Recaps

Xu Long claimed the Haotian Mirror, advanced his cultivation, and entered the Land of Exile in search of the sealed Ancestral Spirit. His search uncovered Blackwater City’s destruction and its hidden energy core, while Deng Shouchong’s group faced a confrontation with Chen Yuping and Yuan Changwu.

• Xu Long returned from the Legend of Mount Shu World with the Haotian Mirror, used its energy to reach the edge of Mahayana, and received the Dragon-Soaring Treasured Sword.
• Xu Long entered the Land of Exile, joined Deng Shouchong’s group, and helped them seize a spirit vein before they traveled toward the ancient city of Blackwater.
• Xu Long survived the city’s phantom sword attacks, confronted the Mist Beast, and found records explaining that the Land of Exile imprisoned gods and other powerful beings.
• Xu Long restored the frozen Spirit-Seeking Armadillo and examined the Blackwater City Lord’s memories, learning that the Heaven Patroller had destroyed the city with a Heaven-Slaying strike.
• The Blackwater City Lord dissolved after Xu Long restored him, leaving an energy core that Xu Long absorbed into his body before Deng Shouchong led him back to the group.
• Yuan Changwu and Chen Yuping demanded to search the group’s souls, and Xu Long broke Chen Yuping’s rain confinement as the cultivators closed in on Ma Fang’s party.

Xu Long survived the Human Python and the Mist Beast tide, broke through to the Mahayana Stage, and reached Phoenix City. He entered its Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to avoid paying for entry, passed several deadly gates, and entered a fifth gate filled with an army of ancient soldiers.

• Ma Fang and her companions fought Yuan Changwu’s cultivators as Xu Long battled Chen Yuping, until an ancient energy emerged throughout Blackwater City.
• The Human Python unleashed a river of cyan pythons, forcing the cultivators to flee while Yuan Changwu attacked the beast and escaped empty-handed.
• Xu Long stayed behind as the Mist Beast tide surrounded him, endured the lightning tribulation, and broke through to the Mahayana Stage with the Milky Way as his Celestial Phenomenon.
• Xu Long defeated the Human Python, took its Inner Core, and fled Blackwater City on the Vulture King as the Mist Beast tide swallowed the city.
• Xu Long reached Phoenix City and chose to enter its Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram rather than pay Spirit Stones or force his way through the gates.
• Xu Long passed the first three gates by overcoming illusory sword attacks, hidden arrows, and a deadly river, but his attempt to draw energy from the City Heart sent him into the fourth gate.
• Xu Long defeated the totems guarding the fourth gate, absorbed their released energy, and entered the fifth gate, where black beads formed an army of ancient soldiers and bronze chariots around him.

Xu Long broke through Phoenix City's gates, stole the Wuji Creation Pill, and used it to reach the Earth Immortal Realm while uncovering the Ancestral Spirit's history. He agreed to cooperate with Deng Lifu, but the factions clashed at the North Division Dao Field as Yuan Changwu confronted Branch Master Chen.

• Xu Long fought through the Sixth Gate, broke through to the Middle Mahayana Stage, and entered Phoenix City while the city's factions sought the cultivator who had passed six gates.
• Disguised as Old Pavilion Master Huang, Xu Long traded a Mist Beast Inner Core to Yuan Changwu for pills and great medicine, then investigated Phoenix City's history and the growing Mist Beast tide.
• After the City Lord, Yuan Changhe, and Chen Yuping left to investigate the tide, Xu Long attacked Yuan Changhe, stole the completed Wuji Creation Pill, and escaped amid the unrest.
• Xu Long entered the City Lord's Manor and discovered ancient records describing the Ancestral Spirit's creation of qi cultivation and the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, and the Heaven Patroler's imprisonment of him beneath the Land of Exile.
• Xu Long swallowed the Wuji Creation Pill and used his Blood Domain to refine its violent energy, opening his meridians and advancing onto the Earth Immortal path as a giant eye appeared above Phoenix City.
• The City Lord's Dharma Body and the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram repelled the heavenly might, allowing Xu Long to stabilize his breakthrough and draw the attention of cultivators across the Land of Exile.
• Deng Lifu told Xu Long that Fuxi's descendants sought the formation's central point to free him, and Xu Long agreed to cooperate while suspecting Deng Lifu was using the Mist Beast tide and the Heaven Patroler to unite the factions.
• At the North Division Dao Field, Yuan Changwu demanded Old Pavilion Master Huang from Branch Master Chen, then revealed his luan crane true form and began fighting him.

Xu Long helped Phoenix City defeat the Mist Beast tides, then followed its cultivators into the earth’s crust as the Heaven Patroler attacked the city. There, he fought the primordial gods guarding Feng Fuxi’s prison and killed two of them, while the battle continued deeper in the magma.

• Yuan Changwu fought Chen Yuping over the Wuji Creation Pill as Mist Beasts overwhelmed the North Division Dao Field, and Xu Long discovered that Pavilion Master Xu had become a higher Mist Beast’s cauldron.
• Xu Long seized the treasury’s Spirit Stones, warned Deng Shouchong about the hidden Mist Beast, and joined the returning Earth Immortals as they prepared to defend Phoenix City.
• Xu Long and Deng Shouchong led the army outside the city, where Xu Long and Mo Yu fought the higher Mist Beast directing the tide and drove the beasts into retreat.
• The city lord led the cultivators into the earth’s crust through the Nine Palaces Yin-Yang Map, while Deng Lifu stayed behind as the Heaven Patroler stripped Phoenix City of its protection.
• Xu Long crossed the magma sea, refined its heat with his Innate Essence Qi, and reached the earth’s core while sensing lightning that might mark Feng Fuxi’s prison.
• A primordial god attacked Xu Long, who defeated him by sealing his spell and overwhelming him with heat drawn from the magma.
• Xu Long used the formation diagram’s stored heat to destroy a second primordial god, whose dharma seal detonated and released a dragon of fire into the magma.