Recaps

Yun Qi tried to defend the Heavenly Immortal training ground against Yun Ya’s overwhelming sword attack, then yielded and opened the formation. Yun Ya and a fat Heavenly Immortal Daoist entered to inspect the training grounds and their Spirit Stone resources.

• Yun Ya’s sword light broke through Yun Qi’s flying sword and seal, driving Yun Qi back across the training ground.
• Yun Qi called to Yun Ya and offered to open the formation, but he continued attacking with his flying sword.
• Yun Ya accused Yun Qi of going back on his word, and Yun Qi opened a corner of the formation.
• Yun Qi saw Yun Ya, an arrogant thin Earth Immortal, arrive ahead of a restrained fat Heavenly Immortal, and bowed to them.
• Yun Ya accepted Yun Qi’s apology and said the sect’s inspection would cover the training ground’s Spirit Stone resources.

Xu Long coerced Yun Qi into handing over five thousand Spirit Stones and arranged for his Dao field to be linked with Rotten Peach Mountain. After Yun Qi declined the core disciple selection, Xu Long and Yun Ya left, while Yun Qi resolved to warn the other Dao field guardians about them.

• Xu Long withdrew his sword light, then pressured Yun Qi into giving Yun Ya five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long suggested Yun Qi consider the core disciple selection, and Yun Ya explained the opportunity in the Vast Sea.
• Yun Qi declined the selection, and Xu Long persuaded him to link his Dao field with Rotten Peach Mountain.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya finished inspecting the Dao field and departed, leaving Yun Qi lamenting his loss and planning to warn the others.

Xu Long accompanied Yun Ya on an inspection tour of the Jade Screen Sect School’s Dao Fields in the Boundless Wilderness, using Yun Ya’s authority to force the guards to pay Spirit Stone resources. After they fleeced every Dao Field and made Yun Ya notorious across the region, Xu Long cheerfully counted their gains while Yun Ya felt aggrieved.

• Xu Long surveyed Yun Qi’s prosperous Dao Field and considered how connecting it to Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field could help the sect’s network expand.
• Xu Long launched Yun Ya’s inspection tour by breaking a Dao Field’s formation and suppressing its guarding cultivator until he paid Spirit Stone resources.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya visited every Dao Field in the Boundless Wilderness, and Xu Long repeatedly used Yun Ya’s name and authority to collect payments from the guards.
• Yun Ya realized that Xu Long had acted under his name throughout the tour, earning him a reputation as a powerful inspector while Yun Ya grew uneasy about the coerced payments.
• Xu Long counted the collected resources beside Yun Ya as they headed toward another Dao Field, while Yun Ya felt especially aggrieved.

Xu Long and Yun Ya reached a Mystic Immortal cultivator’s Daoist sanctum, which Xu Long wanted to inspect for its abundant resources. Yun Ya tried to leave him behind, but Xu Long saw through his scheme and planned to return to the sect with him for the core disciple selection.

• Yun Ya worried about the resentment he had earned from guardian cultivators while Xu Long happily counted Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long spotted a prosperous Daoist sanctum guarded by a Mystic Immortal cultivator and wanted to enter, but Yun Ya warned that they were not authorized to inspect it.
• Yun Ya said the assignment was complete and tried to part ways with Xu Long, who returned a storage bag containing five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long pointed out that the long journey might make him miss the core disciple selection, and Yun Ya grew uneasy.
• Xu Long realized Yun Ya had deliberately delayed their journey through the Boundless Wilderness and intended to leave him at the Mystic Immortal sanctum.

Xu Long entered the Mystic Immortal Dao Field with Yun Ya, believing it held a fast route back to the grotto-heaven paradise. Inside, Yun Ya explained the Dao Field’s importance and its large-scale transmission array, which Xu Long recognized as the means he sought.

• Xu Long ignored Yun Ya’s warning and brought him to the Mystic Immortal Dao Field, where they joined the line to enter.
• Yun Ya verified his status with a jade token, and the checkpoint cultivator let them pass without charging them.
• Xu Long sensed the Dao Field’s strong defenses and observed its busy traffic of cultivators carrying goods between the grotto-heaven paradise and the Boundless Wilderness.
• Yun Ya explained that Mystic Immortal Dao Fields were key sect strongholds overseen by powerful cultivators and that this one was run by Daoist Yun Peng.
• Xu Long identified the large-scale transmission array as the fast route back to the grotto-heaven paradise and judged it less advanced than Hong Gu’s array.

Xu Long and Yun Ya reached the guarded teleportation array while Yun Peng handed over control of the cultivation ground to his senior brother before departing for the core disciple selection. The chapter leaves Xu Long and Yun Ya on the array as Yun Peng and his senior brother approach the transfer point.

• Xu Long and Yun Ya followed the cultivators to the transfer center and prepared to use the teleportation array.
• Yun Peng and his senior brother discussed the hurried core disciple selection and Yun Peng's plans to investigate the abnormality in the Vast Sea.
• Yun Peng handed his senior brother the jade token and entrusted him with guarding the cultivation ground during his absence.
• Yun Peng and his senior brother set off together along a path of mist toward the transfer point.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya stepped onto the teleportation array, and Xu Long reflected that Yun Ya's presence had helped them get past its guards.

Xu Long recognized the transmission array’s runes as relics of the immemorial era and learned how Jade Screen Sect School ancestors had sacrificed themselves to establish safe coordinates. Just as the array was about to activate, it failed to start, and the stationed cultivator hurried back with an anxious, impatient expression.

• Xu Long sensed the array’s ancient spatial energy and recognized its runes from the inscriptions he had carved in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Yun Ya explained that Jade Screen Sect School ancestors had died testing the arrays until they found stable coordinates for transmission.
• Xu Long memorized what he could about the arrays but realized that knowing their structure would not reveal their destinations.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya took their places as the cultivators prepared to activate the transmission array.
• The array did not activate, and the stationed cultivator hurried back onto the foundation, looking anxious and impatient.

Xu Long and Yun Ya were ordered off the teleportation array to make way for the Mystic Immortal Yun Peng, who was returning to the sect. Just as they were about to leave, Yun Peng recognized the name Yunmo and invited both cultivators to teleport with him.

• Xu Long stopped Yun Ya from leaving when he sensed someone approaching, and the guard ordered everyone off the array for Yun Peng.
• Yun Ya tried to assert his status to the guard, but the guard rebuked him when Yun Peng arrived.
• Yun Ya and Xu Long prepared to leave the platform rather than provoke Yun Peng.
• Yun Peng reacted when he heard the name Yunmo and watched the two cultivators turn away.
• Yun Peng told Xu Long and Yun Ya they could teleport with him, startling the guard and the waiting crowd.

Xu Long, Yun Ya, and Yun Peng traveled through an ancient transmission formation toward the Jade Screen Sect School’s core disciple selection, while Xu Long sensed the surviving Primordial Law of Space. Elsewhere in the Boundless Wilderness, a young master and Uncle Chen continued searching for the fierce beast that had escaped them, but their latest attack yielded no trace.

• Yun Peng tested Xu Long in the formation and recognized him as the cultivator known as Yunmo, then allowed him and Yun Ya to remain.
• Xu Long, Yun Ya, and Yun Peng activated the ancient transmission formation and traveled using a jade tablet that held stable coordinates.
• Xu Long sensed the ancient Law of Space and felt his own Law of Slaughter stir before the three entered the darkness of transmission.
• Across the Mystic Immortal sanctuaries, cultivators prepared to compete for core disciple positions as the Jade Screen Sect School recalled powerful candidates.
• Uncle Chen destroyed a fierce beast group and its spirit vein while searching for the escaped beast, but found no trace of it.
• The young master urged Uncle Chen to find the beast quickly and worried that Eldest Senior Brother would disapprove of his prolonged absence.

Xu Long and Yun Ya arrived at the Jade Screen Sect School, where Yun Ya explained the sect’s vast guardian sanctuaries and led him toward its grotto-heaven blessed land. As they entered the cloud-shrouded mountains, Xu Long saw the sect’s radiant golden summits.

• Uncle Chen told the young master he had searched the Boundless Wilderness for the vile beast and would destroy it when he learned its whereabouts.
• Yun Peng returned to the Jade Screen Sect School with Xu Long and Yun Ya, then announced himself with a cry that shook the array base and drew the sect’s attention.
• Yun Peng vanished after surveying the crowd, while Xu Long and Yun Ya left the array base and looked out over the sect’s thirty-six guardian sanctuaries.
• Yun Ya explained that the sanctuaries gathered cultivators and resources, while only disciples inside the grotto-heaven blessed land counted as true Jade Screen Sect School disciples.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya flew past the sanctuaries and mortal settlements toward the grotto-heaven blessed land in the Beyond the Cloudy Heavens.
• Xu Long entered the cloud-covered mountains with Yun Ya and saw golden summits and jade buildings shining above the clouds.

Xu Long arrived at the Jade Screen Sect School’s Deacon Hall, where a Mystic Immortal unleashed a mighty sword strike on the gathered cultivators. The hall’s formation banners stopped the blade, but its crushing pressure drove many disciples to flee, while Xu Long remained standing.

• Yun Ya parted from Xu Long and told him to visit the Deacon Hall to arrange a cave abode and register for the core disciple selection.
• Xu Long reached the Deacon Hall and saw returning cultivators from the Boundless Wilderness gathered separately from the sect’s blue-robed disciples.
• A Mystic Immortal wielded the golden sun’s power to send a treasured sword crashing down toward the crowd without warning.
• Xu Long blocked the strike with a spell seal while many cultivators fled and the others tried to resist.
• The Deacon Hall’s formation banners caught the sword’s edge, but its lingering pressure overwhelmed more cultivators and drove them away.

Xu Long and the other candidates endured a sword strike that tested their resolve, while those who fled were disqualified from the core disciple selection. Perfected Yunxiang arrived, quelled the protest, and ordered the remaining candidates to submit their Spirit Stone resources and collect jade tokens, taking a special interest in Xu Long.

• The formation banners blocked the sword strike, and a Deacon Hall cultivator announced that anyone who had fled was disqualified from the selection.
• Several disqualified candidates protested, but a Mid-stage Mystic Immortal rebuked them and Yunxiang told them they could bring their objections to him.
• The candidates outside the mountains dispersed or waited to hand over their Spirit Stone resources, while Yunxiang reflected on how the selection candidates lacked the resolve of earlier generations.
• Yunxiang surveyed the remaining candidates, noticed Xu Long's unusual aura, and resolved to remember him.
• A Deacon Hall cultivator ordered the remaining candidates to enter the hall one by one, hand over their Spirit Stone resources, and collect jade tokens for the next round.

Xu Long registered at the Deacon Hall, handed over the 2,000 Spirit Stones from his Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field, and received a jade token for the coming core disciple selection. He followed the token’s directions to an exceptionally well-appointed mountain residence and settled in to await the next stage.

• Xu Long entered the Deacon Hall and told Yunluan that he had come to submit his Spirit Stones and participate in the core disciple selection.
• Yunluan recognized Xu Long as the cultivator who had fought the Duck Beast King, accepted the 2,000 Spirit Stones, and gave him a jade token after quietly switching it for another.
• Xu Long left the Deacon Hall and followed the jade token’s information to the mountain range assigned as his residence.
• Xu Long arrived at a golden-roofed hall on one of the nine peaks, where a young female cultivator saw him pass across the crimson sunset among Luan Cranes.
• Xu Long entered the hall’s independent space, explored its cultivation facilities, and reflected on the benefits of Perfected Lord Pinglu spreading his name.

After returning to the Jade Screen Sect School, Xu Long faced the pressure his Yunmo reputation brought before the core disciple selection. News of his return reached the sect’s leaders and prominent disciples, whose plans and ambitions were unsettled by his arrival.

• Xu Long considered how his fame as the fighter of the Beast King would draw scrutiny during the selection, then sat down to regulate his Magic Power.
• Yunluan registered Yunmo for the selection and sent word, prompting Yun Xiao to declare that he wanted to test Yunmo himself.
• Perfected Yunxiang learned Yunmo had returned and sent the news onward, while Yun Feng worried that Yunmo’s arrival would complicate his standing among the senior disciples.
• Perfected Yun Long received Yunxiang’s message and considered how Yunmo might disrupt his plans to reshape the sect’s factions through the selection.
• Yun Zhang urged Yun Feng to investigate Yunmo and consider making contact, but Yun Feng rebuked him and ordered him to leave.

Yun Feng struggled with the family obligations that threatened her freedom while Xu Long prepared for the Jade Screen Sect School’s core disciple selection. After entering a fragment space, Xu Long repelled a Heavenly Immortal’s surprise attack and faced a barrage of sword qi.

• Yun Zhang urged Yun Feng to consider her family, leaving her torn between gratitude to them and resentment at being treated as a means to secure their future.
• Yun Feng recalled seeing Xu Long and imagined that he lived freely and without restraint.
• Xu Long calmed himself before the selection, then arrived at the Deacon Hall when its summons came.
• Yun Xiao explained that twenty disciples would pass the second round, and Xu Long used his Celestial Phenomenon to neutralize Yun Xiao’s probing gaze.
• Xu Long entered a fragment space, where a Heavenly Immortal attacked him from behind with a flying sword.
• Xu Long caught and bent the flying sword, then enveloped the attacker’s many streaks of sword qi with his will and sensed the real blade among them.

Xu Long turned the Heavenly Immortal cultivator’s sword qi back against him and blocked his counterattack with a manifested Dharma Body hand. As the opponent’s command flags lost their power, Xu Long prepared to strike them from below.

• Xu Long seized control of the Heavenly Immortal cultivator’s sword qi and sent it rushing back at him like a furious dragon.
• The Heavenly Immortal cultivator released a magical seal and command flags, but the seal only slowed the sword qi, and the clash shook the fragment space.
• Xu Long summoned a giant Dharma Body hand to break through the shockwave and meet the falling command flags.
• Xu Long enveloped the command flags with his will and recited an incantation that drained their might.
• Xu Long raised the giant hand beneath the weakened command flags.

Xu Long defeated a Heavenly Immortal cultivator and challenged the others hiding in the fragment space. He ambushed one cultivator who stepped forward, then forced the rest to reveal themselves, leaving them cowed by his strength.

• Xu Long broke the Heavenly Immortal cultivator's command flags and let the spatial rift eliminate him.
• Xu Long called on the hidden cultivators to attack him together.
• A cultivator stepped forward and urged the others to join forces against Xu Long, but Xu Long seized him with his giant hand.
• Xu Long hurled the captured cultivator into a spatial rift, prompting the other hidden cultivators to reveal themselves.
• Xu Long's display of strength left the cultivators afraid to meet his gaze.

A cultivator in the golden-roofed hall altered the fragment spaces, causing more contestants to converge and battles to intensify. Yunya faced Yunluan and the Deacon Hall disciples, while Xu Long found himself surrounded after attacking a cultivator who had been swallowed by a spatial rift.

• The middle-aged cultivator activated the jade tablets, changing the fragment spaces and adding unusual coordinates.
• Contestants encountered more opponents and fought increasingly frequent battles as the selection accelerated.
• Yunya defeated two Heavenly Immortal cultivators, but a spatial rift removed them before he could strike.
• Yunluan arrived with more than a dozen Deacon Hall disciples to confront Yunya, and a battle appeared imminent.
• Xu Long's jade tablet revealed more coordinates as a spatial rift swallowed a cultivator, and nearby contestants surrounded Xu Long after his sneak attack.

Xu Long faced nearly twenty cultivators who joined forces to eliminate him, and he used his Dharma Body palm to disrupt their attack. The cultivators trapped him with spell seals, but Xu Long cut them apart with a flash of sword light.

• The nearby cultivators rushed Xu Long together after realizing he had meant to pick them off one by one.
• Xu Long sent his enormous Dharma Body palm at the group, then spread its fingers to let their spell seals pass through.
• The cultivators redirected their weapons to stall the palm and scattered to evade its blow.
• The cultivators saw Xu Long surrounded by their spell seals and expected him to have no way out.
• Xu Long unleashed a sword cry, cutting the spell seals to pieces before they could strike him.

Xu Long was attacked by coordinated Heavenly Immortal cultivators and became trapped as they pressed in from every side. He formed a powerful Dharma Seal while the giant palm above him mimicked his hand movements, leaving the seal moving toward his enemies.

• Xu Long’s sword light disrupted the pursuing cultivators’ True Spirits, and several surrendered before the spatial rift eliminated them.
• The eliminated cultivators’ flying swords and sword qi continued attacking Xu Long, while others rushed in to replace them.
• Xu Long dodged the sword qi and Dharma Seals but was surrounded, with his routes of retreat sealed off.
• Xu Long rapidly formed hand seals and gathered Magic Power and the Power of Oblivion, while the giant palm above him formed seals in tandem.
• Xu Long completed a solid Dharma Seal filled with points of starlight and sent it toward the surrounding cultivators.

Xu Long used his Dharma seal to blast the surrounding Heavenly Immortal cultivators into retreat, but the pursuing threads of sword qi cut through his defenses. After stalling while he waited for his recalled sword light, he used it to sever the threads, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xu Long's Dharma seal collided with the flying swords and unleashed heavenly fire and a shockwave that shattered the spatial barrier.
• The Heavenly Immortal cultivators admitted defeat and escaped as the fiery shockwave swallowed the field.
• Xu Long retreated behind a barrier, but the threads of sword qi wrapped around it and began cutting through.
• Xu Long sensed the threads pursuing him and stalled until his recalled sword light returned, carrying fierce Geng Metal Qi.
• Xu Long's sword light slashed through the threads of sword qi, stopping their advance.

Xu Long used his Dharma Body’s magic seal and sword light to trap the Heavenly Immortal cultivators in a wall of fire and attack them. When one cultivator fled through the flames, Xu Long’s waiting sword light closed in on him.

• Xu Long destroyed the threadlike sword qi and decided to attack the Heavenly Immortal cultivators to draw out their hidden allies.
• Xu Long empowered his enormous magic seal with an Edict, forcing the cultivators to brace against its flames and pressure.
• Xu Long sent his sword light against the cultivators’ defensive magic seals and shattered them, causing their energy to form a wall of fire.
• Xu Long’s fire dragons drew the wall of fire around the Heavenly Immortal cultivators, trapping them beneath the descending magic seal.
• One Heavenly Immortal cultivator broke through the wall of fire, but Xu Long’s sword light was waiting outside and bore down on him.

Xu Long tried to force the hidden cultivator to reveal himself by attacking the trapped cultivators with a sword strike empowered by the Law of Slaughter. The concealed figure intervened, clashed with Xu Long, and opened a spatial rift that let the others escape.

• Xu Long's sword light pursued a fleeing cultivator, but a spatial barrier split open and swallowed him before the strike could land.
• Xu Long sent the sword light through the gap in the wall of fire, then transformed it into a falling star carrying the Law of Slaughter to threaten the cultivators trapped inside.
• Perfected Yunxiang watched through a jade token, lamented the Jade Screen Sect School disciples' lack of drive, and sent messages before using another token to trigger spatial energy.
• The hidden cultivator appeared and met Xu Long's sword strike with a streak of light, causing a violent collision that tore through the fragment space.
• A spatial rift opened behind the trapped cultivators, and they abandoned resistance and escaped.

Xu Long faced Yun Xiao and the Deacon Hall disciples as the contest’s final test began in the fragment space. After their spell seals unleashed a destructive vortex, Xu Long attacked Yun Xiao with his sword, and Yun Xiao countered with his own sword qi.

• Yun Xiao and six Deacon Hall disciples emerged from the fragment space and confronted Xu Long.
• Xu Long used his Dharma Body’s giant palm and a spell seal to attack Yun Xiao, who defended himself with a spell seal of his own.
• The spell seals collided and created a violent vortex that tore through the space around Yun Xiao.
• Xu Long sent a streak of sword light through the chaotic energy toward Yun Xiao.
• Yun Xiao summoned his True Spirit and directed a sharp white sword gleam above his head to meet the attack.

Yun Xiao and Xu Long clashed with opposing sword energies, while Yun Xiao’s six junior brothers prepared a coordinated attack. The chapter ended with the six brothers’ magical seals forming walls around Xu Long.

• Yun Xiao ordered his scattered junior brothers to prepare while he and Xu Long sent their sword techniques against each other.
• Yun Xiao’s spinning wheel of white sword qi trapped Xu Long’s star-like sword light, but the opposing energies shattered the reinforced spatial barriers.
• Yun Xiao recognized that Xu Long’s power and sword qi let him challenge opponents above his cultivation level, but continued fighting.
• Yun Xiao’s six junior brothers gathered around Xu Long and combined their magical seals above him.
• Xu Long sent his Dharma Body’s flaming palm toward the seals, but the six seals scattered into a formation that enclosed him.