Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan traveled through Breathing Soil Palace toward his meeting with Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, avoiding deadly lake guardians and reaching a cave that stirred memories of a possible past life. There, a woman called him her husband.

• Tian Xiaojian killed the strange pythons with Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire, swallowed their Inner Cores, and flew away.
• Nailong True Person, Fairy Yutong, Giant Whale King, and Guanghan True Person each faced dangerous creatures elsewhere in Breathing Soil Palace.
• Lin Xuan followed Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden's map and hid as strange jellyfish creatures killed several beings who tried to take spirit fruits.
• Lin Xuan avoided the lakes and their guardians, then reached a waterfall concealing the Water Curtain Cave Heaven.
• Lin Xuan felt the cave stirred vague memories of a previous life, and Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden's voice called him her husband.

Lin Xuan learned that the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, Ouyang Lotus Heart, had been his sworn younger sister in his past life as True Person Huayu and had arranged for her Split Soul, Qin Xin, to reincarnate alongside him. He remained deeply uncomfortable with her calling him husband, while Yue'er and Peacock heard the explanation.

• The Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden welcomed Lin Xuan as her husband, but he dodged her and asked whether they had known each other.
• The Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden told Lin Xuan that he had been True Person Huayu, harmed by Tian Xiang and forced to reincarnate.
• Lin Xuan questioned her claim and raised the contradiction between his past love for the Asura King and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden calling herself his wife.
• Yue'er told Yuanyuan that she was the Asura King's reincarnation and shared what Fairy Yutong had revealed.
• The Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden explained that she had been Lin Xuan's sworn sister, found the Three Lives Flower to help him reincarnate, and sent her Split Soul to be reborn with him as Qin Xin.
• Lin Xuan realized Qin Xin was Ouyang Lotus Heart's Split Soul, while Yue'er and Peacock listened and he struggled to ease the awkwardness.

Tianfu Old Ancestor confronted Lin Xuan and Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, revealing that he had sealed her Nascent Soul and demanding she kill Lin Xuan and marry him. Lin Xuan refused to back down and fought Tianfu's attack, but the Hook Swords transformed again and came crashing toward him.

• Tianfu Old Ancestor appeared and revealed that he had followed Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden to find Lin Xuan, whom he identified as Huayu's reincarnation.
• Tianfu showed Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden her locked Nascent Soul and threatened her, offering to spare her if she killed Lin Xuan and married him.
• Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden rejected Tianfu's offer, and Lin Xuan mocked him and declared he would fight anyone who provoked him.
• Tianfu sent two black Hook Swords at Lin Xuan, who countered them with a formation-patterned fist shadow.
• The Hook Swords summoned two Evil Flood Dragons, which Lin Xuan's Vermilion Bird shadow engulfed and tore apart.
• The Hook Swords regained their power and transformed into two great mountains that smashed toward Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan and Tianfu Old Ancestor escalated their battle as Tianfu unleashed a vast arsenal of regenerating Dharma Treasures. Yuanyuan joined Lin Xuan, trapping the treasures with her Five-Colored Divine Light while Tianfu dodged a sudden blade strike from behind.

• Lin Xuan froze and destroyed Tianfu Old Ancestor's two mountain treasures with Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Tianfu split his Storage Bag into hundreds and summoned countless powerful Dharma Treasures, which transformed into fierce monsters.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to fight the monsters, but they regenerated after being cut apart.
• Yuanyuan appeared and engulfed the monsters and sword lights in her Five-Colored Divine Light, preventing them from escaping.
• Tianfu summoned a monstrous Dharma Image whose beams of crimson light challenged Lin Xuan's Nine Heavens God Luo Image.
• Tianfu dodged a brilliant blade strike that came from behind him.

Yue'er revealed the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box's power, breaking through to the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage as she and Lin Xuan attacked Tianfu Old Ancestor. Tianfu fought back with golden dragons and whirlpools, but Lin Xuan's Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire was still crashing down toward him.

• Tianfu Old Ancestor recognized Yue'er as the Asura and declared his intention to capture her and Huayu for Lord Dao Ancestor.
• Lin Xuan recalled the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword and attacked Tianfu Old Ancestor with Sword into Silk Technique and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.
• Yue'er transformed the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box into a Round Fan, and its power raised her cultivation to beyond the ordinary Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage.
• Yue'er swept the Round Fan and summoned a Spirit Domain filled with Tribulation Transcendence-level Fierce Ghosts, skeletons, and zombies.
• Tianfu Old Ancestor unleashed thousands of golden dragons to battle Yue'er's summoned creatures and used golden blade threads to counter Lin Xuan's sword threads.
• Lin Xuan's Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire reached above Tianfu Old Ancestor and smashed down toward him.

Lin Xuan, Yue'er, and Peacock overwhelmed Tianfu Old Ancestor with coordinated attacks while Xiao Die secretly approached for a killing blow. Tianfu Old Ancestor began using a forbidden technique to reach False Dao Ancestor strength, but Xiao Die's strike revealed a trace of law power as he moved to stop her.

• Tianfu Old Ancestor blocked Lin Xuan and Yue'er's attacks with a compressed river of water, but the clash left him struggling to keep up.
• Peacock attacked Tianfu Old Ancestor with a barrage of five-colored feather arrows and giant azure claws, wounding him and driving him toward desperation.
• Tianfu Old Ancestor stabbed several black Immortal Swords into his own body to activate the Reverse Spirit Phantom Yin Technique and raise his strength toward that of a False Dao Ancestor.
• Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden warned Lin Xuan that the technique consumed Tianfu Old Ancestor's source power, and Lin Xuan tried to stop him.
• Xiao Die appeared behind Tianfu Old Ancestor and stabbed at him with her dagger-like treasure, while Lin Xuan revealed that the others' attacks had been a feint to cover her approach.
• Tianfu Old Ancestor discovered Xiao Die and reached to seize her, but her eyes turned crystalline and revealed an almost imperceptible trace of powerful law power.

Lin Xuan, Yuanyuan, and Yue'er helped Xiao Die kill Tianfu Old Ancestor with her Time Poison, while Bingpo and Heavenly Demon learned that Tian Xiang had set a trap involving the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. They considered joining forces to confront him and pursue the chance to become immortal.

• Xiao Die used Time Power to freeze Tianfu Old Ancestor and aged him with Time Poison.
• Lin Xuan, Yuanyuan, and Yue'er attacked the weakened Tianfu Old Ancestor together, destroying his body and soul.
• Freed from Tianfu Old Ancestor's restraint, Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden flew toward Lin Xuan, who dodged her in front of Yuanyuan and Yue'er.
• Bingpo and Heavenly Demon defeated Sword Immortal Taibai, and Bingpo searched his soul.
• Bingpo learned that the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil was bait in Tian Xiang's trap, though it could truly enable ascension to immortality.
• Heavenly Demon proposed that he and Bingpo join forces against Tian Xiang, and Bingpo agreed to take things one step at a time.

Bingpo and the Heavenly Demon discussed gathering a few top figures to oppose Tian Xiang, while Tian Xiang sought to exploit the laws of another dimension and encountered five main gods. After Tianfu Old Ancestor fell, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden warned Lin Xuan that the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil was bait guarded by a monster far stronger than powerful True Immortals.

• Bingpo doubted that the Three Thousand Worlds could unite, but the Heavenly Demon argued that a few powerful figures might be enough to confront Tian Xiang.
• Tian Xiang struggled to comprehend another dimension's laws and, sensing several powerful beings approaching, went out to meet them.
• Ares, the Goddess of Fire, the Spirit God, the God of the Beast Race, and a Dwarf investigated the God of Elements' disappearance, and Tian Xiang demanded their knowledge of the dimension's laws.
• After Tianfu Old Ancestor fell, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden told Lin Xuan that Tian Xiang had made the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil part of a trap.
• The Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden warned Lin Xuan that a monster guarded the treasure and could defeat Tianfu Old Ancestor and Sword Immortal Taibai even if they joined forces.

Lin Xuan decided to seek the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to strengthen himself against Tian Xiang, whose whereabouts remained unknown. He shared the treasure’s map with the Three Thousand Worlds’ experts so they could scout the way, though Xiao Die questioned whether they would trust it.

• Lin Xuan concluded that he needed the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and greater strength to face Tian Xiang, and resolved to go after the treasure.
• Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden gave Lin Xuan a map showing the treasure’s location.
• Lin Xuan copied the map onto over a thousand Jade Slips and sent them flying in different directions.
• Lin Xuan explained to Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, Yuanyuan, Yue'er, and Xiao Die that he intended to use the other experts as vanguards to search for the treasure.
• Xiao Die questioned whether the experts would trust Lin Xuan’s map, and he replied that the treasure’s powerful guardian made an easy discovery unlikely.

Lin Xuan scattered a dubious Treasure Map to draw powerful cultivators toward the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and possibly lead him to Bingpo. He set out for the Illusion Sea Desert with the women safely returned to the Moment Cave Heaven Map, while a black-robed cultivator named Jiao decided to investigate a map.

• Lin Xuan explained to Xiao Die that the temptation of the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil would make cultivators investigate the suspicious Treasure Map, and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden noted how different his current personality was from Huayu's.
• Lin Xuan reassured Yue'er that a secret art on the map would warn Nailong True Person if he found one, so his sworn elder brother would not be deceived.
• Tian Xiang welcomed the arrival of the other gods, hoping to refine their souls and spirits and learn the laws needed to return to his own dimension, while their battle bought Lin Xuan time.
• Lin Xuan planned to find Bingpo and retrieve the Vanity Box, obtain the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and use the Treasure Map to draw Bingpo toward him.
• Lin Xuan sent the women into the Moment Cave Heaven Map and flew toward the Illusion Sea Desert.
• Jiao caught a Treasure Map after killing a scorpion-shaped monster, recognized that it pointed to the Illusion Sea Desert, and decided to take a look despite his suspicions.

Lin Xuan’s Treasure Maps drew many mighty figures toward the Illusion Sea Desert, while Tian Xiaojian and others also set out to investigate. Lin Xuan reached the marked site, entered a hidden oasis, and flew toward a disturbance that left him shocked by what he found.

• Lin Xuan’s Treasure Maps interrupted conflicts and lured many cultivators toward the Illusion Sea Desert, though some ignored them.
• Tian Xiaojian recognized Lin Xuan’s scheme, collected a map, and flew toward the desert; Fairy Yutong, Bingpo, Nailong True Person, and the Giant Whale King also picked up Jade Slips.
• Lin Xuan deliberately slowed his journey and reached the map’s endpoint after three days.
• Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to reveal an oasis hidden beneath the barren basin, then entered it before the illusion returned.
• Lin Xuan heard a disturbance, flew toward it, and was greatly shocked by the scene in a second, genuine basin.

Lin Xuan arrived at a vast palace plaza where powerful cultivators were trapped by a natural formation and Stone Monsters that revived after being destroyed. As he searched for clues to the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Ancestor Shaming arrived and turned his killing intent on a cultivator who had insulted the gathered experts.

• Lin Xuan recognized that the carvings on the enormous incense burner matched those on the Silk Luo Jade Talisman.
• He saw more than a hundred cultivators fighting Stone Monsters that revived after being shattered, while experts struggled to understand the natural formation trapping them.
• Lin Xuan hid in an inconspicuous corner and asked the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden whether she knew where the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil was, but she did not.
• A cultivator berated the gathered experts, and Ancestor Shaming arrived in a purple lightning arc that overwhelmed the plaza with his presence.
• Ancestor Shaming sent killing intent toward the cultivator, who responded by summoning treasures and five vajra-like Dharma Images to defend himself.

Ancestor Shaming crushed a mighty figure, cleared the stone monsters around the incense burner, and entered the gate said to lead to the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. When the other cultivators reopened it, the gate released teleportation arrays that summoned Dark True Spirits, leaving Lin Xuan and the gathered experts facing a new threat.

• Ancestor Shaming swallowed a mighty figure's treasures and Dharma Image with a monster formed from Killing Intent, then destroyed his qi sea and Nascent Soul.
• Ancestor Shaming blasted the nearby stone monsters into powder and opened the incense burner’s gate before entering it.
• The other cultivators rushed to the incense burner and reopened the gate, hoping to reach the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• The gate turned black and erupted with balls of light that became Teleportation Arrays.
• Dark True Spirits, including a black Phoenix and True Dragon, emerged from the arrays and attacked the gathered cultivators.

Lin Xuan watched Dark True Spirits erupt into battle, then recognized a mysterious Black-Clad Girl as the supposedly fallen Heavenly Witch Goddess when she used the same cultivation art and sword technique he did. She fought through the monsters and entered the great gate, leaving Lin Xuan to wonder how she had become an Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon.

• Dark True Spirits appeared and attacked indiscriminately, forcing the gathered almighty beings into battle.
• Lin Xuan considered forcing his way through the monsters before a black Escape Light arrived.
• A Black-Clad Girl entered the plaza and used nine demon swords to defeat two powerful Ancient Beasts.
• Lin Xuan recognized her techniques as Nine Palaces Moment and the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art, and realized she was the Heavenly Witch Goddess.
• The Heavenly Witch Goddess carved a path through the monsters and entered the great gate.

Lin Xuan and several other powerful cultivators fought past the Demonized True Spirits and entered the great gate in search of the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. As the basin’s remaining fighters faced a sudden arrival of True Immortals, Tian Xiaojian appeared at their head.

• Nailong True Person used a secret technique to create countless convincing Avatars, deceived the monsters, and became the third cultivator to enter the core region.
• Fairy Yutong, the Giant Whale King, Bingpo, and other experts entered the great gate, and Lin Xuan decided to follow rather than wait.
• Lin Xuan maneuvered around the Nine-Headed Bird and the other Stone Monsters, then blocked a surprise attack from a vast black sea with his Mystic Turtle Dragon Shell Shield and Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword.
• Lin Xuan cleaved through the black sea and used the Space Laws to enter the great gate, leaving the identity of his attacker unresolved.
• A cold voice rang through the basin as a Teleportation Array appeared and brought over a thousand True Immortals and their subordinates, led by Tian Xiaojian.

Tian Xiaojian watched the True Immortals massacre the experts of the Three Thousand Worlds, then recalled how he had followed Lin Xuan’s treasure map toward the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. On the way, a lifelike puppet claiming to be Dao Ancestor Tian Xiang revealed that it was a fragment of Tian Xiaojian’s own past self.

• Tian Xiaojian ordered the True Immortals to kill the experts of the Three Thousand Worlds and watched as the demonized True Spirits and Stone Monsters joined the slaughter.
• Tian Xiaojian recalled picking up Lin Xuan’s Jade Slip and deciding to follow its map to the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• A puppet resembling Tian Xiang intercepted Tian Xiaojian near the Illusion Sea Desert and claimed they were the same person.
• The puppet identified itself as Dao Ancestor Tian Xiang and explained that it was a fragment of Tian Xiaojian’s Split Soul carrying memories from the Immortal World.
• Tian Xiaojian doubted the puppet’s claim, and it clarified that it was only a fragment of their true body’s Primordial Spirit.

Tian Xiaojian rejected the Puppet’s demand to merge with Tian Xiang and instead defeated and absorbed it. After learning that Lin Xuan was likely True Person Huayu’s reincarnation, he decided to seek an alliance, just as two strangers arrived.

• The Puppet told Tian Xiaojian that he was a Split Soul of Tian Xiang and urged him to return to the original body.
• Tian Xiaojian refused to merge with Tian Xiang and attacked the Puppet, using the True Demon Void-Shattering Blade and Seven-Colored Mystic Ice Fire.
• Tian Xiaojian defeated the Puppet and captured its Primordial Spirit.
• Tian Xiaojian used the Soul Searching Technique and absorbed the Primordial Spirit, learning that Lin Xuan was likely True Person Huayu’s reincarnation.
• Tian Xiaojian resolved to join hands with Lin Xuan, then saw two streaks of Escape Light approach.

Lin Xuan entered the Illusion Sea Desert’s vast Herb Garden and followed its increasingly precious medicinal fields toward the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. Elsewhere, Ancestor Shaming tried to harvest a rare fruit, only for the herb to transform into a powerful monster.

• Tian Xiaojian welcomed Cloud Calm and Wind Light, concealed that he had devoured Tian Xiang’s Primordial Spirit, and planned to use the True Immortals for his own purposes.
• Lin Xuan entered the core of the Illusion Sea Desert and found an enormous Herb Garden filled with medicines for cultivators at every stage.
• Lin Xuan followed the increasingly precious herbs, reasoning that the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil must be nearby, and flew toward a courtyard enclosed by a Light Arc.
• Lin Xuan sent the Nine Palaces Instantaneous Sword to attack the courtyard’s Restriction.
• Ancestor Shaming seized a Seven Absolute Vermilion Fruit, but it transformed into a winged Double-Headed Strange Python and destroyed his spiritual-power hand.

Ancestor Shaming defeated a Two-Headed Strange Python that had transformed from the Seven Absolute Vermilion Fruit, while Lin Xuan reached a courtyard and drove off a hostile Black-Robed Elder. Lin Xuan entered the garden, where a stone stele identified it as the Immortal Misty Garden.

• Ancestor Shaming used his Great Desolate Fire Dragon Dharma Image to destroy the Two-Headed Strange Python and claim the intact Seven Absolute Vermilion Fruit.
• Lin Xuan broke through the Light Arc blocking a courtyard and spotted its five-colored glow, hoping to find clues about the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• A Black-Robed Elder emerged from a lightning sphere and approached Lin Xuan with hostility.
• Lin Xuan struck with hundreds of punches, forcing the elder to defend himself with an ape Dharma Image and a centipede-shaped shield before fleeing.
• Lin Xuan entered the courtyard and found a stone stele bearing the words "Immortal Misty Garden."

Lin Xuan explored an Immortal Misty Garden, where Little Fur Ball warned him not to touch its tempting spirit herbs, and he investigated a strange well instead. Elsewhere, other cultivators suffered deadly attacks from the herbs, while Tian Xiang learned the laws of another dimension and prepared to leave it.

• Lin Xuan entered a vast Immortal Misty Garden and found it filled with rare spiritual medicines, including Purple Ling Fruit, Heaven-Mending Lingzhi, and Void Leaf Bamboo.
• Little Fur Ball sent Lin Xuan a warning not to touch the spiritual grasses, so he turned away from them and examined the garden for clues to the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• Lin Xuan found an unusual well, but his divine sense bounced off its surface and he did not dare descend into it.
• Other mighty figures tried to pick the garden's spirit herbs, which transformed into powerful Demon Monsters and killed more than half of them.
• Tian Xiang defeated powerful beings in another dimension, refined their souls for insight, and decided to try leaving that dimension.