Arc 36The Nine-Headed Duck

Xu Long helped the cultivators resist the Duck Beast King, destroying the resentful spirits it sent against them with mystic lightning and sword qi. The Beast King then escaped skyward with the golden net still attached, turning the formation into a cage that carried the cultivators with it.

  • Perfected Lord Pinglu used the banners and the Thousand-Jun Tower to trap and suppress the Duck Beast King, but the beast revealed its nine-headed form and broke through the restraints.
  • The Duck Beast King shattered the cultivators’ formation and pursued Xu Long, who led Earth Immortals into the Heavenly Immortals’ formation and stood against the beast with his Dharma Seal.
  • Xu Long fought the Duck Beast King with his Dharma Body, sword light, and formation seal, wounding its head and buying time for the banners to be restored.
  • The Duck Beast King unleashed resentful spirits that invaded the formation, devoured cultivators’ souls, and grew stronger as the beast fed them energy.
  • Xu Long summoned his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and Earth Eye, gathered Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning, and destroyed the spirits and their remnant souls with lightning and sword qi.
  • The cultivators returned to their positions as the True Lord faced the Duck Beast King, whose injured head glared at Xu Long.
  • The Duck Beast King spread its nine heads and rose into the sky while the True Lord let it go, and the golden net carried the cultivators upward with it.
  • The Duck Beast King sped toward the horizon with the net attached, disrupting the Banners Forming a Forest Formation and trapping the cultivators inside it.
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Ch. 876The Golden Net

The Perfected Lord formed a vast golden net from the Banners Forming a Forest Formation and used the cultivators’ gathered power to trap the Duck Beast King. As the net rose and the beast tried to flee, the Perfected Lord’s attack broke apart its hurricane.

  • The Perfected Lord commanded the banners to move around the Duck Beast King while Xu Long and the other cultivators shifted with them.
  • Golden patterns detached from the banners and joined into a gigantic net above the cultivators.
  • The Perfected Lord reflected on his failing strength and his years building and protecting the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, then resolved to spend his remaining power on it.
  • The Perfected Lord unleashed his magic power and raised the golden net, enclosing the Duck Beast King above the cultivators.
  • The Duck Beast King tried to escape, but the Perfected Lord’s force shattered its hurricane beneath the pagoda.

Ch. 877Fierce Wind

Perfected Lord Pinglu used the Banners Forming a Forest Formation, chains, a golden net, and the Thousand-Jun Tower to trap the Duck Beast King. The Beast King’s crest gathered crimson energy as it resisted the tower and prepared to break free.

  • The shadow and the banners’ cultivators attacked the Duck Beast King with chains and a golden net while the Thousand-Jun Tower pressed down from above.
  • Perfected Lord Pinglu used a solidified seal to draw the Duck Beast King’s attention, then sent the golden net through its body and weakened its wings.
  • The Duck Beast King roared and gathered strange energy in its crown-like crest as the formation closed around it.
  • Perfected Lord Pinglu poured his magic power into the Thousand-Jun Tower and commanded it to suppress the Beast King.
  • The Duck Beast King raised its head against the descending tower and formed a ball of crimson light to break through the cage.

Ch. 878A Battle of Wits and Courage

The True Lord used the Banners Forming a Forest Formation, a golden net, chains, and the Thousand-Jun Tower to trap and suppress the Duck Beast King. As the cultivators helped him close in on victory, Xu Long sensed an unexplained foreboding.

  • The True Lord tightened the golden net and chains around the Duck Beast King, weakening its hurricanes but failing to stop its struggles completely.
  • The True Lord channeled the formation’s power and ordered the net to condense, prompting the cultivators to cheer while he warned them to maintain the formation.
  • The True Lord appeared atop the Thousand-Jun Tower and sent it down toward the restrained Duck Beast King with repeated cries of “Suppress!”
  • The Duck Beast King recognized Old Man Pinglu’s plan to imprison it in the tower and challenged him, while the True Lord continued forcing the tower downward.
  • Xu Long felt a foreboding as the cultivators helped the True Lord and the Duck Beast King seemed close to being subdued.

Ch. 879Where Is the True Lord?

The Duck Beast King revealed its Nine-Headed Duck form and unleashed its innate divine ability, overpowering the restraints at Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary. It lifted the Thousand-Jun Tower out of position, leaving everyone wondering where the True Lord was.

  • The Duck Beast King let out nine piercing roars, sending the surrounding beast tide into panic as the True Lord tried to suppress it.
  • A powerful hurricane concealed the Duck Beast King while Xu Long used his Heavenly Eye to observe it.
  • Xu Long saw the Duck Beast King transform into a Nine-Headed Duck with nine necks and heads.
  • The Nine-Headed Duck unleashed its bloodline power, intensifying the hurricanes until spatial barriers cracked.
  • The Nine-Headed Duck pushed up the Thousand-Jun Tower, and the crowd cried out, "Where is the True Lord?!"

Ch. 880Unrivaled Arrogance

The Duck Beast King used its bloodline power to resist the Perfected Lord and break free of some restraints, while the Perfected Lord adapted his tactics to stall it. The beast prepared to clear the remaining obstacles and escape before its power ran out.

  • The Duck Beast King taunted Perfected Lord Pinglu after its innate ability pushed back the Thousand-Jun Tower, and the Perfected Lord prepared to fight on despite his brief despair.
  • The Duck Beast King ignored the Perfected Lord’s spell seal and tore through the tower’s treasured light while remaining within the Banners Forming a Forest Formation.
  • The Duck Beast King slashed its wings down and shattered the two chains restraining it, startling Xu Long and the Perfected Lord.
  • The Perfected Lord turned the severed chains into steel whips and ordered the shadow giant to lash the Duck Beast King.
  • The Perfected Lord used the formation and tower to delay the beast until its bloodline power faded, while the Duck Beast King planned to escape after clearing the remaining obstacles.

Ch. 881Courting Death

The Duck Beast King battled the True Lord and the shadow giant while using one of its heads to attack Xu Long and the cultivators beneath a formation banner. It broke through the banner formation, leaving Xu Long exposed to its assault.

  • The Duck Beast King fought off the True Lord and the shadow giant as the True Lord summoned the Banners Forming a Forest Formation to bind it.
  • The Duck Beast King sent one of its heads toward Xu Long's banner, and its foul wind overwhelmed the cultivators with demonic sounds and resentful spirits.
  • Xu Long struggled to guard his mind as the foul wind caused cultivators around him to fall into chaos and be absorbed as dantian qi.
  • The Duck Beast King's head crashed into the cultivators' formation, killing many and breaking the banner that had sheltered Xu Long.
  • Xu Long watched in terror as the Duck Beast King broke the formation through sheer force.

Ch. 882Relentless Pursuit

Xu Long fled the Duck Beast King's relentless pursuit after the beast king shattered a banner and weakened the golden net restraining him. As the Perfected Lord ordered the cultivators to repair the formation, Xu Long reached a Heavenly Immortal formation with the Duck Beast King's head close behind.

  • The Duck Beast King smashed through a banner, disrupting the cultivator formation and weakening the golden net around him.
  • Xu Long fled through the panicked cultivators as the Duck Beast King pursued him and the baleful wind consumed those nearby.
  • The Perfected Lord sensed the golden net cracking and ordered the cultivators to mend its broken corner and change formations.
  • The Duck Beast King regained some speed and prepared to finish the battle while the Perfected Lord struggled to contain him.
  • Xu Long ran toward a Heavenly Immortal formation despite its leader ordering him to stay away.
  • The Heavenly Immortal cultivators became alarmed when they realized the Duck Beast King's head was following Xu Long.

Ch. 883Attack

Xu Long fled toward the cultivators’ formation with the Duck Beast King pursuing him, but the Heavenly Immortals refused to admit the Earth Immortals as the Beast King devoured them outside. Just as the remaining cultivators faced death, Perfected Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect School arrived and his sentient streak of light searched the sky.

  • Xu Long rushed toward the Heavenly Immortals’ formation with a Duck Beast King head pursuing him, while the formation’s leaders tried to keep him out.
  • The Duck Beast King swept Earth Immortal cultivators into its hurricane and swallowed them as the Heavenly Immortals sealed the formation’s gap.
  • The remaining Earth Immortals despaired outside the banners, and the Heavenly Immortals prepared to attack them as the formation shifted.
  • A piercing sword cry interrupted the cultivators, and Perfected Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect School announced himself with a thunderous shout.
  • Yunmo’s streak of light circled in the sky as if searching for a direction.

Ch. 884Patrol

Xu Long broke through the Heavenly Immortals’ formation, but his entry made it falter and gave the Duck Beast King an opening to attack the Thousand-Jun Pagoda. As the Duck Beast King’s enormous head descended on Xu Long and the gathered Earth Immortals, Xu Long formed a magic seal.

  • Xu Long sent a streak of light through the Heavenly Immortals’ restrictions, broke them, and led the Earth Immortals into the formation.
  • The influx of Xu Long and the Earth Immortals made the Banners Forming a Forest Formation falter, allowing the Duck Beast King to gain the upper hand against the True Lord.
  • The True Lord escaped into the Thousand-Jun Pagoda, where its precious orb rose and helped him regain the initiative.
  • The Duck Beast King followed Xu Long’s entry and sent a hurricane and his enormous head down toward the formation.
  • The Earth Immortals channeled magic power around Xu Long as he stood firm and formed a solid magic seal.

Ch. 885The Beast King's Dharma Seal

Xu Long unexpectedly condensed his first Earth Immortal Dharma Seal and used it to confront the Duck Beast King. His seal broke through the beast king’s hurricane and struck its head, forcing it backward.

  • Xu Long condensed an Earth Immortal Dharma Seal from his Magic Power and recognized the power of oblivion within it.
  • As the Duck Beast King’s hurricane overwhelmed the cultivators beneath the banner, Xu Long raised his Dharma Seal and roared, “By decree!”
  • Xu Long launched the Dharma Seal through the Duck Beast King’s hurricane, while the beast king charged at it rather than retreating.
  • Xu Long drove the seal through the layers of wind and struck the Duck Beast King’s head, pushing it backward through the air.

Ch. 886Berserk

Xu Long used an Earth Immortal Dharma Seal to repel the Duck Beast King's attack and protect the cultivators' formation. When the Duck Beast King charged again, Xu Long sent his sword light to intercept it, but the beast's hurricane trapped and shredded its sword qi, leaving the clash unresolved as the beast turned back toward him.

  • Xu Long's Dharma Seal struck the Duck Beast King and forced it to retreat, giving the cultivators' formation time to recover.
  • The Duck Beast King launched another attack, while the Earth Immortal cultivators rallied behind Xu Long and strengthened the formation.
  • Xu Long sent his sword light racing toward the Duck Beast King's head, and its arrival dispelled the pressure of the beast's charge.
  • The sword light and the Duck Beast King's head collided, but the beast's hurricane stripped away the sword qi and trapped the blade.
  • The Duck Beast King turned its head toward Xu Long again, while Xu Long kept his expression steady to reassure the cultivators.

Ch. 887Shattered

Xu Long summoned the Colossus Dharma Body and used it to hurl an empowered magic seal at the Duck Beast King as it attacked the formation. The seal shattered against one of the beast’s heads but wounded it badly, while the True Lord held the main body back.

  • The Duck Beast King whipped up a hurricane to trap Xu Long’s sword light and charged at the cultivators’ formation.
  • Xu Long summoned the Colossus Dharma Body behind him and sent it a magic seal that expanded to enormous size.
  • The Colossus Dharma Body caught the seal and hurled it at the Duck Beast King’s approaching head.
  • The Duck Beast King’s head shattered the seal but suffered a deep wound from its released energy.
  • The True Lord saw the Colossus Dharma Body and held the Duck Beast King’s main body back.

Ch. 888The Head

Xu Long fought the Duck Beast King’s severed head while cultivators restored the Banners Forming a Forest Formation and restrained the Beast King’s true body. Xu Long’s sword cut through one of the head’s two wind dragons, but the other trapped his sword light.

  • The Duck Beast King’s head charged Xu Long despite its injuries, hiding behind two hurricanes as it attacked.
  • The cultivators restored the damaged banners, bringing the golden net back and restraining the Duck Beast King’s true body.
  • Xu Long summoned his sword light and used his Dharma Body to channel energy into a powerful blade against the two wind dragons.
  • Xu Long’s sword severed one hurricane, while the other coiled around it and blocked its retreat.

Ch. 889Evil Wind

Xu Long trapped the Duck Beast King’s surprise attack with an ancient sealing technique, halting it just before it reached the cultivators’ formation. The Duck Beast King recognized the technique’s primordial power and broke free almost immediately.

  • The Duck Beast King used the evil wind to trap Xu Long’s sword light, then lunged at the cultivators’ formation from beneath it.
  • Xu Long stood his ground and spoke the word “Seal,” while his Dharma Body echoed him with a thunderous voice.
  • Xu Long’s formation diagram appeared, and its nine stars stopped as primordial energy halted the rules of heaven and earth.
  • The seal froze the Duck Beast King’s head close to the canopy beneath the banner, exposing Xu Long’s Dharma seal.
  • The Duck Beast King recognized the energy as belonging to the primordial era and forcibly broke free of the seal.

Ch. 890Fierce Battle with the Beast King, Part One

Xu Long wounded the Duck Beast King with a magic seal and then used his Dharma Body to turn the tide against the beast's wicked wind. The chapter ended as his sword light plunged into the wind, stirring the resentful spirits trapped within it.

  • Xu Long used a magic seal to strike the Duck Beast King's head, interrupting its attack on the formation and worsening its wound.
  • The Duck Beast King's injuries weakened its wicked wind, and the cultivators cheered Xu Long.
  • The enraged Duck Beast King summoned the wicked wind toward the formation while Xu Long recalled his sword light.
  • Xu Long joined his will to the Dharma Body and enlarged the sword light, using a swirling vortex to halt the wicked wind's advance.
  • Xu Long drove the sword light into the wicked wind, causing the resentful spirits within it to howl.

Ch. 891Fierce Battle with the Beast King, Part Two

The Duck Beast King dispersed its evil wind into vengeful spirits to disrupt Xu Long and the cultivators. The spirits broke into the Banners Forming a Forest Formation and scattered among the cultivators, leaving Xu Long preparing to respond.

  • Xu Long realized the Duck Beast King's demonic sounds could penetrate the Banners Forming a Forest Formation.
  • The Duck Beast King dispersed the evil wind, causing its vengeful spirits to devour one another until dozens of stronger spirits remained.
  • Xu Long recalled his sword light with the Dharma Body as the vengeful spirits rushed toward the cultivators' formation.
  • The leading cultivators tried to trap the spirits, but the spirits broke through the formation and began scattering among the cultivators.
  • Xu Long gathered magic power as the cultivators faced the spirits inside the formation.

Ch. 892Fierce Battle with the Beast King, Part Three

The Duck Beast King unleashed resentful spirits into the formation, where they slaughtered Heavenly Immortal cultivators by devouring their souls and bodies. The surviving cultivators looked to Xu Long, while the Earth Immortals stayed close to him for protection.

  • The resentful spirits scattered through the formation and attacked Heavenly Immortal cultivators, avoiding Xu Long after witnessing his battle with the Duck Beast King.
  • The spirits invaded cultivators’ Seas of Consciousness, tore apart their souls, and left them screaming as their treasured light went out.
  • The dying cultivators’ remnant souls joined the spirits, producing the eerie sobbing laughter that echoed across the field.
  • After devouring each cultivator’s soul, the resentful spirits consumed the corpse and grew stronger.
  • The lead cultivators turned to Xu Long for hope, while the Earth Immortals gathered around him and remained safe from the spirits.

Ch. 893Fierce Battle with the Beast King, Part Four

Xu Long fought the resentful spirits attacking the cultivators inside the formation, but learned that the Duck Beast King was replenishing them with its energy. As the spirits threatened the crowd, Xu Long ordered the Earth Immortals to let the other cultivators approach.

  • Heavenly Immortal cultivators moved toward Xu Long for protection, drawing more resentful spirits toward the gathered crowd.
  • Xu Long used his Dharma Body's sword light to shred the approaching spirits, but they began to re-form from surviving remnant souls.
  • Xu Long sensed the Duck Beast King's battered head nearby and realized it was feeding energy to the spirits to keep them from being destroyed.
  • Xu Long continued sweeping the spirits away to protect the cultivators and shouted for the Earth Immortals to clear the way and let the others in.

Ch. 894Entering the Formation

Xu Long struggled to protect the gathered cultivators from the vengeful spirits while the Banners Forming a Forest Formation shifted and threatened to leave them exposed. With the formation in disarray and the Duck Beast King still empowering the spirits, Xu Long revealed his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon, whose giant eye and thunder startled everyone.

  • Xu Long opened a passage for the Heavenly Immortal cultivators to enter the field as the vengeful spirits attacked those on the outskirts.
  • The banners began shifting, but the cultivators hesitated to leave the crowd and take up their formation positions after a vengeful spirit killed a Heavenly Immortal cultivator.
  • Xu Long used his Dharma Body and sword light to fend off the spirits while the Duck Beast King continued sending them energy.
  • Xu Long realized that the cultivators had to restore the formation before the Duck Beast King escaped and the True Lord was defeated.
  • Xu Long brought forth his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon, revealing a giant eye in its vortex that cut off the cultivators' probing and unleashed a thunderous sound.

Ch. 895Lying in Wait

Xu Long summoned his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and used the Earth Eye to pin the resentful spirits in place while gathering Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning to destroy them. As the lightning built, the Duck Beast King's head watched from outside the field, prepared for Xu Long's attack.

  • Xu Long summoned his Celestial Phenomenon and opened the Earth Eye to lock onto the resentful spirits.
  • Xu Long began gathering Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning, drawing on the Celestial Phenomenon's energy despite the cost.
  • The Earth Eye unsettled the resentful spirits, which hesitated but stayed inside the formation and approached the cultivators again.
  • Xu Long's Dharma Body raised the nebula as lightning began to glimmer inside the giant eye.
  • The Duck Beast King's head sensed the growing power and watched with mockery, while Xu Long continued gathering energy.

Ch. 896Ominous Glint

Xu Long was ambushed by three Earth Immortals while casting a spell, and the Duck Beast King's resentful spirits surged into the formation. He survived their attack, but realized the three attackers had been resentful spirit seeds planted by the Duck Beast King.

  • The Duck Beast King flashed an ominous glint as three Earth Immortals approached Xu Long and unleashed their Dharma Seals.
  • The resentful spirits surged into the crowd as the attackers' strikes shattered Xu Long's barriers.
  • Xu Long's Dharma Body swung its sword and killed the three attackers, while the resentful spirits poured into the formation.
  • Xu Long told the cultivators he was unharmed and urged them to hold the formation.
  • Xu Long recalled the attackers' strike and realized they were resentful spirit seeds planted by the Duck Beast King.

Ch. 897Great Wisdom

Xu Long survived the Duck Beast King's ambush, killed the three vengeful spirits, and completed his preparation to unleash profound lightning. As divine punishment gathered over Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, he spoke an Edict that halted the vortex before lightning flashed through the giant eye.

  • The Duck Beast King’s three possessed cultivators attacked Xu Long with Earth Immortal Dharma Seals, but he used his curtain wall to withstand the strike.
  • Vengeful spirits emerged from the cultivators’ heads after devouring their souls, and Xu Long cut down all three spirits with his sword light.
  • The remnant souls fled toward the vengeful spirits around the crowd as Xu Long finished gathering profound lightning and used Earth Eye to lock onto them.
  • The gathered energy was recognized as divine punishment, shocking the Heavenly Immortal cultivators who watched it form over Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary.
  • Xu Long uttered “Edict,” stopping the vortex above him before a bolt of lightning illuminated the sky.

Ch. 898A Bolt from the Blue

Xu Long used the Earth Eye to unleash divine-punishment lightning, combining it with sword qi to destroy the resentful spirits across the battlefield. The cultivators witnessed the display in terror, while the Duck Beast King realized the skies above the Boundless Wilderness might be changing.

  • Xu Long drew dark lightning from the giant eye, startling the Duck Beast King and revealing that the three resentful spirits had been destroyed.
  • The black lightning emerged, and elderly Heavenly Immortal cultivators recognized it as divine punishment wielded by the Origin Will.
  • Xu Long’s Dharma Body caught the returning sword light, divided it into sword qi, and hurled it into the lightning.
  • The Earth Eye guided the lightning and sword qi toward the scattered resentful spirits, exposing and pursuing them across the battlefield.
  • The combined attacks obliterated the resentful spirits, while the surrounding cultivators watched in shock.

Ch. 899Hunting and Killing

Xu Long destroyed the wicked-wind resentful spirits with mystic lightning and sword qi, then helped the cultivators restore their formation as the Duck Beast King's damaged head retreated. Above the formation, the True Lord questioned the Duck Beast King about its injuries, and the beast silently fixed its anger on Xu Long.

  • Xu Long used mystic lightning and sword qi to wipe out the resentful spirits and their remnant souls.
  • The cultivators cheered for Xu Long, then returned to their defensive positions as the banners shifted.
  • The Duck Beast King's head withdrew after sensing Xu Long's power, while Xu Long replenished his nearly exhausted Magic Power.
  • The True Lord sensed the mystic lightning and later saw the Duck Beast King's nine heads return, one badly injured.
  • The True Lord asked the Duck Beast King how it had been hurt, and the beast glared at Xu Long below.

Ch. 900Fortifying Every Step

The Duck Beast King’s vengeful spirits were destroyed by Xu Long’s black mystic lightning, and the injured Beast King began to retreat beyond the heavens. The True Lord let it go, but the golden net remained attached to the cultivators’ formation, leaving them dragged into the sky and thrown into disorder as the Beast King fled.

  • Xu Long used black mystic lightning to destroy the Duck Beast King’s baleful-wind vengeful spirits and sever their connection to the Beast King.
  • The Duck Beast King recognized the danger, blamed Old Ghost Pinglu for a trap, and considered retreating as the restraints tightened.
  • The Duck Beast King spread its nine heads and lifted into the sky, while the True Lord chose not to stop it with the Thousand-Jun Tower.
  • The golden net pulled the cultivators and their banners into the clouds as the Duck Beast King rose beyond the heavens.
  • The Duck Beast King shot toward the horizon with the net still attached, disrupting the Banners Forming a Forest Formation and turning it into a cage for the cultivators.
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Arc 36 of 42