Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan returned safely to Black Wind Island and reunited with the Hundred Herb Sect, then decided to enter seclusion after gaining new insights from his clash with the Giant Whale King. He arranged for his Second Nascent Soul to guide the Shangguan Sisters and prepared cultivation supplies for them.

• Lin Xuan reached Black Wind Island and reassured the patrolling Hundred Herb Sect disciples, who summoned the sect to welcome him.
• Shangguan Ling, Shangguan Yan, and Shangguan Muyu greeted Lin Xuan and reported that the sect had remained safe while he was away.
• Lin Xuan told Shangguan Muyu and his disciples about his travels, including escaping Yinhun and Fierce Ghosts and surviving a clash with the Giant Whale King.
• After dining and resting, Lin Xuan considered his gains and planned to cultivate in seclusion to improve his chances of breaking through his bottleneck.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Second Nascent Soul and filled an empty Storage Bag with cultivation supplies for the Shangguan Sisters, intending for it to guide them while he cultivated.

Lin Xuan planned to focus on advancing his main Nascent Soul while repairing his injured Corpse Demon. After three months of work, he traveled to a desolate ancient battlefield in the Chaotic Sea Region.

• Lin Xuan sent the Second Nascent Soul away with a Storage Bag to guide the two sisters in their cultivation.
• Lin Xuan decided to slow the Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core’s cultivation and concentrate on advancing his main Nascent Soul before the Yinhun ghosts attacked.
• Lin Xuan examined the severely injured Corpse Demon and spent three months repairing it in his secret chamber.
• Lin Xuan left Hundred Flower Valley and flew to an abandoned sea region that had once been the site of a great war between the Chaotic Sea Region and the Sea Race.

Lin Xuan searched the Ancient Battlefield for a place where the Corpse Demon could recover and discovered a Corpse Well on a remote island. After breaking its restriction, he confronted its owner, a powerful Zombie who transformed and attacked him.

• Lin Xuan searched the desolate waters for concentrated yin energy to help the Corpse Demon recover.
• Lin Xuan found a small island shrouded in corpse energy and discovered a Corpse Well hidden behind a restriction.
• Lin Xuan broke the restriction and realized the Corpse Well already had an owner.
• A perfected late-Lihe Zombie arrived and demanded that Lin Xuan leave his cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan refused to yield the Corpse Well, and the Zombie transformed and launched an attack.

Lin Xuan effortlessly defeated a late-Lihe Zombie and discovered it had left behind a rare Corpse Bead. He entered the valley to investigate the Corpse Well and released his recovering Corpse Demon, which immediately rushed toward it.

• Lin Xuan trapped the Zombie’s attacks with Azure Glow, vanished, and struck it with a powerful punch.
• Lin Xuan crushed the Zombie’s dark lightning and broke its right hand, then beat it to death with punches and kicks.
• Lin Xuan found a Corpse Bead in the Zombie’s remains and considered whether it could help his own Corpse Demon.
• Lin Xuan entered the valley and found a well emitting dense, milky-white corpse qi.
• Lin Xuan released his recovering Corpse Demon, which rushed toward the Corpse Well without being commanded.

Lin Xuan left the Corpse Demon to recover in a hidden Corpse Well, then returned to Black Wind Island and sorted the spoils from the auction. He found Glazed Five-Colored Stone and Nine Yang Heaven Fire Liquid, leaving five rare materials still needed to refine the Fire Sword.

• Lin Xuan gave the Corpse Demon the Corpse Bead, and it swallowed the treasure before meditating above the Corpse Well to restore its vitality.
• Lin Xuan concealed the island with an illusion formation and left the Corpse Demon there under orders to defend itself.
• Lin Xuan returned to Black Wind Island and began sorting more than a thousand Storage Bags taken from the auction’s cultivators.
• Lin Xuan counted over five thousand Dharma Treasures and Ancient Treasures and collected spirit pills, Formation Flags, and talismans.
• Lin Xuan found Glazed Five-Colored Stone and Nine Yang Heaven Fire Liquid among the treasures, leaving five materials to find for the Fire Sword.

Lin Xuan placed Little Fur Ball in the Ten Thousand Soul Tower and inspected his Jade Luo Bees, discovering that they had begun forming cocoons and mutating after consuming many Top-grade Spirit Stones. He awaited their awakening, hoping to see what their new form could do.

• Lin Xuan summoned Little Fur Ball and opened the Ten Thousand Soul Tower to give it a more spacious place to live.
• Little Fur Ball eagerly tried to enter the tower but bumped its head until Lin Xuan guided it inside.
• Lin Xuan entered the tower with his Primordial Spirit and inspected the Jade Luo Bees’ enormous hives.
• Lin Xuan found a Jade Luo Bee cocoon and discovered that the bee had shrunk and gained pale silver markings.
• Lin Xuan concluded that the Jade Luo Bees had begun mutating after devouring many Top-grade Spirit Stones and wondered what would happen when they awakened.

Lin Xuan finished binding the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation Flags to himself and prepared to cultivate through his bottleneck. A desperate message from his Second Nascent Soul revealed that Lie Kong True Person had attacked it, leaving Lin Xuan intent on rescuing it and taking revenge.

• Lin Xuan inspected his Blood Fire Ants and the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Formation Flags, then began a secret art to make the flags recognize him as their master.
• After three days, Lin Xuan completed the binding and resolved to cultivate toward the Dongxuan Realm before the Yinhun ghosts became a greater threat.
• A blood-red Flying Sword Message from the Second Nascent Soul reached Lin Xuan despite his cave's restrictions, and its warning filled him with killing intent.
• Lin Xuan learned that Lie Kong True Person, an early Dongxuan Realm Demon Race cultivator, had tried to devour his Second Nascent Soul while it gathered information near a Marketplace.
• The Second Nascent Soul resisted Lie Kong True Person but was at a disadvantage because it lacked Lin Xuan's full strength.

Lin Xuan rushed to rescue his Second Nascent Soul, who was trapped on a small island by Lie Kong True Person. He reached the island and reunited with the Second Nascent Soul, leaving Lie Kong True Person outside the formation as Lin Xuan’s fury grew.

• The Second Nascent Soul fled to a small island, raised a formation to hold off Lie Kong True Person, and secretly sent a message for help.
• Lin Xuan learned of the danger and hurried across several hundred thousand li toward Black Wind Island.
• Lin Xuan arrived to find Lie Kong True Person bombarding the island’s weakening formation while the Second Nascent Soul defended it with his vital energy.
• Lin Xuan attacked Lie Kong True Person with a giant sword, then used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to slip past him and enter the formation.
• The Second Nascent Soul returned to Lin Xuan’s dantian, transferring his memories and experiences to Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan confronted Lie Kong True Person over his attempt to devour Lin Xuan’s Second Nascent Soul and demanded his Demon Core as compensation. Lie Kong True Person attacked, and Lin Xuan tested his newly refined Formation Flag, summoning a powerful Water Dragon as the fight escalated.

• Lin Xuan left the island and confronted Lie Kong True Person, who recognized that the Second Nascent Soul he had fought was Lin Xuan’s.
• Lie Kong True Person tried to retreat, but Lin Xuan blocked his path and demanded his Demon Core as an apology.
• Lie Kong True Person transformed into his half-human, half-demon battle form and attacked Lin Xuan with a Snake Bone Whip.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield and Green Flame Qilin Armor to survive the whip’s strike, then sent a winged tiger to distract Lie Kong True Person.
• Lin Xuan poured his Dharma power into a Formation Flag, gathering water-attributed Yuan Qi and summoning a massive Water Dragon that unleashed ice attacks.

Lin Xuan used a Demon Race spatial treasure to break Lie Kong True Person’s defense and wound him, then pressed the attack with a Flood Dragon. Lie Kong True Person unleashed his Iron Feather Locust Blade, leaving Lin Xuan facing a vast storm of iron feathers.

• Lin Xuan’s ice-cone arrows struck Lie Kong True Person’s spatial defense but hit only empty space.
• Lin Xuan used his Long Spear to conjure a crescent blade that cut through the mist and severed half of Lie Kong True Person’s arm.
• Lie Kong True Person blocked Lin Xuan’s next blade with two Thunder Beads and retreated, while Lin Xuan sent a Flood Dragon after him.
• Lie Kong True Person’s Snake Bone Whip transformed into a Demon Python that fought the Flood Dragon and quickly fell behind.
• Lie Kong True Person spread his wings and launched tens of thousands of iron feathers at Lin Xuan with his Iron Feather Locust Blade.

Lin Xuan countered Lie Kong True Person’s weapons with his defenses and Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, then appeared vulnerable as Lie Kong launched a close-range ambush. Lin Xuan revealed his Golden Body Dharma Image and overwhelmed Lie Kong, leaving him trapped in a fight to the death.

• Lin Xuan used the Mystic Cyan Mother-Child Shield to withstand Lie Kong True Person’s teleporting Iron Feather Locust Blades.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire, freezing and immobilizing the blades, while his blue flood dragon destroyed Lie Kong’s Hook Sword.
• Lie Kong tried to escape but could not break free, then used the Wind Evasion Technique to launch a surprise attack after Lin Xuan put away his shield.
• Lie Kong attacked Lin Xuan with enormous cyan claws, expecting to overpower him in close combat.
• Lin Xuan manifested the nine-headed, eighteen-armed Golden Body Dharma Image and blocked Lie Kong’s claws while striking him, trapping him in the battle.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed Lie Kong True Person in close combat, forcing him to reveal his Thunder Eagle form and unleash a dangerous secret art. Lin Xuan summoned Little Fur Ball, whose domain trapped Lie Kong True Person and left him helpless.

• Lin Xuan intensified his attacks and revealed his demonic power, tearing through Lie Kong True Person's defenses.
• Lie Kong True Person used blood essence to block Lin Xuan, transformed into his Thunder Eagle true form, and brought out his Demon Core to power a secret art.
• Lin Xuan released a battered pagoda and summoned Little Fur Ball from within it.
• Little Fur Ball woke up, spotted the Thunder Eagle, and spread a milky-white domain across several li.
• Lie Kong True Person became trapped in Little Fur Ball's domain, unable to escape or return to human form.

Lin Xuan watched Little Fur Ball devour Lie Kong True Person’s Heavenly Thunder Centipede and trap the demon bird inside its domain. Lie Kong True Person’s attempt to escape failed, and Little Fur Ball beheaded him and seized his Demon Core.

• Lie Kong True Person summoned a Heavenly Thunder Centipede made of purple lightning to attack Lin Xuan and Little Fur Ball.
• Little Fur Ball trapped the centipede in a silver net, shrank it, and swallowed it whole.
• Terrified by Little Fur Ball’s power, Lie Kong True Person tried to flee but struck the domain’s light screen and was bounced back.
• Little Fur Ball immobilized Lie Kong True Person and used Sword Qi to sever his head.
• Lie Kong True Person’s Demon Core flew from his wound, and Little Fur Ball pulled it back despite its struggle.

Lin Xuan defeated Lie Kong True Person with Little Fur Ball’s help, collected his remains and Iron Feather Locust Blades, and returned to Black Wind Island. He began treating the Second Nascent Soul’s lost vital energy with several precious pills.

• Little Fur Ball devoured the demon soul from Lie Kong True Person’s Demon Core after killing him.
• Lin Xuan stored Lie Kong True Person’s corpse and Demon Core, then collected the tens of thousands of Iron Feather Locust Blades.
• Lin Xuan flew back to Black Wind Island and quietly returned to his cultivation cave.
• Lin Xuan examined the Second Nascent Soul’s injuries and took out three rare medicinal pills to restore its vital energy.

Lin Xuan restored his Second Nascent Soul with medicinal pills, then used a Spirit-Shifting Array to erase Lie Kong True Person’s imprint from the Iron Feather Locust Blade and make it his own. As he prepared to cultivate, he remembered a mysterious black object from an auction and began examining it.

• Lin Xuan swallowed three kinds of medicinal pills to speed the Second Nascent Soul’s recovery.
• Seven days later, Lin Xuan confirmed that the Second Nascent Soul had fully recovered.
• Lin Xuan used a Spirit-Shifting Array and Top-grade Spirit Stones to erase Lie Kong True Person’s imprint from the Iron Feather Locust Blade.
• Lin Xuan found that the blades had changed into translucent, willow-leaf-shaped treasures, then imprinted them as his own and stored them in the Instantaneous Bag.
• Lin Xuan remembered a mysterious black object from the auction, examined its beast-hide-like material and tiny characters, and sank his divine sense into it.

Lin Xuan discovered a formula for Immortal Drunkenness and arranged for Shangguan Muyu to refine it while he devoted himself to cultivation. Two hundred years passed in seclusion, and the chapter revealed that the Yinhun threat had somehow been removed without a major war reaching the Chaotic Sea Region.

• Lin Xuan found the Immortal Drunkenness formula on an ancient beast-hide fragment and gathered the rare materials it required.
• Lin Xuan asked Shangguan Muyu to refine the poison, and she agreed after he assured her that failure would not matter.
• Lin Xuan returned to cultivation and spent two hundred years in near-total seclusion, while his Second Nascent Soul occasionally guided his disciples or handled problems.
• Lin Xuan discovered that the Yinhun ghosts had not attacked the Chaotic Sea Region, and learned that their threat had been removed even though the Human Race, Sea Race, and Demon Race had initially suffered setbacks.

After Heavenly Sha Bright King’s intervention ended the Yinhun invasion, Lin Xuan continued cultivating for two centuries, seeking greater strength and hoping to reunite with Yue'er. A thunderous blast from his cultivation cave drew Shangguan Yan and others to Hundred Flower Valley, where they waited to see what had happened.

• Heavenly Sha Bright King descended with a Split Soul, eliminated the Yinhun leaders, and returned to the Underworld.
• The Three Demon Emperors, Six Sea Kings, and Holy City of the Human Race counterattacked, routing the leaderless Yinhun and ending the crisis.
• Lin Xuan confirmed the invasion had been defeated but remained in seclusion, determined to advance his cultivation and find Yue'er.
• Two hundred years passed as Shangguan Yan and her younger sister advanced rapidly in cultivation, while Shangguan Muyu reached the peak of Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Shangguan Yan heard a thunderous blast from Lin Xuan's cultivation cave and hurried to Hundred Flower Valley, where her mother, sister, and other disciples had already gathered.

As Lin Xuan attempted to break through to the Dongxuan Realm, the heaven-and-earth vital energy around Hundred Flower Valley turned chaotic and unleashed the deadly Four Directions Thunder Fire Tribulation. The chapter left Lin Xuan enduring the assault while continuing his breakthrough.

• Shangguan Yan asked Shangguan Muyu whether the gathering vital energy meant Lin Xuan was advancing to the Dongxuan Realm, and Shangguan Muyu said it was possible.
• Shangguan Muyu ordered the Hundred Herb Sect disciples to return to their Cultivation Caves, then withdrew with Shangguan Yan and Shangguan Ling behind a protective barrier.
• A vortex formed above Hundred Flower Valley, and a beam of light struck the area hard enough to destroy a nearby mountain peak.
• Shangguan Yan and Shangguan Ling worried about Lin Xuan, while Shangguan Muyu reassured them that he would succeed.
• The vital energy transformed into the Four Directions Thunder Fire Tribulation, a deadly assault that could also cleanse and strengthen the body if survived.
• Lin Xuan continued circulating his inner breath to break through while preparing to endure the tribulation with his spiritual power.

As Lin Xuan advanced toward the Dongxuan Realm, a terrifying Four Directions Thunder Fire Tribulation descended and devastated Hundred Flower Valley. While his Second Nascent Soul defended him and his main Nascent Soul and Demon Core attacked the bottleneck, Lin Xuan realized the Five Dragon Seal had retained its power.

• Shangguan Muyu, Shangguan Yan, and Shangguan Ling moved away as the five-colored vortex above Lin Xuan’s cave expanded.
• Pillars of light, thunder, and fire struck Hundred Flower Valley, leaving Lin Xuan at the bottom of a huge crater under a barrage of Five Elements attacks.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Spirit Shield, but it began to fail as the tribulation battered him.
• Lin Xuan’s main Nascent Soul and Demon Core directed most of his magic power toward breaking through, while his Second Nascent Soul used the remainder to defend him.
• Lin Xuan deployed the Phantom Spirit Heaven Fire to neutralize the water-attribute attacks, but the remaining thunder and Earth Fire continued to overwhelm his defenses.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the Five Dragon Seal had not lost its spirituality like his other treasures.

During Lin Xuan’s breakthrough, the Five Dragon Seal absorbed the lightning tribulation, then struck him when he tried to seize it. The Blue Star Sea appeared on his chest and drew the seal into his dantian, allowing Lin Xuan to advance to Dongxuan; he discovered the Five Dragon Seal resting at the center of the Blue Star Sea.

• Lin Xuan offered up the Five Dragon Seal, which broke free of his control and absorbed the five-colored clouds and the lightning tribulation.
• The Five Dragon Seal vanished, and Lin Xuan used his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and an azure hand to try to retrieve it.
• Lin Xuan flew toward the seal, but it struck his chest with tremendous force; the Blue Star Sea pattern appeared and nullified the blow.
• The Five Dragon Seal sank into Lin Xuan’s body, and the last barrier to his breakthrough naturally broke, advancing him to Dongxuan.
• Shangguan Yan, Shangguan Ling, and Shangguan Muyu congratulated Lin Xuan and worried when he seemed dazed, but he reassured them that he was well.
• Lin Xuan examined his dantian and found the Five Dragon Seal hovering at the center of the Blue Star Sea.