Chapter Summaries

Lin Xin took Song Jing’s Qi Transformation Pills and discovered a letter hinting at a plot against He Tianhe, then used Song Jing’s mask and was mistaken for He Tianhe by Peng Yan and his wife. He accepted their surrendered bone fragments but hesitated to attack when he heard others approaching.

• Xiao Lingling gave Peng Yan and his wife a false account of Lin Xin’s whereabouts, making them suspicious and causing them to follow cautiously.
• Lin Xin swallowed a Qi Transformation Pill, searched Song Jing’s pouch, and found a letter describing a plan involving He Tianhe and the Red Chamber Demoness.
• Lin Xin decided to avoid the battle ahead, then put on Song Jing’s mask and discovered it made him look like He Tianhe.
• Peng Yan and his wife mistook Lin Xin for He Tianhe, begged for their lives, and handed over their bone fragments.
• Lin Xin began drawing his talisman sword, but stopped when he heard more people approaching.

After the convoy entered the Dark Cloud Passage, Lin Xin learned that swarms of Half-Grass Insects threatened their journey. He used the Red Flower Sword to drive the insects down, leaving the convoy able to continue through the passage.

• Lin Xin inspected the Green Fish Lantern and the martial arts manuals taken from the Illusion Devil and Wrathful Hero as the convoy traveled through the Dark Cloud Passage.
• Ma Yuan warned Lin Xin that Half-Grass Insects were approaching and asked him to protect the convoy, then showed him the Landscape Plate.
• Lin Xin examined a captured Half-Grass Insect and told Ma Yuan and the others to return to their posts and stuff their ears.
• Lin Xin drew the Red Flower Sword and struck it three times, causing the swarming insects to falter and fall around the ox cart.

Lin Xin turned away Ma Qiuqiu’s jealous admirer with a few words, while a confrontation over the Green Fish Lantern unfolded in the snowy wilderness. Clear Sky Old Ancestor arrived, killed Huang Mengxian, and claimed the lantern as his prize.

• Lin Xin teased the youth who challenged him over Ma Qiuqiu, then advised him to listen to his own heart.
• Huang Mengxian fought the Five Free Men of the Affirmation Gang in the snow and killed one of them, but the remaining four wounded him.
• An elderly farmer and a woman in black discussed the Green Fish Lantern and the possible arrival of Clear Sky Old Ancestor.
• Winter Night Child prevented the farmer and the Four Free Men from leaving, while Clear Sky Old Ancestor appeared behind Huang Mengxian and killed him.
• Clear Sky Old Ancestor declared that the Green Fish Lantern was his and warned the others not to stand in his way.

After Yellow Ape True Lord named Lin Xin the sole Crown Prince of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect, Red Leaf Sword Master drew him into the gap between the Nether Prefecture and the Yin Prefecture and offered a chance to break free from the Netherworld. Lin Xin awoke transformed in a demonic body, accepted his new place in the sect, and prepared to learn its core cultivation art from Inu-sha.

• Yellow Ape True Lord ordered the sect to establish Lin Xin as its sole Crown Prince and instructed the woman in black to pass on the Primal Battle Demon Art.
• Red Leaf Sword Master told Lin Xin he had selected 126 people from thirteen worlds, with only nineteen remaining, and explained that Lin Xin was in the gap between the Nether Prefecture and the Yin Prefecture.
• Hong Ye warned Lin Xin not to enter the Nether Prefecture again and offered to help him break free in exchange for a future karmic debt.
• Lin Xin awoke in a glass tank, released the power of his demonic body, and emerged with a black crystal embedded in his chest and his youthful appearance restored.
• Inu-sha introduced herself as Lin Xin's Eldest Senior Sister and sole Crown Prince, then offered to teach him the Primal Battle Demon Art using her bloodline memory.

Lin Xin and the Pangdao Escort Agency were caught in a deadly battle that turned out to be part of a Golden Core formation targeting a powerful expert. The Demon God Child appeared above them, and the escorts faced what seemed like certain death.

• Masked men attacked the Pangdao Escort Agency convoy, and Fifth Uncle and Ling Er led the escorts in resisting them.
• Xiao Liu protected Lin Xin from two masked men, while Lin Xin noticed a strange threat forming overhead.
• The Flower Wheel Rebirth Formation spread across the sky, trapping the escorts and masked attackers beneath it.
• More than a dozen Golden Core True Persons appeared in a black disk, and Fifth Uncle urged everyone to break the formation before it was complete.
• The Demon God Child appeared, and an old woman declared that the Prince would be buried there.
• Ling Er, Wu Guo San, and the escorts accepted their apparent fate and reassured Fifth Uncle that the disaster was not his fault.

Lin Xin studied the Green Fish Lantern for clues about Netherworld Mansion Power, then went out at night to test the sword school’s Sword Heart experts. He challenged He Jing, whose reaction to Lin Xin’s presence revealed that the confrontation was already weighing heavily on him.

• Lin Xin practiced the Nine Mornings Song and repeatedly examined the Green Fish Lantern, sometimes activating it with Buddhist scriptures.
• After Ma Jingxuan was called away, Lin Xin decided to seek a Sword Heart expert and compare the sword school’s strength with his own.
• Lin Xin hid near a busy residence and waited for a suitable swordsman to leave alone.
• Lin Xin followed Nan Xiu Lu and He Jing to a secluded rocky shore after noticing He Jing’s skillful use of energy.
• Lin Xin revealed himself and challenged He Jing to exchange pointers, and He Jing grew tense and broke into a sweat as they faced each other.

Lin Xin survived an attack by a creature that mimicked Senior Brother Guang, then rescued Xiao Lingling by killing one of two impostors. After finding Ye Senior Brother dead, Lin Xin led Xiao Lingling into a blocked passage, while a Lin Xin lookalike watched the Poison Gang enter the plaza.

• Lin Xin blocked Senior Brother Guang’s surprise attack and watched the attacker dissolve into smoke.
• Lin Xin identified the left Xiao Lingling as an impostor by guessing and killed her, leaving the real Xiao Lingling alive.
• Lin Xin and Xiao Lingling found Ye Senior Brother’s corpse pinned to the stone wall and took his bundle.
• Lin Xin persuaded Xiao Lingling to keep searching, and they cleared stones from a passage and entered it with their supplies.
• The Poison Gang arrived at the plaza as a Lin Xin lookalike watched them from the darkness.

Lin Xin traveled deeper into the outer domain with Ma Yuan’s convoy, keeping his mind calm by reading scripture while Ma Qiuqiu continued seeking him out. When horse bandits attacked, the one-armed Bao Luofei revealed formidable strength and was identified as the holder of the Green Fish Lantern, leaving Lin Xin curious about the legend but still focused on his Bewildering Truth.

• Lin Xin read the Sinking Circle Scripture and tried to live peacefully, while Ma Yuan restricted Ma Qiuqiu from visiting him and she promised to return in a few days.
• Ma Yuan discussed the dangers of crossing Black Wind Gorge and the risk of horse bandits with the convoy’s other leaders.
• A group of horse bandits attacked the convoy, but Bao Luofei cut down a charging warhorse and swiftly killed many of them.
• Ma Yuan fought the bandit leader while the convoy joined the battle, and the surviving bandits fled after more than half were killed.
• The convoy learned Bao Luofei possessed the Green Fish Lantern, and Lin Xin recognized that she concealed a dark, obscure aura as he considered the legend of its iron tome.

Xiao Lingling experienced a strange vision in which a mysterious voice warned her not to leave, while Lin Xin sought materials to repair and upgrade the Red Flower Sword. In the Dark Dwelling, Lin Xin reached the Qi Refining Stage Second Layer before discovering a black-clad stranger nearby.

• Xiao Lingling dreamed of a boundless field of scarlet flowers, followed an ink butterfly toward a figure resembling Lin Xin, and woke when Xiao Lin Zhen called to her.
• Lin Xin learned from Old Yang that Cloud Gold required Earth Fire Golden Plum to melt and that additional rare materials could help turn the Red Flower Sword into a Multi-Layer Hollow Sword.
• Lin Xin entered the Dark Dwelling and spent more than two months fighting Two-Faced People to collect Demon Talisman Seeds, eventually reaching the Qi Refining Stage Second Layer.
• After searching the battlefield and tending his wounds, Lin Xin heard someone drinking nearby and saw a black-clad man beneath a tree.

Lin Xin refined and tested the Spirit Light Shield, discovering that his attribute points could strengthen magical artifacts. At a gathering in Yellow Flower Forest, he challenged Song Jing after Song Jing insulted him, and he began comparing the disciples’ artifacts to prepare for the Listening Sword Assembly.

• Lin Xin completed the Spirit Light Shield’s refinement and discovered that adding attribute points increased its defense.
• After practicing with the shield in seclusion, Lin Xin went to the formation hall disciples’ gathering in Yellow Flower Forest.
• Lin Xin and Huang Shan tested their shields, and Huang Shan remarked that Lin Xin’s seemed unusually strong.
• Song Jing mocked Huang Shan for helping Lin Xin, and Lin Xin intervened before promising to face Song Jing once he reached the sixth layer.
• Huang Shan warned Lin Xin that Song Jing might attack before then, while the gathered disciples displayed and compared their magical artifacts.

Huo Yinqi and Lin Xin fought through a flock of supernatural birds before confronting the Also Snake Cave Master, who targeted Lin Xin over the deaths of his protectors. Huo Yinqi repeatedly shielded Lin Xin, but the Cave Master used a tornado to blow her away, leaving him and Lin Xin free to face each other elsewhere.

• Huo Yinqi and Lin Xin were separated from the others when a vast flock of black birds attacked, and Lin Xin fought on while hiding his full strength.
• Huo Yinqi reunited with Lin Xin and warned him that the Also Snake Cave Master was among the birds; the two retreated to a cliff and met the giant Yellow Bird.
• The Also Snake Cave Master blamed Lin Xin for killing his protectors and attacked him, but Huo Yinqi intervened and Lin Xin escaped toward a lake.
• Huo Yinqi caught up and again pleaded for the Cave Master to spare Lin Xin, disrupting Lin Xin's attempt to prepare for battle.
• The Also Snake Cave Master summoned a black tornado that swept Huo Yinqi away, then he and Lin Xin raced toward another location.

Lin Xin escaped the underground palace with Hong Ye’s gift as the Thousand Hands Divine Pot emerged and slaughtered the surrounding foreign races. On the airship back toward the Southern Prefecture, he discovered the gift could refine power into attributes, while Zhao Ke offered his purple egg to help suppress Lin Xin’s worsening cultivation deviation.

• Lin Xin took the misty item from the underground palace and escaped before the Thousand Hands Divine Pot erupted and seized members of the Sand Rabbit, Centipede, and Enslaved Ha Clans.
• Lin Xin discovered that Hong Ye’s gift contained a pearl that absorbed most of his Lord Power and converted it into Evil Soul Power, which he used to gain free attribute points.
• Lin Xin returned toward the human Yang Membrane, released his transformed low-level insects, and contracted two peak fourth-rank demon creatures.
• Zhao Ke offered Lin Xin the purple giant egg, claiming it could purify Evil Qi and stabilize his mind, while Ye Qingchang and the others watched tensely.
• Lin Xin recognized the purity of Zhao Ke’s will and touched his face, as Zhao Ke resolved to give him the secret treasure despite the danger to himself.

After awakening from a three-year coma, Lin Xin learned that Ma Yuan’s group had been stranded in the purple desert near Central Prefecture and agreed to deal with the monster blocking their way. He lured the Chameleon Giant Lizard toward him, and the chapter ended as its tongue struck, bearing the upper body of a beautiful woman.

• Lin Xin awoke to find Ma Qiuqiu had grown up and learned he had been comatose for three years.
• Ma Qiuqiu explained that the group had suffered heavy losses and remained stranded in the desert after their Landscape Plate ran out of spiritual energy.
• Ma Yuan arrived, and Lin Xin learned that a Chameleon Giant Lizard had blocked the route to Central Prefecture, about five hundred li away.
• Lin Xin replenished himself with food, checked the Landscape Plate, and ordered Ma Yuan and the others to prepare to retreat while he confronted the monster alone.
• Lin Xin released a wisp of spiritual energy to attract the giant lizard, which charged at him and lashed out with a tongue tipped by a beautiful woman’s upper body.

Lin Xin and the little jade fox strolled through the city and visited Rui Shi at the Golden Selection Pavilion to buy Demon Talisman Seeds. After exchanging magic treasures for Rui Shi’s stock, Lin Xin asked about the different colors of the seeds.

• Lin Xin explained why he believed cultivators could not easily locate them or seal off the city, while the little jade fox worried about their safety.
• Lin Xin reflected on the city’s peaceful streets and entered the Golden Selection Pavilion with the little jade fox in disguise.
• Lin Xin recognized the gatekeeper Rui Shi and privately asked to buy all his Demon Talisman Seeds and have the Ten Thousand Books Forest source more.
• Rui Shi offered about twenty-three seeds, including one Dark Gold seed, for two Fourth Grade Magic Treasures, and Lin Xin agreed to the exchange.
• After Rui Shi objected to the low value of the first two artifacts, Lin Xin added a third crescent-blade artifact and received the seeds.
• Lin Xin asked Rui Shi what distinguished pale gold and Dark Gold Demon Talisman Seeds from ordinary ones.

Lin Xin and his companions learned about the danger posed by Despairers who had survived Lion Plain, then attended a hundred-day gathering where Yellow Mountain Venerable announced the appearance of the Sand Time Divine Palace. The gathering grew tense when Wu Sheng Dao Zi arrived and pressed Yellow Mountain Venerable to sell him information about the palace.

• Gu Lin Ce asked Lin Xin whether he had experienced Bewildering Truth, and Lin Xin revealed that he had encountered a decaying person on the road from Serpentine Melody City.
• Gu Lin Ce and Chen Fan warned Lin Xin that the stranger might be a Despairer who had visited Lion Plain and would need to kill to slow his decay.
• Captain Yao Dong confronted Gu Lin Ce over an old bet, and the two exchanged accusations without coming to blows.
• Yellow Mountain Venerable announced that the Sand Time Divine Palace had appeared in the west, sealing off the area around it.
• Wu Sheng Dao Zi arrived amid a spreading frost, demanded information about the palace, and offered to pay Yellow Mountain Venerable for it.

Lin Xin lay incapacitated in the forest after escaping an illusion, while Hua Shenxi tracked him down. Autumn Leaf Daoist intervened and began a fierce duel with Hua Shenxi, leaving Lin Xin watching from a protected patch of ground.

• Hua Shenxi learned that someone had escaped the manor before its formation was completed and set out to track the person.
• Lin Xin lay unable to use his spiritual energy and wondered whether suppressing the illusion had caused his injury and loss of control.
• Hua Shenxi followed a red trail through the forest and found Lin Xin hiding in the grass.
• Autumn Leaf Daoist attacked Hua Shenxi, who blocked the strike and recognized him.
• Autumn Leaf Daoist drew both blades and launched his Myriad Laws Heavenly Realm Blade, and the two Golden Core experts exchanged attacks while Lin Xin remained outside their battlefield.

Lin Xin traveled toward Red Ridge Gate’s inner city on the Giant Serpent Carriage, keeping his identity concealed while Mo Qinsheng mistook him for a pampered young master. After Lin Xin sensed trouble at the carriage exit and turned back, Mo Qinsheng learned that the man in the portrait on the Most Wanted List looked exactly like him.

• Lin Xin watched Mo Qinsheng cultivate and let her believe he was an inexperienced young master.
• Two thieves tried to steal a young woman’s jade pendant and Lin Xin’s Storage Bag, but Mo Qinsheng knocked one thief’s hand aside with her sword hilt.
• After the Giant Serpent Carriage stopped, Lin Xin sensed danger near the crowded exit and turned back with Liu Cheng.
• White-clothed officials questioned a wealthy merchant who identified Lin Xin as the man in their portrait, and the merchant pointed them toward Mo Qinsheng.
• Mo Qinsheng recognized the portrait as the young man who had sat beside her and saw the words “The Most Wanted List” beneath it.

Lin Xin escaped the crater after killing Heaven's Will Blade, but the Immortal Fiend Alliance's True Persons pursued him while his injuries and a lingering blade technique weakened him. As he hid from them, he discovered that he could perceive his surroundings with extraordinary clarity even without spiritual energy or mental perception.

• Lady Yuling knocked Du Qianqian unconscious and blocked the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples from reaching the crater.
• Crescent Moon True Person and the other two searched the crater, found Lin Xin had escaped underground, and tracked him west.
• A black-cloaked boy recognized Lin Xin as the one who had accepted his mission and celebrated Heaven's Will Blade's death.
• Lin Xin hid in a pine tree while Transform Cloud Smoke continued forming blades inside him, and he saw his Returning Origin Art progress rise after killing Heaven's Will Blade.
• The three pursuers searched the wooded hills with magical artifacts, while Lin Xin avoided confronting the nearby old man in his weakened state.
• Lin Xin realized he could clearly perceive nearby plants and terrain without using spiritual energy or mental perception.

Lin Xin reorganized Shadow Light and ordered an attempt on Hua Shenxi at the Tai Kun Birthday Banquet. Meanwhile, Hua Shenxi arranged for the Hua Family to join the Gold Jade Sect and target the Bright Sun Sect and Spirit Heart Mountain Manor, while an unseen woman addressed an old fisherman.

• Lin Xin introduced Jin Jia and two inspection envoys, then ordered Shadow Light to assassinate Hua Shenxi at the Tai Kun Birthday Banquet.
• Hua Yuxi demonstrated his swordplay before Hua Shenxi and the Hua Family elders while Dugu Guiwen discussed taking him under the Gold Jade Sect's tutelage.
• Hua Shenxi agreed to leave Pine Forest for the Gold Jade Sect in exchange for help destroying Spirit Heart Mountain Manor and the Bright Sun Sect.
• Hua Shenxi assigned Yun Xi and Ye Xi to accompany Hua Yuxi and protect him when he confronted Lin Xin.
• An unseen woman spoke to a long-bearded old man fishing in a stream valley.

Lin Xin entered the Emerald Black Market with Baizi and a family of three, learned how the market worked, and searched its listings for tools and arrays. He found no suitable crafting tools and ended the chapter comparing costly concealment items with his own more efficient array disks.

• Lin Xin and the others bought Red Smoke Stones from Lao Du and followed him through the blue vortex into the trading market.
• Lao Du explained the stone houses’ confidentiality ranks and showed the group how to use Classification Crystals to locate goods and trades.
• Lin Xin searched the Array Talisman Dao listings but found no crafting set that met his needs.
• Lao Du told the group to meet him after the day market closed if they wanted to enter the black market, and the family of three left to shop.
• Lin Xin examined several expensive concealment items and realized his own array disks offered comparable protection at much lower consumption.