Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya fought off a coordinated ambush by Bilian, Fugu, and a black-hatted cultivator, overpowering their attacks with golden sword techniques and five-element laws. After he seized their giant water-vat treasure, the three fled, and Li Xiaoya sent his three clones after them.

• Li Xiaoya recognized that the three ambushers’ gray robes concealed their auras and countered their coordinated wheels, silver sword rays, and giant handkerchief with golden sword attacks.
• Li Xiaoya’s Sword Rain Across the Heavens pierced Bilian’s handkerchief and crushed Fugu’s wheels and the black-hatted cultivator’s sword rays.
• The three cultivators joined forces and infused their essence blood into a giant water-vat treasure, empowering it to break through Li Xiaoya’s golden attacks.
• Li Xiaoya formed a ten-thousand-zhang five-colored hand and seized the water-vat treasure, unleashing spatial storms that wounded the three cultivators.
• Bilian, Fugu, and the black-hatted cultivator fled in different directions, and Li Xiaoya sent his three clones to pursue them.

Li Xiaoya hunted down the three Immortal Race cultivators who had ambushed him, killing the Black-Hatted Cultivator and recovering treasures from him, Fugu, and Bilian. He learned they had been killing Mighty One cultivators to refine an unfinished Heaven-Opening Treasure called the Heaven-Shaking Ninefold Fusion Gang.

• Li Xiaoya pursued the fleeing Black-Hatted Cultivator while his clones chased Fugu and Bilian in separate directions.
• The Black-Hatted Cultivator tried to escape with silver-winged flight and teleportation, but Li Xiaoya caught him in a giant hand of five-colored spiritual light and killed him.
• Li Xiaoya took the Black-Hatted Cultivator's gray robes and discovered they were made from material similar to the Immortal-Devouring Dagger.
• Li Xiaoya's three clones returned with treasures and other spoils after defeating Fugu and Bilian.
• Li Xiaoya searched the Black-Hatted Cultivator's memories and learned that the three attackers belonged to the Immortal Race.
• Li Xiaoya examined their black, water-vat-like treasure and learned it was an unfinished Heaven-Opening Treasure called the Heaven-Shaking Ninefold Fusion Gang.

Li Xiaoya discovered a mysterious bronze disc among the three Immortal Race cultivators’ belongings and found that the Three Treasures of the Immortal Spirit Realm fit into its recesses. He suspected the disc could lead to the Immortal Ancestor Inheritance and a way out of the realm, while an unknown being sensed its activation and called him an outsider.

• Li Xiaoya gave the Heaven-Shaking Ninefold Fusion Gang and the Black-Robed Cultivator’s body to his wood-element clone to refine.
• Li Xiaoya found a bronze disc covered in runes and noticed its three recesses matched the Three Treasures of the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Li Xiaoya fitted the Metal Sphere, Token, and Golden Key into the disc, but the objects popped back out after it trembled.
• Li Xiaoya deduced that the disc could activate a mechanism in the Illusory Formation Sea connected to the Immortal Ancestor Inheritance and leaving the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• A pair of crimson eyes opened in a distant sunless space, and their owner called Li Xiaoya an outsider.

Li Xiaoya caught up with Xu Shaogui’s party as they reached the Illusory Formation Sea, where the Sacred Lord prepared the four immortal tribulation cultivators for the Outsider’s arrival. The chapter left Li Xiaoya approaching the group while Marquis Hanbo and Old Monster Qianyuan awaited the Outsider’s search for an inheritance.

• Li Xiaoya pursued Xu Shaogui’s party across the chaotic Ten Thousand Isles Continent and learned that its Immortal Race descendants hated the Sacred Lord.
• After seven or eight days, Xu Shaogui led his party to a secluded cliff near the Illusory Formation Sea to rest.
• Li Xiaoya followed the party using Water Escape and headed toward their hiding place.
• Marquis Hanbo and Old Monster Qianyuan sensed the six cultivators and discussed waiting for the Outsider to find an inheritance.
• The Sacred Lord told Nineteen Niang, Fuyang, Niu Ben, and the Five-Poison Divine Chicken to follow their plan when the Outsider arrived.

Li Xiaoya listened as Jade Disk warned him that Xu Shaogui might be planning to exclude the others from the treasure, but he avoided committing to an alliance. Xu then presented a map and explained the dangers of the Illusory Formation Sea, leaving the group preparing to enter a region whose inner formations had almost no survivors.

• Jade Disk privately urged Li Xiaoya to join forces with him, claiming Xu Shaogui and his companions would not share the expedition's rewards.
• Li Xiaoya evaded Jade Disk's proposal, saying the cultivators should help one another without openly choosing sides.
• Xu Shaogui ended the group's rest and summoned everyone to discuss entering the Illusory Formation Sea.
• Xu displayed a Beast-Hide Scroll map prepared by Myriad Treasures Hall and described the sea's formations, demon beasts, and hostile cultivators.
• Xu explained that the powerful inner formations required entrants to pass unknown trials, and almost no one who entered had returned.

Li Xiaoya followed Xu Shaogui’s group toward a destination near the edge of the Inner Illusory Formation, using the Mistshadow Robe and his water-escape technique to remain hidden. The group stopped to avoid a battle between two sects, and Xu Shaogui sensed more cultivators approaching.

• Xu Shaogui showed the group a route to a location near the Inner Illusory Formation and postponed showing them his ancient map, promising to divide any treasures equally.
• After Xu Shaogui’s group departed, Li Xiaoya put on the Mistshadow Robe and followed them thousands of miles behind while his clone stayed with the group.
• Xu Shaogui’s group encountered increasingly powerful demon beasts as they traveled deeper into the Illusory Formation Sea, while Li Xiaoya followed unseen.
• The group reached a stretch of sea where two sects, each with Mighty One Stage cultivators, had been fighting for several days, so Xu Shaogui’s group waited in a reef cave rather than risk passing through.
• When Jade Disk and others considered approaching the battle to investigate its treasure, Xu Shaogui sensed more cultivators arriving and ordered everyone to conceal their auras.

Li Xiaoya followed White True King and Zhenningzi’s forces as they attacked Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group over a metal plate said to grant entry into the Illusory Formation Sea’s inner formation. White True King suddenly fled after claiming the Five-Poison Divine Chicken was coming, and Li Xiaoya pursued him to learn what happened to the plate.

• Li Xiaoya left his hiding place and discovered White True King’s incoming cultivators joining Zhenningzi’s battle against Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group.
• White True King demanded the group’s treasure map, then joined the attack after Zhenningzi confirmed it was genuine.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent offered the metal plate to stop the assault, but White True King snatched it and resumed attacking.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent swore the plate came from the Elder Ancient Ruins, prompting White True King to halt the fighting.
• White True King warned that the Five-Poison Divine Chicken was coming and fled with Zhenningzi and the other cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya realized the warning was false and pursued White True King through the water.

Li Xiaoya pursued White True King into a bewildering formation, but an explosion shattered the formation and left him surrounded by a storm of falling metal fragments. White True King and the other cultivators disappeared, while Xu Shaogui’s group resumed its journey and the missing cultivators appeared on an island hidden inside another formation.

• The Five-Poison Divine Chicken arrived at the site of the battle, received Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s report that the mission was accomplished despite heavy losses, and flew away.
• Li Xiaoya reached the mist formation after White True King’s group entered it and hesitated to follow them.
• An explosion inside the formation shattered its runes, forcing Li Xiaoya to retreat as the mist dissolved and a huge tsunami swept through the area.
• Li Xiaoya searched the empty, mist-cleared waters, found a marked metal fragment, and watched countless similar fragments rain from the sky.
• Xu Shaogui led his companions out from among the reefs and back into the sea to continue their journey.
• Nearly a hundred cultivators appeared atop a tower on a hidden island, including White True King and Zhenningzi.

White True King revealed that he destroyed the refuge because he feared the Sacred Lord had been spying on the Immortal Ancestor Descendants, then gathered the cultivators to examine the Metal Fragment. After Li Xiaoya gave up searching for White True King and headed toward Xu Shaogui, White True King declared that the fragment was likely the key to entering the Inner Illusory Formation.

• Zhenningzi and the other cultivators challenged White True King over destroying their refuge, and he explained that he suspected the Sacred Lord was watching them.
• White True King invited the cultivators into a Palace to discuss the Metal Fragment they had seized from Blood Demon Baleful Intent.
• Li Xiaoya failed to find White True King’s group, abandoned his search, and set off to catch up with Xu Shaogui and the others.
• The cultivators examined the Metal Fragment but could not identify its purpose or confirm whether it led to the Immortal Ancestor’s inheritance.
• White True King announced that the Metal Fragment was probably the key to entering the Inner Illusory Formation.

White True King persuaded most of the cultivators to help study a metal fragment that could lead into the inner illusory formation and promised that whoever earned the Immortal Ancestor's recognition would inherit his legacy. Meanwhile, Xu Shaogui led Li Xiaoya's clone and their companions to a gray-mist formation, but Jade Disk demanded to see the Primordial Map before they entered.

• White True King claimed the metal fragment was the key to the inner illusory formation and invited the cultivators to seek the Immortal Ancestor's inheritance with him.
• Zhenningzi agreed to assist White True King, and most of the cultivators joined, while White True King had the unwilling cultivators escorted elsewhere in the secret grounds.
• White True King asked cultivators skilled in the Formation Dao to help decipher the fragment and assigned the others to stand guard as they headed to a tower to study it.
• Xu Shaogui brought Li Xiaoya's clone and their companions to the gray-mist illusory formation and told them to stay close because he knew how to enter.
• Jade Disk demanded that Xu Shaogui show them the Primordial Map, but Xu Shaogui refused and flew toward the formation; an eerie laugh suddenly rang out.

Xu Shaogui’s party encountered Blood Demon Baleful Intent and his cultivators outside the illusory formation, where they clashed over Xu Shaogui’s treasure map. As the battle raged, Li Xiaoya sensed approaching danger and grew suspicious of Jade Disk, but he could not tell what was wrong.

• Blood Demon Baleful Intent and seven other cultivators emerged from the illusory formation and blocked Xu Shaogui’s party.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent demanded a share of Xu Shaogui’s treasure map, but Xu Shaogui refused and ordered him to move aside.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent attacked, and Xu Shaogui told his companions to stay close and look for a chance to charge into the formation.
• Li Xiaoya, Jade Disk, Blue Demon, White Snake Fairy, and Fairy Hanling fought alongside Xu Shaogui as the two groups exchanged powerful attacks.
• Li Xiaoya sensed danger during the battle and noticed something seemed wrong with Jade Disk, though he could find no sign of it.

Jade Disk and Blood Demon Baleful Intent revealed their alliance and trapped Xu Shaogui and the other cultivators with vermilion jade spirit-refining flowers while Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group unleashed a law domain. With the cultivators immobilized, Jade Disk chose Li Xiaoya as his first victim.

• Li Xiaoya, Xu Shaogui, and the others recognized Jade Disk’s deception and attacked him, but he vanished as Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group activated their law domain.
• Jade Disk reappeared atop the Seven-Tiered Pagoda and released its dark green light, which immobilized Xu Shaogui and the others by triggering the flowers’ refining effects.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent explained that the flowers prevented the cultivators from drawing on spiritual qi and revealed plans to seize their treasures and backing factions.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent ordered his companions to kill the immobilized cultivators, but Jade Disk demanded to kill Li Xiaoya himself and flew at him with a dagger.

Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone, unaffected by the Vermilion Jade Spirit-Refining Flower, killed Jade Disk when he charged in carelessly, but Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group still held the cultivators trapped in a law domain. Blood Demon Baleful Intent took Jade Disk’s pagoda and challenged Li Xiaoya, while the others could only hope he would stall until they recovered.

• Jade Disk rushed at Li Xiaoya with a dagger, but Li Xiaoya unleashed two blue swords that pierced and froze him to death.
• The cultivators realized Li Xiaoya could still cast spells, and the narration revealed that his water-element clone had no physical body for the Vermilion Jade Spirit-Refining Flower to affect.
• Li Xiaoya retrieved his swords and destroyed Jade Disk’s frozen corpse, including his nascent soul and primordial spirit.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent seized Jade Disk’s Heavenly Snake Venom Dragon Pagoda while the law domain kept it from falling away.
• Xu Shaogui, Blue Demon, and the others hoped Li Xiaoya could stall until they regained their ability to move, but Blood Demon Baleful Intent confronted him about that hope.

Li Xiaoya feigned willingness to join Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group while stalling for his true body to arrive, then fought to protect Xu Shaogui and his companions from their combined Law Domain. As his water-element clone neared its limit, a golden gourd appeared overhead and unleashed a colossal pillar of flame.

• Blood Demon Baleful Intent invited Li Xiaoya, whom he called Jia Ming, to join his group, and Li Xiaoya pretended he had never refused Jade Disk’s offer.
• Li Xiaoya rejected the invitation and stalled until Blood Demon Baleful Intent ordered an attack.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent and eight Mighty One Stage cultivators joined forces to unleash their Law Domain against Li Xiaoya, Xu Shaogui, and the others.
• Li Xiaoya used his Ice Mountain Treasure and Absolute Ice Seal to shield himself and Xu Shaogui’s group, but the demonic phantoms steadily shattered the ice.
• A golden gourd appeared in the sky and fired a massive pillar of golden light and flame toward the battlefield.

Li Xiaoya shattered Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s law domain with a golden pillar of flame and returned to seize the ice containing seven cultivators. As Blood Demon Baleful Intent and his companions attacked, powerful figures elsewhere sensed the divine artifact and set out to investigate.

• Li Xiaoya’s golden pillar broke apart and burned Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s law domain, forcing him to flee with some companions while the others were injured by their exploding tokens.
• The Sacred Lord sensed the divine artifact and sent Five-Poison Divine Chicken, Nineteen Niang, Fuyang, and Niu Ben to retrieve it.
• Old Monster Qianyuan and another enormous figure sensed the artifact and flew out of their secluded formation to investigate.
• Li Xiaoya appeared at the ruined battlefield and drew the golden barrier containing seven frozen cultivators toward his chest.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent recognized Li Xiaoya as a threat and ordered his companions to attack as Li Xiaoya absorbed the ice block.

Li Xiaoya rescued Xu Shaogui and the other cultivators trapped in ice, then broke through Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group and fled toward the Illusory Formation Sea. Blood Demon Baleful Intent struck him with an Enchantment Talisman just before he entered the mist, leaving Li Xiaoya’s fate uncertain.

• Li Xiaoya absorbed the ice sphere holding Xu Shaogui and the other cultivators into his Secret Realm Necklace and told Little White to stay hidden.
• Li Xiaoya used Immortal Flash Carefree Journey to evade Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s attacks, then counterattacked with water-and-fire sword lights and escaped the encirclement.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent and seven or eight companions pursued Li Xiaoya as he raced toward the inner Illusory Formation Sea.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent released an Enchantment Talisman whose ghost head passed through Li Xiaoya’s shield and struck him despite his attempt to evade it.
• Li Xiaoya plunged into the mist while Blood Demon Baleful Intent sneered that the Enchantment Talisman would keep him from escaping.

Li Xiaoya's two clones ambushed and killed the two injured cultivators pursuing him, then entered the mist-shrouded Illusory Formation. Fuyang and the other immortal tribulation stage cultivators arrived afterward and suspected the remaining group had gone into the formation.

• Li Xiaoya's two clones attacked the last two pursuers with the Golden Sun Gourd's flame and killed them.
• The clones collected the spoils and followed Li Xiaoya and the others into the Illusory Formation.
• Fuyang and the other three immortal tribulation stage cultivators arrived and found signs of a fierce battle.
• Nineteen Niang suspected the cultivators had entered the Illusory Formation, while Niu Ben noted they had been trapped inside it for decades on previous visits.

The Five-Poison Divine Chicken entered the illusory formation while Li Xiaoya and Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group searched the mist for one another. Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone freed Xu Shaogui and the others from the ice prison, leaving them suspicious of the mysterious cultivator who rescued them.

• Fuyang sent the Five-Poison Divine Chicken into the formation alone and reported their situation to the Sacred Lord, while two hidden figures plotted to enter and seize the divine artifact.
• Li Xiaoya flew deeper into the mist, unable to remove Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s tracking ghost head as the formation restricted his senses and magic power.
• Blood Demon Baleful Intent led five cultivators into the formation, relying on his Enchantment Talisman to track Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone shattered the ice mountain in his Secret Realm Necklace and freed Xu Shaogui, White Snake Fairy, and the others.
• Xu Shaogui questioned the clone’s identity, and Li Xiaoya hurriedly claimed he was unsure while searching for an excuse.

Li Xiaoya concealed his identity and explained away his immunity to the Vermilion Jade Spirit-Refining Flower, while Xu Shaogui revealed why he had recruited him and Jade Disk. After Long Lingzi’s apparent rescue brought the group out of the mist, Li Xiaoya proposed killing Blood Demon Baleful Intent, but Xu Shaogui objected.

• Li Xiaoya claimed his physical body had died centuries ago and said he had come to the Sacred Lord Continent seeking medicine for his injuries.
• Li Xiaoya questioned Xu Shaogui about inviting him and Jade Disk, and Xu Shaogui explained that six cultivators were needed to open a restrictive formation in the Treasure Trove.
• Li Xiaoya staged a conversation with Long Lingzi, then sent Xu Shaogui, White Snake Fairy, and two other cultivators into his Secret Realm Necklace while they recovered their magic power.
• Li Xiaoya brought the four cultivators out of the mist, where he appeared disguised as a Purple-Horn Race cultivator and warned them that Blood Demon Baleful Intent was still pursuing them.
• Fairy Hanling identified the Ghost Head Phantom tracking Li Xiaoya as an Enchantment Talisman that could only be dispelled by killing its caster, and Blue Demon agreed to attack Blood Demon Baleful Intent.
• Xu Shaogui objected when Li Xiaoya proposed finishing off Blood Demon Baleful Intent and his people.

Xu Shaogui recruited Li Xiaoya to help open the Treasure Trove while leading his group deeper into the illusory formation. Blood Demon Baleful Intent joined forces with Five-Poison Divine Chicken to pursue them, and the chapter ended as they neared the group’s destination.

• Xu Shaogui explained that the mist would let Blood Demon Baleful Intent escape and invited Li Xiaoya to join the search for the Treasure Trove, which required six cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya accepted, and Xu Shaogui led the group farther into the illusory formation.
• Five-Poison Divine Chicken arrived where Blood Demon Baleful Intent and his companions had stopped, and Blood Demon Baleful Intent reported what had happened.
• Five-Poison Divine Chicken ordered Blood Demon Baleful Intent to track the group toward the Treasure Trove, secretly hoping to claim the divine artifact for himself.
• Five-Poison Divine Chicken guided the pursuers through the formation’s hazards for several days until Blood Demon Baleful Intent spotted that the group had stopped in a desert.