Chapter Summaries

Zong Han assembled and drilled a hundred thousand Magic Beasts for Devil Lord Qiyou’s military review, but the violet-eyed bloodthirsty demon bats panicked at the sight of Xuanyou’s Nine-Headed Heavenly Python and plunged the army into chaos. Lin Xuan identified the cause and calmed every beast with a wave of his hand, leaving Zong Han and the beast tamers stunned.

• Zong Han gathered berserk demon bears, mammoth demon elephants, titan demon apes, and violet-eyed bloodthirsty demon bats, which all submitted to his control.
• At Devil Lord Qiyou’s request, Zong Han drilled the hundred thousand Magic Beasts while Xuanzhu and her sisters watched and cheered.
• The demon bats spotted Xuanyou’s Nine-Headed Heavenly Python, went berserk, and attacked Zong Han despite his Fire Cloud Whip and Nine-Flame Mind Art.
• Lin Xuan explained that the demon bats feared the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python and said Zong Han’s attempt to suppress them had worsened their panic.
• Lin Xuan cast purple-red rosy light over the square, calming the entire Magic Beast army and astonishing Zong Han and the beast tamers.

Lin Xuan quelled a Magic Beast riot and taught Zong Han to balance force with soothing, impressing the beast tamers and leaders of Qiyou Kingdom. After leaving with his daughters to explore the Heavenly Devil Realm, Lin Xuan entered a restaurant in Eastern Spirit Kingdom, where three men began investigating whether he was the Northern Profound Heaven Emperor Consort.

• Lin Xuan calmed the one hundred thousand Magic Beasts, and Zong Han asked him why the devil bats had lost control.
• Lin Xuan explained that the bats feared the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python and taught Zong Han to balance conquest with soothing; Zong Han bowed to him as a teacher.
• Zong Han used Lin Xuan's advice to guide the Magic Beasts through the military review, and Lin Xuan later left Qiyou Kingdom with his daughters.
• Lin Xuan brought his daughters to a specialty restaurant in the capital of Eastern Spirit Kingdom.
• Miao Zhenhai, Chu Xin, and Shang Li suspected Lin Xuan was the Northern Profound Heaven Emperor Consort and entered the restaurant to confirm his identity.

Lin Xuan caught three Swift Monkeys stealing food while dining with Xuanzhu and her sisters, but Miao Zhenze and his companions mistook the girls’ remarks for proof that their spying had been discovered. They burst into the room and tried to detonate themselves, but Lin Xuan subdued them and prepared to question them.

• Lin Xuan ordered unfamiliar Devil Race dishes for Xuanzhu and her sisters and explained their names as they ate.
• Lin Xuan used mystic power to pin down three Swift Monkeys that had slipped into the room to steal food.
• Miao Zhenze, Chu Xin, and Shang Li eavesdropped from the next room and mistook the girls’ comments about the Swift Monkeys for warnings about themselves.
• The three devil deathsworn smashed through the wall and confronted Lin Xuan, then realized the girls had been talking about Magic Beasts.
• Miao Zhenze and his companions tried to detonate themselves, but Lin Xuan suppressed their power and knocked them face-first to the ground.

Lin Xuan learned that the Dark Heaven Legion planned to attack the Lifeless Kingdom that night and decided to stop the operation. After killing Miao Zhenze and the other two commanders, he left the tavern with his daughters and met twin flower sellers, Jiandan and Jianyue.

• Lin Xuan forced Miao Zhenze, Chu Xin, and Shang Li to reveal that they were Dark Heaven Legion commanders assigned to assassinate Prince Jing Taiyuan and heir Jing Lun while the legion attacked the Lifeless Kingdom’s borders.
• Miao Zhenze said he did not know who led the legion, and Lin Xuan decided to disrupt its plan before midnight.
• Lin Xuan let the three commanders leave, then used the Rakshasa Dharma Body to kill them after they reunited with their subordinates.
• Lin Xuan left the tavern with Xuanzhu and the other girls, bought every flower from the twins Jiandan and Jianyue, and let the children introduce themselves.
• Jiandan and Jianyue said goodbye to Lin Xuan and his daughters, telling Lin Xuan they envied the girls for having such a wonderful father.

Lin Xuan recovered Jian Dan and Jian Yue’s stolen silver and learned that their mother, Jian Feiyan, was gravely ill. As he prepared to help her, Jian Feiyan’s former protectors gathered at her hut and a Dao Tribulation Devil Shaman arrived to save her.

• Lin Xuan caught up with the robber, reclaimed Jian Dan and Jian Yue’s silver, and frightened him into promising never to rob again.
• Jian Dan and Jian Yue told Lin Xuan and his daughters that their mother had been worsening for a year despite taking medicine.
• Lin Xuan agreed to examine their mother, noting that the twins had rare Five Elements spiritual roots.
• At a hut near Devil Mountain, Jian Feiyan asked Yi Biehe and the other former protectors to care for her daughters if she died.
• A gray-robed elder arrived with the Dao Tribulation Devil Shaman, and Yi Biehe and the others bowed to the powerful figure.

Lin Xuan treated Jian Feiyan after the Dao Tribulation Devil Shaman had suppressed the Yin-Yang Tribulation Finger at the cost of destroying her Five Elements spirit root. Lin Xuan dispelled the injury completely, leaving Jian Feiyan recovered and her future uncertain.

• The Dao Tribulation Devil Shaman identified Jian Feiyan's injury as the Yin-Yang Tribulation Finger and said it could not be cured, but he could extend her life by three years by destroying her spirit root.
• Jian Feiyan agreed, and the Dao Tribulation Devil Shaman destroyed her Five Elements spirit root and suppressed the forbidden technique's power.
• Jian Dan and Jian Yue returned with Lin Xuan and his daughters, and the household recognized Lin Xuan as the Emperor Consort of the Northern Profound Heaven.
• Jian Feiyan asked Lin Xuan whether her condition could improve, and he said it could.
• Lin Xuan used Innate Spirit Fire and his medical skills to expel the Yin-Yang Tribulation Finger's mystic power, restoring Jian Feiyan's health.

Lin Xuan healed Jian Feiyan and preserved the origin energy of her destroyed spiritual roots, earning the awe of everyone present. Outside, Chu Yunxiao attacked the courtyard to eliminate Jian Feiyan and their daughters, but an unseen force turned his fire pearls back on his men.

• Jian Feiyan praised Lin Xuan after he cured her injuries, and the Dao Tribulation Devil Shaman learned that Lin Xuan had fully released the five-element power by pulverizing her spiritual roots.
• Lin Xuan told Yi Biehe that Jian Feiyan's spiritual roots could be restored with the Longevity Flower, delighting Jiandan and Jianyue and their friends.
• Jian Feiyan sorrowfully recalled that she had given her heart to the wrong man, while Chu Yunxiao prepared to kill her and their daughters so he could marry Lan Xuanye.
• Chu Yunxiao ordered his men to attack the courtyard with Soul-Burning Fire Pearls, but a hurricane blew the pearls back and killed more than ten Dark Sacred Sect men.
• Chu Yunxiao realized an expert was inside the wooden house.

Chu Yunxiao led the Dark Sacred Sect to kill Jian Feiyan and her daughters, but Lin Xuan crushed the attackers and left their fate to Yi Biehe. As Yi Biehe prepared to deal with Chu Yunxiao, a veiled woman arrived with a large Devil Race force.

• Chu Yunxiao saw Jian Feiyan restored and learned that Lin Xuan, the Emperor Consort, had healed her.
• Chu Yunxiao apologized to Lin Xuan for throwing the Soul-Burning Fire Pearl, but Lin Xuan crushed him and the Dark Sacred Sect with a wave of his hand.
• Lin Xuan agreed to let Yi Biehe handle Chu Yunxiao, who begged Jian Feiyan for mercy.
• Jian Feiyan and her daughters condemned Chu Yunxiao for his past cruelty and rejected his plea.
• Yi Biehe lifted Chu Yunxiao to deal with him, but a veiled woman arrived on a black sand lion-scorpion with more than a thousand Devil Race members.

Lin Xuan crushed Lan Xuanye’s attempt to rescue Chu Yunxiao, allowing Jian Feiyan to prepare to reclaim the Dark Sacred Sect. Meanwhile, Donghuang Ziyou searched Cave Origin Heaven’s ancient records for clues about the twelve Quasi-Emperor experts who had once ambushed her.

• Lan Xuanye arrived with a thousand followers and asked Lin Xuan to release Chu Yunxiao, but Lin Xuan refused.
• When Lan Xuanye threatened to take Chu Yunxiao by force, Lin Xuan crushed her mount and pinned her to the ground, forcing her to apologize and leave.
• Yi Biehe and the others dragged Chu Yunxiao away and dealt with his entire group, then asked Jian Feiyan to lead the Dark Sacred Sect.
• Lin Xuan stopped Jian Feiyan from thanking him again, and he brought Xuanzhu and her sisters along as the group set out for the Dark Sacred Sect.
• Donghuang Ziyou searched the Heavenly Origin Palace’s ancient records for clues about the twelve Quasi-Emperor Realm experts who had once besieged her.

Donghuang Ziyou uncovered documents linking Cave Origin Great Emperor Kong Qingcang to forces that had conspired against Northern Profound Heaven. She then summoned Dongqing's ruler to hear his complaint against E Yang, leaving the powerful E Erqing and his son facing her judgment.

• Donghuang Ziyou discovered a hidden compartment containing Kong Qingcang's confidential letters and learned that the Devil Dao Alliance and Heavenly Sacrifice had planned her assassination.
• Ruoying told Donghuang Ziyou that E Yang had punched Crown Prince Yan Yuqi to death and that Yan Hongzhi was seeking justice at Tianyuan Palace.
• Yan Hongzhi waited outside the palace as ministers doubted that the Empress would challenge E Erqing's powerful family, while E Yang taunted him.
• Donghuang Ziyou took her seat in the grand hall and ordered Yan Hongzhi brought inside to present his case.

Donghuang Ziyou punished E Yang for accidentally killing Dongqing Kingdom's crown prince and declared that no one was above the law. After Lin Xuan put his exhausted daughters to bed, he left for the Heavenly Devil Realm.

• Yan Hongzhi told Donghuang Ziyou that E Yang had beaten and killed Yan Yuqi after Yan Yuqi refused to bark like a dog.
• E Yang and E Erqing admitted the account was true, and Donghuang Ziyou sentenced E Yang to eight hundred strokes of the rod and fifty years of exile.
• E Erqing and the former Cave Origin Heaven officials begged Donghuang Ziyou to lessen the punishment, but Zhao Si defended her strict and impartial laws.
• Donghuang Ziyou declared that anyone who broke the law would receive no privileges, regardless of status.
• Lin Xuan brought Xuanzhu, Xuanxi, Xuanhan, and Xuanyou home, washed their feet while they nodded off, and carried them to bed.
• Lin Xuan set a protective array around the sleeping girls and left for the Heavenly Devil Realm.

Han Jing led the devil death warriors toward the Lifeless Kingdom while the Blood Departure Ancestor and other martial leaders traveled to rescue Xiao Yeran, and the two groups mistakenly fought each other. With the Blood Departure Ancestor gravely wounded and his side about to be surrounded, Lin Xuan arrived and struck down the devil death warriors.

• Han Jing grew tired of waiting for news from Miao Zhenze, Chu Xin, and Shang Li, then led his devil death warriors toward the Lifeless Kingdom.
• The Blood Departure Ancestor, Gusu Jing, and more than three thousand martial leaders headed north to find and rescue Xiao Yeran, who Cang Hao had abducted.
• The Blood Departure Ancestor and Han Jing each mistook the other’s group for an enemy ambush, and their forces began fighting.
• Ten devil death warriors detonated themselves and severely wounded the Blood Departure Ancestor, forcing Gusu Jing’s group to retreat as Han Jing’s troops pursued.
• Lin Xuan appeared and sent four streaks of white light through the devil death warriors, turning many of them to ash.

Lin Xuan effortlessly survived the self-destruction of fifty devil death warriors, then wiped out Han Jing and more than a thousand Dark Heaven Legion warriors. After learning that Cang Hao had captured Xiao Yeran, Lin Xuan set out with Blood Departure Ancestor, Gusu Jing, and over three thousand others to rescue her and confront Cang Hao.

• Han Jing sent fifty devil death warriors to surround Lin Xuan and self-destruct, but their attack left him unharmed.
• Lin Xuan used the four Quasi-Immortal Swords to kill the devil death warriors, including Han Jing, and destroy more than a thousand Dark Heaven Legion warriors.
• Blood Departure Ancestor told Lin Xuan that Cang Hao had captured Xiao Yeran.
• Lin Xuan decided to confront Cang Hao and rescue Xiao Yeran, and Blood Departure Ancestor, Gusu Jing, and over three thousand others joined him on the march to the Devil Lord of the Southern Region's grand hall.

Lin Xuan led Blood Departure Ancestor and his forces into the Southern Region’s Heavenly Devil Mountain Range, where his sword strike destroyed four peaks and half of the Devil Lord’s main hall. Cang Hao had captured Xiao Yeran to lure Lin Xuan into a trap, and the chapter ended with Lin Xuan demanding that Cang Hao surrender her.

• Lin Xuan arrived at the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range with Blood Departure Ancestor and more than three thousand followers, and the Devil Generals initially hesitated to block the Emperor Consort of the Northern Profound Heaven.
• Lin Xuan struck with his Quasi-Immortal Sword, splitting four peaks and damaging half of the Devil Lord’s main hall, causing the Devil Generals to open a path for him.
• Cang Hao held Xiao Yeran captive in a cave and planned to drain her Heavenly Demon Holy Blood and use her spine to temper the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords.
• Xiao Yeran rejected Cang Hao’s offer to become his Dao companion and declared that Lin Xuan’s abilities surpassed his imagination.
• Cang Hao heard the mountain shaking, left the cave, and approached Lin Xuan amid the devastation.
• Lin Xuan demanded that Cang Hao hand over Xiao Yeran and promised to grant him a good death.

Lin Xuan destroyed Cang Hao’s Profound Yin Youming and withstood his empowered sword strike without moving. After Cang Hao refused to reveal where he had imprisoned Xiao Yeran, Lin Xuan killed him with a devastating sword attack.

• Cang Hao summoned the Profound Yin Youming, whose tentacles hypnotized the cultivators and drained their spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan identified the Youming’s origin and weak point, then destroyed it with a single punch, freeing Blood Departure Ancestor and the others.
• Cang Hao used the Dragon-Defying Treasure Wheel to reach the Great Saint Realm and attacked Lin Xuan with the Heaven-Extinguishing Sword Art.
• Lin Xuan dissolved Cang Hao’s sword strike and said he had deliberately let Cang Hao attack him once.
• Lin Xuan asked whether Cang Hao had hired the devil death warriors, but Cang Hao did not know who had hired them.
• Cang Hao refused to reveal where he had imprisoned Xiao Yeran, so Lin Xuan struck him down with his sword.

Lin Xuan killed Cang Hao’s true body, rescued Xiao Yaran, and claimed the Sunflower Octopus’s Resonance Origin Core for his daughters’ Quasi-Immortal Swords. At Extreme Abyss Devil Valley, Situ Moxie learned of Cang Hao’s death and reacted with killing intent.

• Blood Departure Ancestor and the Devil Generals praised Lin Xuan after he killed Cang Hao’s clone, and Lin Xuan used his Rakshasa Divine Sense to locate the true body.
• Cang Hao revealed himself as a Sunflower Octopus in the cave and tried to devour Xiao Yaran, who believed Lin Xuan had already defeated his clone.
• Lin Xuan arrived, severed Cang Hao’s tentacles, killed him, and took his Resonance Origin Core to strengthen his daughters’ Quasi-Immortal Swords.
• Lin Xuan confirmed Xiao Yaran was unharmed, brought her out of the cave, handed her to Blood Departure Ancestor and the others, then returned to Northern Profound Heaven.
• At Extreme Abyss Devil Valley, Situ Moxie recognized the sword spirit of the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords and learned that Cang Hao had been killed, prompting his killing intent to surge.

After Cang Hao’s death, Situ Moxie vowed to complete the Nine Heaven-Burial Swords and take revenge. At Crystal Palace, Lin Xuan helped his daughters replant heavenly mulberry flowers, and Xuanhan buried the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python as a joke before the system rewarded them with a World Tree Seed.

• Situ Moxie learned that the return of the sword spirit meant Cang Hao had been killed and resolved to forge the remaining swords and avenge him.
• Xuanzhu, Xuanxi, Xuanhan, and Xuanyou found the heavenly mulberry flowers flattened by the rain and decided to plant new ones.
• Lin Xuan guided his daughters through clearing the flower bed, sowing seeds, and watering the soil.
• Lin Xuan explained the saying about reaping what one plants, and Xuanhan demonstrated it by burying the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python and watching it leap back out.
• The system rewarded Lin Xuan with a World Tree Seed for leading his daughters in completing the planting task.

Lin Xuan claimed a World Tree Seed and helped his daughters practice calligraphy, prompting Donghuang Ziyou to challenge him to improve his handwriting. She wagered that if he could match the girls’ calligraphy within seven days, he could make any request of her.

• Lin Xuan claimed the World Tree Seed, which took root in his dantian and began growing amid spiritual energy.
• Lin Xuan taught Xuanzhu and her sisters the correct stroke order for difficult characters as they practiced calligraphy.
• Donghuang Ziyou brought tribute goods for Lin Xuan and the children, then praised the girls’ writing and noticed Lin Xuan’s poor handwriting.
• Donghuang Ziyou offered to teach Lin Xuan calligraphy, but he declined, so she challenged him to match the girls’ writing within seven days.
• Lin Xuan accepted the wager, and Donghuang Ziyou promised he could make any request if he succeeded.

Lin Xuan welcomed the Poetry Saint Fan Changzhong and the young poet Su Bai, then accepted the sealed Heavenly Treasure inkwell. After Lin Xuan recited a poem about Reflecting Sun Spring, the inkwell’s seal broke and it transformed into a golden spiritual treasure that produced ink on its own.

• Donghuang Ziyou made a bet with Lin Xuan and returned to the Profound Ice Palace after spending time with Xuanzhu and her sisters.
• Mu Youqing brought Donghuang Haoyu, Fan Changzhong, and Su Bai to meet Lin Xuan, and Fan Changzhong and Su Bai praised him as a literary sage.
• Donghuang Haoyu told Xuanzhu and her sisters that Lin Xuan’s poem had helped him win his bet and make his rival call him Big Brother three times.
• Fan Changzhong presented Lin Xuan with the sealed Heavenly Treasure inkwell and explained that his own literary talent had not been enough to use it.
• Lin Xuan recited two lines about Reflecting Sun Spring, breaking the inkwell’s seal and turning it into a golden spiritual treasure that produced ink.

Lin Xuan took his family to Reflecting Sun Spring, where they learned that two top musical-path geniuses, the Six-Fingered Zither Immortal and Xiao Jiulang, would fight a decisive battle. As they headed to a viewing pavilion, Huyan Wu began recounting the rivals’ history with Lin Xinya.

• Fan Changzhong and Su Bai excitedly bade Lin Xuan farewell after he obtained the Heavenly Treasure Inkstone.
• Lin Xuan agreed to take the girls to Reflecting Sun Spring, and the family traveled there by Jade Carriage with Mu Youqing and Donghuang Haoyu.
• The group arrived to find a huge crowd gathered at Reflecting Sun Spring, where Huyan Wu, Yin Lingfeng, Yuan Shanhe, and Wei Changtian greeted Lin Xuan.
• Huyan Wu told Lin Xuan that the Six-Fingered Zither Immortal and Xiao Jiulang would fight above the spring, and Wei Changtian invited them to a viewing pavilion.
• Huyan Wu explained that both musical geniuses loved Lin Xinya and had competed for her affection until an enemy kingdom invaded and she went to war with them at her side.