Recaps

Xu Long escaped the Vast Sea’s waterspout and told Yun Feng that the outcome there affirmed his authority. Yun Feng tried to enforce his decisions over the Jade Screen Sect School’s resource allocations, but the senior cultivators openly resisted him in the main lineage hall.

• Xu Long used a ritual vajra to withstand the Vast Sea’s waterspout, escaped to land, and concluded that the young man would become master of the Vast Sea after refining the Dragon King’s legacy.
• Yun Feng received Xu Long’s message while managing the Jade Screen Sect School as acting sect master and summoned Mystic Immortal cultivators to discuss the sect’s affairs.
• The summoned cultivators argued over the redistribution of resources, while Yun Hong waited for Yun Feng to seek his support and Yunxiang watched in silence.
• Yun Feng asserted that the new assignments were final and threatened to punish objectors in the Thousand Miasma Forest, but the elders and their supporters resisted his authority.
• The cultivators continued defying Yun Feng and began questioning his right to act as sect master.

Xu Long quelled opposition to Yun Feng’s succession and was appointed to guard the Jade Screen Sect School’s Dao Fields in the Boundless Wilderness. He returned to Rotten Peach Mountain, where cultivators reported that a strange, destructive fierce beast tide was attacking their grounds, and he began organizing their defense.

• Xu Long silenced the cultivators challenging Yun Feng and declared his obedience to Yun Feng, prompting the hall to acknowledge Yun Feng as sect master.
• Yun Feng appointed Xu Long to guard the Jade Screen Sect School’s Dao Fields in the Boundless Wilderness, and Xu Long accepted the command.
• Xu Long returned to Rotten Peach Mountain, where Feng Sihu and the other Earth Immortals welcomed him alongside cultivators from nearby Dao Fields.
• The cultivators told Xu Long that fierce beasts had attacked and destroyed the foundations of several Dao Fields, and Xu Long ordered them to return to their grounds and leave their communication jade tokens with him.
• Xu Long assigned Feng Sihu and the other three Earth Immortals to guard the cultivation grounds while he investigated the beast tide.

Xu Long subdued Yin Corpse Boy, discovered a dangerous other dimension inside the coffin, and gave the corpse to Feng Sihu as a new body. As beast tides overwhelmed the Boundless Wilderness, Xu Long suspected the Duck Beast King was using them to target Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, but the chapter left his theory unconfirmed.

• Xu Long refined the baleful aura in Cao Chali's coffin, but an eerie face and laughter trapped his will in another dimension until the Wisdom Sword broke him free.
• Xu Long decided not to investigate the dimension further and summoned Feng Sihu to settle his promise to restore Feng Sihu's body.
• Feng Sihu possessed Yin Corpse Boy, and Xu Long told him to prepare to help fight the beast tide.
• Xu Long planned to confront the Duck Beast King, potentially with Perfected Lord Pinglu, while communication tokens brought urgent reports of Dao Fields under attack.
• Xu Long noticed that the unusual beast tides seemed designed to scatter cultivators and wondered whether the Duck Beast King was targeting Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary.

Xu Long suspected the Duck Beast King had caused the vicious beast tide and began driving the beasts toward the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary to draw it out. Meanwhile, the young master and Uncle Chen discovered that the Dragon-Subduing Chains had broken, escaped the Vast Sea Dragon King’s attack with a treasured piece of white jade, and warned the Saint Daoist Sanctuary of the danger.

• Xu Long suspected the Duck Beast King was behind the beast tide, sent word to the Mystic Immortal Daoist Sanctuary, and set out to drive the beasts toward the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary.
• Uncle Chen reported the Vast Sea’s strange phenomena to the young master, who used a jade token to investigate the Dragon-Subduing Chains beneath the sea.
• The young master discovered that the Dragon-Subduing Chains were broken, and Uncle Chen tried to flee as chains and waterspouts attacked their greatsword.
• The young master used a piece of white jade belonging to the Saint Daoist Sanctuary to suppress the chains long enough for him and Uncle Chen to escape.
• The young master told Uncle Chen that the Dragon King was still coiled inside the stepped well and said he had alerted the heir so the Saint could be informed.

After escaping the Vast Sea, the Saint Daoist Sanctuary’s young master set out to punish the surrounding sects, while Xu Long organized cultivators against the Duck Beast King’s beast tide. At the Golden Splendor Dao Field, Luo Huayu and Luo Ning faced an overwhelming siege, and a high-level beast seized the opening in her defensive formation, leaving the Dao Field on the verge of being breached.

• The Saint Daoist Sanctuary’s young master left the Vast Sea with Uncle Chen, intent on slaughtering the surrounding sects to vent his anger.
• Xu Long coordinated with Zhu Peizi and led Mystic Immortal cultivators toward the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary to gather the beast tide and draw out the Duck Beast King.
• Luo Ning defected from the grotto-heaven and blessed land with several companions after its elders refused to aid Luo Huayu at the Golden Splendor Dao Field.
• Luo Ning and his companions fought through a beast tide, then hurried to the Golden Splendor Dao Field after he realized the high-level beasts had gone there.
• Luo Huayu continued defending the Golden Splendor Dao Field rather than abandon its mature spiritual essence, while Luo Ning’s group was swallowed by the beasts outside.
• Luo Huayu opened a gap in her defensive formation to admit Luo Ning’s group, but a high-level beast occupied it and threatened to breach the Dao Field.

Xu Long arrived at the Golden Splendor Dao Field and broke the goshawk’s assault on the cultivators with his giant sword and Spiritual Qi Bombardment. After he killed the goshawk, the beast tide retreated, leaving Xu Long and the cultivators advancing beyond the Dao Field.

• Luo Ning called for Luo Huayu to flee as the vicious beasts broke through the Golden Splendor Dao Field, but a familiar sword cry gave the embattled cultivators hope.
• Xu Long arrived and cut through the birds surrounding the Dao Field, then wounded the goshawk with a magic seal.
• The goshawk trapped Xu Long in a black cloud and tried to seize his giant sword, but Xu Long unleashed its sword qi and then used Spiritual Qi Bombardment to shatter the birds’ formation.
• Xu Long killed the wounded goshawk as it tried to flee, and his greatsword returned with the goshawk’s pale cyan Inner Core.
• Luo Ning and the other cultivators regrouped as Xu Long approached the Dao Field, and the vicious beasts retreated before them.

Xu Long defended Golden Splendor Dao Field while Luo Huayu refined the Jiaolong Beast King's Inner Core into a special Mystic Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill for his breakthrough. The pill neared completion as the Beast King's energy drew the high-level vicious beasts into a renewed assault.

• Xu Long gave Luo Huayu the Jiaolong Beast King's Inner Core and asked her to refine a Mystic Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill while he stayed at Golden Splendor Dao Field.
• Xu Long explained that the vicious beast tide had also attacked his sect's Mystic Immortal Dao field and that Luo Ning and the others would go help defend Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary.
• Luo Huayu began refining the pill as the Inner Core's energy attracted vicious beasts gathering outside Golden Splendor Dao Field.
• Xu Long released his Dharma Body to guard the Dao field and drove back the attacking low-level vicious beasts while Luo Huayu continued refining.
• Luo Huayu's pill neared completion, and the high-level vicious beasts launched an assault to seize the energy of the Beast King's Inner Core.

Xu Long completed his breakthrough to the early-stage Mystic Immortal realm by surviving the Waters of Forgetfulness, then destroyed the beast tide around Golden Splendor Dao Field. He and Luo Huayu headed for Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary after Xu Long warned that the unseen Duck Beast King was directing the attacks, but its continued absence left him sensing a deeper danger.

• Luo Huayu completed the special Mystic Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill and gave it to Xu Long, who swallowed it before leaving Golden Splendor Dao Field to undergo tribulation.
• Xu Long survived the Waters of Forgetfulness, defeated the evil ghost resembling himself, and broke through to the Mystic Immortal realm.
• Xu Long used his Dharma Body, a dharma seal, a ritual staff, and a gun to kill the high-level beasts Kui Ox and Killmonger and wipe out the beast tide near Golden Splendor Dao Field.
• Luo Huayu told Xu Long that Zhu Peizi and the Mystic Immortal cultivators were defending Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, while the Duck Beast King remained missing.
• Xu Long insisted that the Duck Beast King had hidden its aura and was orchestrating the beast tide, so Luo Huayu warned the True Lord before they set out for Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary.

Xu Long discovered that the Duck Beast King had used the beast tide to isolate Perfected Lord Pinglu and attack him at the Pinglu Main Vein. Xu Long defeated the Duck Beast King, but Perfected Lord Pinglu died peacefully, leaving Xu Long to arrange the sanctuary’s future and deliver Yun Peng’s belongings to Yun Kun.

• Xu Long realized the Duck Beast King had turned his plan against him and sent Luo Huayu to help the defending sanctuaries while he rushed to the main vein.
• Xu Long broke through the Duck Beast King’s blockade and found it fighting Perfected Lord Pinglu, who was overwhelmed after the beast seized the advantage.
• Xu Long intervened, battled the Duck Beast King, and destroyed it with his sword light and Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning, then found the energy core it had stolen from the Saint Daoist Sanctuary.
• Perfected Lord Pinglu entrusted the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary to Xu Long, gave the Thousand-Jun Tower to Luo Huayu, and passed away after settling his final concerns.
• Xu Long handed the sanctuary’s jade token and the Duck Beast King’s Inner Core to Zhu Peizi, then helped Luo Huayu make Herbal Revival Pills from the Immortal Ginseng.
• Xu Long delivered Yun Peng’s golden hairpin and jade bottle to Yun Kun, and became the guardian lord of the Boundless Wilderness.