Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuankong and his wives planned how to gather Profound Truth Jade Stones and supplies to mass-produce immortal artifacts in the Bashan Secret Realm. With their production plans in place, Lin Xuankong aimed to build the Immortal Capturing Array and win the Sixth Heavenly Meridian at the Crane Immortal Sect’s recruitment ceremony.

• Lin Xuankong demonstrated that the Grass and Wood Pure Bottle could rapidly grow medicinal plants, then explained its origin to Li Xiaolan and reassured her that he had no romantic involvement with Jialin Bodhisattva.
• Lin Xuankong told Li Xiaolan and Third Princess Xiao Ying'er that Xiao Xiuyi planned to refine dozens of immortal swords, but they needed Profound Truth Jade Stones to buy materials.
• Li Xiaolan proposed using the Grass and Wood Pure Bottle to increase production of magical-grade Turtle Agaric Miracle Pills and selling them through Crane Immortal Sect channels.
• Third Princess Xiao Ying'er proposed using diluted Plant Spirit Liquid to grow vast quantities of Nine Revolutions Qi Nourishing Soup ingredients and transferring hundreds of millions of commoners into the Bashan Secret Realm to cultivate them.
• Lin Xuankong approved the plans and prepared to launch mass production for the forty-nine-artifact Immortal Capturing Array, intending to secure the Sixth Heavenly Meridian at the recruitment ceremony.

Lin Xuankong attended the Crane Immortal Sect auction with Li Xiaolan, where Qu Qiao'er and her disciples dismissed him after learning he had little hands-on artifact-refining experience. Chang Li arrived with the powerful Earth Immortal Duan He, and Lin Xuankong recognized that Chang Li intended to humiliate him.

• Lin Xuankong compared the lavish floating auction venue and its powerful attendees with an auction he had visited years earlier in Prison Dragon City.
• Li Xiaolan introduced Lin Xuankong to Qu Qingfeng and Qu Qingling, while Qu Qiao'er watched from above on a jade ruyi.
• Qu Qingfeng asked about Lin Xuankong's artifact-refining work, and he admitted that he had mostly studied theory rather than personally forging artifacts.
• Qu Qiao'er told Li Xiaolan to bring Lin Xuankong to the sect's private room and led the others into the auction hall to bid on spirit herbs.
• Chang Li arrived with Duan He, whose powerful aura revealed him to be a late Third Grade Earth Immortal, and Lin Xuankong recognized Chang Li as a rival who meant to take revenge through humiliation.

Lin Xuankong attended the Crane Immortal City auction with Li Xiaolan, where Flame Saber Duan He and Chang Li drew attention and gathered Demonic Pearls. The auction began with thirty-six powerful Late Immortal Rank First Grade spirit talismans, while Lin Xuankong still needed hundreds more Demonic Pearls and three spirit herbs.

• Crane Fairy Qu Qiao'er welcomed Flame Saber Duan He and praised his cultivation, and Duan He explained he had come to buy Demonic Pearls for Chang Li.
• Qu Qingfeng asked Chang Li why he needed Demonic Pearls, and Chang Li said Duan He planned to have them forged into Ninth Tier Magic Tools for the recruitment ceremony.
• Lin Xuankong worried that Chang Li's demand for Demonic Pearls would make it harder to obtain enough for his Immortal Capturing Array.
• At the auction, cultivators eager to curry favor with Duan He gave Chang Li Demonic Pearls, bringing his total to two hundred before bidding began.
• A Crane Immortal Sect female Earth Immortal opened the auction by presenting thirty-six Late Immortal Rank First Grade spirit talismans usable even by Mortal Transformation cultivators.

As Chang Li sought powerful spirit talismans for the Crane Immortal Sect's recruitment ceremony, Lin Xuankong weighed their price against his own resources and learned that Sixth Heavenly Meridian Spirit Materials had only a one-percent chance of working. The bidding reached 720 qualifying Profound Truth Jade Stones before an unknown woman in a concealed private room challenged Flame Saber Duan He's bid, leaving the Crane Immortal Sect's group wondering who she was.

• Flame Saber Duan He urged Chang Li to bid for thirty-six spirit talismans, promising to help him win them for the recruitment ceremony.
• Crane Fairy Qu Qiao'er explained that a Sixth Heavenly Meridian Spirit Material had only a one-percent chance of forming a sixth meridian, while Lin Xuankong privately believed his Old and Vigorous Destiny could greatly improve his odds.
• Qu Qingfeng mocked Lin Xuankong's confidence, but he stopped Li Xiaolan from defending him and kept his abilities secret.
• Bidding for the spirit talismans climbed, and Chang Li withdrew when the price threatened to consume his funds for Demonic Pearls.
• Flame Saber Duan He bid 720 qualifying Profound Truth Jade Stones and claimed other bidders need not defer to him.
• An unidentified woman in a concealed private room raised the bid to 750, prompting the Crane Immortal Sect's group to ask who she was.

Chang Li and Flame Saber Duan He grew furious when an unidentified woman outbid them for thirty-six spirit talismans, and Duan He secretly marked her with Bone-Chasing Flames so he could kill her later. The auction continued, and the host introduced one hundred Turtle Agaric Pills said to extend a cultivator’s lifespan by about two hundred years each, even after repeated use.

• A woman in an unregistered private room outbid Duan He for the spirit talismans, and Qu Qiao'er learned that the bidder had concealed her identity.
• Duan He released tiny Bone-Chasing Flames to track the woman and vowed to kill her after she left the auction grounds.
• Lin Xuankong prepared to protect the woman, while Li Xiaolan and the Qu sisters became disgusted with Duan He and Chang Li.
• The woman received the thirty-six talismans, and the auction proceeded through several items useful for the disciple-recruitment ceremony.
• The host presented one hundred Turtle Agaric Pills, claiming each could add about two hundred years to a cultivator’s lifespan and remain effective after thirty pills.

Lin Xuankong watched the Crane Immortal Sect auction sell the first batch of Turtle Agaric Pills after respected immortals vouched for their lifespan-extending effects. The pills fetched a staggering price, and Lin Xuankong realized the remaining batches—and the five hundred pills he still had—could earn far more than he expected.

• The Crane Immortal Sect host cited Immortal Absolute Shadow, Fairy Qu Wan'er, and a Ten Thousand Peaks Immortal Sect alchemy master as proof that the Turtle Agaric Pills worked.
• Lin Xuankong reflected that Li Xiaolan had refined the pills and that Qu Wan'er had kept her identity and the formula secret by claiming they came from a mysterious cultivator.
• Cultivators bid fiercely for the first ten pills, which sold to a Late-stage Second-grade Earth Immortal for five thousand graded Profound Truth Jade Stones.
• Qu Qingfeng, Qu Qingling, and Crane Fairy Qu Qiao'er wondered why Absolute Shadow and Qu Wan'er concealed the mysterious cultivator's identity, while Qu Qingfeng urged her sister to bid.
• Lin Xuankong was surprised by the pills' popularity and realized that future batches could sell for much more; he still had five hundred pills to auction.

The second through eighth rounds of the Crane Immortal City auction sent prices for Lin Xuankong’s Miracle-grade Turtle Agaric Pills soaring as cultivators fought to extend their lives. The seventh batch sold for twelve thousand graded Profound Truth Jade Stones, and Flame Saber Duan He disrupted the eighth round with a low bid that chilled the hall.

• Cloud Flow Immortal and Thousand Hills Immortal fiercely competed for the second batch, which Cloud Flow Immortal won for eight thousand graded Profound Truth Jade Stones.
• Crane Fairy Qu Qiao'er explained to Qu Qingfeng and Qu Qingling how valuable lifespan-extending pills were, citing the Ten Thousand Peaks Immortal Sect’s Longevity Immortal Pills and its exchanges for immortal artifacts.
• Thousand Hills Immortal won the third batch for seven thousand five hundred graded Profound Truth Jade Stones, while later batches sold for at least nine thousand each as cultivators pooled their funds.
• A First-grade Earth Immortal leading a group of one hundred cultivators won the seventh batch for twelve thousand graded Profound Truth Jade Stones.
• Flame Saber Duan He bid one thousand two hundred graded Profound Truth Jade Stones for the eighth batch, and the auction hall’s lively atmosphere suddenly went cold.

When Flame Saber Duan He tried to claim the Turtle Agaric pills at a low price by intimidating the auction hall, Li Xiaolan boldly challenged him and defended the Crane Immortal Sect’s right to fair bidding. She invited the other cultivators to compete, insisting everyone had to follow the auction’s rules.

• Flame Saber Duan He’s threat silenced the auction hall, while Qu Qiao’er and the other Crane Immortal Sect cultivators hesitated to confront him.
• As the host prepared to sell the pills to Duan He for 1,200 graded Profound Truth Jade Stones, Li Xiaolan bid 1,250.
• Duan He complained to Qu Qiao’er, who criticized Li Xiaolan for denying him face in public.
• Li Xiaolan argued that intimidation undermined the Crane Immortal Sect’s auctions and threatened the sect’s reputation and business.
• Li Xiaolan called on fellow cultivators to bid freely and declared that everyone had to obey the Crane Immortal Sect’s rules.

Li Xiaolan openly defied Flame Saber Duan He at the auction, and Crane Fairy Qu Qiao'er stopped him by revealing that Li Xiaolan was Medicine Immortal Qu Wan'er's most valued disciple. Duan He withdrew, but Lin Xuankong resolved to protect Li Xiaolan and prepare to test the Immortal Capturing Array against him.

• Li Xiaolan declared that everyone had to obey the rules, provoking Flame Saber Duan He and prompting Lin Xuankong to prepare for a fight.
• Crane Fairy Qu Qiao'er stepped between Duan He and Li Xiaolan and revealed Li Xiaolan's status as Qu Wan'er's prized disciple, warning that harming her could bring the alliance leader and Crane Immortal Sect's Supreme Elders into the dispute.
• Duan He put away his Flame Blade and left, while Li Xiaolan snorted at him and Chang Li followed with a greedy glance.
• The auction host resumed bidding on the pills, and cultivators speculated about why Duan He had backed down.
• Lin Xuankong decided to obtain Demonic Pearls, forge more Immortal Artifacts for himself and Li Xiaolan, and consider using Duan He to test the Immortal Capturing Array.

Flame Saber Duan He and Chang Li plotted to infiltrate the Crane Immortal Sect and capture Li Xiaolan for the Fire Spirit Sect, while Lin Xuankong and Li Xiaolan celebrated the auction’s windfall and discussed her alchemy. After learning of their plans through his Heavenly Eyes, Lin Xuankong warned Li Xiaolan, who asked whether the Fire Spirit Sect’s spies could be confirmed so she could alert Qu Wan'er.

• Flame Saber Duan He told Chang Li that he would seek revenge on Li Xiaolan and have the Fire Spirit Sect capture her for her alchemical skills.
• Chang Li vowed to infiltrate the Crane Immortal Sect, seize the Sixth Heavenly Meridian, and pass information to Duan He.
• Lin Xuankong and Li Xiaolan collected more than fourteen hundred Demonic Pearls after Lin Xuankong spent nearly four thousand Profound Truth Jade Stones at the auction.
• Li Xiaolan anticipated advancing her alchemy to the immortal grade, while Lin Xuankong raised the question of having children and she told him to wait.
• Lin Xuankong revealed that he had overheard Duan He and Chang Li plotting against Li Xiaolan and warned that Fire Spirit Sect spies had infiltrated the Crane Immortal Sect.
• Li Xiaolan asked Lin Xuankong whether the claim about the spies could be confirmed so she could ask Qu Wan'er to act.

Lin Xuankong and Li Xiaolan decided to monitor Flame Saber Duan He and the Fire Spirit Sect’s spies rather than risk exposing them prematurely. In the Bashan Secret Realm, Lin Xuankong successfully refined an Early Stage Immortal Artifact on his first attempt, and he prepared to use his growing stock of artifacts to help his companions compete for places in the Crane Immortal Sect.

• Lin Xuankong and Li Xiaolan agreed to wait for evidence of the Fire Spirit Sect’s spies and watch for contact between them and Flame Saber Duan He.
• Lin Xuankong brought more than fourteen hundred Demonic Pearls to Xiao Xiuyi and proposed that they compete to refine Early Stage Immortal Artifacts.
• Lin Xuankong succeeded in refining an Early Stage Immortal Sword on his first attempt, astonishing Xiao Xiuyi.
• Over the next ten days, Lin Xuankong and Xiao Xiuyi refined many Early Stage Immortal Artifacts, which Lin Xuankong quickly nourished.
• Xiao Xiuyi warned Lin Xuankong to conceal his strongest artifacts and avoid drawing attention during the Crane Immortal Sect’s recruitment ceremony.
• Lin Xuankong planned to give several Immortal Artifacts to his companions so they could compete for the sect’s twenty-one recruitment slots and Sixth Heavenly Meridians.

Lin Xuankong summoned his seven adoptive sons and told them to enter the Crane Immortal Sect’s disciple recruitment competition, despite their doubts about facing powerful geniuses. He revealed twenty-eight Immortal Artifacts he had crafted for them, leaving each man with four weapons suited to his skills.

• Lin Xuankong told Li Xiaohu, Han Lu, Hu Shuo, Yang Shan, Li Er, Li Ruofeng, and Li Ruoqing to take the Crane Immortal Sect preliminary test and join the martial competition.
• Han Lu, Li Xiaohu, and Hu Shuo doubted they could defeat the geniuses and their powerful artifacts, but Lin Xuankong urged them to pursue sect membership and the chance to win Sixth Heavenly Meridian Spirit Material.
• Lin Xuankong opened his Ghost Doll Pouch and laid twenty-eight Immortal Artifacts on the table.
• Lin Xuankong explained that he had crafted four Immortal Artifacts for each adoptive son, matching the weapons each man used best.

Lin Xuankong gave the Lin Family Seven Tigers four Early Stage Immortal Artifacts each and used his vast reserves of true energy to help them nurture all twenty-eight in just over a hundred breaths. With the Crane Immortal Sect recruitment ceremony beginning the next day, the seven prepared to compete while promising to keep their new weapons hidden unless necessary.

• Li Xiaohu and the others were astonished when Lin Xuankong dismissed the Immortal Artifacts as merely good enough to make do with.
• The Lin Family Seven Tigers each chose four Early Stage Immortal Artifacts from the twenty-eight laid out by Lin Xuankong.
• When they worried they had too little time to nurture the artifacts before the recruitment ceremony, Lin Xuankong poured true energy into all seven to speed the process.
• In just over a hundred breaths, the seven nurtured all twenty-eight Immortal Artifacts, consuming more than eight million points of Lin Xuankong's true energy.
• Lin Xuankong warned the seven to conceal their Immortal Artifacts and use them only when necessary, and they promised to be cautious.
• Lin Xuankong and the seven looked forward to entering the Crane Immortal Sect after the recruitment ceremony began the next day.

Lin Xuankong and his companions arrived at the Crane Immortal Sect’s apprentice recruitment tournament, where Chang Li and Flame Saber Duan He provoked them. Li Xiaohu accepted Yang Ding’s challenge and prepared to fight him before the tournament began.

• Lin Xuankong, Li Xiaohu, and their companions surveyed the crowded Martial Arts Field and discussed the scale of the tournament and Crane Immortal Sect.
• Chang Li mocked the Great Xia Dynasty cultivators, and Li Xiaohu challenged his arrogance in response.
• Flame Saber Duan He proposed that a Fire Spirit Sect disciple fight Li Xiaohu, and Yang Ding stepped forward to challenge him to a battle of life and death.
• Lin Xuankong allowed Li Xiaohu to fight, telling him to be careful and not kill casually.
• Yang Ding summoned a flaming cauldron and Flame Sparrow, while Li Xiaohu enlarged his Ninth Tier lightning sword; Yang Ding coveted the weapon.

Li Xiaohu fought Yang Ding after Flame Saber Duan He intimidated the Crane Immortal Sect’s Huang Xishang into backing down. A Buddhist nun intervened and halted their attacks, and Li Xiaohu withdrew his weapon at Lin Xuankong’s urging, while Yang Ding angrily challenged her.

• Huang Xishang tried to stop Li Xiaohu and Yang Ding from fighting, but Flame Saber Duan He forced him to retreat.
• Yang Ding demanded that Li Xiaohu kneel and apologize, so Li Xiaohu struck first with his Ninth Tier Magic Tool and drove Yang Ding back.
• Yang Ding summoned waves of Flame Sparrows from the Fire Spirit Cauldron, and Li Xiaohu used lightning to hold them off as Lin Xuankong prepared to intervene.
• A Buddhist nun arrived and used Buddhist light to shrink the Flame Sparrows and extinguish Li Xiaohu’s lightning.
• Lin Xuankong nodded, and Li Xiaohu retrieved his weapon, but Yang Ding insulted the nun and demanded to know who she was.

Yang Ding used the Fire Spirit Divine Skill to bombard the Lingtai Buddhist Sect’s little nun, who struggled to withstand his Flame Sparrows’ explosions. Just as he threatened her and Li Xiaohu prepared to intervene, Jialin Bodhisattva arrived with a Crane Immortal Sect cultivator to challenge the Fire Spirit Sect’s conduct.

• Yang Ding summoned more than a hundred Flame Sparrows with his three Fire Spirit Cauldrons and attacked the little nun after she suppressed his initial assault with Buddhist light.
• Yang Ding drew on dozens of Profound Truth Jade Stones and made his Flame Sparrows explode repeatedly, weakening the little nun’s protection as the surrounding cultivators fled from the blasts.
• Yang Ding taunted the little nun and demanded that she become his immortal servant; Li Xiaohu asked Lin Xuankong to let him kill Yang Ding.
• A Crane Immortal Sect cultivator called out to Flame Saber Duan He and objected to the Fire Spirit Sect’s behavior on the day of the recruitment ceremony.
• Jialin Bodhisattva arrived beside the little nun, radiating stronger Buddhist light, while Lin Xuankong recognized that she had grown more powerful since their previous meeting.

Yang Ding continued attacking a bloodied Lingtai Buddhist Sect nun despite Huang Liutao’s protest, while Flame Saber Duan He encouraged him and blocked the Crane Immortal Sect’s intervention. As the nun’s Buddhist light suddenly surged, Duan He realized she was breaking through to the Early Earth Immortal Realm and ordered Yang Ding to disrupt her, but an icy voice warned that the Fire Spirit Sect was courting destruction.

• Flame Saber Duan He dismissed Huang Liutao’s objections and threatened him when he tried to stop Yang Ding from attacking the nun.
• Duan He secretly urged Yang Ding to keep attacking, and Yang Ding intensified his bombardment until the nun’s Buddhist light shrank and she began bleeding heavily.
• The wounded nun continued chanting without retaliating as Yang Ding taunted her to beg for mercy.
• The nun’s Buddhist light suddenly blazed across hundreds of zhang as her chant grew louder, calming Lin Xuankong and confusing Yang Ding.
• Duan He recognized that the nun was using the attacks to break through to the Early Earth Immortal Realm and ordered Yang Ding to interrupt her breakthrough.
• An icy voice warned the Fire Spirit Sect that continuing its attack would bring about its own destruction.

Jialin Bodhisattva’s Buddhist secret art terrified tens of thousands of cultivators and left Yang Ding helpless. When Flame Saber Duan He learned her identity, he knelt before her and killed his own disciple to answer for the offense, leaving Chang Li and the other Fire Spirit Sect disciples stunned.

• Jialin Bodhisattva’s cold shout unleashed a Buddhist illusion that overwhelmed the gathered cultivators and drove Yang Ding into a screaming panic.
• Lin Xuankong resisted the secret art and recognized its power, while the other cultivators marveled at Jialin Bodhisattva’s strength.
• Flame Saber Duan He prepared to attack Jialin Bodhisattva, but Huang Liutao revealed that she was a revered figure from the Lingtai Buddhist Sect.
• Duan He extinguished his Flame Blade’s flames, knelt before Jialin Bodhisattva, and apologized for Yang Ding’s attack.
• Duan He burned Yang Ding to ashes, leaving Chang Li and the Fire Spirit Sect disciples unable to believe what they had witnessed.

Jialin Bodhisattva’s identity forced Flame Saber Duan He to kneel and kill his own disciple, while Lin Xuankong recognized the danger Duan He could pose to his family. The sky then filled with overwhelming heavenly lightning above the little nun, and Lin Xuankong led his companions back to watch her Calamity of Becoming Immortal.

• The cultivators learned that Jialin Bodhisattva was the disciple of Yuzhen Bodhisattva, the foremost Bodhisattva of the Lingtai Buddhist Sect, and were astonished by the sect’s power.
• Li Xiaohu teased Lin Xuankong about his connection to Jialin Bodhisattva, and Lin Xuankong smacked him for it.
• Flame Saber Duan He kowtowed to Jialin Bodhisattva and claimed his slain disciple had acted without permission, while Lin Xuankong decided Duan He would need to be eliminated.
• Jialin Bodhisattva ignored Duan He and moved toward her disciple and Lin Xuankong, leaving Duan He terrified she would punish him.
• Dark clouds pierced Crane Immortal City’s protective array and gathered above the little nun, where immense lightning bolts formed into a heavenly tribulation.
• Lin Xuankong ordered Little Tiger and the others to retreat a thousand zhang and watched the little nun prepare to undergo her tribulation.

A little nun of the Lingtai Buddhist Sect faced a devastating Early Earth Immortal heavenly tribulation, leaving Lin Xuankong and countless cultivators convinced she would fail. She turned the tide with a translucent purification bottle that healed her injuries, shielded her with Buddhist visions, and drew divine lightning into her dantian.

• Cultivators across Crane Immortal City and Earth Immortals at the Crane Immortal Sect watched as the little nun's divine lightning tribulation gathered, and Lin Xuankong learned that only a few dozen cultivators became Earth Immortals every thousand years.
• The first divine lightning bolt struck the little nun's Buddhist light and nearly extinguished it, while repeated lightning strikes battered her weakened defenses.
• Lin Xuankong and the watching cultivators doubted that the little nun could survive because she had not appeared to prepare protective treasures or an Immortal Yuan Cave Mansion.
• The little nun produced a translucent jade purification bottle whose green light blocked the lightning, restored her injuries, and brightened her Buddhist light and false core.
• Buddhist visions formed around the little nun as the tribulation intensified to nine lightning bolts at a time, but the visions kept the strikes from reaching her directly.
• The transparent bottle drew tiny white bolts of divine lightning into the little nun's dantian, astonishing Lin Xuankong because the bottle showed no sign of being an immortal artifact.