Chapter Summaries

Jin Yi, Xianmu Yi Lan, and Fairy Mingquan decided to kill the cultivators below to protect their secret, while Zen Master Jinhong objected and Lin Xuan stayed neutral. Jin Yi attacked the Li Family, and the chapter ended with him killing its strongest cultivator in a single punch.

• Jin Yi argued that the group should eliminate the cultivators who might expose their secret, while Zen Master Jinhong urged restraint.
• Fairy Mingquan supported caution, Lin Xuan declined to take a position, and the majority chose to attack.
• Jin Yi plunged from the Hundred Flowers Boat and crashed into a pavilion, drawing a crowd of cultivators.
• Jin Yi released his spiritual pressure and forced most of the gathered cultivators to the ground.
• Li Qing, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, asked Jin Yi why he had come, and Jin Yi punched through his defenses and destroyed him along with his Nascent Soul.

Jin Yi slaughtered Li Family cultivators on the island and fought three Lihe Realm elders while Lin Xuan and the others ended their concealment and joined the battle. Fairy Mingquan froze the fleeing clansmen, and the Li Family elders tried to retreat toward their reinforcements as Jin Yi moved to stop them.

• Jin Yi killed a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator and flattened a wide area of the island, killing the surrounding Li Family cultivators.
• Three Lihe Realm elders confronted Jin Yi, who damaged the red-faced elder’s flaming flying sword with his Golden Moon True Toad technique.
• Xianmu Yi Lan, Fairy Mingquan, Zen Master Jinhong, and Lin Xuan debated whether to help Jin Yi, then revealed themselves.
• Fairy Mingquan summoned an ice python that froze dozens of Li Family cultivators as they tried to flee.
• The red-faced elder ordered a retreat toward the Grand Elder, but Jin Yi declared that they were too late to escape.

Lin Xuan watched Xianmu Yi Lan and Fairy Mingquan kill three Li Family cultivators with startling abilities. Five more enemies then charged toward them, leaving Lin Xuan wary of what they might be relying on.

• Jin Yi transformed into a toad and killed one black-robed Li Family cultivator with his tongue.
• Xianmu Yi Lan dodged a red-faced cultivator's sword and killed him with Thousand Gold Smile poison, then burned his corpse.
• Fairy Mingquan froze the last cultivator, released him from the ice, and let him flee before a hidden force made him self-destruct.
• Five more cultivators saw the death and charged toward Lin Xuan and his companions, while Jin Yi readied himself to fight.

Lin Xuan and his companions battled five Li Family cultivators, who used a sword formation and an illusion talisman to trap them in a snowy illusion. As hidden sword attacks struck, Master Jinhong prepared to test the formation.

• The bald Li Family cultivator traded punches with Jin Yi, and neither gained the upper hand.
• Four Li Family elders formed a sword array while the elder in white activated an illusion talisman, trapping Lin Xuan, Master Jinhong, Xianmu Yi Lan, and Fairy Mingquan in a snowy illusion.
• Lin Xuan used his spirit-eye arts to see through part of the illusion, while Jin Yi fought the bald cultivator somewhere out of sight.
• The four hidden elders launched sword attacks; Lin Xuan dodged, and his companions defended themselves from the strikes.
• Master Jinhong rose into the air and said he would test the illusion art.

Zen Master Jinhong broke the Li Family cultivators’ illusion with the Six-Word Demon-Subduing Curse, and the five companions overwhelmed their formation. The survivors sacrificed their bodies and fused their Nascent Souls into the bald big man, whose blood-red cocoon repelled the group’s combined attack.

• Zen Master Jinhong used his golden bowl and the Six-Word Demon-Subduing Curse to release a Ghost Claw that shattered the Li Family cultivators’ illusion.
• Xianmu Yi Lan, Fairy Mingquan, and Lin Xuan joined the attack, and Fairy Mingquan’s ice blade pierced the imperial-robed old man while the others were wounded or lost their bodies.
• The white-robed old man unleashed several dozen Baleful Thunder Beads, forcing Lin Xuan and the others to retreat as the explosion sank part of the island.
• The Li Family survivors resolved to kill the five witnesses, and two old men destroyed their bodies so their Nascent Souls could be absorbed.
• The bald big man fused four Nascent Souls into himself inside a blood-red cocoon, which moved aside from the five companions’ assault and then swept their combined attack away.

Lin Xuan and the other cultivators discovered that the bald man and four bodyless elders had formed a monstrous being identified as a possible descendant or agent of the Asura Race. As the group attacked, the monster proved nearly unharmed and struck Jin Yi with a devastating vortex of force.

• The sea of blood receded to reveal a five-headed monster resembling the bald man and the four elders.
• Master Jinhong identified the creature as likely connected to the Asura Race, and Lin Xuan worried that the group might expose Yue'er’s heritage.
• Xianmu Yi Lan and Fairy Mingquan attacked the monster with thunderfire and ice pillars, but its blood-red shield stopped their attacks.
• Jin Yi charged the monster, which struck him with a vortex of force; he donned golden armor and raised a heavy shield for protection.
• The vortex punched through Jin Yi’s shield, draining its spiritual power and sending it falling as ordinary iron.

A Demon Monster overwhelmed Lin Xuan’s companions with brutal force and strange blood techniques, leaving them close to defeat. Lin Xuan stepped in to protect Fairy Mingquan and brought out the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, setting up his counterattack.

• The Demon Monster struck Jin Yi with a Force Cyclone, then revealed strength far beyond an ordinary Lihe Realm cultivator and threatened to refine the companions’ souls.
• Zen Master Jinhong blocked the Demon Monster’s next Force Cyclone with the Six-Word Demon-Subduing Curse while Lin Xuan attacked with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring.
• The Demon Monster fouled Lin Xuan’s treasure with black-red Demon Flame and used blood arrows that transformed into relentless liquid to trap Fairy Mingquan and Xianmu Yi Lan.
• Lin Xuan noticed that the Demon Monster’s blood techniques weakened its heads and aura, but Fairy Mingquan, Xianmu Yi Lan, and Jinhong remained under heavy pressure.
• Lin Xuan blocked the blood-red liquid as it reached for Fairy Mingquan and summoned a ball of three-colored Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire.

Lin Xuan’s Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire destroyed the monster’s blood hand, but the monster retaliated and threatened Master Jinhong. Jin Yi returned and unleashed the Golden Moon True Toad’s Toad Divine Technique, pinning the monster down as Lin Xuan and the others joined the attack.

• Lin Xuan sent his three-colored Fire Bird into the monster’s blood hand, and its halo annihilated the hand in ice and gray light.
• Fairy Mingquan’s Long Spear struck the monster, which lost half its fist but regenerated while its four heads spat demonic fire at Master Jinhong.
• The monster formed a poisoned Hook Sword and attacked Master Jinhong while he was occupied containing the flames.
• Jin Yi returned, enlarged himself with the Giant Technique, and struck the monster with the Golden Moon True Toad’s Toad Divine Technique.
• The monster blocked the Toad palm shadow with a blood barrier and Force Cyclones, but the attack left it unable to fight back.
• Lin Xuan, Fairy Mingquan, Master Jinhong, and the others unleashed their attacks on the restrained monster.

After a monster self-destructed and erased everything within a hundred li, Xianmu Yi Lan’s Small Instantaneous Cave Heaven Talisman saved him and the other four cultivators. The group thanked Xianmu Yi Lan, then continued toward the Danyue Sect’s treasure.

• Xianmu Yi Lan and Fairy Mingquan attacked the monster until its blood mist dispersed, but the monster began to self-destruct.
• Lin Xuan and the others were engulfed by the blast, which destroyed the island and everything within a hundred li.
• A Residual Talisman survived the blast, ignited, and opened a Black Hole through which Xianmu Yi Lan, a Monk, Jin Yi, Mingquan, and Lin Xuan emerged.
• The Monk and the others thanked Xianmu Yi Lan for saving them with the Small Instantaneous Cave Heaven Talisman, which he said could only be used once.
• The group decided to press on toward the Danyue Sect’s treasure and flew ahead.

A Holy City warship carrying Enforcement Envoys pursued the Li Family remnants of the Asura Race, but its elders discovered that the tracking marks had vanished. The two Dongxuan Realm elders disagreed over the City Lord’s unusual orders and whether his recent change in behavior was cause for concern.

• A golden Holy City warship carrying more than a hundred cultivators, including two Dongxuan Realm elders, traveled over the sea in Human Race territory.
• Old monster Qiu detected that the sensing marks on the Li Family cultivators had vanished, and he and the golden-haired old man worried that the clan might have been wiped out.
• Old monster Qiu explained that the City Lord had ordered them to capture the Asura Race remnants alive, while the golden-haired old man questioned why the mission required such unusual orders and personal involvement.
• The golden-haired old man privately told old monster Qiu that the City Lord seemed strange, but old monster Qiu dismissed his suspicions and urged him to obey the orders and avoid inviting disaster.

Lin Xuan and his companions found the Danyue Sect's hidden headquarters beneath a lake on an unremarkable island. After revealing a barrier that Zen Master Jinhong identified as the Tiangang Five Elements Array, Jin Yi attacked it despite the master's warning.

• The blond old man and Elder Qiu left their warship to investigate where the Li Family cultivators had disappeared.
• Zen Master Jinhong led Lin Xuan, Jin Yi, and Fairy Mingquan to a small crescent-shaped island and explained that its ordinary appearance concealed the Danyue Sect's secret headquarters.
• Jinhong revealed that the array's entrance lay at the bottom of the lake, and Fairy Mingquan gave Lin Xuan a Water-Avoiding Bead.
• The group descended through the deep lake, where Jinhong struck the rocky lakebed and exposed an azure barrier.
• Jin Yi dismissed the barrier and punched it, ignoring Jinhong's warning.

Lin Xuan and the others tried to break the Tiangang Five Elements Array after brute force failed, following Master Jinhong’s plan to unite the five elements. As they began fusing five carefully balanced balls of vitality, a thunderous boom interrupted them.

• The array produced a Void Shadow that copied Jin Yi’s punch and sent him crashing into a rock.
• Master Jinhong explained that brute force would require a late-stage Dongxuan cultivator and proposed breaking the restriction by uniting the five elements.
• Master Jinhong set up a small formation and gave each cultivator a colored Formation Flag and a Jade Slip containing the incantation.
• Lin Xuan and the others chanted the incantation, drawing five kinds of vitality into matching balls of light.
• The five cultivators sent the balls of light toward one another to begin the fusion, but a thunderous boom sounded.

Lin Xuan and the others broke the restriction guarding the Danyue Sect’s underground treasure vault, while Lin concealed that his Second Nascent Soul had survived. They descended to a trapped stone door, which opened after destroying Fairy Mingquan’s puppet and released a white light that swallowed them.

• An Ancient Beast attacked while the five cultivators were breaking the restriction, and Lin Xuan’s Second Nascent Soul fought it as the others completed the array.
• The five cultivators broke the azure light curtain and revealed bluestone steps; Lin claimed his Second Nascent Soul had perished and accepted the others’ offer of a larger share of the treasure.
• Lin Xuan secretly remained unharmed and pretended to be weak as the group descended into the underground hall.
• Fairy Mingquan sent her Puppet Warrior to push the stone door, but black lightning destroyed it as the door opened.
• White light poured from behind the stone door and swallowed Lin Xuan and the others.

Lin Xuan led the group to search the Danyue Sect’s hidden realm, persuading them to begin with ordinary disciples’ quarters rather than the grandest buildings. Their first search uncovered only low-quality items, leaving the group to continue looking for the sect’s real treasures.

• Lin Xuan and his companions entered an independent space beneath the lake and saw the Danyue Sect’s vast mountain complex.
• Lin Xuan argued that the group should search the ordinary disciples’ residences first, warning that the most conspicuous buildings might be traps.
• Xianmu Yi Lan, Fairy Mingquan, and Zen Master Jinhong agreed to search together, and Jin Yi abandoned his suggestion to split up.
• Fairy Mingquan opened a nearby building, where the group found only plain furnishings and an ordinary meditation cushion.
• The group searched the second floor and found several Ancient Treasures, but they were low-quality items meant for Core Condensation Realm cultivators.

Lin Xuan persuaded the group to keep searching the Danyue Sect’s buildings after the others wanted to leave, and they found three chests in one of them. The first held a fragmentary map, while the second contained five powerful Dharma Treasures and seven top-grade Spirit Stones; the final chest remained unopened.

• Lin Xuan collected the low-value items in the first building after the others declined them.
• Jin Yi argued that the group should stop searching, but Lin Xuan persuaded everyone to continue exploring the buildings.
• The group found three chests beside a stone bed on the second floor of another building.
• The first chest contained a pitch-black Jade Slip that appeared to show a fragment of a map.
• The second chest held five powerful Dharma Treasures and seven top-grade Spirit Stones, prompting Jin Yi to urge Master Jinhong to open the last chest.

Lin Xuan and the others negotiated how to divide the treasures in the chest, including two Shangqing Zhengyuan Pills and a mysterious Jade Slip. Lin Xuan appeared to accept the least desirable share, but secretly got the Jade Slip he had wanted along with seven Top-grade Spirit Stones.

• Zen Master Jinhong opened the chest and revealed two Jade Boxes, one of which held a Shangqing Zhengyuan Pill that could improve the odds of advancing in the Lihe Realm.
• Zen Master Jinhong claimed one pill, and Fairy Mingquan claimed the other in exchange for giving up her share of the remaining treasures.
• Lin Xuan, Xianmu Yi Lan, and Jin Yi argued over how to divide the five Ancient Treasures and the mysterious Jade Slip.
• Zen Master Jinhong proposed that Lin Xuan take the Jade Slip and seven Top-grade Spirit Stones as one share, and Lin Xuan agreed on the condition that he chose his Ancient Treasure first.
• Lin Xuan chose the Gourd Artifact-shaped treasure, then secretly rejoiced that he had secured the Jade Slip and seven Top-grade Spirit Stones.

Lin Xuan discovered that a Jade Slip held an incomplete map of the Sea of Ruins' fifth layer and quietly kept it while searching the buildings with Master Jinhong and the others. Meanwhile, two Dongxuan Realm elders investigated the Li Family cultivators' disappearance and began searching the surrounding islands for whoever had defeated them.

• Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and Heavenly Eye Technique to uncover the Jade Slip's hidden map of the Sea of Ruins' fifth layer.
• Lin Xuan concealed his discovery and took the Jade Slip as Master Jinhong led the group through the remaining buildings.
• The group found only items suited to Core Condensation Realm cultivators, which Lin Xuan collected, and then moved on to other buildings.
• Two Dongxuan Realm elders arrived where the Li Family cultivators had vanished and found signs that the island had sunk after a battle.
• The Daoist-robed elder and the golden-haired elder concluded that the Li Family cultivators had likely been killed and searched the surrounding area with their divine sense.
• After finding nothing nearby, the two elders agreed to search the islands for the people responsible.

Lin Xuan and the others reached the final palace and attacked its powerful barrier after hearing cultivators inside. Meanwhile, two Dongxuan Realm cultivators found the broken array beneath the lake but could not damage the hall’s stone door.

• Lin Xuan and the others found the palace’s barrier resisted Zen Master Jinhong’s lightning strike.
• The group heard repeated booms from inside and realized other cultivators had entered ahead of them.
• Jin Yi urged everyone to break the barrier, and the cultivators attacked it together, with Lin Xuan joining in.
• The golden-haired old man and Old Monster Qiu traced signs of human cultivators to the lake bottom and followed the stone steps into the hall.
• Old Monster Qiu struck the stone door with Sword Qi, but it showed no damage.

Old Monster Jin identified the stone door as a Gate of Alien Space and began preparing to open it with Qiu’s help. Inside the Xuyu Space, Lin Xuan and the others found the treasures already taken, followed the thief’s route to the second floor, and debated whether to pursue him or inspect the third floor.

• Old Monster Jin explained that the stone door connected to a Xuyu Space and said he could break its seal, then brought out treasures and Thunder Beads for the task.
• Jin Yi led the group into the first-floor hall, where they found opened chests and realized someone had taken the contents.
• Master Jinhong used the Teleportation Array to bring the group to the second floor, where Fairy Mingquan recognized the remains of a Heavenly Wolf Three Talents Array.
• The group found a hole blasted through the second-floor wall and worried that the thief might be a Dongxuan Realm cultivator.
• Lin Xuan suggested they inspect the third floor instead of risking pursuit, reasoning that the thief had probably not reached it yet.

Lin Xuan and the others broke through the third-floor barrier and found an offering table with a Jade Box inside a shrine. As Jin Yi argued to open it, Lin Xuan and Xianmu Yi Lan urged caution, leaving the group divided over what to do next.

• Lin Xuan and the others abandoned the chase and joined Zen Master Jinhong in attacking the untouched third-floor barrier.
• After half a day of attacks, the group broke through the barrier and entered a small hall centered on an offering table and shrine.
• Fairy Mingquan spotted a Jade Box inside the shrine, and Jin Yi reached for it.
• Lin Xuan stopped Jin Yi and warned that the Jade Box's placement among offerings was suspicious.
• Xianmu Yi Lan supported Lin Xuan's caution, but Jin Yi dismissed their concerns and offered to open the box and split its contents.