Chapter Summaries

Xu Long emerged from the tornado into Lai Province as a massive ferocious beast tide overwhelmed the mountain cultivation grounds. As the Jade Screen Sect’s Feng Sihu fought desperately with his ritual vajra, the beasts broke through its cover.

• Xu Long sensed a beast tide gathering in the mountains and realized it might be connected to the roar inside the tornado.
• A powerful cultivator urged the stationed disciples to abandon their resources and retreat, but the beasts overwhelmed the cultivation ground and slaughtered its defenders.
• The beast tide reached Xu Long’s hiding place and occupied the mountain range, while the cultivators across Lai Province suffered heavy losses.
• Feng Sihu of the Jade Screen Sect fought alone against the encircling beasts after his fellow disciples and cultivation ground were lost.
• Feng Sihu unleashed his ritual vajra, crushing many beasts, but several figures broke through its round top as he neared exhaustion.

Xu Long faced a seemingly endless beast tide in a mountain sanctuary and swallowed the Red Queen’s energy potion to break through the Earth Immortal realm barrier. His breakthrough summoned the Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation, which tore through the beasts and struck him as he struggled to withstand its power.

• A sword light cut through the beast tide and briefly drew the beasts away from Feng Sihu, while Xu Long searched for the hidden beast king.
• Xu Long realized the beasts were trapping him by trampling the sanctuary into a sinking pit, and he chose to use the energy potion to trigger a breakthrough and summon heavenly punishment.
• Xu Long swallowed the potion, used his Milky Way Celestial Phenomenon to refine its violent energy, and struck at the realm barrier as the beasts closed in.
• Xu Long’s breakthrough summoned black clouds and purple lightning, which scattered and destroyed the surrounding beast tide.
• The purple lightning pierced Xu Long’s barriers and drove him into the ground while he resisted its force with his Magic Power and Celestial Phenomenon.

Xu Long faced the Origin Will’s Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation while attempting to break through from the Mahayana Stage to the Earth Immortal Realm. After his doubts about whether immortality required abandoning his past stalled his breakthrough, he regained his resolve and shouted a decree as another bolt descended.

• Xu Long used the Law of Slaughter to evade the Origin Will’s suppression and stir the Heavenly Dao, prompting a tribulation-cloud vortex to form over Lai Province.
• Xu Long escaped the earth and faced successive lightning bolts, using his sword light and World-Breaking Blade to resist them as the beast tide was caught in the tribulation’s devastation.
• Xu Long took a second Mist Beast energy potion and separated clear and turbid Magic Power in his dantian, but struggled over whether to sever his past emotions to become an immortal.
• Xu Long’s hesitation stalled his Magic Power and threatened his breakthrough, while the Origin Will’s lightning continued to strike and the beast tide scattered around the training ground.
• After a tremendous sound jolted Xu Long out of his confusion, his resolve returned, his Magic Power began to loosen, and he faced the next bolt with a shout: “By decree!”

Xu Long resolved to preserve his feelings and past, broke through to the Early Earth Immortal Stage, and survived the Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation. After the devastation, he began restoring the training ground and discovered Feng Sihu hidden beneath the magma.

• Xu Long swore that he would never bow his head or abandon his past, then transformed his magic power and broke through from the Mahayana Stage to the Early Earth Immortal Stage.
• Xu Long wielded the World-Breaking Blade and Sea-Overturning Sword Formation against the Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation as lightning battered him and destroyed the training ground.
• Xu Long survived the tribulation through the Body of Oblivion, and his two weapons advanced to the low-grade divine artifact tier.
• Xu Long used his will and a spiritual vein to begin restoring the ruined training ground after the beast tide retreated.
• Xu Long contacted Feng Sihu, who had survived hidden beneath the magma and was astonished by the tribulation and the beasts' retreat.

Xu Long subdued Feng Sihu after the Divine Punishment Lightning Tribulation scattered the beast tide, then learned that Rotten Peach Mountain lay in the wilderness of the Daning Commandery Kingdom. Feng Sihu revealed that a hidden Vast Sea Dragon King was associated with a thousand-yearly waterspout, but the beast tide had appeared six hundred years too early, leaving Xu Long suspicious of a larger purpose.

• Xu Long captured Feng Sihu’s remnant soul as Feng tried to flee, then demanded to know where they were and what had caused the beast tide.
• Feng Sihu explained that he was a minor elder of the Jade Screen Sect, assigned to guard Rotten Peach Mountain in the Daning Commandery Kingdom.
• Xu Long asked about a strange phenomenon in the mist, and Feng Sihu revealed that Lai Province’s rivers converged into the Vast Sea, where a waterspout appeared once every thousand years.
• Feng Sihu said the Saint had identified a sleeping pre-calamity being, likely the Vast Sea Dragon King of the True Dragon clan, as the master of the inland sea.
• Xu Long learned that beast tides often followed the Vast Sea phenomenon, but only six hundred years had passed since the last one, and he suspected the current tide had a deeper cause.

Xu Long learned that Rotten Peach Mountain’s spirit vein could not be developed without arrays, so he planned to acquire them and use the sanctuary as a base. He took Feng Sihu’s Jade Screen Sect identity as his own and used his Celestial Phenomenon to stabilize Feng Sihu’s dispersing soul.

• Xu Long recalled the Vast Sea tornado and suspected that the creature within it was a True Dragon descendant connected to the Vast Sea Dragon King.
• Xu Long learned that Rotten Peach Mountain produced spirit stones but lacked the arrays needed to extract them after the vicious beast tide damaged its defenses.
• Feng Sihu told Xu Long that Perfected Lord Pinglu’s nearby Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary sold arrays.
• Xu Long declared that he would take the Jade Screen Sect identity of Perfected Yunmo and leave Feng Sihu to guard Rotten Peach Mountain.
• Feng Sihu agreed to serve Xu Long in exchange for help, and Xu Long drew his soul into his Celestial Phenomenon, where it began to grow solid.

Xu Long solidified Feng Sihu's soul, bound him to a nether plaque, and made him guard the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field. Xu Long then traveled toward the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary through beast-tide devastation, where a sudden disturbance in the sky forced him off the Vulture King.

• Xu Long used the Power of Laws to solidify Feng Sihu's soul and created a nether plaque for him, binding Feng Sihu with restrictions.
• Feng Sihu entered the nether plaque, pledged loyalty to Xu Long, and agreed to serve as his ghost cultivator servant.
• Xu Long ordered Feng Sihu to guard the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field while he set out for the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary to seek arrays and cultivation resources.
• Xu Long crossed the devastated wilderness on the Vulture King and considered the fierce beast clans' conflict with cultivators and the strange cause of the beast tide.
• Xu Long sensed an enormous presence moving through the sky, descended from the Vulture King, and watched a hurricane blast away the mist.

Xu Long witnessed an unknown creature streak across the heavens and a sword-wielding figure battling a vast black horizon, then hurried to the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary for protection. After reaching the sanctuary, he saw its strength and the civilization Perfected Lord Pinglu had built, but noticed that no people were born there.

• An enormous creature tore through the air beyond the firmament, changed direction near Xu Long, and vanished without him identifying it.
• Xu Long saw a black horizon sweep across Lai Province as a streak of light wielded sword qi against it, and he fled toward the Pinglu Mountain Range.
• Xu Long followed Feng Sihu's route through the wildlands, where cultivators rushed along the thoroughfare carved by Perfected Lord Pinglu.
• Xu Long reached the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, observed its twelve guardian spirit veins and the cultivators gathered there, and refrained from probing the mountain range held by the Golden Immortal Perfected Lord.
• Xu Long recognized the sanctuary as a developed refuge in the wildlands but discovered that no people were born there.

Xu Long entered the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and secretly tested its defensive formation with the Power of Oblivion. His probing activated all twelve guardian spirit veins, leaving the sanctuary’s cultivators on alert as they tried to determine what had triggered the formation.

• Xu Long paid a hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, identified himself as Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect, and received a jade token to enter the sanctuary.
• Xu Long used his Heavenly Eye and the Power of Oblivion to probe the defensive formation, but its energy rays trapped his will.
• As Xu Long pushed deeper, the formation flags and ritual banners stirred, first in one mountain and then across all twelve guardian spirit veins.
• The twelve formations drew energy from the spirit veins, and a bright, increasingly solid light curtain rose around the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary.
• The cultivators in the main mountain range raised the alarm, dispatched patrols, and received reports that no beast tide was approaching but cultivators had come knocking.

Xu Long probed Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary’s Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart formation, triggering its full activation and narrowly escaping its killing power by withdrawing his will. He entered the sanctuary under the identity Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect, where the guards received a new transmission about him.

• A purple-robed cultivator ordered the sanctuary guards to crush the intruder who was attacking the formation.
• Xu Long sensed the formation’s danger and tried to withdraw his will as the twelve sanctuaries linked together and activated their defenses.
• The formation trapped Xu Long’s retreat and ground against his will, but his Celestial Phenomenon absorbed some of its energy and helped him escape.
• When the guards demanded that he identify himself, Xu Long claimed to be Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect and crossed the light barrier.
• Xu Long entered Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and met the guards’ wary gazes before their jade tokens lit up with another transmission.

Xu Long entered the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and surveyed its defenses, markets, and resources while considering how its organization made it a powerful base in the wildlands. He reflected on the strength of advanced ferocious beasts and beast kings, ending by wondering whether the sanctuary’s defensive array could withstand a beast king’s attack.

• The cultivators learned that the attacker had escaped despite the impregnable defensive array, and Xu Long disappeared into the sanctuary after entering.
• Xu Long inspected his cracked jade token and surveyed the sanctuary’s abundant spiritual energy, defensive arrays, surrounding spirit veins, and cultivation facilities.
• Xu Long examined the sanctuary’s cultivation caves and marketplaces, then considered how its trade and fees brought substantial resources to Perfected Lord Pinglu.
• Xu Long considered the importance of Spirit Stones and pills, and recalled how ferocious beasts refined spiritual essences and advanced beasts formed Inner Cores.
• Xu Long reflected on the long conflict between cultivators and ferocious beast clans, and on the power of Great Sages and Great Kings.
• Xu Long wondered whether the sanctuary’s defensive array could withstand an attacking beast king.

Xu Long entered Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary’s huge market to buy a defensive formation for Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field. After an incantation linked to Hong Gu unexpectedly activated the formation, he bought it for 5,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones and continued exploring the market with much of his wealth gone.

• Xu Long entered the market and headed to a major formation shop to find protection for Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field.
• An attendant demonstrated a four-flag defensive formation, and Xu Long’s incantation caused the flags to rise and settle into his palm.
• Xu Long paid 5,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones for the formation, blaming Hong Gu’s incantation and charging the expense to Feng Sihu in his thoughts.
• Xu Long left the shop and visited the shops run by Luo River Valley and Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge.

Xu Long visited Luo River Valley’s pill shop in Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and learned about its costly pills and the strict terms for refining one that could advance a cultivator to the Mystic Immortal realm. He then noticed Luo River Valley’s second shop and visited Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s shop, where he learned how the sect partnered with tamed ferocious beasts.

• Xu Long visited Luo River Valley’s shop and learned that its Ancestor would need an advanced ferocious beast’s Inner Core to attempt a Mystic Immortal breakthrough pill, with only a fifty percent chance of success.
• Xu Long observed cultivators buying expensive pills and reflected that high prices had driven ordinary cultivators to establish their own trading fairs and markets.
• Xu Long discovered a second Luo River Valley shop bearing a golden flower banner and committed its emblem to memory.
• Xu Long visited Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s shop and learned how the sect’s cultivators had built partnerships with ferocious beasts, using them as companions, workers, guards, and scouts.

Xu Long visited Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s wholesale shop and witnessed its powerful aquatic vicious beast from the Vast Sea. The display made him reconsider the strength of Daning Commandery Kingdom’s factions and wonder whether Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge knew about the tornado anomaly; he then reflected on the Jade Screen Sect School’s role in the region’s Spirit Stone trade.

• Xu Long toured Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s wholesale shop, where disciplined tamed vicious beasts drew a crowd.
• A roar from beneath the shop’s river silenced the beasts and cultivators as an attendant introduced an aquatic creature from the Vast Sea with Mystic Immortal-level combat strength.
• Xu Long wondered whether Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge knew the truth about the tornado anomaly and lowered his estimation of Feng Sihu’s knowledge.
• The cultivators resumed browsing, and Xu Long admired Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge’s deep foundations and its core disciples’ ability to venture into the Vast Sea.
• Xu Long considered the Jade Screen Sect School’s extensive sanctuaries and spirit veins, which made it a key hub for transporting and trading Spirit Stones.

Xu Long, disguised as Yunmo of the Jade Screen Sect, explored the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and realized three cultivators were tracking him, mistaking him for a wealthy target. He left the sanctuary intending to lure them out and capture them so he could learn their purpose.

• Xu Long surveyed the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary, then decided to return home because he lacked Spirit Stones for a cave abode.
• Xu Long sensed hidden watchers in the market, while three cultivators discussed robbing him and began following him through the crowd.
• Xu Long deduced that his Jade Screen Sect robes and visits to major shops had made him look like a wealthy newcomer carrying valuable goods.
• Xu Long secretly tracked the three cultivators with his will and decided to draw them outside the sanctuary and capture them.
• Xu Long approached the formation’s exit with a jade token, and the three cultivators spread out to follow him from a distance.

Xu Long discovered a beast tide approaching the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary and an unknown lightning-fast creature near its boundary. Perfected Lord Pinglu sealed the sanctuary and ordered its cultivators to prepare for battle, trapping Xu Long and the three cultivators who had been following him inside.

• Xu Long used his Heavenly Eye to spot a beast tide and noticed the trail of a lightning-fast creature near the sanctuary.
• The banners moved, and Perfected Lord Pinglu ordered everyone to remain inside and prepare to fight the beast tide.
• Cultivators panicked and complained, but Pinglu’s stationed forces silenced them and began organizing the defenses.
• The Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart formation activated, linking the energy of the twelve sanctuaries.
• Xu Long realized he was trapped and feared that outsiders like him would be used as cannon fodder, while his three pursuers regrouped as the tide approached.

Xu Long watched the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary rapidly organize its cultivators into formations as a beast tide approached. An aquatic ferocious beast entered the river valley under the escort of a Mystic Immortal from Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge, while a looming danger darkened the sky overhead.

• True Spirits inspected the gathered cultivators and helped divide them into formations according to their cultivation realms.
• Xu Long spotted Jade Screen Sect School and Luo River Valley cultivators among the leaders, along with women whose robes bore a golden flower, but found no cultivators from Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge.
• The aquatic ferocious beast roared from the river valley, and surging waters formed a whirlpool before a blue-robed Mystic Immortal from Immortal Rosy Cloud Ridge appeared atop a column of water.
• The Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary activated its Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation as Xu Long noticed a conspicuous trajectory overhead and the sky darkened under a heavy sense of oppression.

The hurricane and its growing meteorite threatened to overwhelm Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary’s defensive formation. Just as the cultivators feared the beast’s attack, a purple spear shot out from the sanctuary, and they recognized its wielder as their eldest senior brother.

• The hurricane struck the Metal Moat and Boiling Rampart Formation, thinning its light screen but failing to break through.
• The hurricane circled above the sanctuary and gathered debris into an enormous spinning meteorite as the cultivators watched in fear.
• A furious voice rang out from Pinglu’s main vein, and a streak of purple light shot over the cultivators’ heads and beyond the formation.
• Xu Long sensed that the purple streak was a spear moving with extraordinary speed and power.
• The cultivators called out to the spear’s wielder, hailing him as their eldest senior brother.

Xu Long recognized the approaching beast king as a colossal Wu whose presence darkened the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary. The violet spear struck at it but was knocked back, leaving the sanctuary facing the advancing beast tide.

• A violet spear pierced the hurricane and shattered the meteorites, lifting the cultivators’ hopes.
• Xu Long recognized the beast king’s shrill cry from the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field and saw its immense form approaching with his Heavenly Eye.
• The Wu Beast King’s wings blotted out the sun and plunged the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary into darkness.
• The violet spear continued toward the Wu despite its dwindling power, illuminating the beast king as it neared.
• The Wu turned its head and blasted the violet spear backward before it could strike.

The beast king sent the spear hurtling back toward Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary in a hurricane, and the purple-robed cultivator hailed as the eldest senior brother went out to stop it. His crimson seals weakened the hurricane, but the spear struck him and carried him toward the formation.

• The beast king swept the spear back toward Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary with a hurricane, putting the cultivators behind the formation in danger.
• The purple-robed cultivator emerged from Pinglu's main vein, and the assisting cultivators recognized him as their eldest senior brother.
• The purple-robed cultivator stepped outside the formation and formed crimson seals that weakened and turned the hurricane crimson.
• The spear struck the purple-robed cultivator, who clung to it with both arms as it carried him toward the formation.