Chapter Summaries

Over three thousand years, Lin Xuankong mastered the Forbidden Law Treasure Codex, gained two rule-type talents, and helped his allies strengthen their array and artifact-making capabilities while preparing for the final heavenly tribulation. The chapter leaves him troubled as Sect Master Qiu and other Supreme Immortal Lord-level experts arrive near the Crane Immortal Sect to undergo their tribulations despite Lin Xuankong warning them of the danger.

• Lin Xuankong perfected the Forbidden Law Treasure Codex and expanded his lifespan and cultivation during three thousand years of training.
• Yan Mingyu and Lin Xuankong deduced the Luoshui Great Array to the Sixth Tier, while Xiao Xiuyi learned to forge transformed Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts containing source power.
• Lin Xuankong awakened the Old Fogey and Cunning and Sly rule-type talents, enabling him to mature materials quickly and weaken incoming attacks by 95 percent.
• Lin Xuankong postponed his own final heavenly tribulation until the Luoshui Great Array and Xiao Xiuyi's artifacts became stronger.
• Green-foreheaded Qilin told Lin Xuankong that Sect Master Qiu, Elder Qiu, Guangqing Immortal Lord, Yuzhen Bodhisattva, and other experts had gathered near the Crane Immortal Sect to trigger their final heavenly tribulations.
• Lin Xuankong felt vexed because the experts had ignored his warning that surviving the tribulations would still leave them unable to face Heavenly Demon Realm enemies.

Lin Xuankong worried that twenty-eight Supreme Immortal Lords planned to cross their final heavenly tribulations together despite the threat of the Heavenly Demon Race. As he and Guang Yu'er headed to watch, Elder Qiu arrived and insisted the cultivators would attempt the passage regardless of the danger.

• Lin Xuankong agreed to attend the simultaneous tribulation crossing, while the Green-foreheaded Qilin described the crowds gathered to witness it.
• Guang Yu'er reminded Lin Xuankong that he had concealed the Heavenly Demon threat from her and Immortal Lord Qianyuan, then explained that Qianyuan would wait to cross until Lin Xuankong did.
• Lin Xuankong promised to prepare carefully and protect his companions when they eventually crossed, and Guang Yu'er affirmed her trust in him.
• Lin Xuankong, Guang Yu'er, and the two Qilins flew toward the gathering beyond the Crane Immortal Sect.
• Guang Yu'er asked how the twenty-eight Supreme Immortal Lords could withstand the Heavenly Demons, and Elder Qiu arrived to say they would take the risk despite their limited information.

Twenty-eight supreme Immortal Lords gathered to undergo the final heavenly tribulation, equipped with Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts gifted by Lin Xuankong. They prepared to ascend together and face the Heavenly Demons in the Supreme Primordial Realm, while billions of cultivators watched.

• Elder Qiu explained why the veteran Immortal Lords had postponed their tribulations and said Lin Xuankong’s gifts and the defeat of the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect had changed their resolve.
• Luoshui Immortal Lord Yan Mingyu warned the twenty-eight tribulation candidates that Heavenly Demons at the passage to the Supreme Primordial Realm posed their greatest danger.
• Sect Master Qiu and Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva rallied the candidates, who agreed to face any Heavenly Demons together with their Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts.
• Immortal Lord Qianyuan reflected on how Lin Xuankong had transformed the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm in just five thousand years.
• The twenty-eight supreme Immortal Lords took their prepared positions and began activating their cultivation arts as billions of spectators fell silent to watch.

Lin Xuankong prepared to mark twenty-eight Supreme Immortal Lord-level cultivators as they underwent their final tribulations, while worrying about the danger awaiting them in the Supreme Primordial Realm. At Chishui Passage Entrance No. 3, Heavenly Demons who had waited for three thousand years sensed a new ascension and prepared to capture the arriving cultivator, hoping it was Lin Xuankong.

• Lin Xuankong worried whether the twenty-eight cultivators could survive encounters with Heavenly Demons after ascending, and Guang Yu'er urged him to trust their fate and the Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts he had given them.
• Lin Xuankong activated the Nine Gates Heavenly Eye to attach crimson lights to Sect Master Qiu and the other ascenders.
• At Chishui Passage Entrance No. 3, Qing Niao and the other Heavenly Demons complained that no one from the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm had ascended in three thousand years and discussed the dangers of the wars in the Supreme Primordial Realm.
• A red-haired Heavenly Demon sensed unusual fluctuations at the passage and announced that someone in the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm was undergoing the final heavenly tribulation.
• Qing Niao ordered the gathered Heavenly Demons to prepare for the arrival, hoping to capture Lin Xuankong and earn rewards from Lord Qingmu.

Qing Niao Heavenly Demon and the Red-haired Heavenly Demon prepared a vast ambush for cultivators ascending from the Golden Dragon Lesser Immortal Realm, but twenty-eight tribulation survivors emerged carrying Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts. The newcomers faced the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array, while the two Heavenly Demon commanders stared in astonishment at their artifacts.

• Qing Niao Heavenly Demon told the assembled Heavenly Demons that only three to five cultivators were likely crossing tribulation and ordered them to capture the arrivals, especially Lin Xuankong.
• The Red-haired Heavenly Demon sensed Upper Realm Primordial Energy pouring toward Passage Three, and Qing Niao Heavenly Demon urged the troops to hold formation.
• Twenty-eight Supreme Immortal Lord-level experts emerged from Passage Three after successfully crossing their final heavenly tribulations, each carrying a Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact.
• The newly ascended cultivators saw several hundred Heavenly Demons arrayed against them and realized they faced a formidable ambush.
• Qing Niao Heavenly Demon and the Red-haired Heavenly Demon recognized the Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts and stared at the arrivals in astonishment.

Twenty-eight cultivators from the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm ascended together, each carrying a Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact that began transforming in the Supreme Primordial Realm. Surrounded by Heavenly Demons who coveted the artifacts and revealed that Jade Bright and Feiyun had been imprisoned, the new arrivals prepared to fight as the Red-haired Heavenly Demon asked Qing Niao how to deal with them.

• Twenty-eight Supreme Immortal Lords successfully passed their tribulations and ascended, bringing rapidly transforming Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts with them.
• Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva realized the artifacts were absorbing Upper Realm Primordial Energy, and the Red-haired Heavenly Demon explained that they could grow into divine artifacts.
• The Red-haired Heavenly Demon revealed that Jade Bright and Feiyun had been captured and imprisoned in Chishui Great Prison after ascending.
• Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva rallied the other newly ascended cultivators, who activated their artifacts and prepared to fight the surrounding Heavenly Demons.
• The Red-haired Heavenly Demon asked Qing Niao whether they should cripple the newcomers with the array or torment them first.

The Red-haired Heavenly Demon and Qing Niao Heavenly Demon unleashed the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array against the twenty-eight newly ascended immortals, whose Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts restrained the demons from striking directly. The demons shifted to the array’s second form, and several million tiny serpents breached the defenders’ weapons, leaving one Azure Dragon Clan Heavenly Demon badly injured.

• Qing Niao Heavenly Demon activated the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array, and the twenty-eight Initial Stage Celestial Immortals answered with their strongest immortal arts.
• The array overwhelmed the immortals’ attacks, but Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva and Sect Master Qiu enlarged their transforming Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts to shield the group.
• Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva urged the others to use their artifacts as shields, but Sect Master Qiu explained that dense Upper Realm Primordial Energy prevented most of them from transforming their weapons.
• The Red-haired Heavenly Demon ordered the array’s second form, and the Heavenly Demons launched millions of tiny demonic energy serpents at the trapped immortals.
• The immortals cut down hundreds of thousands of serpents, but the remaining serpents found an opening and entered an early-phase Initial Stage Heavenly Demon of the Azure Dragon Clan, disrupting its primordial energy and disabling it.

The Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array overwhelmed the ascended cultivators, allowing the Qing Niao Heavenly Demon to seize more Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts as their numbers dwindled. Lin Xuankong watched through his Nine Gates Heavenly Eye and told Guang Yu'er that the situation was grim, leaving the trapped cultivators’ fate uncertain.

• Tiny snakes of demonic qi breached the defenses of four cultivators and carried their Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts to the Qing Niao Heavenly Demon.
• The Qing Niao Heavenly Demon urged the array controllers to fight harder by promising rewards and a chance at Lesser World origin, intensifying the attack.
• Six more cultivators, including Ling Wuji, fell when demonic qi invaded their bodies, and the Qing Niao Heavenly Demon took their artifacts.
• Lin Xuankong observed the siege through his Nine Gates Heavenly Eye while Guang Yu'er asked what had happened to the ascended cultivators.
• Lin Xuankong explained that several hundred Heavenly Demons had trapped Yuzhen Bodhisattva, Sect Master Qiu, and the others, and he admitted their situation was grim.

Lin Xuankong watched through the Nine Gates Heavenly Eye as the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array overwhelmed the cultivators trapped inside it. Elder Qiu sacrificed his strength to help six survivors flee, but Azure Bird unleashed the array’s Nine-Headed Immortal Swallowing Snake to pursue them.

• Lin Xuankong learned that Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifacts could sometimes transform into growth-type divine artifacts, and hoped to bring thousands with him when he ascended.
• The array’s miniature snakes incapacitated Sect Master Guangqing and most of the trapped cultivators, leaving seven still resisting.
• Elder Qiu activated the Five Elements Wedding Dress Escape, sacrificing his foundation to boost the escape speed of Sect Master Qiu, Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva, and four others.
• Sect Master Qiu and the other five fled toward the edge of the array as Elder Qiu was overwhelmed and captured.
• Azure Bird combined the array’s miniature snakes into a massive nine-headed serpent and sent it after the six escaping cultivators.

The Nine-Headed Immortal Devouring Snake overwhelmed the escaping cultivators and left Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva as its last prey. Her Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact transformed into the Initial Stage Divine Artifact Buddhist Pure Bottle, whose willow branches stopped the snake’s attack and gave her a chance to survive.

• The Nine-Headed Immortal Devouring Snake caught and swallowed the fleeing Initial Stage Celestial Immortals, including Sect Master Qiu, until only Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva remained.
• The snake toyed with Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva, whose Upper Realm Primordial Energy slowed under its strange power.
• The Qing Niao Heavenly Demon realized that Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva’s artifact was still absorbing Supreme Primordial Energy and transforming into a Buddhist Pure Bottle.
• The Red-haired Heavenly Demon and the Qing Niao Heavenly Demon recognized that the artifact might become a rare growth-type Initial Stage Divine Artifact and rejoiced.
• The Qing Niao Heavenly Demon ordered Nine Heads to capture Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva, and the snake lunged to devour her.
• The Buddhist Pure Bottle released willow branches that bound the snake’s mouth, thwarted its attack, and gave Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva hope of survival.

Lin Xuankong watched Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva’s Ninth-Grade Immortal Artifact transform into the growth-type Initial Stage Divine Artifact Buddhist Pure Bottle, which helped her escape the Immortal Slaying Thousand Demon Array. Qingmu Heavenly Demon learned of the artifact and led a pursuit as Yuzhen fled southeast inside the bottle.

• The Buddhist Pure Bottle bound the Nine-Headed Immortal Devouring Snake’s first head, then shrank Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva and drew her inside before escaping the array.
• The Qing Niao Heavenly Demon reported the Pure Bottle’s escape to Qingmu Heavenly Demon, who sensed its lingering aura and set off southeast to claim it.
• Qing Niao Heavenly Demon ordered the Red-haired Heavenly Demon and the array’s cultivators to mobilize Qingmu Forest’s forces and pursue Yuzhen.
• Nearly a thousand Heavenly Demons flew southeast while the Nine-Headed Immortal Devouring Snake carried Qing Niao Heavenly Demon and the array cultivators in pursuit.
• Inside the fleeing Buddhist Pure Bottle, Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva reflected on how the artifact Lin had given her had saved her after the other ascenders were captured.

Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva fled Chishui Demon City in the Buddhist Pure Bottle while the Qingmu Heavenly Demon pursued her, hoping to seize the divine artifact. The chase continued across the seemingly endless Chishui River, and Qingmu launched a spatial attack that Yuzhen narrowly avoided.

• Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva surveyed the demon-infested lands from the Buddhist Pure Bottle and spotted the Qingmu Heavenly Demon pursuing her at greater speed.
• Yuzhen pushed the Buddhist Pure Bottle to its limit, while Qingmu secretly pursued her to avoid alerting stronger demons in Chishui Demon City.
• Yuzhen and Qingmu raced out of Chishui Demon City and continued east over the vast Chishui River as Qingmu steadily closed the distance.
• Qingmu urged Yuzhen to surrender the Buddhist Pure Bottle, but she ignored him and prepared to defend herself with willow jade branches.
• When Qingmu attacked from thirty thousand li away, Yuzhen sensed danger and veered southeast, avoiding blue-black tentacles that burst from a spatial fissure along her original route.

Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva was trapped inside her Buddhist Pure Bottle as Qingmu Heavenly Demon tried to seize it, but Yun Jiaolong and her maids arrived and drove Qingmu away. Yun Jiaolong then demanded that Yuzhen come out and hand over the Growth-type Divine Artifact, leaving Yuzhen in danger once more.

• Qingmu Heavenly Demon’s bluish-black branches destroyed Yuzhen’s defenses and forced her to seal herself inside the Buddhist Pure Bottle.
• Qingmu approached the bottle, boasting that he would claim it and earn rewards from Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch.
• Yun Jiaolong and seven crimson-armored women arrived, and Yun Jiaolong claimed the bottle as a treasure she wanted for her cave dwelling.
• Qingmu protested that the artifact belonged to Chishui Demon City, but one of Yun Jiaolong’s maids threatened him, and he retreated.
• Yun Jiaolong’s maids cleared away Qingmu’s branches, and Yun Jiaolong ordered Yuzhen to emerge and surrender the bottle, threatening to enter and find her herself.

Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva escaped the Heavenly Demon ambush but was captured by Yun Jiaolong, while Lin Xuankong told Guang Yu'er about the disastrous ascension and promised to develop stronger Luoshui formations. The chapter left the fates of the captured ascenders uncertain as Lin Xuankong worried about Yuzhen's escape.

• Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva offered Yun Jiaolong the Buddhist Pure Bottle, but Yun Jiaolong returned it and explained that humans and the Demon Race were allies.
• Yun Jiaolong suddenly immobilized Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva with her primordial energy and made her lose consciousness.
• Lin Xuankong told Guang Yu'er that twenty-eight ascenders had encountered hundreds of Heavenly Demons, with Great Accomplishment Yuzhen Bodhisattva the only one to escape the formation.
• Guang Yu'er feared that ascenders had been captured for millions of years, but Lin Xuankong encouraged her to keep faith and prepare for the upper realm.
• Lin Xuankong said that advancing the Luoshui Great Array to the Eighth Tier could let them overcome the Heavenly Demons' ambush, while he privately worried about the captured ascenders and Yuzhen.

Eight thousand years after Lin Xuankong confronted powerful Heavenly Demons at the passage to the Supreme Primordial Realm, Qu Wan'er and Sect Master Li celebrated their advancement to Supreme Immortal Lord. Lin emerged from seclusion to attend their ceremony and sent three exceptionally powerful swords into the hall, leaving the gathered experts astonished.

• Lin Xuankong resolved not to fear the Thousand Illusions Sacred Monarch, recalling that he had defeated the power it sent into the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm.
• Eight thousand years passed, and Qu Wan'er and Crane Immortal Sect Master Li advanced to the Supreme Immortal Lord realm as the human race faced a shortage of top experts.
• Crane Immortal Sect disciples guarding the Demon Suppressing Hall discussed the ceremony and lamented that they had never seen Lin Xuankong leave Xuankong Cave.
• Three streams of light flew from Xuankong Cave to the Crane Immortal Sect's main hall, where Lin Xuankong's three Ninth Grade Perfection Immortal swords appeared before Sect Master Li.
• The gathered Supreme Immortal Lords marveled at the swords' power and dared not touch the artifacts refined by Lin Xuankong.

Luoshui Immortal Lord Yan Mingyu revealed that Lin Xuankong planned to undergo the final heavenly tribulation and ascend, prompting concern about the Golden Dragon Immortal Realm and the Heavenly Demon ambush in the upper realm. Lin Xuankong left powerful artifacts to protect the Crane Immortal Sect, while Yan Mingyu said she and several others would ascend alongside him and left the other experts to decide whether to join.

• Yan Mingyu explained that Lin Xuankong had emerged from a thousand years of cultivation and intended to trigger the final heavenly tribulation soon.
• Yan Mingyu identified the three Ninth Grade Perfection Immortal Artifacts as Azure Shadow, Pure Yang, and Flying Sunset, gifts meant to guard the Crane Immortal Sect and suppress the Devil Masters.
• Sect Master Li and Qu Wan'er accepted the three artifacts as the gathered Supreme Immortal Lords congratulated the Crane Immortal Sect.
• The Old Clan Leader of the Kirin Clan asked whether Lin Xuankong could face the Heavenly Demons waiting at the passage to the Supreme Primordial Realm, and Yan Mingyu said their presence remained uncertain.
• Yan Mingyu announced that she, Immortal Lord Guang Yu'er, White-browed Demon Lord, and Green-browed Demon Lord planned to undergo tribulation alongside Lin Xuankong, leaving the other cultivators to choose for themselves.

Lin Xuankong’s allies decided whether to face the final heavenly tribulation with him, while he returned to Great Marsh Prefecture with his family to revisit the mortal world before ascending. The chapter ended when Xiao Ying’er pulled a startled martial cultivator from the street, and he warned the group not to defy the Great Xia Dynasty.

• Yan Mingyu explained why the Heavenly Demon experts made the final tribulation dangerous, and the gathered cultivators weighed whether to follow Lin Xuankong.
• The Kirin Clan’s Old Clan Leader, the Guangqing Immortal Sect’s leaders, and other powerful cultivators pledged to undergo the tribulation with Lin Xuankong, bringing the number of willing Supreme Immortal Lord-level experts to twenty-four.
• Yan Mingyu said Lin Xuankong had left to settle old regrets, while Guang Yu’er wondered about the people he had gone to visit in Xia Country.
• Lin Xuankong, Li Xiaolan, Zhao Yufei, Xiao Ying’er, Little Tiger, and their companions walked through a transformed Great Marsh Prefecture, where humans and demons lived peacefully.
• Zhao Yufei mourned the disappearance of her family’s traces, and Xiao Xiuyi teased Xiao Ying’er before forgiving her family for past wrongs.
• Xiao Ying’er seized a passing martial cultivator with immortal essence, and the startled man drew his blade and warned the group about the Great Xia Dynasty’s experts.

Lin Xuankong and his companions returned to Great Marsh Prefecture and learned that the willow tree he had enlightened more than ten thousand years earlier had become the famed Divine Communication Demon King. They headed to hear it preach, while Ma Hongtao realized who Lin Xuankong might be and followed in hopes of receiving guidance.

• Ma Hongtao boasted about the Great Xia Dynasty’s experts and described the Divine Communication Demon King, prompting Lin Xuankong’s companions to recognize it as the old willow tree he had once enlightened.
• Lin Xuankong sensed the old willow tree’s location, and he and his companions set out southwest to visit it.
• Tens of thousands of human and Demon Race cultivators crowded the streets to hear the Divine Communication Demon King preach, while Ma Hongtao considered Lin Xuankong a possible immortal benefactor.
• Zhao Yufei led the group toward a path guarded by Great Xia constables, and Ma Hongtao followed them.
• Lin Xuankong and his companions walked past the constables unnoticed as they headed toward the Divine Communication Demon King’s residence.

Lin Xuankong and his companions arrived at the Divine Communication Demon King's manor, where their appearance and claim to belong to the Yin Talisman Sect drew suspicion. City Lord Jiang Lingyun recognized Third Lady Xiao Ying'er as a legendary figure from more than ten thousand years ago and prostrated himself before her, leaving the Rakshasa Country envoy terrified.

• Lin Xuankong and his companions reached the manor and admired the enormous willow tree that had once grown at the Lin Residence.
• Second Lady Zhao Yufei ended the group's illusion, prompting the manor guards to surround them and question their identities.
• Young Lady Li Xiaolan claimed that the group belonged to the Yin Talisman Sect, but Li Yuan, the Rakshasa Country envoy, and the onlookers rejected the claim.
• City Lord Jiang Lingyun recognized Third Lady Xiao Ying'er, knelt before her, and addressed her by her legendary title.
• Xiao Ying'er denied being the figure Jiang Lingyun named, while the Rakshasa Country envoy realized he might have insulted a revered legend.

City Lord Jiang Lingyun recognized Third Lady Xiao Ying'er as the revered Three Sacred Lady, and the officers and cultivators who had threatened or mocked her hurriedly bowed in terror. The Divine Communication Demon King, Old Willow Tree, then greeted Lin Xuankong as his master, revealing that Lin Xuankong had returned to Great Xia after ten thousand years.

• Jiang Lingyun prostrated himself before Xiao Ying'er and confirmed she was the Great Virtue, Supreme Radiance, True Body, Dao Gold, Vast Heaven, Supreme Three Sacred Lady, Third Princess of the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Jiang Lingyun ordered the officers and cultivators to bow to Xiao Ying'er, and they threw down their weapons and kowtowed, many cracking the paving stones with their foreheads.
• Old Willow Tree uprooted himself and moved from his residence to greet Lin Xuankong, calling him his master and asking to serve him again.
• Lin Xuankong touched Old Willow Tree's trunk and recalled the marks he had left there while cultivating the Spirit Crane Finger; Old Willow Tree explained that he had preserved them so Lin Xuankong would recognize him.
• Jiang Lingyun and the onlookers realized Lin Xuankong was the legendary Immortal Lord Lin, whom even the Divine Communication Demon King revered as his master.