Chapter Summaries

The white-mist figure lured the cultivators toward the Trial Tower with the promise of Great Immortal Haocang’s legacy and rewards for each floor they passed. As some cultivators entered, Li Xiaoya remained wary, while Xi Lanruyu questioned the figure about the trials and how to leave.

• The white-mist figure claimed to be a sliver of Great Immortal Haocang’s consciousness and said the tower held ten trials required to inherit the legacy.
• Xi Lanruyu asked who would receive the legacy if several cultivators passed, and the figure said only the first would likely obtain it.
• Xi Lanruyu questioned whether anyone had passed before and asked if she could leave without participating, but the figure refused to provide clear answers.
• The white-mist figure offered treasures and cultivation methods for each floor, claiming a cultivator who reached the eighth floor had advanced into the heaven-and-earth realm.
• A ninth-ranked Heavenly Demon Race Legacy Disciple and another Great Void Stage Cultivator flew toward the tower, while Ning Mozi and the Devil Race cultivators hesitated.
• Xi Lanruyu asked how they could leave without taking the trials, and the white-mist figure coldly said it was not his responsibility.

The cultivators gathered at the Trial Tower chose to wait and recover rather than enter immediately, suspecting the misty figure had trapped them for his own purposes. Elsewhere, the misty figure kept other creatures confined, while a group on the tower’s second level finished preparing an ambush.

• The misty figure told the remaining cultivators that the Trial Tower was their only way out, and Xi Lanruyu, Li Xiaoya, Ning Mozi, and Prince Modong agreed the situation was suspicious.
• Ning Mozi led the cultivators to the Trial Tower’s base, where Prince Modong proposed sending some inside while the others waited; Ning Mozi instead chose to wait and monitor the cultivators already inside.
• Watching through a Light Curtain, the misty figure cursed the cultivators for waiting and decided not to rush into killing those who had entered the tower.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast were told to rest, though the surrounding mist continued to keep them trapped.
• The white-haired, white-bearded elder from the Mystic Lake Star Realm finished work on a Teleportation Formation and planned to hide nearby to ambush anyone who emerged.
• Three eight-limbed figures found that the white-furred ape had vanished from the cave where they had been watching him, and they rushed after him.

Li Xiaoya and the other cultivators waited outside the Trial Tower while they recovered, and he grew wary of the Devil Race and its suspected infiltrator, Demonfire. After Ning Mozi learned that the first cultivator inside had advanced, the Heavenly Demon Race urged him to lead them into the tower.

• Li Xiaoya, Prince Modong, and the other cultivators meditated outside the Trial Tower while the white-mist figure watched them and waited for someone to enter.
• Prince Modong admitted to Ning Mozi that he belonged to the Devil Emperor Clan, but refused to send a subordinate into the tower; Li Xiaoya noticed Prince Modong exchange a knowing nod with Demonfire and suspected him of being a Devil Race infiltrator.
• Xi Lanruyu asked Li Xiaoya about entering the tower and requested his help if danger arose, and Li Xiaoya agreed.
• The cultivators waited for seven or eight days without hearing news from those already inside, and the impatient white-mist figure decided to push them into action.
• Ning Mozi sensed through a red pearl that Junior Brother Hongguang had advanced, prompting Titan and the other Heavenly Demon Race cultivators to urge Ning Mozi to lead them into the Trial Tower.

Hongguang advanced to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm inside the Trial Tower, prompting the gathered cultivators to enter despite Li Xiaoya’s suspicions. Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu stayed outside, but the misty figure sent two enormous creatures toward them.

• The misty figure confirmed that Hongguang had passed seven levels and advanced to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, while the other two cultivators remained on the third and fifth levels.
• The misty figure revealed that Hongguang had exited the tower and urged more cultivators to participate; Li Xiaoya suspected he was manipulating them.
• Ning Mozi’s group debated entering, with Titan and most of the Heavenly Demon Race favoring entry while Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu urged caution.
• Prince Modong and three Devil Race cultivators entered the tower, followed by Ning Mozi and the others, including Demonfire.
• Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu remained outside to meditate, but two enormous creatures appeared and charged toward them.

Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu faced the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast after the other cultivators entered the heaven-and-earth realm. Li Xiaoya revealed his Charm Snake Ancestor form and fought off the beasts’ fire attacks, but the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast engulfed the battlefield in flames.

• Xi Lanruyu urged Li Xiaoya to enter the realm, but he said they had a better chance staying outside.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into the Charm Snake Ancestor’s snake-demon form, and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast recognized him.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast attacked Li Xiaoya with a fire sphere, which he smashed aside with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• Li Xiaoya struck away two more fire spheres as the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast prepared a powerful attack.
• Li Xiaoya warned Xi Lanruyu to dodge as the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast slammed its forehooves into the ground, triggering a vast eruption of flames.
• Li Xiaoya flew aside with his Storm Gold-Light Wings, but successive jets of flame continued to erupt beneath him.

Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu fought to evade the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s lava attacks, while the White-Mist Figure tried to force the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast to join the battle. Li Xiaoya counterattacked with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, and the chapter ended as the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast finally moved.

• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast flooded the battlefield with lava pillars, and Xi Lanruyu was struck and injured while dodging.
• Li Xiaoya stopped dodging and endured the beast’s attack with his five-element defenses, then used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to absorb the lava’s spiritual qi.
• Xi Lanruyu escaped behind Li Xiaoya as the White-Mist Figure berated the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast for refusing to attack because of its soul contract with Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya launched the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff at the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast, whose three heads met it with pillars of lava.
• As the staff and lava attack clashed in a stalemate, Li Xiaoya shouted at the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast, which finally moved.

Li Xiaoya, the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast, and the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast unleashed powerful divine abilities in a fierce battle. The chapter ended as the tiger-lion beast swung its Rock Maul at the bull beast’s flank, forcing it to raise a Red-Light Shield.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast unexpectedly attacked the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast with its golden claws.
• The bull beast countered with a primeval bull-head phantom while its molten flames blasted Li Xiaoya’s Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff away.
• Li Xiaoya used an ice sphere to counter the flames, recalled his staff, and escaped the spreading elemental vortex with his Storm Gold-Light Wings.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast overpowered the tiger-lion beast’s claws and hurled it into the air.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast twisted in midair and struck at the bull beast’s flank with its Rock Maul, and the bull beast raised a Red-Light Shield.

The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast battered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast, which countered with its Fire Charging Bull Technique and drove its opponent back. As the bull phantoms overwhelmed the Tiger-Lion Beast’s defenses, Li Xiaoya launched his God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave at the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast shattered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s shield and struck its belly, sending it crashing across the ground.
• Ignoring the white-mist figure’s furious orders, the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast prepared another attack while the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast regained its footing.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast fired golden and orange beams, but the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast charged through them with its Fire Charging Bull Technique.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast halted and unleashed flaming bull phantoms, which battered the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s orange mountain-mist defense.
• Li Xiaoya merged his golden and blue orbs and fired the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave at the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast.

Li Xiaoya’s God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave collided with the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s fire technique, creating a massive blast that tore open the sky and cratered the battlefield. Li Xiaoya emerged unharmed with the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast, but the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast roared from the crater, revealing it had survived.

• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast countered Li Xiaoya’s God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave with its Fire Charging Bull Technique, and the attacks erupted into a colossal explosion.
• Xi Lanruyu retreated from the blast but was driven backward by the astral winds, while cultivators on the second level felt the resulting tremors.
• As the light faded, Li Xiaoya reflected on how his strengthened body and water-element power had made the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave so formidable.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast brought Li Xiaoya out of the blast zone, and Li Xiaoya said he was unharmed after the beast shielded him from the explosion.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast roared and flew out of the crater, showing Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast that it had survived.

The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast survived Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s joint attack by revealing the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, then unleashed a vast fire giant against them. Li Xiaoya escaped its grasp, and Xi Lanruyu intervened to help the trapped One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast break free.

• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast emerged in humanoid form wearing the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, which Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast recognized as a Heaven-Opening Treasure.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast spread a sea of scorching flames and formed an enormous fire giant that attacked Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast.
• Li Xiaoya used the Fire Dragon Sword and Storm Gold-Light Wings to cut through the fire giant’s hand and escape.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast engulfed the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast in the fire giant’s hand, and the beast’s cries came from within the flames.
• Xi Lanruyu struck the fire giant’s hand with two enormous blue swords, blasting apart much of the flame and allowing the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast to break free.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast learned that the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast wielded Great Immortal Haocang’s Heaven-Opening Treasure, the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, and fought back against its fire attacks. The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast was left trapped and close to defeat as Li Xiaoya charged toward the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast.

• The White-Mist Figure ordered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast to capture the two human outsiders alive and kill the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast’s stone armor shattered, and he told Li Xiaoya that the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor was a Heaven-Opening Treasure and that Great Immortal Haocang had bound the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast with a blood restriction.
• Li Xiaoya, low on magic power, decided to attack the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast head-on and urged the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast to fight with him.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast unleashed flame tentacles from the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, but Li Xiaoya blocked them with a barrage of five-colored sword rays and charged toward him.
• A flame serpent coiled around the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast and squeezed him as he screamed in pain.

Li Xiaoya and the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast fought the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast, whose Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor overwhelmed the beast and unleashed devastating flames. Li Xiaoya wounded the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast with the Fire Dragon Sword, but was left trapped, injured, and unable to cast spells.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast charged the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast but was ambushed by a flaming serpent and burned despite smashing it with his Rock Maul.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast plunged to the ground beside the pit, while Li Xiaoya cut through the flaming tentacles and struck the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast with a powerful sword slash.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast vanished using the Fire Escape Technique and blasted Li Xiaoya backward with a ring of flames, which Li Xiaoya blocked with his shield and armor.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast reappeared and struck at Li Xiaoya, then used a command and the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor to paralyze him, trap him in flames, and seize his Fire Dragon Sword.

Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu struggled against the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s fire abilities, which sealed Li Xiaoya’s magic power and trapped them both. The beast bound Xi Lanruyu and sent red ropes after Li Xiaoya as he continued attacking its barrier.

• Li Xiaoya failed to wrench the Fire Dragon Sword from the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast, whose flames had sealed his magic power.
• Xi Lanruyu attacked the beast with her two blue swords, but it shattered them and wounded her.
• The beast trapped Xi Lanruyu in a flaming cage, then bound her in red ropes that left her motionless and seemingly under its control.
• Li Xiaoya struck the contracting fire barrier with repeated punches, but could not break through it.
• The beast ordered the barrier to contract, and red ropes shot toward Li Xiaoya as he kept punching.

Li Xiaoya tried to escape the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s flame barrier but was captured along with Xi Lanruyu. The White-Mist Figure ordered the beast to return Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword to his Storage Pouch and bring both captives along, while the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast remained missing.

• Li Xiaoya abandoned the Fire Dragon Sword and punched through the red flame barrier, but the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s ropes dragged him back inside and subdued him.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast captured Li Xiaoya and absorbed the flames into the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor.
• The White-Mist Figure appeared and ordered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast to bring Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu to him.
• The White-Mist Figure rejected the beast’s attempt to keep the Fire Dragon Sword and ordered it returned to Li Xiaoya’s Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• The White-Mist Figure noticed the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast had escaped underground, then led the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast and its captives away.

Li Xiaoya remained unconscious as the White-Mist Figure brought him and Xi Lanruyu to his cave abode, a valley filled with Star-River Golden Spheres. The figure ordered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast to throw the two outside cultivators into a mysterious sunken valley.

• Li Xiaoya found himself trapped in darkness, unable to move, see, hear, or use his divine sense.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast escaped underground, guessed that Great Immortal Haocang had placed a blood restriction on the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast, and began treating his wounds with herbs.
• Titan realized the Trial Tower might be a trap and fled as a huge presence approached, while another Heavenly Demon Race Legacy Disciple fought a monster elsewhere in the tower.
• Three eight-limbed figures spotted the white giant ape in a mist-filled cave and pursued it.
• The White-Mist Figure led the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast, carrying Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu, through the Star-River Golden Spheres to a glowing valley.
• The White-Mist Figure ordered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast to throw Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu into the valley.

The White-Mist Figure discovered that Li Xiaoya’s body was ideal for restoring his cultivation and prepared to take possession of it, while the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast attacked the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast. The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast spotted a possible passage to the Second Layer and raced toward it.

• The White-Mist Figure ordered the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast to find and kill the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast, then used spatial laws to send him to the beast’s location.
• The White-Mist Figure examined Li Xiaoya and Xi Lanruyu, deciding that Li Xiaoya’s body could help restore his cultivation and that Xi Lanruyu could serve as a furnace cauldron.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast emerged from underground and attacked the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast with blasts of flame.
• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast spotted what appeared to be a passage to the Second Layer, deflected the pursuing flames, and shot upward toward it.

The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast broke through the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s attack and fled through the Metal Passage, leaving its pursuer injured and furious. Meanwhile, the White-Mist Figure began a ritual to use the bound Li Xiaoya and the nine-heavens immortalizing grass, leaving Li Xiaoya unconscious as the Nine-Layer Lotus started to open.

• The One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast used its two Demon Cores to break through the Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast’s flaming Light Net and escaped its attack.
• The Three-Headed Charging Bull Beast suffered injuries to its bull heads’ eyes and pursued the badly burned One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast through the Metal Passage.
• The White-Mist Figure noticed Li Xiaoya’s powerful will, tightened the red-glowing ropes around him, and decided to begin its ritual.
• The White-Mist Figure chanted as the Golden-Light Liquid Lake surged, then bound Li Xiaoya with beams of golden liquid until he lost consciousness.
• The White-Mist Figure directed golden light into the nine-heavens immortalizing grass, and the Nine-Layer Lotus began to unfurl.

The White-Mist Figure absorbed half the spiritual qi of the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass and used the Star-River Golden Spheres to attack Li Xiaoya. The Immortal Dao Chain resisted and absorbed the golden threads, and Li Xiaoya woke as the White-Mist Figure realized his plan was in danger.

• The White-Mist Figure absorbed spiritual light from the Nine-Heavens Immortalizing Grass until his aura reached the peak of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.
• The White-Mist Figure freed Li Xiaoya from his red restraints but kept him bound by golden beams.
• The White-Mist Figure activated the Star-River Golden Spheres and gathered their golden threads into a sphere to strike Li Xiaoya.
• The Immortal Dao Chain shielded Li Xiaoya from the attack, then faltered as the White-Mist Figure sent more golden threads against it.
• The Immortal Dao Chain shattered its barrier, absorbed the remaining golden threads, and turned brilliantly golden.
• Li Xiaoya opened his eyes, alarming the White-Mist Figure.

The White-Mist Figure, Great Immortal Haocang, subdued Li Xiaoya and sealed the Immortal Dao Chain in golden crystal so he could possess Li Xiaoya’s body. After infusing Li Xiaoya with golden runes and entering his forehead, Haocang attacked his soul, leaving Li Xiaoya grievously wounded.

• The White-Mist Figure rebound Li Xiaoya with golden beams after Li Xiaoya briefly opened his eyes, then discovered the Immortal Dao Chain resisted his attacks.
• The White-Mist Figure found that a harmless beam could pass the chain’s protection and encased it in golden crystal.
• A distant figure surrounded by five-colored spiritual light sensed an unforeseen change but could not divine what had happened.
• The White-Mist Figure sent golden liquid threads through Li Xiaoya’s meridians, covered his body in runes, and revealed that he was Haocang seeking revenge on the Devil Emperor Clan and Immortal Race.
• Haocang entered Li Xiaoya’s forehead as a beam of five-colored spiritual light, and Li Xiaoya fell into the Golden-Light Liquid Lake as the Star-River Golden Sphere unleashed its power.
• Li Xiaoya awoke as Haocang’s immense soul struck his, grievously wounding him.

Great Immortal Haocang used the Star-River Golden Spheres and golden liquid to sever Li Xiaoya’s soul from his body and try to destroy it for possession. As Li Xiaoya neared collapse, a cavern collapse knocked the spheres out of position and interrupted Haocang’s attack.

• Great Immortal Haocang attacked Li Xiaoya’s separated soul, and Li Xiaoya fled while trying to hold onto his will and memories.
• Li Xiaoya’s body trembled in the golden liquid as it absorbed power from the Star-River Golden Spheres.
• The three Eight-Clawed Demon Beasts fought the giant white-furred ape over its Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Fruits, and the ape struck one beast when it entered a narrow passage.
• The cavern began collapsing, and the three beasts and the ape discovered the chamber containing the Star-River Golden Spheres.
• Falling rocks struck the spheres and knocked them out of position, causing Great Immortal Haocang’s soul to freeze as Li Xiaoya’s soul neared dispersal.