Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect and learned that Wanxiao Immortal Palace had pressured the sect to become its subordinate. The Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long explained that they had acted deferentially to keep Lin Xuan’s return quiet until the Immortal Alliance Conference, where he was expected to claim the top spot.

• A woman in red from Wanxiao Immortal Palace sensed a powerful presence watching her, but she and her senior brother found no explanation and decided to report their suspicions to their sect.
• Lin Xuan returned to Cloud Hidden Sect with Ouyang Qinxin, and the Silver-Eyed Maiden and the Youth surnamed Long congratulated her on reaching the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Lin Xuan asked why Wanxiao Immortal Palace’s envoys had visited, and the Silver-Eyed Maiden said they had tried to force Cloud Hidden Sect to submit.
• The Silver-Eyed Maiden explained that she and the Youth surnamed Long had treated the envoys deferentially to conceal Lin Xuan’s return before the Immortal Alliance Conference in about half a month.

Lin Xuan agreed to keep his return secret and spent time with Ouyang Qinxin after their reunion. Far away, a Wanxiao Immortal Palace elder sought an audience with its long-hidden founding patriarch, Wanxiao Immortal Monarch.

• Lin Xuan accepted his senior brother and senior sister’s plan to conceal his return and learned they had ordered the disciples to keep quiet.
• Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin left and spent time together traveling nearby.
• The narration described Wanxiao Immortal Palace, its influence, and its forbidden Ice Hero Valley, where its injured founding patriarch had hidden for a million years.
• Elder Yun He arrived outside Ice Hero Valley and respectfully asked to meet Wanxiao Immortal Monarch with important news, but received no reply.

Master Yun He told Wanxiao Immortal Monarch that Lin Xuan might have returned and could threaten their sect’s bid to lead the Immortal Dao Alliance. Wanxiao agreed to leave seclusion and attend the upcoming conference, which was set to take place in the demon-free far north.

• Master Yun He waited in the snow and asked Wanxiao Immortal Monarch for guidance on the alliance leader selection.
• Master Yun He reported that Lin Xuan had likely returned to Cloud Hidden Sect and could disrupt their plans.
• Wanxiao agreed to leave seclusion and test Lin Xuan at the Immortal Alliance Conference.
• The Immortal Dao Alliance organized a counterattack against the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons while postponing the choice of its leader.
• The alliance scheduled its conference in the far north, where no Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons had been found.

Lin Xuan and the Youth surnamed Long traveled to Nongyue City for the Immortal Alliance Conference, which was drawing cultivators and demons from across the realm. On the way, they came across Yun Ruoyan fighting two powerful demons, and Lin Xuan recognized her as the battle turned against her.

• The Immortal Dao Alliance’s upcoming conference brought cultivators and demons from across the realm to Dongyu Kingdom, where Nongyue City hosted the gathering.
• Lin Xuan and the Youth surnamed Long traveled toward Nongyue City without a large entourage, while Qin Xin remained behind to stabilize her cultivation.
• Lin Xuan sensed a fight ahead and recognized one of the combatants as an old acquaintance.
• Lin Xuan and the Youth surnamed Long approached and saw Yun Ruoyan battling a Black Bear Monster and another demon.
• The two demons matched Yun Ruoyan’s Late-Spirit Division Stage cultivation, and their combined attack left her at a disadvantage.

Lin Xuan rescued Yun Ruoyan by killing two demons from the Myriad Demon Sect, then reunited with her and continued toward the Immortal Alliance Conference. In Nongyue City, the Black Bear Monster’s grandfather learned of his death and vowed revenge.

• Lin Xuan and Long arrived as Yun Ruoyan struggled against the Black Bear Monster and a Female Demon.
• The Black Bear Monster identified himself as a disciple of the Myriad Demon Sect, but Lin Xuan dismissed his warning and attacked.
• Lin Xuan killed the Female Demon and Black Bear Monster with sword light, then reunited with Yun Ruoyan, who recognized him as Brother Lin.
• Yun Ruoyan and Long exchanged introductions, and the three boarded Lin Xuan’s flying boat and headed toward the Immortal Alliance Conference.
• In Nongyue City, the Black Bear Monster’s grandfather learned his grandson had been killed and swore to avenge him.

The Black Bear King sent a Pig Demon to discover who had killed his grandson, while Lin Xuan and his companions discussed the threat. Lin Xuan caught the spy and discovered it carried a trace of Bian bloodline, then began to search its soul.

• The Black Bear King summoned a demonic creature and ordered it to identify his grandson's killer, promising to refine the killer's soul.
• The Youth surnamed Long warned Lin Xuan that the Black Bear King was a formidable ancient Demon Cultivator, but Lin Xuan refused to be intimidated.
• Yun Ruoyan apologized for leading Lin Xuan to offend the Black Bear King, and Lin Xuan reassured her that he would not abandon an old acquaintance.
• Lin Xuan detected the Pig Demon eavesdropping, shattered its fleeing clones, and trapped it with a huge hand.
• Lin Xuan recognized a trace of Bian bloodline in the Pig Demon and placed a finger on its forehead to search its soul.

Lin Xuan and Long discovered that the Black Bear King was behind the Pig Demon’s attack, while the king began a ritual to track them down. As they reached Nongyue City ahead of the Immortal Alliance Conference, an imposing Dongyu Kingdom procession arrived, and Lin Xuan watched as a line of women carrying palace lanterns emerged from the mist.

• Lin Xuan burned the Pig Demon to ashes and found a Demon Core, confirming that the Black Bear King had sent it.
• Long feared their identities had been exposed, but Lin Xuan said they would deal with whatever came.
• The Black Bear King raged over the deaths of his grandson and spirit pet, then began using a divine soul imprint to locate their killer.
• Lin Xuan and his companions reached Nongyue City, where the Immortal Alliance Conference was due to open in three days and a No-Fly Restriction was in force.
• A grand Dongyu Kingdom procession approached the city, prompting speculation that the emperor had arrived.
• Lin Xuan observed the procession’s powerful cultivators as women carrying palace lanterns appeared behind them.

The Dongyu Immortal Emperor arrived at Nongyue City with a lavish procession and an unknown Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage woman, deepening the uncertainty around the Immortal Alliance Conference. After the emperor noticed Lin Xuan, Lin Xuan left his companions and flew to meet him aboard the imperial carriage.

• Nearly a hundred palace maids and eighteen flower carriages arrived, leading cultivators to suspect that the Dongyu Immortal Emperor had come in person.
• Lin Xuan recognized the emperor as a Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage expert and saw that the woman playing chess with him had the same cultivation.
• The Youth surnamed Long worried that the gathered experts and the Black Bear King's feud with Lin Xuan could threaten Lin Xuan's bid to become alliance leader.
• The Dongyu Immortal Emperor spotted Lin Xuan and invited him to travel with him.
• Lin Xuan asked the Youth surnamed Long and Fairy Yun to find lodging, then flew to the emperor's carriage while the emperor and his wife calmly watched.

Lin Xuan met Dongyu Immortal Emperor and his empress at the Immortal Alliance Conference, exchanged a test of strength with the emperor, and was invited aboard his Imperial Chariot. The empress offered him Nine Sacred Spirit Wine brewed from rare, poisonous True Spirit blood, leaving Lin Xuan unsure whether to drink it.

• Dongyu Immortal Emperor and his empress recognized Lin Xuan and invited him aboard their Imperial Chariot.
• Dongyu Immortal Emperor abruptly struck at Lin Xuan to test whether his reputation was deserved, and Lin Xuan met his palm evenly.
• Dongyu Immortal Emperor welcomed Lin Xuan aboard, where the empress offered him a cup of Nine Sacred Spirit Wine.
• The empress explained that the wine was brewed with the blood of nine rare True Spirits and could be deadly to anyone unable to withstand it.
• Lin Xuan recognized the wine's ingredients as exceptionally rare and poisonous, then hesitated over whether to drink it.

Lin Xuan drank the supposedly lethal Nine Sacred Spirit Wine without harm, using its True Spirit blood to benefit his cultivation. Dongyu Immortal Emperor and the Empress were left unable to explain Lin Xuan’s resilience or gauge his true strength.

• Dongyu Immortal Emperor goaded Lin Xuan into drinking the Nine Sacred Spirit Wine, and Lin Xuan accepted because he could refine its poisons and use the True Spirit blood for the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art.
• Lin Xuan endured the wine’s alternating heat and cold without changing his expression, while Dongyu Immortal Emperor’s pleased smile faded.
• Lin Xuan sat down and demanded proper hospitality, so the Empress arranged a banquet with food, spirit wine, and dancing palace maids.
• After Lin Xuan departed, Dongyu Immortal Emperor questioned the Empress about the wine, and she confirmed she had prepared it herself.
• Dongyu Immortal Emperor admitted he could not determine Lin Xuan’s true strength from their palm strike and described him as unfathomably deep.

Dongyu Immortal Emperor failed to gauge Lin Xuan’s strength and chose to continue to Nongyue City, leaving his decision to contend for the alliance leader’s seat until the conference. Lin Xuan arrived in the crowded city and headed for the palace reserved for Cloud Hidden Sect.

• Dongyu Immortal Emperor realized that his probing palm strike and Nine Sacred Spirit Wine had failed to reveal or restrain Lin Xuan.
• The Palace-dressed Woman questioned whether they should attend the Immortal Alliance Conference, but Dongyu Immortal Emperor insisted they would go and decide later whether to compete for the alliance leader’s seat.
• Dongyu Immortal Emperor and the Palace-dressed Woman traveled onward while the Immortal Alliance Conference remained three days away.
• Lin Xuan entered Nongyue City and saw that cultivators had arrived in numbers too great for the inns and rented cultivation caves to accommodate.
• Lin Xuan headed to the palace reserved for honored guests, expecting to meet Senior Brother Long there.

Lin Xuan arrived at Nongyue City and revealed that he was still alive, drawing attention from the cultivation world as the Immortal Alliance Conference approached. Black Bear King suspected Lin Xuan might have killed his grandson, while Wanxiao Immortal Monarch and Black Phoenix Demon King were also introduced as powerful figures gathering near the city.

• Lin Xuan entered Yingxian Pavilion, and cultivators recognized him as the Supreme Elder of Cloud Hidden Sect, whose long disappearance had led many to believe he was dead.
• News of Lin Xuan's arrival spread throughout Nongyue City, reviving attention to Cloud Hidden Sect's standing and his possible bid for alliance leader.
• Black Bear King learned that Lin Xuan had arrived and suspected he might be the killer of his beloved grandson.
• Wanxiao Immortal Monarch received confirmation from Yun He that Lin Xuan was in Nongyue City and dismissed his ambition to contend for alliance leader.
• Black Phoenix Demon King strolled through Black Phoenix Valley, where her Demon Cultivators had settled ahead of the Immortal Alliance Conference.

Lin Xuan secluded himself in Yingxian Pavilion to refine the Nine Sacred Spirit Wine, summoning nine True Spirit manifestations from its blood. As the Immortal Alliance Conference neared, he remained inside, leaving the Youth surnamed Long and Yun Ruoyan worried about his absence.

• The Black Phoenix Demoness quietly considered Lin Xuan while studying a Jade Slip.
• Lin Xuan told the Youth surnamed Long and Yun Ruoyan that he had found an opportunity, then entered seclusion in Yingxian Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan used the Ink Jade True Spirit Art and his essence blood to transform the wine’s nine kinds of True Spirit blood into nine powerful manifestations.
• The Youth surnamed Long guarded Lin Xuan’s quiet room for three days while Lin Xuan continued refining the spirit wine.
• With the Immortal Alliance Conference about to begin, the Youth surnamed Long worried about disturbing Lin Xuan or delaying the event.
• Yun Ruoyan arrived and asked the Youth surnamed Long where Senior Lin was; he explained that Lin Xuan had not emerged from seclusion.

Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion after refining the Nine Sacred Spirit Wine, gaining great strength and immunity to poisons, and hurried with Long and Yun Ruoyan to the Immortal Alliance Conference. They entered the conference grounds, where Lin Xuan’s reputation drew respect from the cultivators they passed.

• Yun Ruoyan and the youth surnamed Long worried that Lin Xuan’s seclusion would make them miss the Immortal Alliance Conference.
• Lin Xuan emerged after refining the Nine Sacred Spirit Wine, gaining immense strength, immunity to a hundred poisons, and a faster-recovering Bailing Seal.
• Lin Xuan, Long, and Yun Ruoyan flew to the golden vortex entrance and presented their invitation to the Demon Race guards.
• The guards recognized Ancestor Lin, Senior Long, and Fairy Yun and let them enter the vortex.
• The three arrived at the conference grounds, where tens of thousands of cultivators and elite patrols filled the vast square and its surroundings.

Lin Xuan and the Cloud Hidden Sect arrived at the Immortal Alliance Conference and found their seats deliberately placed away from the front, signaling their exclusion from the alliance’s core. Lin Xuan calmly accepted the public humiliation, leaving the gathered powers to wonder what he intended, while the Dongyu Immortal Emperor and his wife privately acknowledged the danger of underestimating him.

• Lin Xuan and his companions reached the conference plaza and saw that the Cloud Hidden Sect had been assigned seats away from the front.
• The Youth surnamed Long grew furious at the slight, but Lin Xuan quietly flew toward their seats instead of confronting the organizers.
• Cultivators mocked Lin Xuan and the Cloud Hidden Sect as he sat calmly beside the Youth surnamed Long.
• Yun Ruoyan and the Youth surnamed Long concluded that Lin Xuan had a plan and followed his lead.
• The Tribulation Transcendence Stage ancestors questioned why Lin Xuan endured the insult, while the Empress told the Dongyu Immortal Emperor that Lin Xuan was far more formidable than rumors suggested.

At the Immortal Alliance Conference, Lin Xuan defied the leaders of three major sects and defeated them with a single strike, shocking the assembled cultivators. Three even more formidable figures then appeared, leaving the chapter poised for a confrontation.

• Dongyu Immortal Emperor and the Empress watched the sects’ dispute and chose to wait and see how Lin Xuan would respond.
• Master Yun He, Fairy Huan Feng, and Venerable Sky Wolf appeared to preside over the conference, while onlookers mocked Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan challenged the three leaders, then swept aside their combined spiritual pressure and sent them crashing into a mountain, unconscious.
• The crowd realized Lin Xuan’s strength was far beyond the timid fraud they had believed him to be.
• Three powerful figures arrived, including a sickly elder who seemed to be Wanxiao Immortal Palace’s founding patriarch, a winged beauty, and the Black Bear King.

Lin Xuan faced down the Black Phoenix Demon King and Wanxiao Immortal Monarch at the Immortal Alliance Conference, while the two tried to redirect attention and flatter him. The Black Bear King then accused Lin Xuan of killing his grandson and vowed revenge.

• The Black-Robed Elder revealed himself as Wanxiao Immortal Monarch and shifted the crowd’s scrutiny onto the Black Phoenix Demon King by questioning her pure bloodline.
• Lin Xuan confronted the Black Phoenix Demon King and the Black-Robed Elder, boasting that he would kill them if they provoked him.
• The Black Phoenix Demon King apologized to Lin Xuan, and Wanxiao Immortal Monarch also offered him an apology.
• Lin Xuan recognized that their apologies were part of a scheme but accepted the confrontation as a chance to overcome obstacles to becoming alliance leader.
• The Black Bear King accused Lin Xuan of killing his grandson, a Black Bear Monster, and swore to avenge him.

Lin Xuan faced the Black Bear King while the Black Phoenix Demoness and Wanxiao Immortal Monarch watched, hoping to exploit their fight. After matching the Black Bear King in a head-on clash, Lin Xuan provoked him into attacking again, and the battle continued.

• The Black Phoenix Demoness and Wanxiao Immortal Monarch let the Black Bear King challenge Lin Xuan so they could profit from the fight.
• Lin Xuan warned the Black Bear King that he was being used, but the enraged bear charged him anyway.
• Lin Xuan met the Black Bear King's attack with his bare body, and the two clashed on nearly equal terms, with Lin Xuan slightly ahead.
• The watching Cultivators retreated from the square, while the Youth surnamed Long and Yun Ruoyan stayed to watch with concern.
• The Black Bear King attacked again with a tornado of Wind Blades, and Lin Xuan remained calm as it swept toward him.

Lin Xuan countered the Black Bear King’s attacks and forced him to reveal a primordial secret art, but then effortlessly erased the bear king’s strongest weapons. The Black Bear King and the watching cultivators were left stunned as the alliance-leader contest continued.

• Lin Xuan used an azure Qilin-shaped force and black shockwaves to break the Black Bear King’s attack, leaving the onlookers speculating about his origins.
• The Black Bear King realized Lin Xuan’s strength was genuine but chose to keep fighting rather than lose face before the crowd.
• The Black Bear King released black runes and transformed into a gigantic three-headed, six-armed form using a primordial secret art.
• The Black Bear King drew a Wolf-Tooth Mace, a Giant Hammer, and a Double-Edged Battle Axe, then struck at Lin Xuan with all six arms.
• Lin Xuan pointed forward, and the incoming axe gleams and cudgel shadows vanished before reaching him, astonishing the Black Bear King and the watching cultivators.

Lin Xuan revealed his domain and summoned the Nine Heavens God Luo Image to fight the Black Bear King. The battle intensified as the Black Bear King’s mace strikes broke through the Dharma Image’s defenses, while Lin Xuan remained calmly on the sidelines.

• Lin Xuan displayed a domain and manifested a nine-headed, eighteen-armed Dharma Image, surprising the Black Phoenix Demoness, Wanxiao Immortal Monarch, and the onlookers.
• Lin Xuan equipped the Dharma Image with eighteen powerful treasures, enlarged it to rival the Black Bear King, and declared it sufficient to defeat him.
• The Black Bear King strengthened himself with ancient armor and launched a barrage of attacks with his axes and hammers.
• The Dharma Image met the Black Bear King’s assault with weapons, lightning, and thunderfire, and their collision tore through the void.
• The Black Bear King’s Wolf-Tooth Mace shadows broke through the Dharma Image’s attack, while Lin Xuan stood calmly with his hands behind his back.