Chapter Summaries

Xu Long discovered that the higher Mist Beast being had entered Phoenix City through Pavilion Master Xu’s Poison Curse and was linked to a thin-faced female Human Python. He fought the two inside the treasury, where the female Human Python grew anxious as rain and mist approached, and Xu Long launched another sword attack.

• Xu Long realized the Mist Beast tides had distracted the Earth Immortals while Pavilion Master Xu’s Poison Curse let the higher Mist Beast take control of him.
• Xu Long struck into the treasury, interrupting Pavilion Master Xu and the female Human Python as they guarded the Spirit Stone formation.
• Xu Long recognized the female Human Python’s intelligent green eyes as those of the higher Mist Beast and inferred that it had entered Phoenix City through Pavilion Master Xu’s Poison Curse.
• Xu Long fought the Human Python with his sword light and Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon, retreating through shattered curtain walls as the battle damaged the treasury.
• The female Human Python extinguished the flames’ heat with cyan mist, while the Human Python grew agitated and looked toward approaching rain and mist.
• Xu Long gathered his sword light beneath the celestial phenomenon and sent it plunging down as the rain and mist neared.

Xu Long drove the two-headed Human Python from the treasury and entered the Rogue Cultivators Association’s hidden stores, where he discovered a mysterious cloudlike treasure among the Spirit Stones. His Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon absorbed the treasure and the high-quality Spirit Stones, becoming more solid and producing pure spiritual qi.

• Xu Long wounded the two-headed Human Python with his sword, but the creature released green mist and fled into the water as powerful auras approached.
• Xu Long entered the activated formation and found the Rogue Cultivators Association’s treasury filled with mountains of low-quality Spirit Stones and a separate cache of high-quality ones.
• Xu Long discovered a vast mass of cloudlike wisps above the high-quality Spirit Stones and sent his will into it.
• Xu Long raised his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon, which drew the cloudlike wisps and the high-quality Spirit Stones into itself.
• Xu Long activated the transformed celestial phenomenon and absorbed pure spiritual qi, sensing mysterious qi that reflected the Heavenly Dao and the world’s rules.

Xu Long used the nebula in his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to turn much of the Rogue Cultivators Association's Spirit Stone stores into more than thirty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, then triggered chaos in the treasury as he tried to escape. Branch Master Chen, Yuan Changwu, and Deng Shouchong responded to the Mist Beast tide, and Xu Long ended the chapter blocked by a figure emerging from a faint treasure light.

• Xu Long realized the nebula could condense low-quality Spirit Stones into high-grade ones and converted more than ten small mountains into over thirty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• As powerful auras approached, Xu Long stopped absorbing Spirit Stones and scattered the remaining stores into a trench, drawing Branch Master Chen into the turquoise water after them.
• Yuan Changwu and Deng Shouchong arrived, recognized the cyan giant pythons as a Mist Beast tide, and fought their way through the creatures while Branch Master Chen pursued the scattered Spirit Stones.
• Deng Shouchong entered the damaged treasury and feared that a high-grade Mist Beast had been hiding in Phoenix City and could threaten the whole city.
• Xu Long tried to leave by a route away from the others, but a faint treasure light blocked his way and a figure appeared before him.

Xu Long reunited with Deng Shouchong at the looted treasury and revealed that Pavilion Master Xu was tied to the Mist Beast tide and its higher creature. As the crisis threatened Phoenix City, the cultivators gathered at the City Lord's Manor, where Chen Yuping, the City Lord, and Sect Master Yuan returned through the light screen.

• Xu Long met Deng Shouchong at the treasury and warned him that Pavilion Master Xu was connected to the Mist Beast tide and the higher Mist Beast creature.
• Deng Shouchong told Chen Yuping that he had cleared most of the lower Mist Beasts, while Yuan Changwu claimed Pavilion Master Xu had become a higher Mist Beast's cauldron.
• Chen Yuping realized the treasury had lost its Spirit Stones and her Innate Essence Qi companion treasure, and feared Pavilion Master Xu had taken it or been captured.
• Deng Shouchong led Xu Long, Chen Yuping, and Yuan Changwu toward the City Lord's Manor as the group prepared for the danger of the escaped higher Mist Beast.
• The Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram shifted and formed a light screen above the City Lord's Manor, and Chen Yuping, the City Lord, and Sect Master Yuan arrived through it.

Xu Long attended a meeting at the City Lord's Manor, where Deng Lifu revealed that four powerful Mist Beast tides had surrounded Phoenix City and introduced Xu Long as its fourth Earth Immortal. Deng Lifu urged the city’s cultivators to unite around the Ancestral Spirit’s intervention, and Branch Master Chen asked why it had chosen to help them.

• Deng Lifu led the returning Earth Immortals and Xu Long into the City Lord's Manor, where Yuan Changwu suppressed his complaint and recoiled from Xu Long's gaze.
• Deng Lifu displayed a battered bronze war chariot and reported that four Mist Beast tides had sealed off Phoenix City and that all eight gates were surrounded.
• Deng Lifu introduced Xu Long as the city's fourth Earth Immortal and said he had agreed to fight the Mist Beasts, while Yuan Changhe challenged him over the South Si Dao Field's losses.
• Branch Master Chen accused Yuan Changwu of bringing chaos to the North Division Dao Field, and Yuan Changhe reprimanded his younger brother.
• Deng Lifu said the Ancestral Spirit had helped Xu Long break through and urged the cultivators to unite; Branch Master Chen then asked why the Ancestral Spirit had come to their aid.

Deng Lifu revealed the City Lord's Manor's plan to find the Ancestral Spirit and return beyond the heavens, convincing Phoenix City's factions to unite against the Mist Beast tides and the Heaven Patroler. Xu Long and Deng Shouchong volunteered to lead the Muster Platform forces out to fight, and the chapter ended as the assembled army prepared to march.

• Deng Lifu disclosed that the City Lord's Manor had located the Ancestral Spirit, sealed at the center of the earth's crust, and planned to free him so cultivators could return beyond the heavens.
• Deng Shouchong warned that the Mist Beast tides could summon the Heaven Patroler and destroy Phoenix City, prompting Yuan Changhe and Chen Yuping to agree to a united front.
• Deng Shouchong and Xu Long volunteered to lead the fight outside the city, while Chen Yuping stayed to deal with the hidden high-level Mist Beast.
• Xu Long accompanied Deng Shouchong to the Muster Platform, where Ma Fang and the other cultivators greeted him with relief and admiration.
• Deng Shouchong used the city lord's jade token to summon the troops, and the Muster Platform prepared its chariots and forces for battle.
• Deng Lifu and Xu Long arrived as the Muster Platform army waited in formation beneath the blood-red sky.

Phoenix City’s army of bronze chariots charged into the Mist Beast tide, but a higher Mist Beast began slowing their advance. Xu Long and Deng Shouchong moved to confront it, and the chapter ended as a tremendous roar sounded from within the mist.

• The city lord ordered Deng Shouchong and the cultivators at the Muster Platform to leave Phoenix City and fight the Mist Beast tide in the open.
• The city lord awakened Phoenix City’s stone bird totems and infused them into the bronze chariots before sending the army through the city’s barrier.
• Xu Long, Ma Fang, and the others emerged outside the city and drove their chariots through the Mist Beast tide, killing beasts that attacked them.
• Xu Long realized a higher Mist Beast was directing the tide and secretly coordinated with the young man to find it as the chariots lost momentum.
• Xu Long raised a ritual banner, and Deng Shouchong led the Two Lin Brothers’ chariot toward the surging mist to confront the enemy general.
• A tremendous roar sounded from the Mist Beast tide, and Xu Long immediately looked into the thick mist.

Xu Long’s chariot broke through a Mist Beast tide and entered the azure mist, where the Higher Mist Beasts confronted the cultivators of Phoenix City. Xu Long and Mo Yu attacked separate Higher Mist Beasts, and Xu Long’s sword formation trapped his opponent as more Mist Beasts rushed to its aid.

• A Higher Mist Beast directed the Mist Beast tide against the chariot, but the Two Lin Brothers drove through the assault with the command flag’s protection.
• Ma Fang and the other cultivators trusted Xu Long to lead them, while Xu Long realized the chariot’s patterns stirred their battle frenzy.
• The chariot entered the azure mist, where a Higher Mist Beast noticed Mo Yu and locked eyes with him.
• Xu Long and Mo Yu drew their swords and attacked as the four Mist Beast tides faced their assigned opponents.
• Xu Long’s barrier shattered under the Higher Mist Beast’s blow, but he countered with sword shadows that confined it.
• The trapped Higher Mist Beast roared, drawing nearby Mist Beasts toward it.

Xu Long fought the higher Mist Beast, resisting its Eternity Ice Mist with scorching energy and striking it with sword radiance. After Ma Fang led the war chariots away, Xu Long was trapped alone between converging clouds of mist, and a clear sword cry rang out as he faced the encroaching danger.

• Xu Long repelled the higher Mist Beast's close-range Eternity Ice Mist with the Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire and the Power of Oblivion, then summoned his sword light to wound it.
• Xu Long's sword radiance pierced the mist and cleared a route for the bronze war chariots, but Ma Fang chose to lead them toward Deng Shouchong instead of relieving Xu Long.
• The wounded higher Mist Beast gathered the lesser and winged Mist Beasts around Xu Long and pressed Eternity Ice Mist in from above and below.
• Xu Long stood trapped as his scorching magic power surged and the Milky Way above his head began to turn, while the winged Mist Beasts faltered beneath his gaze.
• A clear sword cry burst forth beneath the horizon as the higher Mist Beast watched Xu Long.

Xu Long used the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to break through the Mist Beast horde, then summoned a Dharma Body when a higher Mist Beast tried to swallow him. After the Dharma Body severed the creature’s body, Xu Long sensed another attack and fired a long gun at the incoming shadow.

• Xu Long swallowed a sword light and spat it into the sky, unleashing the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and scattering the Mist Beast horde with sword radiance.
• The higher Mist Beast lunged at Xu Long, broke his barrier, and coiled around him to crush him.
• Xu Long cried out an edict and summoned a Dharma Body, which forced the Mist Beast away from him and struck its head with a giant sword of radiance.
• The wounded Mist Beast compressed energy and charged the Dharma Body, but the Dharma Body cut its body in two.
• Xu Long sensed a dangerous black shadow approaching, aimed a long gun, and fired a scorching shell through it as the recoil sent him backward.

Xu Long and his Dharma Body killed a Higher Mist Beast, seized its Inner Core, and drove back the surrounding Mist Beast tide. As the forces regrouped near Phoenix City, a young man arrived with a blood dragon and sent it toward a disturbance around the Dharma Banner.

• Xu Long’s Dharma Body restrained and killed the Higher Mist Beast after Xu Long’s shell blasted through its head.
• Xu Long collected the Mist Beast Inner Core and used his Dharma Body’s scorching sword strike to drive back the Mist Beast tide.
• The Dharma Body vanished, and Xu Long joined the cultivators and chariots in pursuing the retreating beasts outside Phoenix City.
• A blood dragon appeared with a Mist Beast Inner Core in its mouth, and Xu Long joined the young man on the battlefield.
• Xu Long saw Phoenix City’s golden light strengthen and prepared to return, but an angry roar came from the mist near the Dharma Banner.
• The young man sent the blood dragon toward the Dharma Banner’s treasured light, where a massive shock wave scattered its blood-red trail.

Xu Long and Mo Yu helped defeat two Mist Beast tides outside Phoenix City, then returned with the cultivators as the city lord prepared to lead them into the earth’s crust. The city lord announced that Phoenix City’s defenses would be withdrawn, while the Alien Mist Beast remained at large and the Heaven Patroler’s arrival was uncertain.

• Mo Yu and Xu Long turned the battle outside Phoenix City, causing the Mist Beast tides to retreat and shocking Deng Shouchong, Yuan Changhe, and Yuan Changwu with their strength.
• Deng Shouchong led the cultivators back through Phoenix City’s curtain of light after the city lord reported that the passage into the earth’s crust was ready.
• Xu Long asked Branch Master Chen about the Higher Mist Beast in the city, and she revealed that the Alien Mist Beast had escaped after she wounded it in the Trading Hub.
• The city lord urged the cultivators to enter the earth’s crust with him, warning that anyone who stayed would face the Heaven Patroler without Phoenix City’s defenses.

Xu Long and the other cultivators entered the Yin-Yang Map to search the earth’s crust for the Ancestral Spirit, while Deng Lifu gathered Phoenix City’s Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram into its complete form. The chapter ended with Deng Lifu holding the restored treasure as Phoenix City lost its protection and a powerful will approached.

• The city lord opened the Yin-Yang Map, and Deng Shouchong led the bronze chariots inside as Xu Long recognized ancient seal script like the writing on the tombstone in the Tomb of the Great Emperor.
• Xu Long and the young man entered the map, prompting the Yuan Brothers, Chen Yuping, and the remaining cultivators to follow them into the earth’s crust.
• Deng Lifu stayed behind as a powerful will approached and began chanting to draw the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram out of Phoenix City.
• The Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram rose from the city and was absorbed into a miniature diagram, restoring the Nine Palaces Yin-Yang Map and leaving Phoenix City without its spiritual protection.

The City Lord withdrew Phoenix City’s cultivators and resources into the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, leaving the city exposed to the Mist Beast tide. As the beasts gathered around the fading map, an ancient will and a bronze sword opened a fissure into the earth, and an imposing cultivator appeared with the sword on his back.

• The City Lord entered the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram with Phoenix City’s cultivators, while the Ancestral Spirit’s golden light also vanished into it.
• The Mist Beast tide overwhelmed Phoenix City, and Pavilion Master Xu and the Higher Mist Beasts gathered around the fading map.
• An ancient will arrived, descended into the map’s outline, and halted its disappearance.
• A bronze sword appeared at the City Lord’s Manor, opened a deep fissure beneath the map, and then flew away.
• A white-robed cultivator appeared behind the Mist Beasts with the bronze sword on his back.

The Heaven Patroler arrived at Phoenix City, ordered the Mist Beasts to deal with its cultivators, and entered the enormous crack to confirm whether Feng Fuxi was alive. Xu Long traveled through the Nine Palaces Yin-Yang Map into a deadly sea of fire in the earth’s crust, where erupting magma trapped him and the other cultivators.

• The Heaven Patroler recognized Phoenix City and its opening, then resolved to destroy the primordial remnants and make Feng Fuxi despair again.
• The Heaven Patroler told the Higher Mist Beasts to handle the other cultivators and entered the crack, followed by the Mist Beasts.
• Xu Long entered the Nine Palaces Yin-Yang Map, recalled his True Dragon Clone, and traveled through a dark passage filled with pulsing runes.
• Xu Long emerged in the earth’s crust, where he and other scattered cultivators cautiously crossed a dangerous sea of fire.
• Magma erupted and trapped Xu Long and the surrounding cultivators, scorching many of them as Xu Long struggled to escape.

Xu Long struggled through the earth’s crust as magma and fire attacked him from both sides, consuming his Magic Power and threatening to trigger cultivation deviation. He unleashed the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to break through, but the heat invaded it and began to threaten his soul as another wave of magma gathered.

• Xu Long used his power of oblivion to extinguish flames clinging to his sword light, then fought through waves of magma while a sea of fire closed in behind him.
• Xu Long drew on Spirit Stones to sustain his barrier and guarded his mind as the unrefined heat stirred the Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire within him.
• Xu Long summoned the Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and combined its power of laws with his power of oblivion to form a golden wheel that cut through the oncoming magma.
• Xu Long glimpsed several figures in the darkness, but the heat had scattered the nebulae in his celestial phenomenon and caused pain in his soul.
• As another wave of magma gathered, Xu Long sent the sun formed by the golden wheel toward it, this time sweeping through the wave with the power of oblivion.

Xu Long survived the magma wave when the Innate Essence Qi refined its heat, and the World-Breaking Blade advanced to a high-grade immortal artifact. He sensed lightning near the earth’s core and headed toward the Ancestral Spirit, but ancient cultivators appeared and revealed themselves as the primordial gods summoned by the Heaven Patroler.

• Xu Long’s Innate Essence Qi absorbed and refined the magma’s heat, easing his soul’s agony and ending the threat of qi deviation.
• Xu Long recovered his strength and used the Power of Oblivion to free the World-Breaking Blade from the flames; the blade’s quality rose to a high-grade immortal artifact.
• Xu Long reached the earth’s core, sensed lightning in the darkness, and realized it might mark the Ancestral Spirit’s prison.
• Xu Long set out toward the lightning, but an immense pressure struck him and forced him to flee without investigating its source.
• Xu Long glimpsed several ancient, withered cultivators in archaic robes, who were the primordial gods the Heaven Patroler had summoned to seal the Ancestral Spirit.

Xu Long raced through the crust toward the Ancestral Spirit while fearing the Heaven Patroler, but the primordial gods guarding the area recognized him as a primordial remnant and attacked. Their clash escalated amid the magma, and the chapter ended as Xu Long and the god sent their sword attacks at each other again.

• Xu Long sensed the Heaven Patroler's aura in the primordial gods and hurried toward the lightning flashes, hoping to reach the crust's core before the Heaven Patroler.
• The primordial gods noticed Xu Long breaking through the magma and mistook him for a cultivator seeking to rescue Feng Fuxi.
• One god recognized Xu Long as a primordial remnant and launched his bronze shortsword at him.
• Xu Long dodged the soul-piercing blade and countered with sword light that drew the magma's heat into a fire dragon.
• The god crossed the distance with the Law of Space-Time, and the two exchanged sword strikes amid the flames.
• The god sent his shortsword through a swarm of fire serpents as Xu Long's sword light rushed toward him again.

Xu Long fought two ancient deities amid the magma, using his Dharma Body and celestial phenomenon to withstand their attacks. He sealed one deity’s spell seal and unleashed a devastating heat current, but the deity’s final sword clash left his fate unclear.

• Xu Long’s World-Breaking Blade clashed with the deity’s bronze short sword as the deity formed a spell seal and attacked from the front and behind.
• Xu Long summoned his Dharma Body, which caught the second deity’s short sword between its palms while Xu Long focused on the deity before him.
• Xu Long drew heat from the magma into his celestial phenomenon and sent the surging current toward the deity.
• The deity commanded his spell seal to descend, but Xu Long spoke “Seal!” and stopped it in midair.
• Xu Long’s gathered heat current overwhelmed the deity, who sent his short sword against an approaching streak of light before being engulfed by the flames.

Xu Long survived the first deity’s attack and used the celestial phenomenon to unleash the heat it had absorbed, trapping the second deity in catastrophic explosions. As the deity and his bronze short sword perished in the magma, Xu Long escaped the earth’s core with the sword light.

• The first primeval deity died in the flames, and Xu Long evaded his crashing dharma seal by diving into the magma.
• The second deity pierced the Dharma Body and pursued Xu Long while their swords clashed above the sea of fire.
• Xu Long released the heat stored in the formation diagram, triggering explosions that engulfed the second deity.
• The second deity’s dharma seal detonated, unleashing the magma’s suppressed energy in a raging dragon of fire that swallowed him.
• The second deity accepted his death and bid farewell to his bronze short sword, which plunged into the magma after him as Xu Long’s sword light escaped.