Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian struggled against the Demon Monster’s sound attack, and Tian Xiaojian faced a powerful devil treasure. Meanwhile, North Nether True Lord remained wary of Pangolin, whose silence left him unable to read the situation.

• The Demon Monster trapped Lin Xuan with a crushing force and pierced his shield with a sound-wave attack, but Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian resisted by clashing divine senses with him.
• Tian Xiaojian attacked with the Nether Heart-Shattering Sword, sending skulls and grayish-white devil fire toward the Demon Monster.
• The Demon Monster summoned a devil treasure and swallowed Tian Xiaojian’s devil fire with a massive Sword Ray, forcing Tian Xiaojian to face the counterattack.
• North Nether True Lord tried to draw information from Pangolin, but Pangolin stayed silent and stood motionless as Lin Xuan had instructed.
• North Nether True Lord mistook Pangolin’s silence for a profound scheme and grew too wary to act.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian joined forces against the Late Stage Demon Monster, but he sacrificed his body to trap them in his Body-Sacrificing Devil Fire. Elsewhere, North Nether True Lord prepared an unusual book as he faced Pangolin.

• Lin Xuan used a Talisman Treasure to overwhelm the Demon Monster’s demonic qi while Tian Xiaojian attacked with the Nether Heart-Shattering Sword.
• The Demon Monster used the Earth-Shrinking Technique and Substitute Tribulation Transcendence Art to approach Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian, then burned his body to unleash the Body-Sacrificing Devil Fire.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian raised their defensive treasures, but the devil fire rapidly consumed their magic power; the Demon Monster’s Nascent Soul revealed that he expected the Devil Ancestor’s divided soul to restore his body.
• North Nether True Lord decided to stop wasting time, produced an ancient, thin book, and faced Pangolin as Pangolin sensed danger and spat out pillars of light.

Tian Xiaojian and Lin Xuan used their own devil fires to resist the Demon Monster’s Body-Sacrificing Devil Fire, but their strength was dwindling. They moved together to overlap their barriers, unaware that this would let the Demon Monster concentrate his flames.

• Tian Xiaojian unleashed the Three-Colored Profound Ice Fire, which pushed back the Demon Monster’s flames.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and joined Tian Xiaojian in resisting the Demon Monster’s attack.
• The Demon Monster intensified his assault while Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian swallowed pills and used crystal stones to prolong their defenses.
• North Nether True Lord continued fighting Pangolin, whose late-stage Transformation realm and earth-type defense made him difficult to defeat.
• As Tian Xiaojian weakened, Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian flew toward each other to overlap their barriers, while the Demon Monster let them approach so he could compress his devil fire.

Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian joined their devil flames to defeat the Demon Monster and destroy his Nascent Soul, while North Nether True Lord retreated from the battle with Pangolin. Afterward, Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian exchanged wary but cordial greetings, leaving their alliance—and rivalry—unresolved.

• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian fused their devil flames into a Four-Colored Light Flame that countered the Demon Monster's empowered Body-Sacrificing Devil Flame.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian shaped the fused flames into a Fire Bird, which devoured the Demon Monster's Nascent Soul as he tried to flee.
• North Nether True Lord realized the Demon Monster had been killed, recalled his Dharma Treasure, and fled, while Pangolin burrowed underground instead of pursuing him.
• Lin Xuan and Tian Xiaojian exchanged cold, hostile looks before pretending to be close brothers and thanking each other for their help.
• Tian Xiaojian remarked that nearly a hundred years had passed since they last met and praised Lin Xuan for reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

Lin Xuan let Tian Xiaojian leave after judging that killing or capturing him was too uncertain, then prepared to escape the sealed space. The Demon Infant survived and was seized by North Nether True Lord, who intended to absorb it and claimed he could still summon the Devil Ancestor without it.

• Tian Xiaojian invited Lin Xuan to join Separation Medicine Palace, but Lin Xuan declined, and Tian Xiaojian departed with the fused devil flames.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er he had only a thirty percent chance of killing or capturing Tian Xiaojian, then retrieved his treasures and healed Pangolin before flying away.
• The severely weakened Demon Infant reappeared after Lin Xuan left and encountered North Nether True Lord, who had discovered it through their Life and Death Pact.
• North Nether True Lord trapped the Demon Infant and revealed he planned to assimilate it to increase his magic power and escape the pact.
• The Demon Infant warned that North Nether True Lord needed it to summon the Devil Ancestor, but North Nether True Lord claimed he could activate the formation himself.

Lin Xuan rescued Wu Yun'er and learned that a mysterious Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator had spared her after subduing her. As Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er searched for a way out, North Nether True Lord continued working to summon the Devil Ancestor's divided soul, while Tian Xiaojian discovered a clue beside an ancient cultivator's skeleton.

• North Nether True Lord swallowed the Demon Infant's Nascent Soul and flew away, satisfied with his harvest.
• Lin Xuan found Wu Yun'er unconscious, released her restrictions, healed her divine sense, and questioned her about what had happened.
• Wu Yun'er told Lin Xuan that a Demon Monster's avatar had trapped her and a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator had later spared her; Lin Xuan believed her and resolved to search for an exit with her.
• Lin Xuan sensed something in the distance as he traveled with Wu Yun'er, while North Nether True Lord noticed him but gave up pursuing the legacy treasure to focus on summoning the Devil Ancestor's divided soul.
• Tian Xiaojian found an ancient cultivator's skeleton with no treasure or Storage Bag, then noticed its remaining finger pointed toward something.

Lin Xuan searched for the hidden passage out of the independent space while Wu Yun'er told him that the Spirit Control Sect had a cultivator who used Jade Luo Bees. After Lin Xuan sent the bees to scout the area, their unexplained disappearance led him to a plain stone that might conceal a way out.

• Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er searched the mountain peaks for the passage, but Lin Xuan sensed no trace of it.
• Tian Xiaojian uncovered an Iron Mother wall inscribed with ancient Demon Race characters, while North Nether True Lord opened a Spatial Rift and entered the independent space.
• Lin Xuan released his Jade Luo Bees to search for the hidden passage after deciding he needed to escape quickly.
• Wu Yun'er recalled seeing Jade Luo Bees used by an inner hall elder of the Spirit Control Sect, and Lin Xuan resolved to seek the sect's insect-maturing method when he was strong enough.
• Several Jade Luo Bees disappeared without any sign of battle, so Lin Xuan flew with Wu Yun'er to an unremarkable stone.

Lin Xuan and Wu Yun'er escaped Yunling Mountain, where Lin Xuan rewarded her with treasures before altering her memories to conceal the Lihe-stage cultivator's legacy treasure. He left her safely behind and flew away, while Tian Xiaojian had separately activated an ancient Teleportation Array and vanished.

• Lin Xuan found an invisible spatial rift and carefully led Wu Yun'er through it back to Yunling Mountain.
• Tian Xiaojian activated an ancient Teleportation Array using the method he had deciphered and disappeared in a column of black light.
• Lin Xuan took Wu Yun'er far from Yunling Mountain, said farewell, and gave her two Ancient Treasures and several bottles of Red Origin Pills.
• Lin Xuan knocked Wu Yun'er unconscious and told Yue'er he intended to alter her memories so the Lihe-stage treasure would not attract danger.
• Lin Xuan changed Wu Yun'er's memory of the treasure's origin, checked that the area was safe, and flew away.

Lin Xuan avoided returning to Haoshi City after escaping Yunling Mountain, while news of the massacre sent Cloud Province into turmoil. Investigations by the major powers uncovered signs of Demon Monsters and Asura Gate, but the chapter ended with the true events still concealed and North Nether True Lord serving a mysterious child.

• Lin Xuan flew north instead of returning to Haoshi City, choosing to avoid the turmoil and forgo the promised pill formulas.
• News spread that thousands of cultivators had died on Yunling Mountain, including Master Conghui, Old Monster Sun, Tian Xiaojian, and many disciples, provoking fear and investigations across Cloud Province.
• Old Devil Jia examined a Storage Bag brought back by Separation Medicine Palace's fourth elder and reacted with shock.
• A Li Soul Valley cultivator learned from a Jade Slip that Demon Monsters were involved, then sent out a decree to his followers.
• A Spirit Control Sect woman saw ants form the words Asura Gate and wondered whether it was connected to Yunling Mountain.
• North Nether True Lord respectfully attended a mysterious Nascent Soul Early Stage boy, while Lin Xuan, Tian Xiaojian, and Wu Yun'er kept their experiences secret.

Lin Xuan traveled to Longnan Prefecture to lie low and absorb the gains from Yunling Mountain, but at a market city he learned that the Hidden Goose Sect had seized a hunting ground used by low-level Rogue Cultivators. He left the young beggar with seven crystal stones, while his interest in the sect’s suspicious actions remained unresolved.

• Lin Xuan chose remote Longnan Prefecture as a place to cultivate and concealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation by posing as a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.
• Lin Xuan entered a small market city to rest and ask about local conditions, where he was astonished to find cultivators begging for crystal stones.
• A young Rogue Cultivator told Lin Xuan that the Hidden Goose Sect had occupied Qingyuan Forest, cutting off low-level cultivators from a vital place to hunt demon beasts and find spirit herbs.
• Lin Xuan suspected that a treasure in Qingyuan Forest had drawn the Hidden Goose Sect, but decided not to investigate because he needed to absorb his gains from Yunling Mountain.
• Feeling sympathy for the young beggar, Lin Xuan gave him seven crystal stones.

Lin Xuan watched Xiahou Lan prepare to sign a master-servant Blood Pact with a disheveled-haired ascetic in exchange for a Lesser Hun Yuan Pill to save her poisoned father. Just as she began the pact, Lin Xuan stepped forward to stop them.

• Lin Xuan entered the market and noticed a crowd gathered around Xiahou Lan, who was seeking help to save her father from Green Mandala Flower poison.
• A disheveled-haired ascetic offered Xiahou Lan a Lesser Hun Yuan Pill if she became his dual cultivation partner, and the watching cultivators mocked him before seeing the pill.
• The ascetic demanded that Xiahou Lan sign a master-servant Blood Pact, and she agreed out of concern for her father.
• As Xiahou Lan began forming hand seals for the pact, Lin Xuan called out and walked forward.

Lin Xuan gave Xiahou Lan a Nine-Turn Green Leaf Pill to cure her father’s poison and left the market without asking for repayment. When Xiahou Lan later offered to serve him, Lin Xuan examined her cultivation and was shocked by what he discovered.

• Lin Xuan interrupted the disheveled-headed Toutuo’s attempt to claim Xiahou Lan and gave her a Nine-Turn Green Leaf Pill.
• Xiahou Lan cured her father, then found Lin Xuan and offered to become his lifelong servant to repay his kindness.
• Lin Xuan tested Xiahou Lan’s temperament, then examined her Spirit Root by infusing her with magic power.
• Lin Xuan reacted with shock after examining Xiahou Lan and asked how long she had cultivated and what realm she had reached.
• Yue'er said Xiahou Lan was only at the late Spirit Condensation stage, leaving Lin Xuan’s shock unexplained.

Lin Xuan discovered that Xiahou Lan, an ordinary Spirit Movement Stage cultivator, possessed extraordinarily pure spiritual power and a powerful sleeping soul within her consciousness. After killing two would-be robbers and fleeing another Nascent Soul cultivator, he questioned Xiahou Lan about her past and cautiously examined the soul again.

• Lin Xuan detected hidden spiritual power and a sleeping remnant soul inside Xiahou Lan, then nearly had his divine sense drawn into it.
• A disheveled-haired toutuo and Bloodlight Ancestor confronted Lin Xuan, but he revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation and killed them both.
• Lin Xuan sensed another Nascent Soul cultivator nearby and flew away with Xiahou Lan before stopping a hundred li away.
• Lin Xuan questioned Xiahou Lan for hours and learned that her background was ordinary despite her unusual spiritual power and soul.
• Lin Xuan carefully probed Xiahou Lan's consciousness and realized that its sleeping soul and her main soul came from the same source before approaching it again.

Lin Xuan witnessed Xiahou Lan awaken as a powerful cultivator from the Spirit World, recover her sealed strength, and reveal that she had reincarnated in the lower realm. She demanded that Lin Xuan become her servant or face the unspoken alternative, but he remained unwilling to sacrifice his freedom.

• Lin Xuan's Nascent Soul entered Xiahou Lan's Consciousness Sea and rescued his divine sense from a strange soul that transformed into a version of Xiahou Lan.
• Xiahou Lan's bracelet shattered into runes, and a rift opened as power from the Spirit World poured into her, raising her strength to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lin Xuan bowed to Xiahou Lan, who revealed she was a Spirit World cultivator reincarnated in the lower realm and had split off an independent version of herself while her original soul recovered.
• Xiahou Lan offered Lin Xuan the choice of becoming her servant through a Master-Servant Blood Pact or facing death because he had witnessed her awakening.
• Xiahou Lan promised to help Lin Xuan reach the Spirit World and survive the Heavenly Tribulation, but Lin Xuan decided that he would not give up his freedom for her assistance.

Lin Xuan refused Xiahou Lan’s offer to follow her and ascended to the Spirit World, then attacked her before she could strike first. Xiahou Lan defended herself with profound techniques and unleashed the Hundred Flowers Fragrant Array, leaving Lin Xuan facing its poisonous petals.

• Lin Xuan rejected Xiahou Lan’s offer, saying he would not trade his freedom for a chance to reach the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan provoked Xiahou Lan and attacked with the Azure Fire Sword, but she distorted time and turned a circle of spiritual power into a shield.
• Xiahou Lan trapped the Azure Fire Sword in a net, while Lin Xuan countered with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring and a pair of water-and-fire rings.
• Lin Xuan sent two Flood Dragons at Xiahou Lan, who transformed runes into flowers and scattered poisonous petals across the sky.
• Lin Xuan raised the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield as Xiahou Lan declared that her weakened Hundred Flowers Fragrant Array could still overwhelm him.

Fairy Xinyue knocked Lin Xuan unconscious with her Hundred Flowers Fragrant Array and prepared to let his soul enter reincarnation, but Azure Fire suddenly escaped her restraint and attacked. Lin Xuan seized the opening to close in, revealing that he had feigned defeat and planned to exploit her lack of battle experience.

• Fairy Xinyue dissolved Lin Xuan's dragon attacks with flower petals, overwhelmed his shield, and left him unconscious beneath the array's fragrance.
• Fairy Xinyue withdrew her petals and prepared to send Lin Xuan's soul into reincarnation because he had once saved her life.
• Azure Fire broke free from the silk net and nearly struck Fairy Xinyue from behind, forcing her to dodge.
• Lin Xuan took advantage of Fairy Xinyue's shock and rushed close to her.
• Lin Xuan revealed that he had judged Fairy Xinyue to be inexperienced in battle and had carefully set a trap by concealing Azure Fire's full power.

Lin Xuan outwitted and captured Fairy Xinyue, but her threat to call down her father and the Spirit World left him unable to kill her. Xinyue offered to make peace in exchange for her release, and Lin Xuan rejected her proposal.

• Lin Xuan feigned unconsciousness to make Fairy Xinyue lower her Hundred Flowers Fragrant Array, then attacked her by surprise.
• Lin Xuan broke Xinyue’s protective light, punched her, and bound her with the Immortal Binding Rope, restrictions, and Soul-Locking Talismans.
• Xinyue failed to summon her magic power and accused Lin Xuan of repaying her kindness with hostility; Lin Xuan refused to serve her as master.
• Xinyue revealed that her father had left an imprint in her soul and would learn of her death, potentially sending the Spirit World after Lin Xuan.
• Xinyue offered to turn hostility into friendship if Lin Xuan released her, but Lin Xuan rejected the bargain as a trick.

Lin Xuan rejected Fairy Xinyue’s offer to submit to him through a Master-Servant Blood Pact, suspecting she had a way to escape its control. With no safe way to release or kill her, he prepared an Affection Pill and walked toward her.

• Fairy Xinyue offered to become Lin Xuan’s servant, but Lin Xuan suspected her apparent surrender concealed a scheme.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er reasoned that the Master-Servant Blood Pact might not be truly irreversible, especially to someone from the upper realm.
• Lin Xuan decided he could not safely release Fairy Xinyue or keep her imprisoned indefinitely.
• Lin Xuan took out the Affection Pill he had obtained from the Black Tiger Demon King and used his blood to make it recognize him as its master.
• Fairy Xinyue mistook Lin Xuan’s actions for an attempt to poison her and showed little concern as he finished preparing the pill.

Lin Xuan gave Fairy Xinyue an Affection Pill, which awakened Xiahou Lan, the gentle side of Xinyue’s divided identity, rather than making Xinyue fall in love with him. After learning how their two primordial spirits were one person, Lin Xuan freed Xiahou Lan from his restraints.

• Lin Xuan persuaded Fairy Xinyue to swallow an Affection Pill by promising to release her.
• Fairy Xinyue suffered in pain, then the gentle Xiahou Lan awakened and apologized to Lin Xuan.
• Xiahou Lan explained that she and Xinyue were one person with two primordial spirits shaped by different lives and personalities.
• Lin Xuan removed Xiahou Lan’s bonds and restrictions, destroying his Soul-Locking Talismans in the process.
• Xiahou Lan thanked Lin Xuan, and he objected to being called Senior because she was now a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

Lin Xuan befriended Xiahou Lan after the crisis passed and asked about her journey from the upper realm and her family’s status. Xiahou Lan revealed that her memories were fragmented and began explaining her father’s position by asking Lin Xuan about his goal in cultivating immortality.

• Lin Xuan asked Xiahou Lan to call him big brother, and she shyly agreed as they welcomed each other as siblings.
• Lin Xuan asked why Xiahou Lan had come to the Human World, and she said her memories were fragmented but that she recalled the term “Asura Gate.”
• Lin Xuan asked about Xiahou Lan’s status in the upper realm and her father, and she said she felt embarrassed by her other self’s arrogance.
• Xiahou Lan explained that she and her other self were one person, then asked Lin Xuan about his ultimate goal in cultivating immortality.