Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan set a trap to capture the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral and waited for it to appear. He discovered its incarnation was a cautious little white dog, but held back from acting so he could capture it and make it lead him to its true body.

• Lin Xuan decided to risk retrieving the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral and used Formation Flags to enclose Coral Island in a water-attribute formation.
• Lin Xuan concealed his aura with the Qi Concealment Technique and a red cloth that blocked divine sense, then waited for the treasure to return.
• After a day and a night, Lin Xuan spotted a small white dog and used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to confirm it was the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral's incarnation.
• Lin Xuan realized he needed to capture and imprison the incarnation to force it to lead him to its true body, and he refrained from acting rashly.

Lin Xuan trapped the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral, which had taken the form of a puppy, inside the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Formation and fought off its tricks. As Lin Xuan reached to seize it, the puppy turned into a ball of fire and revealed that it had deliberately lured him in.

• Lin Xuan stayed concealed while the puppy searched the island with its powerful divine sense and keen nose, but the red cloth hid him.
• The puppy absorbed the pink mist from Coral Island, and Lin Xuan attacked with Sword Qi before it could escape.
• The puppy fled toward the island's edge but struck the barrier of Lin Xuan's Four Symbols Azure Dragon Formation and fell back.
• The puppy created six illusions and attacked Lin Xuan, but he identified the real one and countered its spells.
• As Lin Xuan reached to grab the puppy, it turned into a blazing ball of fire, showing that it had feigned vulnerability to bait him.

Lin Xuan captured the little dog formed from the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral and learned its main body was hidden deep beneath the sea. After descending far beyond the expected seabed, he spotted a faint glimmer and pushed his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to its limit, revealing an inconceivable sight.

• Lin Xuan used Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to freeze the little dog and packed away his Formation Flags.
• Lin Xuan tempted the stubborn little dog with a fire-attribute Top-grade Spirit Stone, and it revealed where its main body was located.
• Lin Xuan gave the little dog one bite of the spirit stone, restrained it, and traveled to a remote stretch of sea.
• Lin Xuan descended into the sea behind the Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield, but found no seabed after reaching an extraordinary depth.
• Lin Xuan continued downward cautiously despite the little dog's protests and the strange interference with his divine sense.
• Lin Xuan spotted a faint glimmer and activated his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye, seeing an inconceivable scene.

Lin Xuan followed the little dog through a dangerous undersea ruin and entered an ancient palace by making it open the sealed door. Inside, he found a statue identical to the Witch God he had seen among the Ink Moon Tribe centuries earlier.

• Lin Xuan released the little dog and bribed it with a Top-grade Spirit Stone to lead him through the ruins.
• When Lin Xuan sent Jade Luo Bees toward the palace, silent white lightning-fire destroyed them, so he followed the little dog’s safe route.
• The little dog barked rhythmically at the palace door, causing its powerful restriction to vanish and allowing Lin Xuan to enter.
• Lin Xuan saw a nine-headed, eighteen-armed maiden’s statue on an altar and recognized it as the Witch God statue from the Ink Moon Tribe.

Lin Xuan followed the little dog through an Ink Moon Tribe ruin and discovered a passage to a sealed ice world. He collected rare Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Qi and Ice Marrow, then found the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral, with the little dog merging into it.

• Lin Xuan recognized the statue as the Ink Moon Tribe’s Heavenly Witch Goddess and took an ordinary-looking ring from its finger.
• Lin Xuan followed the little dog through a formation and entered an independent, ice-covered space sealed beneath the sea.
• Lin Xuan reached a cave and used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to withstand the cold, then collected the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Qi in a Jade Bottle.
• Lin Xuan discovered Ice Marrow embedded in the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice and cut out several chunks with the Demonic Fate Sword.
• Lin Xuan dug deeper and found the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral, where the little dog leaped down and merged with it.

Lin Xuan recovered the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral from the ruins of the Ink Moon Tribe, then left the seabed and traveled to the Chaotic Sea Region. After buying supplies and learning about the region, he prepared to find his footing among its islands and powerful factions.

• Lin Xuan removed the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral, fed the little dog a Top-grade Spirit Stone, and stored both the coral and the dog away.
• Lin Xuan searched the independent space and the Ink Moon Tribe's ruins, found nothing else, and took the statue of the Heavenly Witch Goddess with him.
• Lin Xuan surfaced in the Chaotic Sea Region and flew southeast to a small island with a Marketplace.
• Lin Xuan bought a nautical chart, supplies, and books about the Chaotic Sea Region, then read them in a private room at a restaurant.
• Lin Xuan learned that Nine Immortals Palace ruled a vast island and that the surrounding region held nearly a hundred islands, rival forces, and valuable but costly treasures.

Lin Xuan traveled to the Giant Island and prepared to settle in Nine Immortals City, where he planned to sell his treasures and cultivate. While investigating two heirlooms of the Ink Moon Tribe, he used the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and triggered a mysterious reaction from the ring.

• After reaching the Giant Island, Lin Xuan stopped in Wenjing City and rented a quiet cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan planned to sell his accumulated treasures and rent a cultivation cave in Nine Immortals City before entering seclusion.
• Lin Xuan spent nine days sorting his loot, then secured the cave with additional formation flags before examining the Ink Moon Tribe ring and root-shaped treasure.
• When ordinary methods revealed nothing, Lin Xuan transformed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire into the Azure Phantom Nether Fire and cautiously wrapped the ring in its flames.
• The ring trembled and sent a pillar of light onto the mountain wall, where golden characters appeared amid a strange fragrance.

Lin Xuan studied the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art and discovered that his two treasures contained its Upper and Middle Chapters, covering cultivation through the peak of the Dongxuan Realm. He weighed whether to adopt it as his main cultivation art and decided to examine the Middle Chapter before choosing.

• Lin Xuan spent nearly three months studying the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art and learned that its Upper Chapter required Lihe cultivation and the ability to command Five Elements vital energy.
• Lin Xuan discovered the art was divided into four chapters, and the ring contained only the Upper Chapter, which reached the peak of the Lihe Realm.
• Lin Xuan used Azure Phantom Nether Fire to open the tree-root-like treasure, revealing a jade pupil slip containing the Middle Chapter.
• Lin Xuan realized the two treasures gave him half the cultivation art, enough to reach the peak of the Dongxuan Realm, and recognized that the Hundred Poisons Divine Lord had given him the slip.
• Lin Xuan remained unsure whether to make the art his main cultivation method and examined the Middle Chapter before deciding.

After studying the Ink Moon Heaven Witch Art for three days, Lin Xuan discovered its Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation and learned that its immense power came with nearly impossible material requirements. He realized the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral he possessed could help him begin refining a growing, simplified version, and wondered why the Ink Moon Tribe had vanished from historical records.

• Lin Xuan finished studying the cultivation art and found the Nine Palaces Moment Sword Formation, whose complete form required nearly a thousand Flying Swords across nine attributes.
• Lin Xuan nearly abandoned the treasure after reading about its extraordinary materials, but learned that refining just one of the Nine Swords could still make him formidable among his peers.
• Lin Xuan discovered that less precious substitutes could be used to create a weaker version of the swords, which could later be upgraded with genuine materials.
• Lin Xuan realized he already possessed Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral and connected it to the Ink Moon Tribe’s sealed space and the ring he had found in the ruins.
• Lin Xuan questioned why the powerful Ink Moon Tribe had left so little trace in the ancient records he had read.

Lin Xuan tested whether feeding the little dog top-grade fire-attribute spirit stones increased its strength, then traveled to Nine Immortals City to seek opportunities. As he neared the city, a powerful Dongxuan Realm spiritual pressure swept over the area.

• Lin Xuan gave the little dog a top-grade fire-attribute spirit stone and watched it chew on it.
• Over the next three months, Lin Xuan confirmed that top-grade fire-attribute spirit stones helped the little dog grow stronger, while high-grade ones had almost no effect.
• Lin Xuan left Wenjing City and traveled toward Nine Immortals City, reflecting on the cost of raising the dog and its connection to the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Coral.
• After a long journey, Lin Xuan reached the enormous Nine Immortals City, where cultivators gathered from across the three races.
• A powerful spiritual pressure enveloped the nearby cultivators, and Lin Xuan recognized it as belonging to a Dongxuan Realm old monster.

Lin Xuan settled into Nine Immortals City, bought a cultivation cave on a mid-grade Spirit Vein, and secretly sold his accumulated goods for a fortune. He left the chapter worried that the costly pills he needed to cultivate were becoming difficult to obtain.

• After a Dongxuan Realm cultivator passed through, Lin Xuan entered Nine Immortals City and read a Jade Slip about finding a cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan bought a cultivation cave on a mid-grade Spirit Vein, opened a residence near its Spirit Spring, and set up temporary restrictions.
• Over several days, Lin Xuan disguised himself and sold goods across more than thirty Marketplaces, earning nine hundred million low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan bought an ordinary flying boat but decided against buying expensive Lihe Realm cultivation pills.
• Lin Xuan worried that his heavy reliance on pills and weak aptitude would make it difficult to reach the middle stage of the Lihe Realm.

Lin Xuan tested whether the Blue Star Sea could improve ordinary Qilin Fruits and found that the refined fruit strengthened his body. He planned to pause cultivation of his main Nascent Soul and instead advance his Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core while continuing to refine the fruits.

• Lin Xuan concluded that buying enough pills to support his cultivation was impractical and began looking for other ways to improve.
• Lin Xuan used the Blue Star Sea to refine a Qilin Fruit, swallowed it, and confirmed that it had a body-tempering effect.
• Lin Xuan decided to cultivate his Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core toward Lihe using his Purple Aster Pills, while continuing to practice the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art.
• Lin Xuan spent his days refining and stockpiling Qilin Fruits, cultivating in seclusion, and caring for his gluttonous little dog.

Lin Xuan strengthened his abilities in Nine Immortals City, mastering Phantom Escape and discovering how to refine the Vajra Sarira. He began studying the complex refining method, hoping to use the sarira to perform Buddhist secret arts.

• Lin Xuan spent heavily at auctions to obtain fire-attribute Top-grade Spirit Stones, helping the little dog grow, and gathered most of the materials for his fire swords while finding no leads on Yue'er or Fairy Ruyan.
• Lin Xuan studied Phantom Escape, overcame its physical and magic-power demands, and mastered it in less than three months.
• Lin Xuan tested Phantom Escape in a remote place and confirmed that it could move him a thousand li while creating convincing phantoms.
• Lin Xuan examined the Vajra Sarira and recalled that he had found a refining method in the incomplete cultivation art of Zen Master Womei.
• Lin Xuan began studying the difficult method and consulted Zen Master Jinhong indirectly by asking about selected fragments.

After more than four hundred years of cultivation in Nine Immortals City, Lin Xuan strengthened his body and magical power while remaining in the early Lihe Realm. He mastered Buddhist eye and strength techniques, then faced a growing shortage of pills amid rising tensions between the three races.

• Over two hundred years, Lin Xuan advanced his Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core to Lihe, refined the Vajra Sarira, and strengthened his body with Qilin Fruit.
• Lin Xuan mastered the first layer of the Heavenly Eye Technique and discovered that it greatly enhanced the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye, allowing him to see through an illusion formation.
• Lin Xuan began cultivating the Dragon-Elephant Demon-Subduing Technique, which increased his strength in proportion to his growing physical power.
• After another two hundred years, Lin Xuan remained at early Lihe but believed he could defeat Poison Dragon Devil Ancestor's possessed body.
• Tensions rose among the Human, Demon, and Sea Races as their leaders held secret meetings, while Lin Xuan worried that he could not find pills to increase his magical power.

Lin Xuan went to meet Zen Master Jinhong after receiving an urgent invitation and found Fairy Mingquan and Jin Yi waiting there as well. Jinhong said another guest had yet to arrive, and Lin Xuan suspected it was Xianmu Yi Lan, whose past clash with Jin Yi had ended in Jin Yi's defeat.

• Lin Xuan weighed searching the dangerous Sea of Ruins for ancient pills but decided to postpone the risk and continue cultivating.
• Zen Master Jinhong summoned Lin Xuan to his temple, where Lin Xuan found Fairy Mingquan and Jin Yi waiting.
• Jinhong greeted the three cultivators and explained that he was waiting for another guest before revealing why he had invited them.
• Lin Xuan guessed that the missing guest was Xianmu Yi Lan, whom he remembered as a frivolous cultivator who had defeated Jin Yi in a fight before flirting with Fairy Mingquan.

Lin Xuan and three familiar cultivators gathered at Zen Master Jinhong’s invitation, where he revealed that he had found a map to a secret headquarters of the long-lost Danyue Sect. The group reacted with excitement and suspicion as they began to question the discovery.

• Xianmu Yi Lan joined Lin Xuan, Jin Yi, Fairy Mingquan, and Zen Master Jinhong, greeting them with his usual teasing and flirtatious manner.
• Zen Master Jinhong explained that he had invited the four unaffiliated cultivators to discuss a major undertaking.
• Zen Master Jinhong asked whether they had heard of the Danyue Sect, and Xianmu Yi Lan identified it as the ancient East Sea alchemy sect.
• Lin Xuan recalled the Danyue Sect’s past glory and mysterious destruction, then asked whether the invitation concerned the sect.
• Zen Master Jinhong revealed that he had obtained a map marking one of the Danyue Sect’s secret headquarters.
• Fairy Mingquan reacted with excitement, while Xianmu Yi Lan questioned whether Zen Master Jinhong had told them the whole truth.

Master Jinhong recruited Lin Xuan and three other cultivators to break the Tiangang Five Elements Array guarding the Danyue Sect’s secret headquarters. The group agreed to set out in two days, but Lin Xuan remained suspicious of Jinhong’s unusually generous offer and concealed motives.

• Xianmu Yi Lan questioned why Master Jinhong would share the secret headquarters, and Jinhong explained that he had failed to break its restrictions alone.
• Master Jinhong identified the restriction as the Tiangang Five Elements Array and said five cultivators able to mobilize metal, wood, water, fire, and earth primordial qi could break it together.
• Lin Xuan and the others recognized that their respective abilities matched the five elements and agreed to join the expedition.
• Master Jinhong proposed leaving in two days, and the cultivators departed without asking where the treasure vault was located.
• Lin Xuan flew southeast and considered the opportunity to obtain pills while remaining wary of Jinhong’s hidden motives and failure to discuss how the treasures would be divided.

Lin Xuan visited Nine Immortals City’s thriving marketplace before an upcoming expedition, where the narration explained the dangers and rewards of the Sea of Ruins’ five layers. The fifth layer remained unexplored by anyone who entered, while the first layer attracted treasure hunters despite its risks and frequent losses.

• Lin Xuan reached the marketplace, where tensions among the three races had driven more cultivators into Nine Immortals City.
• The narration described the Sea of Ruins’ five layers, from the relatively accessible first layer to the deadly fifth layer that no one had returned from.
• The narration explained that Nine Immortals Palace’s teleportation array only reached the third layer, so reaching the fifth required a dangerous journey on foot.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator sold ancient pills for fifty thousand Spirit Stones, unaware that a shop later resold them for over ten million.
• After the cultivator died from grief and anger, low-level treasure hunters began selling unfamiliar finds at their own stalls and demanding exorbitant prices.

Lin Xuan prepared for his upcoming adventure by buying spirit wine and powerful talismans at the Marketplace, where he also found a rare Substitute Tribulation Talisman. He returned to his cultivation cave with the priceless talisman in hand.

• Lin Xuan spotted a plain gray talisman at a young Foundation Establishment cultivator’s stall and bought it for twenty thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan visited the Wine House and bought three jars of the shop’s finest spirit wine.
• Lin Xuan purchased more than a hundred powerful spirit talismans before returning to his cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan examined the gray talisman and identified it as a rare Substitute Tribulation Talisman that could help its bearer escape a life-threatening danger.

Lin Xuan and four companions traveled aboard Xianmu Yi Lan’s concealed Hundred Flowers Boat to seek the Danyue Sect’s secret main helm. They reached an island near the Demon Race border and discovered cultivators establishing a settlement close to their destination, leaving the group concerned that their search could be noticed.

• Lin Xuan met Zen Master Jinhong and Fairy Mingquan, then joined Jin Yi and Young Master Yi Lan to set out for the Danyue Sect’s secret main helm.
• Zen Master Jinhong suggested using a faster means of travel, and Xianmu Yi Lan brought out his Hundred Flowers Boat after the others teased him about its cost.
• Xianmu Yi Lan powered the boat with five Top-grade Spirit Stones and concealed it, allowing the group to travel for three days and nights without being detected.
• Fairy Mingquan worried that the route was nearing Demon Race territory, but Zen Master Jinhong assured the group that their destination remained within the Chaotic Sea Region.
• The group reached a large island and learned from Zen Master Jinhong that it had once been desolate; Lin Xuan and Fairy Mingquan observed cultivators building a settlement only two thousand li from their destination.