Chapter Summaries

Blood Demon Baleful Intent and his companions reached the Immortal Race’s Treasure Beast Lair and waited outside while Li Xiaoya’s group explored its maze-like interior. The group continued deeper into the lair until Li Xiaoya heard a faint metallic clinking sound.

• Blood Demon Baleful Intent led five cultivators to the island and sensed the Purple-Horn Race cultivator inside the enormous beast-shaped building.
• The Five-Poison Divine Chicken told Blood Demon Baleful Intent that the site was the Immortal Race’s Treasure Beast Lair and that it had no other passages, so he arranged an ambush outside.
• Li Xiaoya, Xu Shaogui, and their companions traveled through the lair’s vast passages as Xu Shaogui explained its spatial maze and guided them along the route.
• Li Xiaoya sensed that Blood Demon Baleful Intent’s group had arrived but remained outside, and Xu Shaogui urged everyone to continue exploring.
• Li Xiaoya stopped the group after hearing faint metal striking metal somewhere ahead.

Xu Shaogui led the cultivators through a maze passage, where they fought a law-wielding Giant Wolf Puppet. They damaged it enough to flee, but it healed and pursued them as they continued onward.

• Xu Shaogui chose a passage filled with metallic clashing and warned the cultivators that the silent passage was more dangerous.
• Li Xiaoya detected approaching puppets before a Giant Wolf Puppet charged at the group and unleashed an attack infused with wood and life law power.
• Li Xiaoya and the others attacked the puppet, but it deflected their strikes and its green beam forced them to defend themselves head-on.
• Xu Shaogui used a giant saber to knock the puppet's jaw upward, interrupting its beam, and the cultivators followed with attacks that damaged it.
• Xu Shaogui urged the group to move on, but the Giant Wolf Puppet healed its wounds, stood up, and pursued them.

Li Xiaoya and his companions fought through the Treasure Beast Lair’s traps while White True King revealed how to enter the inner illusory formation. Elsewhere, Old Monster Qianyuan and Marquis Hanbo gave up searching for the others and left the intact formation.

• The cultivators were trapped between two Giant Wolf Puppet Spiked Wheels, and Li Xiaoya shattered the one blocking their path before the other crushed its fragments.
• Xu Shaogui led the group through a passage filled with flying gears, explaining that the traps marked the correct route through the maze.
• White True King and Zhenningzi emerged from a sealed chamber, and White True King revealed that the Metal Fragment was the Guidance Treasure Mirror for the inner illusory formation.
• White True King told the cultivators that they needed to build a Guidance Tower using their materials and artifact refiners, then led them to discuss the preparations.
• Old Monster Qianyuan and Marquis Hanbo failed to find the others and decided to leave the difficult illusory formation.

Li Xiaoya and the others survived a fierce battle with the Treasure Beast Lair’s puppets and reached a sealed passage beyond the labyrinth. As they recovered and studied how to open the restrictions, Old Monster Qianyuan and Marquis Hanbo remained lost inside the Illusory Formation.

• Old Monster Qianyuan and Marquis Hanbo failed to find the Treasure Beast Lair and struggled to escape the Illusory Formation, while Fuyang, Niu Ben, and Nineteen Niang waited outside under the Sacred Lord’s orders.
• Li Xiaoya, Xu Shaogui, White Snake Fairy, Fairy Hanling, Blue Demon, and Jia Ming gathered in a hall beyond the labyrinth, where Metal Puppets attacked a wall blocking the entrance.
• Xu Shaogui explained that the group had fought and destroyed a powerful Super Mech Puppet and its forces, though several cultivators were injured and exhausted.
• Xu Shaogui gave Li Xiaoya and White Snake Fairy scrolls describing how to open the restrictions ahead, and they began studying them while the group recovered.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that a restriction prevented him from dismissing his Water-Element Clone or using the Secret Realm Necklace.

Li Xiaoya and five other cultivators began using a formation to open the enormous demon beast gate in the Treasure Beast Lair. Their silver lightning reached the gate’s crystal spheres, but the first sphere had barely begun to fill, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Li Xiaoya studied the scroll’s method for opening the gate while the Treasure Beast Lair’s restrictions prevented cultivators from entering secret realms.
• White True King told Zhenningzi that the Immortal Ancestor’s legacy lay in the Illusory Formation Sea and that Devil Race members and demonic-path cultivators likely could not inherit it.
• White True King said the Guidance Tower would take about half a year to build if they gathered enough materials, as the Immortal Ancestor Clan prepared to gamble against the strengthening Sacred Lord Continent cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya, Xu Shaogui, and four other cultivators took positions around the gate with ancient tokens and began performing the restriction-breaking formation.
• The six cultivators fused their gray lightning into silver lightning and sent a demon beast phantom into the gate, but the energy only produced a tiny point of light inside one crystal sphere.

Li Xiaoya and the other cultivators spent more than a month channeling the silvery-white power of laws into the crystal spheres on the enormous metal gate. The final, oversized sphere filled and sent strands of light toward all the smaller spheres, leaving the gate’s activation underway.

• Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone took elixirs as he and the other cultivators channeled power into the gate’s crystal spheres, worried that his depleted magic power would not last.
• After the fourth sphere began feeding two spheres at once, the infusion slowed sharply and drained the cultivators’ magic power.
• Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone asked the others to slow their output, and Xu Shaogui told them to halve it.
• The cultivators continued filling groups of spheres for more than a month, while Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone held on despite his weakened state.
• Xu Shaogui cried out when the oversized final sphere filled, and silvery-white strands spread from it toward the smaller spheres across the gate.

As the cultivators opened the Metal Giant Gate, immortal-tribulation-stage vines burst out and battered them, shattering Li Xiaoya’s water-element clone’s body. With the clone’s nascent soul targeted by another vine, Li Xiaoya vanished to protect it.

• Xu Shaogui and the other cultivators opened the Metal Giant Gate, releasing a surge of blue-green vitality from beyond it.
• Pitch-black vines lashed out from the opening, blasting Blue Demon and the other cultivators away as they tried to defend themselves.
• Li Xiaoya struck one vine with his Blue-Light Long Sword and halted his flight, while the vine shattered his water-element clone’s body and left its nascent soul exposed.
• Fairy Hanling recognized the vines’ immortal-tribulation-stage aura and asked Xu Shaogui how they could close the gate, but he said they could not.
• A vine sliced through space toward the water-element nascent soul, and Li Xiaoya vanished in a flash of blue-red light.

Li Xiaoya and the other cultivators fought the pitch-black vine whips emerging from the Gate, but they were overwhelmed as more vines poured into the Main Hall. When Blue Demon was captured and dragged toward the Gate, Li Xiaoya revealed his five-element power and drew the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash.

• Li Xiaoya rescued his water-element nascent soul from a purple-black vortex by cutting into the vine whip with his red and blue swords.
• Blue Demon, White Snake Fairy, Fairy Hanling, and Xu Shaogui battled the vine whips, while the cultivators struggled to withstand their attacks.
• The metal Gate opened fully, releasing more vine whips and blue-green hurricanes into the Sealed Chamber.
• Several whips battered Blue Demon and White Snake Fairy, leaving both badly injured, while Li Xiaoya and the others were driven back.
• Li Xiaoya called for the cultivators to retreat, but vine whips seized Blue Demon and dragged him toward the Gate.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed his hidden five-colored power and drew the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash.

Li Xiaoya fought off the attacks from the passage while the cultivators struggled to keep the rear gate sealed. After Blue Demon was killed, Li Xiaoya told the others that the monster seemed stuck in the passage and urged them to attack it together.

• Li Xiaoya cut through the vines attacking him and tried to save Blue Demon, but a black-purple beam knocked him back and Blue Demon was dragged into the passage and killed.
• Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy prepared to withdraw through the rear gate while metal puppets began breaking through.
• Li Xiaoya grew to enormous size and used the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron and Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash to hold back the monster's vines and beams.
• White Snake Fairy and Fairy Hanling helped Xu Shaogui drive back the puppets and block the rear gate again.
• Li Xiaoya told Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy that the monster seemed stuck in the passage and that they could kill it with powerful attacks.

Li Xiaoya used the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron to block the passage and keep a powerful monster trapped while the others helped hold the artifact steady. He then began preparing a divine ability that would take thirty breaths to cast.

• Xu Shaogui and the others joined Li Xiaoya as he fought off the monster’s black-purple vines and beams with the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron and Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash.
• Li Xiaoya enlarged the cauldron and slammed it across the passage, then called on the others to hold it in place against the monster’s attacks.
• White Snake Fairy, Fairy Hanling, and Xu Shaogui braced the cauldron alongside Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya released seven or eight Metal Puppets, which also pushed against the cauldron.
• Li Xiaoya told the cultivators to keep the cauldron steady for thirty breaths while he cast a divine ability.

Li Xiaoya gathered the power of laws into a destructive sphere while Xu Shaogui, White Snake Fairy, and Fairy Hanling struggled to hold the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron against the monster. The monster paused its attacks and prepared a massive vine strike as Li Xiaoya’s sphere continued to grow.

• Li Xiaoya released the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron, and Xu Shaogui, White Snake Fairy, and Fairy Hanling struggled to brace it until he pushed it back into place.
• Li Xiaoya began forming a sphere of five-colored spiritual light, gathering runes and the power of laws as the hall shook and the monster kept attacking.
• Xu Shaogui, White Snake Fairy, and Fairy Hanling unleashed their full strength and forced the cauldron back into position against the monster’s increasingly heavy blows.
• After twenty breaths, the monster’s attacks abruptly stopped, and the cultivators sensed it preparing a powerful divine ability.
• The monster braided its black-purple vines into a huge whip, charged it with spiritual light, and struck through the passage, gouging the metal walls.

Li Xiaoya used the refined Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron and a sphere of five-colored spiritual light to confront the destruction erupting from the passage. After the sphere blasted through the black-purple vines and unleashed a devastating explosion, the cauldron rescued Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy before being hurled into the metal wall.

• The Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron smashed the Metal Puppets apart and charged toward Li Xiaoya with Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy pinned before it.
• Li Xiaoya touched the cauldron, drew its Black-and-White Talismans into his body, and sent a sphere of five-colored spiritual light into the passage.
• The sphere tore through the enormous black-purple vine whip and plunged into the passage as Li Xiaoya entered the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron.
• A destructive blast erupted from the passage, and the cauldron stopped in midair and pulled Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy inside.
• The explosion hurled the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron across the hall and deep into the metal wall.

Li Xiaoya used his Lesser Five-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave to destroy the monster inside the Treasure Beast Lair, leaving the central hall melted and the island outside partly sunken. He and the others found a passage pouring out a powerful life aura, while Xu Shaogui suddenly remembered something.

• The Five-Poison Divine Chicken scolded the cultivators who had revealed themselves outside the lair and ordered two of them to investigate inside as the island settled lower into the sea.
• Li Xiaoya, Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy emerged from the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron as the lair’s metal walls began repairing themselves, and Li Xiaoya led them onward.
• Li Xiaoya’s Lesser Five-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave had blasted the monster apart and melted much of the central hall, though the attack had exhausted more than half his magic power.
• Li Xiaoya led the others to a passage emitting a strong blue-green life aura, and Xu Shaogui suddenly cried out that he remembered something.

After destroying the ancient guardian tree demon, Li Xiaoya was ambushed by Xu Shaogui, Fairy Hanling, and White Snake Fairy. He endured their combined trump-card attacks, shattered their defenses, and pursued White Snake Fairy as she begged for her life.

• Xu Shaogui and Li Xiaoya speculated that the giant gate’s guardian had grown too large to escape, unaware it had been an ancient tree demon.
• Xu Shaogui launched black flying needles at Li Xiaoya while Fairy Hanling and White Snake Fairy attacked him with their treasures.
• Li Xiaoya blocked the ambush with the Five-Element Shield Art and countered with Five-Colored Spiritual Light Giant Hands, smashing the three attackers’ defensive treasures and injuring them.
• Li Xiaoya pursued the fleeing White Snake Fairy with the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash, and she cried out for mercy.

Li Xiaoya killed White Snake Fairy, Fairy Hanling, and Xu Shaogui after they attacked him, then took the key Xu Shaogui had revealed. He entered the passage leading into the Treasure Beast Lair, sent out a clone as backup, and reached an astonishing sight at its end.

• Li Xiaoya used the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash to burn White Snake Fairy to ashes, then swiftly attacked Fairy Hanling and cut her down.
• Li Xiaoya pursued Xu Shaogui, who tried to escape and threatened him with a key to the lair's supreme treasure, but Li Xiaoya killed him and caught the key.
• Li Xiaoya collected the three cultivators' treasures and reflected that greed had driven their planned attack on him and Jade Disk.
• Li Xiaoya examined the bronze key, headed toward the entrance filled with life spiritual qi, and sent a clone out as backup.
• Li Xiaoya cautiously flew through the passage and reached its end, where an astonishing sight awaited him.

Li Xiaoya discovered a stump filled with powerful Life Law runes and countless treasures, but the chamber’s rules appeared to limit each cultivator to one. After his attempts to seize multiple treasures failed, he noticed something that might reveal how to claim them.

• Li Xiaoya entered the sealed chamber and found an enormous stump covered in Life Law runes and embedded with numerous treasures.
• He landed on the stump, absorbed its life aura as it healed his injuries, and realized its runes could help him comprehend the Life Law.
• The stump activated, launching its treasures into the air and displaying Immortal Spirit Realm Characters that Li Xiaoya interpreted as “one person, one treasure.”
• Li Xiaoya caught a flying red treasure, but the other treasures returned to the stump, and he put the one he had caught away.
• He pulled a sword and another treasure from the stump, but each vanished and reappeared in its original place, prompting him to exclaim that he had figured something out.

Li Xiaoya used his Four-Eared Giant Ape form and immense strength to uproot the treasure-laden stump from the hall and store it away. A strange gurgling sound then rose from the pit left behind, and he turned to investigate.

• The Five-Poison Divine Chicken learned that the Purple-Horn Race cultivator Jia Ming was alive inside the Treasure Beast Lair and ordered Blood Demon Baleful Intent to capture him.
• Old Monster Qianyuan realized that the demon beasts attacking him and Marquis Hanbo inside the mist-filled formation were illusions.
• Cultivators continued building the metal pagoda while White True King and Zhenningzi were away gathering more materials.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into a Four-Eared Giant Ape and struggled to uproot the treasure-studded tree stump, shaking the hall and the Treasure Beast Lair.
• Li Xiaoya finally wrenched the stump free, stored it in a Storage Ring, and returned to his original form.
• A gurgling sound came from the pit where the stump had stood, startling Li Xiaoya as he looked toward it.

Li Xiaoya discovered a vast reservoir of source of life beneath the uprooted tree and collected much of it before sharing the remaining liquid with Guagua. After absorbing it for more than two months and failing to find its source, Guagua asked Li Xiaoya to trade a bottle for something good.

• Li Xiaoya recognized the blue-green liquid welling from the pit as source of life and used storage treasures to collect it.
• Guagua emerged from Li Xiaoya and rushed toward the source of life, but Li Xiaoya restrained Guagua to keep Guagua from absorbing it all.
• After the treasures filled, Li Xiaoya and Guagua entered the remaining source of life and absorbed it for more than two months.
• Li Xiaoya and Guagua searched the pit for the source of the liquid but found nothing.
• Guagua asked Li Xiaoya for a bottle of source of life and offered to give him something good in return.

Li Xiaoya found a wooden slip among Xu Shaogui’s spoils and used its information to locate a passage out of the vast space. He opened its metal gate, but a Giant-Toothed Mammoth blocked the way and endured his attack with little damage.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma demanded a share of the Source of Life, and Li Xiaoya promised to give it some after it finished refining what it had absorbed.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma returned to Li Xiaoya’s body to refine the Source of Life, while Li Xiaoya examined Xu Shaogui’s belongings for clues.
• Li Xiaoya found an ancient wooden slip, read the information stored inside it, and flew upward to a metal passage.
• Li Xiaoya used Xu Shaogui’s bronze key to open a Metal Giant Gate, preparing for the Demon Beast he expected to find behind it.
• A Giant-Toothed Mammoth appeared, and Li Xiaoya’s sword rays struck its head but left only shallow gashes.

Li Xiaoya discovered that the Giant-Toothed Mammoth was a peak Immortal Tribulation Stage demon beast that had died during its tribulation. After failing to find the object he sought in the pavilion, he suspected the mammoth had swallowed it and burned its remains, uncovering strands of blood essence and a tiny blue-green Token.

• Li Xiaoya confirmed the motionless Giant-Toothed Mammoth was dead and found its corpse in a vast metal cavern.
• Li Xiaoya sensed that the mammoth had failed its tribulation, then used the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword to dissect its corpse in search of blood essence.
• Li Xiaoya searched a pavilion above the main hall for an object described in the wooden slips, but found only an empty dais.
• Li Xiaoya suspected the mammoth had taken the missing object and burned its scattered flesh and organs.
• After more than two days, Li Xiaoya found strands of blood essence and a tiny blue-green Token among the remains.