Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan failed to advance to Lihe after a heart demon made him relive a vision of Yue'er as the Asura King, but the Five Dragon Seal broke the illusion and saved him. He found Yue'er advancing amid a miraculous gathering of spiritual energy, then watched her transformation summon the Underworld Realm and another strange landscape.

• Lin Xuan endured the Hundred Herb Pill's agony and was overwhelmed by a vision in which he wielded True Immortal power and Yue'er, as the Asura King, defeated Spirit World cultivators.
• Lin Xuan realized the vision was a heart demon caused by his fear of the dangers Yue'er faced, and the Five Dragon Seal's icy chill helped him escape it.
• Lin Xuan recognized that his attempt to advance to Lihe had failed and rushed outside to check on Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan saw five-colored vital energy gathering around Yue'er as she attempted to advance, and he believed she might succeed.
• The spiritual energy burst apart and Yin Spirit energy filled the space as Fierce Ghosts knelt before Yue'er, revealing her presence as Lord of the Underworld.
• The surroundings shifted into an endless wilderness resembling the Underworld Realm, then changed again into a landscape of palaces, mountains, and strange beasts.

Yue'er advanced to Lihe after consuming the Hundred Herb Pill, while Lin Xuan reflected on his failed breakthrough and chose to try again in the Spirit Gathering Space. The chapter ended with him preparing to purify an Allure Heaven Profound Pill to help overcome his heart demon.

• Yue'er absorbed the spiritual power gathered around her and completed her advance to Lihe, while Lin Xuan watched.
• Lin Xuan congratulated Yue'er, asked about her experience with the Hundred Herb Pill, and learned she had felt no discomfort or heart demon.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er stayed in the Spirit Gathering Space to cultivate, with Yue'er stabilizing her realm and Lin Xuan studying his failed attempt.
• Three days later, Lin Xuan took out the Allure Heaven Profound Pill and decided to purify it to mid-grade before making another attempt at Lihe.

Dugu Mou, Dugu Meng, and their companions were lured into a trap by the White Shark Gang, whose young master planned to abduct Dugu Meng. As the two sides fought, a spatial rift opened nearby and an ordinary-looking youth emerged.

• Dugu Mou and his companions searched the sea for a Snow Fate Beast whose demon core could save his son.
• The White Shark Gang surrounded them, and its young master revealed that Fatty Jia had sold them false information to lure them there and seize Dugu Meng.
• Dugu Mou and his companions fought the gang, but the Blue Electric Sharks helped the attackers overwhelm them.
• The White Shark Gang's young master attacked Dugu Meng, who fought back with her Green Bamboo Sword and Eight Extremes Mirror.
• A sudden sea vortex and immense spiritual pressure halted the battle, and a spatial rift opened as an ordinary-looking youth flew out.

After spending a hundred years trapped in the Spirit Gathering Space, Lin Xuan successfully broke through to the Lihe Realm and escaped back to the Human World. He reunited with Dugu Meng and Dugu Mou, who recognized him after more than a century.

• Lin Xuan used the Allure Heaven Profound Pill and Hundred Herb Pill to overcome his heart demon and break through to the Lihe Realm.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er spent three years stabilizing their cultivation, then Lin Xuan gathered the Spirit Gathering Space's herbs and opened a crack to escape.
• Lin Xuan emerged near Yingzhou Island and saw two groups of Outer Seas cultivators staring at him in fear and awe.
• Dugu Meng recognized Lin Xuan, and he recognized her as the cultivator he had once rescued on the way to Quiet Moon Island.
• Dugu Mou recognized Lin Xuan and asked if he was truly Senior Lin.

Lin Xuan reunited with the Dugu siblings, destroyed the White Shark Gang cultivators who tried to flee, and asked what had happened at Yingzhou Island. Dugu Meng revealed that Horizon Sea Pavilion had won after Wang Tinglou intervened, and began describing the destruction of Li Soul Valley and the attack on the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.

• Lin Xuan recognized Dugu Mou and Dugu Meng, who respectfully thanked him for helping them in the past.
• Lin Xuan killed the fleeing White Shark Gang cultivators with water-origin Flying Daggers and let the Dugu siblings take their Storage Bags.
• Lin Xuan asked Dugu Meng about the battle on Yingzhou Island, and she told him Horizon Sea Pavilion had prevailed and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley had been eliminated.
• Dugu Meng explained that the enemy forces had clashed with the Outer Seas cultivation world, giving Horizon Sea Pavilion time to activate the Nine Heavens Instant Sword Array.
• Dugu Meng said Wang Tinglou had supported Horizon Sea Pavilion, sent an incarnation to Yingzhou Island, and attacked Li Soul Valley's headquarters with his true body.
• Dugu Meng reported that Li Soul Valley's defenses had been broken and that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect's headquarters had also been breached.

Lin Xuan learned that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley had been destroyed after years of warfare, and worried about the safety of Yuanyuan, his elder sister, and Baisuan Pavilion. As he prepared to leave, Dugu Meng stopped him and asked for help with a matter she and her brother could not handle.

• Lin Xuan wondered why Wang Tinglou had attacked Li Soul Valley alone, but decided not to investigate the elder's motives.
• Dugu Meng explained that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley suffered repeated defeats and were eventually wiped out after a brutal war lasting more than ten years.
• Lin Xuan worried about his friends and Baisuan Pavilion, then decided he needed to visit Horizon Sea Pavilion to learn more.
• Lin Xuan began to leave, but Dugu Meng stopped him and thanked him for saving her and her brother more than a hundred years earlier.
• Dugu Meng asked Lin Xuan to help with a difficult matter, and he invited her to explain.

Lin Xuan gave Dugu Mou three spirit pills to heal his son, then flew toward Horizon Sea Pavilion to ask Meng Ruyan about the great battle a hundred years earlier and how to prepare for ascending to the Spirit World. Dugu Mou and his companions returned to Mirror Sky Island, while Lin Xuan accelerated toward his next destination.

• Dugu Mou explained that his son Zhuo had suffered qi deviation and needed a Snow Fate Beast Demon Core, and he and Dugu Meng begged Lin Xuan to save him.
• Lin Xuan gave Dugu Mou a jade bottle containing three spirit pills to heal Zhuo, warning that he would help only this once.
• After Lin Xuan departed, Dugu Mou told the Red-Clad Beauty that Lin Xuan’s cultivation was extraordinary and that his realm might be Lihe Realm.
• The young girl in yellow questioned Lin Xuan’s attitude, so Dugu Mou and the Red-Clad Beauty rebuked her, and the Red-Clad Beauty ordered her to face the wall for ten years.
• Dugu Mou noticed Dugu Meng’s feelings for Lin Xuan but said nothing, then led the group back toward Mirror Sky Island.
• Lin Xuan flew toward Horizon Sea Pavilion to visit Meng Ruyan, learn about the past battle, and seek guidance about ascending to the Spirit World.

Shangguan Xue’s rise through Horizon Sea Pavilion was interrupted by a tremendous explosion that brought the sect’s cultivators outside. They learned that Meng Ruyan was advancing to Lihe Middle Stage and faced a dangerous False Heavenly Tribulation.

• Horizon Sea Pavilion recovered from the battle a century earlier and grew into one of Cloud Province’s most powerful sects.
• Shangguan Xue joined Horizon Sea Pavilion, advanced to the peak of Foundation Establishment, and formed her Golden Core two months earlier.
• A huge explosion shook Yingzhou Island, and Shangguan Xue and tens of thousands of cultivators went outside to investigate.
• Su Jiangchun ordered the disciples to return to their cave residences and forbade them from discussing the strange phenomenon.
• Liu Ying and Su Jiangchun saw chaotic origin qi gather into a vortex above Hundred Phoenix Peak, where Meng Ruyan was in seclusion advancing.
• Su Jiangchun explained that Meng Ruyan’s breakthrough had triggered a False Heavenly Tribulation that could kill her while she was vulnerable.

Meng Ruyan’s breakthrough triggered a False Heavenly Tribulation that Horizon Sea Pavilion could not contain with its depleted protective formation. Su Jiangchun and the gathered elders fought to shield her, but the storm remained undiminished after an hour.

• Meng Ruyan’s spiritual power slipped out of control during her seclusion, drawing a vortex over Hundred Phoenix Peak.
• Su Jiangchun explained that the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation could not be activated because its stored spiritual energy had been exhausted in the battle on Yingzhou Island.
• Su Jiangchun used her silver bracelet to block the first black lightning bolt, but the impact injured her and cracked the treasure.
• Su Jiangchun, Liu Ying, Ji Yueru, and other Nascent Soul cultivators joined forces to stop a black hurricane, while Horizon Sea Pavilion’s elders arrived to help.
• After an hour of fighting, Su Jiangchun had lost three treasures, and nearly a hundred sect members had gathered, but the Heavenly Tribulation had not weakened.

Su Jiangchun and the elders of Horizon Sea Pavilion struggled to contain a Heavenly Tribulation that kept replenishing itself from the surrounding vital energy of heaven and earth. As Su Jiangchun went to investigate a powerful howl, Lin Xuan and Yue'er recognized the tribulation’s extraordinary disturbance from a distance and wondered whether Meng Ruyan was cultivating a secret art.

• Su Jiangchun realized that the Heavenly Tribulation would keep growing as nearby vital energy flowed into it, despite the elders’ attacks.
• Liu Ying rallied the elders by warning that Horizon Sea Pavilion would decline without Martial Uncle, and Yu Honge explained that only a Lihe Realm cultivator could cut off the tribulation’s energy supply.
• Su Jiangchun ordered the elders to keep defending Meng Ruyan and sent Yu Honge to summon disciples at the middle Core Condensation Realm and above.
• A dragon-like howl shook apart some of the gathered vital energy, prompting Su Jiangchun to leave Liu Ying in charge and fly toward its source.
• Lin Xuan and Yue'er, hovering a hundred li west of Yingzhou Island, saw the immense disturbance and wondered whether Meng Ruyan was cultivating a heaven-defying secret art.

Lin Xuan returned to Horizon Sea Pavilion after advancing to the Lihe Realm and encountered Su Jiangchun as the pavilion’s cultivators struggled against a celestial tribulation. As the cultivators faltered, Liu Ying killed Mei Xiang for attempting to flee.

• Lin Xuan sensed Su Jiangchun’s concealment art, revealed her, and learned she was seeking his help with the celestial omen.
• Su Jiangchun recognized Lin Xuan and discovered that he had advanced to the Lihe Realm.
• Nearly a hundred Horizon Sea Pavilion cultivators struggled to withstand the vortex’s escalating attacks while awaiting help.
• Ji Yueru warned Liu Ying that the other cultivators were losing heart as Mei Xiang began to retreat.
• Liu Ying killed Mei Xiang with her Fragrant Mist and warned the remaining cultivators that anyone else who betrayed the sect would meet the same fate.

Liu Ying, Ji Yueru, and the women of Horizon Sea Pavilion struggled against a Double-Headed Flood Dragon formed from gathered spiritual energy until Lin Xuan arrived and saved them. After revealing his Lihe Realm cultivation, Lin Xuan began confronting the creature and summoned his Azure Phantom Nether Fire.

• Liu Ying and Ji Yueru charged the Double-Headed Flood Dragon, but its power overwhelmed them as the other women fought off lightning and gale winds from the vortex.
• Just as the dragon attacked the weakened Liu Ying and Ji Yueru, Lin Xuan arrived with Su Jiangchun and suppressed the chaotic spiritual energy.
• Liu Ying and Ji Yueru recognized Lin Xuan as their Lihe Realm Martial Uncle, while the other women whispered about him until his spiritual pressure silenced them.
• Lin Xuan ordered the women to retreat and faced the Double-Headed Flood Dragon, blocking its twin waves of light with a shield of spiritual energy.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Azure Phantom Nether Fire as a Spirit Bird and drew fire spiritual energy from within a hundred li into it.

Lin Xuan tested his newly gained Lihe Realm power against the Heavenly Tribulation, using the Azure Phantom Nether Fire to fight the double-headed flood dragon and controlling water elemental energy to forge a colossal Sword Ray. The giant sword advanced toward the vortex as it unleashed more attacks.

• Lin Xuan sent the Azure Phantom Nether Fire to battle the double-headed flood dragon, which attacked with thousands of wind blades.
• Lin Xuan drew the surrounding water elemental energy away from the vortex, preventing it from replenishing itself.
• Lin Xuan gathered the water elemental energy and infused it into a Sword Ray, expanding it to a thousand zhang.
• Lin Xuan launched the colossal sword toward the vortex, whose astral winds, wind blades, and fireballs could not match its force.

Lin Xuan destroyed the Heavenly Tribulation’s vortex and helped the Azure Phantom Nether Fire consume the weakened Tribulation Dragon. As Yuan Qi surged toward Hundred Phoenix Peak, Lin Xuan realized Fairy Ruyan was advancing, but the mountain collapsed amid a pillar of light, leaving her breakthrough’s outcome unclear.

• Lin Xuan cleaved the Heavenly Tribulation’s vortex apart with a giant sword, cutting off its supply of water Yuan Qi.
• The Azure Phantom Nether Fire weakened the Tribulation Dragon, and Lin Xuan trapped and sliced it so the Fire Bird could swallow its essence.
• Yingzhou Island began trembling as Yuan Qi gathered again, but Lin Xuan sensed that the surge was not another Heavenly Tribulation and congratulated Horizon Sea Pavilion on Fairy Ruyan’s advancement.
• Lin Xuan studied how Fairy Ruyan guided and absorbed the Yuan Qi while Su Jiangchun and the other cultivators watched from afar.
• After two hours, Yuan Qi rushed toward Hundred Phoenix Peak, a pillar of light shot skyward, and the mountain collapsed into rubble.

Lin Xuan witnessed Meng Ruyan complete her breakthrough to the middle stage of the Lihe Realm, strengthening Horizon Sea Pavilion’s position. Meng Ruyan reunited with Lin Xuan and brought him to stay in the VIP Building, where Chen Hongying greeted him as a senior.

• Meng Ruyan’s breakthrough unleashed a phoenix cry and a brilliant display of azure lightning as Horizon Sea Pavilion’s disciples congratulated her.
• Meng Ruyan emerged in the middle stage of the Lihe Realm and thanked Lin Xuan for protecting her disciples during her Heavenly Tribulation.
• Meng Ruyan and Lin Xuan reunited warmly and went to the VIP Building so they could speak privately while the sect prepared modest celebrations.
• Meng Ruyan told Lin Xuan that the VIP Building was reserved for those who had shown kindness to Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Chen Hongying met Meng Ruyan at the VIP Building, realized Lin Xuan’s status was beyond her ability to discern, and respectfully apologized to him.

Lin Xuan reunited with Meng Ruyan and told her how he had survived by entering the Spirit Gathering Space, while keeping his gains there secret. Meng Ruyan proposed that they work together to reach the Spirit World through a shortcut, leaving Lin Xuan shocked by the idea of ascending together.

• Lin Xuan and Meng Ruyan reunited after more than a hundred years, and he explained how the Corpse King's mistaken use of a Spirit Gathering Bead had sent him into the Spirit Gathering Space.
• Meng Ruyan praised Lin Xuan's rapid advance to the Lihe Realm, while Lin Xuan congratulated her on reaching the middle stage and concealed the full extent of his gains.
• Meng Ruyan explained that she had learned of a dangerous method to bypass the Heavenly Tribulation and ascend to the Spirit World, a plan requiring at least two people.
• Lin Xuan showed Meng Ruyan his Asura Jade Token, and she asked about his knowledge of planes before correcting his understanding of ascension to the Demon Monster World.
• Meng Ruyan proposed that she and Lin Xuan cooperate to ascend to the Spirit World, and Lin Xuan objected that undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation together would greatly increase its power.

Fairy Ruyan told Lin Xuan that the Asura Gate connected the Human World and the Underworld Realm, and that a secret array inside could send cultivators directly to the Spirit World. Lin Xuan believed her because he had encountered a similar array before, but the origins of the Asura Gate and its teleportation array remained unclear.

• Fairy Ruyan explained that the Underworld Realm was home to powerful ghostly beings and that the Asura Gate connected it to the Human World.
• Fairy Ruyan said the Asura Gate opened once every nine thousand years, required Nascent Soul cultivation and an Asura Jade Token, and was deadly to most who entered.
• Fairy Ruyan revealed that the Asura Gate held an Ancient Teleportation Array capable of sending cultivators directly to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan believed Fairy Ruyan because he had encountered a similar array at the Indeterminate River, where Qin Xin had been teleported to the Spirit World.
• Lin Xuan wondered who had created the array inside the Asura Gate and whether it was connected to an ancient war.

Lin Xuan agreed to accompany Meng Ruyan through the dangerous Asura Gate and chose Yue'er as their third traveler, after learning the teleportation array could send only three people. Meng Ruyan then invited him to join Horizon Sea Pavilion, leaving Lin Xuan to consider her offer.

• Lin Xuan asked why Meng Ruyan would not travel with Wang Tinglou, and she angrily recalled how he had taken concubines after Fairy Rubing died.
• Meng Ruyan explained that the secret teleportation array lay deep inside the Asura Gate, could carry only three people, and needed ten thousand years to recover after use.
• Lin Xuan proposed bringing Yue'er instead of Yuanyuan, and Yue'er appeared before Meng Ruyan as a Lihe Realm cultivator.
• Meng Ruyan welcomed Yue'er as their third companion for the journey to the Spirit World.
• Meng Ruyan invited Lin Xuan to join Horizon Sea Pavilion, citing his help in the battle on Yingzhou Island.

Lin Xuan declined Meng Ruyan’s invitation to join Horizon Sea Pavilion because he was responsible for protecting Baisuan Pavilion and its members. Meng Ruyan proposed an equal alliance that let him serve both sects, and Lin Xuan agreed; a simple sect-entry ceremony was set for three days later.

• Meng Ruyan invited Lin Xuan to join Horizon Sea Pavilion as its supreme elder, but he refused because of his commitment to Baisuan Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan explained Baisuan Pavilion’s origins and his plans to help it establish itself in Cloud Province and protect Lu Ying'er and the other women.
• Meng Ruyan proposed an equal offensive and defensive alliance between Horizon Sea Pavilion and Baisuan Pavilion, with Lin Xuan joining Horizon Sea Pavilion while remaining Baisuan Pavilion’s Grand Elder.
• Lin Xuan accepted the arrangement, and Meng Ruyan said she would prepare a simple sect-entry ceremony for three days later.
• Lin Xuan asked Meng Ruyan to keep his arrival low-profile, and she told him he would need his own cave residence instead of staying in the VIP Building.

Lin Xuan joined Horizon Sea Pavilion and began studying cultivation insights left by its past Lihe Realm Grand Elders. News of the sect’s new strength spread, while Qin Yan resolved not to return until she reached Lihe Realm and the Five-Colored Fairy reconsidered Lin Xuan’s prospects as a match for Yuanyuan.

• Lin Xuan chose Wanhua Valley for his cave abode because its mixed Five Elements suited his cultivation, then left Chen Hongying to build it.
• Lin Xuan entered Horizon Sea Pavilion’s forbidden ninth-floor library and began reading Long Kexin’s Lihe Realm cultivation insights.
• Horizon Sea Pavilion celebrated the arrival of two Lihe Realm cultivators, and their presence deterred other factions from forming an alliance against the sect.
• Qin Yan received her master’s summons to attend Lin Xuan’s induction ceremony but vowed not to return until she advanced to Lihe Realm.
• The Five-Colored Fairy learned that Lin Xuan had reached Lihe Realm and considered how his potential to Shatter the Void could affect his relationship with Yuanyuan.