Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou clashed with Gu Qingyi and his two junior brothers after they came looking for him, then seized on Gu Qing'san tearing off his door as an excuse to demand a closer look at Gu Qingyi's famed sword. The chapter ended with Gu Qingyi facing Xu Xiaoshou's request to inspect it as compensation.

• Gu Qingyi asked Xu Xiaoshou whether anyone had come by, while Xu Xiaoshou secretly examined the famed sword he carried.
• Gu Qing'san accused Xu Xiaoshou of wanting to steal their swords, and the three swordsmen got sidetracked trying to understand his insult.
• Xu Xiaoshou went inside and shut the door, but Gu Qing'san accidentally tore off its unprotected panel while pushing it open.
• Xu Xiaoshou berated Gu Qing'san and Gu Qing'er for the damage until Gu Qingyi offered to compensate him so they could leave.
• Xu Xiaoshou called the three swordsmen his brothers and asked to look at Gu Qingyi's sword as compensation.

Xu Xiaoshou clashed with Gu Qing'san after asking to inspect the famed swords, then sent him flying with a headbutt. Gu Qing'san revealed his Sword Sect sword intent and summoned the spiritual swords, but Xu Xiaoshou mocked the display as eight earthworms.

• Xu Xiaoshou asked to look at Gu Qingyi's famed sword, but Gu Qingyi refused and Gu Qing'san angrily confronted him.
• Xu Xiaoshou taunted Gu Qing'san into headbutting him, and Gu Qing'san flew backward with blood on his face.
• Gu Qing'san got back up and unleashed Sword Sect sword intent, summoning the spiritual swords around him.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized Gu Qing'san as a Sword Sect and mocked his summoned swords as eight earthworms.

After driving off Gu Qingyi and his brothers, Xu Xiaoshou suspected they had come for the White Cavern and the Yousi Sword. He then moved with Xin Gugu and Mu Zixi into a manor near the City Lord’s Manor and invited Xin Gugu to join him there the following night.

• Gu Qingyi apologized to Xu Xiaoshou with a ring and left with Gu Qing'san and their other junior brother.
• Xu Xiaoshou guessed the sword cultivators had come for the Yousi Sword and resolved to keep Xin Gugu close as the White Cavern drew nearer.
• Xu Xiaoshou, Xin Gugu, and Mu Zixi arrived at the manor Xu Xiaoshou had bought near the City Lord’s Manor.
• Xin Gugu opened the manor gates with the token, and the three explored their new home.
• Xu Xiaoshou showed Xin Gugu an invitation for the next night and asked if he wanted to visit the City Lord’s Manor.

Xu Xiaoshou persuaded Xin Gugu to accompany him to the City Lord’s Manor’s Night Banquet, hoping to create an opportunity to kill Zhang Taiying. After learning that Origin Mansion could not be controlled like a spatial ring within a Throne’s domain, Xu Xiaoshou prepared to rely on it instead.

• Xu Xiaoshou told Xin Gugu that Zhang Taiying was his enemy and asked him to help create an opportunity to kill the Zhang Clan head at the Night Banquet.
• Xin Gugu warned that attacking Zhang Taiying in the city could draw the Zhang Clan and other powerful forces, but agreed to go with Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned that a Throne’s domain could prevent someone from accessing a spatial ring, then asked whether it could also control Origin Mansion.
• Xin Gugu explained that Origin Mansion’s laws made it difficult for a Throne to control, and Xu Xiaoshou decided to use it instead of his spatial ring.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered his room, activated its protective barrier, and took Origin Mansion from his chest ring.

Xu Xiaoshou discovered that he could use the expanding Origin Mansion to test moves and brew pills without endangering the outside world. He planned to turn his explosive alchemy into a weapon and sent Xin Gugu to buy a hundred heat-resistant spiritual artifacts.

• Xu Xiaoshou entered the Origin Mansion and saw that the Life Spirit Seal had expanded its barren space over the past few days.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the Origin Mansion was large enough to test techniques and experiment with alchemy.
• Xu Xiaoshou tested refining Red-Gold Pills in the Origin Mansion, leaving them to simmer while he returned to the real world.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Xin Gugu to buy sturdy, heat-resistant spiritual artifacts that could withstand his flames but explode easily.
• Xu Xiaoshou changed his order from ten artifacts to a hundred when he realized he only needed explosive alchemy, not successful pills.

Xu Xiaoshou planned to assassinate Zhang Taiying by luring him to the City Lord's Manor Night Banquet and attacking the Zhang Clan while its forces were divided. He weighed the risks of using the Origin Mansion to escape and decided to test whether a Throne could trace its space.

• Xu Xiaoshou assessed his strength against Masters and concluded that Zhang Taiying had to die before the Zhang Clan head could strike again.
• Xu Xiaoshou planned to attack the Zhang Clan around the night of the City Lord's Manor banquet, hoping Zhang Taiying would attend without most of his forces.
• Xu Xiaoshou intended to use pill cauldrons to damage the Zhang Clan, then retreat into the Origin Mansion with Xin Gugu and A-Jie as backup.
• Xu Xiaoshou worried that a Throne might trace the Origin Mansion through the remnants of space, as Ye Xiaotian had tracked people through shattered space.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to test the Origin Mansion's safety and turned to the red interface, preparing for his plan against Zhang Taiying.

Xu Xiaoshou spent his accumulated Passive Value to raise Sword Mastery to the Grandmaster level, triggering a citywide Sword Sect breakthrough sign that revealed his presence. He hid in his Origin Mansion before anyone could find him, while Gu Qingyi and his junior brothers broke into the wrong room at the inn.

• Xu Xiaoshou decided not to draw and instead used his Passive Value to upgrade Sword Mastery.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised Sword Mastery to Grandmaster, unleashing Myriad Swords Return to the Sect and alerting Tiansang City's major powers.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized his breakthrough had announced his Sword Sect status and vanished into the Origin Mansion.
• Gu Qingyi led Gu Qing'er and Gu Qing'san to investigate Xu Xiaoshou's room at the Multi-Spirit Inn.
• The three brothers broke into a room and found an unfamiliar naked couple, who screamed in alarm.

After reaching Grandmaster-level Sword Mastery, Xu Xiaoshou comprehended the Void Sword Condensation Technique and discovered he could summon and command ten thousand swords from space. He tested the technique’s immense power, though it drained his mental strength, and ended by experimenting with sword formations and an awakening skill.

• Xu Xiaoshou’s Sword Mastery advanced to the Grandmaster level, refining his understanding of the Sword Dao but leaving the Sword Worship Technique beyond his comprehension.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Sword Observation and unconsciously manifested over ten thousand swords from space, identifying the technique as Void Sword Condensation Technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou commanded the void swords to perform a Sword-Draw Form, unleashing a blast that carved away the ground and drove back the chaotic mist.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the technique consumed mental power instead of spiritual essence and laughed as he imagined defeating Zhang Taiying with it.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew and sheathed Hidden Pain, drawing the phantom swords into the Blackfall Sword Scabbard, then formed a double-layered sword formation and tried to name an awakening skill.

Xu Xiaoshou set out with Xin Gugu and A-Jie to raid the Zhang Clan, while Mu Zixi stayed behind and struggled with her growing distance from Xu Xiaoshou and the strange voice tied to her lost memories.

• Xu Xiaoshou persuaded the shocked Xin Gugu to join a night raid on the Zhang Clan, saying the Origin Mansion could conceal their presence.
• Xu Xiaoshou introduced A-Jie to Xin Gugu, then led the three of them out to attack the Zhang Clan.
• Mu Zixi watched Xu Xiaoshou leave and heard an indifferent voice ask whether she would accept it, but she told it to go away.
• Mu Zixi recalled being unable to help Xu Xiaoshou against Throne-level enemies and feared she was falling behind him.
• Mu Zixi connected the strange voice and her lost childhood memories to the moments when the seals on her memories had loosened.

Zhang Taiying raged over the failed attempts to kill Xu Xiaoshou and demanded the young man's information. As the Zhang Clan discussed its Night Banquet plans, an unexpected visitor arrived at the gate claiming to have urgent news about Zhang Xin Xiong.

• Zhang Taiying learned that a Throne assassin had failed to kill Xu Xiaoshou, and he ordered the bounty raised and requested detailed information about him.
• Zhang Zhongmou urged Zhang Taiying to focus on the City Lord's Manor Night Banquet and volunteered to deal with Xu Xiaoshou himself.
• Zhang Zhongmou left after assigning Zhang Duoyu to accompany Zhang Taiying to negotiate about White Cavern slots, but Zhang Taiying still demanded Xu Xiaoshou's information.
• An attendant reported that a young man at the outer gate had urgent news concerning Young Master Zhang, and Zhang Taiying ordered him admitted.

Xu Xiaoshou led Xin Gugu and A-Jie into Zhang Residence by posing as a friend of Young Master Zhang. After knocking out a guard, he brought them to Zhang Taiying’s private courtyard and prepared to refine pills there.

• Xu Xiaoshou strolled through Zhang Residence with Xin Gugu and A-Jie, leaving Xin Gugu stunned by his brazen plan to enter through the front door.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned a guard about the family head’s private residence and the East Court District, then knocked the guard unconscious when he refused to meet Zhang Taiying.
• Xu Xiaoshou led Xin Gugu and A-Jie through the spirit arrays to Zhang Taiying’s courtyard, while Xin Gugu wondered what he intended to do there.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned eighteen furnaces of boiling medicinal liquid from the Origin Mansion and announced that he would refine pills.

Xu Xiaoshou prepared to blow up Zhang Residence with unstable pill furnaces, then moved its Spirit Pool into the Origin Mansion. Inside, Xin Gugu discovered A-Jie’s strength and was drenched by the pool’s sudden arrival.

• Xu Xiaoshou revealed to Xin Gugu that the eighteen furnaces were explosives meant to destroy Zhang Residence and sent A-Jie and Xin Gugu into the Origin Mansion before setting them off.
• Xu Xiaoshou noticed the Spirit Pool and discovered that he could move it into the Origin Mansion.
• Xin Gugu explored the Origin Mansion and watched A-Jie punch a huge pit into the ground without using spiritual essence.
• A-Jie’s punch created a space for the Spirit Pool, and Xu Xiaoshou moved the pool inside, flooding Xin Gugu with water and spirit fish.

Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as a Zhang Residence guard and detonated eighteen batches of Innate Pill ingredients, devastating East Court District. The blast alerted Tiansang City, while the Zhang Clan realized its residence was under attack and rushed to find the culprit.

• Xu Xiaoshou changed into a dead gate guard’s clothes, burned the body, and imitated the guard’s appearance.
• Xu Xiaoshou triggered Emberlight Pill-Condensing Art, setting off eighteen batches of Innate Pill ingredients and wrecking East Court District.
• Shi Ti heard the explosion at the Pill Tower and hurried to repair its barrier, while Fu Xing and Liu Jing decided not to investigate the blast at the Zhang Clan.
• Mu Zixi watched the mushroom cloud and recognized that Xu Xiaoshou’s explosion was likely only the beginning.
• The Zhang Clan elders realized their residence had been attacked, and Zhang Taiying ordered them to find the culprit.

After demolishing the Zhang Clan’s East Court District with a massive explosion, Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as an injured gatekeeper and misdirected the searchers. He evaded detection and set out to loot Zhang Taiying’s family fortune.

• Zhang Duoyu ordered the Zhang Clan to search the residence and surrounding area for the attacker, while the Seventh Elder suspected Xu Xiaoshou might be involved.
• Xu Xiaoshou was shocked by the destruction caused by detonating an Innate Pill with eighteen furnaces, then blackened his appearance and pretended to be injured.
• Xu Xiaoshou told arriving gatekeepers that a masked man had fled in a direction he pointed out, and they rushed off without questioning him further.
• Thirteen Masters and one Throne followed the false lead, while Xu Xiaoshou lay among the wounded and avoided notice.
• After Perception and the system’s warning revealed no one was watching him, Xu Xiaoshou got up and headed to loot Zhang Taiying’s family fortune.

Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as a soot-covered gatekeeper and used the chaos at Zhang Residence to gather information before changing his target from the guarded main hall. Meanwhile, Zhang Zhongmou searched for the vanished attacker and began to suspect they were still hiding inside the residence.

• Xu Xiaoshou directed servants toward the East Courtyard district and scolded a suspicious ninth-realm instructor into hurrying there.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned that Zhang Taiying remained in the main hall, abandoned his plan to seize it, and headed toward the Zhang Clan Scripture Repository.
• Zhang Zhongmou searched Zhang Residence and the surrounding area for the attacker but found no traces of them.
• Zhang Zhongmou recognized that the explosion's flames resembled Elder Sang's and wondered whether the attack had been a frame-up.
• Zhang Zhongmou realized the attacker might still be concealed within Zhang Residence.

Xu Xiaoshou was caught near Zhang Residence’s Scripture Repository and used a bluff to make Zhang Zhongmou believe he was the powerful culprit behind the explosion. The chapter left Zhang Zhongmou wary as Xu Xiaoshou continued the deception.

• Zhang Zhongmou noticed Xu Xiaoshou approaching the Scripture Repository and suspected he was an impostor after he called him “Senior.”
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Zhang Zhongmou had been watching him and feared he would be trapped if he stuck to his gatekeeper disguise.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised his head and smiled, making Zhang Zhongmou suspect he was the culprit behind the explosion with a cultivation-disguising technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou rose into the air while revealing his Innate cultivation and waited for Zhang Zhongmou to grow impatient.
• Xu Xiaoshou called Zhang Zhongmou “Little fellow” and claimed he had not expected him to discover him.

Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as a powerful expert and confronted Zhang Zhongmou at the Zhang Residence, bluffing about a Throne-level assassin. He summoned A-Jie to attack, leaving Zhang Zhongmou badly injured and bewildered.

• Xu Xiaoshou challenged Zhang Zhongmou to guess his identity and demanded access to the Scripture Repository.
• Xu Xiaoshou implied that Zhang Zhongmou’s clan was responsible for a Throne-level assassin, and Zhang Zhongmou mistook him for a powerful avenger.
• Xu Xiaoshou suspected Zhang Zhongmou might be calling for help and summoned the bamboo-hatted boy from his Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered the boy to attack, and A-Jie shattered Zhang Zhongmou’s arm bones with a punch and blasted him away.

A-Jie overwhelmed Zhang Zhongmou with its physical attacks and battered his treasured Heavenly Origin Mist Mountain, a purple shield that could absorb blows. Zhang Zhongmou failed to stop the assault as the shield swelled and turned red, seemingly on the verge of exploding.

• Zhang Zhongmou realized A-Jie's punch had shattered his arm without spiritual essence and feared the true powerhouse was the young man in gatekeeper's clothes.
• Zhang Zhongmou used his purple shield to absorb A-Jie's next punch and tried to retreat from close combat.
• A-Jie seized the shield and became fascinated when it swelled slightly under its attacks.
• Zhang Zhongmou identified the shield as his Heavenly Origin Mist Mountain and begged A-Jie to stop.
• A-Jie paused at Zhang Zhongmou's plea, then resumed punching until the shield rapidly turned red.

Xu Xiaoshou took Zhang Zhongmou’s Heavenly Origin Mist Mountain after claiming he had only wanted to inspect it, then faced the Zhang Residence reinforcements. Zhang Zhongmou revealed that both Xu Xiaoshou and A-Jie had Throne bodies, leaving Zhang Duoyu and Zhang Taiying stunned.

• Zhang Zhongmou asked Xu Xiaoshou to make A-Jie return Heavenly Origin Mist Mountain, and Xu Xiaoshou ordered A-Jie to hand him the shield.
• Zhang Zhongmou failed to recall the shield, and Xu Xiaoshou stored it in his Origin Mansion and refused to return it.
• Zhang Duoyu and Zhang Taiying arrived, and Xu Xiaoshou warned that the Zhang Clan might face a calamity.
• Zhang Zhongmou cautioned the newcomers not to underestimate Xu Xiaoshou and revealed that Xu Xiaoshou had a Throne body.
• Zhang Zhongmou added that A-Jie also had a Throne body, shocking Zhang Duoyu and Zhang Taiying.

Xu Xiaoshou summoned Xin Gugu to reveal another King-level ally, but A-Jie unexpectedly took the fight to Zhang Taiying and launched him into the sky. The chapter left both sides stunned by A-Jie's overwhelming physical strength.

• Zhang Taiying ignored Zhang Zhongmou's warning and attacked Xu Xiaoshou with his aura, but Xu Xiaoshou endured it and provoked him.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned Xin Gugu, whose King-level aura broke Zhang Taiying's pressure and shocked the Zhang Residence.
• Xin Gugu offered to face all three Zhang Residence Kings while Xu Xiaoshou retreated to watch.
• Zhang Taiying activated Black Mark and charged, but A-Jie appeared in his path and punched him into the air.
• Zhang Taiying returned with a lightning-wrapped punch, and A-Jie kicked him under the chin, sending him skyward again.