Chapter Summaries

Qingfeng visited Huang Xiao and warned him to be careful around the powerful seniors, while Huang Xiao considered whether the Last Spirit Land might lie in the Central Desert. Huang Xiao then took Zuo Qiu Shu to the formation, reported what he had learned about the Slaughter Evil Lord to Xuan Yuanxiang, and prepared to return to the Desolate Domain with Hong Yi.

• Qingfeng declined to leave more hidden marks, warned Huang Xiao to watch himself, and departed.
• Huang Xiao considered whether the Last Spirit Land was in the Central Desert and decided to share the possibility with Senior Xuanyuan and the others.
• Zuo Qiu Shu arrived in West Mountain Town, and she and Huang Xiao set out to sea for the formation.
• Zuo Qiu Shu waited outside while Huang Xiao entered the formation and told Xuan Yuanxiang what he could disclose about the Slaughter Evil Lord.
• Xuan Yuanxiang postponed Huang Xiao's entry into another formation, agreed that Hong Yi could accompany him to the Desolate Domain, and Huang Xiao told his patriarch about Dragon Fang.

Huang Xiao, Hong Yi, and Dugu Sheng reunited with Zhao Yunya at the Ji Residence, where they learned about its new formation and contacted Senior Xuan Yuanjun. Huang Xiao and Dugu Sheng left with Hong Yi to meet Senior Xuanyuan, while Zuo Qiu Shu stayed at the residence and Zhao Yunya was relieved to see Hong Yi again.

• Huang Xiao, Hong Yi, and Dugu Sheng arrived at the island, where Hong Yi reunited with Zhao Yunya.
• Zhao Yunya explained that Senior Xuanyuan and Senior Ji had strengthened the Ji Residence’s formation, and that Senior Ji was healing in seclusion.
• Zhao Yunya contacted Yunhui, who provided Senior Xuan Yuanjun’s location at one of the other eight locations.
• Zuo Qiu Shu chose to stay at the Ji Residence, while Hong Yi insisted on accompanying Huang Xiao and Dugu Sheng to see Senior Xuanyuan.
• Huang Xiao, Hong Yi, and Dugu Sheng departed, and Zhao Yunya returned to the Ji Residence, happy to have Hong Yi back.

Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi met Xuan Yuanjun at a Spirit Land in the Desolate Domain, where he had been trying to break its formation. The formation gave way, and the group prepared to enter and study it for clues to the Spirit Land formations in the Immortal Spirit Domain.

• Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi reached the Spirit Land and met Xuan Yuanjun.
• Huang Xiao told Xuan Yuanjun that Slaughter Evil Lord was essentially willing to help oppose Longevity Daoist and revealed that he had met Ji Xuanying’s son.
• Xuan Yuanjun explained that he had failed to break the formations at the other seven Spirit Lands and believed this one offered the best chance because it had suffered greater damage.
• Xuan Yuanjun sensed that the formation had been breached, and Huang Xiao confirmed that it appeared to be broken.
• Xuan Yuanjun led the group inside and asked Huang Xiao to compare the formation with those he had seen in the Immortal Spirit Domain.

Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun explored the shattered Core Areas of two Spirit Land formations, hoping to learn how they had been constructed. They found no intact formations to study, but Xuan Yuanjun gained confidence in breaking the remaining formations.

• Xuan Yuanjun led Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi through a damaged formation to its Core Area, where they found shattered spirit crystal marrow and no positions for the Seven Treasures.
• Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun discussed how flaws in the Longevity Daoist's formations had allowed Senior Ji to sabotage them, while newer formations in the Immortal Spirit Domain seemed more complete and harder to stop.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed checking another Core Area, and he led the group to the formation he had once found hardest to break.
• After three days, Xuan Yuanjun breached the second formation, but the group found its Core Area completely shattered as well.
• Huang Xiao struck the smooth floor with the Minghong Saber to check for a hidden formation beneath it, but the cracks revealed no sign of one.

Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun returned to the island and discussed the stolen supreme treasures with Ji Xuanying and the others. Xuan Yuanjun deduced that the Longevity Daoist had stolen them through a puppet, probably still near or inside the Wild Ox Sect, and the group decided to investigate there.

• Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun left the rocky site after finding no further clues, and the cracks made by the Minghong Saber slowly began to close behind them.
• Huang Xiao told Ji Xuanying and the others about the search and his encounter with her son.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed that the Longevity Daoist had used a puppet to steal the supreme treasures, leaving traces of his formation methods at the Wild Ox Sect.
• Xuan Yuanjun reasoned that the puppet was likely still at or near the Wild Ox Sect because it needed to monitor the sect and locate the hidden treasures.
• Ji Xuanying agreed that Xuan Yuanjun's deduction was likely correct, and the group resolved to visit the Wild Ox Sect.

Huang Xiao revealed that he had recovered the Supreme Ghost Stele and the Cold Jade Key, then explained that his Eldest Senior Brother had emerged from the Last Spirit Land with Soaring Immortal Fruit. Xuan Yuanjun realized the fruit might help him fully recover, while Ji Xuanying prepared to head to the Immortal Spirit Domain alone.

• Ji Xuanying said she had recovered most of her strength, and Xuan Yuanjun chose to stay behind and study formations while she went to the Immortal Spirit Domain.
• Huang Xiao opened the box and showed Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun the Supreme Ghost Stele and the Cold Jade Key, admitting that he had concealed their return to his hands.
• You Lian'er examined the Cold Jade Key, and Huang Xiao explained that Ji Xuanying had sealed away its cold aura.
• Huang Xiao said Daoist Qingfeng had returned the treasures to him but was occupied with other important matters.
• Huang Xiao revealed that his Eldest Senior Brother had emerged from the Last Spirit Land with Soaring Immortal Fruit, which Xuan Yuanjun believed could help heal his injuries completely.

Huang Xiao explained that the Soaring Immortal Fruit had absorbed the vitality needed to transform into a Heavenly Immortal Fruit, which could heal Xuan Yuanjun. Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying decided to travel to the Immortal Spirit Domain, while Zhao Yunhui stayed to study Xuan Yuanjun's formation insights.

• Huang Xiao refused to let Xuan Yuanjun refine the Soaring Immortal Fruit, explaining that it was his friend and had once saved his life.
• Huang Xiao revealed that the Soaring Immortal Fruit had absorbed vitality from a Heavenly Immortal Fruit Remnant Root in the Last Spirit Land and might transform into a Heavenly Immortal Fruit.
• Xuan Yuanjun agreed to travel with Ji Xuanying to the Immortal Spirit Domain and help Huang Xiao's Eldest Senior Brother and the others protect the exotic flowers and plants.
• Ji Xuanying said she could recover by receiving some vitality from the exotic flowers and plants and promised not to refine them into pills.
• Xuan Yuanjun planned to meet the Slaughter Evil Lord to discuss the Spirit Land Grand Formation and shared his formation insights with Zhao Yunhui before leaving.

Xuan Yuanjun, Ji Xuanying, and Huang Xiao returned to the Immortal Spirit Domain and went to the Wild Ox Sect to recover its supreme treasures before Longevity Daoist’s puppet could take them. As Xuan Yuanjun unraveled the puppet’s hidden formations, he began to suspect Lu Mu had a connection to them.

• Dugu Sheng and Hong Yi stayed behind to help Xuan Yuanxiang move important treasures out of the formation.
• Huang Xiao agreed to go to the Wild Ox Sect first, despite wanting to search for his Eldest Senior Brother.
• The three approached the sect cautiously, and Xuan Yuanjun began unraveling the hidden formations while Ji Xuanying searched for Longevity Daoist’s puppet.
• After unraveling more than a dozen formations, Xuan Yuanjun asked whether Lu Mu was in the Wild Ox Sect, and Huang Xiao realized what he might be implying.

Xuan Yuanjun identified Lu Mu as a likely puppet of Longevity Daoist after recognizing that he had made both the secret formations and the Wild Ox Sect’s grand formation. After the main hall collapsed, Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun followed Lu Mu to his residence, where he noticed them.

• Xuan Yuanjun said the secret formations and the Wild Ox Sect’s grand formation were the work of the same person, leading him to suspect Lu Mu was Longevity Daoist’s puppet.
• Ji Xuanying told Huang Xiao to hide while she and Xuan Yuanjun continued through the formations to the main hall.
• The Wild Ox Sect’s main hall collapsed, and Gao Tianhe ordered the exits sealed and called for an investigation.
• Mu Fucheng found that palm force had shattered several supporting pillars, confirming that someone had deliberately destroyed the hall.
• Ji Xuanying could not identify Lu Mu from a distance, so she and Xuan Yuanjun followed him to his residence.
• Lu Mu sensed someone behind him, turned around, and found Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun there.

Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun exposed Lu Mu as a puppet of the Longevity Daoist after he reacted to the Supreme Ghost Stele. Lu Mu admitted the other Supreme Treasures were still on the mountain, then died when Xuan Yuanjun realized he had used their conversation to alert his true body through the formation.

• Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun revealed their true appearances to Lu Mu, who recognized them and confirmed their suspicions by reacting to the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Lu Mu explained that he had planned to collect the Seven Treasures through his puppet body and had learned Huang Xiao possessed them, but failed to obtain the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Lu Mu admitted the other Supreme Treasures remained on the mountain, while insisting their loss would not stop his plan.
• Ji Xuanying threatened to destroy Lu Mu's puppet, but Xuan Yuanjun realized Lu Mu was stalling to notify his true body through the formation.
• Xuan Yuanjun struck Lu Mu, who died after warning him that he had reacted too slowly.

Ji Xuanying, Xuan Yuanjun, and Huang Xiao recovered Lu Mu’s hidden treasures and set out for the Central Desert. After learning that the Last Spirit Land’s location had been revealed, Huang Xiao feared that the influx of Jianghu experts would uncover his eldest senior brother and the others.

• Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun found Lu Mu dead, then recovered the six supreme treasures and spirit crystal marrow he had hidden.
• Huang Xiao met Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun, and Xuan Yuanjun explained that Lu Mu had been the Longevity Daoist’s puppet.
• Ji Xuanying, Xuan Yuanjun, and Huang Xiao decided to hide the treasures in eight places along their route to West Mountain Town.
• Two days later, Xuan Yuanjun buried the Supreme Ghost Stele beneath a tree, and the three hurried toward Red Sun Town.
• Huang Xiao learned that the Last Spirit Land’s map had been assembled and its location in the Central Desert revealed.
• Huang Xiao realized that Jianghu experts might mistake his eldest senior brother’s hidden refuge for the Spirit Land and urged Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun to hurry.

Huang Xiao, Ji Xuanying, and Xuan Yuanjun followed the secret marks into the Central Desert, fighting off groups of Jianghu people along the way. They reached the Last Spirit Land, which had been revealed by a triggered formation, and found a crowd gathered there.

• Huang Xiao heard Senior Ji's signal and found Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun at the first secret mark, which showed them the direction to follow.
• Huang Xiao and the two seniors tracked the remaining marks and defeated more than a dozen groups of Jianghu people who tried to ambush them.
• After three days of travel, Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun discussed whether they could rescue all the exotic flowers and plants as they neared their destination.
• Huang Xiao learned that Jianghu people had discovered the Last Spirit Land and agreed to investigate because it lay in the same direction as his Eldest Senior Brother and the others.
• Huang Xiao recognized the Last Spirit Land as the place where he had obtained a Bronze Key and sensed the formation aura rising from the revealed site.

Huang Xiao and his companions realized the formation sheltered his eldest senior brother Qingfeng and the others, rather than marking the true spirit land. They set out to find the real site and draw the gathered Jianghu people away, while the formation kept Qingfeng's group safe for the moment.

• Xuan Yuanjun deduced that the gathered Jianghu people were outside the true spirit land and that Huang Xiao's companions were behind the nearby formation.
• Ji Xuanying reassured Huang Xiao that Qingfeng and the others were safe, but Huang Xiao worried that the crowd would overwhelm them if news of the exotic plants spread.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed finding the true spirit land and luring the Jianghu people there, and he judged that Qingfeng's formation could hold for another half day.
• Huang Xiao learned that Xuan Yuanjun could neither enter the formation nor send a voice transmission without destroying or alerting it.
• Huang Xiao, Xuan Yuanjun, and Ji Xuanying split up to search for the true spirit land.

Huang Xiao searched for the Spirit Land but was ambushed by three early-stage primordial desolate experts using a concealment formation. He realized they were guarding the Spirit Land’s secret, and the fight left him trapped inside the formation with no clear way to alert anyone.

• Huang Xiao searched more than twenty li without finding the Spirit Land and continued farther from his Eldest Senior Brother.
• Huang Xiao sensed hidden auras, tried to retreat, and was surrounded by three experts.
• Huang Xiao activated Heavenly Demon Disintegration Fourteenth Stage and fought the three men as they used a formation to conceal the battle.
• Huang Xiao inferred that the men were hiding the Spirit Land and threatened to spread the news.
• One of the men revealed that Huang Xiao could not escape the formation’s range while they blocked him.

Huang Xiao broke the concealment formation hiding the Spirit Land and announced its location, drawing Jianghu figures from across the area. He regrouped with Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying as the newcomers surrounded the Great Powers guarding the site.

• Huang Xiao activated the 15th Level Heavenly Demon Disintegration to distract the three guardians while he studied and broke their formation.
• Huang Xiao shouted that the Spirit Land was there, exposing its location to Jianghu figures within a hundred li.
• Huang Xiao escaped the guardians, suppressed his aura, and waited as crowds rushed toward the Spirit Land.
• Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying found Huang Xiao, and the three saw the Spirit Land a little over ten li away.
• Jianghu figures formed an outer ring around the Great Powers' forces, and someone in the inner ring warned them to leave.

Huang Xiao, Xuan Yuanjun, and Ji Xuanying watched as Jianghu forces partially broke the Spirit Land Grand Formation and fought over the treasures inside. Huang Xiao stayed on the outskirts, hoping the commotion would draw the people away from his eldest senior brother’s side.

• Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying discussed the Longevity Daoist’s role in drawing the gathered forces to the Spirit Land and predicted that its formation could be partially breached.
• Cracks sounded from the Spirit Land, and Jianghu people surged forward, clashing with the great powers as the formation began to give way.
• Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying went to inspect the Spirit Land while Huang Xiao stayed on the outskirts.
• Thousands of pieces of Spirit Land Cold Jade shot out, and Jianghu people seized them amid the fighting.
• Huang Xiao watched people hurry over from his eldest senior brother’s side and hoped they would all be drawn to the Spirit Land.

Huang Xiao discovered that a formation was affecting the martial artists’ minds and driving them to attack indiscriminately. As the effect spread into the inner area, even disciples of the great powers turned on one another, and the Wood Demon General identified the phenomenon as a Blood Domain method.

• Huang Xiao watched the battle for Spirit Land Cold Jade intensify when Vitality Pills appeared, and the Wood Demon General recognized the pills as proof that they had reached the Last Spirit Land.
• A wounded martial artist swallowed a Vitality Pill, recovered his injuries and true qi, and killed his pursuers before returning to the fight.
• Huang Xiao was swept up in the violence and killed hundreds of martial artists before a clash with an old man startled him back to his senses.
• Huang Xiao used the Upper Clarity Heart Scripture to clear his mind and realized a formation was gathering the stench of blood and slowly influencing people’s minds.
• Huang Xiao saw disciples in the inner area attack their companions, and the Wood Demon General identified the spreading effect as a Blood Domain method.

Jiang Wei denied that the Blood God Sect had set the deadly formation, while the gathered factions accused them and demanded their treasures. The Wood Demon General concluded that the Longevity Daoist was more likely responsible, leaving the Blood God Sect’s standoff unresolved.

• The gathered factions accused Jiang Wei and the Blood God Sect of setting the blood formation and threatened to kill them.
• Jiang Wei insisted the Blood God Sect was innocent and accused the factions of using the formation as an excuse to seize their Spirit Land Cold Jade and Vitality Pills.
• The Wood Demon General offered to let the Blood God Sect leave if they surrendered their treasures, but Jiang Wei refused and threatened the Radiant Sun Sect’s Du Moyou.
• No one attacked Jiang Wei’s group, and the gathered factions looked to the Wood Demon General for a decision.
• The Wood Demon General suggested the Longevity Daoist had created the formation, and the others agreed that the place’s lack of danger had seemed suspicious.

As a formation drove the Jianghu fighters into madness and gathered the essence blood of the dead, Huang Xiao recognized that others were devouring it and used the Blood God Conversion Great Method to strengthen his divine sense. He was interrupted by two figures who attacked him despite his claim that he was one of them.

• Jiang Wei identified the formation as similar to those in the Blood Domain, saying its bloody aura could drive people mad, while the Wood Demon General judged that leaving remained possible.
• The Wood Demon General rushed to collect Spirit Land Cold Jade and Vitality Pills, and the others resumed scrambling for treasures after protecting their weaker disciples.
• Huang Xiao realized the formation had extracted the essence blood of the dead and noticed people devouring the bloody aura.
• Huang Xiao began devouring essence blood to strengthen his divine sense, hoping to prepare for the dangers of breaking through to higher levels.
• Huang Xiao noticed more people entering to devour the essence blood and wondered whether the formation was the work of the Blood Domain.
• Two figures charged at Huang Xiao, ignoring his claim that he was one of them.

Huang Xiao killed two lucid attackers, then discovered that his Dantian as the Sea Method let him store far more essence blood aura as the formation weakened. After harvesting more aura, he followed two familiar figures outside the formation Eldest Senior Brother had set up.

• Huang Xiao identified the two attackers' methods as belonging to the Evil and Ghost Daos, then killed them when they tried to flee.
• Huang Xiao avoided the maddened Jianghu fighters and observed that most disciples in the inner area remained safe.
• Huang Xiao used the Dantian as the Sea Method to compress essence blood aura in his dantian and increase its storage capacity.
• Huang Xiao gathered essence blood aura more boldly as the formation neared collapse, while the group that had attacked him earlier ignored him.
• Huang Xiao spotted two familiar figures, left Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying behind, and followed the pair outside the formation Eldest Senior Brother had set up.