Arc 18Chaos Valley to Clearfeather

Xu Xuan defended Chaos Valley, helped Dao Spirit Saint become a Great Emperor, and broke the barrier enclosing Primordial Dao Province. He then entered the Clearfeather Realm to find Mo Tianji and joined Little White in reaching a Heavenly Venerable's Skeleton beneath a snake-filled swamp.

  • Xu Xuan refined the Magnetic Mountain Sword, returned to Chaos Valley, and killed Xue Mantian while the Human Race defeated the trapped Foreign Race army.
  • Xu Xuan accepted leadership of Primordial Dao Province’s cultivators and used shared dreams to advance their cultivation.
  • Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian helped Dao Spirit Saint survive his Heavenly Tribulation and become a Great Emperor.
  • Xu Xuan rescued humans from Blood Clan sacrifices, shattered the Blood-Colored Barrier, and wounded three Blood Clan Great Emperors before a Human Race guardian rescued them.
  • Xu Xuan left Dao Ling Great Emperor overseeing Primordial Dao Province and entered the Clearfeather Realm, where Little White recruited him to seek the Heavenly Venerable Bone.
  • Xu Xuan learned that Mo Tianji had obtained the bone and fought alongside Little White as rival factions converged on the black swamp.
  • Xu Xuan broke through his cultivation barrier, seized Tree King Hearts, and awakened perception ability and devouring body before entering the marsh with Little White.
  • Little White divined that Mo Tianji was still alive, and Xu Xuan entered the pool with her and reached a Heavenly Venerable's Skeleton beneath a vast dragon tail.
Chapters 426–450 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 426Refining the Magnetic Mountain Sword!

Xu Xuan refined Magnetic Mountain into the Magnetic Mountain Sword, which could absorb heavenly tribulation lightning, then left the Clearfeather Realm with Feng Wuxia's permission. He returned to Chaos Valley with Zhang Xueyan and Lu Tianming and found the sect's spiritual qi in turmoil.

  • Magnetic Mountain absorbed the surging blood energy and transformed into a purple longsword in Xu Xuan's hand, while Feng Wuxia and the others left its range.
  • Lei Tianjiang departed in despair after Feng Wuxia showed no interest in him, and Zhang Xueyan and her companions stayed with Feng Wuxia for protection.
  • As Xu Xuan refined the sword, it absorbed and dispersed heavenly tribulation lightning, astonishing everyone with its power.
  • Xu Xuan completed the refinement and asked Feng Wuxia to send him back because he feared for Chaos Valley; Feng Wuxia agreed and urged him to return to help control the Clearfeather Realm.
  • Zhang Xueyan and Lu Tianming accompanied Xu Xuan to Chaos Valley, where Xu Xuan found the sect's spiritual qi in turmoil and the Primordial Saint welcomed him back.

Ch. 427A Great Emperor Attacked!

After the Blood Clan and Soul Clan seized every Holy Land in Primordial Dao Province, Xu Xuan gathered the surviving Human Race in Chaos Valley and used Innate Spiritual Water to strengthen them. When a Blood Clan Great Emperor arrived and challenged him, Xu Xuan went out to fight, leaving the valley’s cultivators alarmed.

  • Heaven Buddha Saint and the other Holy Land masters told Xu Xuan that the Blood Clan and Soul Clan had occupied every Holy Land in Primordial Dao Province, leaving Chaos Valley as the Human Race’s last refuge.
  • Xu Xuan planted the Magnetic Mountain Sword at Chaos Valley’s gate, rebuilt the Chaos Gathering Spirit Formation, and used Innate Spiritual Water to immerse everyone in an Illusion Formation for cultivation.
  • A Blood Clan Great Emperor led an army to surround Chaos Valley and demanded that Xu Xuan come out to fight, promising to spare the Human Race if Xu Xuan survived.
  • Xu Xuan accepted the challenge and rushed out to face the Blood Clan Great Emperor, shocking the cultivators in Chaos Valley.

Ch. 428Severing His Own Legs!

Xu Xuan faced the Blood Clan Great Emperor Xue Mantian and used Magnetic Mountain to trap him and the invading Foreign Races. Xue Mantian tried to escape by severing his own legs, but Magnetic Mountain dragged him back, leaving him trapped and demoralized.

  • Xu Xuan matched Xue Mantian's attack and revealed that he recognized the Great Emperor's body was a projection carrying two-thirds of his true body's vital Essence Blood.
  • Xu Xuan transformed his purple-light longsword into Magnetic Mountain, trapping the Foreign Race forces and suppressing their strength.
  • At Xu Xuan's command, the experts from Chaos Valley attacked the trapped Foreign Races, while Xu Xuan kept Xue Mantian from reaching them.
  • Xue Mantian severed his own legs and used Blood Escape to flee, but Magnetic Mountain pulled him back and pinned his regenerated legs to the ground.

Ch. 429A sweeping victory!

Xu Xuan used the Magnetic Mountain, the Dream Entry Method, and his Slaughter Dao to kill the Blood Bat Great Emperor Xue Mantian, breaking the Foreign Race forces’ morale and turning the battle into a Human Race victory. After sharing the spoils with the other factions, Xu Xuan returned to Chaos Valley and fell asleep to recover and digest his gains.

  • Xue Mantian split into Blood Bats to escape the Magnetic Mountain’s pull, but Xu Xuan forced the lead bat into a dream and weakened the swarm.
  • Xu Xuan attacked the Blood Bats with his Slaughter Dao and a sea of Chaos Aura, burning the swarm to ashes and killing Xue Mantian.
  • The Foreign Race forces panicked at their Great Emperor’s death as Luo Xiaotian and the Human Race troops pursued them across the battlefield.
  • Xu Xuan had the Magnetic Mountain crush the battlefield’s corpses and reveal Blood Cores and Soul Cores, then declared the spoils belonged to everyone.
  • The Magnetic Mountain transformed into a purple-lit longsword and carried Xu Xuan back to Chaos Valley, where he fell asleep to recover.

Ch. 430Greetings, Alliance Leader Xu!

After refining the spoils of victory, Xu Xuan accepted the leaders’ request to become alliance leader and began gathering Primordial Dao Province’s forces at Chaos Valley. He started a formation to heal and strengthen them, drawing everyone into dreams with his Way of Entering Dreams.

  • Xu Xuan emerged from seclusion after cultivating for a hundred years in the world of dreams, still unable to become a peak saint.
  • Dao Spirit Saint and the other Holy Land leaders asked Xu Xuan to lead Primordial Dao Province’s cultivation world against the Foreign Races, and he accepted.
  • Xu Xuan promised to heal the leaders, strengthen their souls, and help advance their cultivation realms.
  • Xu Xuan established a Chaos Spirit-Gathering Formation, and the Holy Lands contributed Blood Cores, Soul Cores, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
  • Xu Xuan predicted that a Great Emperor would emerge among them and used the formation to amplify his Way of Entering Dreams, pulling everyone into dreams.

Ch. 431Great Emperor Tribulation Lightning!

Everyone experienced an immense dream spanning the birth of the world, the rise of the Blood and Soul Clans, and ages of cosmic battles, then awoke with their potential realized and a clear path forward. As cultivators broke through, the Dao Spirit Saint began to face the Heavenly Tribulation to become a Great Emperor, while Xu Xuan discovered Luo Xiaotian had reached Peak Saint.

  • Everyone became innate Gods and Devils, were destroyed by the being who split heaven and earth, and then lived as the first Blood Clan within the Blood Sea Ancestor.
  • The Blood Sea Ancestor fell asleep, and outsiders devoured his Blood Clan descendants before the Soul Clan Ancestor gathered everyone as Divine Souls and raised them into the first Soul Clan.
  • The Soul Clan Ancestor scattered everyone across the universe, where they fought through countless ages, grew to their limits, and were finally awakened when the universe shattered.
  • The Primordial Saint awoke from the dream at the peak of the High-Stage Saint realm, and many cultivators broke through before Xu Xuan.
  • The Dao Spirit Saint began to face the Heavenly Tribulation to become a Great Emperor, and Xu Xuan realized Luo Xiaotian had already reached Peak Saint.

Ch. 432Facing Tribulation Before the Crowd!

Xu Xuan helped Dao Spirit Saint overcome his limits and begin a Great Emperor tribulation before a crowd of cultivators. Dao Spirit Saint survived the first three waves, but the fourth wave’s golden dragons overwhelmed him.

  • Dao Spirit Saint thanked Xu Xuan and left Chaos Valley to face his tribulation, while Xu Xuan and the others watched from afar.
  • Primordial Saint explained the tribulation’s lightning strikes, and Xu Xuan said Dao Spirit Saint could withstand the forty-nine strikes.
  • Dao Spirit Saint survived the first wave of white lightning and the second wave of black lightning, though the second wave left him gravely injured.
  • Dao Spirit Saint defeated nine blood beasts attacking his divine soul in the third wave.
  • Nine golden dragons landed beside Dao Spirit Saint and attacked him together, leaving him in grave danger.

Ch. 433Defy Heaven and Perish!

Dao Spirit Saint survived the forty-nine heavenly tribulations, but the tribulation eye remained and summoned nine Great Emperor-level Golden-Armored Divine Generals to kill him. As the weakened Saint struggled to stand and face them, Xu Xuan and the onlookers realized that his attempt to defy heaven had brought him to the brink of death.

  • Xu Xuan urged Dao Spirit Saint to focus on surviving the Nine-Headed Golden Dragon, and Dao Spirit Saint endured its attacks until it vanished.
  • Dao Spirit Saint realized he had passed the tribulation and wept with joy, while the people of Primordial Dao Province celebrated the hope of a native Great Emperor.
  • Xu Xuan warned that the tribulation eye had not dispersed and explained that Dao Spirit Saint's heaven-defying breakthrough had provoked the Heavenly Dao.
  • A massive pillar of lightning struck Dao Spirit Saint and transformed into a Golden-Armored Divine General, followed by eight more generals of Great Emperor-level strength.
  • Dao Spirit Saint coughed blood and struggled to stand as the nine divine generals surrounded him, then summoned his remaining strength to face them.

Ch. 434Thunder God Physique!

Xu Xuan intervened in the Dao Spirit Saint’s Heavenly Tribulation, and Luo Xiaotian joined them, causing the calamity to intensify into a Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. Xu Xuan used the Magnetic Mountain to suppress the eighteen divine generals, letting the three fight back and leaving the Dao Spirit Saint rushing to claim his share.

  • Xu Xuan dropped the Magnetic Mountain and stood beside the Dao Spirit Saint, choosing to face the Heavenly Tribulation with him.
  • Luo Xiaotian charged in to help, enraging the Heavenly Dao and bringing the tribulation to the scale of a Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
  • Xu Xuan used the Magnetic Mountain to pin all eighteen golden-armored divine generals to the ground and urged his allies to attack them.
  • Luo Xiaotian destroyed a divine general, while sparks from the tribulation strengthened him and the Dao Spirit Saint and awakened Xu Xuan’s Thunder God Physique.
  • Xu Xuan and his companions killed more than half the divine generals, and the Dao Spirit Saint rushed to join the fight despite his injuries.

Ch. 435The Counterattack Begins!

After the golden-armored divine generals fell, Xu Xuan became Primordial Dao Province’s unquestioned leader and rallied its newly strengthened cultivators to hunt the Foreign Races. The forces swept the area around Chaos Valley, but Xu Xuan and Great Emperor Dao Spirit discovered that ordinary people had already suffered catastrophic losses.

  • Xu Xuan and the others congratulated Dao Spirit Saint after he became a Great Emperor, and Dao Spirit Saint knelt before Xu Xuan before pledging his loyalty to him as alliance leader.
  • Xu Xuan warned that the Foreign Races might be targeting ordinary humans and declared that Primordial Dao Province had to protect them.
  • Xu Xuan divided the cultivators into eight forces and ordered them to attack the Foreign Races, while Great Emperor Dao Spirit stayed behind for a day to recover.
  • The cultivators swept away the Foreign Races within a hundred thousand li of Chaos Valley with little resistance.
  • Xu Xuan and Great Emperor Dao Spirit saw the devastation left behind and learned that most ordinary people had been killed, enslaved, or driven away.

Ch. 436Devouring the Sea of Blood!

Xu Xuan tried to rescue humans forced to march by the Blood Clan, but discovered the blood sea at Primordial Dao Province’s edge was being used to sacrifice them and was turning into a portal for the Blood Clan. He threw Magnetic Mountain into the sea of blood, where it began devouring it, provoking the Blood Clan’s powerful members.

  • Ye Qin showed Xu Xuan and Dao Ling Great Emperor the Blood Clan driving countless humans across a snowy wilderness, and Xu Xuan explained that they were being sacrificed to summon an important figure.
  • Xu Xuan left the others to pursue the migrating masses, rescuing people and destroying hundreds of Blood Clan contingents with Magnetic Mountain.
  • Xu Xuan reached the edge of Primordial Dao Province and saw that the blood-colored barrier was gaining sentience and allowing the Blood Clan to pass through.
  • The Blood Clan forced surviving humans into the sea of blood, where they dissolved, and Xu Xuan was overwhelmed by grief at his inability to save them all.
  • Xu Xuan dropped Magnetic Mountain into the sea of blood, and the treasure began devouring it, enraging the Blood Clan members nearby.

Ch. 437The Blood Ancestor Was About to Descend!

Xu Xuan fought the Blood Clan’s elites while Magnetic Mountain devoured their sea of blood, and three Blood Clan Great Emperors emerged to confront him. After one revealed that a Blood Ancestor would soon descend and tried to recruit Xu Xuan, he attacked the Blood-Colored Barrier, risking a battle against their true Great Emperor forms.

  • Xu Xuan charged into the Blood Clan’s ranks as Magnetic Mountain consumed the sea of blood and devoured more than a hundred elite Blood Clan members.
  • Three Blood Clan Great Emperors appeared through the trembling Blood-Colored Barrier, and Xu Xuan asked where the Soul Clan had gone.
  • A Blood Clan Great Emperor explained that the Soul Clan had entered the Clearfeather Realm in borrowed bodies and urged Xu Xuan to join them, promising that a Blood Ancestor would soon arrive.
  • Xu Xuan stopped listening and sent Magnetic Mountain crashing into the Blood-Colored Barrier, suspecting that the major human powers had allowed the Blood Clan’s actions.
  • The Blood Clan Great Emperors warned Xu Xuan that breaking the barrier would force them to merge with their true bodies and unleash genuine Great Emperor power.

Ch. 438Lord Guardian!

Xu Xuan shattered the blood-colored barrier with Magnetic Mountain and his World-Opening Giant ability, freeing Primordial Dao Province from the seal. After the Guardian allowed the Blood Clan time to settle its grudge before leaving, Xu Xuan fought the three Great Emperors and struck them down at great cost to himself.

  • Xu Xuan used Magnetic Mountain to devour the barrier’s energy, then expanded into a giant and cracked the seal while the three Blood Clan Great Emperors attacked him.
  • Xu Xuan punched a hole through the barrier and tore it wider until the blood-colored dome shattered.
  • The Guardian ordered the Blood Clan and Soul Clan to leave Primordial Dao Province within one incense stick, but allowed the Blood Clan time to settle its private grudge.
  • Xu Xuan attacked the three Great Emperors with the Magnetic Mountain Sword, matching their full strength despite not appearing to be a Peak Saint.
  • Xu Xuan’s massive sword strike pulverized the Great Emperors’ lower bodies and drove them into the earth, though he coughed up blood from the strain.

Ch. 439Here to Deliver a Message!

Xu Xuan nearly killed three Blood Clan Great Emperors with the Magnetic Mountain Sword, but the Human Race guardian intervened and let them escape. After Xu Xuan recovered in Chaos Valley, Lu Tianming brought him news that Mo Tianji, a Human Race Half-Step Great Emperor from the Mystic Feather Heavenly Palace, was being hunted in the Clearfeather Realm.

  • Xu Xuan used the Magnetic Mountain Sword to devastate the three Blood Clan Great Emperors, whose lost limbs could not fully regenerate.
  • A powerful guardian of the Human Race confined the area and rescued the three Great Emperors before Xu Xuan could kill them.
  • The Magnetic Mountain Sword fell into the depleted Sea of Blood, and Xu Xuan collapsed after the guardian's words enraged him.
  • Dao Ling Great Emperor found Xu Xuan, who was taken back to Chaos Valley as the Foreign Races fled Primordial Dao Province.
  • Lu Tianming told Xu Xuan that Mo Tianji of the Mystic Feather Heavenly Palace had entered the Clearfeather Realm while injured and was being relentlessly pursued.

Ch. 440A peculiar sight!

Xu Xuan left Primordial Dao Province with Lu Tianming to enter the Clearfeather Realm through a hidden spatial passage. After Dao Ling Great Emperor kept the remaining cultivators in Primordial Dao Province to help restore it, Xu Xuan plunged into the passage’s strange waters and was swallowed by a gigantic beast.

  • Xu Xuan agreed to leave Primordial Dao Province with Lu Tianming, while Dao Ling Great Emperor promised to oversee the province until Xu Xuan returned.
  • Dao Ling Great Emperor forbade the gathered cultivators from leaving and ordered them to help stabilize Primordial Dao Province.
  • Lu Tianming explained that a temporary spatial passage to the Clearfeather Realm had opened within Primordial Dao Province and led Xu Xuan to it.
  • Xu Xuan discovered that a seemingly dry riverbed was actually a passage hidden beneath clear water, and Lu Tianming entered first wearing special armor.
  • Xu Xuan sensed hostility beneath the water but plunged in anyway, where a vast ocean appeared and an enormous beast swallowed him.

Ch. 441The Mysterious Interceptor!

Xu Xuan was intercepted by a mysterious Sea Race youth who claimed to be the Holy Maiden of the Dragon Turtle Clan and sought his help to find the Heavenly Venerable Bone. After agreeing to work together, Xu Xuan emerged with the youth in the Clearfeather Realm, where Lu Tianming arrived and was dismissed as a burden.

  • A young man in white swallowed Xu Xuan into his Companion Beast and offered him tea that improved his understanding of the Law of Space.
  • The young man revealed that he wanted Xu Xuan's help to find the Heavenly Venerable Bone and claimed to be the Holy Maiden of the Dragon Turtle Clan, able to divine the future.
  • Xu Xuan agreed to cooperate after the young man promised to let him take the Heavenly Venerable Bone first if there was only one.
  • The young man brought Xu Xuan into the Clearfeather Realm, where his enormous Dragon Turtle Companion Beast emerged and then shrank back into his mouth.
  • Lu Tianming rushed over, and the young man called him too weak to keep around and ordered him to leave.

Ch. 442The Treasure Protected Its Master!

Xu Xuan learned about the Heavenly Venerable Bone and joined Little White in searching for Mo Tianji, who had been ambushed and injured in a swamp. They reached the swamp, where Little White’s Sea Race followers had lost track of him, just as more pursuers arrived.

  • Lu Tianming warned Xu Xuan about the Sea Race and left after Xu Xuan dismissed him.
  • Little White explained that Mo Tianji had obtained the only known Heavenly Venerable Bone, which could guarantee its bearer became an invincible Great Emperor among peers.
  • Little White led Xu Xuan to a black swamp and learned from his followers that Mo Tianji had killed four groups of attackers before falling unconscious with a treasure concealing his aura.
  • Little White summoned a Dragon Turtle that swallowed his followers, and Xu Xuan accused him of intending to feed them to it all along.
  • Figures approached the swamp from every direction.

Ch. 443All Sides Gather!

Xu Xuan and Little White were confronted in the Black Marsh by the Tree Race and then by powerful groups from the Human Race, the Myriad Races Alliance, and the Sea Race, all drawn by a treasure believed to be a Heavenly Venerate bone. The Fire Race arrived as the factions gathered, and the confrontation remained on the verge of breaking out.

  • A host of Tree Race giants charged at Xu Xuan and Little White, while Little White said they were born from one root and focused on him over his troubles with the Sea Race.
  • A Heaven Sword Sect expert attacked the marsh with a giant sword, but a black dragon tail struck back, destroyed the sword, and wounded its wielder.
  • Human Race experts arrived, and Little White mocked the Myriad Races Alliance as more than two hundred of its members approached.
  • A beautiful-looking Myriad Races Alliance woman scorned Little White for standing with Xu Xuan, while Sea Race rebels surrounded Little White and threatened to kill him.
  • The Fire Race arrived in a vast sea of flames, and its flame creatures emerged as the factions converged on the suspected Heavenly Venerate bone.

Ch. 444Number One in the Nine Provinces!

The Guixu Sect’s arrival at the gathering sparked a standoff, but Murong Feng’s threat failed to make the gathered Heavenly Prides retreat. Fighting broke out across the crowd, and Xu Xuan joined the battle while asking Little White about Peak Saints.

  • The Sea Race’s Young Master urged the crowd to kill the approaching Guixu Sect, and the others agreed.
  • Murong Feng arrived aboard the Skyfaring Shuttle and warned everyone to leave, but no one withdrew.
  • A Fire Race girl rejected Murong Feng’s threat, so he attacked the Sea Race and she led the Fire Race into battle.
  • The gathering erupted into chaotic fighting, and Tree Race giants charged Xu Xuan’s group.
  • Xu Xuan fought beside Little White and asked him what a Peak Saint was.

Ch. 445Tree King Heart!

Little White explained that a Peak Saint pursued an extreme in one aspect rather than surpassing Great Emperors in every respect, and Xu Xuan broke through by pushing his strength beyond its limit. As Xu Xuan fought the Tree Race and collected their Tree King Hearts, he discovered he could break through in speed and precision as well.

  • Little White explained the difference between a Peak Saint and a Great Emperor, helping Xu Xuan realize he had been trying to break through in too many aspects at once.
  • Xu Xuan unleashed a pure, powerful punch, broke through his cultivation barrier, and blasted a Tree Race giant apart.
  • Little White identified the dark red object Xu Xuan caught as a Tree King Heart, a potent tonic rich in vitality.
  • Xu Xuan decided to hunt more Tree Race members for their Tree King Hearts, while Little White warned him to keep hiding his strength.
  • Xu Xuan broke through his limits in speed and precision, killed more Tree Race members, and seized their Tree King Hearts.

Ch. 446Breaking Through Again and Again!

Xu Xuan and Little White joined forces against the Tree Race and Sea Race while Xu Xuan continued awakening the extremes. As Xu Xuan charged into the Sea Race and devoured its attacks, the Sea Race Leader appeared in the form of a bizarre Strange Dragon.

  • Xu Xuan seized three more Tree King Hearts, and the Tree Race fled after one of its members ordered a retreat.
  • Little White swallowed a Tree King Heart, and Xu Xuan followed, awakening the seventh extreme, perception ability.
  • Xu Xuan and Little White pursued the fleeing Tree Race, but many escaped because they could regrow from branches and leaves.
  • The Sea Race attacked Xu Xuan and Little White while the Fire Race was occupied fighting the Myriad Races Alliance.
  • Xu Xuan charged into the Sea Race and awakened the eighth extreme, devouring body, absorbing the attacks and weapons directed at him.
  • The Sea Race Leader appeared in the sky as a bizarre Strange Dragon with a human head and dragon body.

Ch. 447Chaos Saint!

Xu Xuan broke through to the Chaos Saint realm and crushed the freakish dragon and the Sea Race fighters attacking him. As the surrounding battle raged on, Little White was ambushed by the Heaven Sword Sect and seized an attacker’s sword.

  • Xu Xuan shattered the freakish dragon’s spatial claw, subdued him, and stamped him into the black swamp, where he fell still.
  • Little White identified the swamp’s lurking creatures as Blackwater Mystic Snakes and explained that the Sea Race fighters had attacked because their leader had failed to protect a mongrel.
  • The Heaven Sword Sect ambushed Little White while the Fire Race girl led her people in a brutal fight against Murong Feng of the Guixu Sect.
  • Xu Xuan stood unharmed against a Sea Race fighter’s trident, then killed the attacking Sea Race members with a giant heavenly hand.
  • Little White seized the longsword of a Heavenly Sword Gate expert with his bare hand.

Ch. 448Ancient Natural Enemy!

Xu Xuan and Little White escaped underground during the battle in the Black Marsh, where Little White revealed her true form and explained the Blackwater Mystic Snakes’ ancient power. After a snake’s roar badly injured her, Xu Xuan wondered why no creature was the Human Race’s natural enemy, leaving Little White speechless.

  • Little White broke a Heaven Sword Sect expert’s weapon and helped Xu Xuan drive back their attackers before they escaped into a hole beneath the marsh.
  • Little White transformed into a Sea Race Dragoness, revealing her human upper body and dragon lower body, and Xu Xuan realized she was a powerful Saint at the peak of the Nine Transformations.
  • Little White explained that the Blackwater Mystic Snakes once fed on dragons and phoenixes, and Xu Xuan watched them devour a Peak Saint.
  • A roar from below injured Little White, who said the Blackwater Mystic Snakes were natural enemies whose abilities countered her kind.
  • Xu Xuan asked why no creature across the heavens and myriad worlds was the Human Race’s natural enemy, leaving Little White unable to answer.

Ch. 449In the Midst of Breeding!

Xu Xuan and Little White found the Blackwater Mystic Snake’s hidden breeding pool, where countless snakes were actually one creature splitting itself to seek eternal life. Little White suspected the Supreme Bone lay beneath the mass of flesh and proposed moving it aside.

  • Little White explained that the Blackwater Mystic Snake was at least a true Heavenly Emperor, while Xu Xuan remained confident it could not use its full strength.
  • The space sank deeper underground, and Little White revealed her human form after the beast’s attack gravely wounded her.
  • Xu Xuan and Little White entered a dry underground passage and found an immense pool filled with entwined Blackwater Mystic Snakes.
  • Little White explained that the snakes were breeding and that they were all parts of a single creature that produced new versions of itself.
  • Little White proposed moving the mass of flesh aside because she suspected the Supreme Bone was beneath it, and Xu Xuan doubted they could manage it.

Ch. 450The Heavenly Venerable's Skeleton!

Little White used a Dragon Turtle shell to divine that Xu Xuan's master, Mo Tianji, had survived after falling into the deep pool. Xu Xuan and the others entered the pool, where Murong Feng unleashed a powerful Saint Artifact and they discovered a complete Heavenly Venerable's Skeleton at the bottom.

  • Little White admitted she had led the group to the swamp for its treasures, while Murong Feng confronted her over leaving Divine Soul imprints on him.
  • Blackwater Mystic Snakes poured down from the cliffs, and Little White offered to help Xu Xuan find his master if he protected her.
  • Little White used her Dragon Turtle shell to reveal Mo Tianji falling into the pool, and she divined that he was still alive despite nearly suffering a backlash.
  • Xu Xuan rushed into the pool, where Murong Feng used a One-Time Saint Artifact to destroy many snakes and vaporize part of the water.
  • Xu Xuan, Little White, Murong Feng, and the others reached the bottom and found a white-jade, gold-glowing Heavenly Venerable's Skeleton beneath a vast dragon tail.
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