Chapter Summaries

Gou Wuyue unleashed the Mo Sword Technique and overwhelmed Ba Zunan’s allies, destroying Haitang’er’s Domain and mortally wounding Storyteller before killing Cen Qiaofu. He ended with Cen Qiaofu’s body impaled on his sword as he asked Ba Zunan how he had found the strike.

• Gou Wuyue confronted Ba Zunan, and his sword intent shattered Haitang’er’s Hometown of Flower Fragrance Domain and left Haitang’er gravely wounded.
• Gou Wuyue used the Mo Sword Technique to draw sword qi from Storyteller’s body, badly injuring him while sparing his other incarnations.
• Gou Wuyue aimed his sword at Cen Qiaofu despite Ba Zunan’s warning, and Cen Qiaofu charged him with the Pan-Immortal Axe.
• Gou Wuyue redirected Cen Qiaofu’s attack with the Ladder-Hooking Form, then struck him with Dao Pointing and exploded his head.
• Gou Wuyue repaired the shattered void, pulled Cen Qiaofu’s body back with Azure Mo Sword energy, and drove his sword into its heart as he asked Ba Zunan how the sword was.

Gou Wuyue overwhelmed Saint Slave, but Cen Qiaofu used a Blood Tree branch to transform into a terrifying fighter and destroy the Nation-Covering Sky Shroud. Haitang'er escaped with Ba Zunan, while Number Thirty-Three confronted Cen Qiaofu amid the Blood Tree forest.

• Gou Wuyue beheaded Cen Qiaofu and wounded Saint Slave, prompting Haitang'er to urge Ba Zunan to retreat.
• Ba Zunan unleashed his Sword Observation Technique, and Cen Qiaofu revived and swallowed half of a Blood Tree Yin Branch to protect him.
• Haitang'er knocked Ba Zunan unconscious with the Lost Ford Flower Seed and escaped with him through a flower mist.
• Cen Qiaofu's Blood Tree transformation sent Gou Wuyue flying and let Cen Qiaofu cleave the Nation-Covering Sky Shroud apart with the Pan-Immortal Axe.
• Gou Wuyue countered Cen Qiaofu with his sword, then called Number Thirty-Three to hold him off.
• Cen Qiaofu rooted the Blood Tree into the ground, creating a forest that attacked and drained the White Robes as Number Thirty-Three descended to fight him.

Xu Xiaoshou escaped the bloodwood battlefield by using the chaos to slip past the White Robes, then disguised himself and searched for a way out. He ran into a White Robe search party, and as his spiritual energy ran out, he remained hidden in the forest with danger closing in.

• Cen Qiaofu's blood trees attacked indiscriminately, and Number Thirty-Three joined the White Robes in trying to clear the grove while Xu Xiaoshou escaped with One Step to Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou reached a remote forest, checked the area with Perception, and disguised himself as a wounded White Robe to avoid suspicion.
• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that the White Robes' experts were occupied by Cen Qiaofu and the other battles, but realized that hundreds of White Robes were also searching the surrounding mountain.
• Tong Feng and Lin Ruohuan detected subtle spatial fluctuations and cautiously searched the forest instead of immediately sounding an alarm.
• Xu Xiaoshou hid in the canopy as the two White Robes approached, then discovered that his spiritual energy was nearly exhausted and he might soon have to dispel the Vanishing Art.

Xu Xiaoshou and Xu Xiaoji posed as Ba Zunan and Haitang'er to trap two White Robes with a fake Hometown of Flower Fragrance. Lin Ruohuan and Tong Feng arrived believing the disguise, but Tong Feng began to suspect the flawless domain was not real.

• Lin Ruohuan and Tong Feng encountered flowers and weeds blooming around them and mistook the effect for Haitang'er's Hometown of Flower Fragrance.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Xu Xiaoji appeared as Ba Zunan and Haitang'er, while the two White Robes approached them.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Lin Ruohuan's reverence for Ba Zunan to keep the White Robes from immediately challenging the disguise.
• Xu Xiaoshou invited Lin Ruohuan and Tong Feng to sit and said he had been waiting for White Robes.
• Tong Feng secretly told Lin Ruohuan that Haitang'er's power seemed impossibly perfect and that he could not detect any fluctuations of the Heavenly Dao.

Xu Xiaoshou maintained his disguise as the Eighth Sword Immortal, impressed Lin Ruohuan and Tong Feng with a display of Sword Observation, and persuaded them to take Lu Ke back while withholding the alarm pearl. As he tried to leave, Haitang'er failed to answer, drawing the White Robes’ attention back to him.

• Xu Xiaoshou examined Lin Ruohuan’s spirit sword, Blue Dweller, and used Sword Observation to awaken its Sword Thought and improve its rank.
• Xu Xiaoshou took Tong Feng’s alarm pearl and told the White Robes that he did not want them summoning more people for him to kill.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed Lu Ke frozen in an ice sculpture and asked Lin Ruohuan and Tong Feng to take him back rather than hand him directly to Gou Wuyue.
• Lin Ruohuan and Tong Feng agreed to take Lu Ke and promised to explain the situation without falsely blaming Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou started to leave, then called for Haitang’er, but she did not respond, and the White Robes turned to look at her.

Xu Xiaoshou escaped the White Robes with Xu Xiaoji’s help, only to discover that Yu Lingdi had survived and was hiding inside his body. Yu Lingdi revealed himself as a head formed from Xu Xiaoshou’s blood and water.

• Xu Xiaoji impersonated Haitang'er, warned the White Robes that Senior Wuyue was coming, and helped Xu Xiaoshou escape.
• Xu Xiaoji vanished after Xu Xiaoshou left him behind, and Xu Xiaoshou fled across several mountaintops before his Vanishing Art ran out.
• A voice in Xu Xiaoshou’s mind questioned his strength and repeatedly hypnotized him, prompting him to injure himself to stay awake.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the voice as Yu Lingdi, despite believing he had died when Cen Qiaofu destroyed his body and the water elements around him.
• Yu Lingdi drew water and blood from Xu Xiaoshou’s body and formed a head on his chest, revealing how he had survived.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that Yu Lingdi had secretly inhabited his body since the White Cavern, drawn by his inexplicable spiritual techniques and abilities. Xu Xiaoshou froze Yu Lingdi’s water heart and repeatedly attacked him, then ignited the Emberglow Primordial Seed inside himself to force the parasite out, leaving their struggle unresolved.

• Yu Lingdi revealed that he had watched Xu Xiaoshou since the White Cavern and explained that the Spirit Division wanted to study his concealed cultivation and extraordinary techniques.
• Yu Lingdi said he had hidden inside Xu Xiaoshou to witness his abilities firsthand and declared that he wanted to take him back to the Spirit Division for study.
• Xu Xiaoshou pierced Yu Lingdi’s chest, pulled out his water heart, and froze it with the Three-Day Frost Calamity, but Yu Lingdi reformed using nearby moisture.
• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed Ice Age and shattered Yu Lingdi’s body, but Yu Lingdi taunted him from inside his mind and warned that freezing himself would kill him.
• Xu Xiaoshou ignited the Emberglow Primordial Seed within his body to burn Yu Lingdi out, while Yu Lingdi laughed and insisted he had prepared for it.

Xu Xiaoshou unleashed White Flame to trap Yu Lingdi, but Yu Lingdi used Water Profound Meaning to suppress him and knock him unconscious. As Yu Lingdi carried Xu Xiaoshou down the mountain, a mysterious hunched figure appeared in the rain.

• Xu Xiaoshou endured Yu Lingdi's possession and erupted with White Flame, unleashing the Dragon-Fusion Realm across the mountaintop and surrounding mountains.
• Yu Lingdi revealed Water Profound Meaning: Deprivation, dispelled the Dragon-Fusion Realm, and extracted Xu Xiaoshou's water spiritual energy, leaving him unconscious.
• Yu Lingdi restored only enough moisture to help Xu Xiaoshou heal, then carried him down the mountain while using rain to extinguish the White Flame.
• Yu Lingdi heard rain striking something on the barren mountain and saw a hunched figure in a Straw Hat appear on the path.

Elder Sang rescued the unconscious Xu Xiaoshou from Yu Lingdi and unleashed the White Flame, transforming the mountains around Eight Palaces Town into a blazing realm. Xu Xiaoshou woke amid the devastation as Elder Sang began teaching him how elemental bodies could die.

• Sang Qiye identified himself to Yu Lingdi and revealed that he was Saint Slave Wuxiu, while dismissing the rumors about his past battles.
• Elder Sang freed Xu Xiaoshou from Yu Lingdi, healed him with a pill, and declared that Xu Xiaoshou was his disciple.
• When Yu Lingdi tried to flee, Elder Sang dropped a blazing white sun into the planet's core and invoked Dragon-Fusion Realm, collapsing the surrounding hundred thousand mountains and disrupting the Heavenly Dao.
• White Robes and the fighters around Eight Palaces Town felt the White Flame consume the region and lost their connection to the Great Dao.
• Xu Xiaoshou woke in the White Flame realm, and Elder Sang told him to listen as he began explaining the three ways an elemental body could die.

Elder Sang taught Xu Xiaoshou how the Emberlight Lineage could kill an elemental body through combat alchemy, using the Dragon-Fusion Realm and the body as a furnace. The lesson ended with Yu Lingdi refined inside Elder Sang’s body, while Xu Xiaoshou realized he needed to be more ruthless.

• Elder Sang demonstrated how his vast Dragon-Fusion Realm could serve as a pill furnace and explained that an elemental body could be treated as holy medicine.
• Elder Sang used the laws of his Dragon-Fusion Realm to draw Yu Lingdi out of the Ten Thousand Mountains and from inside Xu Xiaoshou’s body.
• Yu Lingdi fled into Elder Sang’s body, and Elder Sang taught Xu Xiaoshou to refine poison by using the body as a furnace.
• Elder Sang burned and controlled Yu Lingdi inside himself, reducing him to a small mass of water as Xu Xiaoshou watched.
• Xu Xiaoshou understood Elder Sang’s lesson and silently concluded that he had not been ruthless enough.

Gou Wuyue abandoned his pursuit of Ba Zunan and flew to confront Sang Qiye, while Elder Sang told Xu Xiaoshou about the Saint Slave and the conflict with the Holy Spirit Hall. Xu Xiaoshou revealed how much he had deduced about Ghost Beasts, Void Island, and Elder Sang’s past, leaving Elder Sang stunned.

• Gou Wuyue chose to answer Sang Qiye’s challenge rather than keep pursuing Ba Zunan, despite the risk to his loyalty and the White Robes.
• Elder Sang confirmed that Xu Xiaoshou had joined the Saint Slave and explained that he had kept the organization’s secrets from him to protect him.
• Elder Sang warned Xu Xiaoshou not to accept simple ideas of justice and evil, and urged him to form his own judgment about the Holy Spirit Hall and the Saint Slave.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed that he knew Ghost Beasts could be humanoid and that a Red Robes disciple of Gou Wuyue might be a Ghost Beast host.
• Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Saints were imprisoned on Void Island and connected Elder Sang’s Emberlight Fire Seed and search for Yousi Sword to his history with White Cavern.

Xu Xiaoshou confronted Elder Sang with deductions about Saint Slave, Ba Zunan, and the Wretched Saint, prompting Elder Sang to admit that his general understanding was correct but that he had missed another layer beyond the heavens. When Gou Wuyue arrived, Xu Xiaoshou realized Elder Sang had drawn him to the battlefield and asked whether the old man could defeat him.

• Xu Xiaoshou cautiously pressed Elder Sang about A-Jie, Ba Zunan, the Wretched Saint, and Saint Slave's purpose, and Elder Sang responded by kicking him before asking how he knew so much.
• Xu Xiaoshou explained that he had pieced things together from scattered information, and Elder Sang accepted that his deductions were mostly right while warning him not to trust anyone but himself.
• Elder Sang told Xu Xiaoshou that another layer existed beyond what he understood, but stopped short of explaining when he sensed that someone had arrived.
• Gou Wuyue appeared above the forming Dragon-Fusion Realm, and Xu Xiaoshou realized Elder Sang had brought him to the battlefield by drawing the White Robes' attention.
• Xu Xiaoshou followed Elder Sang toward Gou Wuyue and asked whether the old man could take him on.

Elder Sang revealed his overwhelming Divine Mind Penetration and killed Yu Lingdi before Gou Wuyue, forcing the Moonless Sword Immortal to stay and fight him. Elder Sang freed Xu Xiaoshou to escape, but Xu Xiaoshou was suddenly locked onto and felt a terrifying foreboding.

• Gou Wuyue demanded Yu Lingdi’s release, while Elder Sang offered to trade him for the Saint Slave and Cen Qiaofu and secretly told Xu Xiaoshou to flee southeast to Storyteller.
• Elder Sang unleashed Wuxiu’s Scarlet-Scorching Hand and stopped Gou Wuyue’s sword with two fingers as the Dragon-Fusion Realm shattered.
• Elder Sang beheaded and vaporized Yu Lingdi in front of Gou Wuyue, who realized the killing was meant to provoke him into staying.
• Gou Wuyue formed a vast Unity Sword Array, and Elder Sang told Xu Xiaoshou to run after breaking the restraints holding him.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried to use Vanishing Art, but he spat blood as an ominous foreboding struck him and the Information Bar reported that he had been locked onto.

Xu Xiaoshou was targeted by an arrow from Ai Cangsheng, a Half-Saint on Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain, and was briefly drawn across space and time to meet him. Back in Eight Palaces Town, Xu Xiaoshou broke Ai Cangsheng’s restraint with the Berserk Giant, but the arrow still locked onto him as he reached for another trump card.

• Xu Xiaoshou began bleeding under an unseen lock-on, and Elder Sang realized Yu Lingdi’s black dot had marked him for an attack.
• Gou Wuyue blocked Elder Sang’s charge with Luofu Sword Heaven while Xu Xiaoshou was unable to move or look away from the approaching black dot.
• Xu Xiaoshou was drawn to Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain, where he met Ai Cangsheng, who questioned him and then drew the Evil Sin Bow.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to Eight Palaces Town and recognized the black dot as Ai Cangsheng’s arrow, which had already been fired across the regions.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned the Berserk Giant and briefly broke Ai Cangsheng’s restraint, but the arrow maintained its lock as Xu Xiaoshou reached into his Origin Mansion.

Xu Xiaoshou’s defenses failed against Ai Cangsheng’s arrow as A Huo, A Bing, and A-Jie sacrificed themselves trying to stop it. He pulled Yu Zhiwen from the Origin Mansion, and she urged him to use her as a human shield.

• Xu Xiaoshou fused the Emberglow Primordial Seed and Three-Day Frost Calamity, but his attack could not stop Ai Cangsheng’s arrow.
• A-Jie revealed himself to protect Xu Xiaoshou, while Xu Xiaoshou threw Mu Zixi toward Elder Sang; Mu Zixi broke through Gou Wuyue’s space and reached her master.
• Elder Sang rushed to protect Xu Xiaoshou, but Gou Wuyue’s Three-Life Flow pinned him long enough for the arrow to descend.
• The arrow destroyed A Huo and A Bing, then blasted apart A-Jie as he tried to hold it back.
• Xu Xiaoshou pulled Yu Zhiwen from the Origin Mansion, and she told him to grab her as a human shield.

Xu Xiaoshou faced Ai Cangsheng’s arrow as Gou Wuyue reversed time with a sword strike, restoring A-Jie, A Bing, and A Huo. Xu Xiaoshou’s unreversed Passive Fist then struck Gou Wuyue, leaving him with his head destroyed.

• Xu Xiaoshou rejected Yu Zhiwen’s offer to act as a human shield and threw her aside before preparing to meet Ai Cangsheng’s arrow with Passive Fist.
• Gou Wuyue used Illusion Sword Technique, Temporal Sequence, Reverse, to rewind the arrow’s effects and restore A-Jie, A Bing, and A Huo, but the sword aged him greatly.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Passive Fist continued forward despite the reversal, and Gou Wuyue approached Yu Zhiwen without noticing its power.
• Xu Xiaoshou struck Gou Wuyue with the punch, which blasted him into a distant mountain and destroyed his head while Gou Wuyue shielded Yu Zhiwen.
• Elder Sang confirmed that Gou Wuyue’s head had exploded.

Ba Zunan rejected Haitang'er’s attempt to take him away and chose to face the unfinished battle, while Elder Sang restored Xu Xiaoshou and sent him through a spatial rift before confronting the Evil Sin Bow’s arrow. Elder Sang named the Holy Palace’s Long Rongzhi as Xu Xiaoshou’s next backer as he stood against the attack.

• Ba Zunan woke on Haitang'er's back and confronted him for ambushing him and leaving him behind.
• Haitang'er urged Ba Zunan to retreat, but Ba Zunan insisted he would face what came rather than turn away.
• Ba Zunan declared that Gou Wuyue and Second Brother’s battle had only just begun, though he could not see it.
• Elder Sang gathered Xu Xiaoshou’s shattered body, restored him with pills, and revived him with God's Blessing.
• Elder Sang sent Xu Xiaoshou through a spatial rift, then seized the incoming Evil Sin Bow arrow.
• Elder Sang told Xu Xiaoshou that his next backer was the Holy Palace's Long Rongzhi.

Xu Xiaoshou escaped the battlefield with the Storyteller while Sang Qiye was struck by Ai Cangsheng’s arrow and engulfed in demonic energy. As Gou Wuyue prepared to deal with the aftermath, Ba Zunan returned, killed Number Thirty-Three, and threatened to slaughter seven hundred White Robes if Sang Qiye died.

• The Storyteller rescued the frozen Xu Xiaoshou from the spatial turbulence and carried him away from the battlefield, leaving Gou Wuyue to face Sang Qiye.
• White Robes arrived and found Gou Wuyue headless but alive, while Sang Qiye writhed in demonic energy after being hit by Ai Cangsheng’s arrow.
• Gou Wuyue regenerated his head and told Yu Zhiwen that Xu Xiaoshou had escaped and that Sang Qiye was his master, revealing that Xu Xiaoshou had joined Saint Slave.
• Haitang’er attempted to carry away the people inside a begonia flower, but Gou Wuyue destroyed it and retrieved Sang Qiye.
• Ba Zunan returned behind Number Thirty-Three and killed him, then declared that he would slaughter seven hundred White Robes if Sang Qiye died.

Ba Zunan confronted Gou Wuyue and refused his offer to leave Eight Palaces Town, declaring that he had come to kill. He shattered Gou Wuyue’s Mo Sword assault by summoning a towering Buddha despite the Martial-Sealing Talisman, then struck Gou Wuyue with Sword Thought and left him alive to watch.

• Ba Zunan faced Gou Wuyue with a dead branch and rejected his taunts about his weakened state, while the two disputed their paths and old friendship.
• Gou Wuyue admitted he could not bring himself to kill Ba Zunan and told him to take Saint Slave and leave Eight Palaces Town.
• Ba Zunan insisted he had come to kill, not to escape, and Gou Wuyue erupted in anger and unleashed a flood of Mo Swords.
• Ba Zunan’s Sword Intent broke apart the Mo Swords, and a golden, world-saving Buddha rose from the torrent despite the Martial-Sealing Talisman.
• Ba Zunan appeared atop the Buddha and pierced Gou Wuyue with Sword Thought, declaring that he would spare him and make him watch.

Ba Zunan defeated Wang Rang and the White Robes, then confronted Gou Wuyue and revealed the gulf between their convictions. After killing hundreds of White Robes and severing the Dao, Ba Zunan left Gou Wuyue alive, urging him to take care of himself.

• Wang Rang used Boundless Life-Severing against Ba Zunan, but Ba Zunan trapped him and the White Robes in an illusion with the Heart Sword Technique.
• Ba Zunan killed Wang Rang with the Instant Path and shattered the Heavenly Dao with the Sword Observation Technique, preventing Wang Rang from reviving.
• Ba Zunan told Gou Wuyue that his titles had narrowed his vision and that he had refused to listen to Ba Zunan's aspirations.
• Ba Zunan broke into the Innate Realm, rose above the arena, and unleashed a Buddhist chant as dark clouds and the sword river surged.
• Ba Zunan's Great Buddha Slash killed hundreds of White Robes, while Gou Wuyue survived and dropped his famed sword.
• Ba Zunan left after telling Gou Wuyue that his sword had severed the gods and Buddhas in Gou Wuyue's heart.