Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan harvested the mature Earth Fire Heart Lotus and obtained the Fifth Grade Pure Yang True Fire Talisman, then learned that powerful cultivators were preparing to break into the Boundless Sea Secret Realm. He reassured Song Yu that they should wait, confident he could join the expedition later as a Heaven Sword Sect cultivator.

• Lu Xuan opened the Earth Fire Heart Lotus's Light Orb and received the Pure Yang True Fire Talisman, which could teach the Pure Yang True Fire divine ability and release a Golden Crow Remnant Soul.
• Lu Xuan tested the Jade Scroll and found that releasing the Golden Crow Remnant Soul consumed more than half of his Spiritual Power, so he reserved it for a crucial moment.
• Lu Xuan spent the next ten-odd days cultivating Spirit Plants while the unrest surrounding the Boundless Sea Secret Realm spread to Voidsky Island, and he told the Wind Falcon to avoid hunting near the sea.
• Song Yu reported that Foundation Establishment Cultivators and major families had joined forces to break the Secret Realm's outer formations while excluding small families and Rogue Cultivators.
• Lu Xuan told Song Yu to wait, explaining that the alliance would not remain united and that his Heaven Sword Sect standing would let him join even if he arrived later.

Lu Xuan harvested the mature Fourth Grade Hundred Eyed Treant and received the Fifth Grade Voidsky Nightmare Eye from its Light Orb. After refining the treasure, he tested its ability to move through the void and share vision, leaving him able to observe his Spirit Field from a distance.

• Lu Xuan ate an Earth Fire Heart Lotus seed and continued cultivating while waiting for the Hundred Eyed Treant to mature.
• Lu Xuan harvested the mature Hundred Eyed Treant and learned it could enhance eyesight but risked confusing the minds of those who consumed it.
• Lu Xuan touched the Light Orb and obtained the Fifth Grade Voidsky Nightmare Eye, a treasure that could flee through the void and cast Illusion Arts.
• Lu Xuan refined the Voidsky Nightmare Eye and used it to see behind himself and observe his Spirit Beasts from ten zhang away.

Lu Xuan decided to enter the Boundless Sea Secret Realm after gaining several powerful treasures and agreed to join Song Yu's Song Family group. At the Water Wall, he reunited with Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu, concealed his strength, and sensed that Evil Spirits were nearby.

• Lu Xuan tested the Voidsky Nightmare Eye's shared vision and reflected on the powerful treasures he had recently gained from mature spirit plants.
• Lu Xuan sent Song Yu a message agreeing to explore the Secret Realm, and Song Yu prepared the Song Family cultivators to accompany him.
• Two days later, Lu Xuan arrived by treasure ship at the Water Wall, where Song Yu explained that cultivators had nearly finished breaking its arrays and Restrictions.
• Lu Xuan surveyed the Foundation Establishment Cultivators gathered near the Secret Realm, noticed Ning Deshan, and felt his Flawless Jade react to Evil Spirits.
• Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu greeted Lu Xuan, who claimed to be an ordinary Spirit Plant Master and asked them to look after him inside the Secret Realm.

Lu Xuan joined Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu as they helped break the Secret Realm’s Water Wall restriction, while a rogue cultivator challenged his right to enter. The opening revealed a mysterious Palace on a Barren Island, and the cultivators entered the perilous Secret Realm.

• A burly Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator accused Lu Xuan of unfairly claiming a share of the Secret Realm, but Shi Zhong defended him and the crowd fell silent.
• Lu Xuan thanked Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu, then used his Illusory Breaking Eye Technique to inspect the Water Wall’s formation.
• Lu Xuan, Shi Zhong, and Zhou Bingyu joined forces to defeat the Flood Dragon phantom guarding the Water Wall.
• A pillar of light broke the Water Wall restriction, and Lu Xuan, Shi Zhong, Zhou Bingyu, and the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators entered the Secret Realm.
• The cultivators scattered across a Deep Black Water Domain toward a Barren Island and its ancient Palace, while Lu Xuan advanced cautiously and a Foundation Establishment Early Stage rogue cultivator rushed ahead.

Lu Xuan identified the Ice Illusion Toads guarding the Deep Black Water Domain and devised a way to cross without wasting much spiritual power. He and his companions reached Barren Island safely, leaving them better prepared for what lay ahead in the Secret Realm.

• A Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator was forced back by poisonous Ice Arrows, and a test revealed the water domain was filled with Ice Illusion Toads.
• Lu Xuan secretly learned the toads' nature and discovered that they were sensitive to fast-moving targets and became frenzied by Fire Spiritual Power.
• Lu Xuan warned Zhou Bingyu not to use fire and shared a method for crossing the water domain slowly while following the larger group.
• The cultivators launched a joint crossing, and Lu Xuan, Shi Zhong, and Zhou Bingyu used defensive tools and a Spirit Cleansing Talisman to manage the reduced attacks.
• Lu Xuan and his companions reached Barren Island with far more spiritual power remaining than the other cultivators.

Lu Xuan crossed the Barren Island’s Stone Maze Array, using the Voidsky Nightmare Eye and Earth Guidance Art to evade its relentless attacks. After escaping, he prepared to follow the other cultivators toward the Palace but turned aside when the Demon Ghost Vine sensed high-grade Spirit Plants.

• Lu Xuan and the other cultivators discovered that an Anti-Air Array prevented flight and that the strange rocks attacked anything entering the island.
• Several cultivators tested the stone formation with Demon Beasts, while the Brawny Middle-Aged Cultivator and others charged into it.
• Lu Xuan became separated from Shi Zhong and fought off stone constructs with his Mountain Sealing Jade Seal and physical strength.
• Lu Xuan used the Voidsky Nightmare Eye to locate a route with fewer stones and escaped the formation using the Earth Guidance Art.
• Lu Xuan saw several powerful cultivators head toward the Palace, but the Demon Ghost Vine pointed him toward high-grade Spirit Plants, so he followed its intuition.

Lu Xuan followed the Demon Ghost Vine to a desolate Medicine Garden and discovered a Longevity Peach tree, but Ning Deshan killed his companion Madam Bai to claim its fruit. As Ning reached for the peaches, Lu Xuan revealed himself and challenged him.

• Lu Xuan followed the Demon Ghost Vine to a desolate Medicine Garden and found a peach tree surrounded by spiritual energy.
• Ning Deshan and Madam Bai arrived, identified six peaches, and agreed to divide them between themselves.
• Ning Deshan ambushed Madam Bai with his Heart Locking Claw and a Magic Tool, killing her.
• Ning Deshan identified the fruit as Longevity Peaches that could extend lifespan and approached the tree to take them.
• Lu Xuan spoke from concealment, asking Ning Deshan whether he feared eating so many peaches would keep him from dying naturally.

Lu Xuan confronted Ning Deshan in an abandoned Medicine Garden over the Longevity Peach Spirit Fruit and killed him when he tried to flee. After collecting Ning Deshan’s soul and body, Lu Xuan reflected on how his Netherworld treasures could erase traces of the encounter.

• Lu Xuan met Ning Deshan beside the corpse of an old woman, refused to share the Longevity Peach Spirit Fruit, and revealed that he knew about Ning Deshan’s crimes.
• Ning Deshan attacked Lu Xuan with a shuttle-shaped Magic Tool and the Heart Locking Claw Secret Technique, but Lu Xuan blocked the claw with his transformed arms.
• Ning Deshan fled after realizing Lu Xuan was stronger than expected, but Lu Xuan’s Voidsky Nightmare Eye delayed him and the White Bone Demon Puppet pierced him with a spear.
• Ning Deshan’s soul escaped his body, but Lu Xuan used the Soul Guiding Lamp to draw it back and trap it.
• Lu Xuan checked Ning Deshan’s corpse with a Spirit Cleansing Talisman, stored his body, and burned and buried the old woman’s remains.

Lu Xuan discovered that the Longevity Peach was a mutated Fifth Grade Spirit Plant that stole vitality and could cause aberration, then recovered its hidden Spirit Seed. After gathering his treasures, he left the abandoned Medicine Garden and headed toward the mysterious Palace.

• Lu Xuan looted Magic Tools, talismans, and pills from Ning Deshan and the old woman, but found little he wanted to keep.
• Lu Xuan used the Earth Guidance Art to identify the Longevity Peach as a mutated Spirit Plant that drained vitality and left an uncanny aura in those who ate its fruit.
• Lu Xuan picked the remaining five Mutated Longevity Peach Spirit Fruits, and the tree withered.
• At Lu Xuan's direction, the Demon Ghost Vine searched the Spirit Soil and unearthed a dark-red peach pit wrapped in flesh and blood.
• Lu Xuan stored the Mutated Longevity Peach Spirit Seed and left the Medicine Garden, guarded by his Treasures, to approach the Palace.

Lu Xuan discovered two Foundation Establishment cultivators ambushing entrants at the mysterious Palace and decided to confront them in the passage. After they attacked him, he killed them with a Rank 4 Howling Sea Sword Talisman and continued into the Palace.

• Two Foundation Establishment cultivators ambushed and looted a cultivator trying to enter the Palace.
• Lu Xuan spotted the ambushers with the Voidsky Nightmare Eye and chose to use the passage rather than seek another entrance.
• Lu Xuan entered the passage while concealing that he had detected the two cultivators.
• The ambushers recognized Lu Xuan as a Heaven Sword Sect disciple and attacked, believing him an easy target with valuable possessions.
• Lu Xuan unleashed his Rank 4 Howling Sea Sword Talisman, killed both ambushers, and hurried deeper into the Palace.

Lu Xuan discovered that a hidden Medicine Midge larva was living in the Medicine Midge Palace’s Pill Room and learned that it fed on pill toxins. He lured it with a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill and trapped it in his White Bone Demon Puppet, leaving its capture in progress.

• Lu Xuan met Fellow Daoist Qi in the Pill Room, and they agreed to search separate areas while keeping their guard up.
• Fellow Daoist Qi found nothing and left, while Lu Xuan detected a faint medicinal fragrance and hidden glimmers of Spiritual Light.
• Lu Xuan used a Spirit Accumulation Elixir to draw the glimmers close and identified them as a Medicine Midge larva that ate pill toxins.
• Lu Xuan baited the Medicine Midge with a Fourth Grade Mystic Yin Pill and used his White Bone Demon Puppet to net it.
• Lu Xuan sealed the bone net and tightened it around the trapped Medicine Midge.

Lu Xuan captured a Medicine Midge, disguised himself with a Thousandfold Wraith Mask, and entered the Jade House where seven cultivators were attacking the restrictions around a Jade Pool. He recognized Shi Zhong, Zhou Bingyu, and the Blood Coagulation Yin Worms’ keeper among them, then spotted four Exotic Treasures floating above the pool.

• Lu Xuan trapped the Medicine Midge with the White Bone Demon Puppet after it ignored his offer of elixirs.
• He found a corpse on the way to the Palace’s center and disguised his face, aura, and figure with the Thousandfold Wraith Mask.
• Lu Xuan arrived at the Jade House and saw seven cultivators attacking the restrictions around the Jade Pool.
• He recognized the Blood Robe Cultivator as the keeper of the Blood Coagulation Yin Worms and saw Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu among the gathered cultivators.
• Lu Xuan looked into the Jade Pool and saw four Exotic Treasures floating above its black Qi.

Lu Xuan seized the Grievance Soul Black Mud from the Jade Pool and fought off the powerful Brawny Middle-Aged Cultivator who tried to take it. He killed the six-armed cultivator with a Great Sun Sword Talisman, captured his soul in the Soul Guiding Lamp, and took his Storage Bag, leaving the other cultivators shocked.

• The seven cultivators broke the restriction around the Jade Pool, and four Exotic Treasures shot out as they rushed to claim them.
• Lu Xuan intercepted the Grievance Soul Black Mud with his Wind Lightning Sword while the other cultivators contested the Emerald Green Small Sword, Buddhist Seal, and Dark Yellow Incense.
• The Brawny Middle-Aged Cultivator attacked Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan's Wind Lightning Sword cut through his hardened flesh and forced him to grow four additional arms.
• Lu Xuan stored the black mud in his Gluttony Insect Pouch and used a Fourth Grade Great Sun Sword Talisman to kill the six-armed cultivator.
• Lu Xuan captured the cultivator's departing soul in his Soul Guiding Lamp and took his Storage Bag, while the other six cultivators sensed the death and were horrified.

Lu Xuan faced the Blood Robe Cultivator and his Blood Coagulation Yin Worms after the other cultivators fled or fought elsewhere. He burned the Blood Sea with nearly twenty Explosive Flame Pearls and attacked the stunned cultivator with his sword.

• Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu escaped the Jade Stone House, while the Blood Robe Cultivator and the short cultivator killed the elegant scholar and set upon the hunchbacked old man and Lu Xuan.
• The short cultivator sent Corpse Puppets after the hunchbacked old man as the Blood Robe Cultivator attacked Lu Xuan with Blood Coagulation Yin Worms.
• Lu Xuan revealed that he had previously roasted one of the Blood Robe Cultivator’s Insect Kings, enraging the cultivator into flooding the Jade Stone House with a Blood Sea.
• The hunchbacked old man escaped with the help of his Infant Ghosts after they drained much of his vital blood.
• Lu Xuan threw nearly twenty Third Grade Explosive Flame Pearls into the Blood Sea, burning the worms and draining the color from the Blood Robe Cultivator’s robe.
• Lu Xuan sent a huge deep-black sword beam at the Blood Robe Cultivator from behind.

Lu Xuan defeated the Blood Robe Cultivator and the short cultivator by destroying their blood insects and Corpse Puppets, then discovered the Black Qi around the Mutated Longevity Peach was growing denser. He summoned a Golden Crow from a Jade Scroll to burn away the Black Qi, leaving the source of the strange danger unexplained.

• Lu Xuan destroyed the Blood Robe Cultivator's blood insects, cut him apart with Thousand Owl Sword Qi, and captured his fleeing soul in the Soul Guiding Lamp.
• The short cultivator merged into the Corpse Puppets and attacked Lu Xuan, but the Substitute Evil Infant blocked a surprise assault from the puppet fragments.
• Lu Xuan used the Illusory Breaking Eye Technique to locate the short cultivator's soul and unleashed a Starfall Sword Talisman, destroying the puppets and the soul hidden among them.
• Lu Xuan noticed the Black Qi at the bottom of the Jade Pool had grown dense despite the Flawless Jade and the four treasures suppressing the Mutated Longevity Peach.
• Lu Xuan opened the Jade Scroll and summoned a Golden Crow, whose white flames rapidly burned away the Black Qi before it returned to the scroll.

Lu Xuan escaped the abandoned Palace after burning away the evil aura sealed beneath its treasures, then returned to the Song Family’s treasure ship and concealed what he had found. He left Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu believing he had avoided the Palace’s greatest dangers, and received the promised Spirit Extraction True Liquid.

• Lu Xuan used a fifth-grade Pure Yang True Fire Talisman to burn away the evil aura in the Palace, then left the Barren Island and returned to the Song Family’s treasure ship.
• Song Yu welcomed Lu Xuan back, and Lu Xuan downplayed his gains while advising the Song Family cultivators about dangers in the Secret Realm.
• Lu Xuan told Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu a half-true account of his route, claiming he had avoided the Palace’s core area and found spirit herbs and Spirit Seeds in a Medicine Garden.
• Shi Zhong described the powerful cultivators who had fought over the four treasures and the Sword Talisman user who killed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator.
• Shi Zhong gave Lu Xuan the promised bottle of Spirit Extraction True Liquid before he and Zhou Bingyu left to recuperate.

Lu Xuan returned to Voidsky Island after trading two Sword Nurturing Gourds for Spirit Extraction True Liquid and leaving Song Yu to explore the secret realm. He unpacked his many gains, including rare treasures, a Medicine Midge, and an evil Spirit Seed, and began considering how to use them.

• Lu Xuan traded Shi Zhong two Sword Nurturing Gourds for a bottle of Spirit Extraction True Liquid, then left Song Yu and the others to decide whether to enter the secret realm.
• Lu Xuan returned to his courtyard on Voidsky Island, greeted his spirit beasts, and fed the Rock Armor Turtle and Azure Horn Dragon Carp.
• Lu Xuan reviewed the treasures and talismans he had spent in the secret realm and decided his losses were acceptable compared with his gains.
• Lu Xuan examined a Mutated Longevity Peach Spirit Seed and six fruits, then released and contracted the Medicine Midge, which fed on the toxin in a Spirit Accumulation Elixir.
• Lu Xuan inspected three treasures from the Jade Pool and the contents of the cultivators' Storage Bags, discovering spirit stones, magic tools, rare materials, and an evil Spirit Seed.

Lu Xuan planted the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng and Mutated Longevity Peach, then spent the rest of his three-year posting cultivating plants and beasts while avoiding further risks. As his term on Voidsky Island ended, he looked out over the Boundless Sea and prepared to return to the sect.

• Lu Xuan planted the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng and fed it Flood Dragon Blood Essence, then planted the Mutated Longevity Peach.
• Lu Xuan settled into a quiet routine, tending his Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts, training, and declining Shi Zhong and Zhou Bingyu’s invitations to explore another Secret Realm.
• Lu Xuan harvested Water Firefly Grass and Sword Grass, gaining cultivation and sword-intent rewards as his plants continued to grow.
• Lu Xuan cultivated the Mutated Longevity Peach and Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng with blood and remains, while punishing the ginseng when it nearly exposed itself to Song Sining.
• Lu Xuan and the Song Family handled Sea Beast raids and captured suspicious Evil Cultivators on Voidsky Island.
• Lu Xuan watched the Boundless Sea as his three-year garrison term ended and considered returning to the sect.

Lu Xuan left Voidsky Island after three years of guarding it and returned to tend the Netherworld Spirit Plants in Sword Gate Town. He then reached his sect and found Light Orbs scattered across his mountain.

• Lu Xuan said farewell to Song Yu, Song Yun, and Zhou Bingyu, then flew away from Voidsky Island on Fat Bird.
• Lu Xuan visited the Netherworld Courtyard and fed infant souls to the Saint Infant Fruit and Flood Dragon Blood Essence to the Blood Karma Flower.
• Lu Xuan transplanted the Mutated Longevity Peach and Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng into the courtyard, bringing its collection to four sinister spirit plants.
• Lu Xuan returned through the sect's protective formation and hurried to his Cave Mansion to check his spirit plants.
• Lu Xuan entered the Spirit Field and saw Light Orbs scattered all over the mountain.

Lu Xuan harvested ripe Flame Fruits, Ice Luo Fruits, and Bewitching Peaches, receiving many rewards, including Bewitching Desire Pills and the Scripture of Utmost Bliss. He examined how the scripture’s images changed when viewed by the Voidsky Nightmare Eye.

• Lu Xuan harvested mature Flame Fruits and Ice Luo Fruits, gaining treasures, elixirs, talismans, and recipe experience from their Light Orbs.
• Lu Xuan visited the Bewitching Peach trees and picked a ripe peach after casting a Purification Mantra on himself and the Demon Ghost Vine.
• Lu Xuan received a Fourth Grade Bewitching Desire Pill and its elixir recipe from the Bewitching Peach Light Orbs.
• Lu Xuan harvested seven Bewitching Peaches and obtained five Bewitching Desire Pills, two recipe experience packs, and the Scripture of Utmost Bliss.
• Lu Xuan had the Voidsky Nightmare Eye examine the scripture and saw its images transform into linked eyeball Evil Spirits.