Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and the Giant Whale King clashed over the Top-grade Mineral Vein as Lin Xuan used his remaining techniques and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to keep fighting. The Jade Luo Bees devoured the vein’s spirit stones, breaking the seal beneath it, and a terrifying creature began to emerge as the mountain collapsed.

• Lin Xuan unleashed Hundred Dragon Fangs, and its dragons clashed evenly with the Giant Whale King’s Sperm Whale attack.
• Lin Xuan drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk from a Jade Bottle and quickly replenished his magic power.
• The Jade Luo Bees flew out of the ice and into Lin Xuan’s Ten Thousand Soul Tower, while the Giant Whale King discovered that they had nearly consumed the Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• The ground and space trembled as Lin Xuan and the Giant Whale King realized a powerful monster was likely sealed beneath the mineral vein.
• A muffled roar came from underground, and the mountain peak collapsed.

Lin Xuan and the Giant Whale King faced the Ice Demon Heart Toad, a powerful descendant of the Golden Moon True Toad, after it emerged from its underground seal. The toad proved stronger than the Giant Whale King, and Lin Xuan joined the fight to keep his former enemy from falling.

• The Ice Demon Heart Toad burst through the ice, and the Giant Whale King identified it as a descendant carrying Golden Moon True Toad bloodline.
• Lin Xuan asked how powerful the toad was, but it attacked him and the Giant Whale King at the same time with its two tongues.
• Lin Xuan evaded one tongue with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps and raised the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield while the Giant Whale King struggled against the other.
• The Giant Whale King lost a direct contest of strength with the toad, so Lin Xuan swung his Buddhist staff to help him.
• The toad blocked Lin Xuan's staff shadows with a Mystic Ice shield, which shattered, but the remaining strike failed to injure it.

Lin Xuan and Giant Whale King faced the Ice Demon Heart Toad, a powerful True Spirit descendant, inside a sealed small space. After surviving its first Sound Wave Technique, Lin Xuan watched Giant Whale King throw a mysterious black bead overhead and follow it as the toad launched another attack.

• Poison Dragon Old Ancestor tried to escape, but the Ice Demon Heart Toad caught and devoured him with its deceptive tongues.
• The Ice Demon Heart Toad's Sound Wave Technique injured Lin Xuan and Giant Whale King, then it attacked them with its tongues.
• Lin Xuan sent out his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, which briefly checked the toad's tongue but was knocked aside.
• Lin Xuan recovered from the sound attack while Giant Whale King survived by using an Ancient Mirror that was smashed in the process.
• Giant Whale King produced a black bead, threw it above his head, and followed it as the Ice Demon Heart Toad's second sound attack failed to land decisively.

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• Phantom Rain and his wife went to the hospital when she unexpectedly went into labor early.
• Phantom Rain's wife gave birth to a boy, and both mother and child were safe.
• Phantom Rain returned home exhausted after a sleepless night and said his household was in chaos.
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Lin Xuan summoned Little Fur Ball to face the Ice Demon Heart Toad after the Giant Whale King escaped through a spatial rift. Little Fur Ball awakened and spread its milky-white domain, which distressed the toad and offered Lin Xuan hope of surviving.

• The Giant Whale King used a World-Breaking Bead to tear open a rift and escaped, leaving Lin Xuan trapped with the Ice Demon Heart Toad.
• Lin Xuan remembered Little Fur Ball’s domain could control demon beasts and summoned it from his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Lin Xuan woke Little Fur Ball by pinching its ear, then pointed out the Ice Demon Heart Toad.
• Little Fur Ball sensed the toad, became excited, and made the Ice Demon Heart Toad wary enough to abandon its opening.
• Little Fur Ball spun and spread a milky-white halo over several li, leaving Lin Xuan unharmed but causing the Ice Demon Heart Toad to suffer despite its protective blue light.

Little Fur Ball used its domain to defeat the Ice Demon Heart Toad, turning the beast’s attack against it and consuming its demon soul. After the fight, Little Fur Ball fell asleep, leaving Lin Xuan with the toad’s Demon Core.

• Little Fur Ball’s domain nullified the Ice Demon Heart Toad’s Sound Wave Technique.
• The Ice Demon Heart Toad launched a destructive ball of light, but Little Fur Ball used law power to send it back and bind the toad with an iron chain.
• The reflected attack wounded the Ice Demon Heart Toad, and Little Fur Ball cut it into eight pieces with a flying sword.
• The Demon Core tried to escape, but Little Fur Ball’s domain rebounded it and pulled out the demon soul.
• Little Fur Ball swallowed the demon soul, then lay down and fell asleep.

Lin Xuan collected the Ice Demon Heart Toad and the remaining Top-grade Spirit Stones, then searched for a spatial node to escape the sealed space. After finding a rare, fluctuating node, he used the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to freeze it and attacked it with his Long Spear.

• Lin Xuan stored the Ice Demon Heart Toad's carcass and confirmed that the Jade Luo Bees had weakened the seal by consuming Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan mined the remaining Top-grade Spirit Stones and searched the independent space for a spatial node with his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye.
• After a day and night of searching, Lin Xuan discovered a node that periodically shifted between strong and weak.
• Lin Xuan waited until the node became clear, then sent the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire forward and froze the patch of space.
• Lin Xuan poured his magic power into the Long Spear and struck the frozen Spatial Rift with a blood-red wave of light.

Lin Xuan escaped through a spatial rift and emerged in a crowded East Sea marketplace instead of Red Leaf Island. As cultivators reacted to his late-stage Lihe spiritual pressure, he asked where he was.

• Lin Xuan tore open the spatial node, entered the passage, and prepared for a possible ambush with his shield and talismans.
• News spread through the East Sea that the Yinhun ghost creatures had captured Red Leaf Island and Ten Thousand Beasts Island, causing the three-race war to halt and marketplaces to fill with cultivators seeking supplies.
• A stall owner tried to sell an Azure Dragon Sea-Overturning Whip to a suspicious buyer at the marketplace.
• A spatial rift appeared above the marketplace, and Lin Xuan crashed onto the stall, smashing its goods.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the pit, realized he had arrived somewhere other than Red Leaf Island, and demanded to know what the place was.

Lin Xuan gathered a nautical chart and news about the Underworld ghostly beings in the White Elephant Sea Region before setting off for Black Wind Island. He learned that the three-race war had stopped, but he remained uncertain about what would come next.

• Jin Wu identified the White Elephant Sea Region, and Lin Xuan asked the gathered cultivators for a detailed nautical chart.
• A young cultivator offered Lin Xuan a Jade Slip chart, and Lin Xuan rewarded him with two mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Xuan questioned the cultivators about the Underworld ghostly beings and heard the situation had become known throughout the East Sea.
• Lin Xuan left the island and hurried toward Black Wind Island, reflecting that the three-race war had halted against the ghostly invasion.
• Lin Xuan considered his recent escape and encounters, and felt recovering Little Fur Ball had helped make his trip worthwhile.

Lin Xuan hurried back toward the Chaotic Sea Region while gathering news and visiting Marketplaces amid the Yinhun invasion. At a large three-race Marketplace, he heard about an underground trade fair for Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators and considered attending.

• Lin Xuan learned that the Yinhun had taken over the Red Leaf Sea Region and were spreading into Human, Sea, and Demon territories.
• Lin Xuan stopped at Marketplaces along his journey to gather information and search for useful treasures.
• After more than twenty days of travel, Lin Xuan visited a large Marketplace where cultivators of all three races gathered.
• Lin Xuan heard Dongfang tell several cultivators about an upcoming underground trade fair for Nascent Soul Middle Stage experts and learned that Demon and Sea Race cultivators would attend.

Lin Xuan joined an underground auction after paying its steep entrance fee and discovered that powerful cultivators, possibly even Dongxuan Realm old monsters, were attending. The auctioneer warned the assembled human, Demon, and Sea Race cultivators that every item for sale had been seized by killing its former owner.

• Lin Xuan overheard Dongfang Shuo invite cultivators to an auction and asked to accompany them.
• Lin Xuan paid the shopkeeper two hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones, and the group entered the underground auction hall.
• Lin Xuan spotted private boxes above the hall and wondered whether Dongxuan Realm cultivators occupied them.
• Nearly twelve hundred cultivators from the three races gathered, and Lin Xuan waited quietly for the auction to begin.
• Jin Tong opened the auction by warning that every item had been obtained through killing and taking its owner's treasures.

Lin Xuan attended an auction where the first lots included a prized Sea Race treasure and two rare pills. The chapter ended as the Wangli Pills went up for auction at a starting price of two hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.

• The Silver-Haired Elder began the auction after the cultivators accepted the risks of bidding on treasures that might bring trouble.
• The Silver-Haired Elder presented the Cold Ice Halberd, prompting cultivators to bid until a concealed Sea Race Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator won it for seventy-five thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• The buyer collected the Cold Ice Halberd and left the auction immediately, while Lin Xuan judged that leaving was a wise way to avoid being robbed.
• The Silver-Haired Elder revealed two Wangli Pills, which could improve a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator's chance of advancing to Lihe, and set their starting price at two hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.

The auction for a Wangli Pill became a desperate contest between Dong Cheng, a Nascent Soul cultivator near the end of his lifespan, and a wealthy mid-stage Lihe woman. Dong Cheng died after spending his entire fortune and surrendering his life-bound Dharma Treasure, while the woman’s wealth drew the attention of a Dongxuan Realm cultivator in a private box.

• The Silver-Haired Elder auctioned a Wangli Pill, and Lin Xuan recognized that its low starting price was meant to provoke fierce bidding.
• Dong Cheng bid up to 950,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, hoping the pill would let him break through to Lihe before his remaining decades ran out.
• A mid-stage Lihe woman bid one million mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Lin Xuan noticed a Dongxuan Realm cultivator secretly examining her from a private box.
• Dong Cheng offered his life-bound Green Willow Sword as collateral, had its ownership imprint erased, and raised his bid to 1.2 million mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• The woman bid 1,205,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Dong Cheng spat blood and died after realizing he could not raise his offer.

Lin Xuan waited through a long auction, hoping a treasure worth his time would appear, until the final lot was revealed as a mysterious set of Formation Flags. As the Silver-Haired Elder demonstrated one flag’s power, Lin Xuan recognized its extraordinary nature and sensed that a powerful cultivator was also interested.

• The auction continued with rare treasures selling briskly, but Lin Xuan found none of the items worth bidding on.
• Lin Xuan considered leaving because he was eager to return to Black Wind Island, but stayed in case the auction’s later lots included something he needed.
• A bell-ringing woman cultivator brought several multicolored Formation Flags onto the platform, and Lin Xuan recognized them as extraordinary.
• The Silver-Haired Elder announced the Formation Flags as the auction’s final treasure, explaining that they had been unearthed from the Sea of Ruins.
• The Silver-Haired Elder enlarged a blue Formation Flag, whose mysterious runes drew in the surrounding water-attribute Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.

Lin Xuan recognized that the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation suited his abilities and planned to acquire it at auction. A mysterious old man challenged a private-room bidder, driving the price to thirty million and fifty thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones as the other bidder accused him of lacking the funds.

• The Silver-Haired Elder demonstrated the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation and explained that its full power could rival an ordinary Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Xuan realized that his spiritual power and ability to command all five elements made the formation an ideal treasure for him, and he waited as the bids rose.
• A private-room bidder suddenly offered twenty million mid-grade Spirit Stones, halting the crowd's bids and prompting Lin Xuan to prepare to act.
• A thin, mysterious old man bid twenty million and fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and the private-room bidder's divine sense failed to affect him.
• The private-room bidder raised the price repeatedly, but the old man answered each time with the minimum increment until the price reached thirty million and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• The private-room bidder accused the old man of causing trouble and doubted that he could pay the amount.

A Thin Old Man challenged Gongsun Old Devil at the auction, and the two revealed a bitter history between them. Old Mo explained that his Second Nascent Soul had let him survive Gongsun's attempt to kill him, and he had come to seek justice.

• The Silver-Haired Elder asked the Thin Old Man to prove he could afford his bid, and the Thin Old Man challenged the private-box bidder's ability to pay.
• The Silver-Haired Elder confirmed that the private-box cultivator was a Dongxuan Realm immortal cultivator, but the Thin Old Man accused him of swaggering and swindling.
• Gongsun Old Devil unleashed his baleful aura, but the Thin Old Man dispersed it and accused him of ambushing him at Water Wave Cave.
• The Thin Old Man revealed his Dongxuan Realm cultivation, and Gongsun Old Devil recognized him as Old Mo, whom he believed he had killed centuries earlier.
• Old Mo explained that his Second Nascent Soul survived Gongsun's betrayal and declared that he had come to seek justice.
• Gongsun Old Devil sneered at Old Mo for daring to confront him and threatened him with death.

The Thin Old Man revealed that he had poisoned the auction gathering with the ancient poison Immortal Drunkenness, leaving the cultivators unable to use their magic power. Lin Xuan discovered that his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire absorbed the poison, leaving him free to act as the others fell under the Thin Old Man’s control.

• The Thin Old Man threatened Gongsun Old Devil and every cultivator present, while Lady Fenfang demanded that he settle his grudge elsewhere.
• Gongsun Old Devil tried to turn Lady Fenfang against the Thin Old Man, but she warned the Thin Old Man to leave the auction.
• Cultivators began collapsing, and the Thin Old Man revealed that Immortal Drunkenness had poisoned the gathering.
• Gongsun Old Devil and Lady Fenfang failed to gather their magic power as the poisoned cultivators pleaded for their lives.
• Lin Xuan realized that his Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire absorbed Immortal Drunkenness, leaving him unaffected.

Lin Xuan concealed his immunity to Immortal Drunkenness while Elder Mo killed Gongsun Old Devil and prepared to eliminate the poisoned auction attendees. Lady Fenfang invoked her father, True Person Qingling, but Elder Mo attacked her anyway.

• Lin Xuan pretended that Immortal Drunkenness had incapacitated him as Gongsun Old Devil begged Elder Mo for mercy.
• Elder Mo rejected Gongsun Old Devil’s offer of servitude, extracted and refined his soul, and took his Storage Bag.
• Elder Mo turned toward the poisoned auction attendees, who pleaded for their lives as he prepared to kill them.
• Lady Fenfang revealed that she was the daughter of True Person Qingling, an Enforcement Elder of the Holy City, and asked Elder Mo to spare her.
• Elder Mo ignored Lady Fenfang’s warning and struck her with a purple-red Immortal Sword.

Mo Lao killed Lady Fenfang and the other auction attendees, then gathered their Storage Bags and tried to erase the evidence. As he left, Lin Xuan ambushed and killed him, leaving the fate of the stolen treasures unresolved.

• Mo Lao refined Lady Fenfang's Nascent Soul and killed the other immobilized cultivators to keep his identity secret.
• Mo Lao collected more than a thousand Storage Bags and bundled them in his clothing because they could not be placed inside another Storage Bag.
• Mo Lao set the auction hall ablaze to erase traces of the killings and headed for the stone stairs.
• Lin Xuan launched a surprise attack, broke Mo Lao's bundle, and split his body with a crescent-shaped blade of light.
• Lin Xuan burned Mo Lao's Nascent Soul and corpse to ash.

Lin Xuan searched the underground battlefield, collected the spoils, and slipped out of the Marketplace without revealing that he was the auction’s sole survivor. He entered the Chaotic Sea Region and headed for Black Wind Island as Nine Immortals Palace patrols kept the area unusually orderly.

• Lin Xuan used his divine sense and Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to confirm that no hidden cultivators remained nearby.
• Lin Xuan collected the Storage Bags and auction treasures, then found a palm-sized piece of black hide near Mo Lao’s remains and stored it.
• Lin Xuan left the underground site and Marketplace in disguise, posing as a middle-stage Core Condensation Realm cultivator.
• After traveling beyond the Marketplace, Lin Xuan revealed his cultivation and sped toward the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Lin Xuan noticed that Nine Immortals Palace law-enforcement cultivators were patrolling the calmer-than-expected region and continued toward Black Wind Island.