Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou and Rao Yinyin argued over who would claim the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone, but their dispute was interrupted when a group of more than twenty black-robed intruders broke through the protective barrier. Their leader falsely claimed to be Xu Xiaoshou and demanded that the Spirit Palace group leave.

• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Rao Yinyin about the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone, and the surrounding disciples learned that both of them wanted the treasure.
• Xu Xiaoshou apologized for suspecting Rao Yinyin of plotting against the others, but he and Rao Yinyin remained unwilling to give up the stone.
• The protective barrier exploded, and more than twenty black-robed people entered the camp, many of them Grandmasters.
• A black-robed man introduced his masked leader as Xu Xiaoshou and credited him with claiming White Cavern slots, obtaining the famous sword Yanmang, and emptying Spirit-Melting Marsh.
• The real Xu Xiaoshou denied being the group’s leader, but the impostor ordered the Spirit Palace party to leave, prompting them to angrily refuse.

Xu Xiaoshou and the Spirit Palace group confronted a black-robed impostor who wielded Innate Sword Intent and claimed to be Xu Xiaoshou. After Su Qianqian and Xu Xiaoshou exposed him and seized Azure-Scaled Spine, Xu Xiaoshou recognized signs that the famed sword’s real wielder, a disguised Red Robes youth, was among the group.

• The black-robed Xu Xiaoshou threatened the Spirit Palace group with Innate Sword Intent, but Xu Xiaoshou interrupted his attacks with Swallowing Mountains and Rivers and deflected suspicion toward Rao Yinyin.
• Xu Xiaoshou taunted the impostor while the black-robed group repeatedly tried to charge, and the impostor opened a case containing the famed sword Azure-Scaled Spine.
• Su Qianqian shattered the impostor’s attack with her heavy greatsword and revealed her Master Sword Intent, while Xu Xiaoshou pinned the impostor and pulled Azure-Scaled Spine from his grasp.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the impostor was not Azure-Scaled Spine’s true wielder and recognized the sword from a masked youth he had seen with Gu Qing'er and Gu Qing'san.
• Xu Xiaoshou spotted a tightly wrapped youth among the black-robed figures and challenged him to reveal himself.

Xu Xiaoshou confronted Lu Ke, a trainee Red Robe who had led the black-robed group and wanted to trade the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone for Yanmang. After Lu Ke unsealed the treasure, Yu Zhiwen tried to preserve its growth and exposed his Red Robe uniform, leaving him facing the rules he had violated.

• Xu Xiaoshou identified the black-robed youth as Lu Ke, and Lu Ke admitted he was a trainee Red Robe while warning that Xu Xiaoshou topped the White Cavern blacklist.
• Lu Ke restrained the fleeing black-robed men with Grandmaster sword intent and summoned Azure-Scaled Spine back from Xu Xiaoshou's Origin Mansion.
• Lu Ke offered to trade the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone for Yanmang, then unsealed the treasure and triggered a surge of Dao intent that pushed several people toward breakthroughs, including Mu Zixi.
• Yu Zhiwen used the Heavenly Secrets Art to nourish the newly emerged Origin Dao-Pattern Stone and condemned Lu Ke for breaking the seal.
• Xu Xiaoshou refused Lu Ke's offer and defended Yu Zhiwen's claim to the treasure; Yu Zhiwen exposed Lu Ke's red robe and declared that he still had to follow Red Robes rules.

Yu Zhiwen used Gou Wuyue’s token to make Lu Ke back down while she continued restoring the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone. As newcomers gathered, Xu Xiaoshou discovered that his Swallowing Mountains and Rivers aura could suppress them with a glance, and he left the crowd terrified and unable to move.

• Yu Zhiwen revealed Gou Wuyue’s token, causing Lu Ke to fall silent and abandon his challenge.
• The Origin Dao-Pattern Stone appeared as a small skull-shaped statue bearing patterns that Xu Xiaoshou recognized as powers from the White Cavern’s treasures.
• Yu Zhiwen continued restoring the stone as more cultivators arrived and waited for a chance to seize it.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized his accumulating Swallowing Mountains and Rivers aura had knocked Qiao Yu from the sky whenever he looked at him.
• Xu Xiaoshou rose above the crowd and used his gaze and commands to force cultivators to their knees, leaving everyone terrified and silent.

Xu Xiaoshou overwhelmed the fighters gathered around the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone and helped Yu Zhiwen isolate it from the White Cavern’s space. When Lu Ke attacked again, Xu Xiaoshou’s swordsmanship and elemental powers left him helpless, and the chapter ended with Xu Xiaoshou declaring that Lu Ke knew nothing about power.

• Lu Ke cut through Xu Xiaoshou’s Swallowing Mountains and Rivers pressure, allowing Yu Zhiwen to restore the Great Dao opportunity and trigger breakthroughs among the crowd.
• Yu Zhiwen warned Xu Xiaoshou that a Heavenly Secrets Formation protected the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone, and the formation blasted away the people who tried to seize it.
• Xu Xiaoshou suppressed the crowd, knocked Lu Ke and Tan Ji aside, and claimed the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone under the name Tan Ji.
• Yu Zhiwen split the space around the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone to isolate it, while Lu Ke attacked Xu Xiaoshou and Xu Xiaoshou shattered his spiritual swords with Void Sword Condensation Technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou froze Lu Ke’s swords with Three-Day Frost Calamity, then burned him with Emberlight Skyburn until White Flame spread through his body.

Xu Xiaoshou forced Lu Ke to surrender his famed sword, but Lu Ke revealed himself as a Ghost Beast host and swallowed the White Flame. Xu Xiaoshou fled with Mu Zixi, leaving Yu Zhiwen behind with the Blackfall Sword Scabbard as Fu Xing warned Fu Yinhong to stay away from anything connected to Ghost Beasts.

• Xu Xiaoshou suppressed the gathered cultivators with White Flame, seized the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone and Heavenly Secrets Formation, and burned Lu Ke while demanding his Azure-Scaled Spine.
• Lu Ke refused to give up his sword, while Mu Zixi urged Xu Xiaoshou to spare him and then proposed silencing the witnesses.
• Black mist and crimson eyes emerged from Lu Ke, revealing that he was a Ghost Beast host; he swallowed Xu Xiaoshou's White Flame as Xu Xiaoshou recognized the danger.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Yu Zhiwen about what she knew, then fled with Mu Zixi and released the crowd from his restraints.
• Xu Xiaoshou threw the Blackfall Sword Scabbard to Yu Zhiwen before leaving, and Fu Xing told Fu Yinhong to avoid anything related to Ghost Beasts.

Xu Xiaoshou questioned Mu Zixi about whether she was a Ghost Beast, and she revealed her God-Devil Pupils and a second consciousness that had awakened after she saw Lei Shuangxing. As Xu Xiaoshou weighed the possibility of her connection to Saint Slave, they bickered over his claimed secret before a woman found them in the White Cavern.

• After escaping the Red Robes Ghost Beast, Xu Xiaoshou asked Mu Zixi whether she was a Ghost Beast, and she insisted she was not.
• Mu Zixi revealed her God-Devil Pupils and explained that a second consciousness had begun awakening after she saw the blind man at the Spirit Palace.
• Xu Xiaoshou connected Mu Zixi's eyes to Lei Shuangxing and worried that her other consciousness might be linked to Saint Slave.
• Mu Zixi asked Xu Xiaoshou for his biggest secret, and he claimed he was not from this world, prompting her to attack him with wooden mallets.
• A woman's voice called out to Xu Xiaoshou, saying she had finally found him and teasing him for bickering in the White Cavern.

Jiao Tangtang sought Xu Xiaoshou’s help escaping the White Robes’ siege and tried to make him sign a Ghost Beast Contract with Greed God. Xu Xiaoshou refused, summoned his White Skeletons, and intimidated Jiao Tangtang with a display of power, leaving her wondering whether he had strength beyond the Throne.

• Jiao Tangtang told Xu Xiaoshou that Gou Wuyue and the White Robes had sealed White Cavern’s escape routes, while Xin Gugu had gone to disrupt the situation at Yousi Sword.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the Saint Slave figure Gou Wuyue was hunting might be the red-dressed man he had encountered in Spirit-Melting Marsh, and he was shaken by the discovery.
• Jiao Tangtang presented a Ghost Beast Contract and demanded that Xu Xiaoshou contract with Greed God, but Xu Xiaoshou refused and returned the cat to her.
• Jiao Tangtang sealed the space to prevent Xu Xiaoshou from escaping, but Mu Zixi broke the seal with her God-Devil Pupils and entered the Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned A Bing and A Huo, whose power drove Jiao Tangtang back, then challenged her to force him to sign the contract.
• Xu Xiaoshou threw down a black stone as A Huo recoiled and called for Mama, leaving Jiao Tangtang frightened and questioning whether Xu Xiaoshou was above the Throne.

Xu Xiaoshou used a question game to probe Jiao Tangtang about Ghost Beasts and the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon, learning that Greed God and the Gray Mist Man belonged to different kinds. The game ended in mutual irritation, and Xu Xiaoshou walked away without agreeing to cooperate or sign a contract.

• Jiao Tangtang explained that the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon was a Ghost Beast faction based in the Southern Domain, then described how Ghost Beasts born from secondary dimensions grew in intelligence.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the Gray Mist Man's mature behavior could not be explained by its short existence and suspected there were two kinds of Ghost Beasts.
• Xu Xiaoshou made Jiao Tangtang answer a string of yes-or-no questions, using his information panel to detect when she deceived him.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked whether there were only two kinds of Ghost Beasts, and Jiao Tangtang answered yes without triggering a deception notice.
• Jiao Tangtang teased Xu Xiaoshou over his final question about being the most handsome man, and the exchange ended with him leaving alongside A-Jie.
• Jiao Tangtang shouted after Xu Xiaoshou as he refused to cooperate and walked away.

Xu Xiaoshou accepted Greed God and the Ghost Beast contract scroll after Jiao Tangtang revealed that the Holy Spirit Hall also used Ghost Beast power. He learned that the sealing Ghost Beast Feng Yujin was a person and revealed that Storyteller and Shouye had also encountered it, leaving Jiao Tangtang furious and the creature’s fate uncertain.

• Jiao Tangtang attacked Xu Xiaoshou for refusing to honor what she thought was their bargain, but she gave him the contract scroll and Greed God kept it with him.
• Jiao Tangtang warned Xu Xiaoshou about the dangers of facing the Red Robes and disclosed that the Holy Spirit Hall also used Ghost Beast power, so Xu Xiaoshou stored Greed God and the scroll in the Origin Mansion.
• Jiao Tangtang asked Xu Xiaoshou about a sealing Ghost Beast named Feng Yujin, and he confirmed that he had encountered one in the White Cavern.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered from Jiao Tangtang’s answers that Feng Yujin was a person, raising the possibility that humans could also be Ghost Beasts.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Jiao Tangtang that Shouye and Storyteller had been present when he encountered the sealing Ghost Beast, shocking her.
• Xu Xiaoshou explained that Storyteller had been sealed in ice when he escaped and suggested the Ghost Beast might not be in Saint Slave’s hands, while Jiao Tangtang attacked him again.

Xu Xiaoshou and Jiao Tangtang stopped fighting and exchanged information about Storyteller and Yousi Sword. Jiao Tangtang revealed that White Cavern was the sealed remnant of Emberlight Nethersea, and Xu Xiaoshou reacted with alarm when she compared its world-level suppression to a Sacred Emperor restricting the continent.

• Xu Xiaoshou used his bodyguards and teleportation to keep Jiao Tangtang from attacking him, then told her what he knew about Storyteller and the sealed Ghost Beast.
• A disturbance around Yousi Sword made Xu Xiaoshou's Heavenly Radiance Spirit Compass react, and Jiao Tangtang explained that it could track Fallen Sacrificial Carving Fragments.
• Xu Xiaoshou traded the compass to Jiao Tangtang for information about Yousi Sword and White Cavern, pressing her to explain the secrets behind the factions seeking the sword.
• Jiao Tangtang revealed that White Cavern had once been Emberlight Nethersea, a dangerous alternate dimension sealed by Holy Spirit Hall to prevent its recurrence elsewhere.
• Jiao Tangtang explained that Yousi Sword and the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate helped weaken Emberlight Nethersea, and Xu Xiaoshou panicked at her analogy about a Sacred Emperor suppressing the continent's cultivation.

Jiao Tangtang explained that dimensional rifts left by the Seven Severance Prohibitions could lead to Void Island, and Xu Xiaoshou realized the chained Saint he had contacted might be imprisoned there after Gou Wuyue interrupted them. Back in the Origin Mansion, Xu Xiaoshou lamented being drawn into the Saint’s trouble, then asked Mu Zixi whether she could undo the formations sealing the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone.

• Jiao Tangtang told Xu Xiaoshou that Emberlight Nethersea’s surviving spatial rifts might lead to Void Island, though they were dangerous even to a Throne.
• Xu Xiaoshou connected the rifts to the chained Saint who had sent him Yanmang and the White Pearl, and suspected Gou Wuyue had disrupted their contact.
• Jiao Tangtang attacked Xu Xiaoshou after he pointed out her torn clothes and teased her, but he escaped into A Bing and had A Huo and A Bing restrain her.
• After Jiao Tangtang left, Xu Xiaoshou suspected Elder Sang had passed the Saint-rescue mission to him and mourned his decision to take Yanmang.
• Xu Xiaoshou teased Mu Zixi, then asked whether she could undo the Heavenly Secrets Formations around the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone to enlarge their home.

Xu Xiaoshou used the chaotic mist to dissolve the Heavenly Secrets Formation protecting the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone, transforming the Origin Mansion into a larger, self-sustaining world with varied terrain, spiritual energy, greenery, rain, and wind. After the first rain eased his restlessness, he left with Mu Zixi and Xu Xiaoji to explore the White Cavern and the Yousi Sword, entering the Upper Spiritual Realm of the newborn world.

• Xu Xiaoshou found that brute force and his current Textile Mastery could not break the Heavenly Secrets Formation, so he followed Mu Zixi’s suggestion and sent the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone into the chaotic mist.
• Xu Xiaoshou concentrated the chaotic mist around the formation until it corroded the Heavenly Secrets Formation, and A-Jie retrieved the Origin Dao-Pattern Stone as the collapsing formation opened a spatial torrent.
• The Origin Dao-Pattern Stone took Xu Xiaoshou’s likeness, formed a new Heavenly Secrets Formation, and released power that expanded and reshaped the Origin Mansion while bringing abundant spiritual energy and elemental motes.
• Mu Zixi grew trees and grass across the new land as the Origin Mansion developed its first rain and wind, and Xu Xiaoshou reflected on his past and decided to face what lay ahead.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Mu Zixi he would go to the White Cavern and investigate the Yousi Sword before it reached Holy Spirit Hall, then invited Xu Xiaoji and left the Origin Mansion with Mu Zixi and A-Jie.
• Xu Xiaoshou stepped through the spatial vortex into the Upper Spiritual Realm of the newborn world.

As the Red Robes prepared to dismantle the Thirty-Six Heavens Sealing Void Formation, Yu Zhiwen arrived to oversee its final breaking. Elsewhere, the masked man and Cen Qiaofu investigated a rift guarded by a Saint Emperor and learned of Gou Wuyue’s arrival and the rumored Eighth Sword Immortal before a disturbance revealed that the Yousi Sword had emerged.

• Lan Ling told Xin and Black Nether that the Red Robes had uncovered the formation’s eyes but needed a Heavenly Secrets Art practitioner to break the formation.
• Lu Ke brought Yu Zhiwen, Dao Xuanji’s disciple and a renowned Heavenly Secrets Art practitioner, to the Red Robes’ headquarters.
• Cen Qiaofu brought the injured masked man to the Void Island Rift, where they discussed the Saint Emperor guarding it and Storyteller’s report about Shouye and the Ghost Beast.
• Cen Qiaofu told the masked man that Gou Wuyue had arrived outside White Cavern after an ambush involving the Emberlight Lineage and a mysterious swordsman rumored to be the Eighth Sword Immortal.
• A tremendous disturbance shook the rift, and the masked man sensed that the Yousi Sword had emerged.

Gou Wuyue mobilized forces against the Saint Slave and ordered a raid after rejecting the claim that Ba Zunan had appeared. In White Cavern, Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as Elder Sang and took Mu Zixi to the Yousi Sword, where they found Red Robes fighting beneath it.

• Gou Wuyue learned that the Saint Slave Chief, Cen Qiaofu, and Storyteller were inside White Cavern and ordered forces from East Heavenly King City and nearby areas to gather.
• Gou Wuyue dismissed Chang Yi’s identification of the mysterious swordsman as Ba Zunan, then ordered raids on Moon-Joining Immortal City and the Burial Sword Tomb.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi adjusted his disguise and mannerisms to make him look and act like Elder Sang.
• Xu Xiaoshou chose to seek the Yousi Sword instead of following the vanished spatial fissure, and warned Mu Zixi and the Straw Hat not to falter in danger.
• Xu Xiaoshou brought Mu Zixi to a grassland where Red Robes struggled against demonic aura beneath the floating Yousi Sword.

Xu Xiaoshou watched the Red Robes struggle to contain Yousi Sword while hidden competitors prepared to claim it. Lan Ling deliberately disrupted Yu Zhiwen’s formation, unleashing the sword’s demonic energy and leaving Xu Xiaoshou facing the blast with Mu Zixi.

• Xu Xiaoshou spotted Yu Zhiwen and the Red Robes guarding Yousi Sword, then noticed Lan Xinzi and He Yuxing among the people waiting to seize it.
• Lan Xinzi urged He Yuxing to wait until Yousi Sword broke free before revealing his sword intent and attempting to win its allegiance.
• Xin warned Lan Ling that the Red Robes could not contain Yousi Sword for much longer, and Lan Ling said the gathered onlookers could serve as shields when its demonic energy erupted.
• Yu Zhiwen admitted she was nearly exhausted, but Lan Ling told her to let go and secretly disrupted a Dao pattern in the Heavenly Secrets Formation.
• Yousi Sword broke free and released a wave of demonic energy that tore through the prairie, while Mu Zixi stepped forward to protect Xu Xiaoshou.

Xu Xiaoshou hid with Mu Zixi while Yousi Sword drew contenders into the open, and he concluded Xu Xiaoji had been born from the sword. When a Ghost Beast host stopped Yousi Sword, Lan Ling activated the Thirty-Six Heavens Sealing Void Formation and ordered the Red Robes to seize him.

• Mu Zixi absorbed Yousi Sword’s demonic aura with her God-Devil Pupils as Xu Xiaoshou retreated with her and buried them both in a crater.
• Lan Ling told the gathered contenders they could try to claim Yousi Sword, prompting many to pursue it while Xu Xiaoshou stayed hidden.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Xu Xiaoji and concluded he was born from Yousi Sword, though he was not its sword spirit.
• An unfamiliar man with a Ghost Beast host’s aura appeared atop Yousi Sword and stopped it with one hand.
• Xin Tiaoran identified the man as the first major target, and Lan Ling activated the Thirty-Six Heavens Sealing Void Formation and ordered the Ghost Beast host seized.

Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi watched as the Red Robes captured a Ghost Beast host wielding the Yousi Sword, then debated the Red Robes’ motives and the forces gathered in the Sword-Severing Prairie. As Xu Xiaoshou warned Mu Zixi to stay ready to flee, someone contacted him and asked why he was there too.

• Lan Ling’s accusation prompted the Red Robes to surround the man holding the Yousi Sword, who exploded from the sword’s backlash before they sealed him away.
• Xin revealed wanted posters bearing Xu Xiaoshou’s face and those of Xin Gugu, Jiao Tangtang, and Mo Mo; Xu Xiaoshou reassured Mu Zixi that he was not a Ghost Beast.
• Lan Ling declared that the Red Robes would not claim the Yousi Sword, and the crowd resumed chasing it as its successive wielders died from its backlash.
• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that the Red Robes had set a trap for powerful targets and suspected that Yu Zhiwen had helped create the barrier around Sword-Severing Prairie.
• Xu Xiaoshou warned Mu Zixi not to act recklessly and to be ready to retreat into the Origin Mansion, then received a spiritual message asking, “Second Brother, why are you here too?”

Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Elder Sang, tried to conceal his identity while an unknown ally contacted him through Telepathic Art and mistook him for the real Elder Sang. He learned that powerful factions were converging on the White Cavern, and the chapter ended with the ally introducing him to the Lei family youth and Luo as Senior Wuxiu.

• Xu Xiaoshou warned Mu Zixi to stay calm and hide her abilities after he sensed someone watching him, and she understood that he was acting as Elder Sang.
• An unknown man contacted Xu Xiaoshou through Telepathic Art, asked why he had come despite being injured, and mentioned his fight with Gou Wuyue.
• Xu Xiaoshou pretended to be angry to deflect the man’s questions while Mu Zixi spoke aloud to cover their conversation.
• The man told Xu Xiaoshou that contact with Brother’s group had been lost near a Void Island fissure, that he had captured a Ghost Beast, and that Gou Wuyue was watching outside the White Cavern.
• The man said he planned to capture the Red Robes Sovereign controlling the spirit array and warned that members of the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon might be present.
• The man connected others to the conversation and told the Lei family youth and Luo to pay their respects to Senior Wuxiu.

Xu Xiaoshou realized Elder Sang was likely part of the Saint Slave while listening to Lei Shuangxing identify the factions and people who might claim Yousi Sword. The chapter ended with Luo Leilei inviting Senior Wuxiu into Storyteller’s Ancient Book Space to remove a possible restriction on his voice transmission.

• Xu Xiaoshou inferred that Elder Sang had rescued Lei Shuangxing and Luo Leilei and was likely a Saint Slave accomplice, then concealed his shock from Mu Zixi.
• Lei Shuangxing named He Yuxing, Yu Zhiwen, Resentful Buddha’s disciple, the Three Swordsmen, and the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon as potential threats or contenders for Yousi Sword.
• Lei Shuangxing warned that Rao Yinyin must not be killed because of her surname, leaving Xu Xiaoshou baffled by its significance.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Storyteller was the Saint Slave’s seventh-in-command and wondered whether Shouye had died after being captured.
• Luo Leilei suggested that Senior Wuxiu enter Storyteller’s Ancient Book Space so Storyteller could remove a possible restriction on his voice transmission.