Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan fought Baoshe after she fused with the Ancestral Spirit Snake and gained terrifying power. His attacks failed to stop her transformation, leaving him to face Baoshe in a new, serpentine form.

• Baoshe fused with the Ancestral Spirit Snake, while Lin Xuan realized his nearly depleted magic power left him in a desperate position.
• Lin Xuan found the Five Dragon Seal still unusable and attacked Baoshe with his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• The Ancestral Spirit Snake formed a black cocoon from threads it spewed, and Lin Xuan's sword attacks failed to penetrate it.
• Lin Xuan used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and a giant sword to corrode and crack the cocoon.
• The cocoon exploded, revealing Baoshe Saint Ancestor transformed with emerald eyes, crimson scales, and snake-like features.

Lin Xuan faced Baoshe after she fused with the Ancestral Spirit Snake and became a Devil Loose Immortal. Baoshe overwhelmed him in battle, leaving him gravely injured as he fell toward the deep valley.

• Lin Xuan realized Baoshe’s fusion with the Ancestral Spirit Snake had greatly increased her strength and drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to prepare for the fight.
• Baoshe taunted Lin Xuan, who challenged her instead of trying to flee.
• Baoshe struck Lin Xuan twice with overwhelming speed, sending him flying and smashing him toward the ground.
• Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see Baoshe’s movements and counterattacked with a punch infused with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Baoshe dodged Lin Xuan’s punch, stabbed a bowl-sized hole in his waist, and left him falling toward the deep valley.

Lin Xuan was gravely wounded by Baoshe and struggled to recover as she pressed her attack. Just as Baoshe was about to kill him, Yue'er shoved him aside and took the blow herself.

• Lin Xuan used his Undying Body to begin healing, astonishing Baoshe, who then attacked his neck.
• Lin Xuan summoned nearly ten thousand Jade Luo Bees, but Baoshe conjured winged snakes that held them back long enough for her to reach him.
• Unable to recover or escape, Lin Xuan faced death and hesitated over whether to abandon his body and flee as a Nascent Soul.
• Baoshe struck at Lin Xuan's head, but Yue'er rushed out and shoved him aside.
• Baoshe failed to stop Lin Xuan from moving, then struck Yue'er in the chest with her palm.

Baoshe captured Yue'er and tortured her with the Heart-Devouring Demon Fire to punish Lin Xuan for destroying her former body. Yue'er tried to comfort Lin Xuan, but Baoshe intensified the torment, leaving him helpless as her suffering worsened.

• Baoshe struck Yue'er, knocked her unconscious, and seized her as a hostage while taunting Lin Xuan.
• Baoshe threatened to torture Yue'er's soul and engulfed her in the Heart-Devouring Demon Fire.
• Lin Xuan, too badly injured to move, pleaded with Baoshe to release Yue'er and watched her suffer.
• Yue'er endured the flames and told Lin Xuan that he was not to blame and that following him had made her happy.
• Baoshe angrily intensified the demon fire, making Yue'er scream as Lin Xuan begged her to stop.

Lin Xuan stopped Yue'er from sacrificing herself and held Baoshe back after she threatened them. He then forced his advancement to the late stage of Tribulation Transcendence, summoning a powerful Heavenly Tribulation to turn against Baoshe.

• Yue'er tried to self-destruct to wound Baoshe and give Lin Xuan a chance to survive, but Baoshe escaped her reach.
• Lin Xuan suddenly appeared beside Baoshe and restrained her, telling Yue'er not to approach.
• Lin Xuan reminded Yue'er of his promise to protect her, while Baoshe threatened to torment them both.
• Lin Xuan warned Baoshe that she had pushed him too far and began forcing his advancement.
• A vast, unusually powerful Heavenly Tribulation gathered over the valley, and Baoshe realized Lin Xuan intended to use it against her.

Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Tribulation he had triggered to attack Baoshe, holding her tightly despite his severe injuries. As successive lightning and fire struck them, Baoshe failed to break free, and the two fell into a muddy valley still locked together.

• Baoshe realized Lin Xuan had triggered an overwhelming Heavenly Tribulation to take her down with him.
• The first bolts of Tribulation Lightning struck Lin Xuan and Baoshe while Lin Xuan kept her restrained.
• Baoshe struck Lin Xuan in the chest, but he endured the blow and refused to let go.
• A wave of Tribulation fire engulfed them, and Baoshe's demonic tentacles failed to pierce Lin Xuan's vitals.
• Lin Xuan and Baoshe fell into the mud at the bottom of the valley, where Baoshe continued struggling to escape.

Lin Xuan clung to Baoshe and fought her viciously while he deliberately endured the Heavenly Tribulation, determined to defeat her and protect Yue'er. Baoshe could neither escape the storm nor understand how Lin Xuan remained alive, and the two continued their desperate brawl.

• Lin Xuan bit Baoshe and attacked her with every means he could, ignoring his injuries and any concern for dignity.
• Lin Xuan's Main Nascent Soul and Second Nascent Soul advanced together, deliberately drawing down a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation.
• The repeated tribulation strikes and Lin Xuan's attacks prevented Baoshe from gathering magic power or using her Dharma Treasures and secret arts.
• Baoshe began clawing and biting Lin Xuan in return, and the pair wrestled under the relentless lightning and thunder.
• Baoshe tried several times to escape, but Lin Xuan clung to her, struck her with his elbow, and knocked out one of her teeth.
• Baoshe gave up fleeing and fought Lin Xuan in fury, still unable to understand how he had survived his grievous injuries and the Heavenly Tribulation.

Lin Xuan discovered that the restored Bailing Seal was repairing his injuries as he fought Baoshe through wave after wave of Heavenly Tribulation. As the battle continued, Baoshe realized she might die and began to fear staying to kill him.

• Lin Xuan used the Internal Vision Technique and found that the shattered Five Dragon Seal had reassembled into the Bailing Seal, whose warm current healed his injuries.
• Lin Xuan realized the Bailing Seal let him barely withstand the Heavenly Tribulation and Baoshe's attacks, and he renewed his assault with confidence.
• Lin Xuan assessed Baoshe as a formidable opponent and used close combat to restrain her while the Heavenly Tribulation struck them both.
• Baoshe suffered severe wounds from the Tribulation Lightning and Lin Xuan's attacks, and she began to consider retreating rather than risk her life.

Baoshe tried to escape Lin Xuan by sacrificing two Avatars, but Yue'er and Xiao Die helped block her path. Baoshe remained wounded and fleeing as Xiao Die revealed herself, leaving the pursuit unresolved.

• Baoshe summoned two mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence Avatars to entangle Lin Xuan and draw the Heavenly Tribulation away, then fled.
• Yue'er struck Baoshe with Flying Immortal from Beyond, severely injuring her, but Baoshe forced her way through the sword light.
• Lin Xuan appeared ahead of Baoshe and attacked with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, but his figure proved to be an illusion.
• Baoshe saw through the attack too late, summoned a demonic claw at the figure, and discovered that it was Xiao Die in disguise.

Xiao Die wounded Baoshe, but Baoshe escaped and hid in a nearby mountain cave to heal. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan faced an intensifying Heavenly Tribulation that produced legendary dragon-shaped golden lightning, leaving Yue'er and Xiao Die to watch from a distance.

• Xiao Die used a concealed attack to pierce Baoshe's heart, but Baoshe survived and fled despite Xiao Die's follow-up strikes.
• Xiao Die returned to Lin Xuan and saw that Baoshe's two Avatars had been destroyed while Lin Xuan endured the Heavenly Tribulation.
• A fiery tribulation sphere struck Lin Xuan, and the storm above him shifted to black clouds and golden dragon-shaped lightning.
• Xiao Die restrained Yue'er and led her farther away from Lin Xuan's tribulation.
• Baoshe flew hundreds of thousands of li, entered a desolate mountain, and began healing her wounds with pills and demonic qi.

Lin Xuan faced a deadly Heavenly Tribulation after Baoshe escaped, but his power unexpectedly formed a Taiji Diagram as his treasures reacted. The two Silk Luo Jade Talismans repaired the Bailing Seal, which appeared on the diagram as the dragon-shaped lightning descended; Lin Xuan was left stunned by what happened next.

• Baoshe escaped, leaving Lin Xuan to endure an even fiercer Heavenly Tribulation while exhausted.
• Lin Xuan tried to form a Spirit Power Shield, but his magic power instead created a hazy azure Taiji Diagram.
• Two Silk Luo Jade Talismans flew from Lin Xuan's Storage Bag as the Bailing Seal recovered and the True Spirit Void Shadows merged with it.
• The dragon-shaped Tribulation Lightning descended, and the Bailing Seal appeared on the Taiji Diagram as the two talismans self-destructed and repaired two flaws in the seal.
• Lin Xuan expected the Bailing Seal to confront the lightning, but the ensuing scene left him pale with shock.

Lin Xuan survived the golden Heavenly Tribulation when the Bailing Seal absorbed its lightning and used it to cleanse and reshape his body. Both his Main Nascent Soul and Second Nascent Soul advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage, and he reunited with Yue'er as Xiao Die congratulated him.

• The Bailing Seal rose to meet the Dragon-Shaped Tribulation Lightning and absorbed it into a patterned array.
• The Bailing Seal released golden lightning that healed Lin Xuan's wounds and reshaped his body, so he calmed himself and cultivated through the tribulation.
• Lin Xuan's Main Nascent Soul and Second Nascent Soul both advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage as the clouds dispersed.
• Lin Xuan discovered his bones had turned purple-gold and were engraved with images of nearly a hundred True Spirits.
• Yue'er rushed into Lin Xuan's arms in relief, and he held her until Xiao Die's cough reminded them she was there.
• Xiao Die congratulated Lin Xuan on his advancement and inferred that he cultivated more than one Nascent Soul.

Lin Xuan decided to pursue the badly injured Baoshe before she could recover, and Xiao Die agreed that they had a strong chance of defeating her. Lin Xuan found Baoshe and attacked, leaving her wounded again as his flying swords descended on her.

• Lin Xuan used his powerful divine sense and the mark he had secretly placed on Baoshe to locate her.
• Yue'er objected to pursuing Baoshe, but Xiao Die supported Lin Xuan, reasoning that Baoshe was badly injured and they should strike before she recovered.
• Lin Xuan persuaded Yue'er and flew with Yue'er and Xiao Die toward Baoshe's hiding place.
• While Baoshe meditated and vowed revenge, Lin Xuan's sword strike shattered the mountain where she was sheltering.
• Lin Xuan overwhelmed Baoshe in their opening clash, reopening her injuries, then sent the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword's flying swords raining down on her.

Lin Xuan pursued the badly injured Baoshe after she used her Demon Soldier Scroll to hold him off and fled. Yue'er and Xiao Die stayed behind to delay the demon soldiers, while Baoshe escaped through a hole in space; Lin Xuan tracked her movement and continued the chase.

• Baoshe summoned tens of thousands of demon soldiers from her Demon Soldier Scroll, blocking Lin Xuan's attack before fleeing.
• Xiao Die revealed her Phantom Moon Moth form and trapped the demon soldiers in an illusion, while Yue'er attacked them with the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box.
• Lin Xuan broke through a weak point in the demon soldiers' formation and sped after Baoshe.
• More than a hundred thousand li away, the injured Baoshe searched for a way back to the Demon World and sensed Lin Xuan catching up.
• Baoshe opened a hole in space and escaped through it; Lin Xuan arrived shortly afterward and tracked her spatial movement.

Lin Xuan relentlessly pursued the wounded Baoshe for months, but she repeatedly escaped using powerful survival techniques. As Baoshe fled in critical condition, she encountered a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator whose wife she had killed, and he seized the chance to attack her.

• Lin Xuan chased Baoshe across the wasteland, but she used a blood-red devil talisman to escape.
• Over the following weeks, Lin Xuan fought through Devil Race soldiers, Magic Beasts, and Magic Snakes, yet Baoshe repeatedly slipped away.
• Lin Xuan wounded Baoshe severely, but she used a secret art to flee and erased the divine-sense mark he had planted on her.
• Baoshe continued fleeing while badly injured, and Lin Xuan pursued her relentlessly.
• A bald, barefoot Tribulation Transcendence cultivator recognized Baoshe as the killer of his wife, Fairy Huilian, and raised a Sharp Axe to avenge her.

Baoshe tried to escape Lin Xuan while a big man used his treasures and ultimately self-detonated to trap her in an energy net. After Baoshe broke free, Lin Xuan caught up and attacked her, leaving their battle ongoing with Baoshe at a severe disadvantage.

• The big man summoned a fiery tiger and a Fire Bird to block Baoshe as she fled from Lin Xuan.
• Baoshe cleaved the Fire Bird apart and attacked the big man, but he self-detonated and trapped her in a powerful energy net.
• Baoshe used a strange weapon to cut open the net and escape, only to find Lin Xuan waiting nearby.
• Lin Xuan attacked Baoshe with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, and lightning.
• Baoshe fought back with devilish weapons but fell into a disadvantage as Lin Xuan pressed his attack.

Lin Xuan pursued Baoshe after she sacrificed her body and escaped through a passage she opened, but they both arrived in a strange realm with no clear connection to the Demon Realm. Baoshe was left weakened and uncertain, while Lin Xuan remained determined to hunt her down.

• Lin Xuan slowly wore Baoshe down until she self-destructed her physical body.
• Baoshe's Nascent Soul escaped the blast and opened an Interface Passage, then fled through it as Lin Xuan followed.
• Lin Xuan emerged in a bizarre space where his divine sense reached only a hundred li, and Baoshe had disappeared.
• Baoshe realized the passage had not brought her to the Ancient Demon Realm and feared the unfamiliar place while nearly out of magic power.

Lin Xuan and Baoshe separately ventured through the strange void and found the same enormous stone. Baoshe discovered a gourd containing chaos devil Qi, but it killed her and absorbed her Nascent Soul; Lin Xuan remained unaware as he reached the stone.

• Baoshe fled deeper into the void to escape Lin Xuan, while Lin Xuan sensed danger but chose to continue pursuing her.
• Baoshe discovered a gigantic stone, opened a cave in it, and found a black gourd containing chaos devil Qi.
• When Baoshe reached for the gourd, it transformed into a tentacle-like weapon, pierced her head with a black devil needle, and absorbed her Nascent Soul.
• The gourd vanished, leaving a transparent bottle containing Primordial Profound Yang Qi as bait for Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan reached the giant stone without knowing Baoshe had died and examined it with his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and divine sense.

Bingpo learned that Baoshe had died and blamed Lin Xuan, deciding to travel to the Spirit World to kill him. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan found the Primordial Profound Yang Qi, but the bottle turned out to be a poisonous monster, and it was ambushed by his sword after biting a substitute Puppet.

• An Ancient Demon reported Baoshe's death to Bingpo after Baoshe's Life-Bound Demon Pearl shattered.
• Bingpo concluded that Lin Xuan was connected to Baoshe's death and ordered her subordinates to prepare a formation so she could Shatter the Void and reach the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan opened a passage through a giant rock and found a bottle containing the Primordial Profound Yang Qi in an underground hall.
• Lin Xuan grabbed the bottle, which burst and poisoned him before transforming into a blood-red monster that bit him.
• The monster realized it had bitten Lin Xuan's substitute Puppet, and Lin Xuan's sword struck it from the void.

Lin Xuan escaped the cave after discovering that the Primordial Profound Yang Qi had been bait, but a sealed Hundun emerged from the collapsing boulder. As Hundun's powerful cries shook the void, Lin Xuan fled, desperate to escape before its seal broke.

• Lin Xuan sensed a surge of law power after splitting the monster and fled the cave as the boulder began to crack.
• Lin Xuan realized Baoshe's lingering aura had warned him of danger, and he confirmed the Primordial Profound Yang Qi was bait with a Puppet substitute.
• The boulder collapsed, revealing Hundun sealed inside a massive piece of translucent jade.
• Lin Xuan recognized Hundun as a calamity that had once devastated the Three Realms and fought the Asura King, then hurried to flee.
• Hundun bellowed twice, sending the strange vital energy churning and threatening to overwhelm Lin Xuan with the force of its cries.