Recaps

Xu Long and his Dharma body fought the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram’s manifested combat soldiers and bronze chariots, with Xu Long shattering an arrow assault and the Dharma body smashing a charging chariot. Surrounded by the advancing black tide while his partner held off more chariots, Xu Long unleashed his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and sword light, leaving the battle raging inside the barrier.

• Xu Long summoned his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and shattered the combat soldiers’ arrow formation with a single sword strike.
• Bronze chariots charged Xu Long, but he called forth an enormous Dharma body that halted one chariot and smashed it with the divine steeds.
• Xu Long and the Dharma body stood back to back as more chariots advanced and the black-clad combat soldiers closed in.
• Xu Long sealed his five senses and opened his Heavenly Eye to resist the totem’s murderous aura, then raised curtain walls against the soldiers’ combined attack.
• As the curtain walls buckled and the Dharma body held off the chariots, Xu Long sent his gathered sword light plunging into the black tide.

Xu Long destroyed two contingents of soldiers in the fifth gate, then missed the exit as the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram transferred him to the sixth gate. He arrived in a more complete world of mountains and rivers, while the formation’s energy continued to strengthen his Magic Power.

• Xu Long used the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and sword light to break through the first contingent of soldiers, while his Dharma Body held back the bronze chariots.
• The bronze chariots shattered the Dharma Body, and Xu Long unleashed Spiritual Qi Bombardment to scatter the encircling soldiers before cutting them down with sword light.
• After defeating both contingents, Xu Long absorbed energy from the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and hesitated over whether to take the exit that appeared before him.
• Xu Long missed the exit as the formation shifted and transferred him into the sixth gate, where energy from the City Heart poured into his body and opened his sealed meridians.
• Xu Long arrived in the sixth gate and saw a world of rolling mountains, flowing rivers, colored clouds, and clear qi.

Xu Long entered the sixth gate and found himself amid mountains that began closing in on him, forcing him to flee along a dangerous river. After cutting through falling ranges with his sword light, he was swept back into the current and continued downstream, suspecting the barrier’s terrain and river were strangely controlled.

• Xu Long entered the sixth gate and found a landscape of steep mountains and a winding river.
• The mountain ranges began tilting toward him, filling the barrier with Geng Metal Qi and forcing him to escape downstream along the river.
• The current swept Xu Long toward a sharp bend, where a falling mountain range blocked his path and threatened to crush him.
• Xu Long halted himself with the Milky Way and sent sword light through the rushing water to open a path past the mountains.
• When more ranges fell at the bend, Xu Long poured his Magic Power into the sword light and severed them, escaping beneath the falling peaks.
• Xu Long was swept into the river again and sensed that its speed and direction changed strangely despite the level ground.

Xu Long battled the sixth gate of the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, where a surging river and falling mountain ranges trapped him in a maze of sharp bends. After cutting through one barrier, he tried to force a new route, but the mountains blocked it again, leaving him to charge ahead with his Dharma Body.

• Xu Long realized the barrier’s mountains had shifted into nine groups of sword-like peaks that forced the river through dangerous bends.
• Xu Long used his sword light to sever the mountain weapons above a bend, allowing the river to pass through more smoothly.
• Xu Long saw the mountains repeatedly close off new routes and decided to lead the river straight through the obstacles instead of following its bends.
• Xu Long’s sword light opened a brief passage, but the mountain weapons fell into place again and blocked the river.
• Xu Long summoned his Dharma Body, which charged toward the mountain weapons to force open a passage as the barrier shook.

Xu Long broke through the Sixth Gate of the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram by forcing a path through its river and giant weapons, then drew on the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to push against his sealed realm. As the Seventh Gate began to open, he sensed its danger and faced a choice between proceeding and stabilizing his imminent breakthrough.

• Xu Long used his Dharma Body and sword light to smash through the giant swords and halberds, guiding the river past their bends toward the horizon.
• After the Dharma Body shattered, Xu Long used Spiritual Qi Bombardment and the command “Seal!” to restrain a falling weapon long enough to pass beneath it and reach the end of the river.
• The Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon replenished Xu Long’s Magic Power, and the energy began forcing open the blockage in his realm.
• Xu Long shouted “By decree!” and broke through the long-sealed pass as his Magic Power surged through newly opened channels.
• A curtain of light appeared at the Sixth Gate’s exit as the formation shifted toward the Seventh Gate, and Xu Long sensed danger while his breakthrough remained unsettled.

Xu Long stabilized his breakthrough inside the Seventh Gate’s barrier and reached the Middle Mahayana Stage, then escaped into Phoenix City just before the exit vanished. He entered the city proper and disappeared into the crowd as people from the City Lord’s Manor approached, while Deng Shouchong reported to Deng Lifu.

• Xu Long calmed his chaotic Magic Power and broke through to the Middle Mahayana Stage, expanding his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon.
• As darkness swallowed the barrier’s exit, Xu Long severed his celestial phenomenon’s connection to the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and escaped into the barbican.
• Xu Long followed other cultivators through the barbican and entered Phoenix City, seeing its rivers, jade pavilions, and City Lord’s Manor.
• Xu Long sensed unusual auras, including people from the City Lord’s Manor, and vanished into the crowd.
• Deng Shouchong sat beside Deng Lifu in the City Lord’s Manor and began recounting the arrangements he had made after leaving the city.

Deng Shouchong reported the failed Blackwater City expedition, and the City Lord’s divination could not determine whether Mo Yu had survived as an anomaly of heaven and earth. When a cultivator passed through six gates of Phoenix City’s formation, the City Lord sent Deng Shouchong to meet him, while Yuan Changhe sensed the same barrier disturbance and ruined a pill furnace.

• Deng Shouchong told the City Lord that Mo Yu had vanished in the Mist Beast tide and that Yuan Changwu and Chen Yuping had not obtained Blackwater City’s energy core.
• The City Lord said his divination could not reveal whether Mo Yu had survived, calling him a formless anomaly between heaven and earth.
• A cultivator passed through six gates of Phoenix City’s Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, and the City Lord gave Deng Shouchong a jade token to bring the cultivator to him.
• Yuan Changwu told Yuan Changhe that he had failed to obtain the energy core and Human Python’s Inner Core, which he needed for his breakthrough.
• Yuan Changhe sensed the city-gate barrier disturbance, became distracted, and ruined the pills in his furnace.

Yuan Changhe, Chen Yuping, and the other leaders of Phoenix City’s three factions learned that a cultivator had passed through six gates of the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and sent representatives to recruit him. At the barbican, Pavilion Master Xu won goodwill for the Rogue Cultivators Association by welcoming all the newcomers, but the powerful cultivator had not yet revealed himself.

• Yuan Changhe gave Yuan Changwu his Pill Cauldron Sect jade token and ordered him to bring a cultivator who had passed through six gates to the sect.
• Pavilion Master Xu delivered the Rogue Cultivators Association’s Spirit Stones to Chen Yuping and reported that Old Pavilion Master Huang had died and his spirit vein had been abandoned; Chen Yuping ordered him to keep the matter secret.
• After sensing that a cultivator who passed through the Sixth Gate had entered Phoenix City, Chen Yuping sent Pavilion Master Xu to invite that cultivator to the Rogue Cultivators Association.
• Deng Shouchong arrived at the barbican on behalf of the City Lord’s Manor, and representatives of the Pill Cauldron Sect and Rogue Cultivators Association followed to recruit the six-gate cultivator.
• Pavilion Master Xu welcomed all the arriving cultivators before relaying Chen Yuping’s invitation, earning the Rogue Cultivators Association goodwill while the other factions hurried to broaden their own offers.
• None of the three factions’ representatives identified or recruited the powerful cultivator, who remained among the newcomers.

Phoenix City buzzed over the mysterious cultivator who passed six city gate barriers while Deng Shouchong investigated a missing bronze chariot and reports of Mist Beast tides. Xu Long entered the Pill Cauldron Sect’s South Division as Old Pavilion Master Huang arrived there unexpectedly.

• The three factions failed to meet the cultivator who passed six barriers, and stories about the feat spread through Phoenix City.
• Deng Shouchong asked Ma Fang whether he had seen Mo Yu, then learned that a bronze chariot sent to drive off a Mist Beast tide had not returned.
• Deng Shouchong ordered Ma Fang and his companions to search for the missing team and chariot and watch for Mist Beast tides.
• Xu Long traveled through Phoenix City and headed for the Pill Cauldron Sect’s South Division.
• Old Pavilion Master Huang entered the Pill Cauldron Sect’s grounds to visit Second Master Yuan Changwu, surprising the sect’s cultivators.

Old Pavilion Master Huang brought a mysterious treasure to the Pill Cauldron Sect and used it to secure a private audience with Yuan Changwu. After seeing the treasure, Yuan Changwu heard Huang’s demand for rare pills and ten portions of great medicine, leaving him torn between anger and his desire for what the box contained.

• Old Pavilion Master Huang forced his way into the Pill Cauldron Sect and demanded to speak with Yuan Changwu about a trade.
• Yuan Changwu inspected Huang’s brocade box, reacted with shock and delight, and invited him inside to negotiate.
• Yuan Changwu led Huang to the sect’s mountaintop temple, where they paid respects before meeting in a side hall.
• Old Pavilion Master Huang demanded several powerful pills and ten portions of great medicine in exchange for the treasure.
• Yuan Changwu objected that the terms were excessive, considered killing Huang, then hesitated because he urgently wanted the treasure.

Xu Long, disguised as Old Pavilion Master Huang, traded a Mist Beast Inner Core to the Pill Cauldron Sect for precious pills, setting Yuan Changhe up to refine a Wuji Creation Pill for Yuan Changwu. After completing the exchange, Xu Long headed to Phoenix City's gathering place to seek information about the Ancestral Spirit.

• Old Pavilion Master Huang pressed Yuan Changwu to trade the Mist Beast Inner Core for the Pill Cauldron Sect's pills and great medicine.
• Yuan Changhe told Yuan Changwu to accept the trade, offering five portions of great medicine so he could use the Inner Core to refine a Wuji Creation Pill.
• When Yuan Changwu tried to refuse Huang's terms, Huang threatened to take the Inner Core to Deng Shouchong, and Yuan Changwu agreed to the trade with only five portions of great medicine.
• Yuan Changwu exchanged the sect's pills for the brocade box, and Old Pavilion Master Huang congratulated him before leaving.
• Yuan Changhe examined the genuine Mist Beast Inner Core and said he would soon refine the Wuji Creation Pill.
• Xu Long revealed he had been disguised as Old Pavilion Master Huang, then hurried to Phoenix City's gathering place to investigate the Ancestral Spirit.

Xu Long settled in Phoenix City's trading hub, learned about the City Lord's Manor's history and its ties to the primordial great god, and considered infiltrating the manor to uncover more secrets. Reports of vast Mist Beast tides gathering outside the city left him fearing that Phoenix City could suffer the same fate as Blackwater City.

• Xu Long rented a secluded cave abode in the trading hub and gathered information while avoiding faction ties.
• Xu Long learned that Phoenix City had been founded by the primordial great god and that the City Lord's Manor's divine bird totem dated from the same era.
• Xu Long connected the Heaven Patroler to the sealing of the primordial great god and considered infiltrating the City Lord's Manor for its records.
• Xu Long heard that Mist Beast tides were gathering around Phoenix City, while experienced cultivators trusted the city's defenses and Earth Immortals to hold them back.
• Xu Long recalled the intelligence of higher Mist Beast beings and the Poison Curse that had afflicted Pavilion Master Xu, and feared that the approaching tides could overwhelm Phoenix City.

Xu Long suspected the Mist Beast tide was deliberately draining the City Lord's Manor while preying on cultivators entering Phoenix City. After learning of the mounting deaths, the city lord decided to investigate the tide with two other Earth Immortals, leaving Deng Shouchong to guard the manor as Yuan Changhe prepared pills at the South Si Dao Field.

• Xu Long gathered news about the Mist Beast tide and suspected higher Mist Beasts were luring cultivators into danger while weakening the City Lord's Manor.
• Ma Fang told Deng Shouchong that the missing Muster Platform team leader's life tablet had shattered and reported heavy losses in the tide.
• Deng Shouchong informed the city lord of the deaths and offered to lead cultivators out to fight, but the city lord refused.
• The city lord announced that he would investigate the tide with Branch Master Chen and Sect Master Yuan while Deng Shouchong guarded the manor.
• The city lord left a Dharma Body in the great hall and departed with Deng Shouchong; at the South Si Dao Field, Yuan Changhe worked at a pill furnace.

Yuan Changhe nearly completed the Wuji Creation Pill but was summoned by the city lord to investigate the strange Mist Beast tide alongside Chen Yuping. As the three Earth Immortals prepared to leave Phoenix City, the beasts appeared to anticipate their arrival, while Yuan Changwu awaited the pill’s completion and Deng Shouchong watched over the city’s defenses.

• Yuan Changhe refined the Mist Beast Inner Core into a nearly complete Wuji Creation Pill, which could help Yuan Changwu become an Earth Immortal.
• The city lord summoned Yuan Changhe and Chen Yuping to investigate the Mist Beast tide, and Yuan Changhe left Yuan Changwu instructions to take the pill once the flames died down.
• Chen Yuping considered how the tide was growing stronger by attacking passing cultivators, then answered the city lord’s summons.
• The city lord used the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to open a passage through Phoenix City, and he, Yuan Changhe, and Chen Yuping prepared to leave.
• The Mist Beasts watched the city and seemed eager for the three Earth Immortals to arrive, while Yuan Changwu waited for the pill and Deng Shouchong examined the Muster Platform’s life tablets.

Xu Long learned that Deng Lifu had left Phoenix City and set out to retrieve something from the Pill Cauldron Sect before investigating the City Lord's Manor. He infiltrated the sect's pill chamber as Yuan Changhe's Dharma Body was finishing the Wuji Creation Pill, and the chapter ended with Yuan Changhe trapping him in a smoke vortex and unleashing his Natal True Fire.

• Xu Long used the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and a Divination Talisman to determine that an Earth Immortal had left Phoenix City, and he concluded that Deng Lifu was gone.
• Yuan Changwu waited anxiously in the South Si Dao Field while his brother's Dharma Body continued refining the Wuji Creation Pill.
• Xu Long entered the Pill Cauldron Sect with a black shadow, which broke through the barriers around the pill chamber and let him follow it inside.
• Yuan Changhe spotted Xu Long and attacked him with a gray ribbon, but Xu Long's sword formation halted the assault.
• Yuan Changhe enveloped Xu Long in a smoke vortex and drew his cyan Natal True Fire into it to burn him alive.

A young man broke free of Yuan Changhe’s attacks and killed his Dharma Body before it could destroy the Wuji Creation Pill. He captured the completed pill and escaped toward the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo as Yuan Changwu began opening the pill chamber’s barrier.

• The young man’s blood qi weakened the cyan flames, while his sword formation broke through Yuan Changhe’s gray ribbon and forced him to turn toward the pill furnace.
• Yuan Changhe tried to reignite the furnace and destroy the pill, but the young man’s Lotus Sword Formation cut off his attack and ground Yuan Changhe’s Dharma Body to nothing.
• The young man found the Wuji Creation Pill intact as the furnace flames died, confirming that the pill was complete.
• Yuan Changwu began opening the chamber’s barrier, and the young man called on the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo to prepare their escape.
• The pill sprang from the uncovered furnace, but the young man trapped it inside the Lotus Sword Formation and transformed into blood-colored escape light toward the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo.

After the Wuji Creation Pill disappeared, Yuan Changwu blamed the Rogue Cultivators Association and led a growing mob toward the North Division Dao Field. As Xu Long slipped into the procession, Phoenix City descended into disorder with its Earth Immortals away.

• Yuan Changwu found the pill furnace empty, spotted the thief escaping, and swore vengeance on the Rogue Cultivators Association and Old Huang.
• The young man escaped the Pill Cauldron Sect by unleashing a sword array that destroyed the cultivators blocking his way, while Yuan Changwu pursued him.
• Yuan Changwu ordered the Pill Cauldron Sect cultivators to march on the North Division Dao Field, and the procession swelled as Trading Hub desperadoes joined it.
• Xu Long entered the procession and saw the chaos as an opportunity while the three Earth Immortals were away from the city.
• Deng Shouchong received reports of the unrest in the Trading Hub inside the City Lord's Manor.

As Phoenix City descended into turmoil, Deng Shouchong moved to contain the unrest while a young man slipped into the City Lord's Manor to investigate its golden pillar and penetrate the main hall's defenses. He reached the hall through a passage opened by the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo, where a shadow sensed the disturbance but did not intervene.

• Yuan Changwu led cultivators from the Trading Hub toward the North Division Dao Field, while Deng Shouchong received urgent reports and ordered the Muster Platform to secure the eastern district.
• Deng Shouchong gathered cultivators to defend the City Lord's Manor, then followed the procession toward the North Division Dao Field to prevent further chaos.
• After Deng Shouchong left, the young man entered the manor and discovered a golden pillar of light beneath the Origin Will's suppressive heavenly might.
• The young man found the ancient main hall and used the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo to open a passage through its intact defensive formations.
• The young man and the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo advanced through the passage toward a light inside the hall, as a shadow within sensed the spatial disturbance but chose not to act.

The young man entered the City Lord's Manor's great hall and read its ancient books, which recounted the rise of the primordial ancestors and the Ancestral Spirit's exile. The records revealed how the Ancestral Spirit used the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to protect Phoenix City, but left him in danger as the Heaven Patroler's sword swept toward him.

• The young man searched the great hall and found murals and ancient books preserving Phoenix City's history.
• The ancient records described how the Ancestral Spirit created qi cultivation and the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, ushering the primordial ancestors into civilization and prosperity.
• After the Primordial Great Tribulation, new powers exiled the Ancestral Spirit and sent the Heaven Patroler to destroy him and the other old powers.
• The Ancestral Spirit fought the Heaven Patroler while the ancestors built Phoenix City, then raised the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to separate the city from the Land of Exile.
• The Heaven Patroler attacked the Ancestral Spirit again, leaving him exposed beneath the bronze sword without the formation diagram's protection.

The Heaven Patroler and the archaic gods sealed the Ancestral Spirit beneath the Land of Exile in a sea of tribulation, unable to destroy him. A pillar of golden light rose from the depths to Phoenix City, revealing that the Ancestral Spirit’s conviction endured.

• The Heaven Patroler pursued the Ancestral Spirit into the earth’s crust, where the Ancestral Spirit ambushed him with magma and unusual Magic Power.
• The Heaven Patroler summoned archaic gods to surround the Ancestral Spirit, then unleashed a spell seal and called thirty-six thunder gods to form a sea of tribulation around him.
• The Heaven Patroler trapped the Ancestral Spirit beneath the Land of Exile, where lightning and magma would wear down his power over time.
• The Ancestral Spirit sent a pillar of golden light through the sea of tribulation and into Phoenix City, proving that he remained undying and indestructible.

The young man learned that the Ancestral Spirit had been sealed in a hidden core beneath the Land of Exile and resolved to grow strong enough to reach him. He swallowed the Wuji Creation Pill to break through his limits, but its violent power began tearing through his meridians.

• The Heaven Patroler sealed the Ancestral Spirit in an isolated core and retreated after seeing Phoenix City's defenses and golden light.
• The young man studied Phoenix City's ancient texts and learned about the Ancestral Spirit's imprisonment and the dangers of reaching the earth's core.
• The young man realized the Wuji Creation Pill could let cultivators use a higher Mist Beast's power and laws to approach the immortal path.
• Xu Long arranged to obtain the pill and distract the City Lord's Manor's forces while his main body headed toward the North Division Dao Field.
• The young man swallowed the Wuji Creation Pill, sensed the laws it contained, and endured its energy as it violently battered his meridians.

After swallowing the Wuji Creation Pill, the young man used his Blood Domain to refine its violent energy and broke through into the Earth Immortal realm. As he connected with heaven and earth, a giant eye appeared above Phoenix City and watched him with displeasure.

• The young man realized the Wuji Creation Pill could cause qi deviation without Yuan Changhe’s supplementary pills, so he opened his Blood Domain to contain and refine its violent energy.
• The Blood Domain returned purified energy to the young man, while a shadow in the City Lord’s Manor’s darkness watched the vortex with surprise.
• The young man refined the energy into magic power and forced open his narrow meridians, drawing strength from his past trials and forming an unyielding resolve.
• His dantian separated light and turbid magic power into heaven and earth, marking his entry onto the Earth Immortal path and bringing him into harmony with the world’s rules.
• As the young man’s aura connected with heaven and earth, an unusual fluctuation stirred beyond the heavens, and a giant eye appeared above Phoenix City to observe him with displeasure.

Xu Long stabilized his breakthrough to the Earth Immortal Realm after the city lord’s Dharma Body used the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to drive away the heavenly eye. His ascension produced a celestial phenomenon across the Land of Exile, and the city lord’s Dharma Body began to suspect Xu Long was connected to a long-lost being he had guarded for generations.

• As Xu Long’s magic power churned during his breakthrough, the city lord’s Dharma Body sent energy to the golden pillar, and the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram pushed back the heavenly might until the enormous eye vanished.
• Xu Long stabilized his Earth Immortal Realm, and a dragon roared from the blood-colored vortex as he declared his defiance toward the heavens.
• A meteor, spiritual energy, and five-colored auspicious clouds appeared over Phoenix City, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Land of Exile and renewing their hope of reaching the Immortal Realm.
• The city lord’s Dharma Body sensed a long-lost aura in the golden light and wondered whether Xu Long was the anomaly his divination had foretold.
• Xu Long thanked the city lord’s Dharma Body for helping him, while remaining guarded and reflecting on how his plan had manipulated the three Phoenix City factions.

Xu Long learned from Deng Lifu that Phoenix City's lineage had spent generations seeking the Ancestral Spirit, Fuxi, and agreed to join the City Lord's plan to find him. As a massive Mist Beast tide threatened Phoenix City, Deng Lifu prepared to unite the city's factions against it.

• Deng Lifu revealed through an ancient tome that Fuxi had created the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and that his descendants had long sought the central point to free him.
• Xu Long recognized that finding the Ancestral Spirit matched his own mission and agreed to cooperate with Deng Lifu.
• Xu Long warned that the Yuan brothers and Chen Yuping might refuse to join forces because of their grievances with him.
• Deng Lifu said his true body had gone outside Phoenix City to investigate the strange Mist Beast tide and promised to explain the larger plan to the other factions.
• Xu Long concluded that Deng Lifu was using the threats of the Mist Beast tide and the Heaven Patroler to bring the city factions together, while Xu Long and his allies did not depend on Fuxi to escape the Land of Exile.

Yuan Changwu led a crowd to the North Division Dao Field to demand Old Pavilion Master Huang and the missing Wuji Creation Pill, while Branch Master Chen refused to yield. Their confrontation escalated into a fight as Yuan Changwu revealed his true form above the Dao Field.

• The young man sensed the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram shifting and prepared for battle at the City Lord's Manor.
• Xu Long followed the crowd to the North Division Dao Field, where Trading Hub cultivators pushed the Pill Cauldron Sect into a chaotic confrontation with the Rogue Cultivators Association.
• Branch Master Chen appeared above the Dao Field and demanded to know why Yuan Changwu had brought people there.
• Yuan Changwu demanded Old Pavilion Master Huang, but Branch Master Chen refused and challenged him when he threatened the Dao Field.
• Yuan Changwu crushed a jade bottle of pills, abandoned hope of recovering the Wuji Creation Pill, and revealed his luan crane true form to fight Branch Master Chen.