Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qi deduced that Xu Deyi was likely a Saint Slave pawn, and Jiang Xian realized the hidden figure in the room matched the Eighth Sword Immortal’s description. The black-clad intruder revealed his eight-fingered hands, leaving the three Jiang family members terrified.

• Jiang Xian rejected the idea that Xu Deyi had a powerful backer, but Jiang Qi argued that a great faction might be using him to pursue the Sacred Secret Land at Void Island.
• Jiang Qi connected Xu Deyi to Saint Slave or the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon and cited Lei Shuangxing’s ties to the Void Realm Lei family as evidence for Saint Slave’s involvement.
• Jiang Xian accepted Jiang Qi’s seventy-percent assessment that Xu Deyi was a Saint Slave pawn and prepared to report the danger to the main family.
• Jiang Xian noticed an unfamiliar foot beside his chair, and he and the two Throne guards discovered a black-clad figure sitting in the room.
• Jiang Qi recognized the figure’s appearance as matching the Eighth Sword Immortal and noticed that his gloves concealed only eight fingers.

Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as the Eighth Sword Immortal and confronted Jiang Xian and Jiang Qi, using his mastery of swordsmanship and intimidation to control their meeting. Jiang Qi deduced that he planned to cause chaos around Void Island and concluded that he intended to release everyone imprisoned there.

• Xu Xiaoshou appeared in the Jiang Clan room as the Eighth Sword Immortal and ordered Jiang Si to clear everyone else from the manor.
• Jiang Si left with Jiang Chaotian, leaving only Jiang Xian, Jiang Qi, and Xu Xiaoshou in the room.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Sword Observation Technique on Jiang Qi's spirit sword, convincing her that he was the genuine Eighth Sword Immortal.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Jiang Qi to infer his plans, and she guessed he meant to spread news of the Sacred Secret Land and profit from the resulting chaos.
• Jiang Qi concluded that Xu Xiaoshou intended to release everyone from Void Island.

Xu Xiaoshou, posing as the Eighth Sword Immortal, questioned Jiang Xian about his Three Aversions Eye and exposed the Jiang Clan’s account of how it was obtained. Jiang Xian revealed that he had sensed another person with the Heaven-Knowing Eye, and Jiang Qi realized Xu Xiaoshou’s reaction suggested he had not known about that person.

• Xu Xiaoshou sent Jiang Qi to sit behind Jiang Xian and allowed her three chances to help him answer questions.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Jiang Xian about his Three Aversions Eye, and Jiang Qi explained that the Jiang Clan had obtained a fragmentary volume of the Lei family’s All-Heaven Eye Arts and implanted eyes cultivated by a clan predecessor.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked how Jiang Xian had sensed Lei Shuangxing, and Jiang Xian claimed he had used the Heaven-Knowing Eye to sense someone else, a woman.
• Xu Xiaoshou briefly showed surprise at the mention of another person, and Jiang Qi concluded that he likely did not know the woman beside Xu Deyi who possessed the Lei family eyes.

Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Ba Zunan, pressured Jiang Xian and Jiang Qi for information, obtained the Heaven-Knowing Pearl, and warned them not to interfere with his plans. After he left, Jiang Qi began to suspect that the Eighth Sword Immortal was secretly protecting First Pavilion Under Heaven.

• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Jiang Xian about the girl from First Pavilion Under Heaven and learned that Rong Dahao had recognized Mo Mo as a Ghost Beast host.
• Xu Xiaoshou demanded the Heaven-Knowing Eye and gave Jiang Xian the choice of handing it over or losing the Three Aversions Eye.
• Jiang Xian summoned Jiang Lan, who delivered the Heaven-Knowing Pearl to Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou warned Jiang Qi and Jiang Xian to stay out of his plans, then declared that he would protect the remaining orphan of the Lei family.
• After Xu Xiaoshou vanished, Jiang Qi considered Jiang Xian's questions and suspected that the Eighth Sword Immortal was protecting First Pavilion Under Heaven.

Jiang Qi concluded that First Pavilion Under Heaven was likely connected to Saint Slave and persuaded Jiang Xian to spread word that the Eighth Sword Immortal had entered East Heavenly King City. Meanwhile, Xu Xiaoshou examined the stolen Heaven-Knowing Pearl and learned about the Royal City Trial, his own ban, and rumors of Sky City before the pearl suddenly reacted to someone nearby.

• Jiang Qi reasoned that the Eighth Sword Immortal had deliberately made her doubt her deduction, raising her suspicion that First Pavilion Under Heaven was connected to Saint Slave.
• Jiang Qi advised Jiang Xian to pass news of the Eighth Sword Immortal's arrival to the Night Cats, and Jiang Xian sent Jiang Si to do so.
• Xu Xiaoshou inspected the stolen Heaven-Knowing Pearl at the Little Wine Pavilion but could not awaken the Heaven-Knowing Eye.
• A waiter told Xu Xiaoshou that the Royal City Trial would begin in ten days, that Young Master Xu had been banned from competing, and that rumors linked Sky City to a Void Token.
• The Heaven-Knowing Eye shifted inside the pearl and looked toward someone in the tavern.

Xu Xiaoshou was followed by a masked man calling himself Yama, who trapped him in a Domain and demanded the Heaven-Knowing Eye. When Yama asked who Xu Xiaoshou was, Xu Xiaoshou claimed to be Saint Slave, Zhou Tianshen.

• Xu Xiaoshou noticed the Heaven-Knowing Pearl twitch and found a single notice that someone had peeped at him.
• Xu Xiaoshou left the tavern with the Heaven-Knowing Eye hidden and confirmed that someone was following him.
• Xu Xiaoshou lured his pursuer into a deserted alley, where a masked man wearing a Yama mask confronted him.
• Xu Xiaoshou attacked with concealed fire seeds, but Yama trapped him in a Domain and annihilated the fire-type elements.
• Yama demanded the Heaven-Knowing Eye, and Xu Xiaoshou realized Yama had investigated Jiang Lan and may be hunting Lei Clan Eyes.
• Xu Xiaoshou claimed the eye had been given to him by his Chief and identified himself as Saint Slave, Zhou Tianshen.

Xu Xiaoshou was trapped by a masked Yama who used the Soul-Fixing Eye and molten metal to counter his Inch-Realm Force Field. A-Jie intervened, and the chapter ended with A-Jie and the masked man locked in a deadlock after clashing fists.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Ba Zunan’s token to identify himself as Saint Slave, but the masked man ignored it and confined him with his Domain.
• Xu Xiaoshou briefly used Inch-Realm Force Field to sever the masked man’s fingers, but the man’s Soul-Fixing Eye stopped Xu Xiaoshou from expanding the field.
• The masked man tested the force field with a spiritual sword, then trapped Xu Xiaoshou in a Ghost Copper Prison and poured molten metal through the field.
• As the molten metal burned Xu Xiaoshou, A-Jie burst through the prison and attacked the masked man, who failed to stop it with Soul Fixing.
• Xu Xiaoshou regained control and broke the Ghost Copper Prison, then saw A-Jie and the masked man holding each other in a stalemate after their fists collided.

Xu Xiaoshou and A-Jie fought a Yama-masked Throne who wielded a Saint Physique, Soul-Fixing Eyes, and the Ghost-Purgatory Lotus. Xu Xiaoshou ignited the enemy’s domain with White Flame and struck a seemingly decisive blow with the Yousi Sword, though he lost an arm in the exchange.

• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the masked man as a Saint Physique, while A-Jie traded blows with him and protected Xu Xiaoshou from his Soul-Fixing Eyes.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that the masked man’s Soul-Fixing effect broke when his attention shifted, and A-Jie shattered the man’s Throne Domain.
• The masked man opened a miles-wide Ghost-Purgatory Lotus with an Upanishad array, flooding the domain with molten iron that corroded A-Jie.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Emberglow Primordial Seed to spread White Flame through the molten iron and overwhelm the masked man.
• A-Jie battered the burning masked man, and Xu Xiaoshou drew Hidden Pain before switching to the Yousi Sword at the last moment.
• The masked man’s fist pulverized Xu Xiaoshou’s left shoulder and arm, but Xu Xiaoshou pierced the man’s chest with the Yousi Sword.

Xu Xiaoshou defeated the purple-masked Yama, Nine Nether Ghost Infant, with Yousi Sword and waited to learn whether others would come for the Jiang Clan. A golden-masked man arrived, froze Nine Nether Ghost Infant with space and time, then left after suspecting the Jiang Clan was colluding with Saint Slave.

• Xu Xiaoshou watched Nine Nether Ghost Infant succumb to qi deviation after Yousi Sword wounded his soul, while the Ghost-Prison Lotus domain faded.
• Xu Xiaoshou removed Nine Nether Ghost Infant’s mask and saw that the powerful Yama was a remarkably young man.
• A-Jie warned Xu Xiaoshou of danger, and Xu Xiaoshou used Vanishing Art just before a golden-masked Yama appeared.
• The golden-masked man identified the purple-masked man as Nine Nether Ghost Infant, recognized the effects of Yousi Sword, and used space and time to freeze him before storing him in a spatial ring.
• The golden-masked man left after concluding that the Jiang Clan was colluding with Saint Slave, while Xu Xiaoshou remained hidden.

Xu Xiaoji led Xu Xiaoshou’s procession through East Heavenly King City while Mu Zixi sensed a watcher nearby. In a shadowed alley, Lei Shuangxing killed a masked Yama operative who had been observing the group, saying he should not have targeted Mu Zixi.

• Xu Xiaoji endured a crowd of admirers and a procession through the Central City District while Mu Zixi and Xin Gugu kept watch over him.
• Mu Zixi repeatedly told Xin Gugu that someone seemed intent on killing her, though neither he nor Mo Mo detected danger.
• A masked Yama operative observed the procession from a rooftop until Lord Huangquan ordered him to return to the team.
• Lei Shuangxing confronted the masked man in an alley and revealed that he was a Saint Slave and a Sword Dao Throne.
• Lei Shuangxing countered the masked man's escape with his Illusion Sword Technique, pierced him with Soul-Drawing Staff, and beheaded him.
• Lei Shuangxing said the masked man should not have targeted Mu Zixi and reflected that his little sister had suffered enough.

Lei Shuangxing and the Storyteller headed toward the First Pavilion Under Heaven after discussing Lei Shuangxing’s past and his newly discovered biological sister. At the Alchemist Association, Hua Xiang demanded to see her martial uncle and caused alarm with a screaming person inside her enormous alchemy cauldron just as President Shi Ti arrived.

• The Storyteller questioned Lei Shuangxing about becoming a Sword Path Throne, learning Sword Thought, and recognizing his biological younger sister, but Lei Shuangxing gave brief answers.
• Lei Shuangxing said his eyes had told him who his sister was, prompting the Storyteller to realize how much Lei Shuangxing had endured and carry him toward the First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Hua Xiang entered the Alchemist Association carrying a huge alchemy cauldron and demanded to meet its president or vice president.
• Hua Xiang set down the cauldron, whose occupant screamed, and told the staff it contained a toy she was refining, prompting guards to surround her.
• Hua Xiang refused to show her alchemist badge or go to a private room, insisting the president would recognize her from a description of her cauldron.
• President Shi Ti arrived at the Association, and the receptionist’s superior warned him to stop because the situation was dangerous.

Hua Xiang entered the royal city's Alchemist Association looking for her Martial Uncle, Xu Xiaoshou, and her oversized cauldron alarmed the staff until Shi Ti recognized it. Ye Xiaotian realized Hua Xiang belonged to the Emberlight Lineage, but questioned whether she was truly a Holy Palace envoy as the chapter ended.

• The Tiansang City delegation arrived at the royal city's Alchemist Association and found guards confronting Hua Xiang beside her giant cauldron.
• Shi Ti dismissed the guards and questioned Hua Xiang, who said she was searching for her Martial Uncle, Xu Xiaoshou.
• Hua Xiang described Xu Xiaoshou as a famous, middle-aged, powerful alchemist, then admitted she had never met him and had imagined most of those details.
• Ye Xiaotian inferred that Hua Xiang was connected to Mu Lin and the Emberlight Lineage, stunning her with his knowledge.
• Shi Ti tried to bow after realizing Hua Xiang might be a Holy Palace envoy, but Ye Xiaotian stopped him and doubted that she was an envoy.

Ye Xiaotian revealed that he was an elder of Hua Xiang’s lineage after she attacked him, and Shi Ti helped her understand their relationship. Hua Xiang learned that Xu Xiaoshou was wanted by the Holy Spirit Hall and was advised to search for him in secret through his friends from Tiansang Spirit Palace.

• Hua Xiang attacked Ye Xiaotian with her pill cauldron, but he struck her with spatial power and sent her crashing through the private-room wall.
• Shi Ti stopped the Pill Tower guards from detaining Hua Xiang, and Ye Xiaotian returned her and her cauldron to the private room.
• Shi Ti explained that Ye Xiaotian was an elder to Hua Xiang because of his close relationship with Sang Qiye, and Hua Xiang apologized in fear.
• Hua Xiang told Ye Xiaotian that her master had sent her to deliver an item to Xu Xiaoshou, but she withheld that it was an envelope.
• Ye Xiaotian told Hua Xiang that Xu Xiaoshou was wanted by the Holy Spirit Hall and advised her to search discreetly.
• Shi Ti suggested that Hua Xiang ask Xu Xiaoshou’s friends from Tiansang Spirit Palace for leads.

At the Royal City Pill Tower, Hua Xiang asked Xu Xiaoshou’s former friends what kind of person he was and how she could find him. Zhou Tianshen offered a vague account of Xu Xiaoshou’s exploits, then proposed showing her people in Royal City who lived most like him.

• The Tiansang City delegation discussed the girl with the pill cauldron, and Zhou Tianshen and Tan Ji argued about Xu Xiaoshou and their past in the White Cavern.
• Zhao Xidong brought the delegation members who knew Xu Xiaoshou into the private room at Ye Xiaotian’s request.
• Ye Xiaotian introduced them to Hua Xiang, who claimed to be Xu Xiaoshou’s distant relative and asked what he was like.
• Zhou Tianshen gave Hua Xiang a cautious summary of Xu Xiaoshou’s history, leaving out many of his notorious deeds.
• Hua Xiang asked for Xu Xiaoshou’s appearance and a way to find him, so Zhou Tianshen offered to point her toward people in Royal City who lived most like him.

Xu Xiaoshou discussed Xiao Wanfeng’s unconventional sword-cultivation path and heard Mei Suren’s views on sword sealing. Xiao Wanfeng speculated about the Eighth Sword Immortal’s plans, while Xu Xiaoshou privately doubted the legendary swordsman’s noble reputation.

• Xu Xiaoshou returned to First Pavilion Under Heaven and reassured Xiao Wanfeng that serving tea did not diminish his worth.
• Xiao Wanfeng told Xu Xiaoshou that Mei Suren had recognized him as a Sword Sect and advised him to explore his unusual ancient sword-cultivation path.
• Xiao Wanfeng explained that Mei Suren thought the Eighth Sword Immortal might have spent decades sealing his sword, and Xiao Wanfeng predicted he could become a Saint within months or years.
• Xiao Wanfeng speculated that the Eighth Sword Immortal might have faked his death to protect his sword-sealing process, then rejected the theory as beneath the swordsman’s character.
• Xu Xiaoshou disagreed, privately recalling the Eighth Sword Immortal’s underhanded tricks, and challenged Xiao Wanfeng’s belief that the swordsman did not drink.

Xu Xiaoshou met with Storyteller and Lei Shuangxing, who urged him to stir up East Heavenly King City and gave him three Void Tokens to escalate the conflict over Void Island. After they left, Lei Shuangxing asked whether Xu Xiaoshou's friends had returned, and Storyteller told him to call anytime trouble arose.

• Xu Xiaoshou encouraged Xiao Wanfeng to speak up, gave him a card for luxurious clothes, and told him to withdraw a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals as his pay.
• Storyteller and Lei Shuangxing arrived at First Pavilion Under Heaven after Xu Xiaoshou sent Xiao Wanfeng away.
• Lei Shuangxing told Xu Xiaoshou that the Chief thought his efforts to stir up East Heavenly King City were too slow, while Storyteller warned that Holy Spirit Hall might suppress the Night Cats' intelligence.
• Lei Shuangxing gave Xu Xiaoshou three Void Tokens from the Chief, and Storyteller explained that the tokens would help him make trouble over Void Island.
• Lei Shuangxing asked where Xu Xiaoshou's friends were, then left; Storyteller flirted with Xu Xiaoshou and told him to call anytime.

Xu Xiaoshou warned Mo Mo that the Jiang Clan might have identified her, then learned Mu Zixi had sensed someone targeting her eyes. Mu Zixi revealed that the Heaven-Knowing Eye spoke through her in a seductive voice, leaving the others to suspect she was another Ghost Beast host body.

• Xu Xiaoshou told Mo Mo that Rong Dahao may have recognized her Xu-Suppressing Object, and Mo Mo and Gray Mist Man argued over whether to kill the people who knew.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Mo Mo and Gray Mist Man to deal with Jiang Xian and Rong Dahao at the trade fair, while Gray Mist Man advocated killing them and Mo Mo favored sealing their memories.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Mu Zixi whether she had sensed danger, and she admitted she had felt watched during the group's outing.
• Xu Xiaoshou connected the threat to Mu Zixi's eyes and showed her the Heaven-Knowing Pearl.
• Mu Zixi identified the Heaven-Knowing Eye in a seductive voice, and Xu Xiaoji collapsed after realizing she might be another Ghost Beast host body.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that Mu Zixi’s eyes were tied to the Lei family and awakened the Heaven-Knowing Eye inside his Origin Mansion, strengthening it enough for its first grass and water to appear. As news of the Sacred Secret Land drew factions to East Heavenly King City, the Spirit Palace Trading Fair began, gathering the city’s forces in one place.

• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Mu Zixi about the Heaven-Knowing Eye and learned that Lei Clan Eyes were bloodline inheritances, leading him to suspect that Jiang Xian’s Three Aversions Eye had been stolen.
• Xu Xiaoshou warned Mu Zixi, Xin Gugu, and Mo Mo to watch for masked Yama figures, then assigned Xu Xiaoji and Greed God to organize and refine Red-Gold Elixir in the Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou released the Heaven-Knowing Eye from its pearl and made it the Origin Mansion’s third world-stabilizing treasure, expanding the world and producing a blade of grass and droplets of water.
• Xu Xiaoshou observed the Sacred Secret Land news spread through East Heavenly King City and found the Holy Spirit Hall’s lack of intervention suspicious.
• The Spirit Palace Trading Fair began, drawing the factions gathered in East Heavenly King City into the same place.

Xu Xiaoshou and his companions attended the secretive Spirit Palace Trading Fair, where they learned that only exceptionally rare, priceless treasures could be traded. As the fair prepared to begin, Xu Xiaoshou wondered whether his companions themselves might be valuable enough to trade.

• Xu Xiaoshou arrived at the Wine Pavilion with Mu Zixi, Xiao Wanfeng, Xin Gugu, and another companion, and Liu Lu escorted them inside with beast masks that concealed their identities.
• Liu Lu explained that the masks could block a Void's spiritual sense and that Yuan Haisheng oversaw the fair, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to tease him about whether a Throne could control powerful guests.
• Xu Xiaoshou's group entered private room 172 above the underground arena, where Liu Lu described the trading rules and the fair's raised display platform.
• Liu Lu said past fairs had featured Forbidden Spells, Saint Martial Arts, and famous swords, leaving Xu Xiaoshou and his companions astonished.
• Xu Xiaoshou considered which of his possessions could qualify for trade, then eyed his companions as potential treasures and unnerved them with his imagined descriptions.

At the Spirit Palace Trading Fair, Hua Xiang and Zhou Tianshen hoped to find Xu Xiaoshou while he watched from private room 172. Night Cats opened the auction by revealing that its first treasure was a Void Token, provoking a furious crash from the Holy Spirit Hall in private room one.

• President Dong Ling brought Hua Xiang, Zhou Tianshen, Su Qianqian, and young alchemists to the fair, where Hua Xiang hoped to find Uncle Xu.
• Zhou Tianshen explained why he suspected Xu Xiaoshou was Young Master Xu of First Pavilion Under Heaven and hoped to verify his guess at the fair.
• Night Cats announced that treasures had to be worth over one hundred million, bids had to rise by at least that much, and Night Cats might buy unsold items.
• Xu Xiaoshou grew wary when he realized Night Cats could purchase the many treasures brought by the fair’s attendees.
• Night Cats unveiled an ancient black token as its opening treasure, and Xu Xiaoshou recognized it as a Void Token.
• A crash sounded from the Holy Spirit Hall’s private room, and Night Cats confirmed that the token could open the Sacred Secret Land.