Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhongmou fled the White Skeleton, but the creature caught up and battered him back into Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen’s hidden formation. Xu Xiaoshou killed Zhang Zhongmou with his famous sword, and the White Skeleton finally crushed him before turning toward an approaching figure.

• Zhang Zhongmou abandoned the fight and fled as the White Skeleton pursued him with explosive White Flame blasts.
• The White Skeleton overtook Zhang Zhongmou and drowned him in White Flame, then struck him back toward Xu Xiaoshou’s hiding place.
• Xu Xiaoshou refused Yu Zhiwen’s offer to finish Zhang Zhongmou and instead drew his famous sword, severing Zhang Zhongmou’s head from his body.
• The White Skeleton charged after Zhang Zhongmou’s remains, while the dying Zhang Zhongmou recognized Xu Xiaoshou’s sword aura and revealed his location.
• White Skeleton crushed Zhang Zhongmou’s skull, then resumed dancing before noticing a figure approaching from afar.

Zhang Duoyu chased Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen after Yu Zhiwen’s Heavenly Secrets Formation trapped and weakened her, while Xu Xiaoshou reignited the White Skeleton’s flame to help it attack. Yu Zhiwen then used Xiangyue: Stellar Shift to escape Zhang Duoyu’s strike, leaving Zhang Duoyu facing the White Skeleton’s fire and dismissing it as harmless.

• Zhang Duoyu saw the White Skeleton crush Zhang Zhongmou, abandoned her attempt to help, and fled as the creature pursued her.
• Yu Zhiwen cast Great Moon Overhead, Moon Shadow, Moon Delay, and Silent Moon, trapping Zhang Duoyu in a looping path and disrupting her attempt to form a domain.
• Zhang Duoyu attacked the White Skeleton with Profound Sound Palm, then noticed the Heavenly Dao disturbance and charged toward Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Emberlight Skyburn to restore the White Skeleton’s fading White Flame, allowing it to unleash the Heaven-Tilting Torrent.
• Yu Zhiwen used Xiangyue: Stellar Shift to evade Zhang Duoyu’s strike, and Zhang Duoyu turned to face the White Skeleton’s fire, confident it could not harm her.

Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen helped White Skeleton defeat Zhang Duoyu, whose White Flame attack was stopped from becoming a self-destruction by Yu Zhiwen’s Silent Moon. After claiming the fallen treasures, Xu Xiaoshou decided to head toward the formation and strange treasure Qu Qing’er had mentioned while White Skeleton slept.

• White Flame burned through Zhang Duoyu’s defenses and consumed her body, spiritual essence, and sea of qi.
• As Zhang Duoyu tried to self-destruct and rush White Skeleton, Yu Zhiwen used Silent Moon to suppress her, and White Skeleton shattered her remains.
• White Skeleton exhausted itself, forgot its pursuit of Xu Xiaoshou, and fell asleep.
• Yu Zhiwen used Great Moon Overhead to retrieve Zhang Duoyu’s ring and other treasures, which Xu Xiaoshou accepted after they argued over who should keep them.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked whether they could escape, then chose to head toward the formation and strange treasure Qu Qing’er had mentioned while White Skeleton slept.

The Storyteller, Cen Qiaofu, and the masked Chief Seat approached Eight Palaces Town while the Red Robes discovered their arrival. The Chief Seat identified Wen Ming as the sword cultivator they were seeking and sent the Storyteller to bring him back alive.

• Can An reported that the Celestial Origin Spirit-Seeking Disc had detected three intruders, and Black Soul used it to reveal their image before the signal vanished.
• The Storyteller appeared in the Red Robes camp, subdued Black Soul and the attendants, and forced Black Soul to activate the disc’s projection.
• The projection showed the Storyteller, Cen Qiaofu, and the masked Chief Seat walking toward Eight Palaces Town, while the Storyteller’s external incarnation remained in the camp.
• At the collapsed gate, the Chief Seat sensed sword aura and told the Storyteller to find the handsome young sword cultivator and bring him back alive.
• The Storyteller pressed the Chief Seat for the young man’s name, and the Chief Seat said he was Wen Ming.

Separated from Xu Xiaoshou in White Cavern, Mu Zixi traveled with A-Jie and encountered Monk Unhappy, who sought to convert her because of her God-Devil Pupils. After a clash revealed the pupils’ destructive power, Mu Zixi escaped on A-Jie’s back, taking the Prison-Void Demon Staff with her.

• Mu Zixi traveled with A-Jie through White Cavern while resisting a voice in her mind that urged her to keep moving forward, and she used her God-Devil Pupils to sense the surrounding Heavenly Dao aura.
• Monk Unhappy approached Mu Zixi and A-Jie, claiming he had come to resolve the karmic entanglement caused by her eyes and to cultivate by converting her.
• A-Jie and Monk Unhappy fought, and Mu Zixi used a tree technique to help knock the monk into a pit before she tried to leave with A-Jie.
• Monk Unhappy attacked as they fled, so Mu Zixi used her God-Devil Pupils to blast him away, then suffered bleeding and blurred vision from the power’s cost.
• Mu Zixi climbed onto A-Jie’s back and took the Prison-Void Demon Staff while Monk Unhappy struggled to recover and warned her that its demonic energy was dangerous.

Rong Dahao led a large group toward Spirit-Melting Marsh, while Mo Mo resisted the Gray Mist Man’s demand to claim the Three-Day Frost Calamity. Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen opened the marsh’s formation and entered, with Xu Xiaoshou heading for the White Skeleton’s lair in pursuit of an Emberlight Grand Fire Seed as the awakened creature approached.

• Rong Dahao persuaded Zhao Tai and the others to risk entering Spirit-Melting Marsh for treasures, then invited Mo Mo to join them.
• Mo Mo rejected the Gray Mist Man’s pressure to pursue power and agreed to go with Rong Dahao’s group.
• Yu Zhiwen broke open the marsh’s formation, and the gathered treasure seekers rushed through its newly opened passages.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen entered the marsh and headed west toward the White Skeleton’s dwelling instead of chasing the icy aura of the Three-Day Frost Calamity.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed that the White Skeleton was approaching and pressed on, hoping to find an Emberlight Grand Fire Seed in its lair.

Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen reached the White Skeleton’s bone castle and discovered a grove of mutated spiritual herbs whose potent aphrodisiac fragrance overwhelmed the people around them. As Xu Xiaoshou tried to help Yu Zhiwen and nearly kissed her, the White Skeleton returned and another figure suddenly appeared before it.

• Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen followed the trembling ground to the White Skeleton’s enormous bone gate, while other treasure hunters pursued them.
• Yu Zhiwen spotted towering mutated High Flame Maples and countless fire-element herbs growing around the castle.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized that the mutated herbs’ fragrance had powerful aphrodisiac effects, and it left Yu Zhiwen and the other followers overcome with desire.
• Yu Zhiwen clung to Xu Xiaoshou, who tried to purge the medicinal effects and eventually prepared to use the Breathing Method to draw them from her.
• The White Skeleton leaped above the crowd, and a tiny black figure rushed in front of it.

Mu Zixi found Xu Xiaoshou holding the unconscious Yu Zhiwen and mistook his attempt to heal her for a kiss, while A-Jie fought the White Skeleton nearby. After Xu Xiaoshou cleared up the misunderstanding and stopped Mu Zixi from running off, he dragged her toward the White Bone Gate with Yu Zhiwen in his arms.

• Mu Zixi and A-Jie broke through the rosy-mist formation and found Xu Xiaoshou holding Yu Zhiwen, prompting Mu Zixi to accuse him of betraying her.
• Yu Zhiwen kissed Xu Xiaoshou’s neck and cheek while unconscious, and Mu Zixi repeatedly fainted from distress before Xu Xiaoshou revived her and removed the medicinal effect.
• A-Jie began exchanging evenly matched blows with the White Skeleton, and Xu Xiaoshou decided to enter the White Bone Gate while A-Jie held it off.
• Mu Zixi tried to leave, but Xu Xiaoshou picked her up; she bit his hand and drained his life force before he pulled her toward the White Bone Gate with Yu Zhiwen.

Xu Xiaoshou secretly harvested White Skeleton’s mutated High Flame Maples while A-Jie kept it occupied. After White Skeleton noticed and unleashed a torrent of White Flame, Xu Xiaoshou drew his famed sword to face it.

• Xu Xiaoshou explained the spirit herbs’ aphrodisiac effects and led Mu Zixi and Yu Zhiwen to hide inside the White Bone Gate.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to explore White Skeleton’s lair and harvest the spirit herbs, using his Concealment to move unseen beneath the grove.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Origin Mansion to remove three large sections of the High Flame Maple grove while White Skeleton fought A-Jie.
• White Skeleton noticed its grove had vanished, screamed in rage, and swept down toward Xu Xiaoshou with White Flame.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned A-Jie to shield him, then drew his famed sword and challenged White Skeleton.

Xu Xiaoshou, Mu Zixi, and Yu Zhiwen entered the White Bone Gate while Xu Xiaoshou held back the White Skeleton’s flames, then descended through a suspiciously straight pit toward the Emberlight Grand Fire Seed. As the battle above threatened to collapse the passage, Yu Zhiwen prepared a formation to help them escape and Mu Zixi revealed she had planted tree seeds, while their awkward rivalry over Xu Xiaoshou continued.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Sword-Drawing Form to send the White Skeleton’s White Flame waterfall back, then led Mu Zixi and Yu Zhiwen into the White Bone Gate.
• A-Jie stayed behind to block the White Skeleton, repeatedly kicking it deeper into the ground as it tried to pursue the others.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed the Emberlight Grand Fire Seed below and suspected the straight, hardened pit had been formed by something powerful sliding underground.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Yu Zhiwen to set up a child formation and return to the surface, while Mu Zixi insisted on staying and revealed she had planted tree seeds as an escape route.
• As battle sounds and tremors drew closer, Xu Xiaoshou set the plan in motion, and Yu Zhiwen warned him to be careful before flying upward to establish the formation.
• Xu Xiaoshou reminded Yu Zhiwen to set up the formation before leaving, disappointing her and prompting Mu Zixi to question his earlier kiss.

Rong Dahao’s group reached Spirit-Melting Marsh, where Little Monk Unhappy punched through the mist formation with Divine Mind Penetration and Mo Mo opened another breach with her sealing power. Elsewhere, a storyteller arrived in White Cavern, attacked three Red Robes after they called him a pervert, and then sensed Second Brother’s fire near Three-Day Frost Calamity.

• Rong Dahao led Mo Mo and the others to the mist formation around Spirit-Melting Marsh, where Little Monk Unhappy appeared and tried to break through it with his fists.
• Little Monk Unhappy used Divine Mind Penetration to punch a hole through the formation and entered Spirit-Melting Marsh, astonishing Rong Dahao and Mo Mo.
• Mo Mo melted a much wider opening in the formation with her gray sealing power, then led Rong Dahao’s group inside.
• A storyteller emerged from a spatial rift and was attacked by three Red Robes after they mistook him for a perverted stowaway.
• The storyteller beat one Red Robe to death, found a map marking an Origin Dao-Pattern Stone and Three-Day Frost Calamity, and sensed Second Brother’s fire near the latter.

Xu Xiaoshou discovered a fire seed at the bottom of a vast magma pool but could not reach it, so he decided to use pill refining to force it upward. He stored Mu Zixi in his Origin Mansion and prepared to begin refining pills in the molten cavern.

• Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi entered the underground cavern and found a pool of milky-white magma; Xu Xiaoshou sent Mu Zixi outside while he investigated.
• Xu Xiaoshou tested the magma, transformed into the Berserk Giant, and used Perception to locate a fire seed more than fifteen hundred feet below the surface.
• Xu Xiaoshou rejected several dangerous ways to retrieve the fire seed and realized he could treat the cavern as a pill cauldron and refine the fire seed upward.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to Mu Zixi and explained his plan to refine pills, alarming her with his apparent intention to cause an explosion.
• Mu Zixi clung to Xu Xiaoshou and demanded to enter the Origin Mansion, so Xu Xiaoshou stored her there before preparing to refine the fire seed.

Mo Mo opened a path through the icy grand formation while the Gray Mist Man urged her to use the battle’s scorching energy to trigger an explosion. The Storyteller arrived and pursued the Gray Mist Man, but white magma erupted beneath the ice, setting the trapped treasure hunters ablaze.

• The first treasure hunters failed to break the icy grand formation, and Elder Zhao admitted he could not decipher it in time.
• Rong Dahao arrived with Mo Mo, who began dissolving the ice with her sealing power after the Gray Mist Man warned her about the battle’s unstable energy.
• Mo Mo refused the Gray Mist Man’s plan to combine the scorching energy and extreme cold to kill everyone, then led the crowd into the ice passage.
• The Storyteller appeared above the passage, and the Gray Mist Man took over Mo Mo’s body and fled deeper into the ice as the Storyteller pursued him.
• Scorching energy spread through the ice, igniting people in the passage, while the Storyteller sensed white magma erupting from deep beneath the ground.

Xu Xiaoshou’s attempt to refine medicinal liquid triggered a catastrophic White Flame eruption across Spirit-Melting Marsh, while the Gray Mist Man entered an icy secret realm to claim the Three-Day Frost Calamity. The chapter ended with the White Skeleton freezing the Gray Mist Man and cracking his sealing domain.

• Yu Zhiwen sensed the subsidiary formation’s destruction and began trying to escape as White Flame erupted across Spirit-Melting Marsh.
• The eruption devastated the marsh and opened a vast spatial rift, forcing cultivators and the Storyteller to avoid the flames or teleport away.
• The Storyteller sealed much of the White Flame in his ancient tome, then chose to pursue the Gray Mist Man instead of investigating the remaining fire.
• Xu Xiaoshou continued using the Emberlight Pill-Condensing Art underground, hoping to finish refining the fire seed despite his body being burned by Emberglow power.
• The Gray Mist Man crossed the icy secret realm, released his Black Death Mark, and reached the Three-Day Frost Calamity atop the snow mountain.
• The White Skeleton attacked as the Gray Mist Man reached for the cold flame, used the Three-Day Frost Calamity to freeze him, and cracked his sealing domain.

Elder Sang drank in a tavern while a scarred, scruffy man tried to stop him from assassinating Gou Wuyue. After Gou Wuyue arrived in Azure Dragon City, Elder Sang overpowered the man with his Emberlight Heavenly Flame and left, declaring that wine was a sword for killing.

• Elder Sang drank thirteen pots of Azure Dragon Brew in a tavern in Azure Dragon City as the waiter awaited the arrival of Gou Wuyue and the Central Region White Robes.
• A scruffy man with a missing thumb and a sack of weapons sat with Elder Sang, paid his bill, and warned him against assassinating Gou Wuyue.
• Elder Sang and the scruffy man clashed with sword intent and White Flame after the man questioned Elder Sang about wine and courage.
• Gou Wuyue arrived in Azure Dragon City, and Elder Sang rose to leave while the scruffy man tried to block him with sword intent.
• Elder Sang burned away the scruffy man's control over spiritual essence, Heavenly Dao, and sword intent with his Emberlight Heavenly Flame, then left the tavern.
• Elder Sang told the incapacitated man that wine was not for bolstering courage but was a sword for killing.

Xu Xiaoshou’s attempt to force the fire seed out of his underground furnace triggered its emergence and brought it into a collision with the Three-Day Frost Calamity. As Xu Xiaoshou tried to escape with Unhappy and A-Jie, the opposing ice and fire energies erased Spirit-Melting Marsh, leaving him and Little Fish caught in the catastrophe.

• Storyteller realized the Frostbound Realm’s seal was cracking and fled as the ice and fire formations began to fail.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s attempt to condense and blast out the fire seed instead caused gray-black energy and golden Energy Beads to merge and destabilize the underground cavern.
• Xu Xiaoshou encountered Unhappy, who pointed him toward A-Jie, then fled after the fire seed burst upward through a spatial black hole.
• Xu Xiaoshou reunited with A-Jie and White Skeleton as the fire seed rose, while the Storyteller watched and the Gray Mist Man struggled against the ice-blue White Skeleton in the Frostbound Realm.
• The fire seed and Three-Day Frost Calamity met, spreading a wall of vapor and filling Spirit-Melting Marsh with opposing ice and fire energies.
• Xu Xiaoshou spotted Little Fish and the fleeing Storyteller, realized Spirit-Melting Marsh was being destroyed, and lunged toward Little Fish as the land vanished.

After a tremendous explosion shook White Cavern, Lan Ling ordered the Red Robes to advance toward the Thirty-Six Heavens Sealing Void Formation while Cen Qiaofu and the masked First Seat searched for a Void Island crack. Xu Xiaoshou sheltered Yu Zhiwen, Mu Zixi, Unhappy, and Xu Xiaoji in the Origin Mansion, then returned to the devastated Spirit-Melting Marsh, where A-Jie greeted him.

• Lan Ling suspected the blast came from a clash involving Cutting Path experts, ordered Shouye to investigate, and led the Red Robes forward at full speed.
• Cen Qiaofu sensed a familiar aura but agreed with the masked First Seat that the person they remembered had not returned; they continued searching for a Void Island crack as treasures appeared across White Cavern.
• Xu Xiaoshou found Yu Zhiwen unconscious in the Origin Mansion and restrained Unhappy after learning that Unhappy wanted to purify Mu Zixi.
• Mu Zixi gave Xu Xiaoshou Unhappy’s Prison-Void Demon Staff, and Xu Xiaoshou also took Unhappy’s Slaying Buddha Blade before leaving the Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to the ruined Spirit-Melting Marsh, where A-Jie recognized him and called him “Mama.”

Xu Xiaoshou fought to seize the Emberlight treasures, but the Three-Day Frost Calamity and an ice-blue White Skeleton nearly froze him and A-Jie to death. After Xu Xiaoshou used the Emberlight Pill-Condensing Art to break free, the Gray Mist Man appeared and addressed him.

• Xu Xiaoshou found A-Jie injured but alive, then spotted the milky-white fire seed and the Three-Day Frost Calamity confronting each other in the sky.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered A-Jie to smash the Emberlight White Skeleton's skull and retrieve its Emberlight Grand Fire Seed, but A-Jie absorbed the White Flame that spilled out.
• An ice-blue White Skeleton used the Three-Day Frost Calamity's power to freeze Xu Xiaoshou, A-Jie, and the surrounding marsh.
• Xu Xiaoshou invoked the Emberlight Pill-Condensing Art, forcing the milky-white fire seed to release power that melted the ice and freed them.
• Xu Xiaoshou swept the Emberlight White Skeleton into the Origin Mansion and charged toward the Three-Day Frost Calamity, but the Gray Mist Man sealed the ice-blue White Skeleton and appeared before him.

Xu Xiaoshou and A-Jie fought the Gray Mist Man, then discovered that a man in red had trapped them in an ancient-book spiritual artifact. The Gray Mist Man explained that the man outside could not interfere while the space recovered, leaving Xu Xiaoshou time to pursue the treasures but no clear way to escape.

• Xu Xiaoshou tried to flee the Gray Mist Man, but it intercepted him, and A-Jie attacked it with overwhelming physical strength.
• The Gray Mist Man used Sixfold Sealing Gates, but A-Jie evaded them through a spatial rift and continued attacking.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized that the Gray Mist Man was interested in him and that the strange space had imprisoned them both.
• The Gray Mist Man revealed that it wanted the Three-Day Frost Calamity and the Emberglow Primordial Seed, and said a man in red had trapped them.
• The Gray Mist Man explained that the space was a page inside the man in red's ancient-book spiritual artifact and that its damaged Heavenly Dao prevented him from intervening until the space recovered.

Xu Xiaoshou used the White Pearl’s resonance with the Emberglow Primordial Seed to draw the fire seed into his Yuan Ting, where the pearl suppressed its heat. He realized the pearl could communicate and channel power through the spatial rift, raising the possibility that the Wretched Saint could reach him at any time.

• Xu Xiaoshou convinced the Gray Mist Man to try drawing on the Three-Day Frost Calamity while he dealt with the Emberglow Primordial Seed, though he privately planned to rely on detonating the fire seed himself.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that touching the Emberglow Primordial Seed with his spiritual sense triggered the White Pearl and revealed a map leading to a spatial rift.
• Xu Xiaoshou endured severe pain and forced the White Pearl to react until power from the rift pulled the Emberglow Primordial Seed into his Yuan Ting.
• A-Jie caught the bloodied Xu Xiaoshou and stopped when he told it the Gray Mist Man had not attacked him.
• The White Pearl sealed the Emberglow Primordial Seed’s heat, and Xu Xiaoshou concluded that the pearl could communicate and might let the Wretched Saint reach him through the rift.