Chapter Summaries

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan watched the Fengle Merchant Alliance probe the ancient ruins and learned that linked earth, wood, and metal formations protected them. After Lin Yun understood how the defenses worked, he took Nangong Wan to enter the ruins before the alliance could stop them.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan concealed themselves near the ruins and observed dozens of Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators attacking its defenses.
• Lin Yun identified linked earth- and wood-element formations and warned that a metal-element formation behind them could grow stronger if the outer defenses were broken.
• An elderly cultivator told his disciple that cutting down the forest had once triggered deadly attacks, then ordered him to prepare the Wu Earth Profound Light Formation.
• Nangong Wan suspected the Wu Earth Profound Light Formation was meant to trap them, but Lin Yun said Formless Sword Escape could overcome it.
• Lin Yun put his arm around Nangong Wan and led her toward the ruins to explore them before the Fengle Merchant Alliance could interfere.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan entered the ancient ruins, found and harvested rare spirit herbs in the Bamboo Garden, then discovered that a withered bamboo stump was Golden Thunder Bamboo. The chapter ended with Lin Yun astonished by the source of the powerful lightning intent.

• Lin Yun embedded a Three Flames Formation in the ruins’ golden barrier to trap anyone who triggered the outer restrictions, then entered the barrier with Nangong Wan.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan searched the dilapidated pavilions and towers but found nothing useful.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan discovered the Bamboo Garden and entered its wood-type formation using Formless Sword Escape.
• They harvested several unfamiliar spirit herbs, and Lin Yun identified most as healing medicines and one jade-colored lingzhi as cultivation-enhancing.
• Lin Yun noticed a withered bamboo stump, tested it with sword qi, and Nangong Wan recognized it as Golden Thunder Bamboo.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan explored the Northern Mountain Stone Abode after finding a nearly dead stalk of Golden Thunder Bamboo in its herb garden. They discovered several empty chambers and an intact but foul-smelling pill furnace, leaving them to wonder why the ancient cultivator had abandoned the abode and the bamboo.

• Lin Yun dug up the Golden Thunder Bamboo with its roots and stored it in his Profound Aperture to revive later.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan passed through the Five-Element Restriction at the cave entrance and entered the underground tunnel.
• Lin Yun broke the restriction on the first chamber, where they found only old beast-rearing equipment, then they found a second empty room.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan sensed a spirit vein underground and continued deeper, reaching a larger chamber with a Pill Furnace.
• Lin Yun opened the furnace, released a rancid odor, and quickly shut it while Nangong Wan urged him to keep the Ancient Treasure.
• Lin Yun's cleansing spell caused the room's remaining wooden racks to collapse.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan found ancient pill formulas and medicine records, then discovered murals revealing that the Void Sky Hall was built with help from Spirit Realm cultivators during an ancient Demon Realm invasion. After two empty buildings, they found something valuable in the third, but the chapter ended before revealing what it was.

• Lin Yun found ancient pill formulas and illustrated spirit-medicine records, and told Nangong Wan he might refine the pills after studying them.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan discovered a Spirit Eye Spring and entered the cave abode’s main chamber.
• Lin Yun explained that the murals depicted an ancient invasion by actual Demon Realm soldiers, not demonic cultivators.
• Nangong Wan recognized the Void Sky Hall in a mural showing Spirit Realm cultivators helping build it.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan searched the buildings, found the first two empty, and discovered something valuable in the third.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan found formation knowledge that could help them build an Ancient Teleportation Formation, then explored their discoveries in the cave abode. Nangong Wan entered seclusion to break through, while Lin Yun achieved the third turn himself and refined the spirit eye spring into a treasure; two months later, Nangong Wan emerged successful.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan retrieved jade slips from a barrier-protected desk and found that most contained insights into Ancient Teleportation Formations.
• Lin Yun decided to save the jade slips for Ru Yin, and he and Nangong Wan found the fourth and fifth rooms empty.
• Nangong Wan realized she was close to the third turn and went into seclusion to break through.
• Lin Yun broke through to the third turn and gained a leak-free body while admiring the lotuses.
• Lin Yun lifted the spirit eye spring and lotuses from the courtyard pool and spent two months refining them into a water bonsai treasure.
• Nangong Wan emerged from seclusion with her breakthrough completed.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan prepared to meet Elder Liu and the others after discovering the Fengle Merchant Alliance had assembled an ambush to capture Lin Yun and steal his Spell Pellet-making method. They secretly left the ruins and traveled to the meeting place, while their enemies advanced, confident in their numbers and weapons.

• Lin Yun teased Nangong Wan about dual cultivating before reminding her they needed to prepare for their meeting with Elder Liu.
• Elder Liu told the cultivator surnamed Huang and Madam Bi that they intended to capture Lin Yun and obtain his Spell Pellet-making method.
• Elder Liu gave Huang and Madam Bi level-six Spell Pellets and revealed the alliance's formation, forces, and the Soul-Shaking Bell prepared for the ambush.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan watched the Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators outside the ruins, and Nangong Wan noted that Lin Yun's Three Flames Formation would not reach their ambush site.
• Lin Yun explained that the Three Flames Formation was reserved for a possible Nascent Soul cultivator, then used his spatial technique to take Nangong Wan thousands of li toward the meeting place.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan waited on a barren island for Elder Liu and the Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators, suspecting they had chosen the rendezvous to limit their recovery. After Elder Liu and Chen arrived and replenished their magic power, Lin Yun chose to wait for Madam Bi and Huang before acting against the group.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan landed on the barren island and discussed whether the Fengle Merchant Alliance had chosen it to hinder their recovery.
• Elder Liu and Chen arrived, surprised to find Lin Yun and Nangong Wan looking refreshed, and Elder Liu asked them to stand guard while he recovered his magic power.
• Chen offered Nangong Wan Spirit-Restoring Pills, but she refused and privately asked Lin Yun whether they should eliminate the two men.
• Lin Yun decided to wait until the full group gathered so they could deal with everyone at once, despite Nangong Wan warning him not to underestimate the other cultivators.
• After Elder Liu recovered, Lin Yun asked when Madam Bi and Huang would arrive, and Elder Liu said they should come soon.
• A pale blue streak and a blue-gold streak flew side by side toward the island.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan arrived with the Fengle Merchant Alliance at the island holding the Ancient Cultivator Ruins, while secretly learning the alliance planned to ambush them. When Elder Liu demanded Lin Yun’s Spell Pellet method and Chen threatened him, Lin Yun refused and attacked Chen.

• Madam Bi and Huang arrived exhausted, rested overnight, and joined Elder Liu, Lin Yun, and Nangong Wan on the flight to the ruins.
• Elder Liu described the ruins as a newly discovered Nascent Soul cultivator’s cave abode, while Lin Yun and Nangong Wan recognized his lies and overheard the alliance members plotting against them.
• After three days, the group reached the island, where Elder Liu alerted the cultivators stationed there and cultivator Bai escorted them to the rocky mountain concealing the ruins.
• Elder Liu asked Lin Yun to use his Spell Pellet method to break the restrictions, but Lin Yun refused.
• Chen threatened Lin Yun and demanded the method, so Lin Yun warned him of imminent calamity and pointed at him, commanding, “Slash!”

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan escaped the Fengle Merchant Alliance's Wu Earth Profound Light Formation after the alliance ambushed them. When the formation was deactivated, Lin Yun appeared with a strange lotus and cast a formation of his own against the gathered cultivators.

• Lin Yun's invisible sword nearly killed Cultivator Chen, but the Soul-Shaking Bell blocked the strike and exposed the alliance's ambush.
• Elder Liu ordered the alliance's cultivators to activate the Wu Earth Profound Light Formation, trapping Lin Yun and Nangong Wan in darkness.
• Lin Yun explained how to break the formation, then used Formless Sword Escape to take Nangong Wan outside without the ambushers noticing.
• Perfected Xu arrived and explained the formation's dangers, while Elder Liu decided Lin Yun had to survive and asked Xu to deactivate it.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan appeared unharmed, and Lin Yun threw a pot containing a strange lotus toward the assembled cultivators to unleash his own formation.

Lin Yun used his half-finished Lotus Pond magic treasure to trap the Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators in an illusion, then transported two of them outside the array to deal with them. He left with Nangong Wan facing the first two captives while the rest remained trapped.

• The Lotus Pond swallowed the Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators into an illusory realm, where their attacks and attempts to escape failed.
• Elder Liu tried to negotiate with Lin Yun while the trapped Foundation Establishment cultivators grew increasingly angry and fought among themselves.
• Lin Yun explained to Nangong Wan that the half-finished Lotus Pond could trap the alliance cultivators but could not refine them or safely admit outside attacks.
• Lin Yun led Nangong Wan away from the array and used “A Thousand Li Within the Courtyard, a Shrunken Image Within the Pouch” to transport an elderly woman and a gray-haired old man out of it.
• Lin Yun told Nangong Wan they would deal with the old cultivators first, one each.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan turned the tables on the Fengle Merchant Alliance ambush and fought Elder Liu and Madam Bi. Lin Yun killed Elder Liu and stopped Madam Bi from detonating her treasures, while Nangong Wan pressed her attack with an Ancient Treasure.

• Madam Bi and Elder Liu were pulled out of the lotus formation and confronted Lin Yun and Nangong Wan, who agreed to deal with the older enemies first.
• Elder Liu attacked Lin Yun with fiery snakes, a cauldron, and a Spell Pellet, but Lin Yun blocked his attacks and destroyed the snakes.
• Elder Liu's cauldron stopped Lin Yun's first sword strike, but the Clearvoid Invisible Sword passed through its flames and beheaded him.
• Madam Bi ordered her Magic Treasures and top-grade magical artifacts to self-detonate, but Lin Yun's Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light suppressed them.
• Nangong Wan attacked Madam Bi with sword qi and an emerald bracelet that transformed into a sword shadow, which Madam Bi recognized as an Ancient Treasure.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan killed the remaining Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators, then spared Perfected Xu and his disciple after altering their memories. They left the pair far away with a false account blaming the island’s deaths on Wang Lin and Li Muwan.

• Nangong Wan defeated Madam Bi and collected her water-blue ruler.
• Lin Yun fought Huang in a sword duel and killed him with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword after Huang’s Jade-Feather Sword failed.
• Nangong Wan burned middle-aged Bai to ashes, leaving Chen as the only surviving Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivator from their group.
• Perfected Xu begged Lin Yun and Nangong Wan to spare him and his disciple, offering his formation skills in exchange.
• Lin Yun used the Soul-Confounding Spirit-Seizing Art to make Perfected Xu and his disciple believe Wang Lin and Li Muwan had killed the cultivators.
• Lin Yun sent Perfected Xu and his disciple a thousand miles away.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan killed the remaining Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators on the island, including the Chen Surname Cultivator, and prepared to return home despite anticipating retaliation from his Nascent Soul elder. Meanwhile, the Alliance’s Soul Lamps revealed the deaths of its Core Formation cultivators, prompting Steward Wang to send a warning.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan discussed their conflict with the Fengle Merchant Alliance before Lin Yun removed the Lotus Pond formation and confronted the Chen Surname Cultivator.
• The Chen Surname Cultivator tried to flee with a Spell Pellet, but Lin Yun seized it and Nangong Wan countered his Stillnight Banner with the Vermilion Bird Ring.
• Lin Yun took the Soul-Shaking Bell and killed the Chen Surname Cultivator with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, and Nangong Wan suggested they return to their cave abode.
• At the Fengle Merchant Alliance headquarters, the Soul Lamps of Liu Kang and Madam Bi went out, and more lamps went dark as Steward Wang arrived.
• Steward Wang saw that six Soul Lamps had gone out and sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to report the deaths.

Elder Ye investigated the deaths of thirteen Fengle Merchant Alliance Core Formation cultivators and found evidence of powerful fire magic, but no clear culprit. Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to Tianxing City, while Elder Ye left the ruins for Chen Minghui to handle.

• Steward Wang watched thirteen Core Formation cultivators’ soul lamps go out before Elder Ye arrived and identified the Ancient Cultivator Ruins as the likely source of the disaster.
• Elder Ye ordered Steward Wang to notify Elder Chen about his descendant’s death and investigate Lin Yun’s whereabouts.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan leisurely returned to Tianxing City, using a spatial technique for part of the journey before flying the rest of the way.
• Elder Ye examined the ruins’ intact restrictions and the scorched forest where Lin Yun and Nangong Wan had burned the bodies, but a trace of fire aura destroyed the evidence he collected.
• Elder Ye decided not to enter the ruins and left the matter to Chen Minghui, preserving his remaining lifespan for the Void Sky Hall.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to their cave residence, where Xin Ruoyin studied the formation insights they had brought back and uncovered a key to understanding spatial coordinates. The chapter left Xin Ruoyin in seclusion to advance her research on a Teleportation Array to the Heavenly South, while Lin Yun and Nangong Wan turned their attention to each other.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to their cave residence on the forty-first level of Sacred Mountain in Tianxing City, where Xin Ruoyin welcomed them.
• Nangong Wan gave Xin Ruoyin jade slips containing formation insights from the ancient cultivator's cave residence.
• Lin Yun planted the nearly withered golden thunder bamboo in the Herb Garden, revived it with Three Lights Divine Water, and concealed it behind a defensive formation.
• Xin Ruoyin studied the teleportation-array material and drew spatial-coordinate runes, and Lin Yun showed her how to make them three-dimensional.
• Xin Ruoyin gained an insight and went into seclusion to study the spatial coordinates, while Lin Yun and Nangong Wan looked forward to her building a Teleportation Array back to the Heavenly South.
• Lin Yun embraced Nangong Wan after she agreed to his suggestive invitation.

After benefiting from dual cultivation, Lin Yun installed the Lotus Pond Formation in his cave abode and resumed studying ancient pill recipes. Elder Chen learned that Lin Yun and Nangong Wan had returned alive from the island where Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators died, and went to confront him.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan completed dual cultivation, strengthening their cultivation and spiritual senses before Nangong Wan entered seclusion to study Southern Bright Lihuo Fire.
• Lin Yun installed the Lotus Pond Formation in his courtyard, increasing the spiritual energy in his cave abode, then went to study ancient pill recipes.
• Elder Chen arrived at the Fengle Auction House and questioned Steward Wang about the deaths of Liu Kang, Chen Su, and the other cultivators on the island.
• Elder Chen learned that Lin Yun and Nangong Wan had returned alive, then flew to Lin Yun's cave abode and requested an audience.
• Lin Yun came out to receive Elder Chen, while Nangong Wan recognized the visitor as possibly the Chen Surname Cultivator's Nascent Soul granduncle.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan concealed their involvement in the deaths at the ruins when Elder Chen questioned them, and Elder Chen left without proof. He then ordered the Fengle Merchant Alliance to reveal Lin Yun as the creator of Spell Pellets, intending to draw trouble toward him.

• Lin Yun concealed Elder Chen’s spiritual probing and planted a hidden inner demon in him while welcoming him into the cave abode.
• Lin Yun told Elder Chen that he and Nangong Wan had never gone ashore and blamed Liu Kang for demanding the Spell Pellet technique.
• Elder Chen questioned Lin Yun and Nangong Wan but found no evidence, then asked whether they knew Wang Lin and Li Muwan before flying away.
• Lin Yun explained to Nangong Wan that Elder Chen feared their strength and would likely limit himself to testing them.
• Elder Chen ordered Steward Wang to spread the news that Lin Yun had created Spell Pellets, hoping to shift the alliance’s troubles onto him.

Lin Yun turned the Fengle Merchant Alliance’s disclosure of his Spell Pellet craft into a new source of Demon Cores, while the inner demon he planted in Elder Chen was triggered during an expedition to the Ancient Cultivator Ruins. Elder Chen escaped the ruins badly injured, and Lin Yun learned of the incident through the inner demon.

• Xin Ruoyin visited Lin Yun and Nangong Wan, then left after seeing they were safe and continuing her work on the Ancient Teleportation Formation’s Coordinate Runes.
• Lin Yun sensed that Elder Chen had made a move and told Nangong Wan that the Fengle Merchant Alliance was unlikely to attack them openly.
• After the Fengle Merchant Alliance exposed Lin Yun as a Spell Pellet creator, he accepted requests for pills in exchange for customers’ Demon Cores and Spirit Stones, then opened a shop with a limit of thirty cores per month.
• Lin Yun received a surge of Demon Cores and used them to stockpile pills and experiment with Elder Spirit Pills.
• Elder Chen led Core Formation cultivators to the Ancient Cultivator Ruins and forced Perfected Xu to break the restrictions around the rocky hill.
• When Elder Chen broke the restrictions, golden needles killed several Core Formation cultivators, and golden-red flames struck him as an inner demon disrupted his thoughts; he fled while the flames engulfed the island.

Lin Yun prospered in the Chaotic Star Sea while he and his companions continued cultivating. After more than twenty years in seclusion, Han Li emerged and was recruited by the Sixfold Palace to help hunt a rare level-six Demon Core for Spell Pellets.

• Lin Yun told Nangong Wan that the Three Flames Formation had severely injured Elder Chen, and the Fengle Merchant Alliance stopped pursuing them.
• Lin Yun’s Spell Pellet business flourished as he advanced toward the fourth revolution of Core Formation, while Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin cultivated and studied formations.
• Han Li emerged from more than twenty years of secluded cultivation and visited the Jade Ring Residence with Qu Hun.
• The curly-bearded shopkeeper offered Han Li Snow Spirit Water, Heavenly Fire Liquid, and a Dust Settling Pill in exchange for help.
• The shopkeeper explained that the Sixfold Palace wanted Han Li to join other cultivators in hunting a rare level-six Demon Core used to refine Spell Pellets.

Han Li learned about Spell Pellets and the soaring value of demon cores, then suspected that Senior Brother Lin had invented them. Meanwhile, Lin Yun finally hooked a Level Seven Mountain-Carrying Whale, and the chapter left him asking Nangong Wan to help subdue it.

• Han Li delayed his answer to the Sixfold Palace’s hunting proposal while he checked the claims about Dust Settling Pills and Spell Pellets.
• Han Li learned that demon cores were used to refine Spell Pellets and that their prices had doubled, making the Sixfold Palace’s promised Level Six Demon Core especially valuable.
• Han Li bought pill formulas and suspected that Senior Brother Lin had invented Spell Pellets after visiting Kuixing City.
• Lin Yun fished aboard the Spirit Boat while Nangong Wan teased him for catching nothing over three days.
• Lin Yun hooked a Level Seven Mountain-Carrying Whale and called Nangong Wan over to help as it erupted from the sea.