Recaps

Xiao Hua returned to Black Wind Ridge, heard how Xiong Yi had managed the sect and its powerful allies, and decided to keep their forces from drawing the Immortal Palace’s attention. The next morning, Xiong Yi led Xiao Hua and Li Xiang toward Jiang Kingdom’s capital to witness a mysterious spectacle.

• Xiong Yi recounted how he had concealed the Creation Sect disciples and influential cultivators at Black Wind Ridge while helping Li Xiang maintain the appearance of defending the mountain.
• Xiao Hua learned that the National Teacher’s token required his blood essence to activate and agreed to send it to Princess Changling after Xiong Yi cryptically asked him to wait until the next day.
• Li Xiang and Xiong Yi advised Xiao Hua to keep the powerful cultivators from attracting the Immortal Palace’s attention, and Xiao Hua agreed to their plan.
• Xiao Hua gave the Black Bear Spirit spirit fruits and wine to host a banquet for the guests, then inspected Liu Yi and Wang Zhengfei’s rapid cultivation progress.
• At dawn, Xiong Yi brought Li Xiang to Xiao Hua and led them toward Jiang Kingdom’s capital, hinting that they would witness a fine show and warning Xiao Hua not to disturb those in the city.

Xiao Hua, Xiong Yi, and Li Xiang watched Xiao Jian and Yuan Ya meet at Qin Haoyue’s National Teacher’s Garden. Xiao Jian demanded that Yuan Ya leave Jiang Kingdom and Butterfly Dance, while Yuan Ya insisted he only wanted to protect Princess Changling and help her reclaim her kingdom.

• Xiao Hua rewarded Xiong Yi and Li Xiang with spirit fruits and wine, and Xiong Yi accepted Core Melting Pills after Li Xiang declined them.
• Xiong Yi revealed a mirror view of Qin Haoyue’s residence and explained he had arranged magical artifacts to let them hear what happened there.
• Xiao Hua saw Xiao Jian and was startled to discover Yuan Ya had come to meet him.
• Xiao Jian accused Yuan Ya of opposing his master and ordered him to leave Jiang Kingdom, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Yuan Ya said Xiao Jian was forcing him to abandon Butterfly Dance, and maintained that he only wanted to protect Princess Changling and restore her kingdom.

Yuan Ya confronted Xiao Jian after learning that his former master planned to marry Princess Changling, whom Yuan Ya knew as Butterfly Dance. Xiao Jian attacked him while Yuan Ya refused to retaliate against his first two blows out of regard for their former bond, but their fight escalated as Yuan Ya resisted Xiao Jian’s power and Xiao Jian launched fire talismans at him.

• Xiao Jian accused Yuan Ya of scheming to use Princess Changling, then revealed his invitation to marry her and mocked Yuan Ya’s origins.
• Yuan Ya smashed the invitation, declared that he would kill Xiao Jian, and charged him on Green Leopard.
• Xiao Jian pierced Yuan Ya’s chest with a magical beam, but Yuan Ya refused to strike back because Xiao Jian had once saved him from the arena.
• Xiao Jian’s second beam wounded Yuan Ya’s arm, and Yuan Ya declared that they were strangers on separate roads before blocking Xiao Jian’s disk artifact with his demonic hammer.
• Xiao Jian unleashed Foundation Establishment pressure, but Yuan Ya broke through it with his strength and struck back, while the artifact slashed Green Leopard’s front legs.
• Xiao Jian sent two fire talismans toward Yuan Ya, saying he would make Yuan Ya die beneath Xiao Hua’s talismans.

Yuan Ya defeated Xiao Jian but collapsed from his wounds, and Qin Xiaoyao arrived to find the King of Jiang State dead. When Granny Ji’s forces moved to seize Qin Xiaoyao and the others under a disputed decree, Li Xiang appeared.

• Yuan Ya used the fire talisman’s blast and the Big Dipper Divine Fist to strike Xiao Jian, while both men were wounded by the other’s attack.
• Xiao Jian died from a sudden pain in his abdomen, and Yuan Ya collapsed after confronting Liu Bingzhen and his troops.
• Qin Xiaoyao arrived and discovered Xiao Jian’s corpse, then challenged a decree ordering Yuan Ya and Xiao Jian imprisoned.
• Granny Ji surrounded Qin Xiaoyao and the Creation Sect disciples with armed Daoist soldiers, while Qin Xiaoyao called for them to fight.
• Li Xiang flew in and challenged Granny Ji’s claim that he could not come to Jiang State.

Princess Changling rejected Li Xiang’s intervention and accused Xiao Hua of seeking to found his own kingdom, while Prince Haitian revealed his plan to seize Li Xiang and Black Wind Ridge. Xiao Hua returned in time to confront Haitian and comfort the heartbroken Yuanya.

• Li Xiang challenged Princess Changling over her actions, but she dismissed his authority and accused Xiao Hua of using Jiang Kingdom to establish Xiao Kingdom.
• Princess Changling demanded Li Xiang’s help in reclaiming the Qi Stone mine, and Prince Haitian emerged to threaten him and reveal Gaza Kingdom’s designs on Black Wind Ridge.
• Haitian summoned a Buddhist Protector and urged Li Xiang to submit, but Xiao Hua appeared and openly challenged him.
• Xiao Hua scolded Yuanya for despairing over Princess Changling and told him to take the pills Qin Xiaoyao had brought.

Xiao Hua exposed Haitian’s role in Princess Changling’s origins and confronted the Gaza Kingdom’s Buddhist forces. After Haitian and the monks attacked, Xiao Hua struck back with his Dharma Body Golden Body and targeted one of the old monks.

• Haitian revealed that four senior monks had come to help him capture Xiao Hua, while Xiao Hua questioned him about Princess Changling and the Gaza Kingdom’s schemes.
• Xiao Hua deduced that Changling was a substitute for the true Jiang Kingdom princess, that Granny Ji had stolen the real princess, and that Haitian had arranged Changling’s rise; Haitian confirmed the xun had been a gift to his consort.
• Yuanya threw away the xun and looked toward the woman he had raised, while Xiong Yi appeared and said he had not known about the scheme behind the events.
• Haitian ordered the monks to attack, and Xiao Hua directed Li Xiang and Xiong Yi to hold one monk back before charging Haitian with the As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua’s staff sent Haitian flying, and Xiao Hua used the force to launch himself at another monk, manifesting his enormous Dharma Body Golden Body as the monk’s companion rushed to help.

Xiao Hua killed Haitian and the five Buddhist Protectors, then returned the National Teacher’s token to Princess Changling and prepared to leave the Jiang Kingdom. He welcomed Yuan Ya into his sect, leaving Yuan Ya startled by Xiao Hua’s revelation.

• Xiao Hua used his concealed abilities to defeat the three monks and kill Haitian, while green-robed Xiao Hua killed the remaining two Buddhist Protectors.
• Xiao Hua collected the five men’s Cosmic Bags and reflected on Xiao Jian’s death and Yuan Ya’s suffering.
• Xiao Hua stopped Princess Changling’s explanation, gave her the National Teacher’s token, and told her to restore the Jiang Kingdom herself.
• Xiao Hua ordered the Creation Sect disciples to return to Black Wind Ridge and praised Qin Xiaoyao for standing by Yuan Ya.
• Xiao Hua told Yuan Ya that he had entered the sect, then patted his head as Yuan Ya asked what he meant.

Xiao Hua returned to Black Wind Ridge after rescuing Yuan Ya and gathering more than ten thousand children, then secluded himself to help establish a sect within his space. He also inspected a strange three-headed, six-armed skeleton and showed Xuan Songzi a Yan Lingzhi, leaving Xuan Songzi astonished.

• Yuan Ya knelt and kowtowed to Xiao Hua, who accepted him and brought him and Qin Xiaoyao back toward Black Wind Ridge.
• Princess Changling collapsed in tears as she faced the loss of her power and the destruction of her plans.
• Xiong Yi led Xiao Hua to an estate holding more than ten thousand children, and Xiao Hua collected them into his space for green-robed Xiao Hua and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua to organize.
• Xiao Hua returned to Black Wind Ridge and secluded himself, leaving Xiong Yi to oversee affairs while Creation Sect disciples reported what had happened in Jiang Kingdom.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua inspected the assembled three-headed, six-armed skeleton and found a missing triangular piece of bone.
• Xiao Hua released Xuan Songzi's Nascent Soul and showed him a Yan Lingzhi, surprising him with how Xiao Hua had identified it.

Xiao Hua accepted Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting into his sect, then heard Shui Mingzi’s invitation to visit the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons. After declining to commit, Xiao Hua learned from Ao Zhantian that the Demon King of Ancient Bell Mountain was descended from a Great Sage.

• Xuan Songzi recognized the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit as Human Essence and asked Xiao Hua to accept him as a disciple; Xiao Hua agreed.
• Xiao Hua brought out True Person Jingting, who also joined the sect, and passed on the scattered Nascent Soul cultivation method.
• Liu Yi reported that Yuan Ya had healed but remained troubled over Butterfly Dance, and that Shui Mingzi and Ao Zhantian had each sought Xiao Hua.
• Shui Mingzi invited Xiao Hua to seek refuge at Ancient Bell Mountain and attend a gathering in the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons more than fifty years later; Xiao Hua accepted his token but did not promise to go.
• Ao Zhantian told Xiao Hua that the Demon King of Ancient Bell Mountain was said to descend from a Great Sage, then asked whether Shui Mingzi had invited him too.

Xiao Hua agreed to accompany Ao Zhantian to the North Sea Dragon Palace’s selection for a chance to enter Dragon Island, though he postponed the journey for ten years. After the farewell banquet, Lan Dianzi and several dozen Golden Core cultivators chose to join the Creation Sect, and Li Xiang arrived to make the same request.

• Ao Zhantian explained the Dragon Island selection and asked Xiao Hua to join him as a guard, and Xiao Hua agreed to go but promised to arrive in ten years.
• Ao Zhantian warned Xiao Hua that the Confucian cultivators might notice the gathering, and Xiao Hua arranged a farewell banquet for the next morning.
• The cultivators departed Black Wind Ridge in batches, while several Golden Core cultivators decided to remain there and join the Creation Sect.
• Lan Dianzi and about twenty Golden Core cultivators asked Xiao Hua to accept them as disciples, and Xiao Hua warned them that joining could implicate them in the Yaotai Mountain upheaval.
• Li Xiang entered with several dozen disciples, knelt beside Lan Dianzi, and declared that he also wanted to join the Creation Sect.

Li Xiang and more than twenty Golden Core cultivators joined Xiao Hua’s Creation Sect, and Xiao Hua discussed its organization and his concealed strength with his three Nascent Soul disciples. The chapter ended with Lan Dianzi suggesting that Black Wind Ridge was unsuitable for the sect’s mountain gate.

• Li Xiang explained why he had delayed joining Xiao Hua and asked to enter the Creation Sect, while his disciples also pledged themselves to the sect.
• Xiao Hua welcomed the new disciples, then kept Xiong Yi, Li Xiang, and Lan Dianzi to discuss sect affairs.
• Xiong Yi presented draft regulations, and Xiao Hua agreed to let the three Nascent Soul disciples manage the sect and its divisions.
• After Liu Yi and the others left, Xiong Yi, Li Xiang, and Lan Dianzi questioned Xiao Hua about his strength and warned him to conceal any breakthrough from the Immortal Palace.
• Lan Dianzi told Xiao Hua that Black Wind Ridge was not a suitable location for the Creation Sect’s mountain gate.

Xiao Hua reconsidered where the Creation Sect should establish itself, then helped Xuan Songzi begin shaping a body as a dispersed Nascent Soul. The process triggered a lightning tribulation over Black Wind Ridge, leaving Xiao Hua rushing to protect the sect and its people.

• Lan Dianzi and Li Xiang warned Xiao Hua that Black Wind Ridge was unsuitable for the Creation Sect, so Xiao Hua sent Lan Dianzi and Fu Zhiwen to inspect a mountain range in Jing Province while Li Xiang managed Black Wind Ridge.
• Xiao Hua entered the quiet chamber and learned that Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting were ready to cultivate dispersed Nascent Souls, but could not absorb a human essence that was too old.
• Xiao Hua chose a roughly 120,000-year-old human essence for Xuan Songzi and guided the painful process of shaping his body.
• Xiao Hua completed the body-shaping process, but realized Xuan Songzi's new form was only as tall as a young child.
• A lightning tribulation descended over the quiet chamber, and Xiao Hua fled outside with Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting, fearing the tribulation would destroy the formation and devastate Black Wind Ridge.

After surviving a powerful lightning tribulation, Xiao Hua reassured Yuan Ya and helped him resume his cultivation. He then gave Yan Lingzhi to True Person Jingting, whose Spiritual Apertures reopened, and the chapter ended with Xuan Songzi awaiting his turn.

• Xiao Hua returned to Black Wind Ridge after three days and told Li Xiang to hurry in searching for the Blessed Land before the Immortal Palace noticed the commotion.
• Xiao Hua comforted Yuan Ya over Butterfly Dance’s betrayal and gave him guidance and a jade slip for cultivating the Big Dipper Divine Fist and a body-tempering technique.
• Xiao Hua brought Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting out of the Kunlun Mirror and warned them that their next scattered-infant lightning tribulation would be even fiercer.
• Xiao Hua gave True Person Jingting a Yan Lingzhi, and its green seal-script light restored his Spiritual Apertures.
• True Person Jingting rejoiced at regaining his Spiritual Apertures while Xuan Songzi watched and waited.

Xiao Hua prepared to restore the damaged Primordial Spirits in his lower dantian, but the Immortal Palace’s attention and a nearby Land God’s surveillance made him race against time. After dealing with the Land God and ordering his disciples to mine the veins, he went underground to investigate the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism.

• Xiao Hua gave Yan Lingzhi to Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting, then sent them into the Kunlun Ruins to cultivate.
• Xiao Hua considered using Yan Lingzhi or Spirit Awakening Liquid to repair the damaged Nascent Soul Primordial Spirits and worried that the Immortal Palace or Yuzhou Confucian cultivators might target him.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua burst out after sensing Dragon Qi and boundless Vast Righteous Qi, and Xiao Hua learned that Princess Changling had restored Jiang Kingdom under a Golden Core cultivator.
• Xiao Hua told Xiong Yi that he would enter seclusion, warned him to expect disturbances, and ordered him to have the demons and outer sect disciples empty the mine veins.
• Xiao Hua captured a hidden Confucian cultivator near Black Wind Ridge and learned from Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua that the man was a Land God serving as an eye and ear of the Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Hua planted threads of soul in the Land God, then used the Art of Earth Evasion to reach the black mist and investigate the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism.

Xiao Hua spent more than three years absorbing the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism, strengthening the Duotian Star Array, and preparing for the Immortal Palace’s campaign against Daoist sect countries. After learning that several such countries had fallen, he ordered Creation Sect to prepare to relocate from Black Wind Ridge to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.

• Xiao Hua used the Blood Refinement Art to sense the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism and eventually drew the enormous mass into his space after years of cultivation.
• The Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism’s removal strengthened the Duotian Star Array, and Xiao Hua demonstrated its increased power by catching and returning a Golden Condor patrol bird.
• Xiao Hua warned Xiong Yi, Lan Dianzi, and Li Xiang about the Immortal Palace’s Earth Deities and learned that its forces had destroyed four Daoist sect countries.
• Xiao Hua suspected the Immortal Palace was hunting those responsible for Kong Hongwu’s death and feared Black Wind Ridge might be targeted.
• Li Xiang reported that the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range was suitable as a refuge, so Xiao Hua ordered Creation Sect to prepare to move there and summoned Fu Zhiwen to establish an array.

After learning that Liaoshan had been murdered, Xiao Hua suspected the Sword Dao Battle was involved. At Jiangchao Temple, Cimei watched devotees demand justice for Liaoshan and lamented her own uncertain path to Buddhist fruition.

• Xiao Hua learned from Xiong Yi that Liaoshan, abbot of Jiangchao Temple, had been killed, and suspected the Sword Dao Battle was involved.
• Cimei contemplated the vast faith and thought power gathering around the covered Guanyin statue while Liaoshan’s corpse lay in a coffin beneath it.
• Jingcheng urged Cimei to promise the kneeling devotees that Jiangchao Temple would find Liaoshan’s killer, but Cimei said she was lamenting her own helplessness and envying Cihang’s good fortune.
• Cimei told Jingcheng that attaining fruition outside the Pure Land World was far more difficult than within it, then tapped her chest twice as he failed to understand her meaning.

Cimei and Jingcheng discussed the loss of their Buddha Hearts and the uncertainty surrounding Liaoshan’s murder as violence spread between Buddhist and Confucian forces. After Cimei received reports of escalating attacks, a Confucian cultivator struck at Guanyin’s golden body and threatened to massacre Jiangchao Temple and its believers if Pure Land reinforcements entered Changsheng Town.

• Cimei told Jingcheng that both of them had lost their Buddha Hearts, and explained that Liaoshan’s death had made him fear further killings.
• Jingcheng refused to promise the kneeling believers that their golden body would be protected, and he and Cimei considered how faith and suspicion had fueled the conflict.
• Cimei received reports of destruction and deaths across several regions, while Buddhist kingdoms and temples mobilized to support Jiangchao Temple.
• Jingcheng learned that ten major Confucian countries had sent a million troops to besiege Changsheng Town and planned to scatter the believers and topple Guanyin’s golden body.
• A giant fist attacked the golden body, but Cimei blocked it with a Buddhist lotus and suffered a minor injury.
• An unidentified attacker warned Cimei that he would slaughter Jiangchao Temple and its believers if any Pure Land Buddha General or monk soldier entered Changsheng Town.

Cimei faced an overwhelming sword attack at Jiangchao Temple until Manjushri Bodhisattva arrived and drove off the attacker. Elsewhere, a young monk reached the Cangxian Continent after a shipwreck and set out for Changsheng Town with the boatman who had saved him.

• Cimei and Jingcheng discussed the threat from the Duanmu Family and the believers gathering at Jiangchao Temple, while Cimei warned that their refusal to leave could lead to an Immortal-Buddha War.
• A powerful sword strike descended on the Guanyin Bodhisattva statue, and Cimei flew up to defend it as Buddhist phenomena shielded Changsheng Town.
• Manjushri Bodhisattva arrived and repelled the sword; he told Cimei that his mission from Buddha Tathagata was unrelated to Changsheng Town.
• Near the East Sea, a young monk and a boatman reached shore on a log after their ship was destroyed.
• The young monk thanked the boatman for saving him and invited him to travel with him to Changsheng Town.

Chun Zang set out on foot across Cangxian Continent toward Changsheng Town, believing he was following Buddha’s decree to reach Thunder Sound Temple. He left a fishing village with its residents preparing to help him find the way to Yuzhou.

• Chun Zang parted from the boatman after promising to ask the Great Sun Tathagata how many years the boatman had left to live.
• After Chun Zang walked away, the boatman revealed himself as Yuan Tongtian and followed from the air, determined to protect him on his master's orders.
• Chun Zang reached a fishing village and asked a fisherwoman for water and directions to Yuzhou.
• The fisherwoman gave Chun Zang water, then called her husband to help him find the route.
• The fisherman was shocked that Chun Zang planned to walk to Yuzhou and offered to arrange directions and dry provisions.

Xiao Hua continued building a defensive formation at the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range while receiving news about upheaval across Cangxian Continent. He learned that Gaza Kingdom had fallen and another Daoist nation was destroyed by the Immortal Palace, leaving him to consider how these events connected to Jiang Kingdom and the National Teacher’s tokens.

• Yuan Tongtian watched Chun Zang accept provisions from two fishermen and worried about his missing master, Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua worked to establish three grand arrays at the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range after relocating Black Wind Ridge’s possessions there.
• Lan Dianzi reported that the Qi Stone mine was too extensive to excavate quickly, and Xiao Hua told him to bring Black Bear and the others to the mountain range.
• Lan Dianzi told Xiao Hua that Manjushri Bodhisattva had driven away Confucian cultivators threatening the Buddha statue at Jiangchao Ridge.
• Lan Dianzi reported that Tongzhu, Gu, and Jiming Kingdoms had destroyed Gaza Kingdom, while Jiang Kingdom remained, possibly with Gaza’s people and forces.
• Lan Dianzi reported that the Immortal Palace had annihilated a Daoist nation in Jingzhou that possessed a National Teacher’s token.

Xiao Hua finished preparing the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range for his disciples and went to Black Wind Ridge to collect its Qi Stone mine, deciding to build a Teleportation Array in the hidden former Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism Space. As he worked underground, a force of one hundred thousand immortal soldiers and several immortal generals appeared above Cangxian Continent.

• Xiao Hua gave Lan Dianzi supplies for the disciples and told him to bring the Black Wind Ridge disciples back to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.
• After finishing a temporary stage of the formation, Xiao Hua flew alone to Black Wind Ridge and found its Qi Stone caverns empty.
• Xiao Hua used his divine sense to excavate a huge section of the Qi Stone mine, triggering a collapse that buried him before he escaped unharmed.
• Xiao Hua chose the hidden Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism Space beneath Black Wind Ridge as the site for a Teleportation Array, with Great Snow Mountain in the Pure Land as its other end.
• Xiao Hua carefully continued collecting the Qi Stones while planning trips to the Pure Land and the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• A passage opened amid the heavenly fire, wind, and lightning above Cangxian Continent, and one hundred thousand immortal soldiers followed by several immortal generals emerged.

Sun Jian led the Immortal Palace army to Black Wind Ridge while Kua Chong was sent to destroy Jiang Kingdom. As the soldiers began setting up the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net around Black Wind Ridge, Sun Gang hoped Xiao Hua would escape before the formation was complete.

• Sun Jian split the Immortal army, sending Kua Chong to attack Jiang Kingdom and leading the main force toward Black Wind Ridge.
• Sun Gang challenged Sun Jian’s intentions and followed him, hoping to warn Xiao Hua about the campaign.
• Sun Jian’s army appeared above Black Wind Ridge, causing nearby Confucian cultivators and the Earth God to flee.
• An Immortal General reported that a Daoist formation concealed Black Wind Ridge and that no cultivators had escaped.
• Sun Jian ordered the Immortal Soldiers to establish the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net around Black Wind Ridge.
• Sun Gang warned that the commotion might attract the Buddhist sect and hoped Xiao Hua would escape before the encirclement was complete.

Xiao Hua discovered that the Immortal Palace had sealed Black Wind Ridge beneath a powerful Heavenly Net and Earthly Net, and he tested the barrier while preparing to resist. Sun Jian ordered the formation maintained as Kua Chong returned from Jiang Kingdom and prepared to lead the attack on Black Wind Ridge.

• Xiao Hua found newly laid Law-Binding Chains underground and realized the Immortal Palace had trapped him inside Black Wind Ridge.
• Xiao Hua attacked the net with the Kunlun Mirror, endured its lightning, and heard an immortal general demand his surrender.
• Sun Jian ordered the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net maintained and directed his forces to prepare to crush Black Wind Ridge's Great Heavenly Cycle Star Array.
• Kua Chong reported that he had killed Daoist cultivators in Jiang Kingdom and encountered Buddhist disciples and monk soldiers there.
• Sun Jian allowed Kua Chong to proceed against Black Wind Ridge, and Kua Chong volunteered to lead the vanguard.

Xiao Hua emerged from Black Wind Ridge’s Great Heavenly Cycle Star Array and confronted the Immortal Palace army, which had come under the Immortal Emperor’s edict. He and Kua Chong traded their first blows, and neither gained the advantage.

• Sun Jian questioned Kua Chong about who had blamed Black Wind Ridge’s cultivators for Kong Hongwu’s assassination, and Kua Chong named Dongfang Haohua.
• Kua Chong attacked the Duotian Star Array, but its power turned his axe back toward him until Sun Jian pulled him aside.
• Xiao Hua emerged from the array and demanded to know what crime the Immortal Palace accused him of, while Sun Gang recognized him and stayed silent.
• Kua Chong ordered Xiao Hua to surrender, but Xiao Hua refused and challenged him to fight.
• The Heavenly Net and Earthly Net cut off outside Primordial Qi, but Xiao Hua drew power from the stars and expanded his Dharma Body and As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua and Kua Chong clashed their staff and axe; both were forced back, and Kua Chong excitedly acknowledged Xiao Hua’s strength.

Xiao Hua defeated Kua Chong after revealing his overwhelming strength and captured him, then faced Sun Jian, who demanded the hostage’s release. Xiao Hua refused, accusing the Immortal Palace of intending to slaughter Black Wind Ridge.

• Kua Chong warned Xiao Hua before using a secret technique that created four identical giant avatars, but Xiao Hua shattered the battle axes and destroyed one avatar with his Divine Thought Hammer.
• Kua Chong’s avatars collapsed, leaving him badly injured, and he tried to flee while Xiao Hua imprisoned him with his great hand.
• The Immortal Generals sent a Law-Binding Chain toward Xiao Hua, forcing him to withdraw his hand, but Xiao Hua quickly caught up with Kua Chong as he escaped.
• Sun Jian launched a flaming arrow to stop Xiao Hua, who dodged the attack and exposed Sun Jian’s concealed strike with his As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua held Kua Chong while Sun Jian promised safe passage if he surrendered, but Xiao Hua refused and said he could not abandon Black Wind Ridge’s disciples.