Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan spared Poison Dragon Old Ancestor and bound him with several restrictions, intending to exploit him for information and help at Red Leaf Island. After a day and night of recovery, Poison Dragon Old Ancestor reported that he had regained about seventy percent of his strength.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor begged Lin Xuan to spare him and offered to become his servant, handing over one soul and one spirit.
• Lin Xuan accepted Poison Dragon Old Ancestor but used the Soul Prohibition Technique and added several other restrictions to control him.
• Lin Xuan gave Poison Dragon Old Ancestor medicine and spirit liquid, secretly including items that would harm him in the long run.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor feigned gratitude while privately plotting to escape the restrictions and take revenge.
• Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor flew to a nearby desolate island and recovered for a day and night.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor told Lin Xuan that he had recovered about seventy percent of his strength.

Lin Xuan learned that Red Leaf Island hid a Top-grade Spirit Stone vein and returned to Linhai City to wait for the Yinhun ghosts to arrive. When they finally reached the city, he prepared to use the ensuing chaos to reach the formation leading to the vein.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor told Lin Xuan about the Top-grade Spirit Stone vein on Red Leaf Island, and Lin Xuan decided to go there.
• Lin Xuan reached Red Leaf Island, entered Linhai City, and returned to the pavilion where he had once stayed with the Four Friends of Yan Mountain.
• Lin Xuan kept Poison Dragon Old Ancestor in a Spirit Beast Bag and waited in the pavilion for the Yinhun ghosts to arrive.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the Yinhun ghosts had come and confirmed that he planned to use the chaos to reach the formation and enter the independent space containing the vein.
• Lin Xuan left the pavilion and saw that the city's No-Fly Restriction had been lifted and cultivators were reacting with panic and confusion.

Lin Xuan learned that a great horde of Yinhun ghosts was approaching Red Leaf Island and watched the city prepare for battle. As the island’s defenses rose, Linhai City split into nine immense combat giants, leaving Lin Xuan astonished by the Spirit World’s military strength.

• Lin Xuan heard that Yinhun ghosts had attacked the scouts, and surviving scouts confirmed the threat to Red Leaf Island.
• Red Leaf Island sounded its warning bells and mobilized armored soldiers, Flying Fortresses, and layers of defensive restrictions.
• The authorities conscripted the Rogue Cultivators and moved Lin Xuan and other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators out of Linhai City.
• Linhai City divided into nine sections, rearranged its buildings, and rose into nine thousand-zhang-tall giants armed with Crystal Might Cannons.
• Lin Xuan realized that the giants’ combined cannon fire could be devastating and felt awed by the scale of the coming siege battle.

Red Leaf Island transformed Linhai City into a fortress just before an enormous host of ghostly souls and fiends arrived, shaking the defenders’ confidence with a barrage of Netherfire. The island’s defenses held against the first attack, and its nine giants answered with tens of thousands of cannon shots, but the vengeful spirits raised a barrier in response.

• Lin Xuan and the cultivators watched Linhai City transform into a fortress with nine giants, prompting awe and celebration among most defenders.
• Some cautious cultivators worried that using the fortress before battle began meant the island’s leaders lacked confidence or could not reverse the transformation.
• Dark clouds covered the sky as an endless host of ghostly souls and fiends appeared and surged toward Red Leaf Island.
• Tens of millions of wandering souls and Wild Ghosts launched Netherfire, which battered the island’s defenses but failed to breach its layers of light curtains.
• The nine giants fired tens of thousands of cannon shots through the one-way barriers, but the vengeful spirits raised a light curtain to defend themselves.

Lin Xuan watched Red Leaf Island’s defenders recover their fighting spirit and begin a counterattack after a powerful law enforcement elder rallied them. The Yinhun army then fused hundreds of thousands of lesser ghosts into three towering Fierce Ghosts and sent them charging toward the island.

• Lin Xuan saw that the Ghost Shields barely slowed the Crystal Might Cannons and worried that Red Leaf Island’s troops would collapse before he could reach the independent space.
• A white-robed cultivator named Ye arrived with overwhelming spiritual pressure and urged the defenders to fight rather than face certain death if the island fell.
• Ye’s speech restored the cultivators’ morale, and Red Leaf Island’s battle fortresses and lower-level cultivators unleashed a coordinated counterattack.
• Zhe Gui and the Palace-Robed Woman discussed their plan to ravage the East Sea and their need to conserve their ghostly forces.
• Zhe Gui released several black beads, drawing hundreds of thousands of Wandering Souls and Wild Ghosts together into three towering Fierce Ghosts armed with massive weapons.
• The three Fierce Ghosts charged toward Red Leaf Island as Lin Xuan watched in alarm.

Lin Xuan used the chaos of the battle at Linhai City’s breach to slip away from the fighting and head into the island’s depths. As the Law Enforcement Elder of Holy City arrived to hold back the Yinhun and help repair the breach, Lin Xuan set out to claim the Top-grade Spirit Stone vein.

• Lin Xuan and the other reserve cultivators were ordered to reinforce the breach, where the Human Race was struggling against the Yinhun.
• Lin Xuan was surrounded by low-rank Yinhun, killed them with sword light, and quietly escaped the battlefield.
• Lin Xuan reached the island’s depths and saw that the Human Race was still in danger at the breach.
• The Law Enforcement Elder of Holy City joined the battle, drove back the Yinhun, and held off the Palace-dressed Woman, Zhe Gui, and their allies.
• Lin Xuan withdrew his divine sense and hurried to pocket the Top-grade Spirit Stone vein while the battle continued.

Lin Xuan slipped away from the battle on Red Leaf Island to find the formation that could tear open space and the Top-grade Spirit Stones. After defeating and interrogating its three guards, he learned what he needed and hurried deeper into the canyon as the island’s defenses began to collapse.

• Lin Xuan used Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s directions to reach the concealed canyon and confirmed that guards might remain inside.
• Three late-stage Lihe cultivators attacked Lin Xuan, but he overpowered them and captured all three.
• Lin Xuan searched the guards’ souls, killed them, and took their Storage Bags after comparing their information with Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s account.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the Yinhun had broken through another section of the defenses and saw the Law Enforcement Elder fighting multiple powerful enemies.
• As the defensive line neared collapse, Lin Xuan flew toward the depths of the canyon.

Lin Xuan entered a cave to reach a small formation nested inside a larger one, breaking through its protective barrier with the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire. He placed the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core into the formation, which began to activate.

• Lin Xuan found the hidden cave and saw that a smaller formation lay within the larger array, protected by a light curtain controlled by a Command Token held by the Holy City's Law Enforcement Elder.
• Lin Xuan tested the barrier with Sword Qi and his demon claw, then used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to tear open a narrow gap and shrink himself to pass through.
• Lin Xuan released Poison Dragon Old Ancestor from the Spirit Beast Bag and ordered him to lead the way through the array.
• Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor reached the small formation, where Poison Dragon Old Ancestor explained that placing the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core in its groove would activate it.
• Lin Xuan placed the five-colored Inner Core into the groove, and the formation lit up.

Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor entered a spatial crack in search of a Top-grade Spirit Stone vein, while the Giant Whale King prepared to enter the same independent space to obtain its resources. Lin Xuan completed the teleportation but remained unaware that Ten Thousand Beasts Island was under siege.

• Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor activated the formation with the Heaven Heart Toad King's Inner Core, opened a spatial crack, and entered it.
• At Ten Thousand Beasts Island, the Sea Race defended against a vast siege by Yinhun and ghostly creatures.
• The Giant Whale King gave the formation master an Inner Core and prepared to enter an independent space for Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Fairy Xiu and old monster Li offered to accompany the Giant Whale King, but he ordered them to remain and defend Ten Thousand Beasts Island.
• Lin Xuan completed his teleportation and released his divine sense, while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor remained dazed from the journey.

Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor searched the vast, snowy independent space for the Top-grade Mineral Vein and found an ancient cultivator frozen in ice. After determining that a powerful sound-wave technique had killed him, they continued into the dangerous space without knowing what awaited them.

• Lin Xuan sensed the densest spiritual energy and flew toward it, with Poison Dragon Old Ancestor following through the growing snow and mist.
• Lin Xuan found a cultivator preserved in an iceberg and recognized his clothing as belonging to an era roughly seven or eight hundred thousand years earlier.
• Lin Xuan split open the ice and discovered that the cultivator's meridians had been severed and his Nascent Soul had collapsed, despite no visible external wounds.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor judged that a powerful sound-wave secret technique had killed the cultivator instantly, and Lin Xuan agreed that the exact technique could not be determined.
• Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor set aside speculation about the long-past death and continued their search, though Lin Xuan remained wary of the danger ahead.

Lin Xuan pressed on through the perilous Ice Plain with Poison Dragon Old Ancestor, finding evidence that a group of cultivators had died there before reaching a mountain range rich in Top-grade Spirit Stones. After confirming the vein, Lin Xuan prepared to mine it quickly and leave the dangerous place.

• Lin Xuan buried the ancient cultivator's remains and reaffirmed his resolve before flying onward with Poison Dragon Old Ancestor.
• As the fog thickened, Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to see through it and found more corpses killed by shattered meridians, sound-wave attacks, claws, or piercing blows.
• Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor inferred that the dead were likely cultivators from the same sect, though they could not determine what had killed them.
• The fog cleared to reveal snow-covered mountains radiating the spiritual energy of a Spirit Stone mineral vein.
• Lin Xuan struck a mountain wall with Sword Qi, exposed Top-grade Spirit Stones, and decided to mine them quickly before leaving the Ice Plain.

Lin Xuan used his self-created Ten Thousand Streams Return to the Ancestor technique to mine a Top-grade Spirit Stone vein while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor watched in awe. As Lin Xuan had extracted a third of the ore, a powerful Dongxuan Realm cultivator arrived, and Lin Xuan redirected his Sword Qi into an attack.

• Lin Xuan formed a Yin-Yang Taiji diagram and unleashed tens of thousands of Sword Qi to cut Spirit Stones from the vein.
• Lin Xuan gathered the Top-grade Spirit Stones into Storage Bags while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor marveled at his control and wondered whether he could ever defeat him.
• Lin Xuan mined a third of the miniature ore vein before sensing a powerful cultivator approaching.
• A Dongxuan Realm cultivator rushed toward the vein, and Lin Xuan redirected his Sword Qi to attack the newcomer.

Lin Xuan’s calculated Sword Qi ambush failed when Giant Whale King met it with a seemingly ordinary punch that shattered the attack and nearly killed him. Lin Xuan escaped by instinct and Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, but the battle left him shaken by the gap between their strength.

• Lin Xuan unleashed tens of thousands of strands of Sword Qi, hoping to seize the initiative against Giant Whale King.
• Giant Whale King met the attack head-on with a punch, relying on the Giant Whale royal clan’s formidable body-refining prowess.
• Lin Xuan sensed danger instinctively and used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to dodge just before the punch’s hidden force tore apart his Void Shadow.
• The punch dispersed Lin Xuan’s Sword Qi without effort, leaving him shaken by Giant Whale King’s overwhelming power.

Lin Xuan and the Giant Whale King each discovered that the other was far stronger than expected after Lin Xuan evaded the King’s concealed Universe Strike. Lin Xuan then unleashed a series of attacks, including five-colored Sword Qi, the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, and Heavenly Thunder Sand, and called on Poison Dragon Old Ancestor to join the fight.

• Lin Xuan sensed that the Giant Whale King was genuinely mid-stage despite the overwhelming force of his punch, while the King realized his Universe Strike had failed to defeat Lin Xuan.
• The Giant Whale King and Lin Xuan both attacked after discovering that neither had concealed his cultivation.
• Lin Xuan merged Sword Qi of five attributes into a brilliant five-colored attack, shocking the Giant Whale King and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor.
• Lin Xuan sent the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring and a Sand Flood Dragon made from Heavenly Thunder Sand toward the Giant Whale King.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor reevaluated Lin Xuan’s strength, and Lin Xuan urged him to attack alongside him.

Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor joined forces to break through Giant Whale King’s defenses, but Giant Whale King counterattacked at close range. Lin Xuan’s decision to meet his punch head-on sent him crashing into the Ice Plain.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor obeyed Lin Xuan’s warning and unleashed his Banana Leaf Fan Dharma Treasure at Giant Whale King.
• Giant Whale King used a bead and layers of spatial shields to block Lin Xuan’s Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring, Sword Qi, and Heavenly Thunder Sand Flood Dragon.
• Lin Xuan and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor’s combined assault shattered Giant Whale King’s shields.
• Giant Whale King appeared in front of Lin Xuan and punched at him before Lin Xuan could summon a Dharma Treasure.
• Lin Xuan punched back, and the clash sent him flying into the Ice Plain.

Lin Xuan used a Corpse Demon and a surprise staff strike to trap Giant Whale King, but the enemy’s armor blocked the attack and the two paused to reassess the fight. Lin Xuan refused to abandon the Top-grade Spirit Stone vein and began activating the Ten Thousand Soul Tower as the battle resumed.

• Giant Whale King pursued Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan emerged from the ice while a Corpse Demon disguised as a Startling Rainbow attacked him.
• Giant Whale King dodged the Corpse Demon with his Shadow Clone Technique and struck at it from behind as Lin Xuan prepared a counterattack.
• Lin Xuan and the Corpse Demon launched a pincer attack with a giant staff-shadow and a claw aimed at Giant Whale King’s heart, but his armor blocked both blows.
• Lin Xuan decided to keep fighting for the Top-grade Spirit Stone vein, while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor stayed out of the clash.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Ten Thousand Soul Tower and opened its first level as Giant Whale King watched.

Lin Xuan used his Blood Fire Ants to break the Giant Whale King's attack while the Jade Luo Bees rushed toward the frozen mineral vein. He then brought out the Demonic Fate Sword and pressed his attack, leaving the Giant Whale King facing a charging Buddhist staff.

• Lin Xuan realized the Jade Luo Bees might be drawn to the mineral vein and released them alongside the Blood Fire Ants.
• The Giant Whale King attacked with a fist wind and vortex, but thousands of Blood Fire Ants self-detonated and shattered the strike.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Demonic Fate Sword as the Jade Luo Bees burrowed through the ice toward the mountain range.
• The Giant Whale King dodged Lin Xuan's sword strike, but Lin Xuan tracked him with the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and sent the Buddhist staff after him.
• The Giant Whale King erupted with a fierce ancient aura as the Buddhist staff charged toward him.

The Giant Whale King unleashed a secret art that greatly increased his power and struck down Lin Xuan’s Spirit-Communicating Buddhist Treasure. As Lin Xuan prepared to counterattack, the Giant Whale King ambushed him with the Shadow Two-Headed Snake, which poisoned his right hand and left him trapped in solidified air.

• The Giant Whale King used a berserk-like secret art, boosting his spiritual power and physical strength.
• The Giant Whale King slapped the flood dragon aside, forcing it to revert to the Zen Staff, while Lin Xuan retreated and prepared the Demonic Fate Sword.
• The Shadow Two-Headed Snake ambushed Lin Xuan, but he dodged its first bite and blocked its second with his hand.
• The snake pierced Lin Xuan’s armor and scales, then poisoned his right hand; Lin Xuan smashed it into the Ice Plain and recovered the falling Demonic Fate Sword.
• The Giant Whale King charged Lin Xuan while his poisoned hand was useless, and Lin Xuan found the surrounding air had solidified, preventing his escape.

Giant Whale King overwhelmed the Corpse Demon and forced Poison Dragon Old Ancestor to block his path while Lin Xuan struggled against the Shadow Two-Headed Snake’s poison. Lin Xuan used Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to drive the poison back, leaving Giant Whale King stunned and Poison Dragon Old Ancestor playing dead.

• The Corpse Demon blocked Giant Whale King’s attack on Lin Xuan, but Giant Whale King broke both his arms and blasted him into a pit in the Ice Plain.
• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor reluctantly flew to block Giant Whale King after Lin Xuan ordered him to intervene.
• Lin Xuan, a thousand zhang away, tried to suppress the Shadow Two-Headed Snake’s poison spreading through his right arm, but spiritual power had little effect.
• Lin Xuan wrapped his hand in Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, which turned jade-green and drove the black poison back down his arm.
• Giant Whale King saw Lin Xuan counter the poison and faltered in disbelief, while Poison Dragon Old Ancestor lay on the ground pretending to be dead.

Lin Xuan and Giant Whale King unleashed their strongest secret techniques in a head-on clash, while Poison Dragon watched from a distance. The White Tiger was overwhelmed by the Sperm Whale, but True Spirit Strike's explosion damaged the whale, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Giant Whale King let Poison Dragon fly away and gathered spiritual energy for a powerful attack as Lin Xuan prepared to strike first.
• Lin Xuan drained nearly all his spiritual power to form True Spirit Strike, which manifested as a White Tiger.
• Giant Whale King gathered the surrounding spiritual energy into his enlarged right arm and unleashed Universe Strike, summoning a Sperm Whale.
• Lin Xuan sent the White Tiger against the Sperm Whale, and the two techniques collided with enough force to shatter the Ice Plain and shake the surrounding space.
• The Sperm Whale bit through the White Tiger's head, but True Spirit Strike exploded and reduced the whale's size, leaving the outcome undecided.