Chapter Summaries

Sima Xiu learned that the sinister talismans nearly cost him his life, while the Northern Immortal Sect investigated its weakening Restraining Formation and the recent disturbance. Lü Bufan admitted he had used the chaos to scheme against Sima Xiu, but Elder Zhou Mo caught up with him and confronted him before Crouching Dragon intervened.

• Sima Da warned Sima Xiu that the Immortal Venerable had spared him despite recognizing the trap, and Sima Xiu learned that the guards who handled the talismans were dead.
• Xuandanzi told the Northern Immortal Sect elders that their Restraining Formation had weakened, and they debated reporting it and checking the other Immortal Sects’ formations.
• Xuandanzi questioned Zhou Mo about the demon disturbance and the Southern Immortal Sect’s formation, then told him not to return to the Northern Immortal Sect.
• Lü Bufan told Mo Bai he had used the disturbance to scheme against the Third Prince and expose tensions between the Imperial Court and the Immortals.
• Zhou Mo attacked Lü Bufan and demanded to know how the Northern Immortal Sect’s formation had been weakened, but Lü Bufan denied causing trouble there.
• Crouching Dragon arrived to protect Lü Bufan, and Zhou Mo revealed he was an Eighth Realm Sword Cultivator with a Life-Bound Flying Sword.

The Southern Immortal Sect unleashed its weakened Grand Formation to kill a Great Demon valued by Two-World Mountain and Bai Ye, while Elder Mo warned Peak Master Qingming that Lü Bufan might be caught in the attack. Lü Bufan and Crouching Dragon fled separately as the formation’s heavenly shuttles pursued them, and the chapter ended with the barrage collapsing an underground river and the surrounding terrain.

• Elder Mo told Peak Master Qingming that the Southern Immortal Sect’s Grand Formation could fire for only twelve breaths and asked him to prevent Lü Bufan from becoming the sect’s enemy if he survived.
• Lü Bufan exhausted his Spiritual Power escaping, then burned through his meridians by mixing Gang Qi and Spiritual Power to fly on Heavy Sword Wuming.
• Crouching Dragon failed to escape the formation’s lock and fled underground toward a Ghost Ferryboat, with the Ghostway Gate cultivator cursing him for bringing the attack.
• The Ghost Ferryboat’s ghostly carrier plunged into the Underground River with Crouching Dragon following, but the heavenly shuttles pursued them and shattered the river channel, collapsing the surrounding hills and valleys.