Chapter Summaries

Xueling and her companion tracked the princess while Huitong survived his battle with Lin Xuan and turned to pursue Xiahou Lan. Meanwhile, Meng Ruyan faced an unfamiliar Lihe Realm cultivator on a distant mountain.

• Xueling used blood essence and incantation seals to confirm that the princess was nearby, and she and her companion hurried toward her.
• Huitong emerged battered from underground after his fight with Lin Xuan and resolved to kill Lin Xuan before he could grow stronger.
• Huitong received Xiahou Lan's Sound Transmission Talisman, judged her a greater threat, and flew toward her to capture her.
• Meng Ruyan confronted an unfamiliar gray-clothed old man whose lack of spiritual power concealed a presence she believed to be Lihe Realm.

Fairy Ruyan fought the Luo Family Ancestor, who posed as Master Huitong’s ally, while Lin Xuan realized Xiahou Lan was in danger and flew northwest to find her. As he hurried onward with Yue’er, she recalled that her previous life may have shared Lin Xuan’s fierce loyalty to family and friends.

• The Luo Family Ancestor claimed he was helping Master Huitong, and Fairy Ruyan attacked him with her Green Shadow Falling Snow Sword.
• The Luo Family Ancestor summoned an enormous roc from his Artifact Spirit treasure, and the two Lihe Realm cultivators began fighting in the wilderness.
• Lin Xuan realized Huitong had likely pursued Xiahou Lan and deduced that she had lured the monk northwest to help him escape.
• Lin Xuan flew northwest, determined not to abandon Xiahou Lan, and Yue’er told him she was willing to share his dangers.
• Yue’er experienced a painful memory flash and said her previous-life personality may have resembled Lin Xuan’s, though she could not recall what she had done.

Xiahou Lan met Xueling and Baihe while fleeing Huitong, and they prepared to use a Random Teleportation Talisman to escape. Elsewhere, the Luo Family Ancestor broke away from Meng Ruyan, while Lin Xuan fought Kong Xuan and two other monks; Huitong approached Xiahou Lan as the talisman was still activating.

• Xiahou Lan recognized Xueling and Baihe as her father's servants and asked them for a Random Teleportation Talisman to escape Huitong.
• Xueling began activating the damaged talisman after Baihe agreed that Xiahou Lan's safety mattered more than preserving it.
• Huitong sensed two Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators near Xiahou Lan and continued pursuing her.
• The Luo Family Ancestor escaped Meng Ruyan after claiming he had completed the task Huitong entrusted to him, and Meng Ruyan searched for Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan encountered Kong Xuan and two Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect monks, then summoned his companions and Jade Luo Bees to fight them.
• Xiahou Lan urged Xueling to hurry as Huitong drew within twenty li, and a streak of fleeing light appeared in the distance.

Lin Xuan defeated Kong Xuan and hurried to investigate the teleportation site, believing Xiahou Lan had escaped, while Meng Ruyan secretly followed him and found Huitong’s severed body. The chapter ended with Huitong trapped far away by Xiahou Lan and her companions, gravely wounded and unable to escape.

• Xiahou Lan and her two subordinates activated a random Teleportation Talisman, and Huitong tried to stop them by using Space-Breaking Flash before being caught in the teleportation light.
• Lin Xuan and his allies killed Kong Xuan’s companions, trapped Kong Xuan’s Nascent Soul with the Jade Luo Bee, and sealed it in a Jade Box.
• Meng Ruyan watched Lin Xuan’s battle from hiding, admired his potential, and secretly followed him without revealing herself.
• Lin Xuan found evidence of a long-distance teleportation, concluded that his little sister had likely escaped, and decided to delay returning to Xuanyuan City while he helped Qin Xin and prepared to strengthen himself.
• Meng Ruyan discovered Huitong’s half-body in a cave among Three-Eyed Pig Demons.
• A million li away, Xiahou Lan, Xueling, and Baihe surrounded the severely wounded Huitong, who had lost his lower body.

Lin Xuan escaped after a brutal battle but collapsed from the damage caused by overusing his powers and Huiyuan Powder. As Yue'er searched for a way to save him, the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box revealed a spirit who recognized her as the reincarnated Asura King.

• Xueling and Baihe joined Xiahou Lan in attacking the maimed Huitong, trapping him in a three-person encirclement.
• Lin Xuan fled Xuanyuan City and hid in a concealed cave, where he collapsed after exhausting his magic power and damaging his vital energy.
• Yue'er examined Lin Xuan and found his Nascent Souls unconscious, his Demon Core still, and his spiritual power running wild through his body.
• The Mysterious Yin Treasure Box transformed into a crescent dagger and manifested a miniature young girl who embraced Yue'er.
• The young girl called Yue'er her miss and revealed that Yue'er was the reincarnated Asura King, once feared by True Immortals.

Yue'er learned that she was the reincarnated Asura King and that Xiao Tao was the sentient Mysterious Yin Treasure Box, then prepared to use inherited immortal spiritual power to save the badly injured Lin Xuan. Xiao Tao began a spell to give Yue'er a temporary body, while revealing that Yue'er had sealed part of Xiao Tao's memories before her previous-life battle with the True Immortals.

• Yue'er set aside Xiao Tao's claim that she was the Asura King and asked how to save Lin Xuan, whose meridians were chaotic and spiritual power depleted.
• Xiao Tao taught Yue'er an incantation to draw on her inherited immortal spiritual power, and Yue'er successfully produced a tiny, immensely powerful speck of light.
• Xiao Tao explained that Yue'er would have to transfer the power into Lin Xuan through a kiss, and Yue'er agreed despite her embarrassment.
• Xiao Tao began forming a spell to give Yue'er a temporary body so she could heal Lin Xuan.
• Xiao Tao revealed that she was Yue'er's sentient Mysterious Yin Treasure Box, not an Artifact Spirit, and that Yue'er had sealed some of her memories before facing the True Immortals.
• Xiao Tao said the seal would gradually lift as Yue'er's strength returned, while admitting she did not know the full reason for Yue'er's previous-life conflict with the True Immortals.

Xiao Tao used a secret art to give Yue'er a temporary physical body, revealing her extraordinary beauty, then fell into a slumber from the strain. Yue'er used the body’s brief remaining time to heal Lin Xuan, but when he woke as she leaned in for a kiss, she accidentally sent him flying into a mountain wall.

• Xiao Tao formed a temporary body for Yue'er with a secret art, revealing her true appearance as a peerless beauty.
• Yue'er learned that her ordinary appearance had been sealed and that a lasting flesh-and-blood body would resemble her usual illusory form.
• Xiao Tao exhausted her vital energy and returned to the Mysterious Yin Treasure Box to slumber, urging Yue'er to grow stronger.
• Yue'er used a wisp of immortal spiritual power to calm Lin Xuan's chaotic energy and repair his injuries.
• As Yue'er's temporary body began to disappear, she leaned down to steal a kiss, but Lin Xuan woke and startled her into hurling him into the mountain wall.

After Yue'er secretly healed Lin Xuan with immortal-spirit power, he recovered from the Huiyuan Powder backlash and discovered his cultivation was on the verge of a breakthrough. He decided to seize the unexpected opportunity and attempt to advance to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, despite lacking breakthrough pills and still bearing the Demon Infant’s hidden danger.

• Yue'er freed Lin Xuan from the rock wall and concealed that she had briefly become the Asura King, telling him instead that a mysterious point of light had healed him.
• Lin Xuan confirmed his body and spiritual power had changed, then used his stored spirit pills to recover while Yue'er watched anxiously.
• After three days of meditation, Lin Xuan found his cultivation had risen and that his spiritual power was surging toward a breakthrough.
• Lin Xuan weighed the risk of destabilizing his yin and yang spiritual power against the rare opportunity and decided to attempt advancing to the late stage.
• Lin Xuan began the breakthrough without any spirit medicines prepared for it, while the chapter ended before revealing the result.

After thirty days of worrying, Yue'er watched Lin Xuan awaken from his breakthrough and learn that he had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Lin Xuan chose to postpone refining the Soul-Transforming Pill and planned to check on Ouyang Qinxin before his appointment with Luo Tiancheng.

• Yue'er anxiously waited for Lin Xuan to wake, unable to sense what was happening inside his body.
• Lin Xuan opened his eyes, and Yue'er embraced him with relief after a month of worry.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er that he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage with help from a mysterious force that had since vanished.
• Lin Xuan reassured Yue'er that the Demon Core would temporarily keep the Demon Infant's yin and yang spiritual powers balanced.
• Lin Xuan refused to refine the Soul-Transforming Pill immediately and decided to visit Ouyang Qinxin before meeting Luo Tiancheng.

Lin Xuan reached Snow Tower City and found Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er facing a group of cultivators who wanted them to marry Poison Dragon Venerable. The chapter ended with the weakened master and disciple in danger, while Lin Xuan approached without revealing himself.

• Lin Xuan entered Snow Tower City under a concealment divine ability and reassured Yue'er that he would protect her, even from a true immortal.
• Lin Xuan sensed cultivators gathered near the courtyard where Wu Yun'er and Ouyang Qinxin were staying.
• Lin Xuan recognized Ouyang Qinxin, whose cultivation had fallen after the Heavenly Spider Gu Poison left her gravely ill.
• A middle-stage Core Condensation cultivator demanded that Wu Yun'er and Ouyang Qinxin marry his master, Poison Dragon Venerable.
• Wu Yun'er tried to keep Ouyang Qinxin calm and searched for a way to escape, while Lin Xuan came upon the confrontation.

Lin Xuan arrived in time to rescue Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er from Yinchenzi and his fellow evil-path cultivators, then sent his monsters to pursue Poison Dragon Venerable. After entering Qinxin’s estate for tea, he noticed her sigh and worried that her poison had flared up.

• Yinchenzi threatened Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er, but Lin Xuan appeared and severed his arm with a hidden attack.
• Wu Yun'er and Ouyang Qinxin reunited with Lin Xuan and learned he had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Yinchenzi and the other cultivators knelt and begged for mercy, and Lin Xuan pretended to let them escape so he could track them to Poison Dragon Venerable.
• Lin Xuan sent the Corpse Demon and Pangolin to hunt down Poison Dragon Venerable while he entered the estate with Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er.
• Wu Yun'er left Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin alone, and Lin Xuan asked whether Qinxin’s poison had flared up after she sighed.

Lin Xuan helped Ouyang Qinxin suppress her Heavenly Spider Gu Poison, then discovered that his yin and yang spiritual power was destabilizing and that correcting it would conflict with a promise he made to help Yue'er. He secretly chose a risky, shortened Demon Infant refinement so Yue'er would not have to give up her chance at Nascent Soul Formation, and prepared to enter seclusion after arranging medicine for Qinxin.

• Lin Xuan gave Ouyang Qinxin Qingning Powder to ease her poison injury, and an awkward moment between them was interrupted when Pangolin and the Corpse Demon returned from Poison Dragon Venerable's cave residence.
• Over the next three days, Ouyang Qinxin learned about Lin Xuan's extraordinary rise in cultivation, while Lin Xuan hid bouts of pain caused by his spiritual power imbalance.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er that he needed to refine the Soul-Transforming Pill and Demon Infant to resolve the imbalance, but concealed that he would use the riskier forty-nine-day method to meet the upcoming appointment with Luo Tiancheng.
• Lin Xuan summoned Wu Yun'er and gave her medicinal pills, asking whether Qin Xin had used up the medicines he had provided to suppress her poison.

Lin Xuan entered seclusion to refine a Soul-Transforming Pill and prepare an array to remove the hidden danger of his Demon Infant. After purifying the pill twice, he began setting up the array and reluctantly brought out two Top-grade Spirit Stones to power it.

• Lin Xuan told Wu Yun'er he would remain in seclusion for a few dozen days and entrusted her with spiritual herbs and care of her master.
• Lin Xuan protected the manor with Formation Flags and summoned the Corpse Demon and Pangolin to assist Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan rapidly refined a crude Soul-Transforming Pill, then used the Blue Star Sea to purify it twice into a smaller, brighter red pill.
• Lin Xuan laid out an array to refine his Demon Infant anew and opened two Jade Boxes containing Top-grade Spirit Stones of wood and earth attributes.
• Lin Xuan wondered why activating the array required two Top-grade Spirit Stones when returning from Demon Spirit Island had required only one.

Lin Xuan endured a painful refinement that used a formation and the Soul-Transforming Pill to temper his Demon Infant. After several dozen days, the refinement was complete, though the chapter left his next step unstated.

• Lin Xuan swallowed the Soul-Transforming Pill and drew its medicinal power into his Demon Infant.
• Lin Xuan placed the Demon Infant in the formation, where spiritual needles and blades began the painful tempering.
• Yue'er watched anxiously as Lin Xuan endured the refinement, while Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er worried nearby.
• Wu Yun'er gave Ouyang Qinxin the medicines Lin Xuan had left to suppress her Heavenly Spider Gu Poison.
• After several dozen days, Lin Xuan stopped the formation and saw that the two Top-grade Spirit Stones had nearly run out of spiritual power.

Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion after removing the Demon Infant’s hidden danger and discovered that the process had taken only thirty-six days. After explaining his cultivation to Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun’er, he learned that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s monks remained at Azure Cloud Mountain’s former main altar and resolved to attack them despite Qinxin’s warning.

• Lin Xuan’s Demon Infant reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage, and Yue'er told him that its refinement had taken only thirty-six days.
• Lin Xuan reunited with Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun’er, declined to take Wu Yun’er as a disciple, but promised to guide her.
• Lin Xuan explained the Dual Nascent Soul Technique and told Ouyang Qinxin that he had a lead on an antidote for her Heavenly Spider Gu Poison.
• Wu Yun’er reported that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s monks were still at Azure Cloud Mountain’s former main altar.
• Ouyang Qinxin urged Lin Xuan not to provoke the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, but Lin Xuan declared that he intended to take it down.

Lin Xuan told Ouyang Qinxin that he had killed Kong Xuan and agreed to help her avenge Azure Cloud Mountain by temporarily suppressing her Heavenly Spider Gu Poison. The proposed treatment required intimate skin contact, and the chapter ended as Ouyang removed her outer robe and told Lin Xuan to begin.

• Lin Xuan revealed that he had killed Kong Xuan and held his Nascent Soul, confirming his feud with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• Ouyang Qinxin thanked Lin Xuan for avenging Azure Cloud Mountain, while Wu Yun'er kowtowed to him on behalf of the dead.
• Ouyang told Lin Xuan about Azure Cloud Mountain's massacre and grieved that the Heavenly Spider Gu Poison kept her from taking revenge herself.
• Lin Xuan explained that his Azure Phantom Nether Fire could suppress the poison temporarily, but the treatment required skin-to-skin contact and massage.
• Ouyang agreed to the treatment, entered a quiet room with Lin Xuan, and removed her outer robe.

Lin Xuan helped Ouyang Qinxin suppress the Heavenly Spider Gu Poison and traveled with her and Wu Yun'er to Red Cloud Valley, Azure Cloud Mountain's former headquarters. As they arrived to take revenge on the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, two Wei Family disciples challenged them for trespassing.

• Lin Xuan used the poison of his Azure Phantom Nether Fire to draw out some of Ouyang Qinxin's Heavenly Spider Gu Poison and help her recover her cultivation temporarily.
• Lin Xuan refined the extracted poison while Ouyang Qinxin meditated, and both recovered before setting out with Wu Yun'er.
• Wu Yun'er led Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin through Kunlang City toward Red Cloud Valley, intent on avenging her family and Azure Cloud Mountain.
• The trio reached Red Cloud Valley, where Lin Xuan noted its rich spiritual energy and the remains of Azure Cloud Mountain's former headquarters.
• Wei Xuefeng and another Wei Family disciple arrived and demanded to know who Lin Xuan and the two women were, threatening them for trespassing.

Lin Xuan, Ouyang Qinxin, and Wu Yun'er returned to Red Cloud Valley and killed the Wei Family and Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect cultivators who had attacked Azure Cloud Mountain. After learning from a captured elder that the conflict centered on a mysterious treasure, Lin Xuan asked Ouyang Qinxin about it, and she began explaining how the group had found an empty ancient ruin and a stone box.

• Wei Xuefeng recognized Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin as Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, while Wei Xuemei tried to flee with an Earth Escape Talisman and Wu Yun'er killed her.
• Wei Xuefeng attempted to escape into Red Cloud Valley, but Wu Yun'er's Cicada Wing Sword pursued him before a Late Core Condensation Realm elder intervened.
• The elder and his companions learned the newcomers were survivors of Azure Cloud Mountain and tried to flee, but Lin Xuan killed them and captured the elder for questioning.
• Lin Xuan used the Soul Searching Technique on the elder, then asked Ouyang Qinxin why the Wei Family had risked so much to seize Azure Cloud Mountain's treasure.
• Ouyang Qinxin said Senior Brother Taixu had found a treasure map, which led them to an ancient cultivator's ruins containing only a stone box.

Lin Xuan confronted the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect at Red Cloud Valley and discovered the Heavenly Dipper Arhat Array protecting it. He forced his way into the formation with Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er, leaving the women to follow as he fought through its relentless Buddhas.

• Ouyang Qinxin told Lin Xuan that Azure Cloud Mountain had found a black shield in a stone box, but it showed no reaction when they infused it with magic power.
• Kong Xing and other Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect cultivators arrived, recognized Lin Xuan, and fled into Red Cloud Valley after he wounded them with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan brought Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er to Red Cloud Valley, where he identified the golden barrier as the Heavenly Dipper Arhat Array.
• Lin Xuan entered the array and used the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art to overcome its interference, then cut down a Buddha with the Azure Fire Sword.
• Lin Xuan shielded Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er with the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield and fought the array's Buddhas with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring.
• Ouyang Qinxin watched Lin Xuan withstand the formation's attacks, then pulled Wu Yun'er into her escape light to follow him through the array.

Lin Xuan used the Broken Sword to destroy the Heavenly Dipper Arhat Array and advanced with Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er into Red Cloud Valley. The monks led by Kong Ci ordered the valley’s cultivators to wear Lin Xuan down, and the trio encountered a dense host of lights ahead.

• Lin Xuan unleashed the Broken Sword’s golden-blue Sword Qi, annihilating the Buddhas and breaking the Heavenly Dipper Arhat Array.
• Kong Ci and the other monks learned the array had fallen and ordered the valley’s cultivators to attack Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin, promising a reward Kong Ci never intended to pay.
• Lin Xuan, Ouyang Qinxin, and Wu Yun'er saw the devastation caused by his sword and flew toward the inner valley.
• Ouyang Qinxin and Wu Yun'er recalled Azure Cloud Mountain’s destruction and its survivors’ deaths, and their killing intent rose.
• Lin Xuan and the two women slowed when a dense mass of lights appeared on the horizon.