Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong revealed her Heavenly Snow Woman Second Spirit and six-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year spirit ring, while Wang Chuan announced he would travel to the City of Slaughter for Asura God's fourth trial. On his way, he confronted Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest, and the chapter ended with Wang Chuan drawing Return to Ruins as a battle threatened to erupt.

• Ning Rongrong showed Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo her Heavenly Snow Woman Second Spirit and explained that Snow Empress had sacrificed herself to grant her its spirit ring.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Ning Rongrong to train under Ice Empress before going to Sea God Island, and Rongrong agreed to wait.
• Wang Chuan told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that he would go to the City of Slaughter to kill the Blood Red Bat King for Asura God's fourth trial, then departed after Rongrong asked him to return safely.
• Wang Chuan sensed an ancient presence probing him in the Star Dou Great Forest, expanded his Void Domain, and charged toward the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian attacked Wang Chuan, then accused him of killing soul beasts and absorbing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's aura; Wang Chuan drew Return to Ruins and threatened to erase anyone who blocked his path.

Wang Chuan battled Di Tian above the Lake of Life, using his void-based abilities to wound and restrain the Beast God. Di Tian broke free and unleashed the Dragon God Claw as the fight continued.

• Wang Chuan used Void Warp and Annihilation Stab to shave off part of Di Tian’s dragon horn.
• Di Tian’s Dark Dragon Flame Breath passed through Wang Chuan, who had become immune to the attack, and destroyed distant mountains.
• Wang Chuan trapped Di Tian in spatial shackles, but Di Tian broke them with his overwhelming Soul Power.
• Di Tian charged with the Dragon God Claw, and Wang Chuan redirected his momentum into a spatial collapse with Myriad Manifestations.
• Wang Chuan struck Di Tian’s shoulder with Time Ash Slash, withering his scales and flesh before Di Tian’s Dragon God power drove out the flame.
• Di Tian broke free of the spatial pull, suffered a grievous shoulder wound, and vowed to kill Wang Chuan with the Dragon God Claw.

Wang Chuan unleashed his Eighth Spirit Ability and nearly erased Di Tian from existence, but the universe’s supreme will of Balance intervened and halted the battle. Both fighters crashed to the ground, gravely injured, as Wang Chuan lost consciousness.

• Di Tian attacked Wang Chuan with Dragon God Claw, but Wang Chuan countered with his Eighth Spirit Ability, Primordial Beginning · Order of the End.
• Wang Chuan’s strike erased Di Tian’s Dragon God Claw and began dismantling Di Tian’s body, soul, and existence.
• The supreme will of Balance froze Wang Chuan’s attack and Di Tian’s impending annihilation, declaring that Di Tian could not be erased and Void could not overflow.
• Balance drained Wang Chuan’s Power of Void, leaving him unconscious as Nothingness returned to its ordinary form.
• Wang Chuan and the gravely wounded Di Tian fell into the devastated ground beside the Lake of Life as time and space returned to normal.

After waking in Black Rock City with his memories shattered, Wang Chuan learned that Li Yang had died after saving him and left a request for him to protect Li Xiaoxing. Wang Chuan remained emotionally numb and set out to find Ning Rongrong, while Li Xiaoxing followed him into the city.

• Wang Chuan awoke near Black Rock City's ruined gate with only his name and a strong urge to find Ning Rongrong triggered by a small wooden knife.
• Li Xiaoxing accused Wang Chuan of causing her Brother's death, explaining that Li Yang had spent their money saving him instead of buying medicine.
• Wang Chuan discovered Li Yang's note asking him to help Li Xiaoxing, though he felt no guilt or sense of responsibility.
• Li Xiaoxing declared that she would go with Wang Chuan, and he walked into Black Rock City as she followed.

In a freezing alley, Li Xiaoxing saw Wang Chuan’s strange, deathly cold worsen and tried to keep him alive despite blaming him for her brother Li Yang’s death. She embraced him to share her warmth, leaving both of them exposed to the deadly chill.

• After failing to find anyone who knew Ning Rongrong, Wang Chuan covered Li Xiaoxing with a piece of discarded canvas to keep her warm.
• Li Xiaoxing thanked Wang Chuan and asked whether Ning Rongrong was important to him, but he did not respond.
• Li Xiaoxing woke to an unnatural, deathly cold radiating from Wang Chuan and saw frost forming around him.
• Li Xiaoxing tried covering Wang Chuan with the canvas, but his chill did not lessen.
• Remembering how Li Yang had saved Wang Chuan, Li Xiaoxing wrapped her arms around him and tried to warm him with her body.

Wang Chuan woke to find Li Xiaoxing suffering from the cold, covered her with blankets, and bought her porridge using five Gold Soul Coins from his Soul Tool. After learning how much he had paid, Li Xiaoxing became furious and dragged him back toward the stall to demand the money back.

• Wang Chuan woke and found Li Xiaoxing hypothermic, so he wrapped her in the available blankets and canvas.
• Wang Chuan used his black bracelet Soul Tool to retrieve Gold Soul Coins and paid five for a bowl of porridge.
• Wang Chuan returned to the alley with the porridge, where Li Xiaoxing feared he had abandoned her and burst into tears.
• Li Xiaoxing accepted the porridge and learned that Wang Chuan had paid five Gold Soul Coins for it.
• Li Xiaoxing accused the stall owner of cheating Wang Chuan and dragged him toward the stall to seek justice.

Li Xiaoxing confronted the porridge-stall owner for cheating Wang Chuan, but the owner bribed city guard Wang Ba to have Wang Chuan arrested. When Wang Chuan sensed his lost power of Abundance in a bracer at Wang Ba’s waist and seized it, Wang Ba ordered the guards to attack him.

• Li Xiaoxing accused the porridge-stall owner of taking five Gold Soul Coins from Wang Chuan, but the owner denied it and threatened to call the city guard.
• Wang Chuan flipped into the stall and stood unharmed when the owner punched him, while the owner injured his own wrist and cried for help.
• Wang Ba arrived with his thugs, accepted four Gold Soul Coins from the owner, and ordered them to arrest Wang Chuan.
• Wang Chuan sensed the power of Abundance in a bracer at Wang Ba’s waist and grabbed it before Wang Ba could dodge.
• Wang Ba ordered his thugs to attack Wang Chuan, and Li Xiaoxing screamed a warning.

Wang Chuan recovered his bracer Soul Tool after killing Wang Ba and his men, then escaped Black Rock City with Li Xiaoxing. Li Xiaoxing remained terrified of him but insisted on protecting the person her brother had entrusted to her.

• Wang Chuan killed the three thugs who attacked him, leaving Wang Ba and one surviving thug horrified.
• Wang Ba offered Wang Chuan money and returned his bracer Soul Tool, then attacked him from behind with his Third Spirit Ability.
• Wang Chuan used Grand Void Body to let the sword pass through him, then killed Wang Ba by crushing his neck.
• Li Xiaoxing overcame her terror, grabbed Wang Chuan, and urged him to flee before stronger soul masters arrived.
• Li Xiaoxing led Wang Chuan through the alleys toward the dangerous city gates of Black Rock City, refusing to let go of his wrist.

Li Xiaoxing and Wang Chuan escaped to her hidden shelter, where she helped him awaken his martial souls. Wang Chuan revealed Finality and Ambrosial Arbor, and Li Xiaoxing promised to help him find Ning Rongrong as their bond began to grow.

• Li Xiaoxing brought Wang Chuan to the secret shelter she had built with her brother and checked him for injuries after their escape.
• Li Xiaoxing promised to help Wang Chuan find Ning Rongrong, then taught him how to summon his martial soul.
• Wang Chuan summoned Finality, which awakened fragments of blade techniques and a memory of someone calling himself Master.
• Wang Chuan summoned Ambrosial Arbor, whose life force restored the shelter and filled Li Xiaoxing with warmth and joy.
• Li Xiaoxing recognized that Wang Chuan had twin martial souls and vowed to take him to powerful Soul Master organizations to seek news of Ning Rongrong.
• Wang Chuan gently tapped Li Xiaoxing on the forehead, and she smiled at his small gesture.

Wang Chuan returned to the hideout with a Fierce Mane Beast, and Li Xiaoxing prepared their meal. His awkward praise and head pat reminded her of her lost Brother, leaving her grieving as she hid her tears behind teasing remarks.

• Wang Chuan left the hideout after Li Xiaoxing said she was hungry.
• Wang Chuan returned with the corpse of a hundred-year Fierce Mane Beast, astonishing Li Xiaoxing.
• Li Xiaoxing lit a fire and painstakingly butchered the beast to cook meat for them.
• Wang Chuan patted Li Xiaoxing's head, awkwardly smiled, and praised her as amazing.
• Li Xiaoxing remembered her lost Brother, fought back tears, and teased Wang Chuan about his strange smile.

Wang Chuan cared for Li Xiaoxing at their forest shelter, giving her fresh clothes and helping her settle in for the night. After she fell asleep, he left to draw the Black Rock City pursuers away and eliminate the threat before it reached her.

• Wang Chuan praised Li Xiaoxing’s roasted meat and gave her an oversized dark robe, which she accepted after he pretended he would throw it into the fire.
• Wang Chuan brought Li Xiaoxing water and a damp cloth, then covered her with a clean cloth as she fell asleep in the moss bed.
• Li Xiaoxing wished Wang Chuan good night, and he stayed beside her until she was deeply asleep.
• Wang Chuan left the shelter at night after sensing the Black Rock City pursuers searching nearby.
• Wang Chuan deliberately left tracks to lure the pursuers deeper into the forest, preparing to attack them away from Li Xiaoxing.

Wang Chuan silently erased the pursuers from Black Rock City with his Void Domain while Li Xiaoxing slept. In the morning, he accepted the steamed bun she had risked returning to the city to buy, and they prepared to travel north to Heaven Dou City to seek information about Ning Rongrong.

• Wang Chuan ambushed the pursuers near the secret base and used his Void Domain to make them vanish without a trace.
• Wang Chuan returned to the base and kept watch beside the sleeping Li Xiaoxing.
• Li Xiaoxing woke at dawn and gave Wang Chuan a steamed bun she had secretly bought in Black Rock City.
• Wang Chuan realized the danger Li Xiaoxing had faced, accepted her gift, and ate it without reproaching her.
• Li Xiaoxing said they should set off after breakfast and head north to Heaven Dou City and Heaven Dou Royal Academy to learn about Ning Rongrong.

Li Xiaoxing and Wang Chuan continued north toward Heaven Dou City so he could find Ning Rongrong, while Li Xiaoxing shared her brother’s beliefs about kindness and the meaning of life. She gave Wang Chuan a handmade kite as a keepsake, and he accepted it as a new anchor in his memories before they resumed their journey.

• Li Xiaoxing left the shelter with Wang Chuan and asked about Ning Rongrong, learning that she was very important to him.
• While Wang Chuan hunted, Li Xiaoxing made a crude kite using techniques her brother had taught her.
• As they ate, Li Xiaoxing told Wang Chuan her brother’s thoughts about life, kindness, and staying true to one’s heart.
• Li Xiaoxing drew herself, her brother, and Wang Chuan on the kite and gave it to Wang Chuan to fly if he ever remembered her after they parted.
• Wang Chuan stored the kite in his Soul Tool, and he and Li Xiaoxing continued toward Heaven Dou City.

Li Xiaoxing shared her belief that small acts of kindness mattered with Wang Chuan, stirring memories of the ideals and compromises he had left behind. After they camped for the night, a bone-cold Void suddenly awakened her, and she looked toward Wang Chuan in terror.

• Li Xiaoxing rescued injured animals and helped a trapped Wind Roe as Wang Chuan followed protectively.
• Wang Chuan asked whether Li Xiaoxing feared that her kindness would bring danger, and she said that living by their convictions was enough for her.
• Li Xiaoxing described the epitaph she imagined for herself, while Wang Chuan remembered how he had abandoned his youthful belief in kindness.
• Li Xiaoxing silently hoped to leave a small trace in Wang Chuan's memories, then fell asleep beside the campfire wearing his robe.
• Wang Chuan quietly wished Li Xiaoxing good night, and she murmured a reply in her sleep.
• A bone-piercing sense of Void jolted Li Xiaoxing awake, and she looked toward Wang Chuan in terror.

Li Xiaoxing watched Wang Chuan succumb to an out-of-control Power of Void until Fu Lin appeared and offered to stabilize him in exchange for part of her soul. She accepted, and though the sacrifice weakened her, Wang Chuan’s condition temporarily improved before Li Xiaoxing lost consciousness.

• Li Xiaoxing woke to find the Power of Void eroding Wang Chuan, and she could not reach him without being harmed by the gray mist.
• Fu Lin appeared, examined Wang Chuan, and offered to use part of Li Xiaoxing’s soul to temporarily stabilize him.
• Li Xiaoxing agreed, and Fu Lin extracted part of her soul, causing her agonizing pain and severe weakness.
• Fu Lin sent Li Xiaoxing’s soul orb into the gray mist, weakening the Void’s erosion and steadying Wang Chuan’s condition.
• Fu Lin recorded his experimental data and vanished, while Li Xiaoxing touched Wang Chuan’s clothes before losing consciousness.

After using part of her soul to temporarily stabilize Wang Chuan, Li Xiaoxing learned from a Nameless Spirit that he remained trapped in a Void-ravaged sea of memories. She chose to enter his consciousness to save him, and the spirit identified the Blade of the End imprint he had left on her as a guide to his core.

• Li Xiaoxing woke beside Wang Chuan, found him alive but unconscious, and struggled to reach and call to him.
• A Nameless Spirit told Li Xiaoxing that her sacrifice had only slowed the Void and that Wang Chuan could be awakened by entering his consciousness.
• The Nameless Spirit warned Li Xiaoxing that the journey could destroy her mind and soul, but she resolved to save Wang Chuan.
• The Nameless Spirit explained that she needed an anchor resonating with a powerful imprint in Wang Chuan's soul.
• Li Xiaoxing remembered the dark golden light that had once protected her, and the Nameless Spirit recognized it as the Blade of the End's aura that could guide her.

Li Xiaoxing obtained a trace of the Seed of Abundance’s power and used Wang Chuan’s Blade of the End imprint to enter his consciousness. She was immediately swallowed by Void and confronted with a storm of his memories as her protection began to wear away.

• The Nameless Spirit raised a temporary barrier around Wang Chuan and sent Li Xiaoxing into the forest to find the Seed of Abundance.
• Li Xiaoxing found the Seed in a glowing spring, persuaded its Guardian Spirits to grant her a trace of its power, and received a protective core for her consciousness.
• Li Xiaoxing returned to Wang Chuan and found the Void growing stronger as the Nameless Spirit’s barrier weakened.
• Li Xiaoxing joined the Seed’s protection with Wang Chuan’s Blade of the End imprint and followed it into his consciousness.
• Void engulfed Li Xiaoxing and bombarded her with Wang Chuan’s painful memories while corroding the jade-green protection.

Li Xiaoxing reached the Void at the core of Wang Chuan’s consciousness and used the Seed of Abundance and the Blade of the End’s mark to pierce it, briefly freeing a ripple of Wang Chuan’s true consciousness before she was swallowed by the Void. Fu Lin observed the breakthrough and recorded the results of his experiment.

• Li Xiaoxing resisted the Void’s illusions and followed her spiritual link to Wang Chuan’s core as the Seed of Abundance’s protection weakened.
• Li Xiaoxing found Wang Chuan’s consciousness trapped within the black vortex at the source of the Void.
• As the vortex’s pull threatened to destroy her, the Blade of the End’s mark resonated with her protective will and fused with the Seed of Abundance’s power.
• Li Xiaoxing’s beam pierced the vortex and let a faint ripple of Wang Chuan’s true consciousness escape, but the force exhausted her protection and the Void swallowed her consciousness.
• Fu Lin watched from an observational dimension and recorded Li Xiaoxing’s depletion and the fissure in Wang Chuan’s core corruption.

Fu Lin revealed that Balance had guided him to monitor Wang Chuan and use Li Xiaoxing as a catalyst, then stabilized her life and consciousness link. In Wang Chuan’s desolate Sea of Consciousness, recovered memories led him to confront a reflection wielding Nothingness, which challenged him to take the power for himself.

• Fu Lin explained that Balance had made him a counterweight to Wang Chuan and identified Li Xiaoxing as a key sample in his plan.
• Fu Lin activated life support for Li Xiaoxing and reinforced her connection to Wang Chuan’s consciousness.
• Wang Chuan awoke in the gray emptiness of his Sea of Consciousness and recovered painful fragments of his memories.
• Wang Chuan encountered an identical reflection holding Nothingness, which told him he had to defeat it to claim the power.
• Li Xiaoxing’s faint consciousness continued drifting near the edge of Wang Chuan’s Sea of Consciousness, unnoticed.

Wang Chuan fought a flawless Void incarnation of himself in his Sea of Consciousness, but his attacks failed and backlash left him near collapse. Outside the battle, Fu Lin guided Li Xiaoxing’s fading consciousness toward the clash, hoping her protective feelings would disrupt the incarnation’s perfect balance.

• Wang Chuan fought the false Wang Chuan with saber techniques, but the incarnation outmatched him and pierced his spiritual body with a counterattack.
• Wang Chuan unleashed Return to Nothingness, but Grand Void Body let the false Wang Chuan pass through the blade qi unharmed.
• Both Wang Chuans activated their Martial Soul Avatars, and the false Wang Chuan steadily gained the advantage in their clash of Void powers.
• The false Wang Chuan struck Wang Chuan with Time Ash Slash, but the Abundance blessing let Wang Chuan resist its fatal erosion.
• Wang Chuan used Primordial Beginning · Order of the End to target the false Wang Chuan’s core of existence, but the negation vanished into Void and backlash weakened him.
• Fu Lin measured the battle’s fluctuations and guided Li Xiaoxing’s fragile consciousness toward Wang Chuan’s Sea of Consciousness, while Wang Chuan knelt near collapse before his opponent.