Recaps

Long Xuan broke through to the Marrow Cleansing Stage, built a secret formation around a Spirit Spring, and advanced his Gu inventions while the Long Family prepared for a threat to its Sacred Tree. The arc ended with Long Ziyan winning the tournament and Long Xuan reaching the Divine Dragon Tree, whose infinite progress marked it as an extraordinary spirit medicine.

• Long Xuan exposed the Feng and Gu clans’ killing of cultivators at the tomb, helping spark a battle that Long Lie and the Long Family escaped by Dragon Boat.
• Long Xuan used five Spirit-Impact Pills to reach the Marrow Cleansing Stage, discovered a Spirit Spring in a hidden cavern, and decided to build his cave abode around it.
• Long Xuan retrieved the rabbit and treasures from the tomb, then designed and completed a costly Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation to conceal and defend his Spirit Spring and Medicine Garden.
• Long Xuan developed the Thatch Gu’s house-based transportation ability, earning the Long Family’s maximum mission reward and a hundred million contribution points.
• Long Xuan derived five Mutated Spiritual Powers and two Dharma manifestations, while Long Lie completed his Supreme-Grade Wine Gu and named it Blaze Gu.
• Long Xuan completed the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe, raised Little Dream and Little White, and learned about Long Ziyan’s Evil Dragon Emperor Eye and the Divine Dragon Tree.
• Long Xuan’s Flame Clone used Bingbing’s Ice Bee swarm and an Earthworker to win most of its tournament matches, while Long Xuan warned Long Lie that Long Chen might be an infiltrator targeting the Sacred Tree.
• Long Ziyan won all twenty matches and Long Xuan placed eleventh, then Long Wanli led the victors to the Divine Dragon Tree, where Long Xuan saw its progress was infinite.

Long Xuan traveled with the Western Land Long Family to compete against the Bai Clan for a Geng Metal Ore Vein, choosing a ten-bladed Silvermoon Mantis and accepting a secret Gu Recipe project along the way. The contest began with the Bai Clan using Berserk Pills, and Long Yun’s defeat left the Long Family facing a deadly struggle.

• The Long Family defeated the Soul Clan’s attack, but Long Xuan’s rabbit stole four branches from the Divine Dragon Tree, and Long Chao was exposed as a traitor and arrested.
• Long Xuan propagated Divine Dragon Trees, traded for Golden Dragonfish, helped Long Ao refine a Profound Dragon Pill, and developed new body techniques while Long Qian arrived seeking contestants for the Western Land arena contest.
• Long Xuan knocked Long Biao unconscious with his unfinished Steel Fist, then joined Long Ziyan, Long Qilin, Long Yan, Long Bao, and Long Panpan on the journey west aboard the Dragon Boat.
• Long Xuan discovered a possible ancient tomb beneath the sea, learned about Divine Positions and the Gu World’s history, and decided to refine a Blade Gu after seeing Long Ziyan and Long Ruoxue spar.
• At Blackstone City, Long Qian and Long Lie intervened when Bai Clan cultivators trapped Long Dan, and Long Xuan chose the malformed Ten-Armed Mantis Xiaoyue while Long Ziyan selected the Silver Moon Mantis King.
• Long Xuan accepted the Long Family’s request to replace extinct materials in the Blood Dragon Battle Gu Recipe, then found a hidden archive of the ancestors’ combat methods and set his clones to study it.
• As the arena contest began, Long Xuan followed the Jade Rabbit Fairy to investigate a Heaven-grade Spirit Medicine, Living Wood, but left without confronting the masked Peak Gu King carrying it.
• Bai Changfeng used the power of a Berserk Pill to defeat Long Yun and ruin her dantian, so Long Yuanshan ordered the Long Family contestants to fight ruthlessly in the remaining duels.

Long Xuan helped the Long Family defeat the Bai Clan, pursued his own research, and stole the Living Wood during a crowded auction. The arc ended with the Black River infected by invisible insects, and Long Yuan identifying Shi Haojun as the wielder of the Plague Demon Gu.

• Long Xuan and Long Ziyan crippled Bai Clan geniuses as the Long Family won their clan matches, while Long Yuanshan warned that the feud could draw dangerous Gu Kings to Blackstone City.
• Long Yuanshan identified Shi Haojun as the masked Peak Gu King seeking revenge for his wife, ordered the Long Family to withdraw from Black Moon City, and kept the threat secret.
• Long Xuan completed a revised Blood Dragon Battle Gu Recipe, explored the ancient tomb’s Illusion Realm, and adapted its Yin Harvesting Art into the mutually beneficial Yin-Yang Codex with Long Ziyan.
• Long Xuan and Long Ziyan attended the Qian Clan auction, where he sold Spirit-Recovery Wine, bought rare insects, and used an illusion to leave Feng Si responsible for an unaffordable bid.
• Old Long revealed that Long Ziyan had the Nine-Yin Severing Physique and a shortened lifespan, entrusted Long Xuan with an incomplete Longevity Gu Recipe, and inspired him to complete it.
• Luo Yu bought the Living Wood and tried to misdirect the Gu Kings, but Long Xuan used his clones and the rabbit to steal the tree while the princes hid it.
• Long Xuan planted the Living Wood, while Gu Kings pursued Luo Yu and the princes after the tree was reported destroyed, and meanwhile, Long Xuan discovered invisible insects in Long Ziyan’s bathwater.
• After the Long Family found the Black River contaminated, Long Yuan identified the Plague Demon Gu as the likely cause and said Shi Haojun had refined it.

Shi Haojun’s plague devastated Blackstone City until the Long Family evacuated its heirs and developed allies, recipes, and new formations. Long Xuan advanced his research and cultivation while mining Geng Metal, where he uncovered a Bai Clan plot and a hidden cave abode containing a dangerous Soul Refining Technique.

• Shi Haojun’s plague swept through Black Moon City, and Yan Pojun’s plan to counter the Mutation Domain failed as Blackstone City’s Gu Kings suffered heavy losses.
• Yan Pojun ordered Blackstone City to kill its Black Moon City residents in a bid to appease Shi Haojun, but Shi Haojun revived the dead as Plague Corpses and continued his assault.
• Long Yuanshan sent Long Xuan and Long Ziyan through the Spatial House to the Far West Long Family, where Long Xuan developed the Longevity Gu and Dragon Blood Battle Gu recipes.
• Long Xuan completed the Immortal-Slaying Formation, and Long Ziyan entered it to cultivate Sword Intent while the Far West Long Family sent aid to the West Sea Long Clan.
• Long Xuan discovered the Medicine Insect in a stone from the ancient tomb and completed a Medicine Gu Recipe as the Long Family’s Earthworkers defeated the Zhu-Song army.
• Long Xuan went with Long Qian and the young geniuses to mine Geng Metal, where his Flame Clone recorded Bai Ye planning an attack on the Long Family group.
• Long Xuan entered a marked mine tunnel, broke the formation around a cave abode, and found three manuals and Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Long Xuan learned that the Soul Refining Technique required Soul-Nourishing Wood to avoid certain death, then sent his Flame Clone to retrieve the cave’s treasures while he stayed cautious.