Chapter Summaries

Xu Long escaped Shankui’s confinement with help from the young man and his blood dragon, but Shankui’s purple lightning fire pierced him and ignited the fire poison in his body. Xu Long counterattacked with his self-created sword strike, unleashing tens of millions of sword rays against Shankui and threatening his supposedly undying body.

• Shankui’s gray crows trapped Xu Long behind a curtain wall and assaulted his mind until the young man opened his Blood Domain and summoned a blood dragon.
• The blood dragon smashed through the curtain wall and scattered the gray crows, freeing Xu Long from Shankui’s confinement.
• Shankui’s purple lightning fire struck Xu Long before he could reach his Dharma Body, leaving a deep wound and igniting the fire poison within him.
• Xu Long used his Wisdom Sword and tornado to restrain the raging fire poison in his Sea of Consciousness while his Dharma Body protected him.
• Xu Long drew in his Magic Power, had his Dharma Body unleash the stored sword light, and sent tens of millions of sword rays at Shankui.
• Shankui sensed that Xu Long’s sword qi threatened his Undying and Indestructible Body as the attack turned the battle in Xu Long’s favor.

Xu Long and the young man pressed their attacks against Shankui, who struggled to re-form his body from scattered death qi and gray crows. The chapter ended as Shankui detonated a Golden Immortal magic seal inside the Lotus Sword Formation, unleashing a tremendous blast.

• Xu Long used sword qi and Spiritual Qi Bombardment to scatter most of Shankui’s gray flame and death qi.
• As Xu Long prepared to help the young man, Shankui began gathering the scattered death qi and gray crows to reform his body.
• The young man sent his sword formation after Shankui while Xu Long’s sword light cut through the death qi and struck the re-forming skull.
• Shankui swallowed Xu Long’s sword light, but the young man’s formation forced the skull’s mouth open and transformed into a black lotus inside it.
• Shankui spread his body into a net around the Lotus Sword Formation and detonated a magic seal at its center.

Xu Long and the young man joined forces to destroy Shankui’s Golden Immortal incarnation in the Center, but Shankui’s final words suggested that his true form and the Heavenly Palace still threatened them. Xu Long was left wondering whether the Heavenly Palace knew of his actions across the myriad worlds and what greater forces were gathering.

• The Heaven Patroler’s magic seal shattered the young man’s Lotus Sword Formation, but the young man regrouped his swords and sent the blood dragon to bind Shankui.
• Xu Long and the young man attacked Shankui with their sword formations, repeatedly tearing apart his body and leaving him with only a remnant of gray crows and death qi.
• Shankui sensed something in the Heaven Patroler’s magic seal and fell eerily still as the blood dragon coiled around him, disrupting the sea of lightning.
• Xu Long fired a shell from the weapon formed by his formation diagram, engulfing Shankui and the blood dragon in an explosion that destroyed Shankui’s incarnation.
• Shankui’s remaining energy warned Xu Long that they would meet again, and Xu Long realized that Shankui’s true form had survived and feared the Heavenly Palace’s reach.

Xu Long searched the remains of Shankui's incarnation and glimpsed the souls imprisoned within his deathly aura, but found no useful memories before the aura vanished. As the young man prepared to shoot the Heaven Patroler's magic seal, the Heaven Patroler arrived and struck him down, yet the young man released his blood-red arrow.

• Xu Long gathered Shankui's scattered deathly aura and forced his will through the seal protecting its memories.
• Xu Long saw gray flames and bloodthirsty eyes holding countless trapped souls, including his own reflection, before the remnants turned to ash.
• The young man drew the Cloud-Hunting Bow and condensed a blood-red arrow aimed at the Heaven Patroler's magic seal.
• The Heaven Patroler swept into the Center and shouted at the young man, shattering golden light and knocking him from the air.
• The young man steadied himself as his Blood Domain opened, then released the arrow at the magic seal.

Xu Long and the Mist Beast horde helped the blood dragon carry the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram into the crack in the Heaven Patroler's seal, giving the Ancestral Spirit a chance to escape. The Heaven Patroler faced the Mist Beasts as the struggle over the seal threatened to overturn his rule in the Land of Exile.

• The young man used the Cloud-Hunting Bow to crack the Heaven Patroler's seal, then Xu Long sent the blood dragon carrying the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram toward it.
• The Heaven Patroler attacked Xu Long with his treasured bronze sword, but Xu Long's World-Breaking Blade slowed the strike long enough for the blood dragon to reach the seal.
• The blood dragon dissolved into energy and pushed the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram through the crack in the seal.
• Xu Long saw that the Mist Beast horde's Poison Curse had checked the Heaven Patroler, and the Higher Mist Beasts held their ground to help the Ancestral Spirit break free.
• Pavilion Master Xu and the Mist Beast clans anticipated that the Ancestral Spirit's release would end the Heaven Patroler's unchecked dominance and open a path for their clans beyond the Land of Exile.

The Heaven Patroler, Gu Jianshan, tried to kill Xu Long and Pavilion Master Xu after the Ancestral Spirit took the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram and broke free. As the Ancestral Spirit confronted Gu Jianshan and urged him to accept that their age had ended, Xu Long prepared to seize the fleeing purple lightning.

• The Heaven Patroler redirected his bronze sword toward Xu Long and Pavilion Master Xu, and the sword cut through the Mist Beast horde.
• The Ancestral Spirit called the Heaven Patroler by his forgotten name, Gu Jianshan, and his golden light blocked the bronze sword.
• The Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram broke the seal, freeing the Ancestral Spirit and allowing Xu Long to pursue the escaping purple lightning.
• The Ancestral Spirit told Gu Jianshan that the primordial age had collapsed, but Gu Jianshan rejected his words and broke down in grief.
• The Ancestral Spirit mourned Gu Jianshan's refusal to accept the end of their age and proposed ending their old conflict amicably.

Gu Jianshan unleashed the bronze sword against Feng Fuxi, but the Ancestral Spirit protected Xu Long and subdued the Thunder Gods, allowing Xu Long’s nebula to absorb their power. Gu Jianshan renewed his vow to seal Feng Fuxi and began fighting through the Ancestral Spirit’s formation, awakening from screens that threatened to trap him.

• Gu Jianshan declared himself an immemorial immortal and sent his bronze sword at Xu Long, but the Ancestral Spirit stopped its attack with a seal.
• Xu Long entered the Ancestral Spirit’s curtain of light, and the Ancestral Spirit gathered the Thunder Gods into his sleeve and condensed them into a bolt of lightning.
• Xu Long absorbed the lightning into his crimson nebula, while Gu Jianshan realized the Thunder Gods would not survive and grew furious.
• Gu Jianshan invoked the Immortal Register’s decree, received precious light from beyond the heavens, and prepared to fight Feng Fuxi.
• The Ancestral Spirit trapped the bronze sword among eight curtains of light, but Gu Jianshan sent sword qi through the formation and drove him and Xu Long back.
• The Ancestral Spirit raised eight screens that distracted Gu Jianshan and began enclosing the sword, but Gu Jianshan awoke from their illusion and intensified his killing intent.

Xu Long watched the Heaven Patroler battle the Ancestral Spirit, then summoned the Main God to escape the Land of Exile through a spatial rift. As the Ancestral Spirit drew the others into the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram, Xu Long noticed the Heaven Patroler's dimmed sealing sigil floating above the Center.

• The Heaven Patroler's bronze sword shattered the Ancestral Spirit's defenses, while Xu Long studied its power and the changes to his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon.
• The Ancestral Spirit tried to persuade Gu Jianshan to stop fighting, but Gu Jianshan's fury intensified and threatened to shatter the Center.
• Xu Long summoned the Main God, and the Ancestral Spirit bid him farewell before a spatial rift opened above the Center.
• The city lord sensed the power beyond the rift, cracked his tortoise shell, and called it "Formless" as Xu Long prepared to leave.
• The Ancestral Spirit gathered Deng Shouchong, the Yuan Brothers, and Chen Yuping into the Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram while Xu Long rose toward the rift.
• Xu Long spotted the Heaven Patroler's dim sealing sigil floating above the Center as he neared the spatial passage.

Xu Long seized the chance to swallow the Heaven Patroler's primordial seal with his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and escaped the Land of Exile with the Ancestral Spirit's help. Back in the Reincarnation Temple, he received his mission rewards and activated the Earth Eye within his Celestial Phenomenon.

• Xu Long tried to refine the drifting seal, but the Heaven Patroler roused it and sent it to suppress him.
• The Ancestral Spirit immobilized the seal with several incantations, allowing Xu Long to swallow it and enter the spatial passage.
• Xu Long returned safely to the Reincarnation Temple after completing the Land of Exile mission.
• The Main God awarded Xu Long 4,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones, a weapon treasure chest, a medical treasure chest, and level-one authority for an SSS rating.
• Xu Long used his authority to activate the Earth Eye and learned that it resided in his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon and could condense Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning.

Xu Long discovered that the Earth Eye in his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon contained Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning and the Heaven Patroler's magic seal, but his cultivation was too low to use either. The Main God explained the Immortal Register and the Heavenly Palace's plan to rebuild the Earth Realm by draining energy from myriad worlds, leaving Xu Long aware that his ties to the Register had already put him at odds with the Heavenly Palace.

• Xu Long probed the vortex within his celestial phenomenon and discovered the Earth Eye, whose fire and lightning formed Earth-Destroying Mystic Lightning; the Main God pulled his will away before it was harmed.
• Xu Long found the Heaven Patroler's magic seal inside his celestial phenomenon, but the Main God said he could not draw it out until his realm was higher.
• Xu Long resolved to improve his cultivation after reflecting on the strength and perseverance of the Heaven Patroler and the Ancestral Spirit.
• Xu Long asked the Main God about the Immortal Register, and the Main God explained that its entries and inscriptions let cultivators connect to the Heaven Realm and escape the laws of confined worlds.
• The Main God explained that the Heavenly Palace sought Immortal Register cultivators and energy cores to restore the Earth Realm by draining the myriad worlds; Xu Long realized his ties to the Register had already placed him in opposition to the Heavenly Palace.

Xu Long learned that the Heaven Patroler, Gu Jianshan, and the Ancestral Spirit, Feng Fuxi, were Creators beyond the Saint realm, and he felt the danger of his entanglement with the Heavenly Palace. Back in his Main World, he reunited with his wives, asked the Red Queen to analyze two treasures, and reviewed the rewards and resources he had brought back from the Land of Exile.

• The Main God explained that Gu Jianshan had comprehended the Sword Dao, Feng Fuxi had comprehended derivation, and both had risen above the Creator realm, with Feng Fuxi slightly stronger.
• Xu Long learned the three major immortal realms and the path to becoming a Creator, then resolved to face the danger posed by his growing conflict with the Heavenly Palace.
• Xu Long returned to the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom, reunited with his wives, guided their cultivation, and recounted his experiences before being overwhelmed by their affection.
• Xu Long gave two brocade boxes and materials to the Red Queen, who began scanning and analyzing the treasures to create an energy-rich potion.
• Xu Long entered seclusion to review his rewards, including Earth Eye, Mystic Lightning, the Heaven Patroler Dharma Seal, nearly ten thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, and precious pills from the South Si Dao Field.

Xu Long opened the weapon treasure chest and received the remaining eighteen swords of the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, then tried to refine the dangerous fire poison lodged in his meridians. The poison broke through into his Sea of Consciousness, where Xu Long’s sword defenses trapped it as the struggle continued.

• Xu Long reviewed his gains, including the Mist Beast Inner Cores and the pills from the South Si Dao Field.
• Xu Long opened the weapon treasure chest and found eighteen small swords, completing the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation and raising it to a high-grade immortal artifact.
• Xu Long returned to meditation while the young man recovered inside his body, and he began repairing his own injuries.
• Xu Long used the Heaven-Burning Sacred Fire to draw out and refine the fire poison that had taken root in his meridians.
• The fire poison escaped the sacred fire’s rings and forced its way toward Xu Long’s soul, but sword light blocked it at the Niwan Palace aperture.
• The fire poison entered Xu Long’s Sea of Consciousness, where the Wisdom Sword and layers of sword shadows struck it and halted its advance.

Xu Long refined the fire poison, healed his injuries, and used a silver pill to advance to Late Mahayana while continuing to cultivate with the young man. As he pressed toward Peak Mahayana, he reflected on the dangers of the immortal path and the calamities and heart demons that awaited cultivators.

• Xu Long refined the fire poison in his Sea of Consciousness, allowing his Body of Oblivion to repair his wound and his cultivation to reach its peak.
• Xu Long swallowed a silver pill from the South Si Dao Field and used its medicinal power to open his channels and advance to Late Mahayana.
• Xu Long divided the remaining pills between himself and the young man, and both continued cultivating as their energy stirred strange phenomena in the Divine Kingdom.
• Xu Long resolved to push toward Peak Mahayana because of the coming mission and the threats posed by the Heavenly Palace and powerful beings behind the scenes.
• Xu Long contemplated the immortal path, the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations, and the Heart Demon Tribulation that could turn cultivators into puppets.

Xu Long reflected on the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and the resolve of the Heaven Patroler and the Ancestral Spirit as he refined pills in seclusion. He reached Peak Mahayana but remained blocked from the Earth Immortal realm, so he prepared to use two Mist Beast Inner Core potions to break through while facing the Heavenly Palace’s growing threat.

• Xu Long contemplated how the Origin Will rejected cultivators and how the Heaven Patroler and the Ancestral Spirit had endured countless calamities without abandoning their convictions.
• Xu Long refined pills in the Divine Kingdom, healed his hidden injuries, and raised his cultivation to Peak Mahayana.
• Xu Long reached the boundary wall before the Earth Immortal realm but found that his Magic Power could not shake it.
• Xu Long recalled preparing two potions made from Mist Beast Inner Cores to help him breach the boundary wall.
• Xu Long considered how the Heavenly Palace’s plan to rebuild the Three Realms threatened lesser worlds and placed him on its blacklist.
• Xu Long continued to strike the boundary wall with his Magic Power, but it remained unmoved.

After emerging from seclusion, Xu Long received powerful energy potions from the Red Queen and prepared to enter a new mission world. The Main God sent him to the Earth Realm to stop the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace and fuse the Three Realms.

• Xu Long opened the Divine Hall’s medical treasure chest, found five blue pills, and used one before calling for an elephant and spending time with his wives.
• The Red Queen gave Xu Long two energy potions refined from exotic beast Inner Cores, and he planned to use them to break through the Earth Immortal realm barrier.
• Xu Long left pills for his wives, took the Spirit Stones, and entered the Divine Hall to ask the Main God for his next mission.
• The Main God explained that the Heavenly Palace controlled the Earth Realm and was gathering energy cores to advance its plan, then assigned Xu Long to the Earth Realm.
• Xu Long received the main mission to fuse the Three Realms and the side mission to destroy the Heavenly Palace’s plan and crush the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace before the transfer began.

Xu Long entered the Earth Realm with the Main God’s help, but the realm’s powerful Origin Will detected the intrusion and searched the world for him. After arriving safely on the Vulture King, Xu Long learned about the Earth Realm’s history, the Heavenly Palace’s rule, and its geography.

• The Main God forced open a fissure in the Earth Realm and helped Xu Long break through the Origin Will’s energy to complete his transfer.
• The Origin Will sealed the rift and swept its pressure across the Earth Realm, while Saints and other mighty figures searched for the cause of its disturbance.
• The Vulture King flew through the sky with Xu Long sitting cross-legged on his back and concealing his aura.
• Xu Long recalled that the Earth Realm was the only relatively intact survivor of the ancient three realms and that the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace held sway through eight Saints and one Quasi-Saint.
• Xu Long learned that the Earth Realm consisted of five land provinces and fourteen overseas continents.

Xu Long learned that the Heavenly Palace’s hold over Earth Realm Kyushu depended on a fragile alliance with its nine Saints, while ancient powers lay dormant across the Earth Realm. He resolved to build his strength, unite those forces against the Heavenly Palace, and put down roots in Lai Province after evading the Origin Will and the Saints’ notice.

• Xu Long learned that the Heavenly Palace and the nine Saints of Kyushu maintained a loose alliance through shared interests, leaving room for him to exploit their disagreements.
• Xu Long planned to gain resources and strength, then recruit ancient beings who had descended into the Earth Realm and offer them a return to the Heaven Realm as his reward for helping fuse the Three Realms.
• Xu Long concluded that he first needed enough cultivation to negotiate with the Saints and ancient powers as an equal.
• Xu Long rode the Vulture King away from the spatial rift as the Origin Will repaired it and the Saints investigated the spatial disturbance.
• Xu Long’s aura merged with the Earth Realm, and after traveling east for a long time, he discovered that the Vulture King had brought him into Lai Province.

Xu Long explored eastern Lai Province in the Earth Realm and accidentally trespassed into a powerful expert’s cultivation ground, where a gaze and sword qi scattered the red sun and parted the clouds. He escaped on the Vulture King and continued eastward, resolving to proceed cautiously in a world ruled by forces far beyond his current strength.

• Xu Long surveyed the vast Earth Realm and saw its abundant spiritual energy, spiritual veins, and cultivation grounds across eastern Lai Province.
• Xu Long rode the Vulture King through the clouds and cried, “By my decree!” as they flew toward the rising red sun.
• A mysterious figure’s murky eyes opened beneath a mountain, unleashed sword qi, and pushed aside the red sun while searching the clouds for Xu Long.
• Xu Long sensed the danger, withdrew, and fled on the Vulture King before the mysterious figure closed his eyes and vanished.
• Xu Long recognized the Earth Realm’s powerful experts and competing forces, then continued east below the clouds through Lai Province.

Xu Long encountered a forbidden place where Lai Province’s rivers converged and watched its water vapor erupt into a colossal tornado that battled lightning from beyond the heavens. As the storm tore up the land, Xu Long fled on the Vulture King and searched for shelter in the mountains.

• Xu Long spotted countless rivers converging beneath dense water vapor and suspected a powerful creature or force lay within.
• The water vapor awakened into a towering tornado that drew on the rivers and clashed with lightning from beyond the nine heavens.
• Xu Long realized the tornado’s inscription-born laws could swallow heaven and devour earth, and urged the Vulture King to flee.
• The storm uprooted mountains and dragged land into its funnel while Xu Long struggled against the violent winds and waves.
• Cultivators across Lai Province sensed the phenomenon, probed from a distance with their True Spirits, and quickly withdrew.
• Xu Long decided that resisting in the open would fail and searched for shelter among the mountains as enormous waves swept past.

Xu Long escaped the tornado as the Origin Will’s lightning clashed with it and a legendary beast roar shook Lai Province, leaving cultivators fearing a beast tide. He was hurled through several mountain ranges and survived with his Body of Oblivion beginning to repair itself.

• Xu Long reached the tornado’s edge while the Origin Will sent lightning cables through it, then fled on the Vulture King as a beast roared from beneath the nine abysses.
• The tornado repelled the lightning, and cultivators across Lai Province gathered in alarm as the roar stirred fears of a coming beast tide.
• Saint Song’s protégés told the sects that a guarding object would protect Lai Province and ordered them to guard their own mountain gates rather than investigate the phenomenon.
• The sects withdrew to their sanctuaries, while the Cloud Sea Daoist Sanctuary prepared measures against the spreading danger.
• Xu Long was flung from the tornado and crashed through several mountain ranges before stopping as his Body of Oblivion began repairing his injuries.