Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan fought Blood Demon Venerable with the help of his Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon and Yue'er, while the Jade Luo Bee battled a demonic python nearby. Blood Demon revealed his Turn Treasure into Void technique and used spatial evasion, but Lin Xuan struck at him with the Long Spear's silver crescent, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Lin Xuan attacked Blood Demon Venerable with the Azure Fire Sword and summoned a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Demon from the Spirit Ghost Bag.
• Blood Demon blocked the sword with demon qi created by Turn Treasure into Void, a technique that fused a life-bound treasure with demonic energy.
• Lin Xuan called Yue'er into the fight and told her to stay behind him while the Jade Luo Bee continued battling the demonic python.
• Blood Demon decided to use his supreme demonic art, confident that killing Lin Xuan and taking his twin Nascent Souls would justify the effort.
• The Corpse Demon struck Blood Demon, who evaded with a spatial Shift and Swap technique, and Lin Xuan attacked with a silver crescent from his Long Spear.
• Blood Demon tried to dodge the crescent, but the Corpse Demon kept him from moving, and the Long Spear's attack slashed into his demonic cloud.

Lin Xuan and Blood Demon Venerable fought fiercely in the fog, using the Jade Luo Bees and the Corpse Demon against the transformed demon. Their battle drew attention from nearby cultivators, while North Nether True Lord and a Demon Monster planned to capture Nascent Souls for their formation.

• Lin Xuan’s strike broke through Blood Demon Venerable’s Shift and Swap, but the demon transformed into his scorpion-bodied true form.
• Lin Xuan sent tens of thousands of Jade Luo Bees against Blood Demon Venerable, who trapped hundreds in demon nets and blocked the bees’ needles with the Heavenly Square Shield.
• The Corpse Demon attacked Blood Demon Venerable with its fused Jialuo arms, and Lin Xuan ordered it to entangle him.
• Blood Demon Venerable fought back with his scorpion tail and Mystic Treasure Demon Qi as the collision darkened the skies and drove nearby cultivators away.
• A red-haired Nascent Soul cultivator sensed the battle but chose to fly elsewhere rather than risk joining it.
• North Nether True Lord and a Demon Monster discussed the battle and planned to capture Nascent Souls to strengthen their formation and feed their clansmen.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er joined forces against the Blood Demon, whose desperate defenses were overwhelmed by Lin Xuan's Azure Phantom Nether Fire and their combined attacks. The final barrier began to collapse as their treasures struck it.

• The Corpse Demon entangled the Blood Demon and was injured when their magic treasures collided.
• Lin Xuan sent out his demon-flame-infused Azure Fire Sword and summoned Ice Flood Dragons and Fire Dragons, while Yue'er unleashed skull-riding female ghosts from the Beast Soul Banner.
• The Blood Demon cut off his own tail to escape the Corpse Demon's grasp, then spent his blood essence to create a thorn-covered demon curtain.
• Lin Xuan's Azure Phantom Nether Fire devoured the Blood Demon's Corpse-Rotting Fire and drove back the tentacles defending the curtain.
• The Corpse Demon, Lin Xuan's dragons, and his treasures broke through the tentacles, and several treasures charged toward the curtain's final layer.

Lin Xuan defeated Blood Demon with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and captured his Nascent Soul. He planned to search it for secrets about the Devil Infant Art, but first sealed it away because Yunling Mountain was too dangerous.

• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to close in on Blood Demon and shattered his body-protecting spirit light with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• The Azure Phantom Nether Fire overwhelmed Blood Demon, forcing his Nascent Soul to flee from his half-demon body.
• Blood Demon split his Nascent Soul into seven copies, but Lin Xuan destroyed six with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring.
• Blood Demon teleported away, but Lin Xuan struck the space with his Long Spear and captured him with an azure claw.
• Lin Xuan bound Blood Demon's Nascent Soul, sealed it in a Jade Box with restriction talismans, and prepared to search it later.

Lin Xuan gave Yue'er the purified Prayer Beads before investigating a dangerous mist-filled valley, where a Tree Demon ambushed him. After surviving its explosive demonic attack, Lin Xuan recognized it as a Demon Monster thought to have gone extinct in Cloud Province, leaving its origins uncertain.

• Lin Xuan gave Yue'er the Prayer Beads after removing their demonic influence, and she began refining the treasure while the Corpse Demon guarded her.
• Lin Xuan sensed danger in the valley but found nothing unusual and started back toward Yue'er.
• A Tree Demon disguised as a tree attacked Lin Xuan with its tongue, but his illusion misled it and he counterattacked with Sword Qi.
• Yue'er and the Corpse Demon joined Lin Xuan, and the Tree Demon unleashed a massive blast of demonic Qi that strained Lin Xuan's shield but left Yue'er unharmed.
• Lin Xuan explained that the attacker was a Tree Demon, a kind of Demon Monster believed to have vanished from Cloud Province in ancient times.

Lin Xuan ventured deeper into Yunling Mountain, using his enhanced sight and careful tests to pass a strange trap of floating mouths. Elsewhere, Pan Jin pursued rumors of ancient treasures despite the dangers, and cautiously began wading across a river under an air-forbidding restriction.

• Lin Xuan decided to continue into the fog, activated his enhanced eyesight, and discovered a floating mouth that snapped shut on a tree.
• Lin Xuan tested the mouths and learned they did not attack from beyond three feet, then advanced under the protection of his Nine Heavens Spirit Shield.
• Pan Jin recalled how the woman he loved had rejected him to become Poison Dragon Old Ancestor's concubine, strengthening his resolve to form a Nascent Soul.
• Pan Jin pressed on through Yunling Mountain despite seeing Fire Cloud Daoist's corpse and the dangers along the way.
• Pan Jin found that an air-forbidding restriction prevented him from flying across a river, tested the water with his magic treasure, and entered it protected by Bright Sun Gauze.

Lin Xuan continued through the dangerous mist around Haoshi City, confirmed that Demon Monsters were laying a trap, and decided to return. After seeing a woman attacked by two Li Soul Valley cultivators, he recognized her golden harp and killed the men, leaving the woman alive with him.

• Pan Jin was swallowed by a monstrous river mouth, while other cultivators elsewhere fell to Demon Monsters and strange restrictions.
• Lin Xuan concluded the area around Haoshi City was a trap after facing several dangers and Demon Monsters, then prepared to turn back.
• Lin Xuan approached a battle and saw two early Core Condensation Realm men attacking a woman who wielded a golden harp.
• The two men identified themselves as deacons of Li Soul Valley, and Lin Xuan attacked them because of his hatred for the sect.
• Lin Xuan killed both men, collected their souls in a jade bottle, and turned to examine the woman.

Lin Xuan reunited with Ouyang Qinxin’s disciple Wu Yun'er and learned that she had found rare pills in an ancient cultivator’s cave. Deciding the treasure was worth investigating despite the Demon Monsters’ trap, he followed Wu Yun'er deeper into Yunling Mountain, while Tian Xiaojian encountered trouble elsewhere.

• Lin Xuan reassured Wu Yun'er, learned she was Ouyang Qinxin’s disciple, and heard that Qinxin had become a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.
• Wu Yun'er told Lin Xuan that she had found an ancient cultivator’s cave and a bottle of Mo Cloud Pills, which he identified and returned to her.
• Lin Xuan concluded that the rumored treasure hunt was likely a Demon Monsters’ scheme but decided to continue after learning genuine treasures might be present.
• Wu Yun'er called Lin Xuan Martial Uncle and led him into the red mist as he promised to protect her.
• A hundred li away, Tian Xiaojian ran into trouble.

Tian Xiaojian encountered his Fourth Senior Sister in Yunling Mountain and fought her after she tried to ambush him. Elsewhere, Lin Xuan protected Wu Yun'er from a swarm of demonicized beasts, then examined one of their corpses and revealed something that shocked her.

• Tian Xiaojian noticed an unexpected mountain peak on his route out of Yunling Mountain and cautiously approached it.
• Tian Xiaojian avoided his Fourth Senior Sister's Shadow Puppet ambush, destroyed it, and recognized the woman as his enemy within Separation Medicine Palace.
• Tian Xiaojian and his Fourth Senior Sister began fighting after she summoned a Banner Flag and he countered with his Nether Heart-Shattering Sword.
• Lin Xuan used his Sword Qi and Nine Heavens Spirit Shield to protect Wu Yun'er while he killed thousands of flying eyeball creatures.
• Lin Xuan identified the creatures as ordinary wild beasts that had been demonicized, extracted a black bead from one, and altered its corpse, leaving Wu Yun'er astonished.

Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er entered a vast independent space that he believed was an ancient cultivator ruin, where strange clouds attacked them. Yue'er suspected the clouds were tribulation clouds, and Lin Xuan recognized that they could unleash the Three-Nine Minor Heavenly Tribulation.

• Lin Xuan collected black beads from the slain monsters, which transformed into ordinary bats, and warned Wu Yun'er to stay close as they explored the unfamiliar landscape.
• Lin Xuan concluded they were in an independent space, likely an ancient cultivator ruin rather than a Demon Monster creation, and Wu Yun'er chose to continue with him.
• A red cloud attacked Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er with a pillar of light, which Lin Xuan narrowly evaded using Nine Heavens Micro-Steps; his Sword Qi had no effect on the cloud.
• Yue'er suggested the strange clouds were tribulation clouds, prompting Lin Xuan to recall that such clouds released the Three-Nine Minor Heavenly Tribulation faced by cultivators ascending to the Spirit World.

Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er encountered a Human-Faced Centipede born from a sentient tribulation cloud, and Lin Xuan fought to contain its formidable heavenly tribulation fire. He barely checked the monster’s flames by combining the Azure Fire Sword with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yue'er explained to Lin Xuan that a tribulation cloud could gain sentience, and the cloud transformed into a Human-Faced Centipede.
• Lin Xuan judged the monster to be at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and told Wu Yun'er to retreat while he prepared to fight.
• Lin Xuan's Azure Phantom Nether Fire clashed with the monster's heavenly tribulation fire and was gradually overwhelmed.
• Lin Xuan summoned Azure Fire and talismans to counter the pursuing Fire Snakes, but the flames vaporized his attacks and talisman creatures.
• Lin Xuan merged the Azure Fire Sword's Spirit Bird with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, barely holding the heavenly tribulation fire at bay.

Lin Xuan fought the Human-Faced Centipede, a sentient creature born from a Tribulation Cloud, and countered its spatial attacks with the Long Spear he had obtained from the Snow Fox King. Their clashes tore dangerous spatial cracks through the air, while Wu Yun'er watched in disbelief.

• The Human-Faced Centipede attacked Lin Xuan with red needles and Bone Blades that disrupted his Nine Heavens Micro-Steps.
• Lin Xuan realized the creature's threat rivaled that of a late-stage Nascent Soul monster, but resolved to defeat it for the treasures left by an ancient Lihe-stage cultivator.
• The Human-Faced Centipede slashed at Lin Xuan with black flames, and Lin Xuan met its attack with the Long Spear from the Snow Fox King.
• Their spatial abilities collided and opened a spatial crack, and their continuing exchanges produced more deadly cracks.
• Wu Yun'er watched the battle in shock and wondered how Martial Uncle Lin, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, could fight the monster and produce spatial rifts.

Lin Xuan defeated the Human-Faced Centipede, captured its sentient Heavenly Tribulation Fire, and let Wu Yun'er claim some of the monster’s remains. Elsewhere, Tian Xiaojian gained the upper hand against his senior martial sister, destroying her bonded banner and leaving her shocked and wounded.

• Wu Yun'er retreated to safety as Lin Xuan continued fighting the Human-Faced Centipede.
• Lin Xuan used the Five Dragon Seal and Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring to slow and imprison the centipede, then sent the Corpse Demon to behead it.
• A sentient Heavenly Tribulation Fire escaped from the centipede’s corpse, but Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon trapped it inside a sphere of five-colored clouds and sealed it in a Jade Box.
• Lin Xuan offered Wu Yun'er some of the centipede’s remains, and she flew over to collect them.
• Tian Xiaojian destroyed his senior martial sister’s bonded Banner Flag with the Nether Heart-Shattering Sword, leaving her injured and unable to believe his strength.

Tian Xiaojian battled the red-clad woman, whose Silver Carp Talisman restrained his sword’s ghostly shadows and resisted the sword itself. He revealed the legendary Three-Colored Profound Ice Fire, leaving her shaken as she questioned whether it was genuine.

• Tian Xiaojian attacked the red-clad woman with the Nether Heart-Shattering Sword and its ghostly shadows.
• The woman summoned a giant python with her Colored Python Ribbon and a silver carp from her earring.
• The silver carp’s bubbles dissolved the ghostly shadows, and its silver threads proved too tough for the Nether Heart-Shattering Sword to cut.
• The woman sent more silver threads toward Tian Xiaojian, who summoned the Three-Colored Profound Ice Fire.
• The woman recalled how the Mystic Ice Master had wielded the fire and been killed after battling the Seven Great Powers, then doubted that Tian Xiaojian’s flame was real.

Tian Xiaojian and other cultivators were caught in strange teleportation events across Yunling Mountain, part of the Demon Monsters’ plot to bring down the Devil Ancestor’s divided soul. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan and Wu Yun’er continued searching for the legacy of an ancient Lihe-stage cultivator after defeating a sentient Tribulation Cloud, and Lin Xuan began scanning the surrounding area with his divine sense.

• Tian Xiaojian’s Three-Colored Profound Ice Fire overwhelmed the red-clad woman’s silver lotus, and she fled while abandoning her treasures.
• A bone spike grew from a mountain and killed the red-clad woman; the mountain absorbed her corpse and activated a teleportation array that carried Tian Xiaojian away.
• Master Conghui and two hostile Nascent Soul cultivators were also caught in sudden teleportation events, while many other cultivators faced dangers throughout Yunling Mountain.
• The chapter revealed that the Demon Monsters had lured the human cultivators to Yunling Mountain to help the upper realm’s Devil Ancestor’s divided soul descend.
• Lin Xuan and Wu Yun’er resumed their search for the ancient cultivator’s legacy, and Lin Xuan used his divine sense to scan a hundred-li radius after finding nothing nearby.

Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er encountered a massive Ancient Beast in a magma lake while seeking a Lihe-stage cultivator's treasure. With Spatial Vortexes blocking any detour, they prepared to conceal their auras and risk passing the creature.

• Lin Xuan brought Wu Yun'er along through the strange independent space, then flew across a barren mountain range toward the hidden treasure.
• A huge Ancient Beast emerged from the magma lake after Lin Xuan failed to detect it with his divine sense.
• Yue'er sensed that the beast bore no hostility and suggested that Lin Xuan try to pass without fighting it.
• Lin Xuan ruled out detouring because Spatial Vortexes surrounded the lake and decided to risk crossing past the Ancient Beast.
• Lin Xuan offered Wu Yun'er the choice of returning to wait or continuing with him, and she chose to stay by his side.
• Lin Xuan gave Wu Yun'er a Hidden Spirit Pill and taught her the Qi Concealment Technique so they could attempt to slip past the beast.

Lin Xuan tried to cross the Magma Lake unnoticed, but an Ancient Beast attacked a Fish Monster instead, letting him escape the fight. Beyond the lake, he found seven clouds that appeared to be undispersed Tribulation Clouds, and feared they might have awakened spiritual intelligence.

• Lin Xuan concealed his aura and slowly approached the Ancient Beast, but it suddenly fired a flaming spear toward him.
• A huge Fish Monster emerged from the lake and blocked the spear, then fought fiercely with the Ancient Beast.
• Lin Xuan considered taking advantage of the monsters’ battle but decided to avoid the risk and flew across the Magma Lake.
• Lin Xuan saw seven brightly colored clouds that he suspected were Tribulation Clouds left behind by Lihe-stage cultivators.
• Lin Xuan feared the Tribulation Clouds might have awakened spiritual intelligence, recalling how difficult the Human-Faced Centipede had been to face.

Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er faced dangerous Tribulation Clouds in an eerie independent space, and Wu Yun'er proposed using her puppets to test whether the clouds had gained sentience. Elsewhere, Tian Xiaojian explored another dark space while North Nether True Lord and a Demon Monster discussed their plot to summon the Devil Ancestor and searched for a missing cultivator.

• Tian Xiaojian entered a dark independent space filled with dense devil qi and protected himself with a copper shield as he began exploring.
• North Nether True Lord pressed the Demon Monster about activating the formation, and the Demon Monster said they needed more Nascent Soul cultivator souls before summoning the Devil Ancestor.
• The Demon Monster learned that one of the nine Nascent Soul cultivators had not been transported into an independent space and ordered his subordinates to search for the missing person.
• Lin Xuan worried that the Tribulation Clouds might turn into dangerous monsters, and Wu Yun'er suggested testing them before deciding whether to proceed.
• Wu Yun'er revealed the fish-headed Puppets she had made and proposed sending them to scout the Tribulation Clouds for signs of sentience.
• Lin Xuan praised Wu Yun'er’s plan, then told her he would keep the Lihe-stage treasures but promised to reward her with other benefits.

Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er cautiously approached a field of unstable Tribulation Clouds, while Tian Xiaojian and Master Conghui agreed to cooperate as they searched the strange space. Lin Xuan's attempt to block a Tribulation Cloud's strike with the Azure Fire Sword provoked it into churning dangerously, leaving him facing an escalating threat.

• Wu Yun'er sent Puppets to scout the Tribulation Clouds, and Lin Xuan determined that their attacks came from unstable magic power rather than sentience.
• Tian Xiaojian met Master Conghui, and the two agreed to cooperate while secretly guarding against each other.
• After the Puppets were destroyed, Lin Xuan decided to lead Wu Yun'er through the Tribulation Clouds and protected them with the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield and Five Dragon Seal.
• Lin Xuan approached a pale-yellow Tribulation Cloud and used the Azure Fire Sword to block its attack.
• The clash's shockwaves stirred the Tribulation Cloud, which began churning and gathering pressure.

Lin Xuan defended himself and Wu Yun'er from the remaining Heavenly Tribulation Cloud, then gained insight into the laws of heaven and earth. He left off testing his purified spiritual power after a flash of comprehension.

• Lin Xuan stopped fleeing and used fire-attribute talismans and the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield to withstand the Tribulation Cloud's attacks.
• Lin Xuan reinforced the shield with Azure Phantom Nether Fire as metal-attribute fireballs battered it.
• Lin Xuan sent the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring into the cloud, detonating its remaining energy and dispersing it.
• Lin Xuan reflected on the weakened tribulation's heavenly laws while Wu Yun'er waited without disturbing him.
• Lin Xuan manifested a ball of azure spiritual light, tested its transformations, and told Yue'er he had been comprehending the laws of heaven and earth.