Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan rejected an attempt by Drunk Fragrance Tower to bribe him for Archive Department intelligence, then discovered that the woman posing as Madam Su was a Red-clothed Fierce Ghost. After destroying the ghost, he learned it had been controlled and was connected to the evil cultivators to the south.

• A woman told Ye Die that Lin Fan would agree to her proposal and noted that Zhou Qing had revealed information about the evil cultivators to the south.
• Sun Chengming brought Lin Fan three bottles of Lifespan Pills from Drunk Fragrance Tower in exchange for information, but Lin Fan ordered him to return them.
• At home, Lin Fan recognized that the woman posing as Madam Su was an impostor and warned her not to harm the real Madam Su.
• The Red-clothed Fierce Ghost attacked Lin Fan with ghost poison, but his body reassembled after being cut apart.
• Lin Fan seized and destroyed the Red-clothed Fierce Ghost, then learned it was controlled and linked to the evil cultivators to the south.

Lin Fan saved Madam Su from a ghost attack, then hunted down Ling Sheng of the Ghost Sect and learned that someone had hired the sect to kill the newly appointed deputy director of the Archive Department. After fusing two cultivation methods into the Eight Divisions Soul Refining Art, Lin Fan advanced within the Cloud Soaring Realm and wondered why his mental-power cultivation differed from that of ordinary people.

• Lin Fan removed the ghostly energy from Madam Su and sent a shadow to investigate its source.
• At a farmhouse, Ling Sheng’s ghostly creatures were destroyed by a mysterious figure, who captured and questioned him.
• Ling Sheng revealed that an unknown client had offered a high price for the life of the newly appointed deputy director of the Archive Department, and the figure absorbed him and took his belongings.
• Lin Fan learned about the Ghost Sect and found cultivation manuals, then fused the Eight Divisions Yin Gathering Art with the Blood Demon Soul Refining Chapter.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to obtain the Eight Divisions Soul Refining Art and cultivated it, increasing his mental power and advancing one minor realm.
• Lin Fan wondered whether the panel and Pre-emptive Dao Fruit made his Cloud Soaring Realm cultivation different from ordinary people’s.

Lin Fan infiltrated the Ghost Sect as Ling Sheng, survived Junior Sister Ding’s attempt to kill him, and persuaded the sect master to spare him by claiming he could find the Ghost King Bone. He left the sect carrying a Blood Ghost Curse and was ordered to retrieve the bone within half a month.

• Lin Fan told Junior Sister Ding that the Crimson Ghost had been destroyed, but she attacked him with the Rakshasa Ghost Array to devour his soul.
• Lin Fan used the Eight Divisions Soul Condensing Art to defeat Junior Sister Ding, then brought her with him to the Ghost Sect’s headquarters.
• The Ghost Sect’s inspection mirror let Lin Fan pass, and the sect master summoned him and ordered him to take his own life for failing his mission.
• Lin Fan claimed he knew where to find the Ghost King Bone, so the sect master gave him half a month and a Blood Ghost Pill containing a curse tied to the sect master’s mental power.
• After Lin Fan left, the sect master revealed that he planned to use him to obtain the Ghost King Bone and strengthen the Ghost Sect’s chances of attacking Yunshan County.

Lin Fan returned to the Archive Department and killed Sun Chengming after finding him in Ding Fu's seat, then used his growing lifespan to advance his sword and soul techniques. He discovered that his Sword Qi could now drain vitality and left the County Office on a talisman, intent on improving his talisman craft.

• Sun Chengming claimed Ding Fu's seat and threatened Jiang Ming, but Lin Fan arrived and killed him with a touch, disguising the death as a sudden illness.
• Lin Fan used lifespan gained from copying records to pre-empt the Flowing Cloud Sword Scripture to the fifth layer.
• Lin Fan fused his Sword Seed with power from the Lifespan Ancient Mirror and discovered his new Sword Qi could weaken lifespan, which he tested by withering courtyard plants.
• Lin Fan pre-empted the Black and White Yama Art to the third layer and resolved to keep advancing his talisman craft.
• A talisman transformed into a ferocious figure and left the County Office without drawing attention.

Lin Fan returned to Tian Yuan Pavilion seeking talisman manuals and accepted a rare inheritance in exchange for refining more Heaven and Earth Demon Suppressing Talismans. The female manager hoped to make him her partner, while Lin Fan left with the Spirit Control Talisman Arts under the name Talisman Master Zhao.

• The female manager and Uncle Fu discussed the worsening crisis in Shangyang Commandery, the dangers of the Calamity Land, and their need for more Heaven and Earth Demon Suppressing Talismans.
• A servant announced that the Talisman Master from before had returned, and the female manager welcomed Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan examined Tian Yuan Pavilion's talisman manuals but found them too superficial to suit him.
• The servant recalled the Spirit Control Talisman Arts in the treasure vault, and the female manager brought the manual to Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan agreed to refine more Heaven and Earth Demon Suppressing Talismans in exchange for the manual and introduced himself as Talisman Master Zhao.
• After Lin Fan left, the female manager told Uncle Fu she was confident he would become her partner.

Lin Fan fused two talisman inheritances and mastered the Spirit Fiend Talisman Rune. Meanwhile, disguised as Ling Sheng, he was ambushed by a Ghost Sect woman after retrieving a Ghost King Bone.

• A Patrol Office woman confronted Lin Fan over the deaths of fifteen members and warned that an old demon fox allied with evil cultivators might attack Yunshan County.
• Lin Fan received the Spirit Control Talisman Arts inheritance and used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to fuse it with his earlier talisman inheritance into the Spirit Control Secret Records.
• Lin Fan endured a painful backlash as he mastered the Spirit Fiend Talisman Rune.
• Disguised as Ling Sheng, Lin Fan brought a section of Ghost King Bone out of the Blood Ghost Mountains after more than a dozen evil cultivators died on the expedition.
• A Ghost Sect woman praised Lin Fan's achievement, then revealed her hostility and ordered the cultivators with her to attack.

Lin Fan escaped the Ghost Sect’s ambush, learned that the sect planned to attack Yunshan County with a northern fox demon, and refined a Stripping Origin Spirit Fiend Talisman. The Ghost King Bone fused into the talisman, revealing a new process Lin Fan called infusing bone into a talisman.

• Lin Fan’s talisman decoy lured the Ghost Sect cultivators into the Black Mountain Ghost Monarch’s attack, and the surviving woman fled before Lin Fan confronted and killed her.
• From the woman’s memories, Lin Fan learned that the Ghost Sect Master had suspected him and that the Ghost Sect had joined forces with the northern fox demon to attack Yunshan County in less than half a month.
• Lin Fan left with the Ghost King Bone and used his Talisman Materials to refine a Stripping Origin Spirit Fiend Talisman.
• The Stripping Origin Spirit Fiend Talisman resonated with the Ghost King Bone, absorbed it, and led Lin Fan to identify the process as infusing bone into a talisman.

After the County Magistrate ordered Lin Fan to lure an old fox demon out of hiding, Lin Fan examined the Azure Demon Cloud Bracelet and suspected the plan concealed something. The Inspectorate watched the operation as Lin Fan led County Office forces out of Yunshan County, where someone reported trouble.

• Lin Fan absorbed the Ghost King Bone, strengthening his Stripping Origin Spirit Fiend Talisman, then left Madam Su's home at dawn.
• The County Magistrate told Lin Fan that an old fox demon had attacked villages and merchant caravans, and ordered him to leave the city as bait, offering him the Azure Demon Cloud Bracelet for protection.
• Lin Fan explored the bracelet's strange inner space, then suspected the County Magistrate's plan was not what it seemed.
• Ye Die and Sister Qing learned that Lin Fan would lure the fox demon out and ordered the Inspectorate to monitor the operation.
• Lin Fan led more than a hundred runners and several hidden cultivators out of Yunshan County to meet a merchant caravan.
• As Lin Fan waited in a carriage, a figure approached and told him, "Sir, something's happened."

Lin Fan and the constables found a fox-demon ambush led by Wang Guangyi, who had escaped from Yunshan County and sought to capture Lin Fan. The Patrol Office arrived with a Demon Locking Array, but Lin Fan realized Wang Guangyi had lured them away from the county as the old fox demon remained unaccounted for; Wang Guangyi then approached Lin Fan himself.

• Lin Fan exposed and killed a fox demon disguised as a constable, then fought alongside the constables as fox demons attacked and slaughtered many of them.
• A giant fox demon destroyed a hundred-meter Dharma form and killed three County Office cultivators in a single exchange.
• Wang Guangyi revealed himself and told Lin Fan that Zhou Qing had trusted the wrong person, then ordered the fox demons to seize him.
• Ye Die arrived with the Patrol Office, whose cultivators activated a Demon Locking Array that weakened the fox demons and strengthened their own forces.
• Lin Fan deduced that Wang Guangyi had lured the Patrol Office away while the old fox demon remained hidden, and Wang Guangyi sent the giant fox after Ye Die before reaching for Lin Fan.

Lin Fan uncovered the County Magistrate’s betrayal as monsters and evil cultivators attacked Yunshan County, while a mysterious figure seized the Lifespan Ancient Mirror and plunged the city into darkness. The chapter ended with Qing Feng rejecting the County Magistrate’s offer to join him and striking at him with her sword.

• Lin Fan transformed into a terrifying demonic creature, killed Wang Guangyi, and learned that the County Magistrate had colluded with monsters and the Ghost Sect to weaken Yunshan County.
• Lin Fan attacked the fox demons, devouring several as Ye Die and the Patrol Division cultivators reacted to his appearance.
• A powerful newcomer killed the Spirit Guards and seized the Lifespan Ancient Mirror, and dark clouds spread over Yunshan County as black auras began killing civilians.
• Lin Fan rescued Madam Su from an evil cultivator, left the Moon Raven to protect her, and went back out into the chaos.
• Qing Feng confronted the County Magistrate, who explained his grievance against Great Gan and offered her a place in his faction.
• Qing Feng refused to help him and drew her sword, splitting the palace apart.

Lin Fan uncovered Grandma Hongyun’s plan to use him to retrieve the Earth Vein Spirit Flower and defeated her with lifespan-severing sword techniques. After searching her soul and killing her, he disguised himself as Grandma Hongyun to infiltrate the demons’ plans.

• A black-robed woman fought a tentacled enemy at the County Office over the Earth Vein Spirit Flower as Yunshan County descended into chaos.
• Lin Fan revealed that he had stayed in the city while sending the Ancient Demon King Talisman disguised as Ding Fu away as bait.
• Grandma Hongyun confronted Lin Fan, demanded his submission, and admitted she had planned to use him to retrieve the spirit flower from the earth vein.
• Grandma Hongyun trapped Lin Fan in her Crimson Cloud Barrier and attacked, but Lin Fan escaped its influence and struck her with powerful talismans and sword attacks.
• Lin Fan searched Grandma Hongyun’s soul, killed her, took her storage artifact, and transformed himself into her likeness and aura.

Yunshan County Magistrate, the Ghost Sect Master, and Lin Fan entered the Earth Vein Secret Realm to seek the Earth Vein Spirit Flower, bringing medicine people to help harvest it. Lin Fan was separated from the others during teleportation and questioned Ning Hua about her loyalty to the County Magistrate.

• The Ghost Sect Master and Yunshan County Magistrate discussed their assault on the Inspection Office and prepared to enter the secret realm with Lin Fan disguised as Grandma Hongyun.
• Yunshan County Magistrate explained the realm's deadly illusions, Soul Demons, and the poison surrounding the Earth Vein Spirit Flower, then assigned Jiang Ming to the Ghost Sect Master and Ning Hua to Lin Fan.
• Yunshan County Magistrate stabbed the Demon Slaying Sword into the teleportation formation and sent the group into the Earth Vein Secret Realm.
• Lin Fan arrived beside Ning Hua in a magma-filled area and realized the teleportation had separated them from the others.
• Lin Fan asked Ning Hua why she followed Yunshan County Magistrate, and she said he had taken her in and taught her cultivation after her parents died.

Lin Fan and Ning Hua encountered a horde of Soul Demons in a hidden palace beneath the lava, and he used the Wuji Sail to turn the battle into nourishment for his Yin Souls. Elsewhere, the Ghost Sect Master created a puppet and sent eighteen Yin Generals after the Soul Demons, while the Yunshan County Magistrate pursued the Earth Vein Spirit Flower.

• Lin Fan took Ning Hua to a bronze palace concealed beneath the lava, where Soul Demons ambushed them after his Green-Eyed Flood Dragon Talisman entered.
• Lin Fan made Ning Hua his Soul Slave and unleashed the Wuji Sail, whose Yin Souls clashed with the Soul Demons.
• The Ghost Sect Master turned Jiang Ming into a Ghostly Creature puppet, summoned eighteen Yin Generals, and sent them to devour the Soul Demons.
• The Yunshan County Magistrate said the intruders were no longer in control of their fate and led his group onward to seek the Earth Vein Spirit Flower.
• Lin Fan had the surviving Yin Souls consume the battle’s remaining soul power, transforming them into Yin Soldiers and greatly increasing the Wuji Sail’s power.

Lin Fan and Ning Hua entered an illusion in the Earth Vein Space that trapped them in visions shaped by their desires. Lin Fan broke free using the Eye of Submersion and woke Ning Hua as the surrounding lava threatened them.

• Lin Fan identified Ning Hua’s Heavenly Heart Bracelet as a tracking device, crushed it and his own matching bracelet, and led her onward.
• The Earth Vein Space’s illusion separated Lin Fan from Ning Hua and showed him a false scene in which she picked an Earth Vein Spirit Flower.
• A woman in black led Lin Fan through the illusion to a Teleportation Array, then appeared as Senior Sister Mei and offered him a happy life if he joined the Patrol Office.
• Lin Fan recognized the life with Senior Sister Mei and their children as an illusion, shouted “Break!” and shattered the vision with the Eye of Submersion.
• Lin Fan awoke beside the advancing lava and used Origin Energy to rouse Ning Hua, who had been crying for her parents.

Lin Fan and Ning Hua found the Earth Vein Spirit Flower and joined the Yunshan County Magistrate and Ghost Sect Master in confronting its guardian, the Three-Headed Illusion Serpent. When the Ghost Sect Master tried to seize the flower, Qing Fengzi appeared and turned the battle against him.

• Lin Fan learned that the illusion had lasted less than half an hour outside, then sent Avatar Talismans in several directions to search for the Earth Vein Spirit Flower.
• Ning Hua used a blood-costing secret technique to locate the flower due north, and Lin Fan took her there.
• Lin Fan found the Earth Vein Spirit Flower, the Yunshan County Magistrate, and the Three-Headed Illusion Serpent; the Ghost Sect Master soon arrived as well.
• The Yunshan County Magistrate explained that the serpent had to be defeated before anyone could approach the flower, and Lin Fan and the Ghost Sect Master agreed to help.
• The Ghost Sect Master sent ghostly figures toward the flower, but Qing Fengzi appeared, destroyed them, and struck the Ghost Sect Master as the serpent broke free.

Lin Fan joined Qing Yuanzi’s ambush against the Yunshan County Magistrate and Ghost Sect Master in the Earth Vein Space, but the battle shifted when Lin Fan revealed his strength and took the Earth Vein Spirit Flower. He escaped after Ning Hua sacrificed herself to secure the flower, carrying her soul with him.

• Qing Yuanzi exposed the Patrol Bureau’s long-running trap and revealed a second powerful ally as the Earth Vein Spirit Flower’s power ensnared the fighters.
• The Yunshan County Magistrate and Ghost Sect Master fought Qing Yuanzi and the black-clad figure while Lin Fan battled the Three Heads Six Arms phantom serpent.
• The Yunshan County Magistrate’s followers tried to seize the flower, but Qing Feng broke free of his control and killed one attacker.
• Lin Fan used Longevity Slaying Sword Qi to cripple the phantom serpent, then had Ning Hua pluck the Earth Vein Spirit Flower with her life.
• Ning Hua dispersed after handing Lin Fan the flower, and Lin Fan captured her soul before striking back at his pursuers with a towering Dharma aspect.
• Lin Fan’s powerful strike sent his pursuers reeling, and he escaped with the flower and Ning Hua’s soul.

Lin Fan erased Madam Su’s memories of him and arranged for the Tian Yuan Pavilion to take her north, away from the danger in Yunshan County City. When Ghost Sect cultivators attacked the convoy, a mysterious whistle destroyed their leader and his ghostly creature.

• Lin Fan led Madam Su out of Yunshan County City, erased her memories of him, and left her with the Tian Yuan Pavilion convoy.
• The female shopkeeper of the Tian Yuan Pavilion welcomed Madam Su into the convoy and continued north with her people.
• Several Ghost Sect cultivators intercepted the convoy and demanded its goods and the shopkeeper for themselves.
• The female shopkeeper ordered Uncle Fu to attack, but the burly cultivator unleashed a ghost general that overwhelmed him.
• A sharp whistle destroyed the ghostly creature, and the burly cultivator exploded into Blood Mist as he tried to flee.

Lin Fan sent Madam Su away under the Ancient Demon King's protection, then began refining the Earth Vein Spirit Flower and was pulled into a misty space by a sealed entity. After the Bloodlight Demon Saint wounded his spirit soul, Lin Fan restored it with the Indestructible Dao Fruit and counterattacked with Sword Qi.

• Lin Fan used the Ancient Demon King to escort Madam Su in secret, and she and Uncle Fu suspected a hidden expert was protecting their convoy.
• Lin Fan learned from Grandma Hongyun's memories that the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom had ordered the Fox Demon Tribe to pluck the Earth Vein Spirit Flower.
• Lin Fan set up an isolation formation and began refining the flower, increasing his Origin Energy, spirit soul, and physical Blood Qi.
• A black line appeared on Lin Fan's body, and he awoke in a mist-filled space where the Bloodlight Demon Saint broke free of its cage and attacked him.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint split Lin Fan's spirit soul with a blood blade, but Lin Fan used the Indestructible Dao Fruit to recover and launched a Sword Qi counterattack.

Lin Fan fought the ancient black shadow inside the Earth Vein Spirit Flower’s illusory space and made it his Soul Slave, Bloodlight. After returning to his body, he found that refining the flower had raised his realm and granted him the Starlight Shifting skill, though using the Indestructible Dao Fruit had cost him much of his lifespan.

• The black shadow reflected Lin Fan’s Sword Qi and shattered his soul, but Lin Fan repeatedly reassembled it with the Indestructible Dao Fruit and wore down his opponent.
• Lin Fan defeated the weakened shadow, bound it with Order Divine Chains, and threatened it with the Eight Divisions Soul Refining Art until it surrendered.
• Lin Fan placed a soul mark on the shadow, making the Demon Saint his Soul Slave, and learned that the illusory space would collapse once he finished refining the Spirit Flower’s energy.
• The space collapsed, and Lin Fan returned to his body after the golden petals disappeared and his Origin Energy, physical strength, and soul power increased.
• Lin Fan checked his panel, discovered the Starlight Shifting skill and his new Cloud Soaring Realm (Fifth Grade), and realized that he had only a few hundred years of lifespan left.

Lin Fan advanced the Flowing Cloud Sword Scripture, gaining Sword Qi that could annihilate lifespan, and discovered that the Green Light Divine Statue had gained the ability to replenish his lifespan. After sorting through Grandma Hongyun’s spoils, he questioned his new Soul Slave about its origins.

• Lin Fan advanced the Flowing Cloud Sword Scripture to the sixth layer and tested his transformed Sword Qi, which rapidly aged and destroyed a summoned Mountain Moving Ape.
• Lin Fan searched Grandma Hongyun’s storage artifact, found the Fox Demon Tribe’s Heavenly Fox Secret Tome, and refined the Origin Dragon Guardian Divine Armor into his Primordial Spirit.
• A damaged beast-shaped divine statue emerged from a brocade box, and Lin Fan’s Green Light Divine Statue devoured it, repairing itself and increasing Lin Fan’s lifespan by thirty years.
• Lin Fan found and kept a token marked Heavenly Net, then summoned his Soul Slave and warned it not to resist.
• Lin Fan ordered the Soul Slave to tell him everything about itself.