Recaps

Xu Long entered the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and surveyed its defenses, markets, and resources while considering how its organization made it a powerful base in the wildlands. He reflected on the strength of advanced ferocious beasts and beast kings, ending by wondering whether the sanctuary’s defensive array could withstand a beast king’s attack.

• The cultivators learned that the attacker had escaped despite the impregnable defensive array, and Xu Long disappeared into the sanctuary after entering.
• Xu Long inspected his cracked jade token and surveyed the sanctuary’s abundant spiritual energy, defensive arrays, surrounding spirit veins, and cultivation facilities.
• Xu Long examined the sanctuary’s cultivation caves and marketplaces, then considered how its trade and fees brought substantial resources to Perfected Lord Pinglu.
• Xu Long considered the importance of Spirit Stones and pills, and recalled how ferocious beasts refined spiritual essences and advanced beasts formed Inner Cores.
• Xu Long reflected on the long conflict between cultivators and ferocious beast clans, and on the power of Great Sages and Great Kings.
• Xu Long wondered whether the sanctuary’s defensive array could withstand an attacking beast king.

Xu Long entered Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary’s huge market to buy a defensive formation for Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field. After an incantation linked to Hong Gu unexpectedly activated the formation, he bought it for 5,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones and continued exploring the market with much of his wealth gone.

• Xu Long entered the market and headed to a major formation shop to find protection for Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field.
• An attendant demonstrated a four-flag defensive formation, and Xu Long’s incantation caused the flags to rise and settle into his palm.
• Xu Long paid 5,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones for the formation, blaming Hong Gu’s incantation and charging the expense to Feng Sihu in his thoughts.
• Xu Long left the shop and visited the shops run by Luo River Valley and Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge.

Xu Long visited Luo River Valley’s pill shop in Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and learned about its costly pills and the strict terms for refining one that could advance a cultivator to the Mystic Immortal realm. He then noticed Luo River Valley’s second shop and visited Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s shop, where he learned how the sect partnered with tamed ferocious beasts.

• Xu Long visited Luo River Valley’s shop and learned that its Ancestor would need an advanced ferocious beast’s Inner Core to attempt a Mystic Immortal breakthrough pill, with only a fifty percent chance of success.
• Xu Long observed cultivators buying expensive pills and reflected that high prices had driven ordinary cultivators to establish their own trading fairs and markets.
• Xu Long discovered a second Luo River Valley shop bearing a golden flower banner and committed its emblem to memory.
• Xu Long visited Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s shop and learned how the sect’s cultivators had built partnerships with ferocious beasts, using them as companions, workers, guards, and scouts.

Xu Long visited Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s wholesale shop and witnessed its powerful aquatic vicious beast from the Vast Sea. The display made him reconsider the strength of Daning Commandery Kingdom’s factions and wonder whether Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge knew about the tornado anomaly; he then reflected on the Jade Screen Sect School’s role in the region’s Spirit Stone trade.

• Xu Long toured Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s wholesale shop, where disciplined tamed vicious beasts drew a crowd.
• A roar from beneath the shop’s river silenced the beasts and cultivators as an attendant introduced an aquatic creature from the Vast Sea with Mystic Immortal-level combat strength.
• Xu Long wondered whether Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge knew the truth about the tornado anomaly and lowered his estimation of Feng Sihu’s knowledge.
• The cultivators resumed browsing, and Xu Long admired Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s deep foundations and its core disciples’ ability to venture into the Vast Sea.
• Xu Long considered the Jade Screen Sect School’s extensive sanctuaries and spirit veins, which made it a key hub for transporting and trading Spirit Stones.

Xu Long, disguised as Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect, explored the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and realized three cultivators were tracking him, mistaking him for a wealthy target. He left the sanctuary intending to lure them out and capture them so he could learn their purpose.

• Xu Long surveyed the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, then decided to return home because he lacked Spirit Stones for a cave abode.
• Xu Long sensed hidden watchers in the market, while three cultivators discussed robbing him and began following him through the crowd.
• Xu Long deduced that his Jade Screen Sect robes and visits to major shops had made him look like a wealthy newcomer carrying valuable goods.
• Xu Long secretly tracked the three cultivators with his will and decided to draw them outside the sanctuary and capture them.
• Xu Long approached the formation’s exit with a jade token, and the three cultivators spread out to follow him from a distance.

Xu Long discovered a beast tide approaching the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and an unknown lightning-fast creature near its boundary. Perfected Lord Pinglu sealed the sanctuary and ordered its cultivators to prepare for battle, trapping Xu Long and the three cultivators who had been following him inside.

• Xu Long used his Heavenly Eye to spot a beast tide and noticed the trail of a lightning-fast creature near the sanctuary.
• The banners moved, and Perfected Lord Pinglu ordered everyone to remain inside and prepare to fight the beast tide.
• Cultivators panicked and complained, but Pinglu’s stationed forces silenced them and began organizing the defenses.
• The Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart formation activated, linking the energy of the twelve sanctuaries.
• Xu Long realized he was trapped and feared that outsiders like him would be used as cannon fodder, while his three pursuers regrouped as the tide approached.

Xu Long watched the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary rapidly organize its cultivators into formations as a beast tide approached. An aquatic ferocious beast entered the river valley under the escort of a Mystic Immortal from Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge, while a looming danger darkened the sky overhead.

• True Spirits inspected the gathered cultivators and helped divide them into formations according to their cultivation realms.
• Xu Long spotted Jade Screen Sect School and Luo River Valley cultivators among the leaders, along with women whose robes bore a golden flower, but found no cultivators from Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge.
• The aquatic ferocious beast roared from the river valley, and surging waters formed a whirlpool before a blue-robed Mystic Immortal from Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge appeared atop a column of water.
• The Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary activated its Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation as Xu Long noticed a conspicuous trajectory overhead and the sky darkened under a heavy sense of oppression.

The hurricane and its growing meteorite threatened to overwhelm Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary’s defensive formation. Just as the cultivators feared the beast’s attack, a purple spear shot out from the sanctuary, and they recognized its wielder as their eldest senior brother.

• The hurricane struck the Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation, thinning its light screen but failing to break through.
• The hurricane circled above the sanctuary and gathered debris into an enormous spinning meteorite as the cultivators watched in fear.
• A furious voice rang out from Pinglu’s main vein, and a streak of purple light shot over the cultivators’ heads and beyond the formation.
• Xu Long sensed that the purple streak was a spear moving with extraordinary speed and power.
• The cultivators called out to the spear’s wielder, hailing him as their eldest senior brother.

Xu Long recognized the approaching beast king as a colossal Wu whose presence darkened the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary. The violet spear struck at it but was knocked back, leaving the sanctuary facing the advancing beast tide.

• A violet spear pierced the hurricane and shattered the meteorites, lifting the cultivators’ hopes.
• Xu Long recognized the beast king’s shrill cry from the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field and saw its immense form approaching with his Heavenly Eye.
• The Wu Beast King’s wings blotted out the sun and plunged the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary into darkness.
• The violet spear continued toward the Wu despite its dwindling power, illuminating the beast king as it neared.
• The Wu turned its head and blasted the violet spear backward before it could strike.

The beast king sent the spear hurtling back toward Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary in a hurricane, and the purple-robed cultivator hailed as the eldest senior brother went out to stop it. His crimson seals weakened the hurricane, but the spear struck him and carried him toward the formation.

• The beast king swept the spear back toward Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary with a hurricane, putting the cultivators behind the formation in danger.
• The purple-robed cultivator emerged from Pinglu's main vein, and the assisting cultivators recognized him as their eldest senior brother.
• The purple-robed cultivator stepped outside the formation and formed crimson seals that weakened and turned the hurricane crimson.
• The spear struck the purple-robed cultivator, who clung to it with both arms as it carried him toward the formation.

Zhu Peizi fought to keep the Duck Beast King from reaching the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary while its master endured the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations. As the Beast King unleashed a devastating roar, Zhu Peizi stood firm and thrust his cavalry lance forward.

• The hurricane shattered Zhu Peizi’s magic seals and drove him toward the sanctuary’s protective curtain, but he used his magic power to halt himself with his cavalry lance.
• Xu Long recognized the purple-robed cultivator’s weapon as a cavalry lance and saw Zhu Peizi steady it just short of the sanctuary’s barrier.
• The hurricane stopped, and Zhu Peizi realized the Duck Beast King was gathering strength for another attack.
• The cultivators urged Zhu Peizi to retreat behind the formation, but Xu Long saw the Beast King’s mocking gaze and knew it would not let Zhu Peizi go.
• The Duck Beast King roared from afar, sending sound waves and a storm across the sanctuary, while Zhu Peizi declared he would never let the beast enter and thrust his lance forward.

As the Duck Beast King's attack threatened Zhu Peizi and the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, Senior Brother He intervened with spell seals and a bronze ring that gathered the river's water. The water column formed around him as he prepared to confront the hurricane and rolling sound waves.

• Zhu Peizi held back the Duck Beast King's hurricane but began to falter as the sound waves surged toward him.
• The blue-robed cultivator roared, rode a spiraling water column into the sky, and used two spell seals to briefly shield Zhu Peizi.
• Xu Long recognized the blue-robed cultivator as Senior Brother He of Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge and watched the three cultivators who praised him.
• Senior Brother He activated his bronze ring and drew the water column into a swirling ring around his wrist.
• Senior Brother He finished his incantation and channeled Magic Power into the bronze ring as the water gathered around him.

Senior Brother He and Zhu Peizi joined forces to withstand the Beast King's roar above the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary. Their attacks cleared the sky and broke the incoming sound waves, but the Beast King remained unrevealed.

• Senior Brother He summoned an aquatic beast and used a spell seal to set his bronze ring and the river water spinning.
• Senior Brother He called to Zhu Peizi before sending the ring and a massive surge of water toward the Beast King's sound waves.
• Zhu Peizi retreated as the sound waves shattered Senior Brother He's spell seal, and the water crashed into the Beast King's attack.
• The collision detonated above the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, clearing the sky and dispersing most of the sound waves.
• The bronze ring returned unharmed to Senior Brother He, the Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation remained intact, and the cultivators below cheered.

Xu Long and the cultivators of the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary faced a beast tide that surrounded the sanctuary while the beast king loomed overhead. The cultivators channeled their Magic Power into the Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation as the tide prepared to strike, but Xu Long recognized the beast king as the greater threat.

• Zhu Peizi and Senior Brother He took positions on opposite sides after the beast king's attack was broken, while Xu Long prepared for battle beneath the banners.
• The beast tide arrived and encircled the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary as the beast king revealed its immense form in the sky.
• Leading cultivators urged everyone to channel their Magic Power into the sanctuary's formation and sent communication talismans requesting support.
• Xu Long and the other cultivators channeled their Magic Power into the banners, which sank into the ground and linked with the defensive formation.
• Xu Long judged that the beast king, rather than the beast tide, posed the sanctuary's true danger.

The Duck Beast King led a massive beast tide against the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, forcing Zhu Peizi and Senior Brother He to defend it without Perfected Lord Pinglu. Senior Brother He’s aquatic beast refused to fight, leaving the two cultivators facing the beast king with a weakened attack.

• The Duck Beast King drove the beast tide toward the sanctuary while Zhu Peizi and Senior Brother He struggled to hold it back.
• The Duck Beast King roared and sent the ferocious beasts surging forward, then prepared to attack the sanctuary’s defensive formation.
• Zhu Peizi fought the beast king’s hurricanes and vowed to protect the sanctuary established by his master.
• Senior Brother He tried to rally his aquatic ferocious beast, but it cowered beneath the Duck Beast King’s pressure.
• Senior Brother He sent his copper ring toward the beast king, but its attack lacked its usual force, and Zhu Peizi sensed the weakness.

The Duck Beast King descended on Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and overwhelmed Zhu Peizi and He Huaibao as the beast tide pressed against the formation. As the two were driven toward its barrier, Xu Long sensed a vast True Spirit emerging from the main mountain range.

• The Duck Beast King descended toward Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, and his pressure darkened the sanctuary as the beast tide surged against its formation.
• He Huaibao's copper ring and deep-blue seals failed to stop the Duck Beast King's hurricane, while Zhu Peizi stood firm against it.
• He Huaibao weakened the water pillar beneath him and tried to protect Zhu Peizi, but the hurricane swept both men toward the formation's light barrier.
• Xu Long recognized that the Duck Beast King was using Zhu Peizi and He Huaibao to strike the barrier and reached his will toward the main mountain range for a way out.
• Xu Long's will met a vast True Spirit sweeping from the main mountain range, and he tried to withdraw as the True Spirit paused in surprise.

Xu Long narrowly avoided discovery when Perfected Lord Pinglu's True Spirit emerged and inspected the cultivators. As the beast tide threatened the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, Perfected Lord Pinglu and the Duck Beast King exchanged taunts, and the Beast King descended to attack the formation.

• Xu Long withdrew his will and restrained his aura before Perfected Lord Pinglu's True Spirit could discover him.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu's True Spirit inspected the cultivators but left the separated formations unchanged as the beast tide and Duck Beast King pressed the sanctuary.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu's thunderous voice halted the beast tide and challenged the Duck Beast King.
• The Duck Beast King answered that it had come to kill Perfected Lord Pinglu, and the two old enemies exchanged taunts.
• The Duck Beast King descended over the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, engulfing it in a violent hurricane while Zhu Peizi and He Huaibao neared death.

Perfected Lord Pinglu emerged from seclusion as the Duck Beast King attacked the training grounds, stabilizing the defenses and rescuing Zhu Peizi and He Huaibao. He then faced the circling Beast King with the Thousand-Jun Tower in hand, while Xu Long watched from inside the grounds.

• The Duck Beast King drove a hurricane toward the training grounds while Zhu Peizi and He Huaibao were trapped in its path.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu arrived and used twelve formation flags to reinforce the Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation.
• The Duck Beast King slashed at Zhu Peizi and He Huaibao, but the Thousand-Jun Tower's treasured light blocked its attack and carried them back to safety.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu emerged from the beam of light holding the tower as the Duck Beast King circled above the protected training grounds.
• Xu Long recognized Perfected Lord Pinglu and saw that the treasured light came from the exquisite little tower.

Perfected Lord Pinglu appeared with the Thousand-Jun Tower and ordered Zhu Peizi to lead cultivators against the beast tide. He then used his sleeve and control over the formation to pull the remaining cultivators, including Xu Long, out of the formation to face the Duck Beast King with him.

• Perfected Lord Pinglu appeared in the sky with the Thousand-Jun Tower, and the cultivators greeted him.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu returned their salute and ordered Zhu Peizi to lead cultivators out against the beast tide.
• Zhu Peizi led the charge, followed by He Huaibao and other cultivators, while Xu Long and the remaining cultivators held their positions.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu ordered the remaining cultivators to join him in defeating the Duck Beast King, and Xu Long realized they would be forced into the fight.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu uprooted the banners and swept Xu Long and the other cultivators out of the formation with his sleeve.

Perfected Lord Pinglu used his pagoda to counter the Duck Beast King's hurricane, then gathered the cultivators into a banner-guided formation to restrain the beast. Xu Long realized he had been pressed into helping and followed the banners as the formation began channeling everyone's magic power.

• Xu Long reflected that the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary depended on Perfected Lord Pinglu's survival and judged him a ruthless, steadfast cultivator.
• The Duck Beast King unleashed a hurricane at the gathered cultivators, and Perfected Lord Pinglu trapped it with his pagoda before the hurricane and ring shattered.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu gathered the cultivators beneath his banners and instructed them to move with the banners and adjust their magic power to help hold back the Duck Beast King.
• Xu Long recognized that Perfected Lord Pinglu was using the cultivators to restrain the beast king, but followed the banners to avoid being left behind.
• The Duck Beast King screeched again, and Xu Long moved with the banners as the cultivators' magic power flowed through the formation toward them.

Xu Long and the cultivators joined the True Lord’s formation to fight the Duck Beast King, but the beast’s speed and soul-devouring ghostly shadows threw their ranks into chaos. The cultivators regrouped beneath the banner while Xu Long wondered where the Duck Beast King’s true body was.

• The True Lord sent the Thousand-Jun Tower against the Duck Beast King as the cultivators held their positions in the banner formation.
• The Duck Beast King changed course and sent a foul wind into the formation, where its ghostly shadow devoured souls and opened a gap.
• The cultivators panicked and began to scatter, but leading cultivators urged them to stay beneath the banner and combine their Magic Power.
• Xu Long and the others regrouped in orderly ranks, and Xu Long questioned where the Duck Beast King’s true body was.

The Duck Beast King attacked the cultivators’ formation with its true body, smashing the banner and devouring several cultivators before the True Lord restrained it with the Thousand-Jun Tower. Xu Long stepped forward to right the fallen, ten-thousand-jun banner, leaving him straining beneath its weight as the battle continued.

• The Duck Beast King swooped at the cultivators’ formation with blades of wind, and the True Lord stabilized their banner while raising the Thousand-Jun Tower.
• The Duck Beast King’s attack shattered the banner and left the formation exposed, allowing it to devour several cultivators.
• The True Lord’s pagoda and treasured light halted the Duck Beast King’s gale and forced it to turn toward him.
• Xu Long used his strength to right the fallen banner, struggling under its immense weight.

Xu Long restored the great banner as the Duck Beast King evaded the Perfected Lord's attacks and launched a deceptive assault. The Perfected Lord drew the creature toward the completed banner formation, where its true body pursued him and the cultivators prepared to respond.

• Xu Long used his magic power to raise the fallen banner, and the Duck Beast King's piercing gaze fixed on him.
• The Duck Beast King broke free of the treasured light around it while Perfected Lord Pinglu silently activated the banner with the cultivators' magic power.
• The Duck Beast King sent foul wind and a hurricane at Perfected Lord Pinglu, who countered with a magic seal and the Thousand-Jun Tower before moving into the banner formation.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu warned the cultivators to watch their sides after the hurricane vanished, revealing that it had been a feint.
• The Duck Beast King's true body cut through the treasured light and pursued Perfected Lord Pinglu into the formation as he guided the banner's golden edging outward.

The True Lord trapped the Duck Beast King inside the banner formation and used the Thousand-Jun Tower to summon a sealed primordial deity’s shadow as the beast tried to escape. The shadow’s appearance unsettled the Duck Beast King, whose ancestors had been suppressed by the gods of the primordial era.

• The True Lord sealed the opening the Duck Beast King had torn and activated the banner formation with power supplied by the cultivators.
• The Duck Beast King decided to flee the formation and struck at the Thousand-Jun Tower’s precious light with its head.
• The True Lord opened the seal on the Thousand-Jun Tower’s first floor, summoning a towering shadow from the primordial era.
• Xu Long sensed that the shadow carried an aura from the savage past.
• The Duck Beast King showed unease as the shadow appeared, recalling the gods who had once suppressed the ferocious beast clans.

The True Lord used the Thousand-Jun Tower and its primordial deity’s shadow to trap the Duck Beast King, but the beast unleashed a powerful hurricane and began trying to break free. As Xu Long watched the struggle, he sensed the True Lord was preparing another method.

• The shadow bound the Duck Beast King with a chain while the True Lord made the Thousand-Jun Tower descend to suppress it.
• The Duck Beast King intensified its hurricane, shaking the shadow and chain as it tried to drag them along and escape the tower.
• Xu Long reflected on how the fierce beast clans had grown powerful through adapting to the changed world and wondered whether a Saint Realm-level beast would threaten cultivators.
• The True Lord remained confident despite the Duck Beast King’s resistance, and Xu Long sensed that he was about to use another method.