Chapter Summaries

Xu Long subdued the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo and used the Power of Oblivion and Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire to dispel the Eternity Ice Mist from a middle-aged cultivator sealed for ten thousand years. While searching the cultivator’s soul, Xu Long glimpsed memories of an ancient age of immortals and gods, its catastrophic downfall, and the exile that followed, but key memories remained sealed.

• Xu Long used the Beast-Taming Ring to stop the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo’s escape, won its submission with Spirit Stones, and stored it inside his body after discovering its overpowering stench.
• After confirming that his two energies could counter the Eternity Ice Mist, Xu Long decided to revive the middle-aged cultivator and cautiously began driving the mist from his body.
• Xu Long replenished his Magic Power with Spirit Stones as he dispelled the mist, then sent his vast will into the cultivator’s mind to search his soul.
• Xu Long saw memories of a glorious world ruled by immortals and gods, followed by a devastating upheaval that destroyed its order and exiled its defeated powers.
• Xu Long found that the middle-aged cultivator’s memories of the immemorial calamity had been sealed, preventing him from learning what they contained.

Xu Long searched the middle-aged cultivator’s memories and found the Heaven Patroller, an ancient immortal who appeared above Blackwater City amid a Mist Beast attack. The Heaven Patroller unleashed a devastating sword strike, and the city lord activated the energy core to defend the city as the final battle began.

• Xu Long searched the cultivator’s memories for the Heaven Patroller and learned that the immortal had fought the gods and sealed primordial great gods.
• Mist Beasts surrounded Blackwater City, and the city lord sensed an immensely powerful presence among them.
• The Heaven Patroller emerged above the city, and the city lord recognized him as a grave threat.
• The Heaven Patroller sent a world-destroying sword strike down toward Blackwater City.
• The city lord activated the city’s energy core, gathering its power to face the Heaven Patroller’s attack.

Xu Long witnessed the Blackwater City Lord’s memories of the Heaven Patroler destroying Blackwater City, then watched the ancient god dissolve after giving him the city’s energy core. Xu Long claimed the core and found Deng Shouchong entering the hidden fragment space, leaving him wondering how Deng had found it.

• The Heaven Patroler’s Heaven-Slaying strike destroyed Blackwater City, and its lord died as the city and its civilization were buried beneath the sand.
• Xu Long learned from the city lord’s memories that the Heaven Patroler had exterminated or sealed the gods, and he found a possible connection between the Ancestral Spirit and the sealed ancient gods.
• After Xu Long restored him, the Blackwater City Lord began self-dissolution and vanished, leaving behind the city’s unmarked energy core.
• Xu Long identified the core as a small world containing immense energy and ancient insights, then merged it into his body and resolved to continue his search in Phoenix City.
• Deng Shouchong entered the fragment space and was shocked to find Xu Long there; Xu Long wondered how Deng had discovered the space and its treasure.

Xu Long followed Deng Shouchong out of the city lord’s manor after Deng sensed outsiders threatening Ma Fang’s group. In Blackwater City, Yuan Changwu confronted them and demanded to search their souls, but Deng rallied the group against him before a laughing newcomer appeared overhead.

• Deng Shouchong activated the formation and led Xu Long out of the fragment space, then hurried toward Ma Fang’s group as Xu Long followed.
• Xu Long heard Ma Fang confronting a powerful group of cultivators who had blocked his party’s route through Blackwater City.
• Yuan Changwu demanded that Ma Fang’s group submit to soul searches, claiming he sought a particular thing and would let them leave if they had not found it.
• Deng Shouchong warned the group not to surrender control of their lives, breaking Yuan Changwu’s influence over them.
• As Yuan Changwu prepared to attack Deng Shouchong, Deng noted that someone was still missing, and a laughing voice appeared above the city.

Xu Long and his allies faced Yuan Changwu and Chen Yuping in Blackwater City as both demanded a search for the city’s priceless energy core. When the confrontation turned violent, Xu Long broke Chen Yuping’s rain-based attack and freed Ma Fang’s group, while the danger from the approaching cultivators remained.

• Chen Yuping arrived as a dharma body and demanded to search everyone’s souls, while Xu Long realized she was the Rogue Cultivators Association’s branch master and that his group had reason to fear her discovery.
• Xu Long suspected Deng Shouchong had manipulated their journey to Blackwater City, while Deng Shouchong concluded the energy core might still be in the city lord’s residence with Mo Yu.
• Yuan Changwu urged Chen Yuping to attack Deng Shouchong’s group, and the great cultivators advanced as Chen Yuping’s rain gathered around their feet.
• Deng Shouchong sent his dharma banner toward Yuan Changwu, while Xu Long prepared to confront Chen Yuping and Ma Fang’s group faced the approaching cultivators.
• Xu Long unleashed sword light that shattered Chen Yuping’s rain confinement around Ma Fang’s group, leaving Yuan Changwu’s cultivators close outside the barbican.

Ma Fang's group fought Yuan Changwu's cultivators while Deng Shouchong challenged Yuan Changwu and Xu Long battled Chen Yuping's dharma body. As their clashes intensified, Xu Long recognized the depth of Chen Yuping's natural Dao art, while Chen Yuping was surprised that his swordsmanship could break through her rain domain.

• Ma Fang killed a great cultivator with her miao saber after the Two Lin Brothers drew his attack away, while Li Hong's ambush in the barbican was stopped by Yuan Changwu.
• Deng Shouchong sent his dharma banner at Yuan Changwu, who abandoned his plan to conserve strength and attacked with his black horsetail whisk.
• Ma Fang's group drew their battle line inward and fought Yuan Changwu's more cautious cultivators as the battle intensified.
• Xu Long fought Chen Yuping's dharma body inside her rain domain and reflected on her profound command of natural laws and the immortal path.
• Chen Yuping sensed that Xu Long's swift, precise sword shadows had broken through her rain domain and disrupted the power of her Dao art.

Xu Long and Branch Master Chen battled across Blackwater City, as his Power of Oblivion countered her raindrop laws and she tried to overwhelm him with a deadly vortex. Just as Chen Yuping seemed poised to capture him, an ancient aura and mysterious energy appeared in the city.

• Branch Master Chen shifted her attack from Ma Fang and her companions to Xu Long, surrounding him with raindrops that reflected his image and carried killing intent.
• Xu Long used sword light infused with the Power of Oblivion to cut through the raindrops, then formed a sword net that dissolved their sharpness before it shattered under their assault.
• Xu Long summoned a star-like celestial phenomenon whose radiance destroyed the rain, while Chen Yuping realized his laws surpassed hers and grew suspicious of his connection to Deng Shouchong.
• Xu Long attacked again to end the fight quickly, but Chen Yuping gathered clouds and rain into a vortex that trapped his sword light and drove a deadly spray toward him.
• Xu Long raised barriers as the reflected images in the raindrops shattered, and a mysterious energy with an ancient aura appeared throughout Blackwater City.

Xu Long redirected his sword strike into the city after sensing danger, then fled as a horde of Mist Beasts surged from the ruins. Yuan Changwu instead led a group toward the Human Python, hoping to seize his long-awaited chance to break through to the Immortal Realm.

• Xu Long abandoned his attack on Chen Yuping, struck the city, and raced toward the barbican as he warned everyone to run.
• Deng Shouchong urged Ma Fang and the others to flee, while Yuan Changwu withdrew the black horsetail whisk and led great cultivators toward the city's interior.
• A river of cyan pythons poured from the ruins, forcing Chen Yuping and Xu Long to escape as the Human Python watched from behind the horde.
• Yuan Changwu recognized the Human Python as his target but saw that the pythons blocked his path, leaving him conflicted about whether to retreat.
• Yuan Changwu promised the cultivators great medicines from the Pill Cauldron Sect and advanced with the black horsetail whisk, opening a passage through the cyan river.

Yuan Changwu attacked the Human Python in Blackwater City with black feathers, but its counterattack destroyed the cultivators beneath his canopy and forced him to flee. As he escaped, he recalled his goals and the rivalry among Phoenix City's three forces over Blackwater City's energy core, while the Human Python remained in control of the city.

• Yuan Changwu bound the Human Python's tail with his horsetail whisk and sent black feathers at its head, inflicting a deep wound in its shoulder.
• The enraged Human Python smashed Yuan Changwu's black canopy and killed the great cultivators beneath it, but Yuan Changwu escaped by transforming into a black crane.
• Yuan Changwu fled Blackwater City, resentful that he had failed to obtain the Human Python's Inner Core or secure the energy core.
• Yuan Changwu recalled that he had come to Blackwater City seeking the energy core for Yuan Changhe's plans and a powerful Mist Beast Inner Core to help him break through to the Earth Immortal realm.
• Yuan Changwu had planned to exploit the weakness of a Human Python guarding eggs, but the beast's all-out attack showed that he had misjudged its strength.

Yuan Changwu failed to kill the Human Python and fled Blackwater City, abandoning the cultivators who had fought with him. As the Mist Beast tide trapped Xu Long, Deng Shouchong and the others boarded an awakened bronze war chariot and called Xu Long to join them.

• Yuan Changwu retreated from the Human Python and transformed into a black crane, leaving the great cultivators below to be swallowed by the Mist Beast tide.
• The Human Python pursued the fleeing cultivators with its Eternity Ice Mist, while Yuan Changwu escaped over Blackwater City's outer wall.
• Xu Long, Deng Shouchong, Ma Fang, and their companions fought through Mist Beasts as the tide closed around them inside and outside the city.
• A bronze war chariot appeared, and Deng Shouchong placed his ritual banner on it and urged everyone to climb aboard.
• The Two Lin Brothers released two divine steeds from their Beast-Taming Rings, allowing the chariot to unleash its power against the Mist Beasts.
• Deng Shouchong called to Xu Long to stop fighting and board the chariot so they could escape together.

Xu Long was trapped outside Blackwater City as the Human Python’s Poison Curse drew the Mist Beasts toward him, while Deng Shouchong and the others escaped by chariot. Xu Long prepared to break through under the pressure of the World's Origin Will, which appeared as tribulation clouds and turned its gaze on him.

• Deng Shouchong urged Xu Long to board the chariot, but Xu Long claimed he would cover the rear as the Mist Beasts attacked him in force.
• Deng Shouchong drove the chariot away with the others, leaving Xu Long behind as they fought through the cyan river of Mist Beasts.
• Xu Long tried to escape across the dunes, but winged Mist Beasts filled the sky and blocked his plan to use the Vulture King.
• Xu Long recognized the Human Python’s Poison Curse on his arm and realized it was drawing the Mist Beasts toward him.
• Xu Long used the Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire to hold off the Eternity Ice Mist and began forcing his magic power toward a breakthrough.
• The World's Origin Will appeared above Xu Long in gathering tribulation clouds, but Xu Long kept sensing the rules of heaven and earth and refused to retreat.

Xu Long faced the Origin Will’s Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation in the ruins of Blackwater City, refusing to yield even as successive bolts destroyed his body. After his Body of Oblivion began rebuilding him and his will touched the world’s laws, the completed tribulation vortex unleashed another massive bolt, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Xu Long challenged the Origin Will, and an early lightning bolt struck him and reduced nearby Mist Beasts to charcoal.
• The Human Python drew the Mist Beast tide away from Xu Long as the tribulation clouds gathered and he prepared to break through.
• Xu Long roared at the heavens, and a second lightning strike reduced his body to ashes and leveled the dune.
• Xu Long’s will survived, touched the world’s laws, and his Body of Oblivion began reassembling his body amid the ruins.
• The Human Python recoiled in fear and recognized in Xu Long a bearing like that of a mysterious figure from its memories.
• The tribulation clouds finished forming above Blackwater City, and a massive purple lightning bolt descended toward Xu Long.

Xu Long endured the Origin Will’s Lightning Tribulation and chose the Milky Way as his Daoist Celestial Phenomenon, breaking free of the world’s confinement and advancing toward the Mahayana Stage. As he fused his magic power with the laws, the World-Breaking Blade joined the fight and pierced toward the tribulation clouds.

• Xu Long endured the lightning while seeking a way to resist through the world’s rules and his own Dao heart.
• Xu Long chose the Milky Way as his Daoist Celestial Phenomenon and fused his will with its stars, breaking the Origin Will’s confinement.
• Xu Long formed a body, challenged the giant eye in the tribulation clouds, and fought back with the World-Breaking Blade.
• Xu Long declared his Great Dao complete and let the Lightning Tribulation strike as his magic power fused with the laws of heaven and earth.
• The World-Breaking Blade rose through the lightning and cut a trail through the tribulation clouds at Xu Long’s command.

Xu Long resisted the Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation with his World-Breaking Blade and reached the Mahayana Stage, but the Human Python’s poison curse remained. The Human Python attacked to seize his transformed body, and Xu Long began fighting it amid the Mist Beast tide.

• Xu Long drew on the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and used his Heaven-Slaying sword strike to pierce the tribulation clouds, briefly halting the Origin Will’s lightning.
• A middle-aged cultivator in a distant city sensed the anomaly, divined that it concerned Blackwater City, and was astonished when his divination failed.
• Xu Long endured the tribulation’s final strike and completed his breakthrough to the Mahayana Stage, while the World-Breaking Blade advanced to the middle grade of immortal artifacts.
• Xu Long discovered that the Human Python’s poison curse still clung to his arm, and the Human Python returned, coveting his body and intending to attack.
• Xu Long sent the World-Breaking Blade against the Human Python, cutting through the gathered cyan pythons and forcing the creature to reassess his strength.
• As the Mist Beast tide began to gather around Xu Long again, he raised his sword for another strike, and the Human Python roared at him.

Xu Long fought the Human Python, using the Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire to counter its Eternity Ice Mist and a hidden attack to grievously wound it. The Human Python unleashed the Mist Beast tide’s combined power, but Xu Long escaped its killing blow with a sealing technique, leaving the beast’s attack to strike only his afterimage.

• The Human Python endured Xu Long’s sword light, then coiled around his barriers and trapped him while waiting to freeze him with Eternity Ice Mist.
• Xu Long used the Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire to break through the cold and escaped, revealing that the Human Python had taken the form of a parasitized Daoist nun.
• Xu Long’s World-Breaking Blade severed the Human Python’s body, and his dharma body pursued it as Mist Beasts gathered to attack.
• Xu Long struck the Human Python’s old shoulder wound with a shell, then followed with sword light that further battered it and severed its tail.
• The wounded Human Python combined the Mist Beast tide’s innate abilities into a furious cyan dragon, broke Xu Long’s barriers, and sent him flying with its attack.
• Xu Long spoke the word “Seal” to bind the Human Python briefly, then escaped as it broke free and struck at his afterimage.

Xu Long killed the Human Python, escaped the Mist Beast tide with its Inner Core, and learned that Yuan Changwu had wanted the core to help him break through to the Immortal Realm. As Blackwater City fell to the beasts, Xu Long left for Phoenix City, where he hoped to find the Ancestral Spirit.

• Xu Long used the moment after the Human Python's failed attack to strike it with sword light, destroying its body and ending the Poison Curse it had placed on him.
• Xu Long fought his way out of the Eternity Ice Mist, then took the Human Python's Inner Core from the fissure as the Mist Beasts swarmed toward it.
• Xu Long drove back the winged Mist Beasts, escaped their encirclement, and reached Blackwater City, where he thawed several frozen cultivators and searched their memories before killing them.
• Xu Long fled Blackwater City on the Vulture King as the Mist Beast tide swallowed the city, then resolved to seek the Ancestral Spirit in Phoenix City.
• Xu Long learned from the memories he had searched that Phoenix City was ruled by Deng Lifu and that Chen Yuping and Yuan Changhe led its other major factions.
• Xu Long discovered that Yuan Changwu had sought the Human Python's Inner Core as the key ingredient in a pill that could help him break through to the Immortal Realm.

Xu Long traveled toward Phoenix City, learned that the Mist Beast tide was gathering in its direction, and worried that the city might soon face a major attack. After crossing the mountains, he reached the outskirts of the city and witnessed a sudden ambush among the arriving cultivators.

• Xu Long pieced together Deng Lifu’s scheme to draw the Pill Cauldron Sect and Rogue Cultivators Association into Blackwater City, while recognizing that his own acquisition of the energy core had disrupted the plan.
• Xu Long rode the Vulture King toward Phoenix City, saw vast numbers of Mist Beasts moving in the same direction, and resolved to strengthen his power.
• Xu Long crossed the sea of sand and mountains, spotted Phoenix City’s energy core, and found that Mist Beasts had gathered on the far side of the mountains.
• Xu Long reached the outskirts of Phoenix City and saw weary cultivators arrive, relieved to have found an orderly region beyond the Red Land.
• An attacker struck among the cultivators just as they relaxed, prompting the crowd to scatter and guard against one another.

Xu Long watched cultivators fight over Spirit Stones until an intelligent Mist Beast tide surrounded them, forcing them to unite and fight for escape. A white-robed cultivator led a group through the Eternity Ice Mist, and after others gathered behind him, he invoked an Edict by sacrificing essence blood to his flying shuttle.

• Cultivators attacked one another over Spirit Stones while Xu Long watched, and the Mist Beast tide quietly closed around them.
• A white-robed cultivator stunned the crowd and Mist Beasts with a thunderous shout, then used his flying shuttle to open a passage through the encirclement.
• The white-robed cultivator led his companions through the cyan mist, fighting off Mist Beasts as the shuttle’s golden light began to dim.
• Other cultivators followed the white-robed cultivator and gathered behind him, easing the pressure as he prepared to break through the mist.
• The white-robed cultivator spat essence blood onto the flying shuttle and spoke an Edict, enveloping it in a blood-red mist.

The white-robed cultivator led a group through the Mist Beast tide toward Phoenix City, while Xu Long followed and sensed a hidden threat watching them. After the cultivator’s shuttle cleared the way, a concealed attacker struck him with extreme cold and left strange energy lodged in his back as he continued fleeing.

• The white-robed cultivator powered up his flying shuttle and carved a path through the giant azure pythons, leading his group out of the mountains as the Mist Beast tide pursued them.
• A human-shaped figure with sickly green eyes watched the fleeing cultivators from the woods, while Xu Long joined their group unnoticed and followed the white lightning toward Phoenix City.
• Xu Long sensed an ambush approaching from the side and held back as the white-robed cultivator transformed his shuttle into an arrowhead and attacked the lateral Mist Beast tide.
• The white-robed cultivator spotted the watching figure and fled, but the hidden attacker sent several streams of extreme cold into his back, slowing him and disrupting his Magic Power.
• The white-robed cultivator forced some cold from his meridians but could not remove the strange energy embedded in his back, while Xu Long recognized its aura as familiar.

Xu Long recognized that a higher Mist Beast had cursed the white-robed cultivator and fled with the others as the Mist Beast tide closed in. A bronze war chariot from Phoenix City rescued them, but after the group passed it, Xu Long noticed the Mist Beasts had scattered and lost their coordination.

• Xu Long identified the cold that struck the white-robed cultivator as a higher Mist Beast's Poison Curse and met the creature's green-eyed gaze across the mist.
• Xu Long fled after the white-robed cultivator as cyan giant pythons and the Mist Beast tide surrounded the cultivators.
• The white-robed cultivator slowed near Phoenix City, where a bronze war chariot charged into the Mist Beast tide and halted its advance.
• Pavilion Master Xu identified Xu Long and his companions as cultivators from the Red Land seeking to pledge their service to Phoenix City.
• The City Lord's Manor's chariot threatened to crush Xu Long's group, then let them pass as the older great cultivator held back the Mist Beasts.
• Xu Long escaped behind the chariot and noticed the Mist Beast tide had scattered and retreated instead of attacking in formation.