Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan learned that Xiahou Lan’s father had become a Loose Immortal after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, but Xiahou Lan soon warned that Fairy Xinyue was waking and fled. Lin Xuan hid underground while, far away in Cloud Province, Tian Xiaojian found himself trapped in Demon Race territory.

• Xiahou Lan explained that her father had survived the ninety-nine Heavenly Tribulation but failed to ascend, becoming a Loose Immortal instead.
• Xiahou Lan apologized for her earlier arrogance and then felt the other Primordial Spirit waking, so she warned Lin Xuan and flew away.
• Lin Xuan used an Earth Escape Talisman to burrow underground and conceal his aura rather than flee blindly.
• In Black Gorge Ridge, Tian Xiaojian discovered an ancient cultivator’s cave residence and gained its treasures after enduring many hardships.
• Tian Xiaojian found himself in Demon Race territory, where several Transformation Realm demons had blocked his way.

Tian Xiaojian escaped the three Demon Race cultivators when two Lihe-stage cultivators arrived from the Spirit World through a Spatial Rift and killed the demons. After their power fell to Nascent Soul Early Stage, the newcomers discussed their mission to find a mysterious object and Princess Xinyue, while leaving Tian Xiaojian alive.

• The three Transformation Mid-Stage demons surrounded Tian Xiaojian, but a Spatial Rift and ancient formation interrupted their attack.
• Tian Xiaojian used a Puppet Talisman to leave a substitute behind and quietly escaped while the demons approached the rift.
• A man and a woman from the Spirit World emerged, and the female cultivator killed one demon and captured the other two for soul searching.
• The two newcomers burned the remaining demons and then weakened to Nascent Soul Early Stage under the Human World's laws.
• The newcomers discussed finding a mysterious object and Princess Xinyue, then decided not to pursue Tian Xiaojian because Black Gorge Ridge held stronger demons.

Lin Xuan investigated why the Hidden Goose Sect had occupied Qingyuan Forest and learned they were searching for a Jade Token. He discovered three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators fighting over the Asura Jade Token, while remaining concealed nearby.

• Lin Xuan avoided Fairy Xinyue by hiding underground until she left, then traveled to Qingyuan Forest.
• Lin Xuan infiltrated the forest and used the Soul Searching Technique on a Hidden Goose Sect patrolman, learning the sect was searching for a Jade Token.
• Lin Xuan sensed three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators battling and flew toward them, hiding nearby to observe.
• The Daoist Helian refused to give the Asura Jade Token to two Hidden Goose Sect elders, and the bald Demon Cultivator attacked him.

Lin Xuan encountered three cultivators fighting over an Asura Jade Token in Qingyuan Forest and defeated Daoist Helian despite his powerful Blood Soul Divine Sand and defensive treasures. He captured Daoist Helian’s Nascent Soul and token, then sent the Corpse Demon and Pangolin after the two Hidden Goose Sect elders.

• Lin Xuan emerged from hiding as the Hidden Goose Sect elders and Daoist Helian fought, and demanded that they hand over the Asura Jade Token.
• The three cultivators joined forces against Lin Xuan, but he used the Azure Fire Sword and Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to attack Daoist Helian.
• Lin Xuan broke through Daoist Helian’s Blood Soul Divine Sand and Blood Turtle Shield, then captured his Nascent Soul and took his Storage Bag.
• The two Hidden Goose Sect elders fled, and Lin Xuan sent the Corpse Demon and Pangolin to pursue them.
• Lin Xuan found the Asura Jade Token in Daoist Helian’s Storage Bag and noticed the number fifty on its back.

Lin Xuan learned that the jade token was proof of entry to the dangerous Asura Gate, then traveled to Xueming Prefecture to find a place to cultivate. After surveying the local market and its factions, he noticed an unusual spirit grass in a medicine shop.

• Lin Xuan used Soul Searching Technique on the Nascent Soul and learned the jade token was an Asura Gate entry token.
• Lin Xuan learned the Asura Gate opened once every nine thousand years and connected the Human World with the Underworld Realm, then left Qingyuan Forest with Yue'er, the Corpse Demon, and Pangolin.
• After repeated attacks by robbers in Longnan, Lin Xuan revealed enough of his cultivation to appear to be at the Core Condensation Realm.
• Lin Xuan reached Xueming Prefecture and went to a large market to seek news and inspect its shops.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Xueming Sect was the region's strongest faction and that seven other sects had Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Lin Xuan entered a medicine shop and noticed an unremarkable stalk of spirit grass.

Lin Xuan bought a rare Snow Origin Ginseng that could help him refine a pill for advancing from Nascent Soul Middle Stage to Late Stage, then met Meng Ruyan, who appeared to be a sickly Spirit Movement Stage cultivator. After leaving the market, he told Yue'er he suspected Meng Ruyan was a Lihe-stage cultivator, but they could not understand why she had disguised herself and begged for a Jade Blood Pill.

• Lin Xuan recognized a five-hundred-year-old ginseng as Snow Origin Ginseng and bought it for three mid-grade crystal stones.
• Lin Xuan paid for a Jade Blood Pill for the ailing Meng Ruyan after the shopkeeper refused to help her.
• Lin Xuan noticed a brief change in Meng Ruyan's eyes, asked her name, and left the shop without revealing his alarm.
• Lin Xuan bought a few more items, then flew away and used his divine sense to check whether Meng Ruyan had followed him.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er that Meng Ruyan's aura suggested she was a Lihe-stage cultivator, though they could not explain her behavior.
• Lin Xuan remained uncertain about Meng Ruyan's purpose and decided to meditate and recover his magic power.

Lin Xuan settled into a temporary cave abode and searched Blood Demon Venerable’s Nascent Soul for a way to advance his Devil Infant. He learned the process required a Soul-Transforming Pill, a special formation, and two Top-grade Spirit Stones, then promised Yue'er he would find a way to help her condense a Nascent Soul.

• Lin Xuan carved out a cave abode, set up Formation Flags, and had the Corpse Demon and Pangolin guard it.
• Lin Xuan searched Blood Demon Venerable’s Nascent Soul and learned how to sacrifice-refine a Devil Infant so it could advance.
• Lin Xuan recorded the method, noting that he already possessed the two Top-grade Spirit Stones needed to activate the formation.
• Lin Xuan ordered Yue'er to seal Blood Demon's soul into the Beast Soul Banner and feed his Nascent Soul to the Corpse Demon.
• Lin Xuan reassured Yue'er that he would find a way to help her condense a Nascent Soul after her failed attempt.

Lin Xuan used the Five Dragon Seal to weaken and trap the Heavenly Tribulation Fire, then had his Azure Phantom Nether Fire swallow it for refining. The fire began to settle only after Lin Xuan’s Nascent Soul sacrificed some of its life essence, leaving the difficult refinement underway.

• Yue'er left the Cultivation Room after blushing, while Lin Xuan wondered whether he had said something wrong.
• Lin Xuan opened the Jade Box containing the Heavenly Tribulation Fire and released it from the Five Dragon Seal’s cloud-mist.
• For three days, Lin Xuan used the Five Dragon Seal to exhaust the fire until it had weakened considerably.
• Lin Xuan sent the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, shaped like a small bird, to swallow the Heavenly Tribulation Fire.
• Lin Xuan’s Nascent Soul used its life essence to strengthen the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and calm the Heavenly Tribulation Fire.

Lin Xuan completed the fusion of the Heavenly Tribulation Fire with his Azure Phantom Nether Fire, creating a vastly more powerful flame with a trace of spiritual awareness. Outside his secluded chamber, five Xueming Sect cultivators fled a pursuer, and the chapter ended as their danger approached Lin Xuan's hidden retreat.

• After two years of cultivation, Lin Xuan finished fusing the Heavenly Tribulation Fire into the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan tested the new flame on a defensive shield, and it melted the shield almost instantly.
• Lin Xuan explained to Yue'er that the flame had gained a trace of spiritual awareness, and Yue'er wondered whether it could eventually develop human-level intelligence.
• Four men and Zhu Qianru fled together from an injured old monster who pursued them from behind.
• Zhu Qianru's companions refused to abandon her, knowing her father was the Xueming Sect's Nascent Soul sect master.
• The five cultivators continued toward the Desolate Mountain where Lin Xuan was concealed.

Zhu Qianru saved a scholar suffering qi deviation, only to learn he was the notorious Flower-Plucking Old Devil, who pursued her and her fellow disciples. With the old devil closing in, Eldest Senior Brother decided they had to stop fleeing and fight him in the Desolate Mountain.

• Zhu Qianru wandered into a hidden valley and found a scholar suffering qi deviation.
• Zhu Qianru gave the scholar a Heart-Protecting Pill and left without realizing he was the Flower-Plucking Old Devil.
• The old devil caught up with Zhu Qianru and her four senior brothers, intending to abduct her as a Cauldron.
• Eldest Senior Brother observed that the old devil's strength was recovering and led the group toward a steep Desolate Mountain to make a stand.
• The red-haired cultivator questioned the plan, but another disciple agreed to follow Eldest Senior Brother into the fight.

The Flower-Plucking Old Devil cornered Zhu Qianru and her Xueming Sect companions, demanding to take her as his Cauldron despite learning she was the sect master's daughter. As the Nascent Soul Realm cultivator overwhelmed them, Lin Xuan watched from concealment, and Zhu Qianru tried to take her own life.

• The five Xueming Sect cultivators prepared to face Flower-Plucking Old Devil, but his demonic cloud and a single cold snort left them struggling under his pressure.
• Flower-Plucking Old Devil demanded that they hand over Zhu Qianru, admitting that he wanted her as his Cauldron because she had saved him from qi deviation.
• The short, stout old man warned that Zhu Qianru was the beloved daughter of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, but Flower-Plucking Old Devil decided to kill the witnesses and seize her anyway.
• The Xueming Sect cultivators attacked Flower-Plucking Old Devil while Lin Xuan and Yue'er remained hidden nearby, and the old devil fought them off with black flames.
• Flower-Plucking Old Devil destroyed the short, stout old man's life-bound Dharma Treasure and wounded another cultivator, leaving the survivors unable to resist.
• Zhu Qianru tried to cut her own throat rather than be captured, but Flower-Plucking Old Devil mocked her as he prepared to take her alive.

Lin Xuan intervened when Flower-Plucking Old Devil tried to capture and kill the Xueming Sect cultivators, and Yue'er angrily rebuked the old devil. Though he agreed to let them go, Lin Xuan attacked him as he fled, leaving the two cultivators on the brink of a fight.

• Flower-Plucking Old Devil immobilized Zhu Qianru and prepared to seize her, while her companions could not stop him.
• Lin Xuan emerged from hiding and said the old devil had disturbed his cave residence.
• Lin Xuan declared he would protect the Xueming Sect cultivators, and Yue'er appeared to curse the old devil for his actions and insults.
• Flower-Plucking Old Devil agreed to let the cultivators leave rather than fight Lin Xuan and his allies.
• As the old devil flew away, Lin Xuan struck him with azure Sword Qi, which the old devil blocked with a shield.

Lin Xuan confronted Flower-Plucking Old Devil to protect the Xueming Sect cultivators and overwhelmed his demonic techniques with the upgraded Azure Phantom Nether Fire. As the old devil’s attacks failed, he abandoned his body and transformed it into a powerful monster while preparing to escape.

• Lin Xuan rejected Flower-Plucking Old Devil’s threats and vowed to kill him, draw out his soul, and refine his spirit.
• Flower-Plucking Old Devil summoned a Bloodthirsty Fierce Crocodile whose strength rivaled a Transformation Realm Flood Dragon, but Lin Xuan answered with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan’s flame burned the crocodile and melted the old devil’s Ghost Fork, then his Fire Python destroyed the Demon Corpses hidden in the demonic fog.
• Flower-Plucking Old Devil abandoned his fleshly body and used his Nascent Soul and a black bead to transform it into a horned monster with a Middle Stage aura.

Lin Xuan defeated and captured the Flower-Plucking Old Devil, then accepted Zhu Qianru’s invitation to attend a Nascent Soul-level trade fair at Xueming Mountain. As the Xueming Sect cultivators led him toward their sect, Lin Xuan learned about Longnan’s powerful cultivators and considered seeking a body-refinement pill formula.

• Lin Xuan stopped the Flower-Plucking Old Devil’s escape, destroyed his demonic body with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire, and captured his Nascent Soul in the Beast Soul Banner.
• Zhu Qianru thanked Lin Xuan for saving her and her four fellow Xueming Sect cultivators, then invited him to visit their sect.
• Lin Xuan initially refused, but Zhu Qianru told him that Xueming Sect would host a Nascent Soul-level trade fair attended by nearly a hundred Longnan cultivators, and he agreed to go.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward Xueming Mountain with the five Xueming Sect cultivators and learned more about the Longnan region.
• After hearing about two Longnan Demon Cultivator brothers who specialized in body refinement, Lin Xuan considered seeking a pill formula that could help him condense a Demon Core.

Lin Xuan arrived at Xueming Mountain with Zhu Qianru and the Xueming Sect cultivators, who welcomed him as an honored guest for saving their lives. He learned that the sect master and his wife had gone to Yao City to welcome the Fairy in the Clouds of Horizon Sea Pavilion.

• After several days of travel, Lin Xuan and the others reached the vicinity of Xueming Mountain, where he sensed more than fifty Nascent Soul cultivators gathered.
• The short, stout old man sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to announce Lin Xuan’s arrival, and Ji Xuansheng soon came from the mountain to greet him.
• Ji Xuansheng thanked Lin Xuan for rescuing Zhu Qianru and the others, and welcomed him as an honored guest of Xueming Mountain.
• Zhu Qianru asked why her parents had not come to greet Lin Xuan, and Ji Xuansheng explained that the sect master and his wife were away in Yao City to welcome an honored guest.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er suspected the guest might be Tian Xiaojian, but Ji Xuansheng revealed that it was the Fairy in the Clouds of Horizon Sea Pavilion.

Lin Xuan heard Ji Xuansheng mention the Fairy of Cloud Province from Horizon Sea Pavilion and recalled the sect’s legendary battle against an alliance of eighty-one factions. He learned that a masked Lihe Realm woman had annihilated the invaders, leaving him uncertain whether she was Qin Yan.

• Lin Xuan was shocked when Ji Xuansheng mentioned the Fairy of Cloud Province and concealed his personal connection to Qin Yan.
• Lin Xuan recalled that five hundred years earlier, eighty-one sects and Rogue Cultivators had attacked Horizon Sea Pavilion to seize its treasures and abduct its female cultivators.
• Horizon Sea Pavilion’s masked Martial Aunt appeared with sect master Murong Saixue, and the invaders realized she was a Lihe Realm cultivator.
• The masked woman ordered that no invaders be spared, then froze and shattered the alliance’s eight Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators.
• Horizon Sea Pavilion’s cultivators routed the remaining invaders, while Lin Xuan wondered whether the Fairy of Cloud Province was Qin Yan.

Lin Xuan learned that Qin Yan was the beloved disciple of Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Lihe Realm Supreme Elder, the masked cultivator who had annihilated the eighty-one-house alliance five hundred years earlier. He arrived at Xueming Mountain for a trade fair, where he met the renowned Jiang Brothers and learned the sect’s palace was built from Sky Moon Crystal.

• The chapter recounted how the masked Lihe Realm cultivator slaughtered the alliance’s Nascent Soul experts and tens of thousands of cultivators, then described the lasting fear her victory inspired across the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces.
• Ji Xuansheng told Lin Xuan that the visiting Fairy in the Clouds was surnamed Qin and was the Lihe Realm cultivator’s beloved disciple; Lin Xuan realized she was Qin Yan.
• Ji Xuansheng escorted Lin Xuan toward Xueming Mountain, where Lin Xuan sensed two approaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators.
• Lin Xuan met the twin Demon Cultivators Jiang Da and Jiang Er, whom Ji Xuansheng praised for their unusual paired abilities and their escape from a late-Transformation Realm demon beast.
• The group reached Xueming Mountain’s crystal-built palace, and Lin Xuan recognized its construction material as Sky Moon Crystal.

Lin Xuan arrived at the Xueming Sect, where he wondered about Qin Yan’s promised reunion and the sect’s Sky Moon Crystal before resting in a guarded pavilion. Several Nascent Soul cultivators then visited to thank him for killing the Flower-Plucking Old Devil, while Lin Xuan suspected they had another motive and secretly followed them with a Jade Luo Bee.

• Ji Xuansheng welcomed Lin Xuan and the Jiang Brothers to the Xueming Sect, then left Zhu Qianru to guide them to the VIP Building.
• Lin Xuan chose a quiet pavilion, declined a maid’s assistance, and set up his own formations before discussing Qin Yan with Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan received a visitor’s message the next morning and met the red-robed old man, Master Yuantong, and Fairy Huadie.
• Fairy Huadie and the others explained that the Flower-Plucking Old Devil had harmed their relatives, and they thanked Lin Xuan for killing him.
• The red-robed old man questioned Lin Xuan about his strength, but Lin Xuan claimed the old devil’s cultivation had been weakened by qi deviation.
• Lin Xuan secretly sent a Jade Luo Bee to follow the visitors, and the red-robed old man stopped Fairy Huadie from speaking as they left.

Fairy Huadie, Monk Yuantong, and the red-robed old man discussed recruiting Lin Xuan for a dangerous undertaking, while Lin Xuan waited anxiously for Qin Yan. When he sensed the Nine Heavens Profound Art far away, he rushed toward it at full speed, convinced Qin Yan was in trouble.

• The three cultivators secretly discussed testing Lin Xuan and possibly cooperating with him because he cultivated poison-attribute devilish flames.
• Lin Xuan learned their conversation through a Demon Bee and suspected their plan might offer valuable benefits.
• Lin Xuan waited at the VIP Building as more than a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators gathered for the trade fair, while Qin Yan remained absent.
• Yue'er tried to reassure Lin Xuan, who worried that Qin Yan might have been targeted despite the protection of the Xueming Sect's sect master and his wife.
• Lin Xuan sensed the Nine Heavens Profound Art about five hundred li to the northwest and concluded Qin Yan was in danger.
• Lin Xuan flew toward the disturbance at full speed, alarming nearby cultivators, though none dared follow him.

Lin Xuan hurried toward a battle after sensing powerful spiritual fluctuations and found Qin Yan fighting the Xueming Sect master and his wife. He watched from concealment, recognizing her strength and the refined Nine Heavens Ice-Fire Silk she wielded, while the unseen enemy remained unexplained.

• Lin Xuan spotted the Jiang Brothers racing toward the same distant spiritual fluctuations, then sped ahead of them.
• Lin Xuan sensed Qin Yan and two Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators fighting, but could not detect the enemy they faced.
• Lin Xuan concealed his presence and approached, recognizing Qin Yan, whom he had not seen for two hundred years.
• Lin Xuan identified Qin Yan's companions as the Xueming Sect master and his wife, who were fighting alongside her.
• Lin Xuan watched Qin Yan use the Nine Heavens Ice-Fire Silk and combine the Nine Heavens Profound Art with the Falling Cloud Drifting Snow Art.