Chapter Summaries

Xingyue used Lin Chang'an’s Essence Blood to strengthen her bloodline and let Azure Sea Palace believe she was pregnant, buying time for her elder sister to reach Spirit Transformation. Lin returned to the Nether Soul Sect with valuable materials and prepared for his tribulation, unaware of the Palace Elder’s mistaken conclusion.

• The Great Elder saw Lin Chang'an leave Azure Sea Palace looking pale but delighted, then reported the Outer Sea’s unrest to Xingyue.
• Xingyue told the Great Elder that Lin was one of Azure Sea Palace’s own and let him assume she was pregnant, hoping the rumor would distract factions conspiring with Great Jin.
• After the Great Elder left, Xingyue sealed Lin’s Essence Blood with some of her own inside her lower abdomen to make the false pregnancy harder for Great Jin to detect.
• Lin returned to his Cave Abode with Spirit Liquid and materials for a Tribulation Crossing Spirit Item, then examined the dangerous Spirit-Devouring Insects.
• Red-Clothed warned Lin that the insects could suppress his Self-Healing Body, and Lin resolved to prepare for the Heavenly Tribulation and cultivate diligently.

After fifteen years in seclusion, Lin Chang'an advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and prepared for his approaching Lightning Tribulation. He emerged to find the Market thriving, learned how his companions had fared, and sensed Fairy Nishang secretly visiting the Zhao Sisters.

• Lin Chang'an broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and inspected the Thunder-Absorbing Bead he had forged for his coming Lightning Tribulation.
• Jin Feng admitted she had spent some of Lin Chang'an's Spirit Stone dividends and reported that a Nascent Soul Cultivator wanted help treating her soul's Killing Intent erosion in exchange for help killing someone.
• Lin Chang'an punished Jin Feng by ordering her to prepare a Nascent Soul Formation Spirit Item for Mo Yin, then walked through the expanded Market with Sword Servant.
• Sword Servant told Lin Chang'an that Mo Yin was suppressing her cultivation before her Fourth-Rank Lightning Tribulation and that the Zhao Sisters had reached the Core Formation Late-Stage Peak.
• Fairy Nishang secretly watched the Zhao Sisters cultivate their secret technique, judged that they were readying themselves for Nascent Soul Formation, and left without being noticed.
• Lin Chang'an sensed Fairy Nishang's presence and smiled.

Lin Chang'an completed the Six Demon Banners using parts of the Quasi-Fifth-Rank Demon Body and went to a desolate island to undergo his Lightning Tribulation early. The tribulation began beneath a barrier that trapped passing cultivators, and its opening bolts were far more terrifying than Red-Clothed expected.

• Lin Chang'an discussed Nether Soul Island Market and the Three-Eyed Devil Lord with Fairy Nishang, who gave him materials and two Nascent Soul Formation Spirit Items for the Zhao Sisters.
• Lin Chang'an refined the Demon Body's five arms and one leg into the Six Demon Banners, then used them with his five External Incarnations to disguise himself as a Demonic cultivator and the Five Demon Children.
• Lin Chang'an decided to undergo his Lightning Tribulation early and traveled with Red-Clothed to a desolate island within the territory of the Sixteen Sea-Suppressing Sects.
• Red-Clothed guarded the island while her formation trapped a returning Spirit Ship and its cultivators inside the barrier.
• The Lightning Tribulation began, and its first two bolts stunned Red-Clothed and Sword Servant with their unexpected power.

Lin Chang'an survived the tribulation to form the Profound Heaven Spirit Body, while Jin Feng drove off greedy cultivators and the barrier broke. As three Nascent Soul Cultivators from Wansha Island rushed toward the island, Lin Chang'an prepared to carry out a secret plan and sent Jin Feng toward Wansha Island.

• Lin Chang'an endured an unusually powerful Lightning Tribulation as the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine emerged and absorbed some of the lightning.
• Greedy Core Formation Cultivators approached the island, and Jin Feng disguised itself as a Nascent Soul Cultivator and killed six of them.
• Lin Chang'an used his Six Demon Banners and other treasures to withstand the tribulation, which ended after half an hour and shattered the barrier.
• Lin Chang'an gained the Profound Heaven Spirit Body, doubling his mana and greatly strengthening his Self-Healing Body.
• The three Nascent Soul Cultivators of Wansha Island sensed the treasure's radiance and flew toward the island.
• Lin Chang'an detected the approaching cultivators and began a secret plan, while Jin Feng set off toward Wansha Island by a roundabout route.

Lin Chang'an disguised himself as True Lord Mosha to distract Wansha Island's Nascent Soul Cultivators while Jin Feng looted the island, then let the Insect Demon take the blame. Back on Nether Soul Island, he divided the spoils with Jin Feng and assessed the new strength and risks brought by his Profound Heaven Spirit Body.

• Lin Chang'an attacked three Nascent Soul Cultivators from Wansha Island as True Lord Mosha, while Jin Feng broke into Wansha Island and plundered its treasure vaults and other stores.
• When another Nascent Soul aura approached, Lin Chang'an withdrew, and the three cultivators returned to find Wansha Island looted and swarming with Spirit-Devouring Insects.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators blamed the Insect Demon for the looting, while rumors spread that True Lord Mosha had obtained a Spirit Treasure and attacked them to silence witnesses.
• Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng returned to Nether Soul Island, where Jin Feng celebrated the haul and persuaded Lin Chang'an to give it an extra share.
• Lin Chang'an examined his transformed Profound Heaven Spirit Body, which had advanced his Self-Healing Body into an Undying Body and sharpened his perception of spiritual energy.
• Lin Chang'an concluded that he could contend with a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator using his available strength, but kept the Golden Alms Bowl and Profound Heaven Immortal Vine hidden.

After condensing the Profound Heaven Spirit Body, Lin Chang'an discovered its extraordinary longevity, combat benefits, and future tribulations, while rumors about a Spirit Treasure stirred conflict across the Abyss Sea. True Lord You Sha visited Lin Chang'an seeking a way to control the Killing Intent fused with her Sword Intent and offered information about the Ancient Teleportation Array.

• Lin Chang'an examined his new Profound Heaven Spirit Body, learned it would face three future Lightning Tribulations, and discovered that the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine had gained a withering lightning power.
• After two months in seclusion, Lin Chang'an emerged with stronger cultivation and combat ability, then learned that rumors of a Spirit Treasure and accusations against True Lord Mosha had intensified factional tensions.
• Lin Chang'an agreed to meet a Nascent Soul cultivator who could suppress Killing Intent and continued expanding trade at the Nether Soul Island Market as outside cultivators gathered there.
• Jin Feng brought True Lord You Sha to Lin Chang'an, and You Sha asked him to suppress the Killing Intent fused with her Sword Intent.
• True Lord You Sha offered information about the Ancient Teleportation Array, catching Lin Chang'an's interest.

Lin Chang'an negotiated with True Lord You Sha to exchange help refining her Killing Intent for ancient inheritances and other treasures. After they reached a deal, he planned how to conceal his methods, and the Sword Servant announced that Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing had come to see him.

• Lin Chang'an and True Lord You Sha bargained over suppressing her Killing Intent in exchange for an Ancient Teleportation Array inheritance.
• Lin Chang'an revealed his Buddha Light Sarira and offered to combine Buddhist methods with the Five Soul Locking Divine Technique to refine her Killing Intent completely.
• True Lord You Sha offered her full ancient inheritance, sword cultivation techniques, and Geng Essence, while Lin Chang'an agreed to treat her for twenty years and keep their deal secret.
• Lin Chang'an planned to use the Buddha Light Sarira and Ancient Spirit Liquid to conceal his Mystic Heaven Mana while treating True Lord You Sha.
• Two months later, the Sword Servant told Lin Chang'an that Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing had requested an audience.

Lin Chang'an reflected on the risks of Nascent Soul Formation and the Cultivation World's declining spiritual qi while Fairy Nishang prepared for turmoil surrounding the Demon Sealing Abyss. Two years later, Lin Chang'an treated True Lord You Sha and negotiated to buy her contraband, then received word that Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing had returned, ready to attempt Nascent Soul Formation.

• Lin Chang'an advised Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing as they prepared to form Nascent Souls, and Sword Servant warned that success depended on talent, foundation, opportunity, and temperament.
• Lin Chang'an considered how the weakening spiritual qi threatened cultivation and concluded that the major powers would eventually have to break the seal of the Demon Sealing Abyss.
• Fairy Nishang received Lin Chang'an's message, led three Demonized Great Demons away from her hidden island, and prepared to capture a target while seeking a custom formation from Lin Chang'an.
• Two years later, Lin Chang'an treated True Lord You Sha's Killing Intent with the Five Soul Banner and Buddha Light Sarira, accepted Geng Essence as payment, and refused to trade away his treasures.
• Lin Chang'an invited True Lord You Sha to sell hidden goods through his market, and she agreed to bring them to the Trading Fair despite recalling Azure Sea Palace's low offers.
• Sword Servant reported that an old friend had arrived and that Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing had returned, prepared to begin Nascent Soul Formation.

Fairy Nishang visited Lin Chang'an, gave Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing a Nascent Soul Formation spirit item, and stayed to discuss formations while the sisters prepared for their breakthrough. True Lord You Sha warned Lin Chang'an about activity from Great Jin’s Ye Family, and the chapter ended as the sisters’ Nascent Soul Formation celestial phenomenon appeared over Nether Soul Island.

• Fairy Nishang concealed her identity while meeting Lin Chang'an and True Lord You Sha, then gave Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing a valuable Nascent Soul Formation spirit item.
• Fairy Nishang stayed at Lin Chang'an’s cave abode to study formations with him and shared an incomplete Ancient Devil Race sacrificial altar formation.
• Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing prepared to form their Nascent Souls, reflecting on their bond with Fairy Nishang and their hopes for Mystic Sound Pavilion.
• True Lord You Sha returned for treatment, warned Lin Chang'an that the Ye Family of Great Jin was making moves, and traded him intelligence about the family.
• A Nascent Soul Formation celestial phenomenon appeared over Nether Soul Island, and Fairy Nishang prayed that Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing would succeed.

Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing began forming Nascent Souls together, but Zhao Lingxing reversed their life-force exchange and sacrificed herself so her elder sister could survive the Heart Demon Tribulation. Zhao Lingyue became a Nascent Soul True Lord and learned that the reopened Path of Ascension might let her find her sister again through reincarnation; she then prepared to lead Mystic Sound Pavilion as it rose into a Nascent Soul Sect.

• Zhao Lingyue and Zhao Lingxing shattered their Golden Cores together and endured the Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation as cultivators across Nether Soul Island watched.
• During the Heart Demon Tribulation, Zhao Lingxing reversed the Wither and Flourish Secret Art’s life-force flow, gave her essence to Zhao Lingyue, and died as Zhao Lingyue formed her Nascent Soul.
• Lin Chang'an sensed reincarnation through the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine, while Fairy Nishang gave Zhao Lingyue Zhao Lingxing’s letter and Storage Bag.
• Lin Chang'an told Zhao Lingyue that the reopened Path of Ascension and a Buddhist Karmic Reincarnation Secret Art might allow her to find Zhao Lingxing again in the Upper Realm.
• Half a month later, Zhao Lingyue stabilized her cultivation, and Lin Chang'an advised her to announce Mystic Sound Pavilion’s rise as a Nascent Soul Sect while concealing her true strength.

Xingyue resisted the Great Jin Ye Family’s demand for Azure Sea Palace’s resources and negotiated a deal that would exempt the palace from tribute for a thousand years in exchange for helping them search for a place. After the Ye elders hinted that Xingyue was pregnant, she concealed her true intentions while Lin Chang'an prepared for his Nascent Soul ceremony and worried about Great Jin’s arrival.

• Ye Chen and Ye Yun demanded resources from Azure Sea Palace, but Xingyue and the palace elders refused to yield to their threats.
• The Ye Family revealed that it wanted Azure Sea Palace’s help finding a place, and the sides agreed to exempt the palace from transactions for a thousand years in exchange for its search assistance.
• Ye Chen and Ye Yun claimed Xingyue was pregnant, and Xingyue let them leave believing their suspicions while the palace elders speculated about the child.
• Ye Chen and Ye Yun discussed the coming Era of Great Contention and their Ye Family’s plan to find a place recorded in its accounts before the Demon Sealing Abyss opened.
• Jin Feng bargained with Lin Chang'an for fifteen percent of the market’s business to support her cultivation, and he warned her that Great Jin cultivators had arrived.
• Lin Chang'an planned to notify Ni Chang to hide and told Jin Feng to help manage his Nascent Soul Ceremony and the Mystic Sound Pavilion’s rise as a Nascent Soul sect.

Lin Chang'an prepared to hold a Nascent Soul Trading Fair on Nether Soul Island, using Longevity Pills and other rare treasures to attract powerful cultivators and obtain resources and information. After True Lord You Sha arranged to reserve a pill, the fair was poised to draw further interest.

• Lin Chang'an read rumors that Azure Sea Palace Master Ming Yue was pregnant and wondered whether the news involved him, but dismissed it as unlikely.
• Lin Chang'an and Red-Clothed examined five rare spirit objects, including two Longevity Fruits and two Water-Fire Ten-Thousand-Year Ganoderma.
• Lin Chang'an decided to organize a Nascent Soul Trading Fair to trade treasures, obtain pill ingredients, and gather intelligence, and news of his offerings attracted cultivators across the Abyss Sea.
• Lin Chang'an continued helping True Lord You Sha refine her Killing Intent with Buddhist arts, strengthening her Sword Intent and easing her bottleneck.
• True Lord You Sha asked to reserve a Longevity Pill and agreed to trade rare spirit plants and additional compensation at the fair.

Lin Chang'an sent Zhao Lingyue to build Mystic Sound Pavilion’s connections and watched the Green-Horned Ox fail to break through, prompting him to consider how his companions’ potential might limit their progress. Months later, he completed five Life-Prolonging Pills and decided to keep the remaining Longevity Fruit for future use.

• Lin Chang'an assigned Zhao Lingyue a trade mission to the Spirit Control Sect and entrusted her with a sealed jade box for Fairy Ice Butterfly.
• The Green-Horned Ox failed to break through to the Fourth-Rank Mid-Grade, and Lin Chang'an comforted it while reflecting on the limits of its potential.
• Jin Feng agreed to help the Green-Horned Ox hunt a newly advanced Sea Beast in the Heaven-Reaching Fog Sea.
• Lin Chang'an resolved to seek spiritual items to strengthen the Green-Horned Ox before its next breakthrough attempt.
• After several months of refinement, Lin Chang'an produced five Life-Prolonging Pills and chose to preserve the remaining Longevity Fruit.

Lin Chang'an traded a Life-Prolonging Pill to True Lord Lu for an Ancient Array inheritance and helped build ties between Mystic Sound Pavilion and the Spirit Control Sect. As the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm approached, Jin Kaishan arrived seeking Lin Chang'an’s aid and proposed a deal involving the Ten Thousand Soul Boat.

• True Lord Lu traded Lin Chang'an an Ancient Array inheritance containing Teleportation Array records for a Life-Prolonging Pill, then revealed he had acquired it for someone else and said Jin Kaishan was running short on lifespan.
• Zhao Lingyue visited the Spirit Control Sect, delivered Lin Chang'an’s letter and a Taiyi Gold Essence Ganoderma to Fairy Ice Butterfly, and received Nether Soul Sect and Spirit Control Sect inheritances for Mystic Sound Pavilion.
• Fairy Ice Butterfly declined to attend Lin Chang'an’s upcoming Trading Fair because she was refining the Cold Marrow Jade Crystal Tree, while Zhao Lingyue spread news of the fair across the Dao Protection Alliance.
• A year later, Jin Kaishan arrived at Lin Chang'an’s Market, briefly tested the gathering’s powerful aura, and met Lin Chang'an in the Reception Hall.
• Jin Kaishan asked Lin Chang'an for a Fourth-Rank Mid-Grade trapping array and the Ten Thousand Soul Boat in exchange for thirty percent of the treasures he might obtain from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

Lin Chang'an negotiated a deal with Jin Kaishan to fund his Secret Realm expedition in exchange for forty percent of the gains, then welcomed Mystic Sound Pavilion’s return and read letters about allies, old friends, and the changing cultivation world. As the Trading Fair approached, he hoped to find pills that would quickly raise his cultivation.

• Lin Chang'an and Jin Kaishan agreed to a Heart Demon Vow: Lin would lend him treasures and receive forty percent of the Secret Realm gains, with Jin compensating for half of any damage to the Ten Thousand Soul Boat.
• Lin Chang'an and Jin Kaishan exchanged insights into sword and body cultivation while waiting for Mystic Sound Pavilion’s merchant ships to return.
• Zhao Lingyue returned safely from the nearly year-long journey and reported Mystic Sound Pavilion’s gains to Lin Chang'an.
• Lin Chang'an read Senior Sister Ice Butterfly’s letter about the Dao Protection Alliance and Spirit Control Sect, including her note that she was waiting beneath the willow tree.
• Lin Chang'an read letters from Yue Kingdom, the Zhou Family, and Hu Jin, learning about changing fortunes, family plans, and Hu Jin’s request to shelter one branch of his descendants.
• Lin Chang'an set the letters aside and looked ahead to the approaching Trading Fair, hoping to obtain pills that would accelerate his cultivation.

Lin Chang'an hosted a Nascent Soul Trading Fair, drawing a powerful crowd of cultivators and displaying his extensive connections. As the trades began, he spotted Old Devil Huangshan among the guests and prepared to seize the chance to deal with him; the fair’s eagerly awaited Life-Prolonging Pills then came out for exchange.

• Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered at Lin Chang'an’s Trading Fair, and the arrival of Jin Kaishan, Old Ancestor Leiming, Qu the Confucian Scholar, Old Monster Pei, and others revealed the strength of Lin Chang'an’s connections.
• Lin Chang'an welcomed the guests into a hall protected by Restrictions that prevented Divine Sense from probing the private trading rooms.
• Lin Chang'an recognized Old Devil Huangshan in one of the stone rooms and resolved to take advantage of the chance to confront him.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators began trading rare materials and treasures, while Lin Chang'an and Sword Servant acquired several items.
• Lin Chang'an displayed five Life-Prolonging Pills, while two other cultivators offered Magic Treasures and Talismans, stirring intense interest among the gathered Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Lin Chang'an traded all five Life-Prolonging Pills and other treasures at his Nascent Soul Trading Fair, then rejected Old Devil Huangshan’s offer for his Yin Spirit Beast King. After the fair, Lin and his avatars killed Huangshan, learning that two Nascent Soul Great Cultivators from the Ye Family of Great Jin were searching near the Heaven-Reaching Fog Sea and might target his spirit pet.

• Lin Chang'an exchanged all five Life-Prolonging Pills for spirit items and materials, then continued the fair with treasures and a Fourth-Rank Formation.
• Old Devil Huangshan offered Spirit Eye Jade for Lin Chang'an’s Yin Spirit Beast King, but Lin refused to part with his longtime companion.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators left Nether Soul Island, and Lin Chang'an pursued Old Devil Huangshan and attacked him with his five avatars.
• Lin Chang'an used the Golden Alms Bowl to suppress Huangshan and let the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine consume his soul.
• Lin Chang'an learned from Huangshan’s memories that two Nascent Soul Great Cultivators from the Ye Family of Great Jin were searching the Outer Sea near the Heaven-Reaching Fog Sea.
• Lin Chang'an decided to conceal the Yin Spirit Beast King’s tribulation breakthrough to avoid drawing the Ye Family’s attention.

Lin Chang'an agreed to help Azure Sea Palace guard nearby sea regions as it prepared to move against the Sea-Overturning Alliance, while remaining wary of the unexplained plan. In secret, First Palace Mistress Mingyue and Second Palace Mistress Xingyue prepared to conceal Mingyue’s attempt to reach Spirit Transformation and mislead Great Jin’s Ye Family.

• True Lord You Sha revealed her identity to True Lord Lu and the Azure Sea Palace Great Elder, then left Lin Chang'an to discuss matters with them.
• The Azure Sea Palace Great Elder asked Lin Chang'an to help guard nearby sea regions ahead of an attack on the Sea-Overturning Alliance, and Lin agreed while invoking True Lord Mosha’s past ambush as his reason.
• Mingyue told Xingyue that her chance of reaching Spirit Transformation had risen to eighty percent, and Xingyue described how they would conceal the breakthrough.
• Mingyue and Xingyue planned to use the battle with the Sea-Overturning Alliance and a staged injury to mislead the Ye Family, protect Mingyue’s secret, and let Xingyue pursue Spirit Transformation.

Lin Chang'an’s teleportation array experiments remained limited by scarce materials, but he successfully refined Phoenix Origin Pills and used them to strengthen himself and Jin Feng. After emerging from seclusion, he prepared to take Jin Feng to Sea Abyss City to pursue the Water Spirit Mushroom, while coaxing her to reveal her hidden treasures.

• Lin Chang'an’s short-range Teleportation Array teleported a Puppet but crushed it, and he concluded that missing ancient materials prevented stable, long-distance use.
• Lin Chang'an refined three Phoenix Origin Pills using Jin Feng’s essence blood, gave her one, and consumed two.
• After half a year in seclusion, Lin Chang'an found that a pill had advanced his cultivation and strengthened his control of fire, while the two different Spirit Flames still could not fuse.
• Jin Feng showed Lin Chang'an that the pill had greatly strengthened her Golden Light Divine Flame and awakened an ocular divine ability ahead of schedule.
• Lin Chang'an told Jin Feng to accompany him to Sea Abyss City and offered her another pill, prompting her to admit she had raided a Fourth-Rank Yin Spirit Beast King’s lair and hidden its treasures.

Lin Chang'an returned to Sea Abyss City to obtain a Water Origin Pearl and Yin Soul Grass from Azure Sea Palace. After learning that Mingyue had emerged from seclusion and sensing a faintly familiar aura from the palace, he abruptly left before meeting her.

• Lin Chang'an visited Treasure Radiance Pavilion with Jin Feng and discussed Azure Sea Palace’s prosperity and influence.
• The Great Elder gave Lin Chang'an a Water Origin Pearl and agreed to retrieve Yin Soul Grass for him.
• Lin Chang'an sensed that Mingyue had emerged from seclusion and wondered whether she had broken through to Spirit Transformation.
• Xingyue revealed that she had deliberately let Lin Chang'an sense a faint aura, hoping to secure his support for their plan.
• The Great Elder offered to take Lin Chang'an to see Mingyue, but Lin Chang'an declined and hurried away with Jin Feng.