Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuankong emerged from seclusion and went to the council hall, where Immortals had gathered to discuss how to face the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect. Outside, he unexpectedly encountered Guang Yu'er, whose unresolved feelings about his request a year earlier left him awkward and unsure how to respond.

• Sect Master Li asked Qu Wan'er to escort Lin Xuankong and the two Qilins into the council hall while he remained outside to receive arriving Immortals.
• Lin Xuankong greeted Qu Wan'er respectfully, recalling that she had taught Li Xiaolan alchemy.
• Guang Ling'er and Guang Yu'er came out of the hall and were stunned to see Lin Xuankong after his year in seclusion.
• Guang Ling'er recalled that Lin Xuankong had asked Guang Yu'er to call him husband, while Guang Yu'er wondered whether he had meant the request only as a favor.
• Guang Yu'er congratulated Lin Xuankong and said she would treat what happened as a favor and never mention it to anyone.
• Lin Xuankong realized Guang Yu'er had misunderstood his intentions, but he felt unable to explain or comfort her.

Guang Ling'er, Guang Yu'er, and Daoist Qianyuan were astonished by Lin Xuankong’s apparent cultivation breakthrough and praised his talents after he emerged from seclusion. Daoist Qianyuan thanked him for the Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts and led him into the council hall, where Immortal Lords had gathered to discuss the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect and seek his help refining artifacts.

• Guang Ling'er discovered that Lin Xuankong appeared to have advanced from the Third Grade to the Fourth Grade Late Stage in only a hundred years, astonishing her and Guang Yu'er.
• Daoist Qianyuan emerged from the council hall, noticed Lin Xuankong’s apparent breakthrough, and praised the Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts Lin had given him and Daoist Kunyuan.
• Daoist Qianyuan promised Lin Xuankong that he and the Guangqing Immortal Sect would provide him with materials and treasures whenever he needed help.
• Daoist Qianyuan took Lin Xuankong into the council hall, where the gathered Immortal Lords had waited to discuss the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect and hoped to ask him to refine Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts.

Immortal Lord Feiyun arrived in the Western Region after emerging from tens of thousands of years of seclusion, and Guang Yu'er explained the formidable cultivation art she had created. Feiyun revealed that Guang Yu'er had misstated details of her past and eagerly anticipated challenging Elder Qiu and the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect's powerful fighters.

• Immortal Lord Feiyun joined Daoist Qianyuan and the others, explaining that she had left Junior Brother Ling to guard the Eastern Region and had come to fight the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect.
• Daoist Qianyuan praised Feiyun's breakthrough and said her presence might have changed the outcome of the Eastern Region war, prompting Lin Xuankong to wonder about her strength.
• Guang Yu'er secretly told Lin Xuankong that Feiyun had defeated Ling Wuming, developed the Feiyun Great Tribulation Immortal Art, and might wield an art stronger than the Guangqing Extreme Cold Art.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun stopped and fixed her gaze on Guang Yu'er, revealing that she had detected the private voice transmission.
• Feiyun corrected Guang Yu'er's account of her duel with Ling Wuming and said Elder Qiu had not been in closed-door cultivation at the time.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun said she looked forward to fighting Elder Qiu and then the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect's renowned Demonic Beings.

Immortal Lord Feiyun confronted Lin Xuankong and praised his exceptional array-formation and artifact-refining talents, but insisted that such skills were lesser paths compared with cultivation realm. She challenged him to humility and prepared to strike, leaving Lin Xuankong facing an imminent clash.

• Guang Yu'er apologized to Immortal Lord Feiyun and explained her admiration for the senior, while Lin Xuankong resented seeing her forced to flatter her.
• Lin Xuankong ignored Immortal Lord Feiyun's question, and Daoist Qianyuan tried to defuse the tension by introducing Lin Xuankong and praising his achievements.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun recognized Lin Xuankong as the famed young Immortal who had defeated the Immortal Realm's leading artifact refiner and attracted the Demon Domain's attention.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun dismissed artifact refinement and array formation as lesser paths and argued that cultivation realm and powerful immortal arts mattered most.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun raised her hand and threatened to kill Lin Xuankong even while suppressing herself to his cultivation grade, while Lin Xuankong furrowed his brow at her arrogance.

Lin Xuankong challenged Immortal Lord Feiyun after she insulted the Dao of formations and threatened him, prompting her to suppress her cultivation to the Fourth Grade and prepare to teach him and his companions a lesson. Guang Yu'er and the two Qilins stood by Lin Xuankong as Immortal Lord Feiyun ignored Daoist Qianyuan’s attempt to intervene.

• Lin Xuankong rejected Immortal Lord Feiyun’s threat and prepared to face her with the perfected Guangqing Extreme Cold Art.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun suppressed her cultivation to the Fourth Grade and formed terrifying black lightning with the Feiyun Heavenly Tribulation True Art.
• Guang Yu'er stepped beside Lin Xuankong despite her fear, and Lin Xuankong moved to shield her.
• The Green-foreheaded Qilin and White-foreheaded Qilin joined Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er, while Immortal Lord Feiyun declared she would use them to demonstrate her power.
• Daoist Qianyuan urged Immortal Lord Feiyun to leave the juniors to him, but she ignored him and kept her gaze on Lin Xuankong and the others.

Immortal Lord Feiyun prepared to attack Lin Xuankong, but Yan Mingyu and several peerlessly powerful Immortal Lords intervened to protect him. Elder Qiu arrived before the confrontation began and praised Feiyun’s talent, leaving Lin Xuankong wondering what the old expert intended.

• Immortal Lord Feiyun threatened Lin Xuankong, and Yan Mingyu, Daoist Kunyuan, Ling Wuji, Ling Wuming, and other Immortal Lords rushed to stand between them.
• Daoist Kunyuan warned Feiyun that he would defend Lin Xuankong, while the gathered Immortal Lords remained at Lin Xuankong’s side because of the Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts he had provided.
• Guang Yu'er pulled Lin Xuankong back and urged him to retreat as Feiyun released her full cultivation and prepared to fight.
• Elder Qiu arrived with more than ten peerlessly powerful Immortal Lords, easing the tension and prompting the others to greet him.
• Elder Qiu praised Feiyun’s cultivation talent and strength, and Lin Xuankong wondered why the elder had begun by flattering her.

Immortal Lord Feiyun stopped pursuing her dispute with Lin Xuankong but challenged Elder Qiu to spar, only for news of the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect’s advancing army to interrupt them. The assembled immortals rushed to prepare for battle, while Lin Xuankong and Immortal Lord Feiyun looked forward to the coming fight.

• Elder Qiu persuaded Immortal Lord Feiyun to let go of her grievance against Lin Xuankong by stressing his importance to the coming war.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun asked Elder Qiu to spar with her, leaving him displeased and reluctant to accept.
• Little Seven reported that a large Xuan Yin Demonic Sect army was approaching the Crane Immortal Sect and could arrive within minutes.
• Elder Qiu ordered the Earth Immortals to gather and led the peak Immortal Lords out to face the demonic army.
• Yan Mingyu teased Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er about marrying after the war, then left the council hall.

As the immortals gathered for the decisive battle against the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect, Lin Xuankong wondered about the Upper Realm and the Heavenly Demon Power behind the sect’s strength. A demonic envoy arrived beneath a vast black skull, but Immortal Lord Feiyun swiftly crippled it with divine lightning and sent it back with a warning.

• Guang Yu'er warned Lin Xuankong about the powerful demonic beings and Demon Son Gang Gu, and urged him to protect himself with Immortal Artifacts and Ninth-grade Thousand Crane Arrays.
• The immortals and nearly ten thousand high-grade Earth Immortals assembled above the Crane Immortal Sect as Lin Xuankong pondered the Upper Realm and the Heavenly Demon Power.
• A giant black skull arrived over the sect, and its Demon General claimed to be an envoy delivering an edict from the Holy Son of the Profound Yin Sacred Sect.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun struck the skull with twenty-four bolts of divine lightning, destroying much of it and reducing the Demon General from Ninth Grade to Fourth Grade.
• Immortal Lord Feiyun spared the envoy and ordered it to warn the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect that the human race’s powerhouses would resist its invasion.

Immortal Lord Feiyun crippled a Demon General, who revealed that the Demon Son would spare the Immortal Realm for a million years if it surrendered Lin Xuankong within three days. As the gathered experts weighed that offer, Lin Xuankong’s qilin companions urged him to raise the Thousand Crane Array.

• Immortal Lord Feiyun crippled the Ninth Grade Demon Artifact Grade Demon General with a single finger, reducing its cultivation to the Fourth Grade.
• Elder Qiu demanded the Demon General deliver the Demon Son’s message, and the Demon General announced that the Profound Yin Sacred Sect would avoid war if the Immortal Realm surrendered Mu Shiba—identified as Lin Xuankong—within three days.
• The Demon General warned that refusal would bring an invasion and then fled, leaving the gathered experts to turn toward Lin Xuankong.
• Ling Wuming considered the promise of a million years of peace, while Immortal Lord Feiyun argued that the Demon Son would likely honor an oath sworn in the name of the Thousand Illusions Heavenly Demon.
• Many high-grade Earth Immortals began to waver at the prospect of avoiding war, and the Green-foreheaded Qilin and White-foreheaded Qilin stepped beside Lin Xuankong and urged him to activate his immortal artifacts and form the Ninth Grade Thousand Crane Array.

Yan Mingyu defended Lin Xuankong after Feiyun suggested that surrendering him might end the war, and their argument nearly became a fight. Elder Qiu calmed them by reminding them of the looming threat from Gang Gu and the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect, while Feiyun withdrew and challenged Yan Mingyu and Elder Qiu to meet her after the war.

• Yan Mingyu rebuked Feiyun for implying that Lin Xuankong should be handed over and revealed that he had donated dozens of refined Immortal Artifacts to support the war.
• Yan Mingyu raised the Luoshui Great Array to protect Lin Xuankong, and Feiyun prepared to attack it as the gathered Earth Immortals fled.
• Elder Qiu stepped between Yan Mingyu and Feiyun and urged them to save their strength for the coming war against Gang Gu and the empowered Devil Masters.
• Yan Mingyu dismissed her array, and Feiyun withdrew after agreeing to Elder Qiu's mediation while promising to challenge Yan Mingyu and Elder Qiu after the war.
• Elder Qiu watched Feiyun leave, then turned his attention to Lin Xuankong.

Elder Qiu rallied the gathered immortals to protect Lin Xuankong and prepare for the coming war against the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect, boosting their confidence with news that the Divine Dynasty Sect Master would join them. After Lin Xuankong discussed his artifact gifts with Daoist Kunyuan, Kunyuan reminded him and Yan Mingyu of their old agreement concerning the Guangqing Extreme Cold Art.

• Elder Qiu urged the immortal forces to defend Lin Xuankong and said the Divine Dynasty Sect Master would come to aid them in the coming war.
• Daoist Qianyuan told the gathered Earth Immortals that the Divine Dynasty Sect Master was likely stronger than Immortal Lord Feiyun, exciting them about the war.
• The high-grade Earth Immortals praised Lin Xuankong’s artifact gifts, and Yan Mingyu showed quiet pride in her disciple.
• Lin Xuankong credited Daoist Qianyuan and Daoist Kunyuan for supporting his artifact refining and providing materials.
• Daoist Kunyuan reminded Lin Xuankong and Yan Mingyu of their agreement concerning the Guangqing Extreme Cold Art.

Lin Xuankong and Luoshui Immortal Lord Yan Mingyu discussed the agreement with Daoist Qianyuan and Daoist Kunyuan, who expected him to learn the Guangqing Extreme Cold Art within the agreed year. After the Immortal Lords left to plan for the coming war, Guang Yu'er invited Lin to taste the Guangqing Immortal Sect’s newly harvested Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea, whose rarity drew the envy of nearby Earth Immortals.

• Lin Xuankong reminded Daoist Qianyuan that the agreed year had not yet passed, while Yan Mingyu said Qianyuan and Kunyuan should prepare jade slips for the Guangqing Immortal Sect’s seven great immortal arts.
• Daoist Qianyuan and Daoist Kunyuan praised the Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts Lin had made for them and said they still hoped to win their agreement with Yan Mingyu.
• Yan Mingyu, Qianyuan, and Kunyuan went to the discussion hall to confer with the other Immortal Lords, while many high-grade Earth Immortals headed to the guest pavilions built by the Crane Immortal Sect.
• Guang Yu'er invited Lin Xuankong to the Guangqing Immortal Pavilion to drink Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea she had picked herself, explaining its benefits and that it could help Ninth-Grade Earth Immortals advance.
• The Green-foreheaded Qilin announced the tea’s rarity and value, prompting nearby Earth Immortals to discuss the Guangqing Immortal Sect’s good fortune and regard Lin with envy.

Lin Xuankong learned that Guang Yu'er wanted to share her precious Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea with him, which could strengthen his immortal body and help fuse it with his supreme Spirit Soul. As the Kirins carried him toward the Guangqing Immortal Pavilion, he wondered how much his Old and Vigorous Destiny would amplify the tea’s effects.

• Lin Xuankong hesitated to accept the Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea, but Guang Yu'er explained that her master had given her the leaves to use as she pleased.
• Guang Ling'er teased Guang Yu'er about her feelings for Lin Xuankong, prompting Guang Yu'er to blush and hurry back to the Guangqing Immortal Pavilion.
• The surrounding Earth Immortals envied Lin Xuankong for receiving a whole leaf of the renowned Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea.
• The Green-foreheaded Qilin carried Lin Xuankong toward the pavilion while it and the White-foreheaded Qilin urged him to accept Guang Yu'er's gift.
• Lin Xuankong considered whether his Old and Cunning effect could greatly amplify the Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea's effects.

Lin Xuankong visited the Guangqing Immortal Pavilion to drink Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea and discovered that even its fragrance increased his lifespan and improved his body and immortal essence. Guang Yu'er arrived with the tea, leaving him eager to learn what drinking it would do as the coming Immortal-Demon War threatened the human race.

• Lin Xuankong considered whether his Old and Vigorous Destiny could amplify Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea's many benefits as the Green-foreheaded Qilin and White-foreheaded Qilin led him to the Guangqing Immortal Pavilion.
• Guang Ling'er teased Lin Xuankong about Guang Yu'er personally brewing tea for him, while the Green-foreheaded Qilin praised his achievements and speculated about him and Guang Yu'er becoming immortal companions.
• Lin Xuankong rested in the pavilion but soon worried about the approaching Immortal-Demon War and the power Demon Son Gang Gu had gained from Heavenly Demon Power.
• Guang Yu'er carried in the Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea, and Lin Xuankong's remaining lifespan increased by over a year after he breathed its fragrance for a few moments.
• Lin Xuankong sensed that the tea's fragrance had also improved his immortal essence and body, while Guang Ling'er and the two Qilins admired the aroma; Guang Yu'er refused to share her tea.

Lin Xuankong exchanged a Heavenly Demon Blood Fruit for Guang Yu'er's Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea, making clear that he accepted her feelings. After drinking the tea, he discovered that his lifespan had increased to more than five million years and his cultivation had advanced.

• The qilin Demon Kings and Guang Ling'er left the pavilion so Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er could speak alone.
• Lin Xuankong offered Guang Yu'er a Heavenly Demon Blood Fruit in return for her Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea, and she accepted it after he insisted.
• Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er drank the tea and cultivated while absorbing its power.
• Lin Xuankong awoke first and saw that his lifespan had risen to 5,089,792 years and his Supreme Immortal Lord cultivation had advanced.

After drinking Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea, Lin Xuankong broke through to the Early Stage Supreme Immortal Lord realm, and Guang Yu'er reached the same realm. Their celebration was interrupted when the Myriad Law Immortal Sect arrived to offer Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits in exchange for one of Lin Xuankong's immortal artifacts.

• Lin Xuankong tested his transformed immortal body in the Ninth-Rank True Spirit Bone secret realm and confirmed that Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea had brought him into the Early Stage Supreme Immortal Lord realm.
• Lin Xuankong protected Guang Yu'er while she cultivated, and she later awakened as a Supreme Immortal Lord after drinking Seven-Leaf Spirit Tea.
• Guang Yu'er tested her strength, found her immortal body could reach eighteen thousand zhang, and asked Lin Xuankong to keep her breakthrough secret until the Immortal-Demon War.
• Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er embraced, but Qu Yunshang interrupted them with news that Immortals from the Myriad Law Immortal Sect had come to meet them.
• Qu Yunshang reported that Immortal Guo had brought four Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits to exchange for one of Lin Xuankong's immortal artifacts, and Guang Yu'er explained that the fruits were a rare spirit medicine.

Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er prepared to meet Myriad Law Immortal Sect Earth Immortals seeking to trade four Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits for Immortal Artifacts. Guang Yu'er concealed her new Supreme Immortal Lord strength, while she explained the sect’s troubled history with the Guangqing Immortal Sect and its notorious demon-sacrificing arts.

• Lin Xuankong eagerly agreed to meet the Myriad Law Immortal Sect visitors, hoping to obtain their Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits for his companions.
• Guang Yu'er decided to hide her new Early Stage Supreme Immortal Lord cultivation until the Immortal-Demon War, and Lin Xuankong resolved to keep his own strength concealed as well.
• Guang Ling'er and the Green-foreheaded Qilin teased Guang Yu'er and Lin Xuankong over their disheveled clothes and time alone, leaving Guang Yu'er embarrassed.
• Guang Ling'er and Guang Yu'er questioned why the Myriad Law Immortal Sect had come to seek Lin Xuankong, given the two sects’ history of hostility.
• Guang Yu'er recounted the Myriad Law Immortal Sect’s decline and rivalry with her sect, while the two Qilin Demon Kings recalled how its demon sacrifices had fueled distrust between humans and demons.

Lin Xuankong met with Sima Ling and the Myriad Law Immortal Sect elders to discuss exchanging a Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifact for their Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits. After bargaining and Guang Ling'er defending the artifact’s rarity, Lin agreed to trade one fruit for one artifact, leaving Sima Ling and his fellow elders excited.

• The Green-foreheaded Qilin and White-foreheaded Qilin held back their objections to the Myriad Law Immortal Sect’s visit because the sect had come to negotiate with Guang Yu'er.
• Sima Ling and twenty-seven Ninth Grade Perfection Earth Immortals greeted Lin Xuankong and his companions, explaining that they sought preparations for the imminent Immortal-Demon War.
• Lin Xuankong asked whether the Myriad Law Immortal Sect wanted to exchange four Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits for one Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifact, then pretended to have few artifacts left.
• Sima Ling praised the value of the Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits, while Guang Ling'er argued that Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts were far rarer.
• Lin Xuankong agreed to exchange one Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifact for the fruits and asked Sima Ling to present them for inspection.
• Sima Ling and the other Myriad Law Immortal Sect elders eagerly rose, delighted that Lin Xuankong had agreed to the trade.

Lin Xuankong inspected four purported Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits in a proposed exchange for his peak Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifact and discovered their shells were empty. The Myriad Law Immortal Sect revealed the shells’ hidden soul-suppressing effect, leaving the Green-foreheaded Qilin, White-foreheaded Qilin, and Qu Yunshang asleep as Lin Xuankong and the Guangqing Immortal Sect women prepared to respond.

• Lin Xuankong displayed a peak Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifact, and Sima Ling offered four Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruits in exchange for it.
• Lin Xuankong and his companions examined the fruits, while Guang Yu'er noticed a crack in each shell and questioned whether they were genuine.
• Lin Xuankong used the Nine Gates Heavenly Eye to see that all four fruit shells were empty inside.
• The fruits’ intensified fluctuations made the Green-foreheaded Qilin and White-foreheaded Qilin dizzy and unable to mobilize their immortal essence.
• Sima Ling revealed that activated Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruit shells could suppress Spirit Souls and induce restorative sleep, and the Green-foreheaded Qilin, White-foreheaded Qilin, and Qu Yunshang collapsed asleep.
• Lin Xuankong, Guang Yu'er, and Guang Ling'er mobilized their immortal essence as the Myriad Law Immortal Sect’s Earth Immortals smiled.

The Myriad Law Immortal Sect used Nine-Pattern Bodhi Fruit shells to incapacitate Lin Xuankong, Guang Yu'er, and Guang Ling'er, then revealed that it had betrayed the human race and planned to hand Lin Xuankong to the Xuan Yin Sacred Clan. Sima Ling explained that the sect expected the reward of becoming Sacred Lords and ruling the Immortal Realm, while Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er remained trapped and affected by the fruit.

• Sima Ling and the Myriad Law Immortal Sect’s Earth Immortals surrounded Lin Xuankong, Guang Yu'er, and Guang Ling'er after exposing them to the shells’ potent effects.
• Guang Ling'er collapsed, while Guang Yu'er struggled to control her sluggish immortal essence and worried that Lin Xuankong would be harmed.
• Sima Ling mocked Lin Xuankong and Guang Yu'er for resisting the fruit’s effects, and Lin Xuankong feigned weakness while asking why the sect had targeted him.
• Sima Ling revealed that the Myriad Law Immortal Sect had contacted the Xuan Yin Sacred Clan and intended to capture Lin Xuankong for Sacred Son Ganggu.
• Sima Ling said the sect expected Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch’s power to raise its twenty-eight elders to the Sacred Lord realm and make it ruler of the human race.