Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast agreed to share the Herb Garden’s treasures after Li Xiaoya kept the Earth Soul. As they traveled there, Li Xiaoya learned how the Earth Soul could strengthen his earth abilities and help him comprehend earth-type origin force, while Ning Mozi’s party discovered the aftermath of their battle and suspected someone else was heading for the Herb Garden.

• A lonely fairy on Rainbow Rosy Peak thought of the man who had ascended and resolved to act within a hundred years before vanishing in blue light.
• Li Xiaoya negotiated a forty-sixty split of the Herb Garden’s spirit herbs with the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and secured first pick of ten kinds of herbs and, if the garden held too few, first choice of later treasures.
• As they hurried toward the Herb Garden, Li Xiaoya asked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma about the Earth God, the Heart of the Earth, and the Earth Soul.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that the Earth Soul could improve Li Xiaoya’s earth immortal root, earth-type spells, and comprehension of earth origin force.
• Ning Mozi and the Heavenly Demon Race party found the ravaged battlefield left by Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast, and Ning Mozi feared another group was heading to the Herb Garden.

Ning Mozi’s group and the Devil Race party raced through the second layer of the Primordial Ruins toward their separate objectives. Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast reached the Herb Garden’s entrance, where Li Xiaoya attacked the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast and triggered its counterattack.

• Ning Mozi reasoned that someone had advanced ahead of his group, then led the others down the cliff toward their destination.
• Prince Modong ordered the Devil Race party to ignore the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators and continue searching for the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass on the bottommost layer.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast told Li Xiaoya that the Herb Garden’s guardian was the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast and that the garden’s restrictions remained intact.
• Li Xiaoya concealed himself and crept toward the guardian, mistaking its sprout-like form for a possible heavenly treasure until he sensed its powerful life aura.
• Li Xiaoya fired a golden sword ray at the sprout and leaped away as a huge dark green vine arm burst from the ground to attack him.

Li Xiaoya enraged the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast by striking its exposed sprout, then fought the powerful creature as it emerged from underground. After their clash badly injured him, he fled while the beast pursued him across the ground.

• Li Xiaoya evaded the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast's vine hand while his golden sword ray wounded its exposed sprout.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast burst out of the ground and pounced on Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya attacked the wood-element beast with flaming sword rays, but its enormous green hand smashed through them.
• Li Xiaoya blocked the green hand with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, was blasted backward, and suffered injuries.
• Li Xiaoya fled using fire and the Storm Gold-Light Wings as the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast pursued him, its cracked green hand burning with flames.

Li Xiaoya fled the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast while waiting for the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast to attack, and he used a five-colored blast to lure the beast into position. As the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast turned to meet a descending golden beam, the beam dodged its counterattack and continued toward its body.

• Li Xiaoya struck the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast’s green hand with his staff, then dodged its tentacle beams with his Storm Gold-Light Wings.
• Li Xiaoya and the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast raced through the mountain mists as the beast relentlessly pursued him.
• Li Xiaoya fired a Five-Colored Spiritual Light Ball at the beast, and its green breath beam blasted the attack into the distance.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast fired a massive beam at Li Xiaoya, who evaded it as the attack devastated the surrounding land.
• A golden beam descended toward the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast, which fired a green beam to stop it; the golden beam twisted aside and continued toward the beast.

The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast ambushed the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast, badly wounding it, while Li Xiaoya was blasted into a mountainside and left buried. The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast survived and turned on its attacker, and the two beasts prepared to fight over the Herb Garden.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast struck the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast with a secret art, while the beast’s counterattack blasted Li Xiaoya into a mountain.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast assumed both Li Xiaoya and the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast were dead and planned to claim the Herb Garden.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast suddenly attacked with dark-green tentacles and hurled the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast toward the ground.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast cut through the tentacles with his claws and escaped, discovering that the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast had healed but was gravely weakened.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast dismissed the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast’s warnings about their master and charged at it to seize the Herb Garden.

The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast fought over Great Immortal Haocang’s Herb Garden, with both beasts badly wounded. As the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast fled toward the garden entrance, a gigantic five-colored sword suddenly emerged from the ground and slashed toward it.

• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast exchanged powerful attacks, and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast gained the upper hand after its earlier sneak attack had injured its opponent.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast accused One-Horn of targeting Great Immortal Haocang’s Herb Garden, but One-Horn dismissed its warning and continued attacking.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast spat a curving green beam that struck the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and blasted it away, scattering its dark purple blood.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast fled toward the Herb Garden entrance while the slower One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast pursued it despite its wound.
• A gigantic five-colored spiritual sword burst from the ground ahead of the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast and slashed toward its waist.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast joined forces against the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast. After Li Xiaoya severed one of its legs and the beast regrew it, the pair brought it down again, leaving Li Xiaoya poised to strike its head.

• Li Xiaoya recovered from the beast’s green beam, concealed himself, and dug an underground passage toward the Herb Garden while the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast fought the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast.
• Li Xiaoya emerged when the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast tried to flee and severed its leg with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast attacked the fallen beast, but the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast dodged and regenerated its severed leg.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast wrapped its tail around the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast’s leg and dragged it down, allowing Li Xiaoya to launch a sword strike at its head.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast lashed Li Xiaoya with dark-green tentacles, but he cut hundreds of them apart as his sword ray reached the beast.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast killed the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast, who then self-destructed. They survived the blast, and Li Xiaoya confronted the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast for waiting too long to help.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast struck the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast from behind, exposing his head to Li Xiaoya's sword, which severed it.
• The Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast's demon nascent infant tried to flee, but Li Xiaoya trapped it in a five-colored spiritual-light hand as the beast's body began to self-destruct.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast flung the glowing body away, and its explosion devastated the valley while Ning Mozi's group struggled to advance through demon-beast territory.
• Li Xiaoya survived underground, and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast escaped into the sky; they reunited beyond the crater.
• Li Xiaoya accused the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast of delaying his aid, and the beast claimed he had waited for the right opportunity.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast opened the Herb Garden and discovered its vast fields of spirit herbs. As they reached the garden, Ning Mozi and his party arrived outside the entrance, while countless herb-like spirits fluttered over the fields.

• Li Xiaoya told the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast that the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast's demon nascent infant had been a fake, and asked whether Great Immortal Haocang was still alive.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast used a white pearl as a spiritual key to dispel the restrictions sealing the archway, and Li Xiaoya followed him inside.
• Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast crossed the passage, enduring the powerful medicinal fragrance as the beast explained that he had obtained the key from a blue-skinned fellow from Dark Lake.
• Ning Mozi, Jin Gangzhan, Titan, and the other Heavenly Demon Race Legacy Disciples reached the archway and recognized it as the entrance to the Herb Garden.
• Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast emerged at the edge of a cliff overlooking vast herb fields, light barriers filled with spirit herbs, and translucent beings flying above them.

Li Xiaoya searched the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s Herb Garden for soul-restoring herbs and secured the rare Seven-Colored Hibiscus through a bargain. Elsewhere, other groups prepared to breach obstacles on the second level, while Li Xiaoya and the beast began harvesting the remaining herbs.

• Li Xiaoya explored the vast Herb Garden, passed up life flowers, and continued searching for herbs to restore the soul and the nine-heavens immortalizing grass.
• Outside the garden, Jin Gangzhan’s group assembled a Star-Realm Spirit Cannon after repeated attempts to break through the archway’s restrictions had failed.
• Prince Modong and the Devil Race group encountered a herd of powerful Demon Beasts, and the Fire Demon Lord proposed that he and Prince Modong lure them away.
• Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators prepared a formation beside a huge array of stone pillars on the second level.
• Li Xiaoya found the Seven-Colored Hibiscus and agreed to share it with the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast in exchange for half the Heart of the Earth.
• Li Xiaoya stored the Seven-Colored Hibiscus in a ten-thousand-year mystic ice box, and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast offered to harvest the other Spirit Herbs.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast harvested most of the spirit herbs before a Star-Realm Spirit Cannon blasted open the herb garden’s entrance. They discovered Jin Gangzhan, Ning Mozi, and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators outside, and the beast asked Li Xiaoya whether they should kill them.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast gathered the spirit herbs that could be harvested directly and gave Li Xiaoya sixty percent of them.
• Li Xiaoya and the beast split up to harvest the remaining herbs, but stopped when explosions shook the herb garden.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast blasted the remaining herb fields to destroy the herbs before anyone else could take them.
• Jin Gangzhan and the other cultivators used an overpowered shot from the Star-Realm Spirit Cannon to break through the entrance, ruining the cannon in the process.
• Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast saw the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators outside, and the beast asked whether they should attack them.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast escaped the Herb Garden and headed for the third layer so Li Xiaoya could seek something needed to save his life. Meanwhile, Ning Mozi and the other Heavenly Demon Race cultivators found the Herb Garden empty and decided to pursue the third layer, while a giant white ape was followed through a dark passage by three eight-limbed figures.

• Li Xiaoya persuaded the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast to avoid the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators, and they escaped underground without being seen.
• Jin Gangzhan led Ning Mozi and the others into the Herb Garden after they collected the damaged Star Realm Spirit Cannon.
• Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast traveled toward the third layer, where Charging Bull Beasts guarded the entrance, because Li Xiaoya still needed to find something connected to a Mighty One Stage cultivator.
• Ning Mozi and the others found the Herb Garden stripped bare, suspected a Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator had taken the herbs, and decided to head for the third layer.
• A giant white ape raced through a dark passage as three eight-limbed figures silently followed him.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast entered the third layer after finding evidence that Devil Race cultivators had fought their way through the passage. A mysterious white-mist figure watched the arriving groups, while Li Xiaoya emerged into the third layer and discovered that his companion had vanished.

• Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast found countless Charging Bull Beast corpses and traces of demonic qi near the damaged passage, then hurried toward the third layer.
• Prince Modong and his companions fought a three-headed Charging Bull Beast while the Mystery Devil Lord was missing.
• A white-mist figure awakened in a valley around a nine-layered white lotus and used Light Curtains to observe Li Xiaoya, the Devil Race, the Heavenly Demon Race, and the Dark Lake cultivators.
• The white-mist figure recognized the different groups and declared that he would gather them all to claim his treasure.
• Li Xiaoya sensed an unseen presence watching him as he and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast flew through the passage toward the third layer.
• Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast emerged into the misty third layer, where flight was possible but divine sense remained restricted, and Li Xiaoya found that the beast had disappeared.

Li Xiaoya became trapped in a vast white-mist formation after the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast vanished and the passage disappeared. The beast encountered a mist figure claiming to be Great Immortal Haocang, who ordered him to kill Li Xiaoya and seize his treasure.

• Li Xiaoya found the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and the entrance to the second level gone, then tested the endless mist with golden sword blades.
• Li Xiaoya suspected he was caught in a formation or restriction and stayed still to study his surroundings.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast was separated from Li Xiaoya and met a human-shaped figure formed from glowing white mist.
• The figure accused the beast of neglecting his post and consorting with an outside cultivator, and the beast explained that Li Xiaoya had freed him from the God-Binding Golden Chains.
• After learning that Li Xiaoya possessed a treasure capable of cutting the chains, Great Immortal Haocang ordered the beast to kill him and take it.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast claimed a soul contract prevented him from attacking Li Xiaoya and asked the figure to remove it, while privately growing suspicious of him.

The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast negotiated with the figure of white mist, who ordered him to help fight the Devil Race while withholding his plans for Li Xiaoya. Meanwhile, Jin Gangzhan warned Ning Mozi’s party that the third layer had once brought disaster to his Diamond Household, and the cultivators reconsidered entering it before a demon beast appeared in the thickening mist.

• The figure of white mist agreed to delay restoring the blood restriction on the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and ordered him to join the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast against the Devil Race.
• Ning Mozi’s party traveled toward the third layer, and Jin Gangzhan revealed that a Diamond Household senior who returned from it had been possessed and had caused a near-destruction of the household.
• Jin Gangzhan urged the group to avoid the third layer, and Ning Mozi proposed turning back before Jin Gangzhan suggested searching the second layer instead.
• Most of the cultivators agreed to explore the second layer, but thick white mist surrounded them and forced them to huddle together with defensive treasures ready.
• A red-scaled, black-armored Serpentine Demon Beast appeared in the mist and recognized the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators.

Li Xiaoya fled a group of Heavenly Demon Race cultivators and realized he was trapped in a shifting bewildering formation. The white-mist figure manipulated the formation while watching the battle between two demon beasts and Prince Modong’s group, and Li Xiaoya encountered another group in the mist.

• Ning Mozi and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators surrounded Li Xiaoya, but he escaped into the mist and left them stranded in the formation.
• Ning Mozi called on Xi Lanruyu to study the formation while the group stayed alert.
• Li Xiaoya decided to keep moving through the shifting mist rather than risk revealing his identity or fighting the cultivators.
• The white-mist figure altered the formation and watched the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast fight Prince Modong and the other devils.
• Li Xiaoya flew aimlessly through the mist until another group of figures appeared before him.

Li Xiaoya and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators repeatedly encountered one another in the white mist maze, while Xi Lanruyu suspected the mist might be controlled by a powerful cultivator rather than a formation. Unable to contact Guagua, Li Xiaoya transformed into a Bull-Head Race member and approached the group again, seemingly confirming his suspicion that they were trapped in a loop.

• Titan attacked Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya blocked his red-light fist and fled into the mist as the other cultivators’ attacks failed to hit him.
• Xi Lanruyu warned that the white mist might be the work of a cultivator who controlled the laws of Heaven and Earth and space, then led the group onward to search for a way out.
• Li Xiaoya realized he had returned to the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators again, found Guagua unresponsive while it digested the Mysterious Nether Rainbowwood Beast’s demon nascent infant, and fled when the group appeared.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into a Bull-Head Race member, and a white-mist figure watching through a Light Curtain noticed his Transformation Technique.
• The Heavenly Demon Race cultivators encountered Li Xiaoya in his Bull-Head Race guise, and he inwardly concluded that they were traveling in circles.

Li Xiaoya met the Heavenly Demon Race party in the white mist, and they debated whether someone controlled the Primordial Ruins or wielded the Heaven-and-Earth Spatial Laws. The white mist figure redirected the fleeing Devil Race cultivators toward the Heavenly Demon Race, and the Fire Demon Lord ran into them.

• Li Xiaoya encountered the Heavenly Demon Race party and learned they had been moved from the second layer into the mist, while he insisted he had reached the third layer.
• Xi Lanruyu and Ning Mozi speculated that a master of the Heaven-and-Earth Spatial Laws or someone controlling the Primordial Ruins had trapped them, and Li Xiaoya concealed how he had arrived.
• The white mist figure watched the groups meet, then saw Prince Modong and his companions flee after the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast attacked them.
• The white mist figure stopped the beasts from pursuing their prey and redirected the Devil Race cultivators toward the Heavenly Demon Race party.
• The Fire Demon Lord escaped into the mist and encountered the Heavenly Demon Race party, whose members recognized him as Senior Brother Demonfire.

Li Xiaoya noticed signs that Demonfire-the Fire Demon Lord might be a Devil Race infiltrator as devil cultivators arrived among the Heavenly Demon Race group. The two sides avoided fighting, and Ning Mozi asked whether the newcomers from the Demon Star Realm were trapped in the fog as well.

• Demonfire-the Fire Demon Lord met Ning Mozi and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators, while Li Xiaoya sensed a trace of Devil Race aura on him and grew suspicious.
• The Omniscient Devil Lord appeared, and the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators surrounded him; Li Xiaoya noticed that Demonfire seemed to secretly communicate with the newcomer.
• Prince Modong arrived and challenged the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators, while the Twin Phantom Devils joined him and heightened the standoff.
• The white-fog figure watched the groups and suspected that Demonfire was a Devil Race infiltrator and that Li Xiaoya did not belong to the Heavenly Demon Race.
• Prince Modong asked whether the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators were trapped in the fog too, and Ning Mozi asked if the devils from the Demon Star Realm were trapped there as well.

Li Xiaoya watched as the Heavenly Demon Race and Prince Modong’s Devil Race agreed to cooperate while trapped in the fog, which the white-mist figure was controlling. The fog revealed an enormous Trial Tower, where the figure announced that passing its trials would allow them to inherit Great Immortal Haocang’s mantle.

• Prince Modong proposed that the Devil Race and Heavenly Demon Race work together to escape the fog, and Ning Mozi persuaded his companions to accept.
• Li Xiaoya suspected that Demonfire had secretly brought the Devil Race to the Primordial Ruins, but kept his thoughts to himself.
• Prince Modong told Ning Mozi that his group had fled two Heaven-and-Earth Realm elder demon beasts, the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast.
• Ning Mozi and Prince Modong agreed that someone was controlling the fog and turning the cultivators against one another.
• The white mist dispersed to reveal a colossal tower, and the white-mist figure announced that passing its trials would let them inherit Great Immortal Haocang’s mantle.