Chapter Summaries

At the City Lord's Manor Night Banquet, Xu Xiaoshou provoked Wen Song and kept him from attacking by invoking the banquet rules and the Wen House's chance at a White Cavern slot. The crowd was left questioning Xu Xiaoshou's background after Fu Xing greeted him as Brother Shou.

• Wen Song tried to attack Xu Xiaoshou, but Fu Yinhong reminded him that the banquet rules barred him from making a move before the arena matches.
• Xu Xiaoshou mocked Wen Song for losing control and damaging the City Lord's Manor floor, while Fu Yinhong held back from intervening.
• Xu Xiaoshou warned Wen Song that attacking would jeopardize the Wen House's White Cavern slot, forcing Wen Song to swallow his anger.
• Chao Nong pulled Wen Song aside and told him to bear with Xu Xiaoshou until the arena matches.
• Fu Xing arrived, recognized his junior sister in the crowd, and excitedly called Xu Xiaoshou Brother Shou, stunning the onlookers.

Xu Xiaoshou used his connection with Fu Xing to make him deal with Wen Song, then continued through the City Lord’s Manor to pursue information and plan for the night. He left with Mu Zixi, hinting that they were going to dig holes as he prepared for something big.

• Xu Xiaoshou reminded Fu Xing that Wen Song had attacked him, and Fu Xing agreed to handle the matter so he could keep learning the Ten-Stage Sword Finger.
• Xu Xiaoshou left the confrontation and considered scouting the City Lord’s Manor for a chance to attack Zhang Taiying with A-Jie and Xin Gugu.
• Xu Xiaoshou reflected on the two disguises he had prepared and gained Passive Value from the crowd’s envy and admiration.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Mu Zixi that something big might happen that night and warned her to be ready.
• Xu Xiaoshou led Mu Zixi toward their next task, describing it as pulling radishes and digging holes.

Xu Xiaoshou led Mu Zixi through spirit arrays to a secluded sea of flowers, where they encountered a strange forbidden-flight barrier. He discovered that his powerful body let him fly despite the array, while Mu Zixi remained grounded.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Fu Xing to draw attention at the banquet hall, then slipped away with Mu Zixi to find a place to dig a pit.
• Xu Xiaoshou broke through multiple trapping arrays and entered a hidden sea of flowers behind a master-level spirit array.
• Mu Zixi tried to fly through the flowers but was pulled down by the forbidden-flight barrier, and Xu Xiaoshou warned her not to act recklessly.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the flower sea's array restricted flight, but his Resilience and Sturdiness allowed him to fly above it.

Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi entered a sea of flowers filled with layered spiritual arrays and discovered an unseen figure controlling the area. After Mu Zixi was teleported away, Xu Xiaoshou turned to confront the figure.

• Xu Xiaoshou spotted a faint life force hidden behind the sea of flowers' nested spiritual arrays.
• The unseen figure activated the arrays, but Xu Xiaoshou resisted their sealing force and tried to leave with Mu Zixi.
• A teleportation array appeared under Mu Zixi and sent her away when she stumbled into it.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the unseen figure was watching and manipulating events, then turned toward them with hundreds of spiritual needles lit behind him.

Xu Xiaoshou used his Textile Mastery to weave spiritual needles that reconstructed and shattered the nested spiritual arrays in the sea of flowers. His assault triggered a catastrophic explosion that drew the attention of every expert in the City Lord's Manor.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Textile Reconstruction to adapt his spiritual needles to the nested spiritual array, then destroyed a teleportation array before it could transport him.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent nearly a thousand spiritual needles through the sea of flowers, tearing apart the array patterns and provoking repeated signs of suspicion from his unseen opponent.
• Xu Xiaoshou replenished his spiritual essence with Yuan Ting Pills and intensified his assault, causing the nested arrays to explode across the sea of flowers.
• A blurry figure flew out and ordered Xu Xiaoshou to stop, but the sea of flowers had already turned blood-red.
• Xu Xiaoshou plunged headfirst into the ground as a world-shaking explosion lit the night sky and alerted the experts in the City Lord's Manor.

Xu Xiaoshou’s explosive use of Weaving devastated the City Lord’s Manor’s back garden, prompting Fu Xing to send Fu Yinhong to find him. Xu Xiaoshou emerged from the blast and met a sobbing, scorched man while continuing to search for his junior sister.

• Fu Xing recognized the explosion as Xu Xiaoshou’s work and ordered Fu Yinhong to search the back garden and restrain him if necessary.
• Fu Yinhong left to find Protector Liu and investigate the blast, while Fu Xing agreed to receive the Red Robes if she could not return in time.
• Xu Xiaoshou climbed out of the earth and saw that his use of Weaving had blasted apart the flower garden and most of its nested spirit array.
• Xu Xiaoshou approached the scorched man who was kneeling and sobbing, then searched for his missing junior sister with Perception.
• The man asked Xu Xiaoshou who he was, and Xu Xiaoshou called himself a mushroom that went “JOJO.”

Xu Xiaoshou discovered that the ragged man whose spiritual array he had destroyed was Fu Zhi, the missing City Lord of Tiansang City. Suspecting Fu Zhi had trapped himself while studying arrays, Xu Xiaoshou concealed his own alarm and ended by complimenting the array.

• Xu Xiaoshou argued with the man over whether either of them was a mushroom before asking who he was and what he was doing in the City Lord's Manor.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the man might be the missing City Lord, and Fu Zhi identified himself as Fu Xing's father.
• Xu Xiaoshou confirmed Fu Zhi's identity by tricking him into giving contradictory answers, then feared the consequences of destroying his array.
• Xu Xiaoshou guessed that Fu Zhi had trapped himself in his own spiritual array, but Fu Zhi denied it and tried to hide his embarrassment.
• Xu Xiaoshou kept his composure, shifted the conversation, and told Fu Zhi that his spiritual array was well laid.

Xu Xiaoshou bluffed his way into Fu Zhi’s gratitude after freeing him from the trapped spirit array, and Fu Zhi began treating him as a respected senior. The chapter ended with Fu Zhi calling him “Brother Shou,” leaving Xu Xiaoshou embarrassed and unsure how to address him.

• Fu Zhi reconsidered Xu Xiaoshou after hearing his calm praise and asked who he was.
• Xu Xiaoshou implied he was an unknowable expert, and Fu Zhi realized he had been trapped in the formation for four years.
• Fu Zhi thanked Xu Xiaoshou for rescuing him and asked him to keep the incident secret.
• Fu Zhi asked for Xu Xiaoshou’s name, then concealed his suspicion and enthusiastically called him “Brother Shou.”
• Fu Zhi praised Xu Xiaoshou’s display of the Heavenly Secrets Art while Xu Xiaoshou worried about their awkward new form of address.

Xu Xiaoshou explained that he had broken Fu Zhi’s spirit array with Weaving, not the Heavenly Secrets Art. He demonstrated the art, leaving Fu Zhi transfixed by its seemingly ordinary needles and threads.

• Fu Zhi asked Xu Xiaoshou whether Dao Qiongchang had taught him the Heavenly Secrets Art, but Xu Xiaoshou denied knowing it.
• Xu Xiaoshou said he cultivated Weaving and showed Fu Zhi spirit needles, then identified them as needles and the spiritual essence between them as thread.
• Xu Xiaoshou demonstrated Weaving as Fu Zhi watched closely, searching for its hidden mysteries.
• Xu Xiaoshou noticed Fu Zhi’s eager, thirst-for-knowledge expression and thought of Yunhe; their synchronized demonstration ended abruptly.

Xu Xiaoshou used an ordinary Chinese knot to make Fu Zhi believe he had witnessed a profound technique, then challenged Fu Zhi to consider that the world might not be a single world. He ended by drawing two circles and asking Fu Zhi to identify their difference.

• Xu Xiaoshou presented Fu Zhi with a Chinese knot made through ordinary weaving, which Fu Zhi mistook for a spiritual array.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed that his technique had simply been ordinary weaving, leaving Fu Zhi shocked and resentful.
• Xu Xiaoshou pointed to the moon and the ground, persuading Fu Zhi that both were worlds and suggesting that the world he saw was only the tip of the iceberg.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew two circles, inscribed spiritual patterns into the second using the knot’s threads, and asked Fu Zhi how the circles differed.

Xu Xiaoshou guided Fu Zhi toward understanding Weaving as a way to perceive the Dao beyond the fixed forms of spiritual arrays. Fu Zhi grasped the idea, but Xu Xiaoshou's question about how the Dao came into being left him terrified and screaming in disbelief.

• Xu Xiaoshou explained that spiritual arrays and Heavenly Secrets Art were different ways of approaching the same Dao, but insisted he was teaching Fu Zhi about Weaving.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Fu Zhi not to fixate on the form through which the Dao manifested, and Fu Zhi concluded that invisible spiritual patterns underlay the order of all things.
• Fu Zhi realized nested spiritual arrays could not reach the formless Dao, blamed himself for misunderstanding, and excitedly begged Xu Xiaoshou to continue.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked how spiritual patterns and then the Dao came into being, and Fu Zhi reacted with terror, shouting that it was impossible.

Fu Zhi emerged from seclusion after Xu Xiaoshou helped him see through the Heavenly Secrets Formation, but someone stole the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate while they spoke. Fu Yinhong and Liu Jing arrived to find Fu Zhi at the theft site.

• Fu Zhi feared Xu Xiaoshou might be a descendant of a Holy Emperor, then said he had made progress and was close to breaking through to Grandmaster.
• Fu Zhi invited Xu Xiaoshou to a banquet, but Xu Xiaoshou reminded him to retrieve his junior sister before they went.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Fu Zhi sensed someone near the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate, and Fu Zhi rushed back to find it stolen.
• Fu Zhi found only an undone spiritual array and a pit where the plate had been, then grew furious.
• Fu Yinhong, Liu Jing, and others arrived and recognized the disheveled Fu Zhi as the City Lord.

Fu Zhi ordered the City Lord's Manor sealed after the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate was stolen, but Fu Yinhong mistook Xu Xiaoshou for the thief and attacked him. After Xu Xiaoshou's passive skills sent her flying, Fu Zhi caught her and revealed that Xu Xiaoshou was her uncle.

• Fu Zhi ordered Fu Yinhong and the others to seal the City Lord's Manor at Throne alert level after the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate went missing.
• Fu Yinhong spotted Xu Xiaoshou approaching and charged at him, while Liu Jing restrained him with the Way of Heaven.
• Fu Yinhong accused Xu Xiaoshou of deceiving her and struck him with a palm, but his passive skills sent her flying.
• Fu Zhi caught the injured Fu Yinhong and scolded her for attacking Xu Xiaoshou, revealing that he was her uncle.

Xu Xiaoshou asserted his new uncle status with Fu Zhi while Fu Yinhong struggled to accept that he was now her uncle. After Fu Zhi revealed that Xu Xiaoshou’s junior sister was missing and the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate was lost, Xu Xiaoshou ordered a search and let Fu Yinhong leave.

• Fu Zhi introduced Xu Xiaoshou as his brother and scolded Fu Yinhong for disrespecting her uncle.
• Xu Xiaoshou teased Fu Yinhong as “Little Hong,” and Fu Zhi stopped her from attacking him.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked for his junior sister, and Fu Zhi admitted she had been placed in the sea of flowers and that the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate was lost.
• Fu Zhi ordered Liu Jing and the others to search for the missing junior sister and seal off the City Lord's Manor.
• Fu Zhi told Fu Yinhong to stay, but Xu Xiaoshou said she could go, and she fled when her father asked if she wanted to remain.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that the stolen Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate contained the White Cavern’s World Source Point, while Fu Zhi admitted he could trap Mu Zixi inside but could not yet release her. After reasoning that the thief had not escaped the City Lord’s Manor, Xu Xiaoshou identified Xu Xiaoji as the likely culprit.

• Fu Zhi explained that the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate was a mechanism array made through the Heavenly Secrets Art and sealed the White Cavern’s World Source Point.
• Fu Zhi admitted he had trapped Mu Zixi inside the plate and claimed he was still working out how to release her.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned how the thief could have evaded detection and considered Xu Xiaoji’s suspicious presence at the City Lord’s Manor.
• Fu Zhi argued that the thief could not have left the manor because he detected no cultivation or teleportation-array fluctuations.
• Xu Xiaoshou concluded that Xu Xiaoji was likely the thief and told Fu Zhi he knew where the person was.

Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Xu Xiaoji was hiding nearby in the pit as a grain of sand and used taunts to make him reveal himself. He trapped Xu Xiaoji in the Origin Mansion and ordered A-Jie to watch him while he and Fu Zhi returned to the banquet.

• Xu Xiaoshou realized the thief was close by but invisible, then reasoned that he might be hiding in the safest place: right beside them.
• Xu Xiaoshou's taunts provoked a tiny twitch from a grain of sand in the pit, revealing Xu Xiaoji's hiding place.
• Xu Xiaoshou picked up the grain of sand and joked that the thief might have transformed into it, prompting Fu Zhi to summon people to search the sea of flowers.
• Xu Xiaoshou tossed the grain of sand into the Origin Mansion and told A-Jie to watch Xu Xiaoji and beat him if he transformed.

Xu Xiaoshou entered the Origin Mansion and found A-Jie had beaten Xu Xiaoji nearly to death. After rescuing him from the chaotic mist, Xu Xiaoshou apologized, but Xu Xiaoji remained terrified and begged to be released.

• Fu Zhi left for the banquet while Fu Yinhong and Liu Jing went to search for the thief, leaving Xu Xiaoshou with the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the Origin Mansion and found A-Jie kicking Xu Xiaoji through the air.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered A-Jie to stop after Xu Xiaoji was kicked into the corrosive chaotic mist.
• A-Jie retrieved the unconscious Xu Xiaoji, and Xu Xiaoshou gave him a pill.
• Xu Xiaoji recognized Xu Xiaoshou and begged him to let him out, surrendering his claim to the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate.
• Xu Xiaoshou apologized to Xu Xiaoji, who recoiled in terror and insisted that he was the one who should apologize.

Xu Xiaoshou questioned Xu Xiaoji and learned about his shapeshifting ability and mysterious Throne-level power, which was due to appear soon. After Xu Xiaoji returned the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate, Xu Xiaoshou noticed a groove that looked like a sword mark.

• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Xu Xiaoji, who admitted he had once worked as an assassin and could transform into anything.
• Xu Xiaoji said he did not know whether he was human and explained that a mysterious power appeared about once a month, sometimes letting him kill many people.
• Xu Xiaoji revealed that his power was at the Throne level and would probably appear within a day or two.
• Xu Xiaoji spat out the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate in a square jade spiritual box.
• Xu Xiaoshou noticed a deep groove in the box and sensed a faint thread of sword aura within it.

Xu Xiaoshou suspected the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate and Yousi Sword had jointly sealed a secret of the White Cavern, then investigated the plate with Xu Xiaoji. Using Textile Mastery, Xu Xiaoshou quickly grasped the Heavenly Secrets Inscriptions that had stumped Fu Zhi for years, while Xu Xiaoji watched in disbelief.

• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that Yousi Sword and the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate might have served as a double seal and wondered what secret lay within the White Cavern.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Xu Xiaoji why he had stolen the plate, and Xu Xiaoji said it had called to him and seemed capable of revealing secrets.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Xu Xiaoji examined the spirit box, and Xu Xiaoshou applied Textile Mastery to study its Heavenly Secrets Inscriptions.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized that Textile Mastery could unravel the inscriptions and quickly understood the plate's workings.
• Xu Xiaoji watched Xu Xiaoshou grasp what had baffled Fu Zhi for four years and suspected he was somehow cheating.

Xu Xiaoshou used Xu Xiaoji’s transformation ability to activate the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate, hoping to reach Mu Zixi inside. When the array flooded Xu Xiaoji with energy, Xu Xiaoshou held the sword in place instead of pulling it out, leaving Xu Xiaoji in agony.

• Xu Xiaoshou concluded that the array’s sword slot needed a sword to activate and told Xu Xiaoji to transform into one.
• Xu Xiaoji resisted until Xu Xiaoshou threatened to have A-Jie kill him, then transformed into a slender black sword.
• Xu Xiaoshou inserted Xu Xiaoji into the sword slot, activating the Heavenly Secret Array Pattern and drawing in energy from the Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoji screamed for Xu Xiaoshou to pull him out as energy surged through the sword, but Xu Xiaoshou pressed it down and reassured him instead.