Chapter Summaries

The Fox Immortal demanded that Mo Yu bind her promise with the Styx Oath, while Master Xuangu and Nailong True Person faced formidable forces created or gathered by an Immortal. Nailong’s pavilion was surrounded by Ancient Beasts, but a sudden barrier of mirror-like vital energy reflected their attacks.

• The Fox Immortal presented the Styx Oath and demanded that Mo Yu engrave her promise upon it before she would release him.
• Master Xuangu faced five elemental Giants formed from pure vital energy and summoned golden-armored guards from blooming Lotuses.
• Nailong True Person confronted a vast horde of Ancient Beasts and entered a pavilion to drink wine while they prepared to attack.
• The Ancient Beasts unleashed a barrage of Supernatural Powers at Nailong’s pavilion.
• Mirror-like treasures formed from heaven-and-earth vital energy surrounded the pavilion and bounced the Ancient Beasts’ attacks back.

Nailong True Person used a freshly painted scroll to trap the Ancient Beast King and its followers, while Lin Xuan searched the ruins after defeating the Giant Ape Puppet. Lin Xuan discovered an intact Teleportation Array and prepared to investigate where it led.

• Nailong True Person's attacks devastated the ancient beasts, but the Ancient Beast King arrived and shattered his mirror-like treasures.
• The Ancient Beast King and the surviving beasts charged Nailong True Person as he finished painting a scroll.
• Nailong True Person's scroll released black radiance and trapped the Ancient Beast King and all the ancient beasts inside its painted world.
• Lin Xuan emerged after defeating the Giant Ape Puppet and, finding the area in ruins, searched it for anything of value.
• Lin Xuan uncovered an intact Teleportation Array beneath the rubble.

Lin Xuan reached the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, searched its side halls, and was trapped by a formation before escaping. He discovered that Master Xuangu had also arrived and was attacking the main hall’s powerful restriction, so Lin Xuan entered cautiously to let Xuangu test the dangers ahead.

• Lin Xuan passed through the Teleportation Array and used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to reveal the hidden Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan searched two side halls, found no treasures, and triggered a formation that sealed him inside.
• Master Xuangu reached the pavilion and recognized it as a possible hiding place for the Blue Star Sea, then attacked the main hall’s Xuantian Gangling Array.
• Lin Xuan took half an hour to escape his weaker formation and realized Master Xuangu was already at the main hall.
• Lin Xuan entered the main hall cautiously, planning to let Master Xuangu scout its restrictions for him.

Lin Xuan rushed to the main hall after hearing Master Xuangu find a treasure, and recognized the shell as an apparent Blue Star Sea. He tricked Xuangu into triggering a deadly trap and escaped as its power engulfed the True Immortal.

• Lin Xuan cautiously approached the main hall, suspecting that the enemy who had taken Marquis Heaven Origin's body was inside.
• Lin Xuan found a shell resembling the one that had contained Blue Star Sea and hurried to seize it before Master Xuangu could.
• Master Xuangu attacked Lin Xuan with a golden centipede while reaching for the shell.
• The shell's barrier transformed into a binding rope and trapped Master Xuangu when he touched it.
• The shell revealed an empty imitation of Blue Star Sea, which engulfed Master Xuangu in a storm of blue light as Lin Xuan retreated.

Lin Xuan discovered that the Blue Star Sea had been bait for a deadly trap, which left Master Xuangu severely wounded but alive. After Lin Xuan attacked him, Master Xuangu escaped through the void, and a new spatial disturbance appeared nearby.

• Lin Xuan realized the explosion was a trap and saw that Master Xuangu had survived with half his body missing.
• Master Xuangu tried to flee, but Lin Xuan struck him with his Immortal Sword, Five-Colored Glaze, and a barrage of fists.
• Master Xuangu spat out a blood-red saber and shattered the void to escape Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sensed spatial power from a nearby glow and wondered whether another powerful enemy or Yue'er had arrived.

Lin Xuan encountered Nailong True Person and urged him to pursue a powerful enemy, while the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox freed Mo Yu from his seal. Mo Yu seized the five Xiantian Spirit Treasures and appeared to deny their agreement, leaving the alliance on the verge of breaking apart.

• Lin Xuan recognized Nailong True Person and asked him to help pursue a powerful enemy.
• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox used the Silver Bell, Formation Flag, and Jade Disk to dismantle the restrictions imprisoning Mo Yu.
• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox neutralized the five Xiantian Spirit Treasures, allowing Mo Yu to break out of the cocoon.
• Mo Yu collected the five treasures, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox accused him of breaking their Styx River Oath agreement.

Mo Yu broke the Styx River Oath, grievously wounded the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox, and tried to kill her, but she escaped using a Jade Disk. Master Xuangu then stumbled through a Spatial Rift into Mo Yu’s presence, and Mo Yu recognized him as a source of valuable True Immortal Life Origin Qi.

• Mo Yu attacked the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox with Five-Colored Profound Fire, melting her Flying Forks and burning off her left hand.
• Mo Yu dismissed the Styx River Oath and trapped the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox in a Spatial Storm.
• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox shattered her Jade Disk and vanished in a burst of five-colored light.
• Master Xuangu emerged from a Spatial Rift, badly wounded after escaping Lin Xuan.
• Mo Yu recognized Master Xuangu as a descended True Immortal and declared that he would take his Life Origin Qi.

Mo Yu fought the wounded Master Xuangu while Lin Xuan reunited with Nailong True Person and questioned him about the Asura King and the ancient Three Realms War. Nailong admitted that he did not know the war’s full history, but he had known the Asura King and revealed that she had good relations with several powerful figures.

• Mo Yu used Solidify Heaven and Earth to slow Master Xuangu’s escape, and the two began fighting fiercely.
• Lin Xuan met Nailong True Person and briefly explained his encounter with Master Xuangu.
• Nailong judged that Master Xuangu might be a descended true immortal, possibly one of the ancient figures.
• Lin Xuan asked Nailong about the Asura King and the ancient Three Realms War, but Nailong said he did not know the full story.
• Nailong recalled knowing the Asura King and said she had good relations with him, the Loose Immortal, the Demon King, and the True Devil Progenitor.

Lin Xuan learned that Fairy Yutong and Bingpo were the only ones who might know why Asura began the Three Realms War. He and Nailong True Person then encountered an injured woman from the Immortal World's Demon Race, who offered to cooperate with them.

• Nailong True Person recalled that Asura had been friends with powerful figures in the Three Realms before suddenly leading the Underworld ghosts into war, but he did not know why.
• Nailong said Fairy Yutong and Bingpo knew the truth but had refused to reveal it, and Lin Xuan considered seeking them out.
• Lin Xuan and Nailong flew toward a thunderous impact and found an injured, one-armed woman surrounded by unusual Demon Qi.
• Nailong recognized the woman from a previous encounter and teased her, while Lin Xuan asked whether she was a friend or an enemy.
• The woman agreed to cooperate with Lin Xuan and Nailong, warning that otherwise they would all die there.

The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox explained how Mo Yu betrayed True Person Huayu and warned that Mo Yu had escaped his seal, leaving Lin Xuan and Nailong facing a grave danger. Lin Xuan then learned that Yue'er and Xiao Die had visited the cultivation cave, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox recognized them.

• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox revealed that True Person Huayu had fled to the lower world with the Blue Star Sea and had been ambushed by his Dao child, Mo Yu.
• Nailong identified the Blue Star Sea as Huayu's treasure, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox said Huayu had defeated Mo Yu but sealed him instead of killing him.
• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox admitted that Mo Yu had escaped and that she had tried to use him to drive Lin Xuan and Nailong from the cave.
• Lin Xuan asked whether two young women had come to the cave, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox recognized Yue'er and Xiao Die.

Lin Xuan learned that Yue'er and the other person were alive but trapped, just as Mo Yu arrived after defeating Master Xuangu. Mo Yu attacked Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person, then brought out the five Xiantian Spirit Treasures that had once sealed him.

• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox told Lin Xuan that the two people he sought were alive but confined by a Restriction, but a blast interrupted her before she revealed their location.
• Mo Yu appeared after destroying a mountain range and revealed that he had defeated the wounded Master Xuangu and taken his True Immortal's Life Origin Qi.
• Mo Yu demanded that Lin Xuan, Nailong True Person, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox surrender, while Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person dismissed his threats.
• Mo Yu attacked with golden ripples, but Lin Xuan pierced them with a single sword strike and Nailong True Person laughed at him.
• Mo Yu summoned the five Xiantian Spirit Treasures—the ancient cauldron, Purple Mirror, Bronze Furnace, Jade Ruyi, and Silver Bell—and began driving them together as a formation.

Lin Xuan and Mo Yu fought with powerful treasures and Supernatural Powers, and Lin Xuan wounded Mo Yu by destroying his Purple Mirror and countered the Bronze Furnace’s transformations with the Vermilion Bird Ring. Though Lin Xuan had gained the upper hand, he realized Nailong True Person was missing.

• Lin Xuan unleashed a vast storm of Sword Qi, which Mo Yu’s Purple Mirror copied and sent back at him.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and destroyed the Purple Mirror with a concentrated crystal thread, wounding Mo Yu.
• Mo Yu released immortal qi from the Bronze Furnace, transforming a magnificent scene into monsters that attacked Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan fought off the transforming monsters with sword threads, then summoned the Vermilion Bird Ring and burned them with Red Lotus Fire.
• Mo Yu spat blood again, and Lin Xuan wondered where Nailong True Person had gone.

Lin Xuan discovered that Nailong True Person had been relaxing on a Painted Boat instead of helping him fight Mo Yu, and confronted his sworn elder brother about it. As Lin Xuan and Mo Yu renewed their deadly clash, Nailong continued to watch from the sidelines.

• Lin Xuan turned around and found Nailong True Person drinking wine aboard a Painted Boat while the little fox served him.
• Lin Xuan reproached Nailong for leaving him to fight Mo Yu alone, and Nailong claimed he had given Lin Xuan the chance to face a worthy opponent.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Nailong was lazy but trusted that his elder brother would help if he were truly in danger.
• Mo Yu realized Nailong's inaction gave him a chance to kill Lin Xuan before the two could attack him together.
• Lin Xuan and Mo Yu met each other's killing gaze as Gale Winds rose between them, and Lin Xuan offered up the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword again.

Lin Xuan fought Mo Yu, whose Phoenix Ancient Cauldron unleashed a flock of powerful phoenix crystal souls. Lin Xuan used the Ten Thousand Sword Map to counter them, but Mo Yu strengthened the phoenixes as they charged his Immortal Swords.

• Mo Yu transformed a Jade Ruyi into a Great Axe and struck at Lin Xuan, who redirected his sword light to meet the attack.
• Lin Xuan damaged Mo Yu’s enlarged arm with a punch and followed with a series of blows.
• Mo Yu opened the ancient cauldron and released phoenix crystal souls that surged toward Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan unfurled the Ten Thousand Sword Map and sent its sword lights against the phoenixes, but their flaming whirlwinds blocked the attack.
• Lin Xuan formed more than ten Immortal Swords to confront the phoenixes, and Mo Yu strengthened the birds with a spell.

Lin Xuan used the True Spirit Transformation Sword Art to turn nine true spirit shadows into Immortal Swords and overwhelm Mo Yu’s Phoenixes. Nailong True Person recognized the secret art as the Ink Moon Tribe’s supreme technique and wondered whether Lin Xuan had ties to the tribe.

• Lin Xuan’s Ten Thousand Sword Map failed to stop Mo Yu’s Phoenixes from advancing.
• Lin Xuan summoned nine true spirit shadows and fused them with the nine Immortal Swords of the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• The transformed True Dragon and Mountain Giant Ape attacked the Phoenixes, with the giant ape seizing a Phoenix and smashing it into the ground and a mountain wall.
• Lin Xuan’s True Spirit Transformation Sword Art drove Mo Yu’s Phoenixes into a crushing defeat.
• Nailong True Person recognized the art as the Ink Moon Tribe’s secret technique and questioned Lin Xuan’s connection to the tribe.

Lin Xuan pressed Mo Yu with the Nine-Heads True Spirits and the Ten Thousand Sword Map as Mo Yu revealed his True Immortal body and fused five Xiantian Spirit Treasures into himself. Lin Xuan’s overwhelming assault engulfed Mo Yu, but his condition afterward remained unknown.

• Nailong True Person told the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox to refill his wine while she watched Lin Xuan overpower Mo Yu.
• Mo Yu declared that he would reveal his True Immortal body, then manifested Genuine Immortal Spiritual Power and fused the Purple Mirror, Bronze Furnace, ancient Cauldron, Jade Ruyi, and Silver Seed into his body.
• Lin Xuan ordered his nine manifested True Spirits to unleash their Supernatural Powers against Mo Yu.
• Mo Yu spread a dazzling Spirit Power Shield and stood against the combined assault without dodging.
• Lin Xuan poured out all his magical power and used the Ten Thousand Sword Map to add a storm of sword-light to his attack, despite the strain.

Mo Yu survived Lin Xuan’s attack by transforming with the power of five Xiantian Spirit Treasures, then overwhelmed Lin Xuan’s True Spirits and left Lin Xuan on the verge of defeat. Nailong True Person intervened by throwing his wine jug at Mo Yu, leaving Lin Xuan and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox stunned.

• Lin Xuan thought he had eliminated Mo Yu, but Mo Yu appeared behind him in a blood-red-scaled, demonic form and wounded his shoulder.
• Mo Yu used his extraordinary speed and strength to knock down the Mountain Giant Ape and cripple the True Dragon.
• Mo Yu defeated Phoenix, Peacock, Nine-Headed Bird, Golden Crow, and White Tiger, then appeared beside Lin Xuan before he could react.
• Nailong True Person rushed to Lin Xuan’s aid and hurled his wine jug at Mo Yu.

Nailong True Person tricked Mo Yu into striking his wine pot, revealing it as a powerful life-bound treasure and turning the attack into a deadly ambush. With Lin Xuan and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox joining the assault, Mo Yu was destroyed, and Lin Xuan recognized Nailong’s cunning.

• Mo Yu punched Nailong True Person’s wine pot, expecting to send it flying back at him.
• The wine pot resisted Mo Yu’s blow, then unleashed a sea of wine and countless sword lights that wounded him.
• Nailong True Person revealed that the wine pot was his life-bound treasure and urged Lin Xuan to attack Mo Yu.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox joined the siege.
• The three attackers killed Mo Yu, destroying his Nascent Soul and soul and leaving no chance for reincarnation.
• Lin Xuan realized Nailong True Person had planned the ambush and admired his skill at defeating Mo Yu through strategy.

Lin Xuan discovered that Mo Yu’s five Xiantian Spirit Treasures had been destroyed, but recovered fifteen Phoenix Crystal Souls from the ruined Phoenix Ancient Cauldron. Nailong True Person gave the crystals to Lin Xuan and asked about the Heavenly Witch Goddess, only to learn that Lin Xuan had never met her.

• Lin Xuan found that Mo Yu’s five Xiantian Spirit Treasures had vanished, and the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox explained that they had been destroyed when Mo Yu fell.
• Nailong True Person revealed the ruined Phoenix Ancient Cauldron and cut it apart, releasing fifteen Phoenix Crystal Souls from its remains.
• Lin Xuan gathered the Phoenix Crystal Souls, and Nailong True Person let him keep them because they suited his cultivation.
• Nailong True Person asked Lin Xuan where he had encountered the Heavenly Witch Goddess and how she was doing.
• Lin Xuan told Nailong True Person that he had never met the Heavenly Witch Goddess.

Lin Xuan questioned the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox about Yue'er and Xiao Die, while True Person Nailong learned that Lin Xuan had gained the Ink Moon Tribe's arts without the Heavenly Witch Goddess's help, whom Nailong had once loved. The fox led Lin Xuan and Nailong to a valley where Yue'er and Xiao Die were trapped, leaving Lin Xuan to figure out how to free them.

• True Person Nailong asked how Lin Xuan had learned the Ink Moon Tribe's secret arts, and Lin Xuan recounted how he acquired the methods and completed the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword on his own.
• True Person Nailong revealed that he had loved the Heavenly Witch Goddess, and Lin Xuan offered him a few words of comfort.
• Lin Xuan asked the Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox to lead them to the two women, and she agreed in exchange for their promise to leave without harming her or searching for more treasures.
• The Eight-Tailed Immortal Fox guided Lin Xuan and True Person Nailong through the cultivation cave to a small valley where Yue'er and Xiao Die were trapped by powerful Restrictions.
• The fox assured Lin Xuan that the women were safe inside the valley, but Lin Xuan realized he would need to find a way to rescue them.