Recaps

Wang Jixuan began his third ascension tribulation, expecting to pass easily but finding the lightning too weak to temper him. As he launched himself toward the final, vastly stronger strike, Peony’s view of the event was abruptly obscured by a pale gray halo.

• Wang Jixuan stored the origin Stone Slab Walls from First Base and Second Base, then sat in midair and lifted his suppression of the Dao Realm to summon the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Daoist Taiye and the other cultivators aboard the departing Treasure Ships discussed the Immortal Realm, its powers, and the approaching Immeasurable Calamity while watching Wang Jixuan from afar.
• Peony monitored Wang Jixuan’s tribulation and considered the Heavenly Dao’s possible interference as the Tribulation Cloud gathered.
• Wang Jixuan endured the first seven lightning bolts with little harm and decided the tribulation was too weak to transform his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Jixuan exposed his Primordial Spirit to the eighth bolt, survived the strike, and prepared to meet the ninth tribulation with his Moonlight Sword and Time Dao.
• Wang Jixuan shot toward the ninth tribulation, but a pale gray halo suddenly surrounded Peony and changed the image on her screen.

Peony heard Senior Bones warn that the divided Heavenly Dao was preparing a counterattack and that Wang Jixuan’s journey to the Immortal Realm could affect the stability of the present world. Wang Jixuan survived his ninth heavenly tribulation, but as the Immortal Gate appeared, Immortal Zhilan arrived with more than a hundred figures.

• Senior Bones told Peony that the Heavenly Dao had three strands of consciousness and that its Main Body might retaliate against Wang Jixuan’s attempt to reach the Immortal Realm.
• Peony insisted that Senior Bones must not stop her master from becoming an immortal, and Senior Bones agreed to help Wang Jixuan while warning her to remain hidden.
• Wang Jixuan plunged into the Lightning Dragon and endured the ninth heavenly tribulation as Peony, Xiao Na, Gao Huating, Zheng Shiduo, Mao Mo, and Red Snake watched.
• Wang Jixuan passed the tribulation, recovered from his injuries, and saw a Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud and the Immortal Gate appear.
• Three dark clouds formed above Wang Jixuan, and a fourth cloud released more than a hundred figures led by Immortal Zhilan.

Wang Jixuan fought Immortal Zhilan while trying to reach the Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud and its immortal gate. He used Immortal Zhilan as a shield against a second strike of Heavenly Punishment, and the chapter ended with Daoist Taiye catching him as the rogue immortals attacked her.

• Wang Jixuan fled Immortal Zhilan toward the immortal gate as Peony sealed the bases and sent mechs to delay the Dark Cultists.
• Immortal Zhilan broke through Wang Jixuan’s formations and attacked him, forcing him to merge with the Dragon Python Strange Soul and taint his Immortal Spirit Body with demonic energy.
• The Dark Cult’s reinforcements approached while the mechs fought them, and the Righteous Path cultivators split between hiding in the void and joining the fight to help Wang Jixuan reach the immortal gate.
• Wang Jixuan used the Great Dao of Time to evade Immortal Zhilan, wounded her, and seized her as he rushed beneath the Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud.
• Heavenly Punishment struck Wang Jixuan and Immortal Zhilan together, and Daoist Taiye caught Wang Jixuan while the four rogue immortals attacked the paralyzed Immortal Zhilan.

Wang Jixuan unleashed First Base’s Mechanical Legion and fought through the Dark Cult to reach the immortal gate, where the Heavenly Dao’s third punishment nearly killed him. With Taiye and other cultivators sacrificing themselves to help him break through, Wang Jixuan entered the Immortal Realm, where Senior Bones took him away.

• Wang Jixuan stalled the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net forces while Peony prepared to deploy First Base’s Mechs.
• Wang Jixuan summoned First Base and its Mechanical Legion, then fought the True Immortals as the Mechs overwhelmed the immortal soldiers.
• Wang Jixuan killed the female True Immortal, while the male True Immortal fled, and he opened the Stone Slab Wall to let cultivators escape the battle.
• Wang Jixuan charged toward the immortal gate, but the third Heavenly Punishment struck him as Peony and Senior Bones tried to protect him.
• Taiye and other cultivators poured their power into Wang Jixuan and sacrificed themselves, helping him break the Heavenly Dao’s restraint and reach the gate.
• Wang Jixuan entered the Immortal Realm, and Senior Bones grabbed him and vanished.

Wang Jixuan awakened in the Immortal Realm after surviving the ascension ritual and learned that Bai Gu had brought him and more than two hundred thousand cultivators to an abandoned sect. With only three months before Bai Gu had to send him back to the present era, Wang Jixuan reunited with Amina and prepared to help settle the cultivators.

• Wang Jixuan woke in the bamboo house, sensed his Immortal Bone, and reviewed how Bai Gu had brought him through the Immortal Gate and settled him in the Immortal Realm.
• Bai Gu explained that Wang Jixuan could remain at this time node for only three months, gave him cultivation techniques and Immortal Realm methods, and asked him to help avenge the Moon God Palace.
• Wang Jixuan contacted Peony and learned that the two hundred thousand cultivators were being settled in the Immortal Realm, while Bai Gu warned that their past actions had helped create the history they already knew.
• Amina rushed to embrace Wang Jixuan after he awakened, and Zheng Shiduo secretly photographed them while Peony called Wang Jixuan to a meeting.
• Wang Jixuan paid respects to his Martial Uncle's Wooden Token, then headed with the group toward the teleportation stone slab.

Wang Jixuan arranged a hidden refuge for the cultivators who escaped the Dark Cult’s massacre, then parted from Murong Zhengyi after giving him a jade talisman and urging him to rely on the group. Thousands of years later, the refuge had grown into a powerful community, while Han Xiao was summoned to the Thousand Worlds Alliance over a report mentioning Peony.

• Wang Jixuan told the gathered cultivators he could stay for only three months and promised to ask a senior to hide them in a secluded refuge.
• Peony revealed that the Dark Cult had slaughtered cultivators and mortals in their former realm, prompting Murong Zhengyi and the others to vow to survive and seek strength.
• Wang Jixuan identified himself as the long-dead Wang Jixuan of Wangxian Valley, warned that no one could leave the group, and explained that he needed to hide separately because of his karmic burden.
• Wang Jixuan gave Murong Zhengyi a jade talisman containing cultivation methods and Dao insights, then departed with Amina as Murong Zhengyi thanked him.
• Two months later, Murong Zhengyi and two hundred thousand cultivators settled in a grand formation that barred entry and exit for one hundred thousand years; over thousands of years, their community grew into a large force.
• Han Xiao was summoned to the Thousand Worlds Alliance after its Alliance Leader examined his mission report and repeatedly mentioned Peony; Han Xiao noticed the refuge’s slogan, “You are not fighting alone. You are fighting as a group.”

Han Xiao learned that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had been founded by Wang Zheng and was instructed to protect him when he returned from time travel. Sixteen thousand years before the present, Wang Jixuan agreed to be buried in a temporal gap while Peony developed the Mechanical Civilization at the edge of the universe.

• Han Xiao discovered that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had several Grand Beginning Golden Immortals and that its elders had been waiting six hundred thousand years for Wang Jixuan to return.
• The Old Alliance Leader told Han Xiao that Wang Zheng had saved the Alliance from the Dark Cult and ordered him to secretly protect Wang Zheng and report any news of him.
• Wang Jixuan met Bai Gu aboard the Cloud Boat and considered being buried to avoid the backlash caused by cultivating in the past.
• Bai Gu explained that Peony would stay with Wang Jixuan while her clones developed a Second Base and fleets at the edge of the universe.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to the plan and went to speak with Peony before Bai Gu began arranging his burial.

Wang Jixuan, Gao Huating, and Red Snake were buried in different places along the River of Time so they could cultivate for millennia, while their companions traveled to the present to await them. Gao Huating emerged in the future as an Eighth-Rank True Immortal, then chose to keep cultivating while she waited for the others.

• Wang Jixuan and Peony were placed inside an ancient Giant Tree, where Senior Bai Gu helped Wang Jixuan enter a long cultivation sleep and Peony secretly stayed awake to monitor her bases.
• Senior Bai Gu buried Red Snake in an abandoned spirit mine near an Ancient Battlefield, then placed Gao Huating in a Crystal Coffin near the Sea Eye of the East Endless Sea.
• Gao Huating repeatedly broke through while close to the Water Spirit Great Dao, and after several centuries she passed the Heavenly Tribulation of Becoming Immortal.
• Senior Bai Gu took Amina, Mao Mo, and Zheng Shiduo to the present, where Peony's Clone Number Four introduced herself as King Peony's Clone Number Four.
• Gao Huating awoke after the present era had passed with the cultivation and Dao Realm of an Eighth-Rank True Immortal, then decided to keep cultivating until Chichi arrived.

After years of cultivating in the Sea Eye, Gao Huating emerged into the East Sea and learned about the Immortal Realm from a Great Sea Turtle. When two Dark Cult attackers ambushed her, she prepared to fight them with the treasures her teacher had given her.

• Gao Huating cultivated for years in the Crystal Coffin, advanced twice, and became a True Immortal before two Origin Immortal beasts fought near the Sea Eye and sent her coffin to the surface.
• Gao Huating killed the dragonfish with a divine ability, then fled with the unconscious Great Sea Turtle and returned the Crystal Coffin to its hiding place with an alarm set.
• Gao Huating questioned the awakened Turtle Immortal and learned about the East Sea, the Eight Great Immortal Palaces, and nearby powers.
• Two masked Dark Cult members entered Gao Huating's barrier and attacked her, but her lotus treasures knocked them back and her song slowed their movements.

Gao Huating defeated two Dark Cult Immortals and interrogated the survivor, learning that the Dark Cult was searching for the Fusang Tree and believed it could lead them to Wang Zheng. Realizing her teacher might be in danger, she considered how to warn her allies and found a stash of small speakers.

• Gao Huating defeated the two Dark Cult Immortals, destroyed one primordial spirit, and captured the other before fleeing with Gui He to an underwater cave.
• Gao Huating bound Gui He with a primordial-spirit imprint, and Gui He explained what she knew about the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net.
• Gao Huating tortured the captured True Immortal until he revealed that the Dark Cult had sent hundreds of Heavenly Immortals to search for the Fusang Tree and that its mystic realm might appear within a few years.
• Gui He explained the Fusang Tree's history and drew it for Gao Huating, who recognized it as the tree at her teacher's burial site.
• The True Immortal revealed that the Dark Cult was searching for Wang Zheng and believed finding the Fusang Tree would lead to him; Gao Huating killed him and burned his body.
• Worried that her teacher was in danger, Gao Huating searched for a way to alert her allies and found several boxes of small speakers.

Gao Huating spread recordings of her singing through the Market Towns in hopes of alerting her teammates, then traveled to the Land of Sunrise after hearing nothing from them. A Blade Beast poster led her into a trap, where she came face-to-face with Black Obsidian.

• Gao Huating sent Gui He to distribute speakers playing her recorded song, hoping her teammates would recognize the signal and find her.
• After waiting three months without hearing from her teammates, Gao Huating disguised herself and secretly traveled east with Gui He.
• In the Land of Sunrise, Gao Huating heard rumors about Golden Immortals, the Dark Cult, and the coming Immeasurable Calamity while gathering information in a Market Town.
• Gao Huating spotted a wanted poster depicting a Basic Blade Beast and followed its Pinyin message to a courtyard, using Gui He as a decoy.
• Two Heavenly Immortals trapped Gao Huating in the courtyard, where she recognized Black Obsidian as the person connected to the Blade Beast disaster.

Gao Huating met Black Obsidian, who claimed to be working against the Heavenly Dao and gave her a notebook of Wang Jixuan’s writings to prove his intentions. As she read, the entries revealed Wang Jixuan had awakened thousands of years too early and was enduring a long period of isolation while cultivating.

• Black Obsidian explained that his attempts to create self-aware mechs led to cognitive collapse, and he told Gao Huating that her teacher was hiding in a secret realm while the Moon God Palace Master fought three Grand Beginning Golden Immortals.
• Gao Huating rejected Black Obsidian’s offer to involve her in his plans and threatened to kill herself rather than endanger her team.
• Black Obsidian gave Gao Huating a notebook bearing Wang Jixuan’s handwriting and urged her to read it before deciding whether to trust him.
• Gao Huating read Wang Jixuan’s entries describing his premature awakening after 8,920 years of slumber, his separation from Peony and Senior Bai Gu, and his effort to endure thousands of years in seclusion.

Gao Huating read Wang Jixuan’s notebook and learned how his long confinement shaped his cultivation and reflections on his past. Black Obsidian explained that Wang Jixuan had trapped him and returned the notebook as leverage against the Heavenly Dao, while Gao Huating considered whether to carry the Heavenly Dao’s terms to Wang Jixuan.

• Gao Huating read Wang Jixuan’s account of developing the Sky Pillar Art and studying the Great Daos while confined in the coffin.
• Gao Huating reviewed Wang Jixuan’s cultivation progress and his admission that his Second Life had caused harm, including contributing to the Blade Beast disaster.
• Wang Jixuan wrote that he expected conflict with the Heavenly Dao but hoped to avoid drawing the immortal realm into a large-scale war.
• Black Obsidian said the Heavenly Dao had sent him to search for Wang Jixuan, who trapped him, took his belongings, and left the notebook on him.
• Black Obsidian told Gao Huating that Wang Jixuan had spared him to deliver a warning and give Gao Huating and the others a chance to survive, then asked whether she believed him.

Gao Huating followed Black Obsidian’s directions into the Small World of the Fusang Tree and reunited with Peony and Wang Jixuan. She delivered Black Obsidian’s letter and learned that Wang Jixuan was using him to negotiate with the Dark Cult’s Heavenly Dao.

• Gao Huating escaped the Cloud Boat, then reconsidered and returned to find the entrance to the Small World.
• Gao Huating entered the hidden realm and passed through the sealed gateway beneath the dried-up pool.
• Peony’s golden needles stopped Gao Huating, and Peony welcomed her after recognizing her.
• Gao Huating reunited with Wang Jixuan and heard from Peony how he had endured thousands of years trapped by Senior Bai Gu’s barrier.
• Gao Huating gave Wang Jixuan Black Obsidian’s letter, and Wang Jixuan explained that he was using Black Obsidian to negotiate with the Dark Cult’s Heavenly Dao.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Little Hua Ting at the Second Base and explained that Brahma, a consciousness born from the Heavenly Dao, was manipulating the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net. They planned to exploit a gathering of enemies in the Land of Sunrise, while Little Hua Ting’s singing revealed a power that could help their preparations.

• Little Hua Ting reunited with Wang Jixuan and Peony at the Second Base, where Wang Jixuan rejected Black Obsidian’s offer to cooperate with the Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Jixuan explained that Brahma had parasitized the Heavenly Dao, created Heavenly Net and the Dark Cult, and was opposed by a secondary consciousness that controlled Black Obsidian.
• Wang Jixuan and Peony decided to lure enemies gathered in the Land of Sunrise into fighting each other, using the promise of an Exotic Treasure and their prepared weapons.
• Peony planned to show Little Hua Ting the Second Base and its facilities, while Wang Jixuan promised to guide her cultivation after she rested.
• Little Hua Ting practiced singing, and her voice caused a withered branch of the Withered Fusang Tree to sprout and grow lush again.

Wang Jixuan and Peony used Little Hua Ting’s song to revive the Fusang Divine Wood and prepared the secret realm as a trap for their enemies. After the tree’s canopy flourished, Wang Jixuan took Little Hua Ting to its roots to search for the Spirit of the Divine Wood, where her music began to send out strange ripples.

• Little Hua Ting’s singing awakened vitality in the Fusang Divine Wood, and Wang Jixuan realized the tree might be roused enough to reveal its spirit.
• Wang Jixuan told Little Hua Ting to keep singing around the tree, while Peony suggested blaming the Dark Cult if the Feather God Palace investigated.
• Over the following weeks, Little Hua Ting revived much of the tree, while Peony and her Mechs restored ancient formations to lure and trap intruders.
• Wang Jixuan reflected on his cultivation and the many Golden Immortals in the Immortal Realm, then began refining his immortal treasures in preparation for battle.
• After the divine tree’s canopy flourished, Wang Jixuan took Little Hua Ting to its roots and asked her to sing; she began playing her guitar, sending strange ripples through the underground lake.

Wang Jixuan calmed himself, discovered a wary phantom drawn out by Gao Huating’s singing, and prepared to strengthen Second Base while training and equipping her. As Wang Jixuan and his companions inspected the secret realm ahead of a possible battle, Black Obsidian watched Dark Cult experts argue and openly insulted them.

• Gao Huating’s singing soothed Wang Jixuan, who resolved to keep challenging Brahma despite his weak position in the Immortal Realm.
• Wang Jixuan spotted a thought-form phantom near the pool, but it vanished before he could approach; Peony identified it as a magnetic field reaction, and Wang Jixuan suspected it was the Spirit of the Divine Wood.
• Wang Jixuan took Gao Huating to Second Base, assessed her cultivation, and gave her supplies, an immortal treasure sword, and a dress.
• Peony explained that the Dark Cult might be negotiating with the Feather God Palace or awaiting orders from the Heavenly Dao, while Gao Huating suggested they might be waiting for a reply to her letter.
• Wang Jixuan decided not to reply and planned to destroy the Dark Cult’s living strength before withdrawing to guerrilla warfare.
• Black Obsidian watched Dark Cult experts argue in a grand hall, then called them stupid donkeys.

Black Obsidian demonstrated a nuclear bomb to the Dark Cult Immortals and warned them that Wang Jixuan had reached Heavenly Immortal-level combat power, but they rejected his advice. Wang Jixuan prepared to draw other forces into the conflict and tried to stop the Spirit of the Divine Wood from disappearing.

• Black Obsidian detonated an imitation nuclear bomb inside a barrier, destroying the great hall and showing the Dark Cult Immortals its destructive power.
• Black Obsidian warned the Dark Cult Immortals that Wang Jixuan had advanced from a Mahayana Cultivator to Heavenly Immortal-level combat power, but they insulted him and continued arguing over their plans and Contribution Points.
• Wang Jixuan learned of the explosion and suspected Black Obsidian was demonstrating nuclear weapons to deter the Dark Cult Immortals.
• Wang Jixuan returned with Little Hua Ting to the Fusang Divine Wood, where he planned to attract the Feather God Palace and other Immortal Palaces into the conflict.
• Little Hua Ting's song drew out the Spirit of the Divine Wood, and Wang Jixuan shouted, "Sorry, we came too late!" as it turned to leave.

Wang Jixuan persuaded the newly formed spirit of the Fusang Divine Wood to leave its grove and learn about his battle plans, while Gao Huating comforted it and Peony showed a simulation of the coming destruction. The spirit revealed that a restriction inside its trunk could break the Small World's formation, as the Dark Cult's Golden Immortals prepared to hire two elders from the Feather God Palace.

• Wang Jixuan apologized to the Fusang Divine Wood and explained that he might have to burn the Small World to fight his enemies, prompting the spirit to recount how others had repeatedly harmed and exploited it.
• Wang Jixuan coaxed the spirit to his hall, where Peony projected a simulation showing the Small World bombarded and the Divine Wood badly burned; Gao Huating comforted it by promising protective films and giving it the name Xiao Sang.
• Wang Jixuan and Peony discussed luring rival factions against the Dark Cult, using ten Spirit Veins to raise the Small World's spiritual energy, and supplementing their Antimatter Bombs with nuclear weapons.
• The Fusang Divine Wood told Gao Huating that a restriction buried in its trunk could break the Small World's formation, but it could now control its spiritual power and resist the restriction.
• The Dark Cult's Golden Immortals agreed to invite two elders from the Feather God Palace and hire them at a high price.

Little Hua Ting’s friendship with the Spirit of the Divine Wood helped the spirit take human form as Xiao Sang, while Wang Jixuan prepared defenses against the approaching Feather God Palace. Just as the clan chief’s seal began opening the way into the Small World, Xiao Sang stopped the Divine Wood from responding, leaving the gathered experts stunned.

• Wang Jixuan had Peony deploy ship-grade Shield Generators around the Fusang Divine Wood while Little Hua Ting explained their Mechanical Civilization and their fight against the Heavenly Dao’s puppets to the tree spirit.
• Little Hua Ting held the Spirit of the Divine Wood’s hand, awakening memories of the Fusang Divine Wood’s past and helping the spirit take human form as Xiao Sang.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the Azure Wood Great Dao had transferred to Xiao Sang, then received word that Feather God Palace experts were approaching and finished preparing his formations.
• The Feather God Palace elder agreed to help the Dark Cult enter the Tribal Land in exchange for treasures, then activated the clan chief’s seal in the grand hall.
• The Fusang Divine Wood began trembling as the seal opened a path, but Xiao Sang tapped its trunk and silenced it before the passage could open.

Wang Jixuan watched the Feather God Palace’s attempts to open the ancient Tribal Land fail, while Xiao Sang grew angry at the seals buried in the Divine Wood. Her sudden display of power exposed the Fusang Divine Wood to the Immortal Realm and brought a rush of powerful newcomers toward the secret realm.

• The Feather God Palace elder failed to activate the secret realm’s seal, and Black Obsidian suspected the elder would lose control of the situation.
• Wang Jixuan learned Peony could not spy through the Golden Immortals’ barrier and considered persuading Xiao Sang to reveal strange phenomena or leave with the Divine Wood.
• The Feather God Palace elder tried the seal a third time, but it cracked, so he fled to have it repaired.
• Xiao Sang’s image appeared above the sea and warned everyone not to bother her, revealing the Fusang Divine Wood to immortals across the region.
• Immortals rushed toward the Divine Wood, and Wang Jixuan, Little Hua Ting, and Peony watched the commotion on a screen until someone asked to enter their karaoke room.

Wang Jixuan withdrew from the Small World after Xiao Sang refused to leave with him, as powerful factions gathered to seize the Fusang Divine Wood’s spirit. He escaped unnoticed and traveled toward the Land of Sunrise disguised as a Sixth-Rank Heavenly Immortal, where he detected an old acquaintance from the Eight Immortals of the Firmament.

• Peony played conversations revealing that Feather God Palace and rival factions wanted to seize Xiao Sang and the Fusang Divine Wood, while Sword God Palace and other powers gathered nearby.
• Wang Jixuan offered to take Xiao Sang and the Divine Wood away, but Xiao Sang said she trusted only her friends and refused to go with him.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to prepare the Second Base for departure, then left the Small World through Senior Bai Gu’s hidden route while Little Hua Ting and Xiao Sang stayed behind.
• Wang Jixuan disguised himself as a Sixth-Rank Heavenly Immortal and monitored the Small World as he sailed toward the Land of Sunrise.
• Peony revealed that she had secretly collected animal cells to create Mutated Life Forms, then detected a Celestial Immortal from the Eight Immortals of the Firmament nearby.
• Wang Jixuan steered his Cloud Boat toward the detected immortal, intending to approach his old acquaintance.

Han Xiao searched for Wang Jixuan amid the growing battle over the Divine Wood ruins, then welcomed Wang Jixuan, disguised as Daoist Xuanji, into the Thousand Worlds Alliance. As the Dark Cult prepared to enter the secret realm under a Heavenly Dao Edict, Wang Jixuan slipped away and Peony noticed the Dark Cult’s movements.

• Han Xiao worried that the crowds gathering around the ruins would make it difficult for the Thousand Worlds Alliance to rescue Wang Jixuan, while his master and martial uncle urged him to stay calm.
• Wang Jixuan arrived aboard the Alliance fleet under the name Daoist Xuanji and convinced Han Xiao he wanted to join because the Dark Cult had massacred his sect.
• Han Xiao accepted Wang Jixuan into the Thousand Worlds Alliance after he swore an oath to the Great Dao, and the fleet welcomed him with a drinking celebration.
• Black Obsidian received a Heavenly Dao Edict ordering him to prevent the Thousand Worlds Alliance from meeting the Mechanical Fiend and led Dark Cult immortals toward a secret route into the small world.
• Wang Jixuan slipped away as the Dark Cult organized its entry, while Peony noticed the Dark Cult immortals’ movements.

Wang Jixuan learned that more than two hundred Dark Cult Immortals had entered the Small World to hunt for the Mechanical Fiend, so he sent his Dragon Python Strange Soul back to help Peony defend it. As the Thousand Worlds Alliance prepared to ambush the Dark Cult’s reinforcements, the intruders searched the realm and rushed toward a bionic decoy of Wang Jixuan.

• Peony reported that Dark Cult Immortals had entered the seafloor route toward the Small World, and Wang Jixuan decided to send his Dragon Python Strange Soul after them.
• Wang Jixuan disguised the strange soul’s departure as a message to his family while Han Xiao and two Thousand Worlds Alliance elders planned to spread word of the Dark Cult’s actions and ambush its reinforcements.
• The Dragon Python Strange Soul entered the Small World as Peony opened a passage for the Dark Cult and directed it toward a trap in the southwest.
• More than two hundred Dark Cult Immortals entered the Small World, approached the Fusang Divine Wood, and began searching for the Mechanical Fiend.
• Black Obsidian recognized a bionic decoy resembling Wang Jixuan in a pavilion, and the Dark Cult Immortals rushed toward it.

Wang Jixuan and Peony used a fake Wang Jixuan and layered formations to lure the Dark Cult Immortals into an ambush with five Annihilation Bombs. The blast devastated the Small World, but Black Obsidian survived and warned the others about Peony and the Mechanical Fiend as Wang Jixuan’s voice sounded below.

• More than two hundred Dark Cult Immortals attacked Peony’s layered formations, breaking through several walls of light as a fake Wang Jixuan taunted them from the pavilion.
• The fake Wang Jixuan pretended to panic and cut his throat, drawing the immortals into the pavilion while Black Obsidian tried to reach him.
• Peony triggered five Annihilation Bombs, vaporizing the immortals inside the surrounding light membranes and collapsing a fifth of the Small World.
• A little black dragon seized two damaged primordial spirits and escaped into the depths of the Small World.
• Black Obsidian survived with his protectors, identified the bombs as antimatter weapons, and urged the Dark Cult Immortals to flee and prepare for Peony’s threat.
• Wang Jixuan mocked the survivors’ hopes of capturing the weapon as his voice echoed through the Small World.