Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan purified materials and used a formation to forge the Green Flame Qilin Armor, bringing it nearly to completion. He learned that Yue'er had entered a cocoon after refining the Asura God Blood, and prepared the powerful Demon Cores needed for the armor's final step.

• Lin Xuan spent eighty-one days purifying the armor materials with the Blue Light Spots in his dantian, then recovered his strength and set up a refining formation.
• Lin Xuan checked on Yue'er and found her inside a snow-white cocoon; Xiao Tao told him Yue'er had refined the Asura God Blood and that the cocoon was a good sign.
• Lin Xuan used the formation to shape the Green Flame Qilin Armor over forty-nine days, then carved runes and miniature formations into it with his essence blood.
• Lin Xuan rested, checked on Yue'er again, and prepared a Nascent Soul Late Stage Ghost Emperor's inner core and the Fire Flood Dragon King's inner core for the armor's final step.

After finishing the Green Flame Qilin Armor, Lin Xuan visited Yue'er’s cocoon and was transported into a starry void, where he encountered the former Asura King. The Asura King recognized the name Yue'er but did not believe Lin Xuan when he said she had told him.

• Lin Xuan tested the Green Flame Qilin Armor, discovered that it could absorb and rebound attacks, and began nourishing it in his dantian.
• Lin Xuan visited Yue'er’s cocoon and reaffirmed that he intended to protect her, even if doing so meant opposing true immortals.
• Silver halos emerged from the cocoon and carried Lin Xuan into a vast starry void without Yue'er.
• A mysterious voice revealed that its speaker was the Asura King, and Lin Xuan saw the former ruler of the Underworld Realm.
• Lin Xuan asked whether the Asura King was Yue'er, and she demanded to know how he had learned her private name.
• Lin Xuan said she had told him, leaving the Asura King astonished and irritated.

Lin Xuan encountered a memory of Yue'er’s previous life, the Asura King, who recognized the Blue Star Sea within him and revealed that Yue’er’s Nascent Soul Formation would take about three years. Back in his cave abode, Lin Xuan considered how he might make use of a damaged Nascent Soul Middle Stage puppet.

• The Asura King’s pressure overwhelmed Lin Xuan until Blue Light Spots from his dantian shielded him, startling her.
• The Asura King searched Lin Xuan’s soul, learned of his relationship with Yue’er in this life, and accepted his calling her Yue'er.
• The Asura King told Lin Xuan that she was a sealed memory image, that Yue’er’s Nascent Soul Formation would need about three years, and that the past would be revealed as Yue’er’s cultivation rose.
• The Asura King sent Lin Xuan back to the quiet room, then wondered whether the Blue Star Sea meant he was someone who had harmed her in a previous life.
• Lin Xuan returned to his cave abode and examined a damaged, headless puppet he had taken from a Heavenly Ingenuity Sect cultivator, considering possible ways to use it.

Lin Xuan worried that Baisuan Pavilion lacked Nascent Soul Realm protectors in Cloud Province, then learned the Thousand Shadows Sect had attacked its caravan and killed or wounded many disciples. He rejected the elders’ calls for caution and prepared to hear the full account before deciding how to retaliate.

• Lin Xuan considered using Nascent Soul Realm puppets to protect Baisuan Pavilion while he was away, but struggled to find a source for them.
• A Sound Transmission Talisman reached Lin Xuan, and its message sent him rushing to Baisuan Pavilion’s headquarters at Jiuling Mountain.
• At a meeting, Zhou demanded revenge for the Thousand Shadows Sect’s robbery of goods worth one hundred thousand Spirit Stones and the deaths of five Core Condensation Realm elders, while Elders Guo and Ma urged negotiation.
• Lin Xuan arrived, condemned the idea of yielding, and declared that he would wipe out any sect that offended Baisuan Pavilion.
• Lu Ying'er began explaining how Baisuan Pavilion’s expanding trade routes had led to a confrontation several days earlier.

After Baisuan Pavilion’s shipment was attacked by Thousand Shadows Sect, Lin Xuan decided to retaliate and arranged for Lu Ying'er to protect the headquarters and Yue'er while he was away. Before leaving, he remembered that Wu Yun'er had been brought to the pavilion and agreed to meet her, but stopped Lu Ying'er from sending a Sound Transmission Talisman.

• Lin Xuan dismissed Baisuan Pavilion’s leaders and told Lu Ying'er he would attack Thousand Shadows Sect despite its ties to Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• Lu Ying'er assured Lin Xuan that the pavilion’s million-Spirit-Stone defenses could protect the headquarters, and he reminded her to keep Yue'er undisturbed in his cave residence.
• Lin Xuan summoned Pangolin and the Corpse Demon and used a secret art to let Lu Ying'er temporarily command them.
• After Lu Ying'er demonstrated control over the two monsters, Lin Xuan prepared to leave for Thousand Shadows Sect.
• Lu Ying'er told Lin Xuan that Wu Yun'er wished to see him, and he remembered Qin Xin’s disciple and agreed to meet her.
• Lu Ying'er began to send a Sound Transmission Talisman to Wu Yun'er, but Lin Xuan blocked it.

Lin Xuan visited Wu Yun'er, told her that Ouyang Qinxin had ascended to the Spirit World, and promised to support Wu Yun'er's cultivation. He then went to punish the Thousand Shadows Sect, but found it already under attack by the Ji Clan and secretly watched as the sect admitted to robbing them.

• Lin Xuan visited Wu Yun'er's cave residence and reassured her that Ouyang Qinxin was safe and had ascended to the Spirit World through teleportation.
• Lin Xuan named Wu Yun'er Baisuan Pavilion's third Pavilion Master, promised to guide her to Nascent Soul Formation, and gave her pills and cultivation insights to share with Lu Ying'er.
• Lin Xuan traveled to the Thousand Shadows Sect to take revenge, but found its Sect Protection Array destroyed and a group of Ji Clan cultivators waiting outside.
• The Thousand Shadows Sect's demon-cultivator reinforcements arrived, and the Ji Clan head accused Wang old monster of stealing their goods and abducting female disciples.
• Wang old monster admitted that the Thousand Shadows Sect had robbed the Ji Clan, then described Ji Haitang, prompting her worried relative to ask what had happened to her.

Lin Xuan watched the Ji Clan lose ground against the Thousand Shadows Sect before a powerful Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator arrived and struck at Wang. The battle remained unresolved as Wang struggled to fend off the newcomer’s attack.

• Wang revealed that he had taken Haitang as a Cauldron, provoking the Ji Clan and escalating their confrontation with the Thousand Shadows Sect.
• Wang threatened to destroy the Ji Clan, and the scarred big man attacked him with a golden Broadsword.
• Wang transformed through Demonification and gained the upper hand, while the Thousand Shadows Sect’s elders attacked the Ji Clan’s disciples.
• Lin Xuan considered joining the battle but sensed an approaching Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and remained concealed.
• A milky-white ball of light attacked Wang, and his claw-beam collided with it, forcing him back and leaving him injured.

Ji Yueru arrived to save the Ji Clan and turned the battle against the Thousand Shadows Sect, while Lin Xuan recognized the terrifying presence of Huitong. Huitong appeared in a replacement body, having recovered most of his power, and had come seeking revenge.

• Ji Yueru arrived at the Ji Clan's battlefield and challenged the Thousand Shadows Sect's leader, then attacked him with her Jade Comb.
• Ji Yueru and the Ji Clan's cultivators overwhelmed the Thousand Shadows Sect, while Lin Xuan watched and wondered about Ji Yueru's origins.
• A powerful aura descended, and Lin Xuan recognized it as Huitong's as the fighting stopped.
• Ji Yueru killed the Thousand Shadows Sect's leader with her Jade Comb before Huitong appeared from a vortex of wind and gathered Yuan Qi.
• Lin Xuan realized Huitong had obtained a new body after his former one was destroyed and had come out seeking revenge.

Huitong threatened Ji Yueru and the Ji Clan, then discovered Lin Xuan had been hiding nearby. Lin Xuan challenged Huitong, and the two began fighting as their attacks collided.

• Huitong recognized Ji Yueru as a senior figure of Horizon Sea Pavilion and decided to kill her and the Ji Clan to strike at the rival faction.
• Huitong threatened Ji Yueru, while the Thousand Shadows Sect cultivators welcomed his intervention and the Ji Clan prepared to resist.
• Huitong sensed someone concealed nearby and called for them to reveal themselves.
• Lin Xuan emerged, and Huitong recognized him as the enemy he had long sought and threatened to torment him.
• Lin Xuan mocked Huitong, who attacked with a fiery-red monk's staff and a barrage of staff shadows.
• Lin Xuan countered with Azure Fire Sword, forming a dense curtain of sword shadows to meet Huitong's attack.

Lin Xuan fought Huitong, proving he could stand against the Lihe Realm monk with his treasures and battle armor. Huitong unleashed a powerful formation of thirty-six Flying Daggers, forcing Lin Xuan to evade its attacks and bring out the Purple Cauldron Whip.

• Lin Xuan's Azure Fire clashed evenly with Huitong's Zen Staff, convincing Lin Xuan that he could fight the Lihe Realm monk.
• Huitong summoned thirty-six Flying Daggers while Lin Xuan equipped the Green Flame Qilin Armor.
• Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, whose ring-shadows formed a mountain that shattered Huitong's Buddha phantom.
• Huitong completed a Heavenly Dipper formation with the Flying Daggers, and its enormous light spheres destroyed Lin Xuan's mountain.
• Lin Xuan evaded a teleporting light sphere with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and produced the Purple Cauldron Whip.

Lin Xuan and Huitong unleashed their strongest attacks, and the resulting explosion injured them both. Lin Xuan survived with the help of the Green Flame Qilin Armor, while Huitong emerged gravely wounded and missing his left hand and foot.

• Lin Xuan used the Purple Cauldron Whip to block two teleporting daggers and drew the Demonic Fate Sword to face Huitong’s formation.
• Huitong gathered the remaining thirty-four Flying Daggers into a golden Buddha-shaped sphere and strengthened it with his vital blood.
• Lin Xuan and Huitong’s sword strike and golden sphere clashed, then exploded into a cloud of gold-and-silver light that injured nearby cultivators.
• Lin Xuan’s Green Flame Qilin Armor activated and shielded him from most of the explosion, leaving him pale and slightly injured.
• Huitong survived the blast but lost his left hand and left foot.

Lin Xuan overpowered Monk Huitong by exploiting his injuries and the rejection between his stolen body and Nascent Soul. Huitong escaped in Nascent Soul form with a secret teleportation technique, leaving Lin Xuan to collect the spoils and face the watching cultivators.

• Lin Xuan attacked Huitong with the Purple Cauldron Whip, Azure Phantom Nether Fire, the Snow Fox King's Long Spear, and his Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art.
• Huitong defended himself with his Wooden Fish, a Buddha-shaped spell, and a Silver Hook, but his wounded body began rejecting his Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xuan caught Huitong after a chase and punched a hole through his chest, prompting Huitong to explode his body and send his Nascent Soul fleeing.
• Lin Xuan used the Long Spear to interrupt Huitong's teleportation once, but Huitong activated a secret technique and escaped with his next attempt.
• Lin Xuan put away his treasures, took Huitong's Storage Bag, and turned toward the cultivators watching from afar.

Lin Xuan destroyed the Thousand Shadows Sect’s Nascent Soul elders and left the Ji Clan to finish off the sect, then showed Ji Yueru an object that shocked her. Meanwhile, the fleeing Huitong sensed a hair-raising presence behind him as he prepared to rest far from the battlefield.

• Lin Xuan told Ji Yueru that he had come to destroy the Thousand Shadows Sect and stopped its elders from fleeing.
• Lin Xuan killed the Thousand Shadows Sect’s Nascent Soul elders with waves of five-colored sword lights, while Ji Yueru ordered the Ji Clan to leave no sect cultivators alive.
• Lin Xuan left the remaining Thousand Shadows Sect cultivators to the Ji Clan and tossed Ji Yueru an object she appeared to recognize.
• Huitong fled tens of thousands of li from the battlefield, regretted losing his body, and planned to bring his senior brother when he next sought revenge on Lin Xuan.
• Huitong stopped to rest after traveling about a hundred thousand li, then sensed a hair-raising presence behind him.

Taowu killed Huitong and learned through a soul search that Lin Xuan had defeated him and that Princess Xinyue was with Lin Xuan. The chapter then shifted to Sky Continent, where Tian Xiaojian had arrived several months earlier.

• Huitong fled from Taowu, but Taowu broke his teleportation and overwhelmed his attacks.
• Taowu pierced Huitong's Nascent Soul with its tongue, devoured him, and discovered that Lin Xuan had destroyed Huitong's body.
• Taowu learned that Princess Xinyue was also with Lin Xuan and hesitated to seek revenge because of her father's power and Lin Xuan's strength.
• The narration described Sky Continent's former prosperity, the Luo Clan's defeat by the Seven Sects, and the province's decline.
• Tian Xiaojian arrived at Sky Continent several months earlier.

After destroying the Thousand Shadows Sect, Lin Xuan spoke with Ji Yueru and learned that Qin Yan was secluded at Horizon Sea Pavilion under Meng Ruyan’s guidance. He asked Ji Yueru to deliver a letter personally to Meng Ruyan as she returned to the sect.

• The Scar-faced Man reported that the Luo Clan’s main altar had been taken and invited Lin Xuan and Ji Yueru to the hall.
• Ji Yueru asked Lin Xuan where he had obtained Qin Yan’s jade pendant, and Lin Xuan said he and Qin Yan had known each other before she joined Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan learned that Qin Yan was in seclusion with Meng Ruyan guiding her and confirmed that Meng Ruyan had returned to Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan asked Ji Yueru to take a letter to Meng Ruyan and deliver it to her personally.

Lin Xuan entrusted Ji Yueru with a sealed Jade Slip for her martial uncle, while the Ji Clan finished wiping out Thousand Shadows Sect and was warned to keep his visit secret. On Sky Continent, Tian Xiaojian searched the Demon Domain Mountains for the secret marked on an ancient map, but had found nothing after several months.

• Lin Xuan gave Ji Yueru a Jade Slip to deliver personally to her martial uncle, and the two exchanged cultivation insights before he departed.
• Ji Yueru resisted the urge to inspect the Jade Slip and learned that the Ji Clan had killed every member of Thousand Shadows Sect.
• Ji Yueru warned the Scar-faced Man not to investigate Lin Xuan and ordered the clan to keep his visit secret, then hurried back to Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Tian Xiaojian recalled killing a Nascent Soul Late Stage elder of Li Soul Valley and finding an ancient map in the elder's Storage Bag.
• Tian Xiaojian traveled to the Demon Domain Mountains on Sky Continent to search for the map's secret, but found no clues after several months.

Lin Xuan traveled to the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect to seek Nascent Soul Realm puppets for Baisuan Pavilion. After breaking through the sect’s protective formation, he was recognized as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and escorted into the sect to discuss business.

• Lin Xuan decided to strengthen Baisuan Pavilion with puppets because he could not recruit Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to protect it.
• Lin Xuan traveled through Mystic Ice Prefecture, recalling Qin Xin and worrying about Yuanyuan and Peacock.
• Lin Xuan entered the Ice Plain and broke through a powerful formation with his Nine Heavens Spirit Shield and five-colored Sword Qi.
• Pang Bo and two other Heavenly Ingenuity Sect patrol cultivators arrived, and Pang Bo recognized Lin Xuan’s Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation.
• Lin Xuan explained that he had come to do business, and Pang Bo escorted him into the heartland of the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect.

Tian Xiaojian found an Iron Essence gate at the hidden Luo Clan treasure site, but its unexplained opening made him suspect a trap. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan visited the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect under the alias Li Yaotian to buy a Nascent Soul Realm Puppet, and Xue Qiaoyun said an exception might be possible for the right price.

• Tian Xiaojian followed the treasure map into a mountain in the Demon Domain Mountains, believing the Luo Clan's hidden inheritance lay inside.
• Tian Xiaojian reached an Iron Essence gate, and it opened by itself before his Nether Heart-Shattering Sword could strike, making him wonder whether the map had led him into a trap.
• Pang Bo guided Lin Xuan through the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect's main altar and explained that its Crystal Might Cannons could threaten even powerful cultivators.
• Lin Xuan met outer hall elder Xue Qiaoyun under the alias Li Yaotian and asked to buy a Nascent Soul Realm Puppet.
• Xue Qiaoyun explained that the sect ordinarily did not sell Nascent Soul Realm Puppets, but she suggested an exception could depend on the price Lin Xuan could pay.

Tian Xiaojian was caught in a strange Iron Essence prison and found an unfathomable figure sealed inside. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan discussed buying a Nascent Soul Realm Puppet and Crystal Might Cannons from the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect, then went to inspect its other wares.

• Tian Xiaojian entered a trap when a rosy glow swept him and the Nether Heart-Shattering Sword into an Iron Essence prison.
• Tian Xiaojian saw a complex formation, a black cauldron, and an androgynous figure whose cultivation he could not discern.
• Lin Xuan asked Xue Qiaoyun about buying a Nascent Soul Realm Puppet, and she warned that only a heaven-defying treasure might secure one.
• Lin Xuan asked to buy Crystal Might Cannons, but Xue Qiaoyun said the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect did not sell them.
• Lin Xuan agreed to inspect the sect's other treasures, and he and Xue Qiaoyun flew through the ice city past other visiting Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

Lin Xuan visited the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect’s market district and examined its Wood Falcon weapons, then offered to buy three thousand of them for nine million Spirit Stones. He proposed paying with treasures instead, and Xue Qiaoyun brought him to meet the sect’s appraiser, Elder Huang.

• Xue Qiaoyun led Lin Xuan through a restricted archway into a small market reserved for visiting Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Lin Xuan examined the Artifact Refining Pavilion’s wares and watched Xue Qiaoyun demonstrate a Wood Falcon.
• Lin Xuan asked to buy three thousand Wood Falcons, and Xue Qiaoyun quoted a discounted total of nine million Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan said he did not have that many Spirit Stones on hand but offered other treasures as collateral.
• Xue Qiaoyun took Lin Xuan to a private room, where Elder Huang arrived to appraise his treasures.