Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan used the King's Command Token to persuade Fairy Xiu and Old Monster Li that he had ties to Princess Qi, Dongfang Mingqi. They acknowledged his past help to the princess but decided to restrain him until their mission to find the Heaven Heart Toad King was complete.

• Lin Xuan emerged from hiding and was surrounded by Sea Race cultivators, including two Dongxuan Realm leaders.
• When the black-clothed woman prepared to capture him, Lin Xuan handed her the King's Command Token and said Dongfang Mingqi had given it to him.
• Lin Xuan recounted how he had encountered and saved the princess twice, and Fairy Xiu recognized the events he described.
• Fairy Xiu and Old Monster Li debated whether the princess's debt meant they should let Lin Xuan go despite the danger he might pose to their mission.
• Old Monster Li proposed sealing Lin Xuan's magical power and keeping him nearby until they left the island, then releasing him.

Lin Xuan persuaded the Sea Race leaders not to kill him by invoking his connection to Princess Qi, but they sealed part of his magic power and took him along. He secretly planned to exploit their expedition, and after three days the group stopped at their destination.

• The black-robed female cultivator and the bald cultivator accepted Lin Xuan’s token as proof that he had saved the little princess.
• The bald cultivator refused to let Lin Xuan leave until the group departed the island, and Lin Xuan agreed to accompany them.
• The bald cultivator struck Lin Xuan with a Restriction Talisman, sealing some of his magic power, while Lin Xuan concealed that he could break through it.
• Lin Xuan decided to follow the Sea Race group and wait for an opportunity to seize any benefits or treasure they found.
• The Sea Race group traveled across the island, fighting Human Race cultivators and Yinhun ghost creatures along the way, and stopped after three days.

Lin Xuan and the Sea Race cultivators witnessed a vast fissure open in the forest, and a host of Yinhun ghost beings emerged from it. Lin Xuan chose to stay and investigate the dangerous phenomenon, while the Sea Race cultivators attacked the ghosts as they surged toward them.

• Lin Xuan learned that the woman in black, Fairy Xiu, had brought the Sea Race cultivators to search for the Heaven Heart Toad King based on her Shuo Rat’s report.
• A massive fissure split the forest open, drawing in the surrounding Yin winds and demonic energy.
• Lin Xuan decided to remain near the fissure, confident that his injuries were mostly healed and hoping to discover whether it held danger or opportunity.
• Fairy Xiu and the cultivator surnamed Li agreed to investigate the fissure for the Heaven Heart Toad King.
• Ink-black Yin clouds poured from the fissure, revealing countless Yinhun ghost beings, and the Sea Race cultivators attacked them with their treasures.

Lin Xuan and the Sea Race cultivators were trapped by an apparently endless swarm of Yinhun, whose numbers drained their magic power despite the cultivators’ superior strength. After a Nascent Soul cultivator died in a self-detonation, the two Dongxuan Realm leaders decided to abandon their search for the Heaven Heart Toad King and escape.

• Lin Xuan fought without revealing his true strength while observing the Sea Race cultivators’ isolated position amid the Yinhun swarm.
• The Yinhun kept pouring from a crack, and the Sea Race cultivators’ magic power dwindled because Yin Power had replaced the vitality of heaven and earth.
• After three hours, a Nascent Soul Early Stage old man was overwhelmed by successive waves of Yinhun and detonated his Nascent Soul, killing more than ten thousand ghosts.
• The Yinhun quickly replenished their losses, and the Sea Race cultivators began looking for a way to escape.
• The bald, barefoot cultivator and the black-clothed woman agreed to leave and suspend their search for the Heaven Heart Toad King.
• The black-clothed woman produced an azure-blue bead.

Lin Xuan used his unusual ability to command pure Yin Power while fighting the Underworld ghosts, a gift caused by the immortal spirit power Yue'er once infused into him. As the Sea Race cultivators tried to break through the encirclement, Fairy Xiu unleashed an amplified water spell that cleared a path through the ghosts.

• Lin Xuan recognized the Sea Blue Pearl and the giant Trident wielded by the two Dongxuan Realm Sea Race cultivators.
• Lin Xuan controlled pure Yin Power without resistance because the Asura King's immortal spirit power had gradually altered his constitution.
• Fairy Xiu used the Sea Blue Pearl to amplify her water-element spell, Suspected Milky Way Falling from Nine Heavens.
• Fairy Xiu sent a vast river crashing into the Underworld ghosts and opened a breach in their encirclement.

Lin Xuan and the Sea Race fought through the Yinhun until seven or eight Dongxuan Realm beings emerged from a Spatial Rift and revealed their plan to provoke a war between the Spirit World and Underworld Realm. As the enemy attacked, Lin Xuan escaped using Phantom Escape and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

• The cultivator surnamed Li transformed into a giant and cleared a path through the Yinhun with his Trident, allowing the Sea Race to advance.
• A black pillar erupted from the Spatial Rift, revealing powerful Yinhun and seven or eight early Dongxuan Realm beings.
• Lin Xuan broke the Restriction Talisman planted on him and heard the newcomers discuss provoking conflict between the two realms to avenge their clansmen.
• The Yinhun charged the Sea Race, and Lin Xuan vanished with Phantom Escape rather than joining the fight.
• Lin Xuan used Phantom Escape repeatedly, drank a drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and continued fleeing.

Lin Xuan fled the Yinhun and ghostly creatures, then searched the Desolate Island for its shifting teleportation point. When he sensed a battle and went to investigate, he found the Four Friends of Yan Mountain fighting an enormous mid-stage Lihe toad.

• Lin Xuan fled for more than a million li to escape the Yinhun and ghostly creatures, then confirmed from his Mission Jade Slip that leaving the Desolate Island required finding a roaming teleportation point.
• Lin Xuan searched the island while flying, but found no exit and grew anxious about being trapped.
• Lin Xuan sensed a battle ten thousand li away and decided to investigate in hopes of learning something useful.
• Lin Xuan arrived and recognized the Four Friends of Yan Mountain, who were using a formation to withstand an enormous mid-stage Lihe toad.

Lin Xuan watched the Four Friends of Yan Mountain battle the powerful Heaven Heart Toad King and saw Fairy Zi Xuan use a Sound Wave Technique resembling Ouyang Qinxin’s. He wondered whether Zi Xuan knew Qinxin, leaving him excited by the possibility of finding his separated wife.

• Lin Xuan concealed himself and observed the Four Friends of Yan Mountain struggle to keep the Heaven Heart Toad King trapped in their formation.
• Huangting Sect and the other three friends sacrificed their natal origin qi to strengthen the formation and hold back the toad.
• The Four Friends of Yan Mountain summoned their qin, chessboard, book, and painting, then attacked the toad with their treasures.
• Fairy Zi Xuan played her qin and sent sharp Sword Qi formed from golden musical notes toward the Heaven Heart Toad King.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Fairy Zi Xuan’s technique resembled Ouyang Qinxin’s Sound Wave Technique and wondered whether she knew Qinxin.

Lin Xuan intervened when the Heaven Heart Toad King broke through the Four Friends of Yan Mountain’s formation and pursued them. After he cut off the beast’s tongue to save Fairy Zi Xuan, the four recognized his voice and were shocked by his strength.

• The Heaven Heart Toad King broke the formation and forced the Four Friends of Yan Mountain to flee.
• The toad caught up and attacked Fairy Zi Xuan, while her sworn siblings turned back to help her.
• Lin Xuan appeared with a swift sword strike and cut the toad’s tongue in two.
• The Four Friends of Yan Mountain thanked their rescuer, then recognized Lin Xuan’s voice and wondered how he could be so powerful.
• Lin Xuan prepared to reveal himself to the four.

Lin Xuan revealed his late-stage Lihe Realm cultivation to the Four Friends of Yan Mountain and defeated the Heaven Heart Toad King with overwhelming force. After capturing the beast’s unusual five-colored core and soul, he watched Little Fellow emerge from its Spirit Beast Bag.

• Lin Xuan confirmed his identity and revealed that he had advanced to the late stage of the Lihe Realm, astonishing the Four Friends of Yan Mountain.
• The Heaven Heart Toad King regenerated its tongue and attacked Lin Xuan, who caught it barehanded and hurled it into a mountain.
• Lin Xuan struck the charging toad with Heavenly Thunder Sand and Sword Qi, killing it and capturing its unusual five-colored Demon Core.
• Lin Xuan forced the toad’s soul from its core, but Little Fellow emerged from Lin Xuan’s Spirit Beast Bag before he could refine it.

Lin Xuan rescued the Four Friends of Yan Mountain, and Little Fur Ball swallowed the Heaven Heart Toad King's soul. After learning they had seen a teleportation point, Lin Xuan hurried the group toward it and warned them that a great calamity had struck the island.

• Little Fur Ball begged Lin Xuan for the Heaven Heart Toad King's soul and swallowed it in one bite.
• Lin Xuan stored the strange Demon Core and flew away with the stunned Four Friends of Yan Mountain.
• Huangting Sect and the others thanked Lin Xuan as a senior, but Lin Xuan urged them to keep associating as equals.
• Zhuge Heaven Origin told Lin Xuan that the group had seen a teleportation point on a desolate mountain two days earlier.
• Lin Xuan told the Four Friends of Yan Mountain that the island had undergone a great change and ordered them to lead him to the teleportation point.
• Huangting Sect asked Lin Xuan what had happened and why even a Dongxuan Realm expert might not be safe.

Lin Xuan told the Four Friends of Yan Mountain that Underworld Realm traitors planned to provoke war and urged them to flee the island. He took them to the rumored exit, where they waited, then privately questioned Fairy Zi Xuan about her connection to Qin Xin and the Sound Wave Technique.

• Lin Xuan explained the Yinhun ghosts’ plot, and Huangting Sect agreed they should leave the dangerous area quickly.
• Lin Xuan used a secret art to carry the Four Friends of Yan Mountain at great speed to the mountain where they had seen the exit.
• Lin Xuan and the four found no exit on the mountaintop, so they decided to wait for it to appear.
• The Four Friends of Yan Mountain recalled Lin Xuan effortlessly defeating a Lihe Late Stage Demon Race member during their journey.
• Lin Xuan asked Fairy Zi Xuan to speak with him privately, and she agreed despite her speech impediment.
• Lin Xuan led Fairy Zi Xuan away, set up a soundproof barrier, and asked whether she could communicate through divine sense.

Lin Xuan questioned Fairy Zi Xuan about Ouyang Qinxin, but Zi Xuan had never heard of her and suggested she might be connected to Heavenly Sound Palace. Zi Xuan revealed that she came from the powerful Heavenly Sound Realm, ruled by Heavenly Sound Palace and its Tribulation Transcendence Supreme Elder, Fairy Heavenly Sound.

• Lin Xuan and Fairy Zi Xuan left their bodies with their Primordial Spirits to speak privately.
• Lin Xuan described Ouyang Qinxin, but Zi Xuan said she had never met or heard of her.
• Zi Xuan connected Ouyang Qinxin's Sound Wave Technique to Heavenly Sound Palace and offered to share a secret.
• Zi Xuan told Lin Xuan she had come to the East Sea from the Heavenly Sound Realm.
• Zi Xuan explained that Heavenly Sound Palace dominated the Heavenly Sound Realm and that its Supreme Elder, Fairy Heavenly Sound, was a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator whose unique divine ability was the Sound Wave Technique.

Lin Xuan learned that the Sound Wave Technique was widely circulated below the Dongxuan Realm and that Fairy Zi Xuan had entered the area through a Spatial Rift, leaving him without a way to cross realms. After returning to the others and waiting for the missing teleportation point, Lin Xuan sensed something and set off into the night.

• Fairy Zi Xuan explained that the Sound Wave Technique’s lower-level methods had spread widely, while the methods above the Dongxuan Realm remained precious.
• Lin Xuan asked how Fairy Zi Xuan had crossed realms, and she said a Spatial Rift had sucked her in while she was adventuring.
• Lin Xuan and Fairy Zi Xuan returned to Huangting Sect, Yu Miaorong, and Zhuge Heaven Origin, then waited for the teleportation point to reappear.
• After hours passed without a sign of the exit, Lin Xuan decided to keep waiting despite the Four Friends of Yan Mountain’s unease.
• At night, Lin Xuan sensed something, told the others to go, and flew into the sky.

Lin Xuan tried to escape the island after the teleportation point began to fail and a distant pillar of light signaled a growing threat from the yin souls. He used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire and an ancient Long Spear to tear open an unstable spatial rift, leaving the group with a dangerous way out.

• Lin Xuan and the Four Friends of Yan Mountain found spatial fluctuations, but the teleportation point weakened instead of opening.
• A thunderous blast and a distant black pillar of light warned Lin Xuan that the island was in grave danger.
• Lin Xuan shaped the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire into a Flood Dragon and sent it into the unstable space, twisting and shattering it.
• Lin Xuan used an ancient Long Spear inscribed with Demon Race characters to slash open a spatial rift.
• The rift expanded to about ten feet across, and Lin Xuan prepared to risk entering it rather than remain trapped on the island.

Lin Xuan led the Four Friends of Yan Mountain through a Spatial Rift to safety, where they learned they were near Huangting Sect’s hometown. After the group parted ways, Lin Xuan headed for Red Leaf Island despite the danger, determined to investigate its secret.

• Lin Xuan reassured the Four Friends of Yan Mountain that he could guide them through the Spatial Rift and protected them with a set of shields.
• Lin Xuan found the spatial node and tore open an exit, bringing the group to a desolate stretch of sea.
• Huangting Sect recognized a nearby island as his hometown and marked their location on Lin Xuan’s sea chart.
• The group discussed the Yinhun invasion, and Huangting Sect decided to evacuate the island’s mortals with the other three companions.
• Lin Xuan refused to join them and flew toward Red Leaf Island to pursue its secret, planning to retreat if the danger became too great.

Lin Xuan ambushed the badly wounded Poison Dragon Old Ancestor at sea, but the old monster sensed danger before Lin Xuan could strike. Lin Xuan abandoned his planned sneak attack and rose from the water to confront him openly.

• Lin Xuan hid beneath the sea when he spotted Poison Dragon Old Ancestor approaching in a silver light.
• Lin Xuan recognized that Poison Dragon Old Ancestor was gravely wounded and prepared to kill him before he could escape.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor lamented his losses and vowed to take revenge on Lin Xuan.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor sensed a warning omen, stopped, and searched the area with his divine sense.
• Lin Xuan realized his concealment would not hold and surged out of the sea to face Poison Dragon Old Ancestor.

Lin Xuan confronted the weakened Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and revealed powerful treasures and a Dongxuan Realm Zombie, driving the old monster to the brink. Poison Dragon Old Ancestor then used a secret technique to restore his strength and prepared a Talisman Treasure as Lin Xuan attacked again.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor attacked Lin Xuan with a Demon Blade and Evil Sword, but Lin Xuan's paired rings blocked them.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor summoned a three-headed Demon Python, and Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see that it was the old monster's Primordial Spirit incarnation.
• Lin Xuan released a Dongxuan Realm Zombie and struck Poison Dragon Old Ancestor with his Spirit-Communicating Buddhist Treasure, shattering the old monster's Jade Bowl barrier and worsening his injuries.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor used Thunder Beads in a formation that sent them into his body, causing his aura to surge as he prepared to abandon his fleshly body.
• Lin Xuan attacked again with the Zen Staff, but Poison Dragon Old Ancestor produced a damaged golden Residual Talisman bearing a Small Bell.

Lin Xuan struggled to defeat Poison Dragon Old Ancestor after the old monster activated a defensive Talisman Treasure made from a Xiantian Spirit Treasure. As Lin Xuan searched for a way through its seemingly impenetrable defense, the Five Dragon Seal flew out and he sent it toward his enemy.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor activated a Residual Talisman that formed a Bronze Bell and survived Lin Xuan's powerful Zen Staff strike.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor revealed that the talisman had been made from a Xiantian Spirit Treasure found in the Sea of Ruins.
• Lin Xuan attacked the Golden Bell Shield with the Demonic Fate Sword, but the defense held while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor recovered his severed left hand.
• Lin Xuan worried that he could not kill Poison Dragon Old Ancestor before the old monster abandoned his body and escaped.
• The Five Dragon Seal flew out of Lin Xuan's Instantaneous Bag, and Lin Xuan poured his magic power into it and hurled it at Poison Dragon Old Ancestor.

Lin Xuan shattered Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s Talisman Treasure with the Five Dragon Seal and defeated him with the Demonic Fate Sword. The Old Ancestor’s Nascent Soul survived, but after Lin Xuan captured him, he begged for mercy.

• The Five Dragon Seal absorbed the Talisman Treasure’s defenses and the Small Bell, leaving Poison Dragon Old Ancestor stunned.
• The Corpse Demon killed the Demon Python, and Lin Xuan struck Poison Dragon Old Ancestor with the Demonic Fate Sword.
• The blast destroyed Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s body, but Lin Xuan deliberately left his Nascent Soul alive.
• Lin Xuan used a glowing azure hand to capture Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s weakened Nascent Soul.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor knelt before Lin Xuan and pleaded for his life.