Chapter Summaries

Xie Xuanyi fought Zhou inside the Town-Sea Formation until Ancestor Ye entered and revealed that he had recognized Xie Xuanyi and understood his supposed death was a ruse. Ancestor Ye explained what happened at the White Paper Barrier and identified Lu Yuzhen’s Fetal Light as the source of Xie Xuanyi’s double, then said the formation could not hold much longer.

• Xie Xuanyi realized Zhou’s attacks lacked true killing intent as the Town-Sea Formation confined him and concealed the other cultivators.
• Ancestor Ye entered the formation despite Lu Yuan’s protests, and Zhou withdrew at his command.
• Ancestor Ye told Xie Xuanyi that he had suspected he survived the North Sea and had inferred his identity from his resemblance to Xie Zhen.
• Ancestor Ye showed Xie Xuanyi how Martial Immortal’s fight at the White Paper Barrier failed after the Pure White Venerable and false saints arrived, forcing Ancestor Ye to flee.
• Ancestor Ye explained that Lu Yuzhen had severed Xie Xuanyi’s Fetal Light and used it to create an identical physical embryo, likely the double Xie Xuanyi had encountered.
• Ancestor Ye warned that the Town-Sea Formation was consuming his divine sense and could not be sustained for long.

Ancestor Ye revealed that he had one final sword left to protect Great Chu from the Southern Borderlands pseudo-Sages, and that Xie Xuanyi had to wound him so their staged feud would convince the enemy that he was near death. After Xie Xuanyi’s attempt to heal him failed, he struck Ancestor Ye and escaped through a route Zhou secretly provided, leaving the conflict between them convincing to witnesses.

• Ancestor Ye told Xie Xuanyi that his Dao wounds had left him near death and that his remaining sword was meant for pseudo-Sages such as White Wraith.
• Ancestor Ye explained that Great Chu had to appear divided so the enemy would believe he was too weak to threaten them, and asked Xie Xuanyi to stab him to make the deception credible.
• Xie Xuanyi tried to heal Ancestor Ye with the Principle of Life, but it could not reach or repair his accumulated Dao wounds.
• At Ancestor Ye’s request, Xie Xuanyi pierced him, and Zhou caught him as the Town-Sea Formation shattered and witnesses saw Xie Xuanyi attack.
• Xie Xuanyi and Zhou resumed their staged fight, and Zhou secretly gave Xie Xuanyi a route through the mausoleum.
• Xie Xuanyi broke through the formation and escaped, while Zhou watched him go and examined the Principle of Annihilation on his cheek.

Ye Qinglian grieved over Ancestor Ye’s injuries while Zhou’s group prepared to search for medicine. Elsewhere, Joyous Zen Master’s party used the Snow-Chaos Pearl to confirm the battle was real, killed Six Desires True Lord through soul-searching, and planned to shadow Ancestor Ye until they could attack the Great Chu cultivators together.

• Ye Qinglian confronted Zhou for failing to protect Ancestor Ye, then remembered how her great-grandmaster had comforted and trained her and resolved to risk her life if necessary.
• Zhou refused to pursue Xie Zhen immediately and proposed that the group first find medicinal herbs for Ancestor Ye.
• Six Desires True Lord presented Joyous Zen Master with the Snow-Chaos Pearl, which let her party view events throughout the secret mausoleum.
• Joyous Zen Master searched Six Desires True Lord’s soul and killed him, confirming that the pearl was genuine and that Xie Zhen had fought Zhou’s group.
• Ink Daoist, Joyous Zen Master, and White Wraith decided to follow Ancestor Ye, wait for the Great Chu cultivators to gather, and turn Six Desires True Lord’s corpse into a puppet.

As Ancestor Ye concealed his grave injuries, he guided Zhou through the secret mausoleum and set a plan to draw out the three pseudo-Saints. Zhou’s group converged with Xie Xuanyi and the other factions, while Ren Zhong knelt before Ancestor Ye, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Qinglian hid Ancestor Ye’s condition from the other factions as Zhou led the group through the deadly labyrinth.
• Ancestor Ye told Zhou that White Wraith, Ink Daoist, and Joyous Zen Master had entered the mausoleum, then guided him toward the labyrinth’s endpoint.
• Xie Xuanyi found Zhou’s healing pills and discovered Ancestor Ye’s sword-marked map, which pointed toward a possible third level and a stone stele where Ancestor Ye planned to finish the conflict.
• Qin Qianlian continued fighting Ren Zhong, who insisted he did not have the woman Qin sought and feared White Wraith’s arrival.
• Qian San and Qin Baihuang emerged into the battle, followed by Zhou’s Great Chu group carrying Ancestor Ye on the Red Leaf Throne.
• Ren Zhong sensed Ancestor Ye’s presence, lost his composure, and knelt before the Red Leaf Throne.

Ren Zhong knelt before White Crane True Person as Six Desires True Lord’s corpse puppet shattered the wall concealing the Great Dao Stone Tablet. White Wraith and the other pseudo-saints revealed themselves through projections and unleashed their forces, leaving Ancestor Ye to defend the survivors while Zhou faced the chance to claim the tablet.

• Ren Zhong knelt before the Red Leaf Throne, and the corpse-puppet Six Desires True Lord used Blood Lightning Pierce to destroy the labyrinth wall.
• The shattered wall revealed a sacred hall containing a blood-thread map of the labyrinth and a powerful Great Dao Stone Tablet.
• White Wraith’s group appeared as divine-sense projections, and White Crane True Person addressed White Wraith as his master before accepting that he would die.
• Six Desires True Lord charged Zhou, and their clash shook the area as Ancestor Ye explained that the pseudo-saints were staying beyond his final sword’s reach.
• Ancestor Ye urged Zhou to seize the stone tablet while he held off the enemy, but White Wraith and the Ink Daoist unleashed a soul banner and puppet grotto-heaven against the surviving cultivators.
• Ancestor Ye empowered the Mingwang Ocean-Suppressing Formation, which blocked the bloody, frigid wind as the mausoleum’s second level became a battlefield.

Zhou refused to abandon Ancestor Ye and ignited his Great Aperture Primal Fire, attempting to break through to the Yang Spirit Realm amid the battle. He defeated the Incinerating Puppet Art’s empowered Six Desires True Lord with one punch, standing surrounded by blazing divine fire.

• Zhou refused Ancestor Ye’s order to leave and stepped forward to defend Great Chu.
• Zhou ignited the Great Aperture Primal Fire, and the gathered fighters realized he was attempting to break through to the Yang Spirit Realm.
• Ink Daoist used the Incinerating Puppet Art to empower Six Desires True Lord and send him to attack Zhou.
• Zhou met Six Desires True Lord’s ultimate punch with his own, and the collision filled the battlefield with golden flames.
• When the firelight faded, Zhou stood unharmed and had blasted apart Six Desires True Lord’s arm and pierced through his body.

Zhou fought the three False Saints while igniting his great apertures, and Ren Zhong chose to enter the Sacred Hall in search of a chance to survive. The chapter left Ren Zhong walking through the Hall’s deadly Sword Qi toward the thing he sought.

• The three False Saints decided to attack Zhou and Ancestor Ye before Zhou could complete his breakthrough.
• White Wraith, Ink Daoist, and Joyous Zen Master appeared as Zhou continued igniting his great apertures.
• Ren Zhong accepted that he might die and realized he sought hope of survival in the Sacred Hall.
• Zhong Sha held Qin Qianlian back, giving Ren Zhong the chance to enter the Sacred Hall.
• Ren Zhong endured the Sword Qi’s wounds and continued toward the Hall’s end.

Ren Zhong entered the sacred hall and burned away his life, while Zhong Sha sacrificed himself in an explosion that Qin Baihuang survived by shielding Qin Qianlian with his Mystic Scale Armor. As Zhou battled the three false saints, he seized the Soul-Devouring Banner and dragged White Wraith toward Joyous Zen Master, while Ancestor Ye waited for a chance to strike.

• Ren Zhong entered the sacred hall under the Great Dao Stone Tablet's pressure and disappeared, leaving a trail of blood behind.
• Zhong Sha detonated himself, and Ancestor Ye's Town-Sea Formation contained the blast as Qin Baihuang used his Mystic Scale Armor to shield Qin Qianlian.
• Qin Baihuang told Qin Qianlian he had protected him because he was his elder brother, and Qin Qianlian conceded the contest for the Qin Household headship before Qin Baihuang collapsed from his injuries.
• White Wraith praised Ren Zhong for entering the sacred hall, then attacked Zhou alongside Ink Daoist and Joyous Zen Master, wounding and suppressing him.
• Ancestor Ye told Zhou he was still alive and focused his divine sense on the three false saints, waiting for a chance to draw his sword.
• Zhou grabbed the Soul-Devouring Banner and used its force to pull White Wraith across the battlefield toward Joyous Zen Master, burning his life as he attacked.

Ancestor Ye unleashed the Flower Burning Style to slaughter White Wraith, Ink Daoist, and the Joyous Zen Master after Zhou drew them into its range. The sword strike ended with the three pseudo-Sages dead, while Zhou’s failed breakthrough left his divine fires extinguished.

• White Wraith sensed danger, and Zhou accelerated to draw the three Southern Borderlands sect masters toward the Red Leaf Throne.
• Ancestor Ye revealed the Flower Burning Style, scattering the dark clouds and filling the sky with deadly red leaves.
• Zhou blocked the pseudo-Sages’ escape while his major-acupoint divine fires went out and his attempt to enter the Yang Spirit Realm failed.
• Flower Burning destroyed White Wraith’s Myriad Souls Formation and pierced White Wraith, Ink Daoist, and the Joyous Zen Master.
• After the red leaves withered, only a pool of blood and three twisted corpses remained.

Ancestor Ye’s Burning Flower sword rain seemingly destroyed the three evil sect masters, but the Immortal Spring revived them and they overwhelmed Great Chu’s formations. As White Wraith moved to kill Zhou, a golden flying sword struck from the darkness and pierced the Joyous Zen Master, leaving her wound unable to heal.

• Ancestor Ye’s Burning Flower sword rain reduced White Wraith, Ink Daoist, and the Joyous Zen Master to skeletons, but their blood gathered and the Immortal Spring began restoring their bodies.
• White Wraith revived and pierced Zhou through the waist and abdomen with a line of blood while the three sect masters regenerated beneath the moonlight between their brows.
• Ancestor Ye ordered Great Chu’s cultivators to form their formations and attack the weakened sect masters, but Ink Daoist shattered the formations and scattered their fighters.
• The Joyous Zen Master struck Qian San with a soul-sound attack, and the three sect masters destroyed Great Chu’s remaining formations and treasures.
• White Wraith restrained Zhou and dragged him closer, but a golden flying sword shot through the darkness; White Wraith dodged, while the sword pierced the Joyous Zen Master and left a destructive wound that would not heal.

Xie Xuanyi returned with Chronic Ailment and revealed that he and Ancestor Ye had staged the apparent conflict to lure out the Southern Borderlands pseudo-Saints and protect Great Chu. After the sword wounded Joyous Zen Master, she recognized him and Xie Xuanyi confirmed his identity.

• Chronic Ailment pierced Joyous Zen Master, and Xie Xuanyi emerged from the shattered mist.
• Ink Daoist realized that the battle between Ancestor Ye and Xie Zhen had been staged, then attacked Xie Xuanyi.
• Xie Xuanyi fought Ink Daoist with his divine fetus and healed the damage from their clash using the Immortal Spring within him.
• Ye Qinglian understood that Ancestor Ye had planned events to ensure everyone in Great Chu survived, with Xie Zhen as his final hidden weapon.
• Joyous Zen Master identified the black-robed figure as Xie Xuanyi, and he confirmed that she was right.

Xie Xuanyi arrived at the Sacred Hall, restored Zhou and Ancestor Ye with the Immortal Spring’s vitality, and healed the Great Chu cultivators. He then fought the three Southern Borderlands Pseudo-Saints alone and annihilated them, leaving the battlefield quiet and his Immortal Spring nearly spent.

• Xie Xuanyi reached Zhou and used Immortal Spring vitality to halt the damage from Zhou’s failed breakthrough to Yang Spirit.
• Xie Xuanyi nourished Ancestor Ye with Immortal Spring mist, preserving his life despite his severe Dao injuries.
• Xie Xuanyi sent a rain of the Principle of Life over the Great Chu cultivators while keeping the three Pseudo-Saints trapped beyond its reach.
• Xie Xuanyi drew Joyous Zen Master, White Wraith, and Ink Daoist into his Dao domain and attacked them with the Dao of Annihilation.
• White Wraith tried to survive by devouring Joyous Zen Master and Ink Daoist, but Xie Xuanyi continued his assault until all three Pseudo-Saints were annihilated.

Xie Xuanyi and the Great Chu cultivators confirmed White Wraith’s death after Xie Xuanyi’s Dao of Annihilation destroyed his body and soul. With the danger gone, they turned their attention to the holy hall and the Great Dao Stone Tablet, the final fortune in the Bai Ze Secret Mausoleum.

• Qian San explained that Yin Mountain cultivators used soul banners to raise living souls by making them devour one another, and White Wraith would have made the gathered cultivators his food if Xie Xuanyi had not suppressed him.
• Zhou confirmed that White Wraith’s fleshly body and divine soul were destroyed, and Chronic Ailment and Xie Xuanyi reduced his corpse to dust and ashes.
• Xie Xuanyi reflected on the vengeance he had sought for ten years and admitted that White Wraith’s easy death left him feeling lost.
• The old man on the Red Leaf Throne reminded Xie Xuanyi that the earth dragon, Red Immortal, and Qing Xiao remained, and Xie Xuanyi said he still had many people to kill.
• Ancestor Ye identified the holy hall as the mausoleum’s third level and warned that its pocket heaven made the Great Dao Stone Tablet far harder to reach than it appeared.

Xie Xuanyi gathered all four pieces of Bone Armor and learned that the sacred hall concealed Great Sage Bai Ze’s divided Primal Devour art, then braved its lethal winds to reach the Great Dao Stone Tablet. He found Ren Zhong near death beside the tablet, but Ren Zhong declared that he had won as Xie Xuanyi sensed an ominous disturbance.

• Zhou and the elders of Qian Heaven Palace and the Xu family gave Xie Xuanyi their pieces of Bone Armor, and Qin Qianlian handed over the fourth.
• Qin Qianlian told Xie Xuanyi that the Bone Armor pieces were linked to the four parts of Great Sage Bai Ze’s Primal Devour art and asked him to rescue living people hidden in White Crane True Person’s soul banner.
• Xie Xuanyi entered the sacred hall and endured its relentless sword intent and astral winds as he made his way toward the Great Dao Stone Tablet.
• Xie Xuanyi found Ren Zhong gravely weakened beside the tablet and offered to spare him if he released the living people in his soul banner.
• Ren Zhong reached toward the tablet and told Xie Xuanyi that, although his Shifu had lost, he had won; Xie Xuanyi felt a sudden unease.

Ren Zhong revealed how White Wraith had shaped his life and celebrated that his master had died, but he used Yuan Yi as a hostage after Xie Xuanyi struck him. Xie Xuanyi held back his sword to protect her as Ren Zhong demanded some of his vitality.

• Ren Zhong recalled how White Wraith had destroyed his home, raised him at Yin Mountain, and planned to devour him, then learned White Wraith was dead.
• Xie Xuanyi attacked Ren Zhong with Chronic Ailment, nearly killing him, but Ren Zhong released the souls held in his Soul-Devouring Banner.
• Xie Xuanyi saw Yuan Yi bound among the souls and realized Yin Mountain had captured her after she left the Wind Scythe Realm.
• Ren Zhong threatened to let the yin souls devour Yuan Yi unless Xie Xuanyi withdrew his flying sword, and Xie Xuanyi complied.
• Ren Zhong asked Xie Xuanyi to give him some of his vitality, noting that Xie Xuanyi possessed the Principle of Life.

Xie Xuanyi rescued Yuan Yi from Ren Zhong’s Soul-Devouring Banner, but discovered that White Wraith’s Earth Dragon had already devoured her organs. As Yuan Yi’s life faded, she confessed that she liked Xie Zhen.

• Xie Xuanyi refused Ren Zhong’s demands and drew out the Principle of Life, while Yuan Yi recalled the sword intent she had learned at the Chen Estate.
• Yuan Yi awakened her buried Sword Qi, giving Xie Xuanyi the opening to send Chronic Ailment into the Soul-Devouring Banner and rescue her as Ren Zhong detonated it.
• Xie Xuanyi discovered blood snakes beneath Yuan Yi’s skin and learned she had encountered a white-robed child who fed her an Earth Dragon.
• Blood snakes emerged from Yuan Yi and entered Ren Zhong, transforming him as he knelt and cried out to his master.
• Xie Xuanyi tried to sustain Yuan Yi with vitality and Immortal Spring, but the Earth Dragon had devoured her organs and she was dying.
• Yuan Yi told Xie Zhen that she liked him before her strength faded.

After Miss Yuan died, White Wraith revealed that he was the earth dragon who had devoured the original White Wraith and tried to exploit Xie Xuanyi’s grief. Xie Xuanyi’s Principle of Annihilation began advancing toward the Great Dao, and the chapter ended as he unleashed a vast storm of Sword Qi against White Wraith.

• White Wraith explained that the earth dragon had devoured the original White Wraith and taken over his identity and body.
• Xie Xuanyi placed Miss Yuan’s withered body inside his Sword Qi Grotto-Heaven and grieved her death.
• White Wraith seized Ren Zhong’s body and the Soul-Devouring Banner, then decided to pursue Xie Xuanyi as a vessel.
• White Wraith’s remark about Miss Yuan’s death stirred Xie Xuanyi’s sword intent, and Xie Xuanyi removed the Faces of the Multitude.
• White Wraith raced toward the Great Dao Stone Tablet, while Xie Xuanyi’s Principle of Annihilation broke through its bottleneck.
• Xie Xuanyi closed his hand and unleashed a greatly intensified rain of the Dao of Annihilation upon White Wraith.

Lu Yuzhen secured the Soul Essences of Unity Zen Master and White Daoist while leaving Yin Mountain untouched because Red Immortal and Qing Xiao were near death. In the Sacred Hall, Xie Xuanyi defeated White Wraith’s attempt to reach the Dao stele and revealed that his Principle of Annihilation was approaching a Great Dao Embryo.

• Mirror Three reported that Unity Zen Master and White Daoist had surrendered their Soul Essences and their sects had entered the white paper barrier.
• Lu Yuzhen refused to take Red Immortal and Qing Xiao’s Soul Essences, explaining that their deaths were near, and ordered Yin Mountain’s people to quell Xie Xuanyi’s fury.
• The Sacred Hall’s Dao domain shattered, revealing the Earth Dragon, White Wraith, crawling toward the Dao stele as Xie Xuanyi stood beside it.
• Xie Xuanyi cut away the inch of White Wraith’s skin touching the Dao stele with a swift strike of Sword Qi.
• Ancestor Ye explained that Xie Xuanyi’s Principle of Annihilation was nearing a Great Dao Embryo, and Zhou declared the battle over.

Xie Xuanyi drew on the Dao tablet to evolve the Great Dao of Annihilation while tormenting White Wraith, then claimed dominion over the collapsing secret mausoleum. As the others escaped, Qin Qianlian stayed behind with Smoke Evil, revealing he had never sought to become household head and preventing Smoke Evil from leaving.

• Xie Xuanyi used White Wraith as a stake to evolve the Great Dao of Annihilation, keeping him barely alive as the Sword Qi destroyed his body.
• Ancestor Ye recognized Yuan Yi's blood aura in Ren Zhong's Soul-Devouring Banner, and Qin Qianlian understood that living disciples had been trapped inside it.
• Xie Xuanyi pulled the Dao tablet free, gained dominion over the mausoleum, and opened a doorway out as the holy hall grotto-heaven collapsed.
• The old man on the Red Leaf Throne and Zhou led their groups through the doorway, while Qin Qianlian stayed behind and sent Su Hong ahead.
• Smoke Evil accused Qin Qianlian of deceiving him, but Qin Qianlian said he had returned home only to visit and discipline his elder brother, not to contend for household head.
• Qin Qianlian pointed out that the mausoleum's Dao rules suppressed the Yin-Yang Mirror and told Smoke Evil to stay with him and watch the rain of Dao.

Xie Xuanyi gained temporary control of the Bai Ze Secret Mausoleum through its Dao stele and entered the stele’s inner world to refine it. There, he met Xuan Ming, Bai Ze’s disciple, as the chaos around them revealed the true sacred hall.

• Xie Xuanyi touched the Dao stele, learned that it controlled the mausoleum, and opened the exit so Ancestor Ye Zhou could lead the Great Chu cultivators out.
• Qin Qianlian stayed behind with Yan Xie's avatar, while Xie Xuanyi ignored them and focused on refining the stele.
• Xie Xuanyi annihilated White Wraith with the Dao of Annihilation rain and saw that White Crane True Person's body had been reduced to Bone Armor.
• Xie Xuanyi entered the Dao stele's inner world and sensed the Daos of Annihilation and Life within its chaos.
• Xuan Ming appeared before Xie Xuanyi and revealed that he had been Bai Ze's disciple.
• Xuan Ming's words stirred a fierce wind that scattered the chaos and exposed the vast sacred hall within the Dao stele.