Chapter Summaries

The Octopus Monster trapped and devoured Jiang the Old Monster’s Nascent Soul, then returned to its mysterious lake. Lin Xuan and his companions found a concealed valley, established a protected cave dwelling, and settled in to cultivate while waiting for the full moon.

• The Octopus Monster used its poisonous, corrosive ink net to trap Jiang the Old Monster’s Nascent Soul and swallowed him.
• The Octopus Monster returned to the mysterious little lake after consuming Jiang the Old Monster.
• Lin Xuan rejected Yue’er’s suggestion of a high-quality Yin Vein and chose an ordinary valley with little yin energy instead.
• Lin Xuan carved out a cave dwelling and set up formations that concealed the valley and simulated the howls of Fierce Ghosts.
• Lin Xuan and Ouyang entered separate stone chambers and began cultivating while they waited for the full moon.

Lin Xuan mastered the second layer of the Treasure-Controlling Formula while preparing to enter the Asura King’s temporary palace for the Asura God Blood. On the full-moon night, a pillar of light lifted a mountain toward the blood-colored moon, revealing a way into the palace.

• Lin Xuan inspected his condition, then studied the Jade Slip to improve his control of the broken Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• The Ancient Octopus Beast prepared to complete its transformation, while cultivators and other newcomers gathered in the Indeterminate River and sought clues about the Asura King’s palace.
• After half a month of effort, Lin Xuan mastered the second layer of the Treasure-Controlling Formula and learned that Yue'er did not know how to enter the palace.
• Lin Xuan reunited with Ouyang, and they waited together for the full moon to appear.
• The blood-colored moon emerged, the ground shook, and pillars of light lifted mountains into the sky; Lin Xuan realized one could lead them to the palace.

Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin were drawn into a mysterious formation while seeking the Asura God Blood, and they arrived in a realm of lush scenery and dense spiritual energy. After copying the formation, they flew toward the dilapidated Asura King's Palace, while Yue'er struggled with whether to reveal the truth about her past life.

• Lin Xuan wrapped Ouyang Qinxin in his protective light and entered a pillar, which teleported them away as the mountain fell back to the ground.
• The Luo Family Ancestor and Blood Luo Child flew toward another pillar, determined to claim the Asura God Blood before anyone else.
• Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin appeared on a small, intricate jade formation, and Lin Xuan copied its runes onto a Jade Slip.
• Lin Xuan sensed a palace nearby and identified it as the Asura King's Palace, while Yue'er wrestled with the decision to reveal her identity.
• Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin flew toward a towering mountain and saw the palace ruins among the clouds near its summit.

Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin climbed the Jade Stone Stairs toward the Asura King's Palace despite restrictions that suppressed flight and divine sense, while Yue'er warned them of a gigantic Immortal Crane approaching. Elsewhere, the Armor Monster tried to break into the Asura King's sealed bedchamber, then hurried to investigate a broken mirror after hearing a strange chime.

• Lin Xuan resisted the No-Fly Restriction, was slammed into a crater, and found Jade Stone Stairs leading toward the Asura King's Palace with Ouyang Qinxin.
• Lin Xuan tested the stairs with his shield and talismans before letting Ouyang follow, and they discovered their divine senses could not leave their bodies.
• Yue'er warned Lin Xuan that an enormous Immortal Crane was approaching, and Lin Xuan and Ouyang prepared for its arrival.
• The chapter revealed that other groups, including the Luo Clan party, Nine-Headed Ancestor, Kong Ming, and the Ancient Octopus Beast, were climbing separate stairways toward the palace.
• The Armor Monster attacked the sealed bedchamber, saw its Must-Kill Trap absorb the strike, and concluded that the restriction was weakening.
• The Armor Monster heard a chime, rushed to the palace's southeast corner, and uncovered a broken mirror beneath rubble.

An armored monster watched the intruders through a mirror and targeted Lin Xuan after recognizing his Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, while Lin Xuan and his companions continued up a strangely peaceful staircase. Other groups faced deadly traps and ghost soldiers, and the monster realized Lin Xuan’s route led toward a formation he could not control.

• The armored monster used the mirror to inspect the arriving groups, recognized Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, and eagerly hoped Lin Xuan would reach him.
• Lin Xuan avoided conflict with an enormous Immortal Crane, confirmed Yue’er’s divine sense worked, and continued cautiously with Yue'er and Ouyang Qinxin.
• Luo Zishu and the Luo Family fought Yin-Armored Ghost Soldiers that combined their power, while the Luo Family Ancestor defeated the Ghost Generals and led his group onward.
• A giant black Tulip grew from the jade staircase and devoured the fallen ghost soldiers and Ghost Generals after the Luo Family departed.
• Kong Ming faced giant rats in a changed mountain-cave passage, while the Ancient Octopus Beast and Nine-Headed Ancestor’s groups also encountered monsters and ghost soldiers.
• The armored monster activated traps along other groups’ routes, then discovered Lin Xuan was approaching a formation beyond his control as Lin Xuan and Ouyang continued without meeting danger.

Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin explored a plaza lined with nine enormous cauldrons depicting Spirit World beasts, while Lin Xuan grew increasingly uneasy. When they approached the plaza’s central formation, it activated and trapped Ouyang inside its light screen.

• Lin Xuan noticed a strange mist around the Jade Stone Stairs but continued onward to find the Asura God Blood.
• Lin Xuan and Ouyang Qinxin reached a circular plaza surrounded by nine jade cauldrons.
• Lin Xuan recognized the beasts carved on the cauldrons as the Four Spirits, the Four Evils, and a Nine-Tailed Sky Fox from the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan and Ouyang headed toward the plaza’s far exit, but Lin Xuan noticed a complex formation at its center.
• The formation suddenly activated, and Ouyang tried to retreat but struck its light screen and was bounced back.

Lin Xuan tried to follow Ouyang Qinxin after a mysterious formation teleported her away, but his attempt instead released corrosive Ghost Mist and awakened powerful divine-beast images. Qinxin found herself trapped in an ice prison, while Lin Xuan faced the appearance of the Qilin, dragon, phoenix, and other sacred beasts.

• Lin Xuan failed to break through the formation after Ouyang Qinxin was teleported away, then placed High-Grade Spirit Stones in its empty grooves to try to activate it.
• Ouyang Qinxin arrived in an ice prison and found that her zither attacks could not damage its iron bars.
• Lin Xuan activated the formation, but it released corrosive Ghost Mist instead of teleporting him, and a roar rose from beneath it.
• Yue'er pointed out that the Cauldrons were glowing, and Lin Xuan saw illusory images of a Qilin, golden dragon, Colorful Phoenix, Hundun, Taowu, Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, and Nine-Heads Sacred Beast emerge.

Lin Xuan was trapped in the plaza as Nine-Infant’s divided soul escaped its seal and destroyed the nine Sacred Beasts’ remnant shadows. Nine-Infant’s spatial attack struck the Armor Monster’s spying mirror instead, leaving Lin Xuan’s fate uncertain and the Armor Monster unable to control the restrictions.

• Lin Xuan tried to leave the plaza, but a yellow barrier blocked his path and resisted his Azure Fire sword strike.
• The formation beneath the plaza collapsed, releasing Nine-Infant’s divided soul as Lin Xuan recognized the Great Demon Ghost Beast.
• Nine-Infant overwhelmed the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox and the other Sacred Beasts with Ghost Mist and demonic fire, shattering the Cauldrons that sustained their shadows.
• Nine-Infant attacked Lin Xuan with a spatial wave, but the attack vanished before reaching him.
• The spatial wave emerged in the Asura Palace and shattered the Armor Monster’s broken mirror, cutting off his view of Lin Xuan and control of the restrictions.
• The Armor Monster assumed Nine-Infant had killed Lin Xuan and resolved to keep the Asura God Blood from falling into anyone else’s hands.

Lin Xuan fought the Nine-Infant, whose ghostly cries shattered his attacks and whose enormous Ghost Claw broke through most of his defenses. He destroyed the claw with Azure Phantom Nether Fire and sent the flame python toward the Nine-Infant.

• Lin Xuan tried addressing the Nine-Infant, but it ignored him and spat Ghost Fire.
• Lin Xuan dodged with the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and attacked with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, but the Nine-Infant shattered his ice and fire dragons with its cry.
• The Nine-Infant summoned a giant Ghost Claw and drove it through eight of Lin Xuan's nine layered ice-and-fire shields.
• Lin Xuan used Azure Phantom Nether Fire to burn the Ghost Claw away before it struck his Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield.
• Lin Xuan transformed the Azure Phantom Nether Fire into a demon python and sent it pouncing at the Nine-Infant.

Lin Xuan fought Nine-Infant’s powerful separated soul, trading attacks with its spatial wind blades, regenerative defense, summoned Fierce Ghost, and life-draining black water. As their battle continued, Nine-Infant’s Ghost Claw began to overpower Lin Xuan’s giant Azure Fire Sword.

• Lin Xuan unleashed the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Rings and a hundred-zhang Azure Fire Sword, but Nine-Infant swallowed the rings’ waves of light and countered with spatial wind blades.
• Lin Xuan dodged the tracking blades with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, then used the Water Cloud Brocade and Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield to withstand them.
• Nine-Infant summoned a chained Fierce Ghost that seized the Azure Fire Sword while its central head spat black water at Lin Xuan’s treasures and Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan recalled the tainted Nine Heavens Bright Moon Rings, while the Azure Phantom Nether Fire fought the black-water centipede to a draw.
• The Fierce Ghost’s Ghost Claw overpowered Lin Xuan’s giant Azure Fire Sword and prepared to destroy it with a secret art.

Lin Xuan used the Broken Sword’s newly awakened power to destroy the Fierce Ghost, then became locked in a dangerous stalemate with Nine-Infant’s remnant soul. Unable to flee or outlast the stronger foe, he summoned Pangolin and the Corpse Demon to help break the deadlock.

• Lin Xuan used the Broken Sword and the second layer of the Treasure-Controlling Formula to erase the Fierce Ghost and retrieve the Azure Fire Sword.
• Lin Xuan dodged Nine-Infant’s demonic fire and struck it with the Broken Sword, while Nine-Infant countered with the abilities of its nine heads.
• Lin Xuan and Nine-Infant’s attacks became locked in a stalemate, and Lin Xuan realized Nine-Infant could absorb heaven-and-earth vitality faster than he could.
• Lin Xuan refused Yue'er’s offer to help because her cultivation was too weak to survive the clash.
• Lin Xuan summoned Pangolin and the Corpse Demon, urged them past their fear, and watched the Corpse Demon reveal a bone-white Dharma Treasure.

Lin Xuan faced Nine-Infant’s overwhelming attack and used a spatial rift to try to save Yue'er. Yue'er tore free of his protection and returned to his arms as the deadly light sphere bore down on them.

• The Corpse Demon and Pangolin attacked Nine-Infant, but Nine-Infant merged its nine heads and grew far stronger.
• Nine-Infant destroyed their attacks, heavily injured Pangolin and the Corpse Demon, and overwhelmed Lin Xuan’s defenses.
• Lin Xuan failed to escape with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and used the Long Spear to cut open a small spatial rift.
• Lin Xuan pushed Yue'er toward the rift, hoping she could survive without him.
• Yue'er broke Lin Xuan’s protective barrier, returned to his arms, and declared that she would rather die with him than live alone.
• Lin Xuan held Yue'er close and turned his body toward the approaching light sphere to shield her.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er survived Nine-Infant's sacrifice, and Yue'er began revealing the secret of her origins. Elsewhere, Kong Ming defeated the Ancient Octopus Beast at the Asura King's Palace but paused to recover, unaware that something watched him from the ruins.

• Nine-Infant recognized Yue'er, teleported in front of Lin Xuan and Yue'er, and sacrificed itself to block the black ball of light.
• Lin Xuan escaped the blast's worst effects by using the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield and defensive talismans.
• Yue'er apologized to Lin Xuan for hiding her past and explained that she knew why Nine-Infant had saved them.
• Kong Ming fought the Ancient Octopus Beast at the Asura King's Palace and killed it, though the battle left him injured and nearly out of magic power.
• Kong Ming chose to recover before entering the ruined palace, unaware that a pair of blood-red eyes watched him.

After learning that Yue'er was the reincarnation of the Asura King, Lin Xuan reassured her that he would stay by her side even if her past brought danger. They then turned their attention back to exploring Asura Palace, with Lin Xuan restoring his magic power and recovering from his injuries.

• Yue'er told Lin Xuan that she was the reincarnation of the Asura King and feared her identity would eventually endanger him.
• Yue'er offered to leave Lin Xuan, but he scolded her and promised that he would face the danger with her rather than abandon her.
• Lin Xuan joked that Yue'er might kill him if she regained her memories, and Yue'er insisted she would always remain devoted to him.
• Yue'er reminded Lin Xuan that other cultivators had entered Asura Palace, prompting him to return to their search for its treasures.
• Lin Xuan used the Spirit Storage Belt to replenish his magic power, took spirit pills, and recovered from his injuries and depleted divine sense.

Kong Ming defeated the Ancient Octopus Beast and meditated to recover, but Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens possessed him and transformed his body. The Luo Clan arrived at the Asura King's Separate Palace after suffering heavy losses, leaving the newly reborn Mysterious Venerable facing a group that included a Lihe Realm cultivator.

• Kong Ming defeated the Ancient Octopus Beast with his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and paused outside the Asura King's Palace to recover.
• Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens, hidden inside the armor, attacked Kong Ming and seized his body.
• Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens transformed the Buddhist spiritual power in Kong Ming's body into Daoist power and restored his youthful appearance.
• The Luo Clan fought through hundreds of Yin-Armored Ghost Soldiers, losing nearly half its members and leaving the survivors injured.
• The Luo Clan, now numbering twelve and led by the Luo Family Ancestor, reached Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens.

The Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens faced the Luo Family cultivators at Asura King's palace, defending himself against their combined assault while trying to claim the Asura God Blood. Blood Luo Child transformed his skulls into a jade-white skeleton that threatened to break the Mysterious Venerable's shield, forcing him to evade.

• The Luo Family Ancestor led his remaining cultivators to Asura King's palace and attacked the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens.
• The Mysterious Venerable blocked the Luo Family's attacks with his Nine Heavens Spirit Shield while fighting the Luo Family Ancestor's Long Spears with a Zen Staff.
• Blood Luo Child's skulls swallowed one another and his severed fingers, transforming into a jade-white skeleton armed with two short swords.
• The skeleton's crossing slash cracked the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield while the Mysterious Venerable was occupied fighting the Luo Family Ancestor.
• The Mysterious Venerable stepped diagonally to evade, attempting to use Nine Heavens Micro-Steps.

The Luo Family Ancestor and his descendants fought the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens over the route to the Asura God Blood, but a weakening restriction disrupted the battle and sent both sides racing deeper into the Sleeping Palace. Lin Xuan woke to the strange phenomenon, discovered his divine sense was returning, and set out with Yue'er to find the blood that could help her advance.

• The Luo Family Ancestor summoned a thousand-zhang mountain from his Alchemy Book, while Luo Zicong used his silver eye’s Void-Slicing Beam to interrupt the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens’s teleportation.
• The Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens summoned a three-headed, six-armed giant to hold up the mountain, escaped its collapse, and recognized the Luo family’s inherited Bright King bloodline.
• As thunder and chaotic vital energy signaled that the Asura King’s restriction was weakening, the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens flew toward the Sleeping Palace’s depths, and the Luo Family Ancestor led his family after him.
• Lin Xuan awoke beside Yue'er, learned that his divine sense could now extend beyond his body, and decided to hurry toward the Asura God Blood.
• Lin Xuan stored the badly injured Pangolin and Corpse Demon, noted that Nine-Infant had left no remains, and assessed his strength as roughly equal to a cultivator newly entered into the Lihe Realm.

Lin Xuan flew to the Asura King's Palace as the celestial phenomenon intensified, hoping to obtain the Asura God Blood for Yue'er. He found three Lihe Realm cultivators and many other powerful fighters battling over an intact building, while the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens recognized him and was astonished that he had survived the Nine-Infant.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er headed toward the mountaintop as the restrictions weakened and the strange phenomenon grew more violent.
• Lin Xuan reached the ruined palace and discovered that several powerful cultivators were already fighting nearby.
• Lin Xuan decided to conceal his intentions and wait for a chance to seize the Asura God Blood amid the battle.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the intact building surrounded by a pink light curtain and saw more than twenty cultivators fighting, including three Lihe Realm experts.
• The Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens recognized Lin Xuan and wondered how he had escaped the Nine-Infant, while Lin Xuan remained wary of the strange reaction.

Lin Xuan secretly edged toward the pavilion containing the Asura God Blood while pretending to struggle against Luo Zishu and a yellow-robed elder. The Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens saw through his act and attacked, forcing Lin Xuan to send Yue'er toward the light screen as the chapter ended.

• Lin Xuan intercepted Luo Zishu's ambush and fought her and a yellow-robed elder while disguising his strength.
• Lin Xuan surveyed the battles and learned that the Luo Family Ancestor's strike could not break the pavilion's pink light screen.
• Yue'er told Lin Xuan that the restriction would lift in time, and Lin Xuan suspected she could pass through it because she was the Asura King's reincarnation.
• Lin Xuan quietly approached the pavilion while continuing to battle, but the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens recognized his Nine Heavens Profound Art and attacked him with Sword Qi.
• Lin Xuan defended himself with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring and sent Yue'er toward the light screen.

Lin Xuan helped Yue'er enter the Asura King's Sleeping Palace, then tricked the Luo Family Ancestor and the Nine-Headed Ancestor into attacking the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens so he could escape their combined pressure. When the remaining cultivators cornered him and broke his movement technique, Lin Xuan revealed a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and wounded them with one sword, leaving Blood Luo Child to recognize what he had used.

• Lin Xuan distracted the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens while Yue'er slipped through the pink restriction into the Asura King's Sleeping Palace.
• When Luo Zishu and the yellow-robed old man attacked, Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to dodge and pretended that he and the Mysterious Venerable had planned Yue'er's entry together.
• The Luo Family Ancestor and the Nine-Headed Ancestor believed Lin Xuan's deception and joined forces against the Mysterious Venerable of the Nine Heavens.
• Luo Zicong broke Lin Xuan's Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, and the other cultivators surrounded him with their treasures and attacks.
• Lin Xuan revealed a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and struck the attackers with a powerful sword slash, injuring the gathered cultivators before concealing the treasure and feigning weakness.
• Blood Luo Child recognized the weapon as a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and exclaimed that Lin Xuan had been using one.