Chapter Summaries

Nezha returned to Chentang Pass and found the East Sea Dragon Clan surrounding the Li residence, while Li Jing turned on him and tried to kill him. As Nezha prepared to sacrifice himself to protect his parents and the people, Xu Long arrived in fury and challenged everyone threatening his disciple.

• Nezha rode Rice Bucket to Chentang Pass and learned that the East Sea Dragon Clan had surrounded the Li residence over the death of their Third Prince.
• Nezha fought through the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, but Li Jing blamed him and drew his sword against him.
• Madam Yin tried to protect Nezha, and Li Jing threatened to kill her first.
• Nezha knelt and accepted blame, begging that his parents and the people of Chentang Pass be spared.
• Xu Long watched Nezha's plea, then vanished and appeared at the Li residence as dark clouds gathered over the city.
• Great Golden Crow refused to retreat, while Marshal Tianpeng considered fleeing before Xu Long's furious voice demanded to know who dared kill his disciple.

Xu Long rescued Nezha, punished Li Jing, and drove back the East Sea forces after Nezha was besieged. He returned to the Golden Light Cave with Nezha and Rice Bucket, where he confined them to studying until they graduated from elementary school.

• Xu Long appeared at the Li residence, slapped Li Jing, condemned him, and turned him into a statue until he sincerely repented.
• Xu Long blamed Ao Tingxin for the East Sea dragon race’s cruelty and used a Curse Talisman to kill three hundred dragons, then ordered the East Sea forces to retreat.
• Xu Long’s breakthrough and upheaval in the heavens alarmed the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother, who discussed his strength and the troubled balance among the realms.
• Xu Long took Nezha and Rice Bucket back to the Golden Light Cave and beat Nezha for his recklessness before ordering him to study until he graduated from elementary school.
• Xu Long told Rice Bucket he also had to keep studying if he failed to graduate from elementary school, leaving the dog dismayed.

After advancing his soul transformation, Xu Long visited Yuding Zhenren to learn the Seventy-Two Changes and Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm. He also gathered other knowledge and skills, while planning to teach Yang Chan techniques to protect herself.

• Xu Long made Rice Bucket study and write, then reflected on his second soul transformation and the challenges of reaching the third stage.
• Xu Long decided to visit Yuding Zhenren for the Seventy-Two Changes and Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm.
• Yuding Zhenren gave Xu Long both techniques and was shocked when Xu Long revealed that his new disciple was Yang Chan, Yaoji's daughter.
• Xu Long spent several days learning skills and news from Yuding Zhenren, leaving him fine food, wine, tea, and household comforts in return.
• Xu Long planned to teach Yang Chan some skills because she had been helping supervise Nezha and Rice Bucket.

Xu Long found the stone containing Son Goku, made him his disciple, and trained him alongside Yang Chan while Nezha and Rice Bucket struggled with their lessons. As Yang Jian fought to save Yaoji and the Jade Emperor unleashed the Ten Golden Crows, Xu Long prepared to confront the Jade Emperor, but Bodhisattva Guanshiyin arrived first.

• Xu Long found the life-filled stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain, broke it open, and named the newborn monkey Son Goku, making him his disciple.
• Xu Long returned to Golden Light Cave and trained Son Goku and Yang Chan for three years while Nezha and Rice Bucket struggled with their studies.
• Xu Long sent Son Goku out with Nezha and Rice Bucket after beating him during a lesson, and the three later met Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian split Peach Mountain with the Vajra Stone Axe to rescue Yaoji, while the Jade Emperor ordered all Ten Golden Crows to form the Golden Crow Great Array.
• Xu Long prepared to go to the heavenly realm and confront the Jade Emperor, but Bodhisattva Guanshiyin visited him first.

Xu Long negotiated with Bodhisattva Guanshiyin over Son Goku’s role in the westward journey, then rushed to the Heavenly Court to stop Weak Water from flooding the mortal world. He held Weak Water back with his Power of Pure Yang, but she resisted and Xu Long could not hold her for long.

• Bodhisattva Guanshiyin asked Xu Long to let Son Goku join the journey to retrieve the scriptures, and Xu Long secured a thousand Spirit Stones and one unconditional favor from Spirit Mountain in Western Heaven.
• Xu Long found that Erlang Shen had killed nine Golden Crows and was attacking the Heavenly Court after the Jade Emperor opened the floodgate to release Weak Water.
• Xu Long traveled to the Heavenly Court and deployed the Demon-Sealing Formation Diagram to prevent anyone from escaping.
• Weak Water surged from the Heavenly River and began flowing toward the mortal world, while Xu Long used his Power of Pure Yang to block her.
• Weak Water told Xu Long she did not want to return to the cold, lonely Heavenly River, then raised waves that nearly broke through his shield.

Xu Long persuaded Weak Water to join him in attacking the Heavenly Court, but a World Contest announcement split the coming battle into two factions and barred everyone from the mortal world. With ten hours before reincarnators arrived, Xu Long and Weak Water struck the Jade Pool, where Xu Long confronted the Jade Emperor and attacked him.

• Xu Long convinced Weak Water to abandon her plan to descend to the mortal world and help destroy the Heavenly Court.
• The Reincarnation Temple announced a World Contest, assigned the Reincarnation Temple and Heavenly Court to opposing factions, and gave all reincarnators ten hours to arrive.
• Xu Long and Weak Water headed for the Jade Pool, where Weak Water flooded the Heavenly Court and killed hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers.
• Xu Long inferred that the Jade Emperor was unable to leave his chair and suspected it was connected to the Heavenly Laws.
• Xu Long attacked the Jade Emperor and expressed interest in taking his chair.

Xu Long severed the Jade Emperor’s connection to the Heavenly Laws, defeated him with the Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm, and discovered that the chair was the World Core. He took the chair and prepared to face the danger of the coming World Contest.

• Xu Long attacked the Jade Emperor, whose unstable Heavenly Laws made him more savage, and found that the markings on his body blocked the Lulu Sword.
• Xu Long struck the Jade Emperor with the Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm, severing part of his fist and causing him to flee.
• Weak Water asked whether Xu Long would pursue the Jade Emperor, but Xu Long decided not to chase him.
• The Main God identified the chair as the World Core and changed Xu Long’s mission to obtaining it and surviving two hours after the World Contest began.
• Xu Long picked up the chair, realizing that carrying the World Core could make him a target for the other Divine Halls, but he remained confident.

Xu Long gathered allies to fight the Jade Emperor and the approaching extraterritorial heavenly demons, then sought Lady Nüwa’s help in the mortal world. Lady Nüwa entrusted the Precious Lotus Lantern to Yang Chan, and Xu Long prepared to take her back to heaven.

• Xu Long found Marshal Tianpeng with Weak Water and persuaded him to join the resistance against the Heavenly Court and the extraterritorial heavenly demons.
• Xu Long gathered Yang Jian, Nezha, Son Goku, Marshal Tianpeng, Rice Bucket, Chang'e, Weak Water, and several willing heavenly generals, killing those who hesitated.
• Xu Long returned to the Golden Light Cave and told Yang Chan to prepare to accompany him to heaven.
• Xu Long asked Lady Nüwa for the Precious Lotus Lantern, which emerged from the lotus pond as he waited for her reply.
• Lady Nüwa gave Yang Chan the Precious Lotus Lantern and its three power-boosting petals, and gave Xu Long a lotus root to hold Weak Water’s true body.

Xu Long accepted Great Emperor Taiji into his faction as the world contest began, then attacked the assembled enemies with his rebuilt Star-Destroying Cannon. The blast left a thousand-meter crater, with the fate of the combatants inside still unclear.

• Xu Long accepted Great Emperor Taiji and his subordinates into his faction, starting the world contest.
• Maitreya, White Ape, Nether Emperor, the Jade Emperor, and Yuanshi Tianzun agreed to attack Xu Long and his allies without a detailed plan.
• White Ape led the group forward, but a sudden sense of danger made him and the others react defensively.
• Xu Long fired the Star-Destroying Cannon at the group, engulfing everything within a thousand meters in a devastating blast.
• The energy faded and revealed a thousand-meter crater.

Xu Long’s Star-Destroying Cannon gravely injured the Heavenly Court’s surviving leaders, and he divided his allies among them while using Weak Water to split the battlefield. The Five War Gods of the Extremes confronted the Queen Mother and attacked her, leaving the Jade Emperor as Xu Long’s priority target.

• Xu Long’s Star-Destroying Cannon killed the Heavenly Court’s transformed forces and badly injured the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, Maitreya, the Nether Emperor, White Ape, and Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Xu Long assigned Yang Jian and his allies to occupy the Jade Emperor, sent Xu Hu after White Ape, Great Emperor Taiji after Yuanshi Tianzun, and other allies against the Queen Mother and Nether Emperor, while he took Maitreya.
• Xu Long and Weak Water used the Demon-Sealing Formation to churn Weak Water and scatter the battlefield into separate fronts.
• The Five War Gods of the Extremes told the Queen Mother they were loyal to the Heavenly Court but not the Jade Emperor.
• The War God of the Sky charged at the Queen Mother and urged the others to kill her quickly and support Yang Jian.

Xu Long drove Maitreya from the world contest, then went to help Xu Hu fight White Ape. Xu Hu opened with powerful flames that burned White Ape’s body and left him screaming in pain.

• Xu Long attacked Maitreya as he emerged from Weak Water, but Maitreya escaped before Xu Long could kill him.
• The Rebirth Temple withdrew from the world contest, and Xu Long realized its Main God had intervened to save Maitreya.
• Xu Long chose to assist Xu Hu, who was fighting White Ape, rather than join the other ongoing battles.
• White Ape enlarged his body and charged Xu Hu, but Xu Hu evaded him and used flames that warped the air around them.
• White Ape found himself unable to see Xu Hu clearly and screamed as a searing pain struck him.

Xu Long killed White Ape with the Great Qin Bronze Man and the Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm, forcing the Mad Beast Temple out of the World Contest. As Xu Long recovered, the battle elsewhere turned against the Nether Emperor, while Yuanshi Tianzun and Great Emperor Taiji argued over their motives for fighting.

• Xu Long used the Great Qin Bronze Man to suppress White Ape, then killed him with the Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm.
• The Mad Beast Temple withdrew from the World Contest, and the Nether Emperor lost heart as the Eight Great Marshals, Tianpeng, and Chang'e pressed their attack.
• Weak Water caught Xu Long after his final strike exhausted him, and he replenished his energy with Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long decided to stay nearby and help wherever trouble arose, while the Queen Mother remained occupied by the Five War Gods of the Extremes and Yuanshi Tianzun fought Great Emperor Taiji.
• Great Emperor Taiji urged Yuanshi Tianzun to help him rule the three realms, but Yuanshi Tianzun said he was fighting to kill Xu Long, whom he accused of impersonating his disciple Taiyi.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Great Emperor Taiji continued their stalemated fight while the Jade Emperor was driven onto the defensive by Yang Jian, Son Goku, Nezha, Yang Chan, and Xu Hu. As Xu Long rested with Weak Water, the Four Seas Dragon Clan arrived at the Southern Heavenly Gate to attack him, guided there by Bodhisattva Guanshiyin.

• Great Emperor Taiji rejected Yuanshi Tianzun's claim that Xu Long had impersonated Taiyi, and the two resumed fighting.
• The Jade Emperor used the Heavenly Laws to protect himself, but Yang Chan's Precious Lotus Lantern helped the others keep him on the defensive.
• Xu Long rested in Weak Water's embrace while she sensed a large group approaching.
• Xu Long revealed that sea creatures from the four seas had gathered outside the Southern Heavenly Gate and could move through Weak Water.
• Ao Tingxin led the Dragon Clan's attack, seeking revenge on Xu Long for the deaths of her father and eldest brother.
• Bodhisattva Guanshiyin told Ao Tingxin that he had brought the Dragon Clan there and asked her to spare Son Goku, Marshal Tianpeng, and the Curtain-Lifting General.

Xu Long helped kill the Jade Emperor and stored the dangerous Weak Water in the Five Elements Lotus Root. With the Heavenly Court battle still raging, he sent his allies to fight while he headed for Western Heaven to confront Bodhisattva Guanyin.

• Xu Long joined Yang Jian, Nezha, Son Goku, Rice Bucket, Yang Chan, and Xu Hu in attacking the Jade Emperor.
• Xu Long struck the Jade Emperor with the Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm, killing him and completing his main quest.
• Xu Long ordered Yang Jian, Nezha, Goku, and Rice Bucket to fight the sea clans while Xu Hu and Yang Chan helped him store Weak Water in the Five Elements Lotus Root.
• Xu Long sent Xu Hu to aid the Heavenly Court’s remaining forces and set off for Western Heaven to confront Bodhisattva Guanyin.

Xu Long forced Tathagata Buddha to pay him eighteen hundred Spirit Stones before ending the mission, then received ten billion points for drowning a million heavenly soldiers. With an extremely dangerous S-rank mission in The Legend of Sword and Fairy ahead, he spent his rewards preparing to cultivate and act through an External Incarnation.

• Xu Long threatened to flood Spirit Mountain with Weak Water, forcing Tathagata Buddha to pay him eighteen hundred Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long ended the mission and received 10,000,050,000 points, an A-rank Permission Card, and 120 permission points for winning the World Contest.
• The Main God identified The Legend of Sword and Fairy as Xu Long’s next mission world and warned that it was extremely dangerous and S-rank.
• Xu Long ordered the Red Queen to exchange his points for supplies and entered the third floor of the Soul Refining Tower to cultivate.
• Xu Long exchanged 50,000 points and an A-rank Permission Card for External Incarnation, intending to use the Great Qin Bronze Men as his incarnation.

Xu Long prepared for the coming conflict by gathering Spirit Stones and supplies, then traveled to Oceania with Haitang as Red Queen advanced plans to secure the region. After half a month cultivating External Incarnation, he tested its strength against a Great Qin Bronze Man.

• Xu Long bought up available Spirit Stones, offered to purchase more, and acquired useful supplies for Rice Bucket and Weak Water.
• Red Queen warned Xu Long that the plan would enter its next stage within a month and said they could soon control Oceania and confront Rice Country.
• Xu Long brought Haitang to Oceania, where she accepted Weak Water joining them, and his Spirit Stone trade with Wang Situ grew to a hundred stones a month.
• Xu Long spent half a month cultivating External Incarnation with a Great Qin Bronze Man and Sword Nourishing Technique, then found his full-strength punch only left a mark on the bronze figure.

Xu Long learned that a Flint Crystal mine had been discovered in southern Africa and ordered the Red Queen to begin their plan early and claim it. The Red Queen launched preparations to seize control of Earth’s satellites and reorganize Oceania, while the mine dispute with Aiji remained unresolved.

• The Red Queen told Xu Long that a large Flint Crystal mine had been discovered in southern Africa, on Aiji territory, after Chinese construction workers uncovered it.
• Xu Long ordered the Red Queen to start the plan ahead of schedule and take the mine.
• The Red Queen revealed hidden bases and launched combat satellites equipped with weapons, beginning a plan to hack and control other nations’ satellites.
• The Red Queen prepared to expel indigenous people and foreigners from Oceania and divide household registrations into four grades based on talent and ability.

Xu Long pursued the Flint Crystal mine while planning to build Oceania’s power around elite talent, and he rejected Wang Situ’s offer to split the mine. As rival factions gathered, Xu Long monitored their representatives from a stealth aircraft and prepared for the impending conflict.

• Xu Long planned to recruit top researchers and other gifted people with medicine, technology, and benefits, but prioritized seizing the Flint Crystal mine.
• The Pharaoh ordered Aiji’s army to withdraw from the mine and vowed to make anyone who claimed it pay a price.
• Xu Long demanded seventy percent of the mine from Wang Situ, who offered twenty percent, and Xu Long ended their negotiations.
• Xu Long asked the Red Queen for an update while aboard a stealth aircraft near the mine.
• The Red Queen reported that China had sent Fire King and the Mount Mang Corpse King, Western Europe had sent the pope and Blood Wolf King, Rice Country had sent modified humans, and Northern Russia had sent two volatile fighters.

Xu Long and the Red Queen reviewed the powerful nations competing for the flint crystal mine in Aiji, while the Red Queen focused her research on safer Gene Strengthening Agents. At the mine, Northern Russia and Western Europe confronted Rice Country’s modified humans, and the dispute threatened to become a fight.

• The Red Queen identified China, Western Europe, Northern Russia, Aiji, and Xila as the main threats, and explained that research into Tyrants and other biochemical fighters would be sealed away.
• The Red Queen said Gene Strengthening Agents had been stabilized at B-rank and did not damage human genes, unlike the technology behind Tyrants, Saibamen, and biochemical humans.
• Xu Long arrived in Aiji and sensed powerful auras near the flint crystal mine.
• Northern Russia’s Exploding Bear Mage mocked Rice Country’s modified humans and warned them to leave the mine.
• Northern Russia’s Berserker and Western Europe’s Blood Wolf King backed the Exploding Bear Mage and challenged Rice Country’s claim to power.

Xu Long confronted the foreign factions over the division of the flint crystal mine and killed Aiji's Pharaoh King with one strike. The pope challenged him afterward, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• The factions negotiated shares of the flint crystal mine, with China objecting to receiving only ten percent.
• Xu Long and Xu Hu arrived, and Xu Long threatened the Pharaoh King for breaking the agreement and driving out China's construction crew.
• The Pharaoh King attacked Xu Long with the sun's power, but Xu Long killed him instantly with the Heaven-Splitting Divine Palm.
• Xu Long took the Sun Scepter and learned it could open the Flame Hell Corpse Sea when the time was right.
• The pope confronted Xu Long over China's claim to the mine after someone pushed him forward.