Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian inspected Beihai Wu’s Spirit Gathering Formation and found flaws that could endanger Dragon City when the formations resonated during a thunderstorm. After correcting it and another formation overseen by Elder Lin, Xiao Tian headed north with them, where a spiritual Qi explosion suddenly erupted.

• Xiao Tian identified a dangerous flaw in Beihai Wu’s formation and told him to replace the lightning-struck wood with ordinary wood.
• Beihai Wu realized Xiao Tian was right, corrected the formation, and asked him to inspect the rest; Xiao Tian found ten more shortcomings before the formation was activated.
• Xiao Tian inspected Elder Lin’s formation, advised him to remove three flame stones and add two water-element crystals, and Elder Lin corrected and activated it.
• Elder Lin and Beihai Wu accompanied Xiao Tian toward the northern construction site, where a mushroom cloud of spiritual Qi erupted and Elder Lin urged everyone to hurry there.

Xiao Tian salvaged He Qiankun’s Spirit Gathering Formation and helped Dragon City complete a city-protecting barrier. When the eerie fog invaded, the barrier held, allowing Dragon City’s Evolvers to kill the monsters inside and attack those outside.

• He Qiankun’s Spirit Gathering Formation exploded, but Xiao Tian identified the underground energy as the cause and used He Qiankun’s blood to restore and reveal it.
• Xiao Tian adapted the formation’s energy medium into a false central node, then helped lay out more Spirit Gathering Formations across Dragon City over the following week.
• As the eerie fog swept into the inner city, Xiao Tian activated the formations in resonance and formed a barrier that killed the monsters trapped within it.
• Dragon City’s Evolvers unleashed powerful attacks on the monsters outside the barrier, while a Peak Shackle Realm expert spotted a spatial rift in the eastern fog as their source.

Xiao Tian joined the Ruler’s strike team to reach and destroy a spatial rift guarded by powerful eerie creatures, while Chu Feng and Zhou Quan independently cleared the guardians near Luo Cheng. After the team fought through the mist and reached the rift, Xiao Tian spotted a dark Black Golden-Winged Great Peng King among the monsters, and Lu Feihong asked him to try sealing the rupture.

• Lu Feihong reported that a spatial rift lay about 1,000 kilometers away and was guarded by more than a hundred rune-covered eerie beings, prompting the Ruler to organize a strike team with Xiao Tian protecting Lu Feihong.
• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan reached the spatial rift near Luo Cheng, where Chu Feng wiped out its monster bosses with a burst of eternal radiance.
• The Ruler led Xiao Tian, Lu Feihong, the three deputy palace masters, and the Old Ape King into the eerie mist and advanced toward the rift, overcoming dangerous terrain and monster attacks.
• Seven rune-armored creatures confronted the team three kilometers from the rift, and the Ruler and Xue Qian Sha engaged them while Xiao Tian and the Old Ape King moved toward the opening.
• Lu Feihong said he could not see how to destroy or seal the spatial rift, and Xiao Tian agreed to try sealing it before noticing a dark Black Golden-Winged Great Peng King among the emerging monsters.

Xiao Tian fought the monsters that emerged from the spatial rift, rescuing the Human Clan’s cultivators and confronting a Dark Behemoth. After the Behemoth struck him with Atomic Breath, he disappeared into a deep crater, leaving the others to fear he had died.

• A Black Gold Great Peng King and a Dark Behemoth emerged from the spatial rift, and Xiao Tian released Lu Feihong to fight while he confronted the Great Peng King.
• Xiao Tian killed the Black Gold Great Peng King with one strike and collected its valuable parts.
• The Dark Behemoth broke through Xue Qian Sha’s spells, and Helian Huo failed to stop it before Xiao Tian arrived and blocked its attack.
• The Dark Behemoth unleashed Atomic Breath at Xiao Tian, blasting him into a deep pit and leaving the Sovereign, Xue Qian Sha, and the others fearing he had fallen.
• The Dark Behemoth turned toward the Sovereign, who mourned Xiao Tian as the Human Clan’s outstanding talent and future.

Xiao Tian returned after surviving inside the Dark Behemoth and helped the Sovereign repel the monsters pouring through the spatial rift. He used the Chibaku Tensei Primordial Unity Sealing Jutsu to seal the rift, leaving the group facing the aftermath of the battle.

• The Sovereign activated several powerful techniques and reached Sub-Carefree Realm combat strength before confronting the Dark Behemoth.
• The Dark Behemoth exploded, and Xiao Tian revealed he had survived inside it by redirecting its Atomic Breath and hiding in the Kamui Dimension.
• The explosion enlarged the spatial rift and raised the strength of the monsters emerging from it, so the Sovereign and others gave Xiao Tian their storage treasures to help prepare a seal.
• Xiao Tian chose the Chibaku Tensei Primordial Unity Sealing Jutsu and began casting while the Sovereign and the others fought to protect him.
• Xiao Tian's jutsu drew monsters, soil, and rocks into a growing sphere around the spatial rift, and mysterious runes completed the seal.

Xiao Tian sealed the spatial rift threatening Dragon City, then left to return to Luo Cheng as eerie mist and monsters continued to spread elsewhere. While he and the Blood Wolf King cleared waves of monsters, the Ruler and the deputy palace masters defended Dragon City, and Xiao Tian discovered another spatial rift guarded by eight powerful beings.

• Xiao Tian trapped the spatial rift and its monsters inside a floating miniature planet, ending Dragon City's immediate crisis.
• The Ruler welcomed Xiao Tian and the others back as heroes, but Xiao Tian declined a banquet and refused to let Xue Qian Sha accompany him to Luo Cheng.
• Xiao Tian rode the Blood Wolf King into the eerie mist and drew monsters after them, while the Ruler, Xue Qian Sha, Helian Huo, and Chen Fan attacked the approaching horde near Dragon City.
• Xiao Tian used Heavenly Flames to wipe out six waves of monsters and spotted a spatial rift on his world map.
• The Blood Wolf King warned Xiao Tian that eight powerful beings guarded the rift, and Xiao Tian considered entering it by surprise.

Xiao Tian destroyed the altar sustaining the monster hordes, escaped the collapsing secret realm, and ended the eerie mist across Blue Star. Back in Luo Cheng, he confronted four powerful visitors who had demanded better accommodations and threatened his subordinate.

• Xiao Tian entered the secret realm with the Blood Wolf King, who eventually became mentally exhausted and shrank into Xiao Tian's sleeve.
• After fighting through monsters for seven days, Xiao Tian discovered and destroyed the altar and formation that converted Chaos Qi into endless monsters.
• Xiao Tian tore open space and escaped as the secret realm began collapsing, while the eerie mist and monsters vanished across Blue Star.
• The Ruler and Lu Feihong discussed the unexpectedly swift retreat of the monsters and worried about what might follow.
• In Luo Cheng, Long Zaitian struggled to manage visiting dignitaries who complained about their lodgings and demanded that he be dismissed.
• Xiao Tian appeared in his office and intimidated Feng Qingkuang, Xue Yushuang, Futu Hu, and Long Yun by reducing the room's furnishings to dust.

Xiao Tian used his overwhelming strength to force four visiting city lords to compensate Luo Cheng for the damage in his office. After Long Zaitian inflated the losses, Long Yun and the other three surrendered treasure artifacts and left.

• Xiao Tian subdued Feng Qingkuang, Futu Hu, Long Yun, and their companion, then warned them not to throw their status around in Luo Cheng.
• Xiao Tian stopped Long Yun from leaving and ordered Long Zaitian to assess the damage and demand compensation.
• Long Zaitian claimed the destroyed desk and tea set were valuable treasures, prompting Long Yun to hand over the Moonlight Wheel and Ancient Star-Moon Chain.
• Xiao Tian let Long Yun leave after he surrendered the artifacts, then demanded three mid-grade treasure artifacts from each of the remaining three city lords.
• Feng Qingkuang and the other two paid with mid-grade and low-grade treasure artifacts before leaving, and Long Zaitian thanked Xiao Tian for returning to Luo Cheng.

Xiao Tian welcomed newcomers to Luo Cheng and appointed Ye Ming to help develop the city, while the Sovereign arranged for the Golden-Winged Great Peng King’s clan to settle there. The Peng King arrived at Luo Cheng with a vast host of beasts, where Long Zaitian greeted him with a warning about Xiao Tian’s cola chicken wings.

• After Feng Qingkuang, Xue Yushuang, Futu Hu, and Long Yun left Luo Cheng, Xiao Tian welcomed the city’s new arrivals and promised homes, work, and strict enforcement of the law.
• Ye Ming proposed farmland and food-processing plants for Luo Cheng, and Xiao Tian appointed him an elder and offered him support.
• The Sovereign learned that the Golden-Winged Great Peng King wanted refuge in Dragon City and directed him to settle in Luo Cheng instead, promising resources for the city’s human refugees.
• Xiao Tian agreed to receive the beasts, joking that the Peng King would behave unless he wanted to become cola chicken wings.
• Seven days later, the Golden-Winged Great Peng King brought his vast host to Luo Cheng, and Long Zaitian welcomed them with a warning to keep their subordinates in line.

The Golden-Winged Great Peng King brought the Peacock Clan and allied beasts to settle in Luo Cheng, where Xiao Tian planned to profit from their needs. Kong Tianye then discovered that food merchants had sharply raised rice prices, leaving the beasts struggling to buy supplies.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King led tens of thousands of beasts into Luo Cheng and was assigned residential land by Long Zaitian.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King ordered the beasts to demolish the unsuitable houses and build dwellings for themselves.
• Xiao Tian and Ye Ming discussed profiting from the beasts by selling them food and trading for their resources.
• Kong Tianye visited grain shops to buy rice but found that every shop charged exorbitant prices.
• Kong Tianye returned to the Zhongliang Rice Shop and learned that it would not accept gold or silver as payment.

Xiao Tian used the Peacock Clan’s food shortage and the other beasts’ attack on Luo Cheng’s granaries to force the Golden-Winged Great Peng King into an unequal grain-for-spiritual-assets agreement. The Peng King collected his four subordinates and left the city lord’s residence, while Xiao Tian was disappointed that he had not gotten cola chicken wings.

• Xiao Tian learned that Kong Tianye had traded his five-colored plume for rice, and laughed at how he was profiting from the Peacock Clan.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King confronted Chu Feng about food and threatened to leave Luo Cheng, but Chu Feng said the city would let them go if their departure did not endanger residents.
• Five days later, Chu Feng summoned the Peng King to the city lord’s residence, where he found the Peacock King, Nightingale King, Savage Bull King, and White Crane King in platinum handcuffs.
• Xiao Tian accused the four kings of attacking Luo Cheng’s granaries and demanded compensation from the Golden-Winged Great Peng King.
• The Peng King accepted Xiao Tian’s proposal to provide grain in exchange for spiritual assets, paid bail, and took his four subordinates away.

The Golden-Winged Great Peng King reprimanded the four kings after their failed scheme, while Xiao Tian investigated an Evolver’s arson attack on a rice shop in Luo Cheng. He identified surveillance footage as the key to finding the culprit and set off to pursue them.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King warned the Peacock King and the other three kings to manage their clans carefully and not challenge Xiao Tian again.
• A week later, an Evolver’s spiritual flame set fire to a rice shop, and City Guard members extinguished it and rescued the owner and employee.
• Xiao Tian learned of the suspected arson during a wall patrol and went with Chu Feng and Zhou Quan to investigate.
• Xiao Tian promised Boss Li twice the amount of his shop’s losses from Luo Cheng’s treasury.
• Xiao Tian pointed out a surveillance camera and said the footage would reveal who started the fire.

Xiao Tian caught Beike Misaiya, who had set fire to a rice shop and stolen rice to secure treatment for his blind daughter, Oulunna. After making Beike promise to compensate the shop owner, Xiao Tian restored Oulunna’s sight and gave her a letter of introduction to Luo Cheng’s Evolver Pavilion.

• Xiao Tian led Zhou Quan and the city guard squad to Beike Misaiya’s villa after identifying him through surveillance footage.
• Beike confessed to setting fire to the rice shop and stealing its rice so he could trade with the Bai He Clan for a cure for Oulunna’s eye disease.
• Xiao Tian spared Beike from further punishment because he had told the truth and promised to repay the shop owner, and he offered to cure Oulunna’s eyes.
• Oulunna returned home, and Xiao Tian restored her sight; she delighted in seeing the world and joked that her father looked ugly and greasy.
• Xiao Tian wrote Oulunna a letter of introduction to Nangong Yanrou at the Evolver Pavilion and told Beike to take her there the next day.

Beike Misaiya brought Oulunna to the Evolver Pavilion so Nangong Yanrou could take her as a disciple, but a guard burned their letter before Nangong Yanrou learned they had come. After Xiao Tian claimed Oulunna had a special constitution, Nangong Yanrou examined her and found only above-average talent, leaving her to wonder whether Xiao Tian had misled her.

• Beike Misaiya and Oulunna arrived at the Evolver Pavilion, where a guard mistook them for troublemakers and refused to let them in.
• Beike Misaiya asked the guard to deliver a letter to Nangong Yanrou, but the guard read it, panicked, and burned it.
• Nangong Yanrou asked the guard about a father and daughter who had visited, then ordered him to bring them to her office.
• Nangong Yanrou called Xiao Tian, who said Oulunna had a special constitution and might even become an alchemist.
• Nangong Yanrou examined Oulunna and found her aptitude merely above average, prompting her to suspect Xiao Tian had played a trick on her.

Nangong Yanrou accepted Oulunna as her direct disciple, while Xiao Tian strengthened Luo Cheng by donating powerful arts and Breathing Techniques to the Evolver Pavilion. Oulunna immediately showed extraordinary aptitude, as an approaching undead army was ordered to destroy the city.

• Nangong Yanrou recognized Oulunna’s talent and accepted her as a direct disciple, leaving Beike Misaiya overjoyed and the security guard terrified.
• Long Zaitian told Xiao Tian about the state of Luo Cheng and Dragon City and suggested that he take a student; Xiao Tian instead went to inspect the Evolver Pavilion and contribute skills.
• Xiao Tian placed powerful arts on the Treasure Pavilion’s upper floors, revealed that he had reached the Carefree Realm, and added a hundred basic techniques on the first floor.
• Evolver students and experts used Xiao Tian’s donated techniques to advance, and the number of Shackle Realm Evolvers in Luo Cheng rose by two hundred.
• Oulunna became an Evolver in one minute and mastered Nangong Yanrou’s Breathing Technique, triggering the highest-tier aptitude phenomenon.
• The Demon Lord Descended into the World ordered the undead army approaching Luo Cheng to destroy the place where the key person was likely located.

The Sovereign learned that the palace master of Jade Void Palace was moving in Luo Cheng and warned Xiao Tian to be cautious. The palace master confronted Xiao Tian and attacked him, but Xiao Tian remained unharmed; the palace master revealed that he intended to force Perfected Xuantian out and relied on his authority to punish traitors.

• The Sovereign connected Perfected Xuantian’s Breathing Technique to Jade Void Palace’s supreme treasure and ordered his people to stay alert while warning Xiao Tian.
• The palace master of Jade Void Palace appeared in Xiao Tian’s office, demanded that Perfected Xuantian come out, and dismissed the danger of destroying Luo Cheng.
• Xiao Tian condemned the palace master for threatening Luo Cheng, and the palace master destroyed the office before using Heaven and Earth as One Qi and the Soul-Capturing Mirror against him.
• Xiao Tian resisted the palace master’s spatial attack, and the two faced each other a thousand kilometers outside Luo Cheng.
• The palace master admitted he wanted Jade Void Palace’s supreme treasure back and said he would kill Xiao Tian to draw out Perfected Xuantian.
• The palace master explained that a Soul Oath gave him special privileges to punish powerful traitors, and Xiao Tian came up with an amusing idea.

Xiao Tian defeated the Jade Void Palace master by summoning the Pangu Banner, then tricked him into believing he was the palace’s ancient third master. The palace master accepted the deception and kept Xiao Tian’s supposed identity secret, while Xiao Tian returned to Luo Cheng without realizing how significant the encounter was.

• The Jade Void Palace master summoned a mountain to crush Xiao Tian, but Xiao Tian shattered the spatial seal and revealed overwhelming power.
• Xiao Tian summoned the Pangu Banner, severely injuring the palace master and astonishing Nangong Yanrou, Xia Yanrou, and the other witnesses.
• The palace master mistook Xiao Tian for the third master of the Jade Void Palace, and Xiao Tian healed him while inventing a story about returning from the Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Tian ordered the palace master to keep his identity secret, and the palace master agreed, believing he had offended his ancestor.
• Nangong Yanrou explained the significance of the Pangu Banner, but Xiao Tian dismissed the encounter and headed back for a meal.
• The palace master stayed near Luo Cheng, hoping to remain close to Xiao Tian after failing to find the supreme treasure.

Xiao Tian reassured Luo Cheng’s citizens in a livestream, explained the Carefree Realm, and announced he would attend the Evolver Pavilion’s youth tournament. Back at his office, he gave the Jade Void Palace master a written method for summoning the Pangu Banner, which sent the palace master into deep comprehension.

• Xiao Tian told Luo Cheng’s citizens that his battle outside the city had been a friendly match with an elder and explained the Carefree Realm during a livestream.
• Xiao Tian said he might take a student by fate, denied that he and Nangong Yanrou were lovers, and joked that girls could get together with girls.
• Xiao Tian revealed he would attend the Evolver Pavilion’s youth tournament preliminary round in a week, prompting excitement among Luo Cheng’s residents.
• Xiao Tian found the Jade Void Palace master waiting in his office, where the master pleaded for help restoring Jade Void Palace’s fortunes.
• Xiao Tian wrote a three-thousand-character summoning method, and the Jade Void Palace master became absorbed in comprehending it as Xiao Tian sealed the office to contain the surging energy.

The Jade Void Palace Master learned the Pangu Banner technique from Xiao Tian and returned to the Jade Void Palace, where he declared Xiao Tian an ally and future successor. In Luo Cheng, the Evolver Pavilion tournament began, and Xiao Tian vanished as Oulunna prepared to spar with him.

• The Jade Void Palace Master reached the Late Carefree Realm while studying Xiao Tian’s technique, then gave Xiao Tian his Sumeru Ring in payment for the manual.
• The ruler of Dragon City ordered his people to secretly monitor Luo Cheng after hearing that Xiao Tian had fought an expert who summoned the Pangu Banner.
• The Jade Void Palace Master ordered his elders to protect Xiao Tian and later told them Xiao Tian might inherit the ancestor’s legacy and become the next palace master.
• The Evolver Pavilion began its Prodigy Ladder Tournament preliminaries after Meng Ziqi performed for the crowd.
• Xiao Tian was selected to offer guidance to contestant Oulunna, but he vanished with Instant Transmission as Luo Cheng’s formation appeared.

Xiao Tian discovered a vast undead army approaching Luo Cheng and ordered the city gates shut as its defenders prepared for battle. He flew out to confront the army, but after his opening strike the demons revived, leaving the defenders to hold the city while he faced three Carefree Realm enemies.

• Xiao Tian appeared on Luo Cheng's wall, sensed an approaching threat, and ordered the city gates closed.
• Xiao Tian declined Chu Feng's offer to fight, and Nangong Yanrou and the Evolver Pavilion elders ended the tournament and hurried to the wall.
• A huge undead army approached Luo Cheng, so Xiao Tian told the soldiers to follow their Bizarre Fog Battle arrangements and flew out to attack.
• Xiao Tian's strike killed tens of thousands of demons, but they revived, and Zhou Quan explained that they had to kill their leader and destroy the demonic treasure.
• Nangong Yanrou revealed that three Carefree Realm beings were among the enemies, shocking the defenders preparing to hold the wall.