Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou got the White Pearl to partially unseal the Emberglow Primordial Seed and moved it from his Purple Mansion Yuan Ting to his sea of qi, where it began refining his spirit essence. When he discovered A-Jie fighting the Gray Mist Man, Xu Xiaoshou joined the fray and headed for the Three-Day Frost Calamity, defying the Gray Mist Man’s warning.

• Xu Xiaoshou waited for the White Pearl’s periodic awakening and asked it to release enough Emberglow Primordial Seed power for him to use.
• The White Pearl sent a beam from the map’s rift, gradually unsealing the Emberglow Primordial Seed until the heat damaged and compressed Xu Xiaoshou’s spiritual perception.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Breathing Method to move the Primordial Seed from his Purple Mansion Yuan Ting into his sea of qi, where it refined his spirit essence.
• A-Jie attacked the Gray Mist Man while Xu Xiaoshou was occupied, and Xu Xiaoshou assumed the Gray Mist Man had tried to ambush him.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered A-Jie to keep attacking the weakened Gray Mist Man, then flew toward the Three-Day Frost Calamity.
• The Gray Mist Man warned Xu Xiaoshou not to touch the Three-Day Frost Calamity, but Xu Xiaoshou defiantly approached it.

Xu Xiaoshou tried to seize the Three-Day Frost Calamity and reasoned that he could control it by treating heaven and earth as a pill cauldron, while the damaged formation drew Shouye to Spirit-Melting Marsh. Shouye encountered Storyteller and attacked him, and Storyteller threatened to destroy the White Cavern as he struggled against Shouye’s Heaven-Slaying Hand.

• A-Jie chased and battered the weakened Gray Mist Man while Xu Xiaoshou took the sealed Ice-Blue White Skeleton into his Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou cupped the Three-Day Frost Calamity and tried to balance its freezing power against the Emberglow Primordial Seed, but the worsening formation left him short on time.
• Xu Xiaoshou concluded that heaven and earth could serve as a pill cauldron and that all living things beyond it could be refined.
• Shouye investigated the devastated Spirit-Melting Marsh, found traces of a Ghost Beast, and suspected Saint Slave involvement.
• Shouye came upon Storyteller bathing in a river, recognized him as the red-skirted intruder, and attacked with Night Curtain and Heaven-Slaying Hand.
• Storyteller blocked the Heaven-Slaying Hand with Yin-Yang Life and Death, but his incarnation began to break apart, so he threatened to self-destruct and destroy the White Cavern small world.

Shouye subdued Storyteller with a Martial-Sealing Talisman and interrogated him about the explosion and the Ghost Beast, but Storyteller concealed what he knew until Shouye’s torture pushed him to threaten releasing everything in the ancient book. The chapter left Shouye facing a violently trembling book as Storyteller revealed he had retained some power before the talisman was applied.

• Shouye overwhelmed Storyteller’s Heaven-Slaying Hand with the ancient book’s phantom, then pursued and captured him.
• Shouye forced Storyteller to touch a Martial-Sealing Talisman, imprinting its seal on his palm and suppressing his spiritual essence.
• Storyteller told Shouye that the explosion followed the leaking Emberglow Primordial Seed and the opening of Frostbound Realm’s world array, while initially concealing the Ghost Beast.
• Shouye pressed Storyteller about the Ghost Beast’s attribute and tortured him for denying that it had an ice attribute.
• Shouye spotted frost forming beneath the ancient book, while the bloodied Storyteller accused him of bluffing and threatened to release the Three-Day Frost Calamity, the Emberglow Primordial Seed, and the sealed Ghost Beast.
• Storyteller revealed that he had retained some power before the Martial-Sealing Talisman took effect as the ancient book trembled and space twisted around it.

Shouye realized the Storyteller he had fought was an external incarnation, but the Ancient Book unleashed a frozen domain that trapped them both. Inside the Ancient Book Space, Xu Xiaoshou befriended the Three-Day Frost Calamity and persuaded it to follow him, giving him a way out.

• Shouye discovered that the Storyteller and the Ancient Book were phantoms, and the Storyteller deduced that Shouye had obtained his Power of the Great Void from someone else.
• The Ancient Book released overwhelming frost and tribulation power, freezing the surroundings and trapping Shouye in a domain governed by the White Cavern's ice-element rules.
• Shouye broke the Storyteller out of the ice and questioned him, but the Storyteller could not explain the sudden power and was frozen again.
• Inside the Ancient Book Space, Gray Mist Man took A-Jie toward the snow mountain as hail and spatial cracks devastated the realm around Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Mastery of Culinary Arts to communicate with the Three-Day Frost Calamity and asked it to leave with him, and the flame agreed despite the Emberglow Primordial Seed in his sea of qi.

Xu Xiaoshou fully refined the Three-Day Frost Calamity, reached the peak of the Ju Wu Realm, and shattered the snow mountain that had trapped him. After arguing with the Gray Mist Man over their failed cooperation, Xu Xiaoshou froze the Gray Mist Man and the surrounding space with a move he called “Ice Age.”

• Xu Xiaoshou forced the Emberglow Primordial Seed to submit by having the Three-Day Frost Calamity overwhelm and seal it, then gained the icy flame’s master recognition and ice-and-fire elemental abilities.
• The Three-Day Frost Calamity’s feedback surged through Xu Xiaoshou, and the Breathing Method converted the power until he broke through to the peak of the Ju Wu Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou commanded the Three-Day Frost Calamity to shatter the snow mountain and absorbed its scattered ice-elemental energy.
• Xu Xiaoshou reunited with A-Jie, showed the Gray Mist Man that he had refined the Three-Day Frost Calamity, and argued that he was still helping them escape.
• The Gray Mist Man attacked Xu Xiaoshou, who stopped its fist with his palm and froze it and the surrounding void before naming the move “Ice Age.”

Xu Xiaoshou and the Gray Mist Man escaped the collapsing small world, but Mo Mo forced the Gray Mist Man to rescue Xu Xiaoshou instead of abandoning him. They emerged in the White Cavern before Shouye, who recognized the Gray Mist Man as a Sealing Ghost Beast and was stunned when Xu Xiaoshou arrived beside it.

• Xu Xiaoshou absorbed the frost calamity power from the Gray Mist Man, then froze the small world and compressed its ice until the space exploded.
• The Gray Mist Man tried to abandon Xu Xiaoshou in the spatial turbulence, but Mo Mo resisted and threatened to die with it unless it saved him.
• The Gray Mist Man followed Mo Mo's will, used sealing mist to pull Xu Xiaoshou through the spatial node, and emerged with him in the White Cavern.
• Shouye saw the Gray Mist Man's sealing power, activated his communication pearl, and prepared to confront the Ghost Beast.
• The Gray Mist Man pulled Xu Xiaoshou out of the spatial node, and Shouye recognized him in shock.

Shouye concluded that Xu Xiaoshou was a Ghost Beast host and tried to take him to Red Robes Headquarters for judgment, while Xu Xiaoshou insisted he was innocent and refused to go. After explaining his connection to the Gray Mist Man and the Three-Day Frost Calamity, Xu Xiaoshou clashed with Shouye as their opposing powers filled the battlefield.

• Shouye pieced together past incidents and became convinced that Xu Xiaoshou was an intelligent Ghost Beast host who had manipulated him into killing Zhang Taiying.
• Shouye demanded that Xu Xiaoshou go to Red Robes Headquarters, but Xu Xiaoshou refused and declared that his ambitions reached beyond Tiansang to the Five Domains.
• Shouye sealed the area and threatened to kill Xu Xiaoshou if he resisted, while the Gray Mist Man taunted Xu Xiaoshou and urged him to surrender.
• Xu Xiaoshou explained that he had helped the Gray Mist Man escape a pocket world and obtained the Three-Day Frost Calamity, but Shouye still judged him more dangerous than a Ghost Beast.
• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed the Three-Day Frost Calamity to drive back Shouye's darkness and declared that he would not go with him.

Xu Xiaoshou escaped Shouye’s attack with A-Jie’s help, while the Gray Mist Man sealed Shouye with the Black Death Mark. Shouye broke free using Vast Righteous Energy, and Xu Xiaoshou fled; afterward, the Storyteller emerged from his ice prison and prepared to pursue the Gray Mist Man.

• Xu Xiaoshou trapped Shouye in an Ice Chamber Prison, but Shouye’s spatial seal blocked Xu Xiaoshou’s escape.
• At the Gray Mist Man’s urging, Xu Xiaoshou threw A-Jie at the barrier, and A-Jie split it open with its Precept Blade.
• Shouye broke out of the ice and pursued Xu Xiaoshou, who escaped with One Step to Heaven.
• The Gray Mist Man activated the Black Death Mark hidden in the hail and temporarily sealed Shouye’s powers, but Shouye burned it away with Vast Righteous Energy.
• Xu Xiaoshou refused Shouye’s demand to stay and fled, while the Gray Mist Man also escaped in the opposite direction.
• The Storyteller emerged from his ice prison in a new incarnation with spiritual essence and turned toward the fleeing Gray Mist Man.

Storyteller trapped the Sealed Ghost Beast in a spatial page and escaped with it, while Shouye learned that Xu Xiaoshou had fled after obtaining the Three-Day Frost Calamity. Shouye sent Xin to alert Lan Ling about a plan to trap Saint Slave, then set out to find Xu Xiaoshou, whom he feared might become a Ghost Beast host.

• Storyteller broke free of the Martial-Sealing Talisman, used the spiritual energy he had secretly absorbed to activate Original Book World, and sealed the Gray Mist Man inside a two-dimensional spatial page.
• Storyteller explained how he had exploited the ancient book space and Shouye’s distraction, then lamented that Xu Xiaoshou had escaped with the Three-Day Frost Calamity.
• Xin arrived to support Shouye, but Storyteller sacrificed an external incarnation to open a one-way teleportation array and send away the spatial page and his treasures.
• Shouye stopped Xin from following Storyteller through the array, reasoning that the page was likely being sent to Saint Slave’s main body or its First Seat.
• Xin told Shouye that Gou Wuyue had come to the Eastern Region to pursue Storyteller, and Shouye gave Xin a jade slip of spatial fluctuations to take to Lan Ling so the White Robes could prepare a trap.
• Shouye decided to search for Xu Xiaoshou, whom he considered more important than the Yousi Sword, the White Cavern, the Ghost Beasts, and Saint Slave combined.

Xu Xiaoshou escaped the battlefield and learned from Yu Zhiwen that an Origin Dao-Pattern Stone could greatly expand and repair his Origin Mansion. After deciding to seek one in the White Cavern, he turned to taming the Emberglow White Skeleton as a powerful bodyguard, leaving it frightened and resisting inside the cramped space.

• Xu Xiaoshou teleported away from the battlefield and entered the Origin Mansion, where he reunited with the waking Yu Zhiwen and Mu Zixi.
• Xu Xiaoshou showed off the Three-Day Frost Calamity, then surveyed the cramped Origin Mansion and its imprisoned occupants.
• Yu Zhiwen explained that an Origin Dao-Pattern Stone could repair the small world's laws and expand the Origin Mansion, and Xu Xiaoshou realized he could use the White Cavern Map to search for its Heavenly Dao aura.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to seek the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone and acquire powerful bodyguards before facing further danger in the White Cavern.
• Xu Xiaoshou threatened the Emberglow White Skeleton with the chaotic mist, severed and dissolved one of its feet, and tried to force it to submit.

Xu Xiaoshou gained control of the Emberglow Primordial Seed and awakened White Flame, but his experiment with it and the Three-Day Frost Calamity nearly destroyed his Origin Mansion. He subdued both White Skeletons, named them A Huo and A Bing, and declared A-Jie their big brother.

• Xu Xiaoshou persuaded the Emberglow Primordial Seed to form a contract with him, and its power transformed his spiritual essence into White Flame.
• Xu Xiaoshou tested White Flame against the Three-Day Frost Calamity with Song of Ice and Fire, triggering an explosion that wrecked the Origin Mansion and injured him before he froze the collapsing space.
• Xu Xiaoshou recovered the Origin Mansion, then frightened the Emberglow White Skeleton into surrendering its soul origin and submitting to him.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the A-Jie Stone to remove the seal from the Ice-Blue White Skeleton and persuaded it to surrender its soul origin as well.
• Xu Xiaoshou named the Emberglow White Skeleton A Huo, the Ice-Blue White Skeleton A Bing, and declared that A-Jie would be their big brother.

Xu Xiaoshou confronted Unhappy over his attempt to purify Mu Zixi, inadvertently pushing the monk into demonic obstruction before helping him recover. He then demanded compensation for three supposed debts and asked what Unhappy would pay to be released from the Origin Mansion.

• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Unhappy about pursuing Mu Zixi, and Unhappy admitted he had tried to purify her demonic energy to improve his cultivation and save his master, Buddha Grudge.
• Xu Xiaoshou criticized Unhappy for violating the Buddhist precepts of greed, anger, and delusion, causing Unhappy to spit blood and fall into demonic obstruction as a Buddha Illusory Image cracked the Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou failed to reach Unhappy through the Buddhist light, then reminded him of his master and helped him regain control; Unhappy expelled the remaining demonic energy and revealed his master's name.
• Xu Xiaoshou demanded that Unhappy treat Mu Zixi's confiscation of the Prison-Void Demon Staff as repayment for hunting her, then claimed the Slaying Buddha Blade as payment for saving and advising him.
• Xu Xiaoshou declared that Unhappy owed him a third debt for being held captive and asked what price he would pay to be released.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that Unhappy’s master, Resentful Buddha, had been one of the Central Region’s Ten Seat Holders, and discovered how Divine Mind Penetration connected to Sword Thought. Yu Zhiwen’s account of Sword Thought led Xu Xiaoshou to suspect that the scruffy uncle who gave him the Canon of Sword Observation was the Eighth Sword Immortal, while she explained the legends surrounding Moon-Joining Immortal City and the Burial Sword Tomb.

• Mu Zixi asked Xu Xiaoshou to stop tormenting Unhappy, but Yu Zhiwen recognized the little monk as a disciple of the Western Region Buddhist Sect and identified his master as the legendary Resentful Buddha.
• Yu Zhiwen recited the Ten Seat Holders’ mnemonic and described how Kui Leihan developed Divine Mind Penetration, including his God-Punishing Execution Tribulation.
• Yu Zhiwen explained that Resentful Buddha’s power of vows and the Eighth Sword Immortal’s Sword Thought were second-generation Divine Mind Penetrations, with Sword Thought derived from Kui Leihan’s work.
• When Yu Zhiwen mentioned the lost Canon of Sword Observation as the key to cultivating Sword Thought, Xu Xiaoshou realized that the scruffy uncle had given him the original and wondered whether the man was the Eighth Sword Immortal and the founder of Saint Slave.
• Yu Zhiwen named Moon-Joining Immortal City and the Burial Sword Tomb as places where Sword Thought methods could be found, then revealed that Burial Sword Tomb’s Swordbearer, Wen Ting, had traveled with the Eighth Sword Immortal and wielded Yuelian.

Xu Xiaoshou worried about the powerful enemies awaiting him and spent Passive Value upgrading Concealment and drawing the new passive skill Transformation. He discovered that Transformation could alter his voice, appearance, and body size, leaving him thrilled by its potential.

• Xu Xiaoshou sent the laughing little monk back to the White Cavern and went alone to the Broken Tower of the Scripture Pavilion to consider how to grow stronger.
• Xu Xiaoshou spent fifty thousand Passive Value to raise Concealment to Master level and found that it hid his aura and made him difficult to detect.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that Mu Zixi's curses were generating Passive Value, then used a ten-pull lottery and obtained Transformation.
• Xu Xiaoshou upgraded Transformation to Master level and changed his appearance and voice to resemble Shouye and others.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that Transformation could stretch and enlarge his limbs, then speculated that it might let him alter any part of his body.

Xu Xiaoshou used a Passive Key and endured a devastating vision of a towering version of himself before gaining the Status Passive Skill Swallowing Mountains and Rivers. After upgrading it and testing how to activate it, he discovered that his killing intent made his sword strike stronger, while his noisy experiment drew complaints.

• Xu Xiaoshou tested the limits of Transformation and reflected on how the system defined passive skills.
• Xu Xiaoshou used a Passive Key and was overwhelmed by a vision of a colossal version of himself whose momentum shattered the world and blasted him from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Mu Zixi and Yu Zhiwen rushed to check on Xu Xiaoshou, while he emerged bloodied and found the Broken Tower reduced to rubble.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned he had acquired the Status Passive Skill Swallowing Mountains and Rivers, which stacked momentum when his emotions changed.
• Xu Xiaoshou upgraded the skill and tried to activate it with killing intent, then cut a stone he imagined was the masked man as others shouted at him to quiet down.

Xu Xiaoshou exhausted most of his Passive Value trying to awaken Concealment, while Mu Zixi and Yu Zhiwen discussed their feelings for him and his refusal to be confined. The awakening finally succeeded as Vanishing Art, and Xu Xiaoshou discovered that awakened skills could potentially be awakened again.

• Xu Xiaoshou gave up trying to trigger Swallowing Mountains and Rivers at will and chose Concealment for awakening over Transformation.
• After three failures, Xu Xiaoshou buried himself in the ground to seek better luck, startling Mu Zixi, Yu Zhiwen, and Xu Xiaoji.
• Mu Zixi told Yu Zhiwen that Xu Xiaoshou could not be confined by the Holy Spirit Hall or anyone else, and the two teased each other about liking him.
• Mu Zixi’s mysterious inner voice offered to help her, but she refused to accept it because she feared it would take Xu Xiaoshou from her.
• After repeated failed attempts, Xu Xiaoshou awakened Concealment as Vanishing Art and learned that awakened skills could undergo a second awakening.

Xu Xiaoshou tested Vanishing Art and discovered that it erased him completely but rapidly drained his spiritual essence, then returned to White Cavern with Yu Zhiwen and Mu Zixi. At the White Cavern camp, Zhou Tianshen provoked Tan Ji until Rao Yinyin knocked him down, while Tan Ji tried to curry favor with Su Qianqian.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Vanishing Art to pass through earth and escape notice, then secretly teased Xu Xiaoji and Mu Zixi while learning that he could choose which body parts to vanish.
• Xu Xiaoshou startled Yu Zhiwen by appearing beside her and touching her cheek, then invited her and Mu Zixi to leave for White Cavern.
• At a White Cavern camp, Zhou Tianshen argued with Tan Ji over badly roasted spirit meat, and Rao Yinyin ordered them to stop fighting.
• Zhou Tianshen challenged Tan Ji again, but Rao Yinyin knocked him to the ground; Tan Ji then offered Su Qianqian another piece of meat to roast, and she refused.

Fu Xing warned Fu Yinhong to avoid Xu Xiaoshou, explaining that he might have stolen the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate and secretly killed Zhang Taiying. Fu Yinhong remained intrigued by Xu Xiaoshou, and the siblings were interrupted by a delighted voice calling to them.

• While roasting meat, Fu Xing urged Fu Yinhong to avoid Xu Xiaoshou and admitted that their father had told him something troubling.
• Fu Xing explained that Xu Xiaoshou had apparently taken the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate and freed Mu Zixi, despite their father being unable to release anyone trapped inside it.
• Fu Xing told Fu Yinhong that their father had found Xu Xiaoshou's Emberglow aura in the backyard spirit array after the banquet, suggesting Xu Xiaoshou had tampered with it before Zhang Taiying died.
• Fu Xing warned that Xu Xiaoshou might be a Ghost Beast host and that the Fu clan could not afford to provoke him, while Fu Yinhong continued to doubt the suspicions and admit her interest in Xu Xiaoshou.
• A delighted voice suddenly called out to Fu Xing and Fu Yinhong as they sat by the fire.

Xu Xiaoshou returned to the White Cavern seeking the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone and reunited with Fu Xing, Fu Yinhong, and the Spirit Palace group. When Tan Ji attacked him over the team leader position, Xu Xiaoshou effortlessly evaded and countered him, leaving Tan Ji launched into the sky.

• Xu Xiaoshou sensed that the White Cavern had changed and set out toward the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone despite its proximity to the Yousi Sword.
• Xu Xiaoshou surprised Fu Xing and Fu Yinhong at their campfire, introduced Yu Zhiwen, and teased Fu Xing about how to address him.
• Xu Xiaoshou reunited with Su Qianqian and the Spirit Palace group, where Tan Ji confronted him over the team leader position.
• Xu Xiaoshou dismissed Tan Ji's challenge, shoved him to the ground, and continued talking with Zhou Tianshen about the team's communication jade.
• Tan Ji attacked Xu Xiaoshou repeatedly with his spear, but Xu Xiaoshou protected Zhou Tianshen, stopped the spear, and sent Tan Ji flying with a single word.

Xu Xiaoshou stunned the crowd by incapacitating Tan Ji with a look, then explained the move as Swallowing Mountains and Rivers and rejected Rao Yinyin’s offer to lead the second squad. Rao Yinyin asked why he had come, and both began questioning each other’s reasons for being there.

• Xu Xiaoshou sent Tan Ji flying with a glance, leaving the onlookers and Rao Yinyin shocked and uncertain whether Tan Ji had survived.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Zhou Tianshen he had reached peak Ju Wu, joked that he cultivated by sleeping, and said his move was called Swallowing Mountains and Rivers.
• Zhou Tianshen offered Xu Xiaoshou the Sever Myself technique in exchange, but Xu Xiaoshou refused to cut off an arm and said he had received his technique through an inheritance.
• Rao Yinyin asked Xu Xiaoshou about his glance, and he jokingly called it Conqueror’s Haki before admitting its name was Swallowing Mountains and Rivers.
• Rao Yinyin appointed Xu Xiaoshou leader of the second squad on the Dean’s orders, but he refused and said he was not afraid of the Dean.
• Rao Yinyin said her group had fought the White Skeleton tribe and was recuperating, then snapped at Xu Xiaoshou for looking her over.