Chapter Summaries

Shen Bai led the Heavenly Oversight Bureau into the City of Bizarre Entities, where Hong Zhuang temporarily suppressed its rules and asked to speak with him. As Yao Long’s forces battled the Demonic Faction, Hong Zhuang began explaining that she was on the verge of becoming a Bizarre Beast and needed the city as her opportunity.

• Amber recalled that beings who were neither human nor bizarre entities could be considered beasts, and she believed Hong Zhuang needed to escape the City of Bizarre Entities’ restraints to become a Bizarre Beast.
• Shen Bai led more than a hundred Heavenly Oversight Bureau members to Cold Years Mountain, while Abbot Xuanzhen, Daoist Qihuang, and the Academy Dean prepared to enter with Torch Academy forces.
• The City of Bizarre Entities descended, and Shen Bai let the Demonic Faction enter before sending Yao Long and Zhang He north with the bureau members to attack them.
• Hong Zhuang told Shen Bai that she had temporarily suspended the city’s rules, revealed that it had marked him, and persuaded him to meet with her while his subordinates proceeded without him.
• Yao Long and Zhang He used Formation Tokens to unite their forces and began a fierce battle against Abbot Xuanzhen, Daoist Qihuang, the Academy Dean, and the Torch Academy elites.
• In a tavern, Hong Zhuang told Shen Bai that she was indeed about to become a Bizarre Beast and that the City of Bizarre Entities was the opportunity she needed.

Hong Zhuang revealed that destroying the City of Bizarre Entities could free her, and Shen Bai agreed to make her a Bizarre Beast whose power could strengthen Cold Moon. Shen Bai annihilated the Demonic Faction and the General Bizarre Entity, but Hong Zhuang could not open the underground passage to her father; Shen Bai noticed that several seals blocked it.

• Hong Zhuang explained that her father created the incomplete Hundred Truths Technique and that destroying Sunset City could free her, while merging with Cold Moon would let her strengthen the sword as Shen Bai's Bizarre Beast.
• Shen Bai agreed to Hong Zhuang's proposal, learned that a powerful general and her father remained, and set out to deal with the threats.
• Shen Bai arrived in time to save Yao Long and the Heavenly Oversight Bureau members, killing Daoist Qihuang, the branch academy dean, and Abbot Xuanzhen.
• Shen Bai destroyed General Street and killed the General Bizarre Entity with one sword strike, collecting twelve wisps of Killing Intent.
• Hong Zhuang led Shen Bai and the others to the underground entrance, but her attempt to open the sealed passage failed, leaving her convinced she could not escape.
• Shen Bai reassured Hong Zhuang and observed that several seals blocked the entrance.

Shen Bai broke into the underground city beneath Sunset City and fought the palace that had become its Bizarre Entity. After the palace swallowed him, he met the conscious Sunset City Lord, who explained how the city and Hong Zhuang came to be in their current state and began revealing a greater danger.

• Shen Bai broke the disc’s regenerative seals, led the group into the underground city, and found the palace containing Hong Zhuang’s father’s skeleton.
• Shen Bai realized the palace was the core of Sunset City and its Bizarre Entity, then fought its Hundred Truths Technique until it swallowed him.
• Inside the palace, Shen Bai fought off its attacks and met the conscious Sunset City Lord, who said his awareness would last only half an hour.
• The Sunset City Lord explained that Paper Figures had devastated Sunset City, that he had sealed the city underground, and that he had linked Hong Zhuang to it so she could control its emergence.
• The Sunset City Lord asked Shen Bai to care for Hong Zhuang and warned that the world was not as simple as they imagined.

Shen Bai exposed the Sunset City Lord’s plan to sacrifice Hong Zhuang and the people of Sunset City, then defeated and killed him in battle. After Hong Zhuang became Shen Bai’s Bizarre Beast and empowered Cold Moon, the group prepared to leave the fading City of Bizarre Entities, but Shen Bai heard a voice just before it disappeared.

• The Sunset City Lord revealed that he had engineered Hong Zhuang’s suffering and Sunset City’s deaths so he could become a Bizarre Beast and take her power, then offered to become Shen Bai’s Bizarre Beast instead.
• Shen Bai refused the offer, and the Sunset City Lord attacked him with more than a hundred cultivation arts before unleashing his Hundred Truths Combined Strike.
• Shen Bai survived the Sunset City Lord’s ultimate attack and killed him, while the dying lord confirmed that the voices he had heard about finding the root of the bizarre were real.
• Hong Zhuang guided Shen Bai to a hidden storeroom, where he took seven Bizarre Items, then formed a Bizarre Beast contract with him and merged into Cold Moon.
• Cold Moon turned red and gained the power to strengthen Shen Bai’s swordsmanship, as the City of Bizarre Entities faded and Shen Bai heard a voice beside his ear.

After destroying the City of Bizarre Entities, Shen Bai appraised the Bizarre Items he had brought back, gaining the Soul Annihilation Sword and Void-Breaking Azure Eye. The next morning, Hong Zhuang translated the memorial from Sunset City and revealed that the Myriad City War had been a colossal conspiracy.

• Shen Bai returned safely with Yao Long and the others, while the Heavenly Oversight Bureau celebrated the destruction of the City of Bizarre Entities and prepared to eliminate the remaining factions.
• Shen Bai appraised three sword-type Bizarre Items, transformed Demon Slaying Blood Sword Dance into Soul Annihilation Sword, and advanced his cultivation by opening the first bridge and connecting two meridians.
• Shen Bai appraised the remaining Bizarre Items, gaining proficiency in Life-Death Item Storage Technique, Spirit Forging Art, and divination, as well as the new Azure Eye ability.
• Shen Bai watched the Azure Eye phantom locate and kill hidden bizarre entities, then spent the night grinding Azure Eye until it transformed into Void-Breaking Azure Eye.
• Hong Zhuang translated Shen Bai's memorial from Sunset City and told him that it revealed the Myriad City War had been a colossal conspiracy.

Shen Bai uncovered a hidden force behind the Myriad Cities War and sent the historical clues to Emperor Shengwu while focusing on improving his abilities. As demonic faction survivors planned to unleash an ancient city beneath Nanxing Prefecture, an undercover agent revealed their scheme to the Heavenly Oversight Bureau just as Shen Bai reached level four in Void-Breaking Azure Eye.

• Shen Bai read the Sunset City Lord’s account of Great Qi’s fall and the invisible hand behind the Myriad Cities War, then sent the information to Emperor Shengwu through Zheng Xing.
• Shen Bai took Hong Zhuang and Amber out to eat before returning to the Heavenly Oversight Bureau and grinding his Void-Breaking Azure Eye and Divination Art.
• The Heavenly Oversight Bureau continued suppressing the weakened Wild Daoism Sect, Wild Buddhist Sect, and Torch Academy, while Shen Bai’s reputation spread throughout Nanxing Prefecture.
• Zhao Xuan told the surviving demonic faction members that an ancient city lay beneath Nanxing Prefecture and proposed activating it to ruin the prefecture and implicate Shen Bai.
• An undercover agent left a jade recording of the plan, and Zhang He ordered it delivered to Shen Bai while pursuing the fleeing demonic factions.
• Shen Bai reached level four in Void-Breaking Azure Eye and reacted with satisfaction to a new surprise from the ability.

Shen Bai entered the ancient Ruoshui City ruins and discovered a thriving city whose people, currency, and creatures were unknown even to Hong Zhuang. As he investigated a popular qin gathering, Hong Zhuang sensed that the Courtesan Queen who was about to appear carried a familiar aura from the Myriad Cities Era.

• Shen Bai learned that Zhao Xuan and the Demonic Faction remnants had found a ruin entrance, then captured Zhao Xuan and forced him to reveal how to open it.
• Shen Bai opened the water portal with Zhao Xuan's compass and entered the ruins, where Hong Zhuang identified the ancient city as Ruoshui City.
• Shen Bai found a living city beyond the ruined landscape and observed its cultivators, exotic beasts, and unfamiliar Bizarre Coins.
• Shen Bai followed a crowd to Myriad Flowers Pavilion to investigate the Courtesan Queen's qin gathering.
• As the Courtesan Queen's door opened, Hong Zhuang warned Shen Bai that she sensed a familiar Myriad Cities Era aura.

Shen Bai uncovered that Ruoshui City and its residents were sustained by the Ruoshui City Lord’s illusion, and confronted her about clinging to the past. The chapter ended with the City Lord admitting that the city had been destroyed in the Myriad Cities Era and that its apparent survival was a deception.

• At the Myriad Flowers Pavilion, the Courtesan Queen selected Shen Bai’s answer to her riddle and invited him into her room.
• The Courtesan Queen asked Shen Bai to take her out of Ruoshui City, then tried to subdue him when he refused; Shen Bai overpowered her and agreed to bring her outside after divining great fortune.
• As Shen Bai carried the Courtesan Queen beyond the forest, she weakened, turned into a clay figure, and crumbled into dirt.
• The Ruoshui City Lord summoned Shen Bai back to the Myriad Flowers Pavilion, where he found the city’s residents frozen and the Courtesan Queen playing the zither again.
• Shen Bai identified the city as an illusion sustained by the Ruoshui City Lord’s Flowing Water Thousand Mechanisms, and she admitted that Ruoshui City had been destroyed in the Myriad Cities Era.

Shen Bai uncovered that the Ruoshui City Lord was an imprisoned subordinate of the hidden instigators, and Eunuch Chen killed her before recruiting Shen Bai to enter the capital for the Former Dynasty’s Heavenly Pride Hall. After Shen Bai returned to Nanxing Prefecture and began training his Divination ability, a Battle Fist Sect challenger arrived but backed down after seeing Shen Bai’s defeated visitors.

• The Ruoshui City Lord revealed that Ruoshui City was an illusion, described her past, and invited Shen Bai to face the enemy sealed beneath the Myriad Flowers Pavilion.
• Shen Bai saw through the Ruoshui City Lord’s deception and refused to take the false Bizarre Item or free her from the coffin’s seal.
• Eunuch Chen arrived, killed the Ruoshui City Lord, gave Shen Bai the real night-luminescent pearl, and delivered a summons for Shen Bai to meet Emperor Shengwu in Xuanjing City.
• Eunuch Chen explained that Shen Bai was being invited to enter the Former Dynasty’s Heavenly Pride Hall, and Shen Bai returned to the Heavenly Oversight Bureau to arrange Nanxing Prefecture’s affairs and train his Divination ability.
• A man from the Battle Fist Sect arrived hoping to challenge Shen Bai, but he and his elderly companion saw Fang Tong cart away several unconscious challengers and claimed they were only asking for directions.

Shen Bai left Nanxing Prefecture for the capital and encountered Master Wuxin, who invited him to join the Heavenly Pride Salvation Society and gave him a Bizarre Item. After Shen Bai discovered that Wuxin had withheld news of planned ambushes, he returned, confronted him, and took three more Bizarre Items; Wuxin ended the chapter hinting at what his divination had revealed.

• Zheng Xing ordered the unconscious challengers hung at the Heavenly Oversight Bureau’s gates, and the white-robed man fled.
• Shen Bai advanced his Limitless Divination Art to level five, then spent his last day in Nanxing Prefecture before departing for the capital with Amber and Hong Zhuang.
• Shen Bai followed a divination of great fortune to the Wish-Granting Temple, where Master Wuxin revealed that he came from the Myriad Cities Era and invited Shen Bai to join the Heavenly Pride Salvation Society.
• After Shen Bai left, he hid nearby and overheard Wuxin and Daoist Tianxuan discuss ambushes awaiting him from the Wild Daoism Sect, Wild Buddhist Sect, and Torch Academy.
• Shen Bai returned, accused Wuxin of using him as bait, and took three additional Bizarre Items before leaving.
• Daoist Tianxuan realized Wuxin had arranged to give Shen Bai the items, and Wuxin, coughing blood, asked what Tianxuan thought he had calculated.

Shen Bai flew to Xuanjing City after killing an ambush of more than a thousand Void Transformation experts, reunited with Qin Shuang and Zhou Qing, and reported to the Chief Director. The chapter ended as Eunuch Chen arrived and confronted the Chief Director over Shen Bai, whom both men wanted to recruit for a major plan.

• Master Wuxin explained that his vision of Shen Bai's future had nearly killed him, and he and Daoist Tianxuan agreed to keep Shen Bai's situation from the other elders.
• Shen Bai sent his coachman back to Nanxing Prefecture, flew toward Xuanjing City, and defeated an ambush by the Wild Daoism Sect, the Wild Buddhist Sect, and Torch Academy, killing more than a thousand Void Transformation experts.
• Shen Bai arrived at Xuanjing City carrying the attackers' heads, then reunited with Qin Shuang and Zhou Qing and caught up with them over food and drink.
• Shen Bai visited the Heavenly Oversight Bureau headquarters, where the Chief Director praised him and asked him to tell Eunuch Chen not to take Shen Bai away from him.
• The Chief Director revealed that he and Eunuch Chen both wanted Shen Bai for a major plan, and Eunuch Chen arrived as the Chief Director spoke.

Shen Bai agreed to join the Heavenly Pride Salvation Society and promised Emperor Shengwu to suppress foreign geniuses in Heavenly Pride Hall, receiving a Bizarre Transformation Orb in return. After leaving the palace, he encountered Chancellor Cao, the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Prime Minister.

• Eunuch Chen told Shen Bai that Emperor Shengwu wanted him to join the Heavenly Pride Salvation Society to investigate spies, and Shen Bai agreed.
• Eunuch Chen gave Shen Bai a token and told him that Emperor Shengwu wished to meet him the next day.
• Shen Bai appraised four Bizarre Items at the inn, raising the Spirit Forging Art and Void-Breaking Azure Eye to level four.
• Shen Bai entered the palace, witnessed the Second Prince being scolded and blasted away by Emperor Shengwu, then met the emperor.
• Emperor Shengwu asked Shen Bai to defeat foreign geniuses in Heavenly Pride Hall, and Shen Bai agreed and accepted a Bizarre Transformation Orb.
• As Shen Bai left the palace, Chancellor Cao approached him and introduced himself as the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Prime Minister.

Shen Bai accepted Chancellor Cao’s request to retrieve the Book of Eternity from Heavenly Pride Hall and gave the Bizarre Transformation Orb to Hong Zhuang, who began evolving. As foreign prodigies arrived in Xuanjing City, Shen Bai crushed Wang Jiu in a confrontation and warned the other nations’ challengers not to provoke him.

• Chancellor Cao asked Shen Bai to find the Book of Eternity in Heavenly Pride Hall and gave him a jade that would react near the book; Shen Bai agreed to retrieve it for a reward.
• Back at the inn, Shen Bai gave the Bizarre Transformation Orb to Hong Zhuang instead of Amber, and Hong Zhuang transformed into a blood-red egg to evolve.
• As foreign prodigies arrived in Xuanjing City, Ouyang Jian defended Shen Bai’s strength, prompting Wang Jiu of the Great Yue Kingdom to seize him and demand to meet Shen Bai.
• Shen Bai arrived, defeated Wang Jiu with a single punch, then beat him until his guardian intervened; Shen Bai threatened the guardian with Cold Moon, and the man backed down.
• Shen Bai sent Wang Jiu away with his guardian and warned the gathered foreign prodigies that he would kill anyone who provoked him again.

After Shen Bai defeated Wang Jiu, Ouyang Jian gave him a bead containing a strange entity, helping him transform Void-Breaking Azure Eye into Void-Breaking Red Eye. As Heavenly Pride Hall approached, Zhu Qingyao secretly organized a coalition to kill Shen Bai, while Hong Zhuang’s egg began to crack.

• Shen Bai left the street with Ouyang Jian after defeating Wang Jiu, and the Heavenly Oversight Bureau made Wang Jiu’s guardian pay for the inn’s damage.
• Ouyang Jian gave Shen Bai a bead sealing a strange entity, then left to visit old friends; Shen Bai crushed the bead and used its Killing Intent to raise his eye ability to level five.
• Zhu Qingyao and Li Ruofeng discussed killing Shen Bai in Heavenly Pride Hall, and Zhu Qingyao forced Li Ruofeng to sign a contract joining the plan.
• Zhu Qingyao revealed that she and her allies were remnants of the Myriad Cities Era seeking to plunge the four countries into chaos by killing Shen Bai.
• Shen Bai transformed Void-Breaking Azure Eye into Void-Breaking Red Eye, gaining an Information attribute and a new investigative vision.
• As Shen Bai prepared to leave for Heavenly Pride Hall, he used the Life-Death Item Storage Technique and saw cracks forming on Hong Zhuang’s egg.

Hong Zhuang completed her evolution before Shen Bai entered Heavenly Pride Hall, where the entrants were separated. While Zhou Qing and the Great Zhou Dynasty heavenly prides faced a hostile coalition led by Zhu Qingyao, Shen Bai followed a strange Bone Throne to a river and came under attack from a pale corpse and a White Bone Giant.

• Hong Zhuang shed her Paper Figure body, regained flesh and blood, and gained the ability to double Shen Bai's swordsmanship before joining him in Cold Moon.
• At Clear Heaven Hall, Shen Bai arrived as the heavenly prides gathered; Eunuch Chen opened Heavenly Pride Hall and warned that life and death were left to fate.
• Shen Bai was transported alone to a grassland, where his scouting revealed heaps of skeletons; Zhou Qing, Qin Shuang, and the others found themselves elsewhere.
• Zhu Qingyao and Li Ruofeng's faction prepared to attack the Great Zhou Dynasty heavenly prides, but Nan Huang intervened, broke some contracts, and arranged a temporary alliance to explore the hall.
• Shen Bai watched the bones turn to ash and form a Bone Throne, followed it to a river, and cut off the reaching hand of a pale man whose appearance changed his divination from great fortune to great misfortune.
• Shen Bai dodged as a ten-zhang-tall White Bone Giant descended and struck the ground where he had been standing.

Shen Bai met Emperor Tianyun beneath the river, discovered the former emperor was trying to trap him into carrying out his scheme, and escaped by exploiting a brief opening in space. Meanwhile, Zhou Qing and the Great Zhou Dynasty’s heavenly prides were close to being overwhelmed by puppets when someone appeared behind Wang Jiu.

• The White Bone Giant killed the pale man, led Shen Bai underwater, and revealed itself as Emperor Tianyun, the former dynasty’s emperor.
• Emperor Tianyun told Shen Bai about the former dynasty’s fall and offered him notes on the Myriad Cities Era, but Shen Bai suspected the book was a trap and refused to take it.
• Shen Bai inferred that the Heavenly Pride Hall was Emperor Tianyun’s prison, then used spatial cracks and divination to escape while Emperor Tianyun mistakenly opened the true exit.
• Zhou Qing and the other Great Zhou Dynasty heavenly prides fought armored Void Transformation Realm puppets, and Zhou Qing proposed using a battlefield formation to help them hold out.
• Zhu Qingyao hurled a group of puppets toward the Great Zhou Dynasty’s wounded fighters, while Nan Huang said he could not stop them.
• A hand grabbed Wang Jiu and flung him toward the puppets as a voice behind him warned, “Looks like you really want to die.”

Shen Bai rescued the Great Zhou heavenly prides, killed Zhu Qingyao, and discovered that her mother, Zhu Xueshuang, had possessed her through the Deity Invocation Technique. Zhu Xueshuang revealed she had reached the Heavenly Spirit Realm and challenged Shen Bai, who advanced to face her.

• Shen Bai killed Wang Jiu after Zhu Qingyao used him as a shield, then cut through the puppets and killed Li Ruofeng and the other contracted heavenly prides who fled.
• Shen Bai learned that Nan Huang and his companions belonged to the Heavenly Pride Salvation Society, then claimed the first pick of the rewards and appraised all three Bizarre Items to gain technique proficiency.
• Shen Bai led the group after Zhu Qingyao, found her at the end of the passage, and decapitated her, but she revived with a powerful presence.
• Nan Huang identified Zhu Qingyao's Deity Invocation Technique, and Zhu Xueshuang revealed she was Zhu Qingyao's mother, summoned through an improved version of the technique.
• Zhu Xueshuang offered Shen Bai a contract and demanded he kill the others; he refused, and she revealed her Heavenly Spirit Realm strength.
• Shen Bai ignored Nan Huang's warning to retreat, raised his battle intent, and pointed Cold Moon at Zhu Xueshuang, declaring that he wanted to try killing someone in the Heavenly Spirit Realm.

Shen Bai defeated Zhu Xueshuang, a Heavenly Spirit Realm expert, by exploiting the limit of her Deity Invocation Technique, then led the group deeper into Heavenly Pride Hall. After divining that a descent into an abyss held both fortune and danger, he discovered the cavern below was a graveyard—and spotted something terrifying growing beneath it.

• Shen Bai overwhelmed Zhu Xueshuang by exploiting her ability to invoke only one being at a time, and her summoned form crumbled into ashes.
• Outside Heavenly Pride Hall, the injured Zhu Xueshuang ordered her followers to investigate Wang Tianxing and withdrew to seek help against Shen Bai.
• Shen Bai led the group to an abyss, divined that fortune and misfortune were evenly balanced, and decided they should descend.
• At the bottom, Shen Bai sensed an unseen observer, while Tan Ming recognized the rootless plants as signs of an enormous graveyard.
• Shen Bai used the Void-Breaking Red Eye to probe underground, saw something terrifying growing below, and urgently told everyone to fly out.

Shen Bai and the other heavenly prides were dragged into the giant’s body, where King Tianqi revealed Emperor Tianyun’s plan to return and asked them to defend a pearl. After Shen Bai defeated a Heavenly Spirit Realm bone Eerie, he found King Tianqi had defeated Emperor Tianyun, but Heavenly Pride Hall was about to disappear and King Tianqi offered to share a secret.

• A giant with Emperor Tianyun’s aura inhaled Shen Bai and the heavenly prides, pulling them into a dark space filled with attacking skeletons.
• King Tianqi explained that he was Emperor Tianyun’s twin younger brother and that Emperor Tianyun had separated his flesh and bones to fake his death and return to power.
• King Tianqi vanished to suppress Emperor Tianyun, leaving a pearl for Shen Bai and the others to protect from the skeletons.
• Shen Bai and the heavenly prides fought the skeleton horde, and Shen Bai destroyed a bone Eerie that had reached the Heavenly Spirit Realm.
• Heavenly Pride Hall began ejecting its visitors, but Shen Bai remained and witnessed King Tianqi defeat Emperor Tianyun and reduce him to ash.
• King Tianqi told Shen Bai that Heavenly Pride Hall would disappear when he died, then offered to tell him a secret.

Shen Bai learned from King Tianqi that the Myriad Cities Era mastermind had sought the Death Realm, then reported the secret to Emperor Shengwu and received rewards from both the emperor and Chancellor Cao. At the Academy Dean’s request, Shen Bai examined the Book of Eternity and found its contents startling enough to make him pause at a reference to Qin Shuang.

• King Tianqi told Shen Bai that the Myriad Cities Era mastermind had created chaos and death while searching for the Death Realm, then vanished with Heavenly Pride Hall after helping erase Zhu Xueshuang’s taint.
• Shen Bai returned from Heavenly Pride Hall, reported King Tianqi’s secret to Emperor Shengwu, and received a promise of ten Bizarre Items as his reward.
• Chancellor Cao gave Shen Bai a bead containing a Bizarre Creature, which Shen Bai crushed to absorb ten more strands of Killing Intent, and explained that the Book of Eternity had been part of his rivalry with the Academy Dean.
• Qin Shuang brought Shen Bai to the Academy, where the Academy Dean showed him the Book of Eternity after explaining that their former teacher had written it.
• Shen Bai opened the Book of Eternity, endured its ugly writing and illustrations, and froze when its contents mentioned Qin Shuang.