Chapter Summaries

Xu Long, disguised as Old Pavilion Master Huang, traded a Mist Beast Inner Core to the Pill Cauldron Sect for precious pills, setting Yuan Changhe up to refine a Wuji Creation Pill for Yuan Changwu. After completing the exchange, Xu Long headed to Phoenix City's gathering place to seek information about the Ancestral Spirit.

• Old Pavilion Master Huang pressed Yuan Changwu to trade the Mist Beast Inner Core for the Pill Cauldron Sect's pills and great medicine.
• Yuan Changhe told Yuan Changwu to accept the trade, offering five portions of great medicine so he could use the Inner Core to refine a Wuji Creation Pill.
• When Yuan Changwu tried to refuse Huang's terms, Huang threatened to take the Inner Core to Deng Shouchong, and Yuan Changwu agreed to the trade with only five portions of great medicine.
• Yuan Changwu exchanged the sect's pills for the brocade box, and Old Pavilion Master Huang congratulated him before leaving.
• Yuan Changhe examined the genuine Mist Beast Inner Core and said he would soon refine the Wuji Creation Pill.
• Xu Long revealed he had been disguised as Old Pavilion Master Huang, then hurried to Phoenix City's gathering place to investigate the Ancestral Spirit.

Xu Long settled in Phoenix City's trading hub, learned about the City Lord's Manor's history and its ties to the primordial great god, and considered infiltrating the manor to uncover more secrets. Reports of vast Mist Beast tides gathering outside the city left him fearing that Phoenix City could suffer the same fate as Blackwater City.

• Xu Long rented a secluded cave abode in the trading hub and gathered information while avoiding faction ties.
• Xu Long learned that Phoenix City had been founded by the primordial great god and that the City Lord's Manor's divine bird totem dated from the same era.
• Xu Long connected the Heaven Patroler to the sealing of the primordial great god and considered infiltrating the City Lord's Manor for its records.
• Xu Long heard that Mist Beast tides were gathering around Phoenix City, while experienced cultivators trusted the city's defenses and Earth Immortals to hold them back.
• Xu Long recalled the intelligence of higher Mist Beast beings and the Poison Curse that had afflicted Pavilion Master Xu, and feared that the approaching tides could overwhelm Phoenix City.

Xu Long suspected the Mist Beast tide was deliberately draining the City Lord's Manor while preying on cultivators entering Phoenix City. After learning of the mounting deaths, the city lord decided to investigate the tide with two other Earth Immortals, leaving Deng Shouchong to guard the manor as Yuan Changhe prepared pills at the South Si Dao Field.

• Xu Long gathered news about the Mist Beast tide and suspected higher Mist Beasts were luring cultivators into danger while weakening the City Lord's Manor.
• Ma Fang told Deng Shouchong that the missing Muster Platform team leader's life tablet had shattered and reported heavy losses in the tide.
• Deng Shouchong informed the city lord of the deaths and offered to lead cultivators out to fight, but the city lord refused.
• The city lord announced that he would investigate the tide with Branch Master Chen and Sect Master Yuan while Deng Shouchong guarded the manor.
• The city lord left a Dharma Body in the great hall and departed with Deng Shouchong; at the South Si Dao Field, Yuan Changhe worked at a pill furnace.

Yuan Changhe nearly completed the Wuji Creation Pill but was summoned by the city lord to investigate the strange Mist Beast tide alongside Chen Yuping. As the three Earth Immortals prepared to leave Phoenix City, the beasts appeared to anticipate their arrival, while Yuan Changwu awaited the pill’s completion and Deng Shouchong watched over the city’s defenses.

• Yuan Changhe refined the Mist Beast Inner Core into a nearly complete Wuji Creation Pill, which could help Yuan Changwu become an Earth Immortal.
• The city lord summoned Yuan Changhe and Chen Yuping to investigate the Mist Beast tide, and Yuan Changhe left Yuan Changwu instructions to take the pill once the flames died down.
• Chen Yuping considered how the tide was growing stronger by attacking passing cultivators, then answered the city lord’s summons.
• The city lord used the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to open a passage through Phoenix City, and he, Yuan Changhe, and Chen Yuping prepared to leave.
• The Mist Beasts watched the city and seemed eager for the three Earth Immortals to arrive, while Yuan Changwu waited for the pill and Deng Shouchong examined the Muster Platform’s life tablets.

Xu Long learned that Deng Lifu had left Phoenix City and set out to retrieve something from the Pill Cauldron Sect before investigating the City Lord's Manor. He infiltrated the sect's pill chamber as Yuan Changhe's Dharma Body was finishing the Wuji Creation Pill, and the chapter ended with Yuan Changhe trapping him in a smoke vortex and unleashing his Natal True Fire.

• Xu Long used the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and a Divination Talisman to determine that an Earth Immortal had left Phoenix City, and he concluded that Deng Lifu was gone.
• Yuan Changwu waited anxiously in the South Si Dao Field while his brother's Dharma Body continued refining the Wuji Creation Pill.
• Xu Long entered the Pill Cauldron Sect with a black shadow, which broke through the barriers around the pill chamber and let him follow it inside.
• Yuan Changhe spotted Xu Long and attacked him with a gray ribbon, but Xu Long's sword formation halted the assault.
• Yuan Changhe enveloped Xu Long in a smoke vortex and drew his cyan Natal True Fire into it to burn him alive.

A young man broke free of Yuan Changhe’s attacks and killed his Dharma Body before it could destroy the Wuji Creation Pill. He captured the completed pill and escaped toward the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo as Yuan Changwu began opening the pill chamber’s barrier.

• The young man’s blood qi weakened the cyan flames, while his sword formation broke through Yuan Changhe’s gray ribbon and forced him to turn toward the pill furnace.
• Yuan Changhe tried to reignite the furnace and destroy the pill, but the young man’s Lotus Sword Formation cut off his attack and ground Yuan Changhe’s Dharma Body to nothing.
• The young man found the Wuji Creation Pill intact as the furnace flames died, confirming that the pill was complete.
• Yuan Changwu began opening the chamber’s barrier, and the young man called on the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo to prepare their escape.
• The pill sprang from the uncovered furnace, but the young man trapped it inside the Lotus Sword Formation and transformed into blood-colored escape light toward the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo.

After the Wuji Creation Pill disappeared, Yuan Changwu blamed the Rogue Cultivators Association and led a growing mob toward the North Division Dao Field. As Xu Long slipped into the procession, Phoenix City descended into disorder with its Earth Immortals away.

• Yuan Changwu found the pill furnace empty, spotted the thief escaping, and swore vengeance on the Rogue Cultivators Association and Old Huang.
• The young man escaped the Pill Cauldron Sect by unleashing a sword array that destroyed the cultivators blocking his way, while Yuan Changwu pursued him.
• Yuan Changwu ordered the Pill Cauldron Sect cultivators to march on the North Division Dao Field, and the procession swelled as Trading Hub desperadoes joined it.
• Xu Long entered the procession and saw the chaos as an opportunity while the three Earth Immortals were away from the city.
• Deng Shouchong received reports of the unrest in the Trading Hub inside the City Lord's Manor.

As Phoenix City descended into turmoil, Deng Shouchong moved to contain the unrest while a young man slipped into the City Lord's Manor to investigate its golden pillar and penetrate the main hall's defenses. He reached the hall through a passage opened by the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo, where a shadow sensed the disturbance but did not intervene.

• Yuan Changwu led cultivators from the Trading Hub toward the North Division Dao Field, while Deng Shouchong received urgent reports and ordered the Muster Platform to secure the eastern district.
• Deng Shouchong gathered cultivators to defend the City Lord's Manor, then followed the procession toward the North Division Dao Field to prevent further chaos.
• After Deng Shouchong left, the young man entered the manor and discovered a golden pillar of light beneath the Origin Will's suppressive heavenly might.
• The young man found the ancient main hall and used the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo to open a passage through its intact defensive formations.
• The young man and the Spirit-Seeking Armadillo advanced through the passage toward a light inside the hall, as a shadow within sensed the spatial disturbance but chose not to act.

The young man entered the City Lord's Manor's great hall and read its ancient books, which recounted the rise of the primordial ancestors and the Ancestral Spirit's exile. The records revealed how the Ancestral Spirit used the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to protect Phoenix City, but left him in danger as the Heaven Patroler's sword swept toward him.

• The young man searched the great hall and found murals and ancient books preserving Phoenix City's history.
• The ancient records described how the Ancestral Spirit created qi cultivation and the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, ushering the primordial ancestors into civilization and prosperity.
• After the Primordial Great Tribulation, new powers exiled the Ancestral Spirit and sent the Heaven Patroler to destroy him and the other old powers.
• The Ancestral Spirit fought the Heaven Patroler while the ancestors built Phoenix City, then raised the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to separate the city from the Land of Exile.
• The Heaven Patroler attacked the Ancestral Spirit again, leaving him exposed beneath the bronze sword without the formation diagram's protection.

The Heaven Patroler and the archaic gods sealed the Ancestral Spirit beneath the Land of Exile in a sea of tribulation, unable to destroy him. A pillar of golden light rose from the depths to Phoenix City, revealing that the Ancestral Spirit’s conviction endured.

• The Heaven Patroler pursued the Ancestral Spirit into the earth’s crust, where the Ancestral Spirit ambushed him with magma and unusual Magic Power.
• The Heaven Patroler summoned archaic gods to surround the Ancestral Spirit, then unleashed a spell seal and called thirty-six thunder gods to form a sea of tribulation around him.
• The Heaven Patroler trapped the Ancestral Spirit beneath the Land of Exile, where lightning and magma would wear down his power over time.
• The Ancestral Spirit sent a pillar of golden light through the sea of tribulation and into Phoenix City, proving that he remained undying and indestructible.

The young man learned that the Ancestral Spirit had been sealed in a hidden core beneath the Land of Exile and resolved to grow strong enough to reach him. He swallowed the Wuji Creation Pill to break through his limits, but its violent power began tearing through his meridians.

• The Heaven Patroler sealed the Ancestral Spirit in an isolated core and retreated after seeing Phoenix City's defenses and golden light.
• The young man studied Phoenix City's ancient texts and learned about the Ancestral Spirit's imprisonment and the dangers of reaching the earth's core.
• The young man realized the Wuji Creation Pill could let cultivators use a higher Mist Beast's power and laws to approach the immortal path.
• Xu Long arranged to obtain the pill and distract the City Lord's Manor's forces while his main body headed toward the North Division Dao Field.
• The young man swallowed the Wuji Creation Pill, sensed the laws it contained, and endured its energy as it violently battered his meridians.

After swallowing the Wuji Creation Pill, the young man used his Blood Domain to refine its violent energy and broke through into the Earth Immortal realm. As he connected with heaven and earth, a giant eye appeared above Phoenix City and watched him with displeasure.

• The young man realized the Wuji Creation Pill could cause qi deviation without Yuan Changhe’s supplementary pills, so he opened his Blood Domain to contain and refine its violent energy.
• The Blood Domain returned purified energy to the young man, while a shadow in the City Lord’s Manor’s darkness watched the vortex with surprise.
• The young man refined the energy into magic power and forced open his narrow meridians, drawing strength from his past trials and forming an unyielding resolve.
• His dantian separated light and turbid magic power into heaven and earth, marking his entry onto the Earth Immortal path and bringing him into harmony with the world’s rules.
• As the young man’s aura connected with heaven and earth, an unusual fluctuation stirred beyond the heavens, and a giant eye appeared above Phoenix City to observe him with displeasure.

Xu Long stabilized his breakthrough to the Earth Immortal Realm after the city lord’s Dharma Body used the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to drive away the heavenly eye. His ascension produced a celestial phenomenon across the Land of Exile, and the city lord’s Dharma Body began to suspect Xu Long was connected to a long-lost being he had guarded for generations.

• As Xu Long’s magic power churned during his breakthrough, the city lord’s Dharma Body sent energy to the golden pillar, and the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram pushed back the heavenly might until the enormous eye vanished.
• Xu Long stabilized his Earth Immortal Realm, and a dragon roared from the blood-colored vortex as he declared his defiance toward the heavens.
• A meteor, spiritual energy, and five-colored auspicious clouds appeared over Phoenix City, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Land of Exile and renewing their hope of reaching the Immortal Realm.
• The city lord’s Dharma Body sensed a long-lost aura in the golden light and wondered whether Xu Long was the anomaly his divination had foretold.
• Xu Long thanked the city lord’s Dharma Body for helping him, while remaining guarded and reflecting on how his plan had manipulated the three Phoenix City factions.

Xu Long learned from Deng Lifu that Phoenix City's lineage had spent generations seeking the Ancestral Spirit, Fuxi, and agreed to join the City Lord's plan to find him. As a massive Mist Beast tide threatened Phoenix City, Deng Lifu prepared to unite the city's factions against it.

• Deng Lifu revealed through an ancient tome that Fuxi had created the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and that his descendants had long sought the central point to free him.
• Xu Long recognized that finding the Ancestral Spirit matched his own mission and agreed to cooperate with Deng Lifu.
• Xu Long warned that the Yuan brothers and Chen Yuping might refuse to join forces because of their grievances with him.
• Deng Lifu said his true body had gone outside Phoenix City to investigate the strange Mist Beast tide and promised to explain the larger plan to the other factions.
• Xu Long concluded that Deng Lifu was using the threats of the Mist Beast tide and the Heaven Patroler to bring the city factions together, while Xu Long and his allies did not depend on Fuxi to escape the Land of Exile.

Yuan Changwu led a crowd to the North Division Dao Field to demand Old Pavilion Master Huang and the missing Wuji Creation Pill, while Branch Master Chen refused to yield. Their confrontation escalated into a fight as Yuan Changwu revealed his true form above the Dao Field.

• The young man sensed the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram shifting and prepared for battle at the City Lord's Manor.
• Xu Long followed the crowd to the North Division Dao Field, where Trading Hub cultivators pushed the Pill Cauldron Sect into a chaotic confrontation with the Rogue Cultivators Association.
• Branch Master Chen appeared above the Dao Field and demanded to know why Yuan Changwu had brought people there.
• Yuan Changwu demanded Old Pavilion Master Huang, but Branch Master Chen refused and challenged him when he threatened the Dao Field.
• Yuan Changwu crushed a jade bottle of pills, abandoned hope of recovering the Wuji Creation Pill, and revealed his luan crane true form to fight Branch Master Chen.

Yuan Changwu revealed his Luan Crane form and fought Chen Yuping above the North Division Dao Field, breaking free of her rain-and-mist laws and breaching the city wall. Enraged over Old Pavilion Master Huang and the Wuji Creation Pill, Yuan Changwu prepared to attack again as the Trading Hub cultivators stirred up the crowd.

• Yuan Changwu transformed into a gigantic black Luan Crane and attacked Chen Yuping with his wings.
• Chen Yuping used rain and mist to trap Yuan Changwu, but he broke through her net with his black-feather natal magic treasure and smashed a breach into the North Division Dao Field.
• Chen Yuping formed a wall of raindrops to stop Yuan Changwu inside the city, while he blamed Old Huang, the Rogue Cultivators Association, and Chen Yuping for scheming over the Wuji Creation Pill.
• Yuan Changwu's shame over being manipulated by Old Pavilion Master Huang fed his rage and stirred his fiendish nature.
• A Trading Hub cultivator shouted for his companions to charge in and support Yuan Changwu, throwing the crowd into confusion.
• Yuan Changwu dismissed the cultivators' shouting and prepared to break through Chen Yuping's wall as she stood firm before him.

Xu Long helped incite a riot at the North Division Dao Field while Yuan Changwu and Chen Yuping fought, then followed cultivators seeking the Rogue Cultivators Association’s treasury. As Xu Long reached the treasury’s white enclosure, he discovered that its surrounding waters were filled with enormous Mist Beasts.

• Trading Hub cultivators spread a rumor that Yuan Changwu had fought Chen Yuping over his feelings for her, and the two resumed their battle amid the uproar.
• Cultivators rushed into the North Division Dao Field to seize the treasury, and Xu Long slipped through the chaos with a group of experienced cultivators.
• Xu Long followed the group to a fortified white enclosure surrounded by deep blue-green water, but sensed that something was wrong as others entered.
• After screams from inside the enclosure, cultivators fell into the water and vanished, while Xu Long continued toward the building.
• Xu Long activated his Heavenly Eye and saw that the water was filled with enormous green pythons, which were Mist Beasts.

Xu Long and the cultivators faced a higher Mist Beast inside the Rogue Cultivators Association’s treasury as a Mist Beast tide overwhelmed Phoenix City. As Branch Master Chen and Yuan Changwu’s fight was halted by Deng Shouchong, Yuan Changwu demanded that Chen Yuping hand over Old Huang over a stolen Wuji Creation Pill.

• Xu Long discovered a higher Mist Beast inside the dock walls and struck its head with his sword while the cultivators joined the attack.
• The cultivators scattered instead of holding formation, and the enraged Human Python killed many of them as Xu Long dodged its attacks.
• A surviving cultivator warned the crowd outside that Mist Beasts were inside, but giant pythons emerged from the emerald water and swallowed him.
• The Mist Beast tide sent cultivators fleeing across the North Division Dao Field, drawing Branch Master Chen’s attention.
• Deng Shouchong arrived and used a ritual banner to stop Yuan Changwu and Chen Yuping from fighting.
• Yuan Changwu accused Chen Yuping’s North Division Dao Field of taking his elder brother’s Wuji Creation Pill and demanded that she hand over Old Huang.

Yuan Changwu accused Deng Shouchong and Chen Yuping of sabotaging the Pill Cauldron Sect’s plan to refine the Wuji Creation Pill, while Deng realized Mo Yu had likely supplied the Mist Beast Inner Core. A spectacular immortal breakthrough appeared above the City Lord’s Manor, but a new discovery of Mist Beast traces at the North Division Dao Field’s treasury forced the feuding factions to face a looming threat.

• Yuan Changwu blamed Old Pavilion Master Huang for stealing the Wuji Creation Pill, and Chen Yuping denied his accusation by revealing that Huang was dead.
• Deng Shouchong connected the Mist Beast Inner Core and the pill to Mo Yu, then tried to stop Yuan Changwu and Chen Yuping from blaming the City Lord’s Manor.
• A dazzling celestial phenomenon spread above the City Lord’s Manor, signaling that someone had broken through to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Yuan Changwu attacked Deng Shouchong, who said the three seniors were returning, while Chen Yuping discovered that cultivators were fleeing the treasury.
• Chen Yuping warned Deng Shouchong and Yuan Changwu that traces of a Mist Beast tide had appeared at the treasury, halting their fight as Deng hurried to assess the danger.

Xu Long discovered two Human Pythons in the dock-wall treasury and resisted the strange scent they emitted. After recognizing them as Pavilion Master Xu and Chen Yuping, he realized a dormant Poison Curse may have helped a high-level Mist Beast destabilize Phoenix City.

• Yuan Changwu headed toward the dock-wall treasury after the other two men left to investigate the City Lord's Manor.
• Xu Long noticed that the Human Python had kept much of its body inside the dock wall, then discovered a second pair of green eyes in the darkness.
• The two Human Pythons released a strange scent that nearly overwhelmed Xu Long with desire, but his Dao heart and sword of wisdom broke the illusion.
• Xu Long saw the Human Pythons entwined in a ritual and recognized them as Pavilion Master Xu and Chen Yuping.
• Xu Long recalled the Poison Curse that Pavilion Master Xu had taken and suspected it had lain dormant until it turned cultivators into cauldrons and helped a high-level Mist Beast disrupt Phoenix City.