Recaps

Xu Long returned to Rotten Peach Mountain, gathered followers, and prepared to enter the Vast Sea by seeking selection as a Jade Screen Sect School core disciple. He survived the Wind of the Netherworld and advanced to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, but the expanded Dao Field soon faced a violent challenge from sect inspectors.

• After Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary’s victory, Xu Long received recognition and rewards, then broke through to the Middle Stage Earth Immortal Realm.
• Xu Long accepted Leng Mingcong, Chen Dexian, and Qin Yuxiang as followers and returned with them to Rotten Peach Mountain.
• Xu Long defeated the Jade Screen Sect School cultivator Yun Ya, then learned of the sect’s core disciple selection and its investigation in the Vast Sea.
• Xu Long strengthened Rotten Peach Mountain’s arrays and began breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm with the Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• The Wind of the Netherworld battered Xu Long and his Dao Field, but the pill and Wisdom Sword helped him resist its attacks and karmic hindrance.
• Xu Long completed his breakthrough, shattered the Wind of the Netherworld with his sword formation, and repaired and expanded the Dao Field’s defenses.
• As Xu Long gazed toward the Vast Sea, two Jade Screen Sect School inspectors attacked the Dao Field after its Heavenly Immortal guard refused them entry.

Xu Long brought Yun Ya on a resource-collecting inspection tour before returning to the Jade Screen Sect School and entering the core disciple selection. He fought off groups of contestants, then faced Yun Xiao and six Deacon Hall disciples, who enclosed him in a formation.

• Xu Long pressured Yun Qi into paying five thousand Spirit Stones, then toured the Boundless Wilderness with Yun Ya and collected resources from Dao Field guardians.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya reached a Mystic Immortal Dao Field, where Yun Peng let them join his transmission back to the Jade Screen Sect School.
• At the Deacon Hall, Xu Long blocked a sword strike aimed at the candidates, submitted his Spirit Stones, and received a jade token for the selection.
• Xu Long entered the second round and defeated attackers in a fragment space, breaking their weapons and casting opponents into spatial rifts.
• As the selection grew more dangerous, Xu Long fought off groups of cultivators with his Dharma Body, sword light, and spells, while spatial rifts removed contestants from the battlefield.
• Xu Long faced a hidden cultivator’s intervention and continued fighting until Yun Xiao and six Deacon Hall disciples confronted him.
• Xu Long and Yun Xiao exchanged sword attacks as Yun Xiao’s junior brothers gathered around Xu Long and formed a formation that enclosed him.

Xu Long became a core disciple, refused the clan cultivators’ attempt to draw him into their faction, and was chosen to investigate the Vast Sea with four others. At Qinghe Daoist Sanctuary, the gathered factions began testing a dangerous crossing into the sea.

• Xu Long defeated Yun Xiao in the final Deacon Hall trial, and Perfected Yunxiang announced him as one of the twenty candidates who passed.
• Yunlong announced a final selection in which twelve of twenty-five candidates would become core disciples, and Xu Long entered the fragment-space trial.
• Xu Long defeated Yunya with Heaven-Slaying One Sword and was named the third-ranked core disciple alongside Yun Feng and Yun Peng.
• Xu Long rejected Yun Hong’s proposal that he take Yun Feng as a Dao companion and chose to focus on cultivation and the Vast Sea journey.
• Ancestor Yun He selected Xu Long, Yun Peng, Yun Feng, Yunya, and another disciple for the expedition, warning them that rival sects and the Vast Sea’s dangers awaited them.
• Xu Long received five-colored defensive talismans from Yun Hong, prepared supplies, and departed for Qinghe Daoist Sanctuary with the young man.
• At the sanctuary, Xu Long met Yun Hu, He Huaibao, and Luo Huayu as several factions gathered for the expedition.
• He Huaibao sent cultivators toward the torrents with a copper ring and the Kui Ox, and the first group was swallowed as Luo Huayu’s jade token confirmed they had not been betrayed.

Xu Long entered the Vast Sea, survived ambushes, advanced to the Late Earth Immortal realm, and seized the Immortal Ginseng amid rival cultivators and ferocious beasts. Trapped by King Yuanyuan's beast tide, he disturbed an ancient bronze chain linked to his divination as the mountain collapsed toward him.

• He Huaibao scattered the Jade Screen disciples from his aquatic beast, leaving Xu Long to explore the Vast Sea alone.
• Xu Long killed He Ning after his ambush and learned of the Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge cultivators' gathering place from the Kui Ox's memories.
• Xu Long absorbed ancient residual energy from a spirit vein, advanced to the Late Earth Immortal realm, and escaped the enraged Tuolong guarding it.
• Xu Long followed the Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge cultivators into the underwater mountains, where rival cultivators and high-level beasts fought over the Immortal Ginseng.
• Xu Long captured the Immortal Ginseng with his Celestial Phenomenon and killed Junior Brother Li, whose memories confirmed that He Huaibao had sought an inheritance with a sect treasure.
• Xu Long survived He Huaiying's attacks with Yun Hong's defensive talisman and killed him with his Dharma Body after suffering severe injuries.
• Xu Long secured Yun Peng's help in exchange for a portion of the Immortal Ginseng and learned that King Yuanyuan was confined to the waters.
• Xu Long led the others into a fissure and shook an ancient bronze chain matching his Divination Talisman vision as King Yuanyuan hurled the broken mountain toward them.