Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person witnessed Fairy Bingpo defeat five Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage cultivators from the Qingfu Realm, then spoke with her before she departed. Lin Xuan let her go despite wanting the Vanity Box of the Asura Seven Treasures, and he and Nailong continued their journey.

• Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person flew toward a huge explosion and found five injured Qingfu Realm cultivators confronting Fairy Bingpo.
• Fairy Bingpo enveloped the battlefield in demonic qi and killed all five cultivators in less than half a cup of tea.
• Fairy Bingpo recognized Lin Xuan, spoke of the possibility of reconciliation, and flew away toward the arc of light.
• Lin Xuan decided not to pursue Fairy Bingpo, though he remained determined to obtain the Vanity Box of the Asura Seven Treasures.
• Nailong True Person teased Lin Xuan about being interested in Fairy Bingpo, and the two continued their journey as the road grew quieter.

Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person reached Jianlian Peak in the Xueyin Mountain Range after Fairy Yutong’s delayed message led them there. They learned Guanghan True Person had arrived but was in a troubling condition, and Fairy Yutong led them to see him.

• Nailong True Person received Fairy Yutong’s map to Jianlian Peak and admitted he and Lin Xuan had spent the past month traveling without a destination.
• Lin Xuan reflected that the dimensional seal was loosening and that experts from the three thousand worlds had gathered in the Kingdom of Qingqiu.
• Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person followed the map through the Xueyin Mountain Range and met Li Yutong near Jianlian Peak.
• Nailong True Person asked whether Guanghan True Person had arrived, and Li Yutong said he had come two days earlier but was in a bad situation.
• Li Yutong led Lin Xuan and Nailong True Person through the palace restrictions and into the hall to see Guanghan True Person.

Guanghan True Person recounted how a mysterious youth emerging from a black cocoon defeated him in the Heaven Origin Sea and severed his arm. He demonstrated that the youth’s Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire repeatedly destroyed any arm he regrew, leaving Lin Xuan and the others stunned.

• Guanghan True Person arrived and revealed that his left arm was missing.
• He explained that he had gone to the Heaven Origin Sea to investigate the disappearance of Huanglong and several Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.
• While returning, Guanghan True Person was attacked by tentacles extending from a huge black cocoon beneath the sea.
• A human youth emerged from the cocoon and used Supernatural Powers like those of the former Grand Commander of the Devil Race to defeat Guanghan True Person.
• Guanghan True Person regrew his arm, but Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire flared from his shoulder and reduced it to ash again.

Lin Xuan used his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to remove the Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire from Guanghan True Person and restore his severed arm. He then identified the mysterious attacker as Tian Xiaojian, an old acquaintance whose rapid cultivation shocked the others.

• Lin Xuan offered to examine Guanghan True Person’s injury after learning he cultivated the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art.
• Lin Xuan’s Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire devoured the Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire contaminating Guanghan True Person’s severed arm.
• Guanghan True Person regrew his arm and thanked Lin Xuan, while Fairy Yutong recognized Lin Xuan’s strength.
• Li Yutong asked about the mysterious expert, and Lin Xuan said he knew the attacker from the same Human World and had met him at the Flat Peach Assembly.
• Lin Xuan recalled that Tian Xiaojian had been only at the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence at their last meeting, astonishing Guanghan True Person, Li Yutong, and Nailong True Person.

Lin Xuan confirmed Tian Xiaojian’s identity and extraordinary cultivation to Fairy Yutong and Nailong True Person, while Tian Xiaojian faced an ambush by a vast force of Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons. The chapter ended with his Seven-Colored Glaze flames spreading through the demon horde, setting scores of them ablaze.

• Lin Xuan assured Fairy Yutong, Nailong True Person, and another companion that Tian Xiaojian was responsible for the Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire and his rapid rise in cultivation.
• Tian Xiaojian remained relaxed as over a hundred thousand Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons surrounded him in Qingfu Swamp, where they had lured him into a killing formation.
• Elder Mu urged the Demon Venerables to activate the formation, and another demon called for Tian Xiaojian’s soul to be extracted and refined.
• Tian Xiaojian released a small Seven-Colored Glaze flame, and a Heavenly Demon who struck it with his broadsword burst into flames.
• The burning demon crashed into others, spreading the flames through the horde and sending the remaining Heavenly Demons fleeing in panic.

Tian Xiaojian annihilated the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons, then challenged the aged voice that claimed to be the Grand Commander of the Devil Race. He began questioning whether the voice was truly the Grand Commander or merely a fragment of his soul.

• The surviving Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons attacked Tian Xiaojian, but his flames killed more than a hundred thousand of them.
• Tian Xiaojian defeated the remaining Demon Venerables, gathered the light specks left behind, and swallowed them.
• The aged voice told Tian Xiaojian that he already possessed ninety percent of the Grand Commander of the Devil Race's former strength.
• Tian Xiaojian accused the aged voice of hiding its true intentions and questioned whether it had really been the Grand Commander.
• Tian Xiaojian recalled the voice's account of the battle against two wounded True Immortals and its claim to be a surviving wisp of the Grand Commander's soul.

Tian Xiaojian confronted his Foster Father and learned that the aged voice was Immortal Ku Rong, a True Immortal who had consumed the Grand Commander of the Devil Race’s soul and secretly planned to seize Tian Xiaojian’s body. Ku Rong revealed his true form and attacked, while Tian Xiaojian’s Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire failed to stop him.

• Tian Xiaojian accused his Foster Father of being a True Immortal who had deceived him and planned to take over his body.
• Immortal Ku Rong admitted he had obtained the Nine Saints True Devil Art from the Grand Commander of the Devil Race after devouring his remaining soul.
• Immortal Ku Rong explained that he and the Grand Commander had destroyed each other in a battle at North Pole Origin Light Palace, bringing the ruined interface down to become Penglai Mountain.
• Immortal Ku Rong manifested his strange half-youthful, half-withered face and lunged at Tian Xiaojian.
• Tian Xiaojian raised a wall of Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire, but Immortal Ku Rong passed through it unharmed and closed to within three feet.

Immortal Ku Rong tried to possess Tian Xiaojian, but Tian Xiaojian trapped him with a Soul Sealing Talisman and secret techniques learned from the Grand Commander of the Devil Race. As Tian Xiaojian prepared to swallow him, the Grand Commander awakened and fought Ku Rong for control, leaving their struggle unresolved.

• Immortal Ku Rong lunged at Tian Xiaojian to seize his body, but Tian Xiaojian retreated and activated seven talismans that formed a Soul Sealing Talisman.
• Tian Xiaojian bound the sphere trapping Ku Rong with Demon Markings and revealed that the Grand Commander of the Devil Race had secretly taught him the Nine Saints True Devil Art technique.
• Tian Xiaojian explained that the Grand Commander had survived within Ku Rong's soul and awakened once every hundred years, while his claim about Lin Kid had been a feint.
• Tian Xiaojian enlarged his head and drew the trapped Ku Rong toward his mouth, ignoring Ku Rong's threats to self-detonate.
• The Grand Commander awakened and began fighting Ku Rong for control, while Ku Rong demanded to know whether he was willing to be devoured.

Tian Xiaojian swallowed Immortal Ku Rong after pretending to consider his offer of ancient secrets and treasures. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan prepared to ask Fairy Yutong about the Three Realms’ ancient secrets, ending with him bowing to her to make his request.

• Immortal Ku Rong pleaded for his life and offered Tian Xiaojian secrets, techniques, and treasures, but Tian Xiaojian stopped swallowing him only after hearing about mysteries surrounding the Three Realms and Ascension to Immortality.
• Tian Xiaojian abruptly resumed his attack and swallowed Immortal Ku Rong, deciding that consuming his soul was safer than leaving a future threat alive.
• Tian Xiaojian said he expected to gain fragments of Ku Rong’s memories and flew away wrapped in devilish radiance.
• At Fairy Yutong’s residence, Lin Xuan weighed asking her about ancient secrets, dismissing Bingpo as an unreliable source because of their history and his distrust.
• Fairy Yutong noticed Lin Xuan’s hesitation and invited him to speak, so he rose and bowed deeply to her.

Lin Xuan asked Fairy Yutong why the Asura King had turned against the Spirit World, but a sudden disturbance interrupted their conversation before she could answer. Lin Xuan volunteered to confront whoever had arrived.

• Lin Xuan repeatedly saluted Fairy Yutong and promised to repay her if she answered his questions.
• Fairy Yutong agreed to share what she knew, provided the request would not put her in difficulty.
• Lin Xuan asked why the Asura King had led the Underworld ghosts in a massacre after once being friendly with the Spirit World’s powerful figures.
• Fairy Yutong asked Lin Xuan why he wanted to know, but a rumbling boom and trembling Yuan Qi interrupted them.
• Nailong True Person and Fairy Yutong prepared to face the intruder, while Lin Xuan volunteered to meet the newcomers himself.

Lin Xuan and the others discovered that the supposedly fallen Giant Whale King was alive and fleeing warships from the Mysterious Stone World. They learned the pursuit might stem from an ancient grudge involving Nailong True Person, and Giant Whale King said he did not know why they had attacked him.

• Lin Xuan recognized the fleeing Giant Whale King, and Guanghan True Person explained that only his Avatar had fallen while his true body had been in seclusion.
• Fairy Yutong told Lin Xuan that Guhongzi had been poisoned by his disciple and killed after fighting off Demon Dragon King, Bailing Devil Master, and several dozen Demon Venerables.
• Lin Xuan saw enormous rune-covered warships pursuing Giant Whale King, and Fairy Yutong identified them as vessels from the Mysterious Stone World.
• Nailong True Person and Fairy Yutong recalled that his past teasing of the Mysterious Stone World's beauties had nearly caused a war and that Giant Whale King had once fought its powerful figures.
• Guanghan True Person asked Giant Whale King why the Mysterious Stone World was pursuing him, and Giant Whale King said they had unexpectedly encountered him in force and he did not know their reason.

Fairy Yutong, Lin Xuan, and their companions launched a sudden joint attack on the Mysterious Stone World’s mountain-like structure. The structure raised more than a hundred layers of light barriers to defend itself as its occupants protested the assault.

• Fairy Yutong attacked the mountain-like structure with tens of thousands of Sword Qi streaks.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Scroll Painting, turned its nine peaks into solid objects, and unleashed a sweeping attack with his Xiantian Spirit Treasure.
• Guanghan True Person used his Jade Ruyi to conjure golden figures that struck with Long Spears.
• Giant Whale King grew to several hundred zhang tall and sent enormous fists wreathed in lightning toward the enemy.
• Nailong True Person summoned real meteorites in a Meteor Fire Rain spell, joining the other four powerhouses’ assault.
• The Mysterious Stone World structure raised more than a hundred layers of light barriers, while someone inside demanded to know whether the Spirit World meant to start an irreconcilable blood feud.

Lin Xuan fought the five experts of the Mysterious Stone World, but one of them trapped him in a strange domainless space. There he faced Earth Demon, whose secret arts prevented him from using his domain, and she began to explain why.

• The five great experts of the Spirit World destroyed the Mysterious Stone World’s Spirit Boat, killing most of the Cultivators who fled from it.
• Gray-white stones appeared with five powerful spiritual pressures, and Lin Xuan attacked the nearest mist-shrouded figure.
• The figure formed a stone shield that sent Lin Xuan into a barren space without spiritual energy or other origin energy.
• Lin Xuan dodged an enormous mouth that erupted from the ground, then drew Earth Demon out of hiding.
• Lin Xuan prepared to use his domain, but Earth Demon’s secret arts stopped him from displaying it.
• Earth Demon mocked Lin Xuan for knowing nothing about the Mysterious Stone World and offered to explain its secret arts before killing him.

Lin Xuan attacked Earth Demon inside her mysterious space, overwhelming her with a palm strike, sword-light, and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire. Earth Demon split into countless forms to escape, and Lin Xuan vanished after pursuing her with his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.

• Earth Demon explained that her mysterious space suppressed Lin Xuan's domain and blocked his access to vital energy.
• Lin Xuan rejected Earth Demon's demand to surrender and struck her with a powerful golden palm containing many laws.
• Earth Demon used pale flame, an exploding pearl, and summoned mountain peaks to evade and block Lin Xuan's attack.
• Lin Xuan attacked Earth Demon with dense sword-light, shattered her mud shields and mountain defenses, and unleashed Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Earth Demon split into thousands of forms to escape, while Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to pursue her before vanishing.

Lin Xuan swiftly killed the Earth Demon and returned to the Qingqiu Realm, where Nailong True Person and Fairy Yutong were waiting. While inspecting the Earth Demon’s treasures, he found a silver box that contained another sealed box, then another.

• Lin Xuan trapped the Earth Demon with his laws and attacks, then split her body and Nascent Soul with the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword, annihilating her soul.
• Lin Xuan took the Earth Demon’s Storage Bag as her collapsing space returned him to the Qingqiu Realm.
• Lin Xuan reunited with Nailong True Person and Fairy Yutong, who said Giant Whale King and Fellow Daoist Guanghan were still fighting.
• Lin Xuan examined the Storage Bag and found a silver box sealed with Immortal World Spirit Talismans.
• Lin Xuan opened the silver box and discovered a smaller sealed box inside, then opened that one and found yet another box.

Lin Xuan discovered that Nine-Gold Mystic Ice Jade could help his Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword evolve into an Immortal Mansion Treasure. After the group reunited, Fairy Yutong summoned Lin Xuan to a hidden pavilion, where he asked her to reveal the ancient secret.

• Lin Xuan opened the final chest and found Nine-Gold Mystic Ice Jade, which Fairy Yutong identified as a rare material for refining an Immortal Mansion Treasure.
• Nailong True Person gave Lin Xuan a Jade Slip containing the refining method and explained how the jade could help his Life-Bound Dharma Treasure evolve.
• Giant Whale King arrived after defeating his opponent, and Guanghan True Person emerged hours later, bloodied but victorious over Heavenly Monarch Illusion Stone.
• The group rested for the night, and Fairy Yutong's maidservant brought Lin Xuan to a hidden pavilion the next morning.
• Lin Xuan greeted Fairy Yutong and asked her to explain the ancient secret, while Nailong True Person and Giant Whale King were present and Guanghan True Person was absent.

Lin Xuan asked Fairy Yutong why the Asura King turned against the Spirit World, and she began to explain that the answer reached back to the formation of the three thousand worlds. Meanwhile, a pale youth carrying an ancient scroll entered the Devil Moon Ancient Silkworm’s True Spirit Space, breaking the rule that barred outsiders from the True Spirit Realms.

• Guanghan True Person arrived fully recovered, and Fairy Yutong said she would explain the ancient secrets once he was present.
• Fairy Yutong warned the group to keep the matter secret, then invited Lin Xuan to ask his questions.
• Lin Xuan asked why the Asura King had slaughtered the Spirit World after once being on friendly terms with its powerful figures.
• Fairy Yutong said the answer involved the formation of the three thousand worlds, leaving Lin Xuan and the others solemn and eager to hear more.
• A pale youth holding an ancient scroll entered the Devil Moon Ancient Silkworm’s True Spirit Space, becoming the second known exception to its barrier against outsiders.

A mysterious white-robed True Immortal captured and annihilated the Devil Moon Ancient Silkworm, then moved on to the Nine-Eyed Blood Toad. In the Kingdom of Qingqiu, Fairy Yutong began explaining the ancient conflict between the Asura King and the Spirit World by asking where True Immortals originally came from.

• The white-robed youth trapped the Devil Moon Ancient Silkworm in a lightning net and demanded its submission.
• When the Devil Moon Ancient Silkworm resisted, the youth used the Ten Thousand Scroll Heavenly Book to swallow and destroy it.
• The white-robed youth appeared in another True Spirit Space to target the Nine-Eyed Blood Toad.
• In the Kingdom of Qingqiu, Fairy Yutong told Lin Xuan and the others that the mystery of the Asura King and the Spirit World reached back to the formation of the three thousand worlds.
• Fairy Yutong asked where the immortal cultivation world and True Immortals came from, and told Lin Xuan that his answer about ascension was not the origin she meant.

Fairy Yutong explained that the earliest True Immortals had been born with the world and that they provoked an ancient war out of fear of the rising cultivators. She traced the rise of Asura and other powerful figures, leaving Lin Xuan to understand that the True Immortals feared mortals ascending to their level.

• Fairy Yutong told Lin Xuan that the first True Immortals had appeared with heaven and earth rather than ascending through cultivation.
• Fairy Yutong revealed that True Immortals had deliberately stirred up an ancient invasion by the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons.
• Fairy Yutong explained that True Immortals had once lived peacefully with cultivators, but grew fearful as cultivation systems advanced and the Three Realms prospered.
• Fairy Yutong described how Asura and other major figures emerged within the same thousand-year span and rapidly surpassed earlier experts.
• Lin Xuan realized that the True Immortals feared and envied the rising cultivators, especially Asura, because they might ascend and become their equals.

Fairy Yutong explained that the True Immortals opened a passage for the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons and instigated a war, which Asura King and the Three Realms ultimately repelled. Meanwhile, a white-robed youth attacked the True Spirits, and Fairy Yutong began to explain how the demons’ defeat led to Asura King’s later slaughter of the Spirit World.

• Fairy Yutong said the True Immortals feared Asura King and used the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons as a borrowed blade, opening the first Interface Passage for them.
• Fairy Yutong revealed that the resulting war killed many powerful beings, including Nailong True Person’s master, but Asura King led the Three Realms to defeat the invasion.
• Lin Xuan wondered whether the True Immortals had later turned Asura King against the Spirit World through a scheme.
• A white-robed youth exterminated several True Spirits and overwhelmed Seven-Headed Owl, Black Water Profound Snake, and Golden Crow when they joined forces.
• Seven-Headed Owl pretended to submit, attacked the white-robed youth, and was left unharmed when the youth emerged from the assault.
• Fairy Yutong began explaining that Asura King’s later slaughter of the Spirit World had more to it than the True Immortals’ provocation, starting with the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons’ defeat.