Chapter Summaries

During his tribulation, the young man used the Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill’s power to resume the convergence of his clear and turbid magic power while his blood dragon and sword formation fought the Wind of the Netherworld. The tribulation then invaded his Sea of Consciousness, seized his soul, and plunged him into karmic hindrance.

• The young man’s Blood Domain halted the changes in his dantian and weakened his cultivation, but the Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill released its power and restarted the convergence of his magic power.
• A small golden flower within the pill’s clear qi arranged the transformation of energy in the young man’s dantian as the blood dragon and sword formation fought off hurricanes and wind blades.
• The Wind of the Netherworld intensified, and two gusts broke through the young man’s defenses and entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• The eerie winds immobilized the young man’s soul and lifted it with chains before the Wisdom Sword could stop them.
• The young man’s consciousness became clouded as he fell into the Wind of the Netherworld’s karmic hindrance.

The young man survived the Wind of the Netherworld’s assault on his soul by drawing on the Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill and striking back with the Wisdom Sword. After suppressing the wind and unleashing his sword formation, he faced the Origin Will’s renewed fury at Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field.

• The Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill’s aura cleared the karmic hindrance and restored the young man’s consciousness as the Wind of the Netherworld seized his soul.
• The young man used the Wisdom Sword and surging waves in his Sea of Consciousness to weaken the wind and free his soul.
• The young man activated his thirty-six treasured swords and spoke an edict, severing the Wind of the Netherworld and shattering the rain with sword qi.
• The blood dragon left the Dao Field and met the gaze from beyond the heavens, provoking the Origin Will to unleash overwhelming heavenly pressure.
• The young man faced the Origin Will’s fury as his thirty-six-sword formation formed a spinning lotus in the air.

The young man broke through from the Earth Immortal Realm to the Heavenly Immortal Realm while battling the Wind of the Netherworld with the Lotus Sword Formation. After stabilizing his cultivation, he unleashed the formation’s full power against the still-raging wind.

• The young man drove the Lotus Sword Formation into the Wind of the Netherworld, cutting a gap through the storm with the Law of Slaughter.
• The blood dragon struggled against the wind as the young man’s Magic Power churned and transformed within his dantian.
• The young man completed his breakthrough to the Heavenly Immortal Realm and expelled the remaining turbid qi from the Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, the young man sent the Lotus Sword Formation to pierce the Wind of the Netherworld with countless streaks of sword qi.

The young man survived the Wind of the Netherworld tribulation, and his Sea-Overturning Sword Formation advanced to the Low-Grade Divine Artifact rank as he became a Heavenly Immortal. He repaired and expanded the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field, trapping surrounding ferocious beast tribes inside its defensive array.

• The young man used the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to shatter the Wind of the Netherworld and retrieve the blood dragon, advancing the formation to the Low-Grade Divine Artifact rank.
• The tribulation ended, and the young man realized he had survived and stabilized his Heavenly Immortal realm.
• The young man activated the Spirit-Gathering Array to repair the damaged terrain and revive vegetation across the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field.
• The young man expanded the defensive array, placing the surrounding ferocious beast tribes inside its boundaries.
• The ferocious beasts recognized that they were trapped and roared in anger, while the cultivators guarding the Dao field's four sides sensed the upheaval.

After Yunmo passed his tribulation, the Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field expanded and gained a new guardian who looked toward the Vast Sea. Elsewhere, two Jade Screen Sect School inspectors tried to force their way into a Dao Field, but their attack ended with a sword light pursuing its guard toward the main vein.

• The four Earth Immortals guarded the Dao Field through Yunmo's tribulation, then received orders to hold its expanded perimeter and destroy attacking beasts.
• The young Heavenly Immortal restored the Dao Field, took up position on its formation's foundation, and gazed toward the Vast Sea.
• Two Jade Screen Sect School inspectors demanded entry to a Dao Field, and its Heavenly Immortal guard refused their command.
• One inspector launched a streak of sword light that pierced the Dao Field's defensive formation and shattered part of it.
• The guard summoned his flying sword and retreated toward the main vein as the sword light advanced.

Yun Qi tried to defend the Heavenly Immortal training ground against Yun Ya’s overwhelming sword attack, then yielded and opened the formation. Yun Ya and a fat Heavenly Immortal Daoist entered to inspect the training grounds and their Spirit Stone resources.

• Yun Ya’s sword light broke through Yun Qi’s flying sword and seal, driving Yun Qi back across the training ground.
• Yun Qi called to Yun Ya and offered to open the formation, but he continued attacking with his flying sword.
• Yun Ya accused Yun Qi of going back on his word, and Yun Qi opened a corner of the formation.
• Yun Qi saw Yun Ya, an arrogant thin Earth Immortal, arrive ahead of a restrained fat Heavenly Immortal, and bowed to them.
• Yun Ya accepted Yun Qi’s apology and said the sect’s inspection would cover the training ground’s Spirit Stone resources.

Xu Long coerced Yun Qi into handing over five thousand Spirit Stones and arranged for his Dao field to be linked with Rotten Peach Mountain. After Yun Qi declined the core disciple selection, Xu Long and Yun Ya left, while Yun Qi resolved to warn the other Dao field guardians about them.

• Xu Long withdrew his sword light, then pressured Yun Qi into giving Yun Ya five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long suggested Yun Qi consider the core disciple selection, and Yun Ya explained the opportunity in the Vast Sea.
• Yun Qi declined the selection, and Xu Long persuaded him to link his Dao field with Rotten Peach Mountain.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya finished inspecting the Dao field and departed, leaving Yun Qi lamenting his loss and planning to warn the others.

Xu Long accompanied Yun Ya on an inspection tour of the Jade Screen Sect School’s Dao Fields in the Boundless Wilderness, using Yun Ya’s authority to force the guards to pay Spirit Stone resources. After they fleeced every Dao Field and made Yun Ya notorious across the region, Xu Long cheerfully counted their gains while Yun Ya felt aggrieved.

• Xu Long surveyed Yun Qi’s prosperous Dao Field and considered how connecting it to Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field could help the sect’s network expand.
• Xu Long launched Yun Ya’s inspection tour by breaking a Dao Field’s formation and suppressing its guarding cultivator until he paid Spirit Stone resources.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya visited every Dao Field in the Boundless Wilderness, and Xu Long repeatedly used Yun Ya’s name and authority to collect payments from the guards.
• Yun Ya realized that Xu Long had acted under his name throughout the tour, earning him a reputation as a powerful inspector while Yun Ya grew uneasy about the coerced payments.
• Xu Long counted the collected resources beside Yun Ya as they headed toward another Dao Field, while Yun Ya felt especially aggrieved.

Xu Long and Yun Ya reached a Mystic Immortal cultivator’s Daoist sanctum, which Xu Long wanted to inspect for its abundant resources. Yun Ya tried to leave him behind, but Xu Long saw through his scheme and planned to return to the sect with him for the core disciple selection.

• Yun Ya worried about the resentment he had earned from guardian cultivators while Xu Long happily counted Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long spotted a prosperous Daoist sanctum guarded by a Mystic Immortal cultivator and wanted to enter, but Yun Ya warned that they were not authorized to inspect it.
• Yun Ya said the assignment was complete and tried to part ways with Xu Long, who returned a storage bag containing five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xu Long pointed out that the long journey might make him miss the core disciple selection, and Yun Ya grew uneasy.
• Xu Long realized Yun Ya had deliberately delayed their journey through the Boundless Wilderness and intended to leave him at the Mystic Immortal sanctum.

Xu Long entered the Mystic Immortal Dao Field with Yun Ya, believing it held a fast route back to the grotto-heaven paradise. Inside, Yun Ya explained the Dao Field’s importance and its large-scale transmission array, which Xu Long recognized as the means he sought.

• Xu Long ignored Yun Ya’s warning and brought him to the Mystic Immortal Dao Field, where they joined the line to enter.
• Yun Ya verified his status with a jade token, and the checkpoint cultivator let them pass without charging them.
• Xu Long sensed the Dao Field’s strong defenses and observed its busy traffic of cultivators carrying goods between the grotto-heaven paradise and the Boundless Wilderness.
• Yun Ya explained that Mystic Immortal Dao Fields were key sect strongholds overseen by powerful cultivators and that this one was run by Daoist Yun Peng.
• Xu Long identified the large-scale transmission array as the fast route back to the grotto-heaven paradise and judged it less advanced than Hong Gu’s array.

Xu Long and Yun Ya reached the guarded teleportation array while Yun Peng handed over control of the cultivation ground to his senior brother before departing for the core disciple selection. The chapter leaves Xu Long and Yun Ya on the array as Yun Peng and his senior brother approach the transfer point.

• Xu Long and Yun Ya followed the cultivators to the transfer center and prepared to use the teleportation array.
• Yun Peng and his senior brother discussed the hurried core disciple selection and Yun Peng's plans to investigate the abnormality in the Vast Sea.
• Yun Peng handed his senior brother the jade token and entrusted him with guarding the cultivation ground during his absence.
• Yun Peng and his senior brother set off together along a path of mist toward the transfer point.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya stepped onto the teleportation array, and Xu Long reflected that Yun Ya's presence had helped them get past its guards.

Xu Long recognized the transmission array’s runes as relics of the immemorial era and learned how Jade Screen Sect School ancestors had sacrificed themselves to establish safe coordinates. Just as the array was about to activate, it failed to start, and the stationed cultivator hurried back with an anxious, impatient expression.

• Xu Long sensed the array’s ancient spatial energy and recognized its runes from the inscriptions he had carved in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Yun Ya explained that Jade Screen Sect School ancestors had died testing the arrays until they found stable coordinates for transmission.
• Xu Long memorized what he could about the arrays but realized that knowing their structure would not reveal their destinations.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya took their places as the cultivators prepared to activate the transmission array.
• The array did not activate, and the stationed cultivator hurried back onto the foundation, looking anxious and impatient.

Xu Long and Yun Ya were ordered off the teleportation array to make way for the Mystic Immortal Yun Peng, who was returning to the sect. Just as they were about to leave, Yun Peng recognized the name Yunmo and invited both cultivators to teleport with him.

• Xu Long stopped Yun Ya from leaving when he sensed someone approaching, and the guard ordered everyone off the array for Yun Peng.
• Yun Ya tried to assert his status to the guard, but the guard rebuked him when Yun Peng arrived.
• Yun Ya and Xu Long prepared to leave the platform rather than provoke Yun Peng.
• Yun Peng reacted when he heard the name Yunmo and watched the two cultivators turn away.
• Yun Peng told Xu Long and Yun Ya they could teleport with him, startling the guard and the waiting crowd.

Xu Long, Yun Ya, and Yun Peng traveled through an ancient transmission formation toward the Jade Screen Sect School’s core disciple selection, while Xu Long sensed the surviving Primordial Law of Space. Elsewhere in the Boundless Wilderness, a young master and Uncle Chen continued searching for the fierce beast that had escaped them, but their latest attack yielded no trace.

• Yun Peng tested Xu Long in the formation and recognized him as the cultivator known as Yunmo, then allowed him and Yun Ya to remain.
• Xu Long, Yun Ya, and Yun Peng activated the ancient transmission formation and traveled using a jade tablet that held stable coordinates.
• Xu Long sensed the ancient Law of Space and felt his own Law of Slaughter stir before the three entered the darkness of transmission.
• Across the Mystic Immortal sanctuaries, cultivators prepared to compete for core disciple positions as the Jade Screen Sect School recalled powerful candidates.
• Uncle Chen destroyed a fierce beast group and its spirit vein while searching for the escaped beast, but found no trace of it.
• The young master urged Uncle Chen to find the beast quickly and worried that Eldest Senior Brother would disapprove of his prolonged absence.

Xu Long and Yun Ya arrived at the Jade Screen Sect School, where Yun Ya explained the sect’s vast guardian sanctuaries and led him toward its grotto-heaven blessed land. As they entered the cloud-shrouded mountains, Xu Long saw the sect’s radiant golden summits.

• Uncle Chen told the young master he had searched the Boundless Wilderness for the vile beast and would destroy it when he learned its whereabouts.
• Yun Peng returned to the Jade Screen Sect School with Xu Long and Yun Ya, then announced himself with a cry that shook the array base and drew the sect’s attention.
• Yun Peng vanished after surveying the crowd, while Xu Long and Yun Ya left the array base and looked out over the sect’s thirty-six guardian sanctuaries.
• Yun Ya explained that the sanctuaries gathered cultivators and resources, while only disciples inside the grotto-heaven blessed land counted as true Jade Screen Sect School disciples.
• Xu Long and Yun Ya flew past the sanctuaries and mortal settlements toward the grotto-heaven blessed land in the Beyond the Cloudy Heavens.
• Xu Long entered the cloud-covered mountains with Yun Ya and saw golden summits and jade buildings shining above the clouds.

Xu Long arrived at the Jade Screen Sect School’s Deacon Hall, where a Mystic Immortal unleashed a mighty sword strike on the gathered cultivators. The hall’s formation banners stopped the blade, but its crushing pressure drove many disciples to flee, while Xu Long remained standing.

• Yun Ya parted from Xu Long and told him to visit the Deacon Hall to arrange a cave abode and register for the core disciple selection.
• Xu Long reached the Deacon Hall and saw returning cultivators from the Boundless Wilderness gathered separately from the sect’s blue-robed disciples.
• A Mystic Immortal wielded the golden sun’s power to send a treasured sword crashing down toward the crowd without warning.
• Xu Long blocked the strike with a spell seal while many cultivators fled and the others tried to resist.
• The Deacon Hall’s formation banners caught the sword’s edge, but its lingering pressure overwhelmed more cultivators and drove them away.

Xu Long and the other candidates endured a sword strike that tested their resolve, while those who fled were disqualified from the core disciple selection. Perfected Yunxiang arrived, quelled the protest, and ordered the remaining candidates to submit their Spirit Stone resources and collect jade tokens, taking a special interest in Xu Long.

• The formation banners blocked the sword strike, and a Deacon Hall cultivator announced that anyone who had fled was disqualified from the selection.
• Several disqualified candidates protested, but a Mid-stage Mystic Immortal rebuked them and Yunxiang told them they could bring their objections to him.
• The candidates outside the mountains dispersed or waited to hand over their Spirit Stone resources, while Yunxiang reflected on how the selection candidates lacked the resolve of earlier generations.
• Yunxiang surveyed the remaining candidates, noticed Xu Long's unusual aura, and resolved to remember him.
• A Deacon Hall cultivator ordered the remaining candidates to enter the hall one by one, hand over their Spirit Stone resources, and collect jade tokens for the next round.

Xu Long registered at the Deacon Hall, handed over the 2,000 Spirit Stones from his Rotten Peach Mountain Dao Field, and received a jade token for the coming core disciple selection. He followed the token’s directions to an exceptionally well-appointed mountain residence and settled in to await the next stage.

• Xu Long entered the Deacon Hall and told Yunluan that he had come to submit his Spirit Stones and participate in the core disciple selection.
• Yunluan recognized Xu Long as the cultivator who had fought the Duck Beast King, accepted the 2,000 Spirit Stones, and gave him a jade token after quietly switching it for another.
• Xu Long left the Deacon Hall and followed the jade token’s information to the mountain range assigned as his residence.
• Xu Long arrived at a golden-roofed hall on one of the nine peaks, where a young female cultivator saw him pass across the crimson sunset among Luan Cranes.
• Xu Long entered the hall’s independent space, explored its cultivation facilities, and reflected on the benefits of Perfected Lord Pinglu spreading his name.

After returning to the Jade Screen Sect School, Xu Long faced the pressure his Yunmo reputation brought before the core disciple selection. News of his return reached the sect’s leaders and prominent disciples, whose plans and ambitions were unsettled by his arrival.

• Xu Long considered how his fame as the fighter of the Beast King would draw scrutiny during the selection, then sat down to regulate his Magic Power.
• Yunluan registered Yunmo for the selection and sent word, prompting Yun Xiao to declare that he wanted to test Yunmo himself.
• Perfected Yunxiang learned Yunmo had returned and sent the news onward, while Yun Feng worried that Yunmo’s arrival would complicate his standing among the senior disciples.
• Perfected Yun Long received Yunxiang’s message and considered how Yunmo might disrupt his plans to reshape the sect’s factions through the selection.
• Yun Zhang urged Yun Feng to investigate Yunmo and consider making contact, but Yun Feng rebuked him and ordered him to leave.

Yun Feng struggled with the family obligations that threatened her freedom while Xu Long prepared for the Jade Screen Sect School’s core disciple selection. After entering a fragment space, Xu Long repelled a Heavenly Immortal’s surprise attack and faced a barrage of sword qi.

• Yun Zhang urged Yun Feng to consider her family, leaving her torn between gratitude to them and resentment at being treated as a means to secure their future.
• Yun Feng recalled seeing Xu Long and imagined that he lived freely and without restraint.
• Xu Long calmed himself before the selection, then arrived at the Deacon Hall when its summons came.
• Yun Xiao explained that twenty disciples would pass the second round, and Xu Long used his Celestial Phenomenon to neutralize Yun Xiao’s probing gaze.
• Xu Long entered a fragment space, where a Heavenly Immortal attacked him from behind with a flying sword.
• Xu Long caught and bent the flying sword, then enveloped the attacker’s many streaks of sword qi with his will and sensed the real blade among them.