Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan learned that Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley had attacked Kuijin Island, and he invented a story to turn the Outer Seas’ cultivators against them. He then concealed his aura and headed for the island, where Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance were dividing the seized market wealth.

• Lin Xuan discovered that Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley had attacked Kuijin Island with an army of about one hundred thousand cultivators.
• Lin Xuan questioned a newlywed couple fleeing the island and learned that the attackers had killed cultivators indiscriminately.
• Lin Xuan falsely told the couple that the two sects planned to conquer all the Outer Seas, hoping to rally other local factions against them.
• Lin Xuan told Yue'er he had further plans to exploit the confusion, then concealed his aura and flew toward Kuijin Island.
• Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance surveyed the captured market warehouse and its wealth while their forces continued to suppress resistance.

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Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance justified the massacre of Kuijin Island while Lin Xuan spread rumors that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley planned to conquer the Outer Seas. Lin Xuan then confronted Zhao Feng, a Li Soul Valley elder, and killed his body, leaving him to seize Zhao Feng’s Nascent Soul.

• Kong Neng questioned Fairy Fragrance about slaughtering Kuijin Island’s cultivators, but she defended the massacre as a way to save time.
• Lin Xuan rescued several cultivators and spread rumors that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley intended to swallow the Outer Seas.
• Zhao Feng hunted cultivators on Kuijin Island and activated his Vajra Shield when Lin Xuan confronted him.
• Lin Xuan revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage power and overwhelmed Zhao Feng with Five-Colored Sword Qi and Azure Fire.
• Zhao Feng’s body exploded as his Nascent Soul tried to flee, and Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to block its escape and grab it with an azure hand.

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After capturing a Li Soul Valley elder and learning of a surprise attack on Horizon Sea Pavilion, Lin Xuan chose to exploit the chaos rather than rush to reinforce it. Disguised as Zhao Feng, he ambushed the guardians of a storehouse on Kuijin Island and left both of them defeated.

• Lin Xuan captured a Nascent Soul, searched its memories, and learned that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley planned a surprise attack on Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan refused Yue'er's suggestion to reinforce the pavilion and explained a plan to take advantage of the enemy forces being separated.
• Lin Xuan disguised himself as Zhao Feng, concealed his cultivation, and planted a talisman on a Jade Slip before flying to Changle Hall.
• Lin Xuan tricked Fairy Fragrance and Kong Neng into examining the Jade Slip, which exploded and badly injured them.
• Fairy Fragrance revealed her zombie form and Kong Neng recognized Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan killed Kong Neng and shattered Fairy Fragrance's body with a punch.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er impersonated Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance to deceive the Nascent Soul cultivators gathered in the hall. Lin Xuan began claiming that the Grand Elder had sent news, leaving the group eager for details about Yingzhou Island.

• Lin Xuan killed Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance, captured their nascent souls, searched them, and fed them to the Beast Soul Banner.
• Yue'er transformed into Fairy Fragrance, while Lin Xuan disguised himself as Kong Neng and prepared forged transmissions.
• Lin Xuan summoned the gathered cultivators and told them that a Ten Thousand Mile Talisman had arrived from the Grand Elder.
• The cultivators assumed Yingzhou Island had fallen and began asking about captives and spoils, but Lin Xuan rebuked them for jumping to conclusions.

Lin Xuan and Yue'er impersonated Kong Neng and Fairy Fragrance to convince Li Soul Valley’s Nascent Soul cultivators that the Grand Elder ordered them to attack powerful Outer Seas factions. After silencing Zhao Xuedong’s objections, Lin Xuan sent Venerable Leilin to attack the Demon Whale Gang, leaving the plan poised to expose him to danger.

• Lin Xuan and Yue'er claimed Horizon Sea Pavilion had allied with Outer Seas sects through marriage alliances and said the Grand Elder ordered a preemptive strike against the strongest factions.
• Zhao Xuedong questioned the order and demanded to inspect the Ten Thousand Mile Talisman, which revealed instructions to destroy more than thirty major sects and clans.
• Yue'er threatened Zhao Xuedong, and Lin Xuan calmed her; Zhao backed down, and the other cultivators agreed to obey the decree.
• Lin Xuan assigned Venerable Leilin three thousand disciples to raze the Demon Whale Gang’s headquarters, and Leilin eagerly accepted.

Lin Xuan sent the sect’s cultivators to attack the Outer Seas clans and sects while secretly preventing Zhao Xuedong from warning anyone. After wiping out the remaining defenders on Kuijin Island, Lin Xuan and Yue'er raced toward Horizon Sea Pavilion, which faced an attack by three Lihe Realm cultivators.

• Lin Xuan assigned nearly a hundred thousand cultivators to attack the Outer Seas sects and clans, then learned that Zhao Xuedong had grown suspicious.
• Lin Xuan intercepted Zhao Xuedong’s Secretly Crafted Sound Transmission Talisman and discovered that the elder had sent a warning.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er ambushed Zhao Xuedong, killed him, and erased every trace of the elder’s death.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er slaughtered the roughly thousand cultivators left on Kuijin Island, refined their souls into the Beast Soul Banner, and seized the island’s wealth.
• Lin Xuan learned that three Lihe Realm cultivators, including the newly advanced Hui Xuan, threatened Horizon Sea Pavilion, so he and Yue'er hurried there to aid Sister Ruyan.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley attacked sects across the Outer Seas, drawing them into a war that Lin Xuan had intended to ease the pressure on Horizon Sea Pavilion. On Yingzhou Island, Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenders fought back amid brutal losses, and the siege remained at a stalemate.

• The Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley slaughtered Kuijin Island’s cultivators, then attacked more than thirty sects and clans across the Outer Seas.
• Outraged sects, clans, and rogue cultivators joined forces against the invaders, creating a stalemate that fulfilled Lin Xuan’s plan to draw away their main forces.
• Senior Sister Ji reassured four junior sisters that Ancestor Ruyan could defend Horizon Sea Pavilion, but the women soon faced an old monster from Li Soul Valley.
• Senior Sister Ji activated a restriction, and the five women used their Small Five Elements Sword Formation to hold off the attacker’s demonic cloud and treasures.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage Toutuo broke through the restrictions protecting seven women from clans allied with Horizon Sea Pavilion, killed them with a tiger-shaped treasure, and captured the survivors.
• Fighting continued across Yingzhou Island, where both sides suffered heavy losses and even Core Condensation cultivators killed Nascent Soul cultivators with the aid of restrictions and formations.

During the battle between Horizon Sea Pavilion and its enemies, Liu Ying killed three Nascent Soul cultivators and faced Hui Xuan, who exposed her betrayal in exchanging the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation’s weakness for Heavenly One True Water. Meng Ruyan appeared at the confrontation’s end and revealed that she had deliberately exposed the formation’s weakness to identify the mole, leaving Liu Ying kneeling in shame.

• Liu Ying used her Fragrant Mist and Pink Powder Skeleton technique to kill three fleeing Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators.
• Hui Xuan confronted Liu Ying and accused her of revealing the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation’s weakness to obtain Heavenly One True Water.
• Liu Ying explained that she had betrayed Horizon Sea Pavilion only to secure the treasure needed to complete her Withered Countenance Art, and refused Hui Xuan’s offer to join the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• Hui Xuan revealed that he had reached the Lihe Middle Stage and prepared to attack Liu Ying.
• Meng Ruyan appeared and challenged Hui Xuan, then told Liu Ying she had deliberately exposed the Nine Palaces Sword Array’s weakness to find the sect’s mole.
• Liu Ying realized Meng Ruyan knew about her betrayal and fell to her knees in shame.

Meng Ruyan forgave Liu Ying for betraying Horizon Sea Pavilion and sent her to help the other disciples while she faced Hui Xuan alone. The two Lihe cultivators began their duel, and Meng Ruyan revealed the Giant Spirit Art as Hui Xuan transformed his Zen Staff into a Buddha.

• Meng Ruyan forgave Liu Ying after she confessed, while warning that she would still face punishment after the battle.
• Meng Ruyan ordered Liu Ying to leave and help the other disciples, assuring her that Hui Xuan could not kill her.
• Liu Ying obeyed and flew away, leaving Meng Ruyan and Hui Xuan alone to face their long-standing enmity.
• Hui Xuan and Meng Ruyan recalled meeting three hundred years earlier before summoning their lifebound Dharma Treasures and beginning their fight.
• Meng Ruyan used the Giant Spirit Art to enlarge the Green Shadow Falling Snow Sword to over a thousand zhang, surprising Hui Xuan.
• Hui Xuan dismissed the threat and began a spell that transformed his emerald Zen Staff into a Buddha.

Hui Xuan and Meng Ruyan brought out their sects’ imitation spirit treasures as their battle intensified. Meng Ruyan recalled how Wang Tinglou had recovered the Dinghai Divine Bell from Ten Thousand Flood Dragon Valley to fulfill her late sister’s wish, and the story ended with the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King surrendering it.

• Hui Xuan struck Meng Ruyan with the Tathagata Palm, and she countered with the Green Shadow Falling Snow Sword, leaving both injured.
• Hui Xuan summoned the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s Great Compassion Golden Wheel, and Meng Ruyan answered with Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Dinghai Divine Bell.
• Meng Ruyan recalled that Wang Tinglou had sworn to recover the lost bell after her elder sister died troubled by its disappearance.
• Wang Tinglou fought the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King, his Lihe Realm Dao companion, and hundreds of demons with a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Wang Tinglou fought on despite his wounds until the Ten Thousand Flood Dragon King feared the cost of continuing and handed over the Dinghai Divine Bell.

Meng Ruyan fought Hui Xuan with the Dinghai Divine Bell and faced an even fiercer magical battle. At Cangling Peak, Kong Hui broke through Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenses, and Ji Yueru confronted him as the disciples tried to escape and seek reinforcements.

• Meng Ruyan invoked the Dinghai Divine Bell and unleashed Spirit World beasts against Hui Xuan, but his Golden-Bodied Arhat destroyed them.
• Meng Ruyan struck Hui Xuan with the bell’s sound waves, and the two paused before their battle intensified.
• Kong Hui led an assault on Cangling Peak, where Ji Yueru and Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenders failed to stop him from breaking the great restriction formation.
• Ji Yueru ordered the disciples to seek a chance to escape and request reinforcements, then refused Kong Hui’s offer to surrender.
• Kong Hui began reciting scripture and formed a golden light screen as Ji Yueru attacked him with her Ivory Jade Comb Dharma Treasure.

Lin Xuan arrived on Yingzhou Island and rescued Ji Yueru from Kong Hui, the abbot of Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect. After revealing that he had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, Lin Xuan challenged Kong Hui to surrender or die.

• Kong Hui summoned a winged Strange Tiger and used his Precept Blade to overwhelm Ji Yueru, destroying her sword and wounding her Poison Flood Dragon.
• As Kong Hui's attacks trapped Ji Yueru with no way to escape, an azure hand pulled her out of danger.
• Kong Hui searched for the unseen rescuer, who appeared as Lin Xuan and moved to face him.
• Kong Hui recognized Lin Xuan as the man who killed Kong Xuan and learned that he had advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Lin Xuan taunted Kong Hui and told him to surrender or undergo Liberation by Violence.

Lin Xuan fought Kong Hui, the abbot of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, and discovered that the monk’s power matched his own despite Lin Xuan’s advantages. After Kong Hui severed his damaged arm, Lin Xuan sensed that a dangerous turn was coming.

• Lin Xuan’s Sword Rays failed to penetrate Kong Hui’s five-colored Buddhist light, and Kong Hui sent a fierce tiger and flaming Zen Staff after him.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to evade the attacks and struck Kong Hui with a silver fist, while Kong Hui countered with the Dragon-Elephant Polo Palm.
• Lin Xuan gained only a slight advantage in their clash, while Kong Hui’s right hand was crippled and both cultivators were injured.
• Kong Hui realized Lin Xuan might possess twin Nascent Souls, then severed his damaged right arm and sealed the wound with golden light.
• Lin Xuan sensed danger and prepared to act as Kong Hui shouted at him.

Lin Xuan fought Kong Hui, who revealed a monstrous demonic arm, and overwhelmed him with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring’s Hundred Dragon Fangs. Kong Hui detonated his body to escape, but Lin Xuan spotted a trace of golden light in the aftermath.

• Kong Hui sent his Strange Tiger and Zen Staff to attack Lin Xuan while black mist transformed his wounded shoulder into a monstrous arm.
• Lin Xuan used the Purple Cauldron Whip and Azure Phantom Nether Fire to defeat Kong Hui’s attacks as Kong Hui completed his transformation.
• Kong Hui attacked with the Precept Blade, but Lin Xuan’s Azure Fire resisted it while he summoned the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Hundred Dragon Fangs, shattering Kong Hui’s Buddhist barrier and swallowing him in a horde of Ice and Fire Flood Dragons.
• Kong Hui detonated his body, and Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to spot a faint trace of golden light.

Lin Xuan defeated the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect cultivators and learned that Su Jiangchun’s Demon Suppression Tower was under attack by two Lihe Realm enemies. He set out to aid her, while Su Jiangchun was immobilized and faced with death at the tower.

• Lin Xuan captured Kong Hui’s two Nascent Souls after stopping them from escaping or self-detonating, then helped Ji Yueru and the Horizon Sea Pavilion women defeat the remaining enemies.
• Ji Yueru told Lin Xuan that Su Jiangchun’s Demon Suppression Tower was the formation eye of the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation and that its attackers were a powerful Lihe Realm couple.
• Lin Xuan decided to aid Su Jiangchun, took a map of Yingzhou Island from Ji Yueru, and flew toward the Demon Suppression Tower.
• At the tower, Fairy Scorpion and Corpse King Qingyuan overwhelmed Su Jiangchun, Liu Ying, and the elders guarding the formation.
• Fairy Scorpion immobilized Su Jiangchun and threatened to feed her to her spirit insects.

Lin Xuan intervened when Fairy Scorpion was about to kill Su Jiangchun, and the two exchanged powerful attacks. After Su Jiangchun escaped her seal, Lin Xuan and Yue'er prepared to face the two Lihe Realm opponents separately.

• Fairy Scorpion released a Heavenly Purple Human-Faced Scorpion to attack the helpless Su Jiangchun.
• Lin Xuan used Azure Phantom Nether Fire to trap the scorpion, then destroyed Fairy Scorpion's Pink Powder Skeleton with his Broken Sword.
• Fairy Scorpion blocked Lin Xuan's sword strike with a powerful Banana Leaf Fan, and Lin Xuan attacked with his Azure Fire Sword.
• Fairy Scorpion evaded the giant sword with Wind Evasion Technique, while Su Jiangchun broke free of her seal and recognized Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sent Yue'er to face Fairy Scorpion while he prepared to deal with her dual-cultivation partner and rescue Liu Ying.

Lin Xuan split the battle, leaving Yue'er and Liu Ying to fight Fairy Scorpion while he confronted Corpse King Qingyuan. Qingyuan transformed into his true corpse-king form, and Lin Xuan launched an attack as their fight began.

• Lin Xuan sent Yue'er to hold off Fairy Scorpion and flew to confront Corpse King Qingyuan.
• Yue'er used the Beast Soul Banner to intercept Fairy Scorpion's ghost-head attack, while Liu Ying blocked Qingyuan's corpse-qi pythons with her umbrella treasure.
• Lin Xuan arrived beside Liu Ying, sent her to assist Yue'er, and faced Qingyuan alone.
• Qingyuan recognized Lin Xuan's formidable spiritual pressure but insisted that his Nascent Soul cultivation could not match a Lihe Realm expert.
• Qingyuan transformed into his ten-thousand-year corpse-king form, and Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring before readying a shield.

Lin Xuan fought Corpse King Qingyuan, using his refined shield, dragon formations, and Demon Flames to withstand the Corpse King's attacks. Lin Xuan broke the Corpse King's wind escape and struck him with the Demonic Fate Sword, but a regenerative White Bone Shield stopped the Sword Ray.

• Lin Xuan used the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield to block Corpse King Qingyuan's corpse fire and repel its cold aura.
• Lin Xuan and Corpse King Qingyuan sent dragons and more than a thousand swords clashing against each other.
• Corpse King Qingyuan vanished to attack Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan dodged with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and countered his corpse fire with the Azure Phantom Nether Fire.
• Lin Xuan struck with the Demonic Fate Sword and used his Long Spear to break the Corpse King's wind escape.
• Corpse King Qingyuan raised a White Bone Shield that regenerated against the Sword Ray and stopped it from breaking through.