Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and his companions entered Linhai City and went to the guest pavilions to find lodging. When the Four Friends of Yan Mountain balked at the high price, Lin Xuan paid for five connected pavilions and accepted their thanks.

• Lin Xuan and his companions traveled through Linhai City to the northern district, where Rogue Cultivators lived.
• The group hired a Beast Carriage and arrived at the guest pavilions for high-rank cultivators.
• Cui'er quoted a rental price of ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones per pavilion for one year, and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain showed concern over the cost.
• Lin Xuan paid for five connected pavilions with high-grade Spirit Stones and told the others to accept the lodging as friends.
• Huangting Sect and the other members of the Four Friends of Yan Mountain accepted Lin Xuan's generosity with thanks.

Lin Xuan joined the Four Friends of Yan Mountain to inspect the Holy City's mission board and became curious about the unusually generous reward for Heaven Heart Stones. He questioned a one-armed Daoist about the mission, who began explaining why it was far more difficult than it appeared.

• Lin Xuan settled into his new cultivation cave after helping the Four Friends of Yan Mountain secure their lodgings.
• The next morning, Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain visited the square where the Holy City posted missions.
• Lin Xuan found that the mission offered one high-grade Spirit Stone for each Heaven Heart Stone taken from a low-ranked Heaven Heart Toad.
• Lin Xuan suspected the generous reward concealed a catch and approached a one-armed Daoist who had shown skepticism about the mission.
• The one-armed Daoist told Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain that collecting Heaven Heart Stones was much harder than new arrivals expected, then began to explain.

Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain learned why the Heaven Heart Stone mission was so dangerous: cultivators of the Human Race, Demon Race, and Sea Race fought over the rare stones on a remote island. Despite the One-Armed Daoist’s grim account of losing his arm and treasures there, Lin Xuan decided to accept the mission.

• Yu Miaorong questioned why capturing weak Heaven Heart Toads was considered difficult, and the One-Armed Daoist explained that rival cultivators made the mission dangerous.
• The One-Armed Daoist revealed that the Human Race, Sea Race, and Demon Race had all flocked to a remote island to hunt Heaven Heart Toads for their valuable stones.
• The One-Armed Daoist recounted how he lost his right arm and treasures after fighting a Demon Race cultivator and being ambushed by a Human Race cultivator.
• Yu Miaorong urged Huangting Sect to choose another mission, but Huangting Sect hesitated because the group needed the Heaven Heart Stone’s valuable reward.
• Lin Xuan told the group that he planned to accept the Heaven Heart Stone mission, despite Yu Miaorong warning that it was nearly certain death.

Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain accepted the Heaven Heart Stone mission and traveled toward the mysterious deserted island. Near their destination, they discovered a Sea Race cultivator about to defeat seven human cultivators.

• Lin Xuan refused to abandon the dangerous mission, and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain agreed to accompany him.
• Lin Xuan and the four siblings registered for the mission, learned that its instructions omitted the dangers, and left Linhai City.
• After traveling for a day and night, Huangting Sect warned that they were nearing territory where they could encounter the Sea Race or hostile cultivators.
• Lin Xuan detected a fierce battle nearby and persuaded the others to approach and investigate.
• Lin Xuan and his companions arrived to find an early-stage transformed Demon Cultivator overwhelming five Core Condensation cultivators and two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain killed a Transformation Realm Demon Cultivator and divided the Heaven Heart Stones they found among themselves. They continued toward the deserted island more cautiously, and an enormous island came into view.

• A Core Condensation cultivator fled the battle, causing the remaining cultivators to scatter and the Demon Cultivator to kill them one by one.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain revealed themselves, surrounded the Demon Cultivator, and killed him.
• The group collected the Demon Cultivator's materials and Storage Bags, finding 152 Heaven Heart Stones among the spoils.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain split the Heaven Heart Stones, with Lin Xuan giving them the two extra stones.
• The five flew toward the deserted island with greater caution, and an enormous island appeared before them.

White Bone True Lord and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor sailed toward the barren island, discussing their decision to join Holy City and their resentment at being commanded by Enforcement Elder Qiu. White Bone argued that Holy City's support was necessary to defend Red Leaf Island from the Giant Whale faction, though neither elder had expected Holy City to wield such formidable Enforcement Elders.

• White Bone True Lord and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor traveled aboard an Ancient Warship toward the barren island.
• Poison Dragon complained that Enforcement Elder Qiu treated them like subordinates despite their decision to ally with Holy City.
• White Bone explained that Qiu was a peak mid-stage Lihe Realm cultivator whose strength made their obedience unsurprising.
• The two elders discussed how Holy City's Six Great Enforcement Elders and Nine Immortals Palace revealed the depth of powerful factions' hidden foundations.
• Poison Dragon recalled expecting Holy City to leave them in charge of the Red Leaf Sea Region, but instead Qiu had taken command.
• White Bone defended their alliance, arguing that Holy City's aid was needed to resist the Giant Whale faction and protect Red Leaf Island.

Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord discussed the Human Race and Sea Race racing to gather Heaven Heart Stones and activate their World-Breaking Arrays. They prepared to hunt a Heaven Heart Toad King for its core, while worrying that Sea Race Dongxuan experts might interfere.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord reviewed how both races had seized one entrance to the mysterious space and become locked in a stalemate over Red Leaf Island and Ten Thousand Beasts Island.
• The two discussed how both sides had shifted from open warfare to covert attacks and sent cultivators to gather Heaven Heart Stones for their World-Breaking Arrays.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor complained that the array masters had only recently discovered the array required the Inner Core of a Heaven Heart Toad King.
• White Bone True Lord explained that the array masters had struggled to understand the complex formation, and said Old Monster Qiu had assigned the hunt to the two of them because the toad would be dangerous.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor worried that the Sea Race might send Dongxuan-level experts to interfere, and White Bone True Lord argued that the Giant Whale King would not leave his post to hunt personally.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor agreed the Giant Whale King probably would not come but warned that other Sea Race Dongxuan experts might appear.

Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord flew toward Desolate Island, both intent on claiming the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core and the Holy City's promised rewards. A Giant Whale lineage force also approached, while Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain arrived at the island and prepared to enter.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor recalled how Lin Xuan had destroyed Poison Dragon Island, killed his External Incarnation, and taken the wealth he had hidden.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord agreed to do their utmost to seize the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core and secure the Holy City's promised benefits.
• A Giant Whale lineage force aboard a Mystic Turtle Puppet headed for Desolate Island, led by Aunt Xiu and an old monster surnamed Li, both Dongxuan Realm cultivators.
• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain reached the vast Desolate Island after a long journey.
• Huangting Sect consulted a Jade Slip and asked whether they should enter the island, and Lin Xuan agreed.

Lin Xuan entered Desolate Island with the Four Friends of Yan Mountain, but a strange force teleported them to separate locations. While Lin Xuan explored the island’s dangerous landscape, a Core Condensation cultivator waiting in a desert for Heaven Heart Toads faced a much larger Spatial Rift than before.

• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain flew into the mist, where darkness and powerful restrictions teleported them away separately.
• Lin Xuan emerged in a canyon, found the mist’s restrictions gone, and flew out to inspect the island.
• Lin Xuan tested the island’s storm-filled sky and saw lightning destroy a boulder sent a thousand zhang upward.
• A bearded Core Condensation cultivator discovered Heaven Heart Toads emerged from a small Spatial Rift in the desert and collected fifty Heaven Heart Stones by waiting for them.
• The cultivator saw a Spatial Rift over ten feet wide open early, heard roars from within, and found himself unable to move as terror overtook him.

A spatial rift opened on Desolate Island, allowing powerful beings from the Underworld Realm to enter the Spirit World. The newcomers began killing cultivators across the island, while Sea Race members faced a gigantic stone creature.

• A Dongxuan woman emerged from a spatial rift, identified the Spirit World as the place where the Underworld Army had once been defeated, and killed a Core Condensation cultivator who tried to flee.
• A Lihe Realm Fierce Ghost killed a Nascent Soul cultivator by decapitating him and swallowing his escaping Nascent Soul.
• Several Core Condensation members of the Sea Race formed a battle array against a towering Black Granite stone man on a snowy plain.
• The Sea Race members realized the stone man had emerged from a spatial rift and feared that creatures from the Underworld Realm had become involved in their Heaven Heart Stone mission.

Underworld Realm forces began slaughtering cultivators across Red Leaf Island as Biyou Fairy and Fellow Daoist Luo discussed their mission to find the Five Dragon Seal. Lin Xuan encountered a Stone Gargoyle while searching for a breakthrough opportunity and moved to evade its attack.

• A Stone Man killed several Sea Race cultivators, while a Demon Race cultivator defeated a Lihe Realm Corpse Demon near a volcanic crater.
• Biyou Fairy and Fellow Daoist Luo discussed their orders to search for the Five Dragon Seal and eliminate cultivators who discovered them.
• Biyou Fairy and Fellow Daoist Luo sent orders to their subordinates to begin killing cultivators on the island.
• Lin Xuan flew across Red Leaf Island, studied the Heaven Heart Stone, and wondered whether it could help him break through his bottleneck.
• Lin Xuan detected a concealed Underworld Realm Stone Gargoyle, which attacked him with a powerful punch.
• Lin Xuan vanished from the Gargoyle's attack and reappeared beside it.

Lin Xuan tested the Stone Monster’s strength and discovered that his control over heaven-and-earth elemental energy could overpower it. He left the monster battered but alive, using it as a target to practice his techniques.

• Lin Xuan dodged the Stone Monster’s attack and struck its arm with a giant sword, opening a wound without severing the limb.
• The enraged Stone Monster fired a barrage of arrows from holes in its chest, but Lin Xuan protected himself with talismans and trapped the arrows with an elemental-energy hand.
• Lin Xuan formed a giant fist from heaven-and-earth elemental energy and blasted the Stone Monster underground when it tried to block the blow.
• Lin Xuan reformed the fist into hundreds of smaller fists and sent them hammering down on the Stone Monster.

Lin Xuan defeated the giant Stone Monster and retrieved a mysterious blue crystal from its remains. Elsewhere, a worried Nascent Soul couple received their disciples and asked about the tasks they had assigned.

• Lin Xuan battered the giant Stone Monster with Earth Elemental Energy until cracks spread across its body.
• The monster tried to flee, but Lin Xuan slowed it with Wood Elemental Energy and smashed it apart with a giant fist.
• Lin Xuan found a palm-sized blue crystal among the black stones and stored it in his Instantaneous Bag.
• Lin Xuan restrained his aura to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and flew off to search for clues.
• A Nascent Soul man and woman met dozens of disciples on a mountain summit, and the man asked how their assigned tasks had gone.

Cultivators across the Desolate Island discovered that the teleportation points had vanished, leaving them trapped with no way out. Lin Xuan remained unaware of the crisis as he continued killing attackers and investigating why his Soul Searching Technique failed on Underworld Realm ghosts.

• A Tianhe Sect elder reported that his group had searched the surrounding area but could not find any teleportation exits.
• The Tianhe Sect leader recalled a divination that had predicted great calamity and realized the vanished exits might be connected to their danger.
• Cultivators of the Human Race, Sea Race, and Demon Race found that the teleportation points had disappeared, trapping everyone on the island.
• Lin Xuan killed five groups of attackers from the Human Race, Sea Race, and Underworld Realm after they attacked him.
• Lin Xuan found that his Soul Searching Technique could not extract information from Underworld Realm ghosts, even when he captured them and tried repeatedly.

Lin Xuan realized the island was a Passage Interface linking the Spirit World and the Underworld Realm, then confronted a hidden female cultivator whose power suggested she could be far stronger than he was. As a whirlpool swallowed his spiritual pressure, a graceful figure emerged from the darkness.

• Lin Xuan saw the island's spirit vein transform into a yin vein at night and recognized the area as a Passage Interface.
• Lin Xuan considered whether the Underworld ghosts had arrived by chance or whether the Underworld Realm had deliberately found the passage, then thought wistfully of Yue'er.
• Lin Xuan sensed someone hiding nearby and warned the stranger before sending out spiritual pressure to probe her strength.
• A whirlpool appeared and swallowed Lin Xuan's spiritual pressure, making him fear that his opponent was a middle-stage Dongxuan cultivator.
• A bell-like sound came from the whirlpool, and a slender female figure appeared before Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan confronted Biyou Fairy, a powerful ghostly cultivator from the Underworld Realm, and tried to buy time with talismans and millions of Blood Fire Ants. Biyou Fairy burned the leading ants with Ghost Fire, but the swarm kept advancing.

• Lin Xuan recognized the young woman as a middle-stage Dongxuan Realm cultivator from the Underworld Realm and judged that he could not defeat her.
• Lin Xuan launched several dozen attack talismans at Biyou Fairy to delay her.
• Lin Xuan released millions of Blood Fire Ants from the Ten Thousand Soul Tower.
• Biyou Fairy swept away the talisman attacks and summoned a huge Evil Ghost that sprayed Ghost Fire at the ants.
• Biyou Fairy burned the leading Blood Fire Ants, but the rest continued charging toward her.

Lin Xuan used Blood Fire Ants to delay Biyou Fairy and escaped with Phantom Escape, only to encounter Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord. He chose to face Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s attack, leaving his opponent shocked by his strength despite his late Lihe Realm cultivation.

• Biyou Fairy’s Evil Ghost Void Shadow was destroyed when the Blood Fire Ants self-destructed, and she discovered that the ants were immune to damage from their own kind and absorbed the blast’s aftermath.
• Lin Xuan used the Blood Fire Ants to stall Biyou Fairy, then cast a secret technique that produced nearly a hundred lifelike versions of himself before repeatedly using Phantom Escape to flee.
• After Lin Xuan had moved a thousand li, he encountered Poison Dragon Old Ancestor, White Bone True Lord, and several dozen cultivators from Red Leaf Island.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor recognized Lin Xuan and attacked him with a colossal claw, but Lin Xuan chose to counter with a fist formed from spiritual energy rather than escape.
• Lin Xuan was forced back one step by the clash, and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor was astonished that a late Lihe Realm cultivator could match his attack.

Lin Xuan lured Biyou Fairy into a confrontation with Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord, then escaped while she attacked them. The chapter left the two Dongxuan cultivators and their followers facing the enraged mid Dongxuan ghostly creature.

• Lin Xuan blocked Poison Dragon Old Ancestor's attack, shocking him and White Bone True Lord with his strength.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor asked White Bone True Lord to help capture Lin Xuan, but White Bone objected to joining forces against a junior.
• Biyou Fairy arrived, and her overwhelming pressure forced the Nascent Soul cultivators to their knees.
• Lin Xuan revealed that he had deliberately led Biyou Fairy to Poison Dragon Old Ancestor's group to divert danger, then used Phantom Escape to flee more than ten thousand li.
• Biyou Fairy failed to locate Lin Xuan and, furious at being tricked, threatened to torment the remaining cultivators.

Biyou Fairy fought Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and White Bone True Lord after Lin Xuan escaped and turned them into her opponents. Lin Xuan fled far away and continued changing direction, leaving the battle’s outcome unknown.

• Biyou Fairy’s inky-green Immortal Sword overwhelmed Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s earth-yellow sword, even after he transformed it into a Flood Dragon.
• Biyou Fairy transformed her sword into a Bone Dragon, which quickly gained the upper hand over Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s treasure.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor called for White Bone True Lord’s help, and White Bone reluctantly attacked Biyou Fairy with his bone Scythe.
• Biyou Fairy confronted White Bone True Lord as well, and lights flashed across the sky as the battle intensified.
• Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape repeatedly to shake off his pursuers, then changed direction several times as he continued fleeing.

Wounded and unable to use Phantom Escape, Lin Xuan hid from a large group of Sea Race cultivators led by two Dongxuan experts. As they began searching the area after the Shuo Rat sensed danger, Lin Xuan considered using the Command Token from Dongfang Mingqi to escape the crisis.

• Lin Xuan flew toward a remote canyon to recover, but sensed approaching cultivators and concealed himself behind a boulder.
• Nearly a hundred Sea Race cultivators arrived, led by a black-clad woman and a bald Dongxuan cultivator.
• Fairy Xiu explained that her Shuo Rat sensed danger, and the bald cultivator wondered whether the Heaven Heart Toad King was nearby.
• Lin Xuan realized Little Fur Ball was excited by the Shuo Rat and had caused it to sense danger.
• The Sea Race cultivators scattered to search the area, leaving Lin Xuan unable to fight or flee with Phantom Escape.
• Lin Xuan recalled that Dongfang Mingqi had given him a Command Token and decided to gamble on using it.