Arc 198Great Sages and New Refuges

Xiao Hua and his companions explored the Myriad Monster Realm, overcame its suppression of dragons, and sought refuges for the races in their care. Their breakthroughs and resettlements drew the attention of the realm’s Great Sages and an Immortal Envoy as they continued searching for a passage to Xiaoyu Continent.

  • Xiao Hua and Huang Tong guided the scattered Nascent Souls and beast souls through a Small Heavenly Tribulation while investigating whether the Myriad Monster Realm could shelter their disciples.
  • True Person and Xiao Hua shattered the laws suppressing dragons with the Pangu Axe and faith power, then Xiao Hua and his companions entered seclusion as their names appeared on the Sage Ranking.
  • Xiao Hua and his companions crossed the wasteland for three years, rescued Phoenix Emissary No. 9 and hundreds of other emissaries, and learned that they were in Zhenhao Wasteland.
  • Xiao Hua and his companions released the Demon Race into a remote wilderness and the Dragon Clan and Sea Clan into Bi Yao Canghai before crossing the sea toward the Qingshui Domain.
  • Xiao Hua built a defended city for the human disciples, accepted Black Bear Spirit’s plea to accompany him, and departed after Heavenly Man moved the city into Shenhua Continent.
  • Xiao Hua and his companions received opening-heaven merit for restoring races to the Myriad Monster Realm and concealed themselves to avoid attracting the Great Sages.
  • Xiao Hua sent the Multicolored Sea God Conch’s descendants into Bi Yao Canghai and traveled toward the Spirit Realm while an Immortal Envoy detected the human race’s opening-heaven merit.
  • Snow Wolf King resisted the Immortal Envoy’s commands and reported the new Great Sages and the journey of Great Sage Ji Ying and Fire Phoenix King to the Hua Tian Realm.
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Ch. 4927Small Heavenly Tribulation

After comprehending three kinds of Heaven and Earth Laws, Xiao Hua rescued Huang Tong from a powerful strange beast, but his attack was interrupted by a sudden change in his body. His Eight Tribulation Scattered Infant began undergoing a ninth heavenly tribulation, which Huang Tong identified as the Myriad Monster Realm’s Small Heavenly Tribulation.

  • Xiao Hua told Huang Tong that comprehending three realms’ Heaven and Earth Laws had advanced his Sky Peeping Realm, and he sensed that their Same Qi, Connected Branches technique had improved.
  • Huang Tong called for help when a seventh-grade Yuan force strange beast attacked him, and Xiao Hua rushed to his location.
  • Xiao Hua seized the strange beast with his Hand of Thunder, but a violent change in his body disrupted the attack and let the beast escape.
  • Xiao Hua drew in the Myriad Monster Realm’s Primordial Qi, then summoned his Eight Tribulation Scattered Infant.
  • Xiao Hua watched the Scattered Infant grow and develop mottled marks as lightning and celestial light gathered above it.
  • Huang Tong recognized the event as the Myriad Monster Realm’s Small Heavenly Tribulation, and Xiao Hua asked what it was.

Ch. 4928Minor Tribulation

Xiao Hua and Huang Tong underwent the Myriad Monster Realm’s minor heavenly tribulation alongside Xiao Hua’s scattered Nascent Souls and Huang Tong’s beast souls. Afterward, Xiao Hua discovered that the realm’s Primordial Qi was dangerous to humans, complicating his plans for the Creation Sect, and Huang Tong challenged his reasoning.

  • Xiao Hua and Huang Tong explained that the minor heavenly tribulation could prepare the scattered Nascent Souls for a major tribulation while reducing its future power.
  • Xiao Hua released more than a hundred eighth-grade scattered Nascent Souls to undergo the tribulation together, and Huang Tong added the ninety-nine beast souls from the Hundred Beasts Banner.
  • Xiao Hua used the gathering to lure and investigate nearby members of the Demon Race, but none appeared as the tribulation descended.
  • For forty-nine days and nights, lightning transformed the scattered Nascent Souls and helped the beast souls condense starlight and moonlight.
  • After the tribulation, Xiao Hua concluded that the Myriad Monster Realm’s Primordial Qi was suited to dragons and dangerous to humans, then explained his concerns about moving Creation Sect disciples to Shenhua Continent.
  • Huang Tong questioned why Xiao Hua would leave the disciples in the Myriad Monster Realm when its laws differed even more from those of Shenhua Continent.

Ch. 4929Hesitation

Xiao Hua explained why he hesitated to place the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range disciples in Shenhua Continent, weighing its unstable laws against the Myriad Monster Realm’s dangers. He and Huang Tong agreed to wait for their companions before deciding, while Xiao Hua described how the Myriad Monster Realm’s spiritual qi and laws could support different forms of cultivation.

  • Xiao Hua cited Shenhua Continent’s ongoing changes, his leniency toward disciples, and the risks of ascension as reasons to consider placing the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range disciples in the Myriad Monster Realm.
  • Huang Tong said Xiao Hua had to choose between the Myriad Monster Realm’s laws and strange beasts and the potential changes in Shenhua Continent, but offered no advice.
  • Xiao Hua sensed that the Myriad Monster Realm’s laws were stabilizing and suggested waiting for Feng Wu and the others to discuss the decision together.
  • Huang Tong asked whether other cultivators could use the Myriad Monster Realm’s Primordial Qi, and Xiao Hua demonstrated an avatar formed from Vast Righteous Qi.
  • Xiao Hua explained that the realm’s Vast Righteous Qi favored martial prowess and innate True Qi cultivation, and that its dense stars, two suns, and three moons favored the Demon Race.

Ch. 4930Demon Beast Beyond the Tenth Grade

Xiao Hua and Huang Tong discovered that the Myriad Monster Realm’s laws prevented them from using spatial escape techniques, while Xiao Hua’s Buddhist power produced a Guanyin form and a faint spark of faith. As Huang Tong searched for a suitable place to settle, a terrifying consciousness pursued Xiao Hua, and both wondered whether it belonged to a demon beast beyond the Tenth Grade.

  • Xiao Hua and Huang Tong tested spatial escape and realized they first needed to comprehend and absorb the Myriad Monster Realm’s laws of space.
  • Xiao Hua manifested his female Guanyin Bodhisattva Dharma form and sensed that releasing Buddhist and Confucian disciples could strengthen his crystalline divine spark through their faith.
  • Huang Tong flew into the sky to search for a safe place and found the surrounding region crowded with demon beasts.
  • An icy consciousness detected Xiao Hua, pursued him through wind and lightning escape, then searched for Huang Tong after losing track of him.
  • Xiao Hua fought off weaker pursuing consciousnesses and reunited with Huang Tong, who looked shaken as Xiao Hua suspected their pursuer was a demon beast beyond the Tenth Grade.

Ch. 4931Different Laws

Xiao Hua sensed that the spaces within his own realm were developing distinct Heaven and Earth Laws, potentially allowing Shenhua Continent to support ascension and Heavenly Tribulations. He summoned his fellow Daoists in the Myriad Monster Realm, where Thunderclap True Person immediately began comprehending its lightning mysteries.

  • Huang Tong and Xiao Hua discussed the powerful demonic beast and the challenge of arranging Greater Heavenly Tribulations for more than a hundred Ninth Tribulation scattered infants.
  • Jade Slip Xiao Hua sensed that different spaces in the realm were developing distinct Heaven and Earth Laws and forming barriers between realms.
  • Xiao Hua and Huang Tong concluded that Shenhua Continent might have the possibility of ascension or Heavenly Tribulations, giving Li Xiang and the others another place to stay.
  • Xiao Hua summoned his fellow Daoists, and Thunderclap True Person emerged and began comprehending the Myriad Monster Realm's lightning mysteries.
  • Huang Tong said he still loved Ice Phoenix, and Xiao Hua threatened to tell her about Huang Tong's actions in the Profound Origin Space.

Ch. 4932The Great Vow

Xiao Hua and his companions welcomed Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, who made a great vow to bring Buddhism to the Myriad Monster Realm. After explaining that his vow would let him establish Buddhist foundations there before ascending, Maitreya asked Xiao Hua to keep searching for a place to shelter Buddhist disciples, but Xiao Hua said he had to find the spatial passage to Xiaoyu Continent quickly.

  • Huang Tong recited verses about longing for the Ice Phoenix Dharma Body, while Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person traded jokes about poetry.
  • Xiao Hua summoned Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, whose Dharma form appeared as faith power poured into him.
  • Maitreya made a great vow to establish Buddhism in the Myriad Monster Realm, and Buddha light filled the sky before his Dharma form withdrew.
  • Maitreya explained that his vow would let one of his nine golden bodies descend into a realm without Buddha light and build Buddhist foundations there.
  • Maitreya asked Xiao Hua for water from the Lotus Cleansing Pool and urged him to keep searching for shelter for Buddhist disciples.
  • Xiao Hua said they had nearly been caught by a Tenth Grade Yuan Force monster beast and that he had no time to search because he needed to find the spatial passage to Xiaoyu Continent.

Ch. 4933Wilderness

Xiao Hua reached the Myriad Monster Realm but found that neither Little White Dragon nor Dai Er knew where they were or how to reach the Hua Tian Realm. The chapter left Xiao Hua without a reliable guide and awaiting Dai Er’s response.

  • Xiao Hua released Little White Dragon with the Kunlun Mirror, and Little White Dragon explained that he had little knowledge of the Myriad Monster Realm despite traveling there with Ming Hua.
  • Little White Dragon recounted how Ming Hua acquired the Dragon Transformation Art and guided his cultivation, then said he preferred to return to the Kunlun Immortal Realm.
  • Little White Dragon suggested that they might be near the Desolate Primeval Land of Fear and advised Xiao Hua to fly west toward the Hua Tian Realm, but admitted he did not know how to navigate at night.
  • Xiao Hua returned Little White Dragon to the space, and Huang Tong suggested asking Dai Er before choosing a direction.
  • Dai Er emerged in her swan demon form and told Xiao Hua that she did not recognize their location or know of the Hua Tian Realm.

Ch. 4934At a Loss

Xiao Hua and Huang Tong struggled to identify their location in the Myriad Monster Realm and find a route to Hua Tian Realm. After Xiao Guo failed to get directions from the local spirit races, Xiao Hua summoned Feng Wu, whose appearance triggered a vast celestial response.

  • Dai Er could not identify their location or return to Tianfu Palace, but recalled that Mossa the Demon King had been injured in Liye Wasteland and warned that Zhenhao Wasteland was even more dangerous.
  • Xiao Hua and Huang Tong realized that any direction might lead to Hua Tian Realm or into one of the Myriad Monster Realm's perilous wastelands.
  • Xiao Hua sent Xiao Guo to question nearby spirit races, but Xiao Guo returned without learning their location or a way forward.
  • Xiao Hua summoned Feng Wu, whose star-marked feathers lit up and revealed the stars, two suns, and three moons as pillars of starlight and moonlight descended upon him.

Ch. 4935Sage Ranking

The Sage Ranking appeared in the Myriad Monster Realm and revealed Feng Wu as a newly emerged Phoenix race Great Sage. The Five-Colored Phoenix recognized that Feng Wu might have returned from beyond the realm, while the Sage Ranking endured a strange attack that briefly cracked its stele.

  • Xiao Hua, Huang Tong, Thunderclap True Person, and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One fled after Feng Wu’s aura surged.
  • The Five-Colored Phoenix noticed the Sage Ranking’s emergence and entered its thousand-mile restriction.
  • The Sage Ranking inscribed “Phoenix race Feng Wu,” shocking the Five-Colored Phoenix, who suspected Feng Wu had returned from beyond the realm.
  • As the Five-Colored Phoenix tried to leave, lightning-like ripples struck the stele and cracked it.
  • A pitch-black aura repaired the Sage Ranking and annihilated the ripples, leaving the Five-Colored Phoenix bewildered.

Ch. 4936Dragon Race Restriction

Five-Colored Phoenix discovered that the Sage Ranking had recorded the Dragon Race and suspected Feng Wu and a dragon were advancing to Great Sages in the Zhenhao Wasteland. After the group escaped Feng Wu’s terrifying aura, Xiao Hua brought True Person out of his space, triggering the Myriad Monster Realm’s laws to suppress him because they forbade the Dragon Race.

  • The Sage Ranking displayed the words “Dragon Race,” shocking Five-Colored Phoenix, who fled its range and ordered the Phoenix Envoy to search the Zhenhao Wasteland for Feng Wu and the dragon.
  • Huang Tong told Xiao Hua that Feng Wu’s aura reminded him of the legendary Evil Phoenix, the Demon Race’s supreme sovereign.
  • Xiao Hua and the others waited while Thunderclap True Person contemplated the realm’s laws, then Wu Daoist emerged without being affected by them.
  • Xiao Hua brought True Person out, and the Myriad Monster Realm sealed the surrounding space and sent Heaven and Earth Laws to suppress his dragon body.
  • True Person explained that the realm’s laws forbade the Dragon Race, leaving Xiao Hua puzzled because Little White Dragon had emerged without trouble.

Ch. 4937Breaking the Laws

True Person used the Pangu Axe to break a punishment tied to the Myriad Monster Realm’s Heaven and Earth Laws, while Xiao Hua’s crystalline godhead destroyed the sacred beast that appeared. The group collected the broken law rings, and Huang Tong explained that the punishment would no longer affect them.

  • Heaven and Earth Laws descended on True Person and Xiao Hua, threatening to erase them and Xiao Hua’s avatars.
  • True Person summoned the Pangu Axe and split the law rings, causing a sacred beast phantom to appear and attack them.
  • Xiao Hua’s crystalline godhead released faith power that restored Xiao Hua, his avatars, and True Person, then destroyed the sacred beast and shattered the rings.
  • True Person, Xiao Hua, Huang Tong, and Wu Daoist collected the broken rings, and Xiao Hua gave one to each of the more than one hundred Eighth Tribulation Half-Scattered Infants.
  • True Person warned that the Pangu Axe would be unusable for decades, and Huang Tong explained that the punishment had been severed from the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Ch. 4938All the Sages Were Astonished

Xiao Hua and his companions discovered that the Myriad Monster Realm’s Heaven and Earth Laws had been broken, then chose to enter seclusion for up to ten years to strengthen themselves before continuing toward Xiaoyu Continent. Meanwhile, Great Eagle King entered the Sage Ranking’s confinement, and Fire Phoenix King arrived to ask Great Ape King about Mossa the Demon King’s beloved consort.

  • Xiao Hua tested a Dragon race member and confirmed the Myriad Monster Realm’s Heaven and Earth Laws no longer suppressed dragons, then found Celestial Man and Demon Venerable Slayer were unaffected as well.
  • True Person and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One gained insights from the ordeal, and Huang Tong urged the group to enter seclusion while divine punishment power spread through the realm.
  • Xiao Hua set a ten-year limit for seclusion and ordered Celestial Man and Demon Venerable Slayer to awaken the others when it passed.
  • Great Eagle King arrived at the Sage Ranking and entered its confinement, reacting with astonishment as it closed around him.
  • Great Ape King arrived and began forming a crown, then Fire Phoenix King joined him and asked whether he knew where Mossa the Demon King’s beloved consort was.

Ch. 4939Primal Clan Great Sage

The Great Sages gathered around the Sage Ranking and reacted to the newly listed Dragon, Human, Phoenix, and Spirit Race Great Sages, debating where they came from and what their arrival meant. Great Sage Dong Xuan called for the Human Race to be eliminated, while Great Sage Ji Ying urged caution, and the group waited to see whether more names would appear.

  • Fire Phoenix King told the Great Ape King that Great Sage Ji Ying had secretly asked Tianfu Palace to search for Xie Yuan, and the Great Ape King teased him about his motives.
  • Snow Wolf King and King Caihuang joined Fire Phoenix King and the Great Ape King inside the Sage Ranking’s confinement, where they saw new names for Xiao Hua, Lei Ting, Pu Ti, and Huang Tong beneath Feng Wu’s entry.
  • The Great Sages debated whether the listed experts had come from beyond the realm, and the Great Ape King revealed that the Dragon Race’s appearance carried a hidden implication.
  • Great Sage Dong Xuan and Great Sage Ji Ying arrived and were shocked by the Dragon Race and Human Race entries on the ranking.
  • Great Sage Dong Xuan rejected Ji Ying’s calls for caution and threatened the Human Race, while the gathered Great Sages stayed to watch for more names as Xiao Hua and his companions continued cultivating in seclusion.

Ch. 4940Tenth Grade Yuan Force

Feng Wu, True Person, Thunderclap True Person, and others advanced beyond ninth-grade Yuan Force in the Myriad Monster Realm, while Xiao Hua reached Tenth Grade Yuan Force and glimpsed some of the realm’s karma. Unable to determine their route by divination, Xiao Hua led the group onward in a Nine Provinces Great Formation formation to search for a path to Hua Tian Realm.

  • Feng Wu emerged from his breakthrough with greater strength but worried that the Myriad Monster Realm’s laws would make returning to Xiaoyu Continent difficult.
  • True Person, Thunderclap True Person, and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One also broke through ninth-grade Yuan Force and sensed something appearing above their heads.
  • Xiao Hua used his Hand of Cause and Effect and Qingqiu Mountain’s secret technique, but he could not determine which direction the group should take or what lay ahead.
  • Xiao Hua gave Immortal Realm talismans to the avatars so they could withstand Xiaoyu Continent’s laws when they eventually returned.
  • Xiao Hua chose a direction at random, and the group decided to advance in the Nine Provinces Great Formation rather than spread out in a line.
  • Demon Venerable Slayer replaced Wen Qu in the formation as Xiao Hua and the others expanded their linked spiritual connection while traveling across Cangxian Continent.

Ch. 4941Confidence

Xiao Hua and his companions flew through the Myriad Monster Realm for three years, debating whether to change direction as some of their avatars advanced. After Maitreya Buddha World Honored One urged them to keep faith, they detected a distant battle and rushed toward it, where a battered phoenix faced a mud-covered strange beast.

  • Xiao Hua and his companions fought off demon beasts and collected treasures as they flew through the wasteland for three years.
  • Feng Wu and Huang Tong disagreed over their direction, while Demon Venerable Slayer, Heavenly Man, and Wu Daoist revealed that they had advanced in cultivation.
  • Maitreya Buddha World Honored One told a story about faith and perseverance, encouraging the group not to abandon their chosen direction.
  • True Person sensed a battle beyond their range, and Xiao Hua led the group to teleport toward it.
  • The group arrived near a mud marsh and saw a wounded phoenix struggle against a strange beast covered in mud.

Ch. 4942Phoenix Emissary No. 9

Phoenix Emissary No. 9 was rescued by Feng Wu and his companions, then revealed that the Phoenix God Hall had learned of their arrival through the Sage Ranking and sent emissaries to meet them. Feng Wu declined an invitation to the Phoenix God Hall and asked for a map of the Myriad Monster Realm as they sought a way out.

  • Phoenix Emissary No. 9 was nearly killed by a giant mud beast, but someone severed its tentacles and split its body apart.
  • Phoenix Emissary No. 9 recognized Feng Wu as a Phoenix race Great Sage, and Feng Wu seized her to ask how she knew his name.
  • Phoenix Emissary No. 9 explained that the Sage Ranking revealed Great Sage names and that King Caihuang had sent her to invite Feng Wu and the Dragon Race Great Sage to the Phoenix God Hall.
  • Feng Wu learned that Phoenix Emissary No. 9 and her companions had waited at the wasteland's edge for ten years, and that she was the only one left; he told her to summon the other emissaries and remain safe.
  • Feng Wu declined Phoenix Emissary No. 9's invitation to the Phoenix God Hall and said he and his friends only wished to pass through the Myriad Monster Realm.
  • Huang Tong clarified that Feng Wu wanted a realm map showing the locations of places throughout the Myriad Monster Realm.

Ch. 4943The Black Road Through the Void

Xiao Hua and Feng Wu learned the route out of the Zhenhao Wasteland and rescued the surviving Phoenix Emissaries sent by King Caihuang. After sending them into the Kunlun Immortal Realm, the group headed toward Bi Yao Canghai, while Great Sages gathered to watch the Sage Ranking.

  • Xiao Hua examined the realm awareness and learned that the group was in the vast, dangerous Zhenhao Wasteland.
  • Phoenix Emissary No. 9 explained that the Phoenix God Hall had gateways near Bi Yao Canghai, but crossing the sea from the wasteland had cost many Phoenix Emissaries their lives.
  • Xiao Hua, Feng Wu, and their companions searched together and found 272 wounded Phoenix Emissaries.
  • Phoenix Emissary No. 9 learned that King Caihuang had sent nearly 1,200 Phoenix Emissaries to welcome Feng Wu, and Feng Wu sent the survivors into the Kunlun Immortal Realm.
  • Feng Wu led Xiao Hua and the others toward Bi Yao Canghai as Great Sage Xuan, Great Sage Ji Ying, and other Great Sages watched the Sage Ranking.

Ch. 4944Nameless Great Sage

The Great Sages watched the Sage Ranking fail to inscribe the names of two newly born Great Sages, revealing signs of Devil Race bloodline and an unknown identity. A third strange birth cracked the Ranking before it withdrew, leaving the Saints to prepare for upheaval across the Myriad Monster Realm.

  • The Sage Ranking shook under black lightning but stayed blank, and Great Sage Ji Ying suspected the unnamed Great Sage had both Devil Race and spirit race bloodlines.
  • Great Sage Ji Ying urged the Saints to determine whether the unnamed Great Sage was allied with the previous six, but another inscription identified a Great Sage as an “ancient celestial being.”
  • Great Sage Dong Xuan ordered defenses set up in the Liye Wasteland, while Snow Wolf King warned that the Sage Ranking might be recording another Great Sage.
  • Eerie green lightning cracked the Sage Ranking, which later scattered lightning across the Myriad Monster Realm and vanished, signaling that at least nine Great Sages had appeared.
  • After the Saints left the Ranking’s domain, Snow Wolf King wondered why Heavenly King Hua had not appeared, and the Great Ape King and Great Eagle King departed.

Ch. 4945Rooting Down

Xiao Hua and the Great Saints settled the Demon Race, Dragon Clan, and Sea Clan in the Myriad Monster Realm, where they would have to establish their own lives. After failing to find a safe home for the humans, Xiao Hua wondered whether moving them to the Xiaoyu Continent or Shenhua Continent would violate his promise.

  • Xiao Hua, Feng Wu, and Huang Tong chose a remote wilderness and released the Demon Race of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons, giving the demon kings information and urging them to avoid fighting humans, dragons, and sea clans.
  • Xiao Hua and the True Person released the Dragon Clan and Sea Clan into the Bi Yao Canghai after deciding the dragons and sea clans would have to adapt to its waters.
  • Xiao Hua joined Feng Wu, Huang Tong, Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, and Thunderclap True Person to search for a place where humans could survive, but they found only dangerous wilderness.
  • Feng Wu suggested taking the humans to the Xiaoyu Continent, and Thunderclap True Person offered the Shenhua Continent as another refuge.
  • Xiao Hua hesitated over relocating the humans, questioning whether either choice would betray the intent of those who had entrusted them to him.

Ch. 4946Invitation

The Saints reacted to the vanished Sage Ranking while Great Sage Ji Ying invited the Fire Phoenix King to the Hua Tian Realm. Xiao Hua and Huang Tong crossed the dangerous Bi Yao Canghai to reach the Qingshui Domain, where they released the Phoenix Emissaries to search for a spatial gateway before continuing on their urgent mission.

  • Great Sage Dong Xuan and the other Saints departed, while Great Sage Ji Ying asked the Fire Phoenix King to accompany her to the Hua Tian Realm.
  • The Fire Phoenix King agreed to go with Great Sage Ji Ying, and the King Caihuang and Snow Wolf King left separately.
  • Xiao Hua sent several companions into the space and planned to settle humans, demons, Sea Clan members, and other descendants in remote areas of the Spirit Races' territory.
  • Xiao Hua and Huang Tong crossed Bi Yao Canghai over two years, fighting powerful sea beasts and avoiding spatial traps on their way to the Qingshui Domain.
  • Xiao Hua released Feng Wu and Phoenix Emissary No. 9 and the others, who thanked them and prepared to search for the spatial gateway.
  • Huang Tong declined the Phoenix Emissaries' invitation to the Phoenix God Hall and told them to report to the King Caihuang.

Ch. 4947Another Choice

Xiao Hua offered the Human Race a choice between settling in the Myriad Monster Realm and going to Xiaoyu Continent, then helped build a fortified city for those who stayed. As the Creation Sect disciples chose their destinations, Black Bear Spirit begged to remain by Xiao Hua’s side.

  • Xiao Hua decided to build a great city protected by the Duotian Star Array and the Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array, and the immortal generals and Buddhist Protectors chose to stay in the Myriad Monster Realm.
  • Xiao Hua released the Confucian cultivators, Buddhist sect disciples, and Creation Sect disciples to help construct the city, while his incarnations established its defensive arrays.
  • After the city neared completion, Li Xiang and Xiong Yi chose to go to Xiaoyu Continent because the Myriad Monster Realm’s Primordial Qi harmed Daoist cultivators.
  • Black Bear Spirit, Golden Eagle, and White Lion chose to remain in the Myriad Monster Realm and establish the Creation Sect there.
  • Black Bear Spirit knelt before Xiao Hua and pleaded to follow him instead, saying he only wanted to guard Xiao Hua’s cave dwelling.

Ch. 4948After the Matter Was Settled

Xiao Hua told the Black Bear Spirit to remain in the Myriad Monster Realm and grow stronger, but the Black Bear Spirit chose to stay devoted to him instead. After leaving the realm, Xiao Hua and his companions worried that Shenhua Continent might be endangered by changes to the Heaven and Earth Laws.

  • Xiao Hua explained that the Myriad Monster Realm could help the Black Bear Spirit become a Demon King, but the Black Bear Spirit pleaded to remain by his side rather than cultivate apart from him.
  • The Black Bear Spirit recounted his loyalty to Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua accepted his choice.
  • Xiao Hua told the Golden Roc and White Lion to remain and become Demon Kings, then departed with the others after Heavenly Man moved the city into Shenhua Continent.
  • Thunderclap True Person questioned why Xiao Hua had not taken everyone into Shenhua Continent, and Feng Wu explained that doing so could alter their fates.
  • Xiao Hua admitted he feared that changes to the Heaven and Earth Laws might cause Shenhua Continent to undergo annihilation and reformation.

Ch. 4949Seeing Merit Once More

Xiao Hua and his companions received a vast manifestation of opening-heaven merit after bringing the Human and Dragon races into the Myriad Monster Realm. Suspecting the realm’s Great Sages might discover them and threaten their people, they stayed concealed nearby for more than half a year.

  • Xiao Hua and his companions debated whether to move Shenhua Continent’s citizens to Xiaoyu Continent, but Xiao Hua feared the consequences and chose to wait for changes in the realm’s laws.
  • A celestial phenomenon sealed Xiao Hua and his avatars in place, then gathered human, Buddhist, and Dragon Race manifestations around them.
  • The phenomenon’s power merged with Xiao Hua’s insights and energies, while Maitreya Buddha World Honored One and True Person received their own Buddhist and Dragon manifestations.
  • Xiao Hua and his companions bowed in gratitude after the Heavenly Dao’s merit entered Xiao Hua’s crystalline godhead and vanished.
  • Huang Tong questioned why restoring races that had once existed in the Myriad Monster Realm counted as opening-heaven merit, and Xiao Hua suggested they might now flourish without being wiped out.
  • Xiao Hua warned that the Myriad Monster Realm’s Great Sages might discover the event, so he and the others concealed themselves nearby and waited for more than half a year.

Ch. 4950Silver Humanoid

Xiao Hua prepared to leave the Duotian Star Array and traveled with his companions toward the Spirit Realm after settling the Multicolored Sea God Conch’s descendants. Meanwhile, a silver humanoid learned that someone had claimed the merit of opening heaven in the Myriad Monster Realm and began searching for the culprit, but its summons to Snow Wolf King went unanswered.

  • Xiao Hua had Wu Daoist and Thunderclap True Person leave soul-consciousness marks in the Duotian Star Array so they could return if enemies invaded.
  • Xiao Hua asked Little White Dragon about Golden Wood Two Realms Mountain, but neither of them found it on the realm-sense; Little White Dragon said he would discuss his descendants’ future with them.
  • Xiao Hua, Wu Daoist, and Thunderclap True Person sent the Multicolored Sea God Conch’s descendants into Bi Yao Canghai, then traveled toward the Spirit Realm.
  • A silver humanoid detected the human race’s merit of opening heaven and blamed an unknown Immortal clan, suspecting the Jiang Family and other powerful families.
  • The silver humanoid called for Snow Wolf King, but received no reply after several days and grew furious.

Ch. 4951Snow Wolf King

The Snow Wolf King confronted the Immortal Envoy over their cooperative agreement, then reported the new Great Sages who had appeared in the Myriad Monster Realm. The Immortal Envoy suspected another family's interference and asked about the Hua Tian Realm, where Great Sage Ji Ying and the Fire Phoenix King had gone to handle a new complication.

  • The Snow Wolf King resisted the Immortal Envoy's attempt to punish and command her, insisting that they were partners and that she would not join the Shen Family.
  • The Snow Wolf King told the Immortal Envoy that Xiao Hua and five other Spirit Race members had become Great Sages, and that Demon Venerable Slayer, Tianren, and Wu Daoist had also appeared on the Sage Ranking.
  • The Immortal Envoy suspected that another family had interfered with the Ancient War Clan and asked the Snow Wolf King about the Hua Tian Realm.
  • The Snow Wolf King reported that Great Sage Ji Ying and the Fire Phoenix King had gone to the Hua Tian Realm, and that she had sent subordinates to monitor events there.
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