but she raised Junior Sister Miaoyin’s grudge against him.
• Lin Xuan admitted that Fairy Miaoyin had died by his hand and offered compensation, claiming she had been accidentally wounded.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound agreed to hear Lin Xuan’s explanation after they tended their injuries.

Lin Xuan recovered from his injuries while staying under guard at Heavenly Sound Palace, and then went to meet the palace elders. He left the cultivation cave with Qin Xin and Qin Yu and entered a hall where Fairy Heavenly Sound and more than ten Supreme Elders were waiting.

• Lin Xuan entered a guarded cultivation cave with Qin Xin and Qin Yu, then set up protective restrictions.
• Lin Xuan treated his serious injuries with spirit pills and medicines while considering how to leave Heavenly Sound Palace safely.
• After three days, Lin Xuan received a summons to discuss the matter with Heavenly Sound Palace.
• Lin Xuan told Qin Xin and Qin Yu that his injuries had mostly healed, then left the cave with them.
• Two Heavenly Sound Palace Supreme Elders led Lin Xuan to an ancient hall, where Fairy Heavenly Sound and more than ten Supreme Elders had gathered.

Lin Xuan faced Fairy Heavenly Sound and the Heavenly Sound Palace elders over Fairy Miaoyin’s death, claiming it had been an accidental result of a chance encounter. After his elaborate account, Nailong True Person urged both sides to make peace, but Fairy Heavenly Sound had not yet accepted.

• Lin Xuan arrived with Ouyang Qinxin and Qin Yu before more than ten Tribulation-level elders, while Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy stood by.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound assessed Lin Xuan’s unexpectedly swift recovery and considered sparing him if he paid a suitable price for Miaoyin’s death.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound questioned Lin Xuan about Miaoyin, and he claimed they had no prior enmity and that he had encountered her while stranded in the Azure Cloud Desert.
• Lin Xuan spent more than an hour telling a polished story in which he had tried to help Miaoyin before accidentally injuring her.
• Nailong True Person proposed that both sides treat Miaoyin’s death as a misunderstanding and make peace.

Lin Xuan tried to settle Heavenly Sound Palace’s grievance over Miaoyin’s death by claiming it was an accident, and Fairy Heavenly Sound accepted his heart demon oath while demanding compensation. Lin Xuan rejected her demand for two Xiantian Spirit Treasures and waited to negotiate a lesser payment.

• The Supreme Elders doubted Lin Xuan’s account of Miaoyin’s fall, but Fairy Heavenly Sound asked him to swear upon his heart demon.
• Lin Xuan swore the oath, and Fairy Heavenly Sound agreed not to avenge Miaoyin if he compensated Heavenly Sound Palace.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound demanded Lin Xuan hand over two Xiantian Spirit Treasures, delighting the elders.
• Lin Xuan firmly refused and asked Fairy Heavenly Sound to propose another condition.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound challenged Lin Xuan to offer compensation for Miaoyin’s death, and he considered what treasure he could give.

Lin Xuan negotiated with Fairy Heavenly Sound over compensation for killing her sect’s Supreme Elder, refusing to surrender a Xiantian Spirit Treasure and failing to provide the pills she demanded. Fairy Heavenly Sound used his refusal to steer the bargain back toward a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, leaving Lin Xuan realizing he had walked into her trap.

• Lin Xuan offered Fairy Heavenly Sound a bottle of Clear Heart Condensing Snow Pills, but she said it was insufficient compensation for the death of her sect’s Supreme Elder.
• The Robe-Clad Elder demanded a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, and Lin Xuan warned that the Heavenly Sound Palace might not be able to keep him there.
• Nailong True Person and Hundred Flowers Fairy urged both sides to compromise, and Fairy Heavenly Sound asked Lin Xuan for pills that could help Tribulation Transcendence cultivators break through bottlenecks.
• Lin Xuan said he did not have the requested pills, while the Robe-Clad Elder taunted him and Fairy Heavenly Sound pressed him to settle the dispute.
• Fairy Heavenly Sound proposed that Lin Xuan hand over one Xiantian Spirit Treasure instead, and Lin Xuan realized she had maneuvered him into her trap.