Recaps

Xu Long survived the planet's core, suppressing the fire poison and transforming his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon as he followed a sword light toward the Ancestral Spirit. The Heaven Patroler discovered that a primeval deity had fallen and entered the sea of fire to confront Feng Fuxi, setting the stage for a battle.

• Xu Long retreated through the sea of fire while his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon absorbed the heat and his body suffered from flames and fire poison.
• Xu Long used the Power of Oblivion to suppress the fire poison, restored his body with his Magic Power, and transformed his celestial phenomenon into a crimson nebula.
• Xu Long cried out "Decree!" and followed a sword light toward the lightning where the Ancestral Spirit was trapped.
• The Heaven Patroler sensed that a primeval deity had fallen, recognized Feng Fuxi's presence, and accused him of still resisting from within the formation.
• The Heaven Patroler entered the boiling lava with his bronze sword drawn, preparing to stop Fuxi from escaping.

Xu Long rode the magma vortex toward the Center, where the Ancestral Spirit was trapped behind a wall of lightning. After spotting the Ancestral Spirit’s golden signal, he forced his way through a breach and was caught inside with the lightning raging around him.

• Xu Long followed the sword light through the magma currents and found the vortex surrounding the Center, where the Ancestral Spirit was besieged by heat and the thunder gods’ lightning.
• Xu Long recognized that the thunder gods’ lightning carried the Law of Nature and wondered whether Chen Yuping’s origins were connected to the nebula in his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon.
• A lightning bolt struck Xu Long as he spiraled over the Center, but the sword light helped him withstand it, and he saw the Ancestral Spirit’s golden light through a breach in the wall.
• Xu Long plunged into the heat currents and slammed them against the wall, provoking the Center’s lightning and opening cracks that let him slip inside.
• The wall’s lightning engulfed Xu Long and the heat currents that had entered with him, leaving him to resist the electric onslaught with his formation diagram.

Xu Long entered the Center and was trapped in the thunder gods’ sea of lightning, where a bolt broke through his curtain wall and their lightning net attacked his will and soul. He summoned his Wisdom Sword to drive back the thunder gods in his Sea of Consciousness, then launched a fresh attack as their defenses began to gather again.

• Xu Long entered the Center and found it filled with the thunder gods’ endless sea of lightning, which converged on him and trapped him.
• A bolt of lightning broke through Xu Long’s curtain wall, while the thunder gods’ electrical net caught his indestructible will and sent painful attacks into his Sea of Consciousness.
• The thunder gods appeared in Xu Long’s mind and attacked his soul with lightning chains, but Xu Long steadied his Dao Heart and summoned his Wisdom Sword.
• Xu Long’s Wisdom Sword cut apart the thunder gods’ lightning and smoothed the waves in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Long sent a colossal Wisdom Sword crashing into the thunder gods’ umbrella of intertwined chains, shattering it before the sword turned to attack them again.

Xu Long used his Wisdom Sword to defeat the Thunder Gods who had invaded his sea of consciousness, breaking their chains and destroying their illusory forms. With his soul protected, he escaped the lightning confinement and turned his attention back to the sea of lightning.

• Xu Long plunged the Wisdom Sword into his sea of consciousness to absorb the violent energy, then used it to tangle the Thunder Gods' purple chains and destroy one Thunder God.
• The Thunder Gods worked together to restrain the spinning Wisdom Sword, but Xu Long forced it free and drew on the sea of consciousness to overwhelm them.
• Xu Long's Wisdom Sword broke the chains and swept through the Thunder Gods, while waves and a waterspout prevented them from escaping.
• The Wisdom Sword annihilated the remaining Thunder Gods, then plunged into the sea as Xu Long calmed his consciousness.
• Xu Long's body broke free of the sea of lightning, and he raised his head as sword light swept back through the lightning net.

Xu Long fought his way through the Endless Lightning Tribulation Sea toward the Ancestral Spirit, clashing with a thunder god’s purple lightning while the Phoenix City cultivators struggled through the same danger. The chapter left Xu Long surrounded by compressed spheres of lightning as he raised a barrier and his sword light struck upward.

• Xu Long used his sword qi to break through the lightning imprisoning him and spotted the Ancestral Spirit’s golden light.
• A thunder god’s purple lightning attacked Xu Long, and his sword light clashed with it, creating a strange flame that his celestial phenomenon absorbed.
• Deng Shouchong recognized Mo Yu’s sword cry and urged the city lord to lead the Phoenix City cultivators toward it for help.
• Xu Long continued toward the Ancestral Spirit, reasoning that he had to draw out and defeat the thunder gods one at a time.
• A thunder god condensed the surrounding lightning into pursuing spheres, and Xu Long raised a barrier as his sword light swept upward.

Xu Long fought through the Endless Lightning Tribulation Sea, trapping the thunder god’s purple lightning with his Dharma Body and striking down the thunder god with a sword attack empowered by the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon. The thunder god’s body began merging into the sea of lightning, where its energy could eventually restore it.

• Xu Long’s sword light shattered incoming lightning balls, and the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon absorbed the lightning fire released by their collision.
• The city lord and his companions felt the Center tremble and suspected that Xu Long was causing the commotion in the core.
• The thunder god’s purple lightning broke through Xu Long’s curtain of light, but Xu Long’s Dharma Body wrapped around it and held it fast.
• Xu Long sent his sword light toward the thunder god, then drew on the Power of Oblivion and the Power of Laws to make it break through the lightning shields.
• Xu Long’s sword light severed the thunder god’s head and body, but the thunder god began dissolving into the sea of lightning, where it could eventually regain its form.

Xu Long destroyed a thunder god and absorbed its remaining energy into the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon, then reconsidered how to rescue the Ancestral Spirit. As Phoenix City's forces approached, he realized the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram would be essential to restoring the Ancestral Spirit's strength and facing the Heaven Patroler.

• Xu Long used the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to absorb the thunder god's energy and purple lightning, refining them into the nebula.
• Xu Long heard Phoenix City's bronze chariots and realized the city lord's party, including Deng Shouchong, had entered the lightning sea and was struggling against the thunder gods.
• Xu Long decided not to join the approaching cultivators and recalled the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram in the city lord's hands.
• Xu Long concluded that the Ancestral Spirit needed the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to regain his strength and confront the Heaven Patroler, who had followed the rescuers into the earth's crust.

Xu Long realized the Heaven Patroler had followed the cultivators to the Center, while Deng Shouchong led Phoenix City's chariots in a desperate breakout through the lightning sea. The chariots charged into a wall of lightning, where the first ranks were destroyed and the rest plunged onward.

• Xu Long sensed the Heaven Patroler's aura and suspected it was watching the cultivators from above the lightning sea.
• The city lord urged the cultivators to rally under the inherited totem as Thunder Gods surrounded them and their losses mounted.
• Deng Shouchong forced the bronze chariots into a breakout, hoping to reach Mo Yu and escape the lightning sea.
• The city lord shouted for Deng Shouchong to return and remembered how his elder brother, the old city lord, had died fighting Mist Beasts.
• Deng Shouchong charged toward the purple flood dragon, and a wall of lightning destroyed the leading bronze chariots as the ranks behind them surged forward.

Xu Long rescued Deng Shouchong’s forces from the Thunder God’s lightning and helped them regroup with the city lord, who ordered the cultivators to press on toward the Ancestral Spirit. As four more Thunder Gods arrived, they realized that another of their kind had vanished from the lightning sea.

• The Thunder God split Deng Shouchong’s bronze chariots with purple lightning and closed in on the scattered cultivators.
• Xu Long’s sword light cleaved through the gathering current, and a divine bird helped the city lord fight off the Thunder God as Deng Shouchong’s group escaped.
• Xu Long joined the city lord and covered his flank while the city lord ordered Deng Shouchong to lead the troops toward the Ancestral Spirit.
• The city lord and Xu Long fought while retreating, but Xu Long feared the other Thunder Gods would soon come to reinforce their foe.
• Four Thunder Gods appeared and condemned the Earth Immortals, then reacted with shock when one of their number could not be sensed in the lightning sea.

Xu Long and the Earth Immortals fought the thunder gods in the sea of lightning while Deng Shouchong and his companions raced toward the sealed Ancestral Spirit. Xu Long’s Dharma Body cut the thunder god’s purple flood dragon apart, but the thunder god began gathering power again as the Dharma Body prepared to attack.

• After learning that a thunder god had perished, the thunder gods attacked Xu Long and the Earth Immortals with a lightning net, which Xu Long’s sword light shattered.
• The city lord and his companions fought the thunder gods while Deng Shouchong and his group hurried toward the sealed Ancestral Spirit.
• Xu Long clashed with the thunder gods’ combined purple lightning, then spotted a thunder god preparing a sneak attack and struck him with his sword light.
• A thunder god battered Xu Long’s Dharma Body with balls of lightning, but the Dharma Body caught its sword light and brought it down on the thunder god.
• The thunder god formed a purple flood dragon to block the attack, but Xu Long’s Dharma Body cut it in two and the thunder god began drawing power from the sea of lightning.

Xu Long survived the Thunder God’s devastating lightning attack, defeated him, and absorbed his remains into the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon. As Xu Long prepared to leave, three purple flood dragons arrived.

• The Thunder God became a sea of lightning and shattered Xu Long’s Dharma Body, while his condensed ball of lightning exploded against Xu Long.
• Xu Long used Sealing and Destruction to restrain the ball of lightning briefly, then endured its blast as his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon absorbed the chaotic energy and his Body of Oblivion healed him.
• Xu Long emerged from the lightning fire and struck the weakened Thunder God with the sword light, breaking through his purple lightning defenses.
• Xu Long’s celestial phenomenon absorbed the Thunder God completely, preventing him from reviving in the sea of lightning.
• As Xu Long prepared to leave, three purple flood dragons rushed toward him and the sword light shot out to meet them.

Xu Long fled after annihilating a Thunder God, while the Heaven Patroler ordered the remaining Thunder Gods to stop the cultivators from reaching the Ancestral Spirit. Xu Long joined the city lord, Chen Yuping, and Yuan Changhe at the seal, where they faced the Thunder Gods ahead and the Heaven Patroler behind them.

• Xu Long escaped after destroying a Thunder God, and the city lord received word that the cultivators had found the Ancestral Spirit's sealed location.
• The Heaven Patroler commanded the Thunder Gods to stop the cultivators, and all thirty-four remaining Thunder Gods gathered at the seal.
• Xu Long met up with the city lord, Chen Yuping, and Yuan Changhe as they fled toward the Ancestral Spirit under the Heaven Patroler's threat.
• Xu Long and his companions reached the gathered cultivators, who were being attacked by the Thunder Gods' lightning.
• The city lord urged everyone to charge through and rescue the Ancestral Spirit, and Deng Shouchong called for the descendants of the first people to return beyond the heavens.

Xu Long and the cultivators fought through the Thunder Gods’ lightning as the golden light revealed the way to the Ancestral Spirit’s seal. The City Lord gave Xu Long the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and stayed behind, while Xu Long entered the depths of the sea of lightning to reach the seal.

• Branch Master Chen and the Yuan brothers joined the battle against the Thunder Gods, while the gathered cultivators vowed to return beyond the heavens and rescue the Ancestral Spirit.
• A golden light appeared beneath the Heaven Patroler’s Dharma seal, and the City Lord told Xu Long to take the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and open the Ancestral Spirit’s seal.
• The City Lord used his divine bird totem to shield Xu Long from the Thunder Gods and stayed behind as Xu Long entered the sea of lightning.
• Xu Long unleashed his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to draw in the surrounding lightning and pressed deeper toward the seal.
• The Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram began operating on its own as the golden light strengthened, revealing its connection to the Ancestral Spirit.

Xu Long explored the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and found that its yin-yang core contained complete world rules and ancient seal-script characters. Through the characters, he witnessed the rise of cultivators and the granting of divine ranks in a distant era.

• The Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram activated beneath the golden light, and Xu Long immersed his will in its Yin-Yang Map.
• Xu Long passed through the map’s black yin and white yang, reaching its chaotic core where energy moved like it did in stable worlds.
• He found ancient seal-script characters engraved in the chaos and entered the scenes and information preserved within them.
• Xu Long witnessed an ancient age of powerful cultivators who defied heaven and earth, built civilizations, and carved their laws into history.
• The characters revealed Yang Shun, Si Ji, Qiguan Ling, Zhongli Su, Wu Min, and others receiving divine ranks and places in the immortal register.

Xu Long reflected on his cultivation and declared that he possessed the Law of Slaughter, then requested an immortal register in Hundun. The Ancestral Spirit’s voice granted him the register as cultivators across the myriad worlds witnessed the long-awaited return of the bestowal.

• Xu Long studied the ancient registers in Hundun and realized he might carve his own law there.
• Xu Long recalled the trials and battles of his cultivation, concluded that his guiding conviction was to sweep away all obstacles by force, and identified his law as the Law of Slaughter.
• Xu Long proclaimed his law and requested an immortal register, sending two rays of light through the lightning sea and beyond the Land of Exile.
• The Thunder Gods and city lord reacted to the unprecedented bestowal, while a meteor carried news of Xu Long’s achievement across the myriad worlds.
• The Ancestral Spirit’s voice declared Xu Long a true-ranked immortal god, and ancient seal characters began forming in Hundun.

Xu Long received the Immortal Register through Fuxi’s intervention, gaining an independent Power of Laws and realizing that the inscription might entangle him in a conflict between creators. After Fuxi explained how to free him, Xu Long returned to the Center and approached the Heaven Patroler’s sigil, where he spotted Fuxi beneath a curtain of lightning.

• Xu Long received the Immortal Register, and the meteor from the Milky Way burned out after witnessing his inscription.
• Xu Long thanked Fuxi and considered whether Fuxi’s help had drawn him into a conflict among creators, then resolved to clear obstacles by force.
• Fuxi told Xu Long to make a small breach in the Heaven Patroler’s sigil and cast the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram inside so he could escape.
• Xu Long’s will left the Yin-Yang Map, and he returned to the Center as the Heaven Patroler and the three Earth Immortals reacted to his inscription.
• Xu Long flew toward the sigil through the sea of lightning, saw Fuxi beneath its lightning curtain, and pierced the obstruction with his left eye.

Xu Long witnessed the Ancestral Spirit Feng Fuxi imprisoned beneath the Heaven Patroler magical seal, then faced a sudden spatial breach that let Shankui enter the Center. Shankui revealed that he had crossed beyond the heavens to reach Xu Long, the cultivator who received the immortal register.

• Xu Long saw Feng Fuxi’s true body in the sea of lightning and understood the Ancestral Spirit’s supreme authority.
• As purple lightning attacked Xu Long, a spatial passage tore open and gray gas poured into the Center.
• The gray gas formed a hurricane that absorbed the lightning and turned into a gigantic skull made of gray crows.
• Xu Long recognized the newcomer as Shankui, a great cultivator of the Heavenly Palace, from his deathly energy and eerie laughter.
• Shankui remarked that Xu Long had received the immortal register and said he had crossed beyond the heavens to find him.

Shankui arrived at the Center after exhausting his power and discovered that Xu Long was the cultivator who had received the Immortal Register. He attacked Xu Long with a finger of gray crows and death qi, and Xu Long prepared to counter with his Law of Slaughter.

• Shankui learned that a comet had reached Heaven Beyond Heaven and hurried to investigate the cultivator who received the Immortal Register.
• Shankui reached the Center, recognized Xu Long, and suspected the old fellows had sent him there for a deeper purpose involving the Ancestral Spirit.
• Shankui transformed his skull into a finger of gray crows and death qi and pursued Xu Long.
• Xu Long summoned his giant sword and used the Power of Oblivion to resist the finger, but Shankui trapped him inside a ring of gray qi.
• Xu Long opened his Celestial Phenomenon, connected his will to his Law of Slaughter, and prepared to attach that law to his sword light.

Xu Long and the young man joined forces against Shankui in the sea of lightning, but Shankui survived their attacks and trapped Dragon Soar in his tornado. Xu Long began carving apart the tornado to free it.

• Xu Long pierced Shankui’s Heaven-Approaching Finger with Heaven-Slaying, but the scattered gray crows and death qi gathered again into a larger gray-flame tornado.
• The young man struck Shankui with a blood-red magic seal, but Shankui swallowed it and suppressed its power.
• The young man sent Dragon Soar’s sword formation into Shankui’s tornado, where Shankui trapped it between two arms.
• Xu Long sent his sword light against the tornado’s base and used its rotation to carve through the gray flames layer by layer.

Shankui survived the young man's attacks, then targeted Xu Long with a powerful gray magic seal and overwhelmed his summoned Dharma Body. Xu Long ended trapped inside a barrier swallowed by Shankui's gray-crow domain, surrounded by death qi and bloodthirsty crows.

• Shankui released Dragon Soar to catch the young man's blood-red magic seal, then raised the broken tornado with gray fire dragons before the seal exploded and engulfed them.
• Shankui abandoned the young man and swept toward Xu Long, launching a gray magic seal that was stronger than the young man's seals.
• Xu Long summoned a colossal Dharma Body from his formation diagram, and it caught the seal before Shankui transformed it into two fire dragons.
• The fire dragons exploded and flung the Dharma Body away, leaving Xu Long to face Shankui alone.
• Shankui enveloped Xu Long's barrier with his gray-crow body, trapping him in a domain filled with death qi and crows bearing dark red eyes.

Xu Long escaped Shankui’s confinement with help from the young man and his blood dragon, but Shankui’s purple lightning fire pierced him and ignited the fire poison in his body. Xu Long counterattacked with his self-created sword strike, unleashing tens of millions of sword rays against Shankui and threatening his supposedly undying body.

• Shankui’s gray crows trapped Xu Long behind a curtain wall and assaulted his mind until the young man opened his Blood Domain and summoned a blood dragon.
• The blood dragon smashed through the curtain wall and scattered the gray crows, freeing Xu Long from Shankui’s confinement.
• Shankui’s purple lightning fire struck Xu Long before he could reach his Dharma Body, leaving a deep wound and igniting the fire poison within him.
• Xu Long used his Wisdom Sword and tornado to restrain the raging fire poison in his Sea of Consciousness while his Dharma Body protected him.
• Xu Long drew in his Magic Power, had his Dharma Body unleash the stored sword light, and sent tens of millions of sword rays at Shankui.
• Shankui sensed that Xu Long’s sword qi threatened his Undying and Indestructible Body as the attack turned the battle in Xu Long’s favor.

Xu Long and the young man pressed their attacks against Shankui, who struggled to re-form his body from scattered death qi and gray crows. The chapter ended as Shankui detonated a Golden Immortal magic seal inside the Lotus Sword Formation, unleashing a tremendous blast.

• Xu Long used sword qi and Spiritual Qi Bombardment to scatter most of Shankui’s gray flame and death qi.
• As Xu Long prepared to help the young man, Shankui began gathering the scattered death qi and gray crows to reform his body.
• The young man sent his sword formation after Shankui while Xu Long’s sword light cut through the death qi and struck the re-forming skull.
• Shankui swallowed Xu Long’s sword light, but the young man’s formation forced the skull’s mouth open and transformed into a black lotus inside it.
• Shankui spread his body into a net around the Lotus Sword Formation and detonated a magic seal at its center.

Xu Long and the young man joined forces to destroy Shankui’s Golden Immortal incarnation in the Center, but Shankui’s final words suggested that his true form and the Heavenly Palace still threatened them. Xu Long was left wondering whether the Heavenly Palace knew of his actions across the myriad worlds and what greater forces were gathering.

• The Heaven Patroler’s magic seal shattered the young man’s Lotus Sword Formation, but the young man regrouped his swords and sent the blood dragon to bind Shankui.
• Xu Long and the young man attacked Shankui with their sword formations, repeatedly tearing apart his body and leaving him with only a remnant of gray crows and death qi.
• Shankui sensed something in the Heaven Patroler’s magic seal and fell eerily still as the blood dragon coiled around him, disrupting the sea of lightning.
• Xu Long fired a shell from the weapon formed by his formation diagram, engulfing Shankui and the blood dragon in an explosion that destroyed Shankui’s incarnation.
• Shankui’s remaining energy warned Xu Long that they would meet again, and Xu Long realized that Shankui’s true form had survived and feared the Heavenly Palace’s reach.

Xu Long searched the remains of Shankui's incarnation and glimpsed the souls imprisoned within his deathly aura, but found no useful memories before the aura vanished. As the young man prepared to shoot the Heaven Patroler's magic seal, the Heaven Patroler arrived and struck him down, yet the young man released his blood-red arrow.

• Xu Long gathered Shankui's scattered deathly aura and forced his will through the seal protecting its memories.
• Xu Long saw gray flames and bloodthirsty eyes holding countless trapped souls, including his own reflection, before the remnants turned to ash.
• The young man drew the Cloud-Hunting Bow and condensed a blood-red arrow aimed at the Heaven Patroler's magic seal.
• The Heaven Patroler swept into the Center and shouted at the young man, shattering golden light and knocking him from the air.
• The young man steadied himself as his Blood Domain opened, then released the arrow at the magic seal.

Xu Long and the Mist Beast horde helped the blood dragon carry the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram into the crack in the Heaven Patroler's seal, giving the Ancestral Spirit a chance to escape. The Heaven Patroler faced the Mist Beasts as the struggle over the seal threatened to overturn his rule in the Land of Exile.

• The young man used the Cloud-Hunting Bow to crack the Heaven Patroler's seal, then Xu Long sent the blood dragon carrying the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram toward it.
• The Heaven Patroler attacked Xu Long with his treasured bronze sword, but Xu Long's World-Breaking Blade slowed the strike long enough for the blood dragon to reach the seal.
• The blood dragon dissolved into energy and pushed the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram through the crack in the seal.
• Xu Long saw that the Mist Beast horde's Poison Curse had checked the Heaven Patroler, and the Higher Mist Beasts held their ground to help the Ancestral Spirit break free.
• Pavilion Master Xu and the Mist Beast clans anticipated that the Ancestral Spirit's release would end the Heaven Patroler's unchecked dominance and open a path for their clans beyond the Land of Exile.