Chapter Summaries

Cheng Ji and Chu Lisheng suspected the Night Cats had offered a Void Token for trade because a powerful force was pressuring them, and they decided to watch who pursued it. As the bidding war for the token escalated, Xu Xiaoshou told Mu Zixi to raise the price, but she stunned him by bidding fifty billion Spirit Crystals.

• Chu Lisheng raged at the Night Cats for putting a Void Token up for trade, but Cheng Ji persuaded him to wait and watch for the force behind the move.
• The Night Cats set the Void Token's starting price at one hundred million Spirit Crystals, and bidders quickly drove it up to one billion.
• Private Room No. 13 bid two billion and then three billion, while Private Room No. 99 countered with two and a half billion before falling silent.
• Xu Xiaoshou's companions were stunned by the escalating bids, and Mu Zixi urged him to join the fight.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to raise the price to boost the value of his own Void Tokens and told Mu Zixi to bid.
• Mu Zixi shouted a bid of fifty billion Spirit Crystals, leaving Xu Xiaoshou shocked as she challenged Private Room No. 13 to keep bidding.

Xu Xiaoshou’s group provoked Private Room 13 during the bidding for the Void Token, but Private Room 7 entered the contest and the Great String Celestial Sect won it for six billion Spirit Crystals. The auction then began its next trade, a first-grade spirit sword named Judge-King.

• Mu Zixi raised the Void Token bid to five billion, leaving Xu Xiaoshou furious at her enormous increase.
• The speaker in Private Room 13 warned Private Room 172 that the Void Token was not worth the price and revealed that his faction needed it for a peak Void expert.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Mu Zixi to taunt Private Room 13, and her retort drew attention to Private Room 172’s supposed Void experts.
• Private Room 7 bid five billion one hundred million, prompting Leng Qi of the Great String Celestial Sect to raise the price to six billion.
• The Great String Celestial Sect won the Void Token for six billion Spirit Crystals, and the auctioneer introduced the first-grade spirit sword Judge-King as the next item.

Xu Xiaoshou watched a Grade One spirit sword sell for five billion spirit crystals, then learned that Night Cats was auctioning a root of the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After discovering Night Cats was willing to share information with him, he told Yuan Haisheng to reveal his identity and invited anyone interested in his purchases to try robbing him.

• Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi watched bidders drive the Grade One spirit sword’s price to 3.7 billion before an old swordsman offered five billion and won it after Private Room No. 7 withdrew.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Liu Lu about whether Night Cats could protect traders and concluded that buyers ultimately had to rely on themselves.
• Nangong Yin presented a Bodhi Tree Root, identified as a root of one of the Nine Ancestral Trees, and said it could aid comprehension of the Heavenly Dao.
• A speaker in Private Room No. 3 challenged Nangong Yin about the Bodhi Tree Root, and Liu Lu identified the room’s owner as Returning Sound Pavilion after receiving Yuan Haisheng’s permission.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Yuan Haisheng to reveal that Private Room No. 172 belonged to First Pavilion Under Heaven and that its master was Xu Deyi, daring others to rob him if he bought anything.

Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi bid on the Bodhi Tree Root after learning its limits, while Dong Ling’s group recognized Xu Xiaoshou in their rival private room and tried to attract his attention. The chapter ended with Hua Xiang raising the bid and calling for the person in Private Room No. 172 to come to her room for the treasure.

• Nangong Yin revealed that the Bodhi Tree Root could not be planted without Chaos violet qi, though it could enhance comprehension.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to bid for the root for Mu Zixi and set a limit of fifty billion Spirit Crystals.
• Private Room No. 3 and Dong Ling in Private Room No. 183 bid against Xu Xiaoshou, while Dong Ling’s group learned that First Pavilion Under Heaven was in Room No. 172.
• Dong Ling set aside the treasure and focused on finding Xu Xiaoshou, while Hua Xiang worried about bidding against him.
• Hua Xiang bid 3.1 billion and called for the person in Room No. 172 to come to her room, promising to give them the treasure.

Hua Xiang’s careless invitation from private room 183 caused the auction crowd to mistake her words for President Dong Ling’s and wonder why the Alchemist Association wanted to befriend Xu Xiaoshou. After the Bodhi Tree Root was sold, the factions investigated First Pavilion Under Heaven, and Xu Xiaoshou agreed to meet the people in room 183 after first refusing their request.

• Hua Xiang told Xu Xiaoshou to come to her room while wearing a beast mask, and the venue mistakenly thought President Dong Ling had made the invitation.
• Dong Ling silenced the crowd, while Hua Xiang awkwardly tried to explain her remark and blamed Zhou Tianshen for the mishap.
• Xu Xiaoshou suspected room 183 might be trying to trick him, while Mu Zixi warned him not to trust the woman offering the Bodhi Tree Root.
• Nangong Yin sold the Bodhi Tree Root to room 183 for 3.1 billion, and other factions learned that Xu Deyi’s First Pavilion Under Heaven occupied room 172.
• The factions ordered investigations into First Pavilion Under Heaven and its Northern Region connections after learning of its apparent ties to the Alchemist Association.
• When room 183 requested a meeting, Xu Xiaoshou initially refused, then accepted after its representative repeated the request.

Zhou Tianshen, Su Qianqian, and Hua Xiang visited Xu Xiaoshou’s private room, where Hua Xiang handed over the Bodhi Tree Root and Zhou Tianshen tried to confirm Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi’s identities through shared memories. Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi stayed guarded, leaving Zhou Tianshen’s attempt at a secret code unanswered.

• Zhou Tianshen, Su Qianqian, and Hua Xiang entered Xu Xiaoshou’s private room carrying an enormous bathtub, the Overlord Saber, and a white greatsword.
• Hua Xiang knocked Liu Lu aside when he tried to help with her bathtub, then quickly apologized after Xu Xiaoshou questioned her intentions.
• Zhou Tianshen explained that Hua Xiang was searching for an old friend and asked to confirm whether that person was at First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou demanded the Bodhi Tree Root before allowing Zhou Tianshen to confirm anything, and Hua Xiang respectfully gave him the treasure.
• Zhou Tianshen questioned Mu Zixi about their shared search for spirit techniques, but she answered evasively and he accused her of lying.
• Zhou Tianshen appealed to Xu Xiaoshou with a remembered phrase, but Xu Xiaoshou asked whether he was challenging him to a fight.

Xu Xiaoshou’s refusal to reveal his identity enraged Hua Xiang, and her attempt to test him sparked a clash that drew the Night Cats and the Alchemist Association into the dispute. The chapter ended with Dong Ling accusing First Pavilion Under Heaven of striking first, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to challenge her in front of the trading fair.

• Zhou Tianshen and Hua Xiang questioned Xu Xiaoshou, but he continued to identify himself as Xu Deyi and thanked Hua Xiang for the treasure.
• Hua Xiang tried to touch Xu Xiaoshou, but he dodged her and mangled her hand with Inch-Realm Force Field.
• Xin Gugu unleashed his Throne-level pressure as First Pavilion Under Heaven’s members formed a defensive line, destroying the private room’s window and barrier.
• Nangong Yin arrived to investigate, and Xu Xiaoshou accused the visitors from private room No. 183 of ambushing him.
• Dong Ling emerged with alchemists from the Alchemist Association and declared that First Pavilion Under Heaven had struck first.
• Xu Xiaoshou confronted Dong Ling, asking whether she was being unreasonable.

Xu Xiaoshou offended President Dong Ling by calling her an old auntie, prompting her to attack him at the trade fair. After escaping unharmed and trying to placate her with his Alchemist Association badge, he watched Hua Xiang step forward and take responsibility for the misunderstanding.

• Liu Lu warned Xu Xiaoshou that the woman he had called an old auntie was President Dong Ling, and Xu Xiaoshou was shocked to learn she was not the white-haired old man he had expected.
• Enraged by Xu Xiaoshou's remarks about her age, Dong Ling bound him with spiritual essence and struck at him with her Fallen Origin Purple Flame.
• Shi Ti and Nangong Yin tried to stop Dong Ling, but Xu Xiaoshou vanished before her attack could hurt him, leaving the crowd unsure whether he had been killed.
• Xu Xiaoshou reappeared unharmed, drawing the attention of Dong Ling and the gathered factions as Zhou Tianshen recognized him and told Hua Xiang and Su Qianqian.
• Xu Xiaoshou removed his beast mask, called Dong Ling Sister Dong Ling, and showed her his tenth-grade Alchemist Association badge in an attempt to calm her.
• As Dong Ling prepared to move against Xu Xiaoshou again, Hua Xiang rushed forward and claimed that the misunderstanding and all the blame were her fault.

Hua Xiang intervened in the confrontation between Xu Xiaoshou and Dong Ling, causing everyone to suspect she had a powerful connection to Xu Xiaoshou. After Night Cats brokered a truce, Xu Xiaoshou left with Hua Xiang and Dong Ling, wondering whether Hua Xiang belonged to his side and whether he could order her around.

• Hua Xiang declared that the Alchemist Association had caused the confrontation, then shook her head when Dong Ling asked whether Xu Xiaoshou had threatened her.
• Dong Ling realized Hua Xiang had found the person she was seeking and suspected that Xu Xiaoshou was the senior she had been looking for.
• Nangong Yin declared the conflict a misunderstanding and offered the three groups another private room or the chance to fight outside the trade fair.
• Leaders of major factions decided to investigate Hua Xiang and her ties to Xu Xiaoshou and the Alchemist Association.
• Xu Xiaoshou left with Hua Xiang and Dong Ling, then speculated that Hua Xiang might be one of his own and considered ordering her around.

Xu Xiaoshou rejected Nangong Yin’s attempt to seat his group with the Alchemist Association, then examined the Bodhi Tree Root and discovered primordial purple qi in the Origin Mansion world. The chapter left him realizing he had possessed primordial purple qi all along.

• Xu Xiaoshou refused to share a private room with the Alchemist Association, and Hua Xiang was left outside after First Pavilion Under Heaven slammed and locked its door.
• Cheng Ji warned Chu Lisheng that First Pavilion Under Heaven might be secretly connected to the turmoil surrounding Void Island and ordered him to investigate everyone who had entered its building.
• Xu Xiaoshou gave Mu Zixi the Bodhi Tree Root, but she said she could not keep it alive; holding it let him sense the Heavenly Dao and realize he could break through to Master.
• Xu Xiaoshou inspected the Origin Mansion world and noticed wind, a growing puddle, and taller grass beneath the Life Spirit Seal.
• Xu Xiaoshou spotted purple mist in the puddle and recognized it as primordial purple qi.

Xu Xiaoshou planted the Bodhi Tree Root in the Origin Mansion World’s primordial purple qi and decided to seek more treasures at the trade fair. He then outbid the Holy Spirit Hall for a spatial teleportation array scroll, leaving the venue stunned by Private Room 209’s audacity.

• Xu Xiaoshou planted the Bodhi Tree Root, which absorbed the few wisps of primordial purple qi without visibly changing, and he warned Xu Xiaoji and Greed God not to touch it.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to spend his wealth on treasures that could strengthen the Origin Mansion World and waited for worthwhile lots at the trade fair.
• A blue-clad, beast-masked man offered a scroll for making a small spatial teleportation array disc, and Xu Xiaoshou pointed out that it required a spatial-type Grandmaster Spiritual Array Master.
• The Holy Spirit Hall bid five hundred million for the scroll, but Mu Zixi raised the bid to six hundred million and nearly threatened them before Xu Xiaoshou stopped her.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Private Room 209 raised the bid to one billion, and the Holy Spirit Hall withdrew, allowing Xu Xiaoshou to win the scroll.

Xu Xiaoshou studied a spatial teleportation array scroll and began crafting Sovereign-grade array disks with materials gifted by the Night Cats. The trade fair’s next offering, a Blood Tree Yin Branch, stunned him and the crowd, who began questioning whether the masked seller was Cen Qiaofu.

• Xu Xiaoshou understood the array scroll and asked the Night Cats for blank disks to test his spiritual array skills.
• Liu Lu gave Xu Xiaoshou one hundred Sovereign-grade blank array disks for free, and Xu Xiaoshou began weaving spiritual patterns onto them.
• Yuan Haisheng and Nangong Yin watched Xu Xiaoshou craft, while the spiritual array masters monitoring the trade fair became absorbed in his technique.
• A white-haired, beast-masked man from private room No. 4 presented a Blood Tree Yin Branch, unleashing a wave of blood mist that nearly made Xu Xiaoshou transform.
• The crowd demanded to inspect the branch and asked whether the masked man was Cen Qiaofu of the Saint Slave.

A white-haired, beast-masked man offered a Blood Tree Yin Branch for at least five billion Spirit Crystals, demanding detailed Ghost Beast and Ghost Beast Host intelligence in exchange. As the hall hesitated and the Holy Spirit Hall watched, Xu Xiaoshou surprised everyone by bidding for the treasure on behalf of First Pavilion Under Heaven.

• The white-haired, beast-masked man revealed the Blood Tree Yin Branch and used his Dao Severing power to suppress the uproar; a Throne suffered backlash after probing the treasure with spiritual sense.
• Cheng Ji and Chu Lisheng concluded that the trader had likely entered Void Island and obtained the branch there, and Cheng Ji decided to watch what information the man sought and which powers would respond.
• The trader set a five-billion starting price and required bidders to provide convincing details about Ghost Beasts and Ghost Beast Hosts, leaving the hall stunned and wary of provoking the Holy Spirit Hall.
• Nangong Yin and Yuan Haisheng decided to let the transaction proceed unless the Holy Spirit Hall intervened, while Nangong Yin ordered an investigation into whether the trader was a Ghost Beast Host.
• When no one dared bid, Xu Xiaoshou called out five billion from Private Room No. 209, shocking the crowd and Cheng Ji.

Xu Xiaoshou outbid the Holy Spirit Hall and Yama for the Blood Tree Yin Branch, paying twenty billion Spirit Crystals and accepting an additional condition. The beast-masked seller carried the jade box to private room 209, where Xu Xiaoshou was about to discuss Ghost Beasts under the Holy Spirit Hall’s watch.

• Xu Xiaoshou raised his bids against the Holy Spirit Hall, while an unknown bidder in private room 122 joined the contest at ten billion.
• Liu Lu identified the bidders in private room 122 as Yama, and Xu Xiaoshou recognized the gold-robed Huangquan and the masked members as the organization he had encountered before.
• Huangquan ordered Other Shore Flower to keep bidding up to twenty billion, while Yuan Haisheng warned Xu Xiaoshou that claiming the Blood Tree Yin Branch could bring trouble.
• Xu Xiaoshou bid twenty billion, and Huangquan stopped Yama from bidding further.
• The beast-masked man sold the Blood Tree Yin Branch to Xu Xiaoshou and personally carried it to private room 209 for the additional-condition discussion.

Xu Xiaoshou discovered that Liu Changqing, the white-haired, beast-masked trader, was a newly parasitized Ghost Beast host, while Liu Changqing realized Mo Mo and Xin Gugu were hosts too. As they discussed his situation, the Gray Mist Man revealed that Liu Changqing had escaped Void Island, where a Saint’s fall was nearly certain.

• Xu Xiaoshou, Mo Mo, Xin Gugu, and Liu Changqing recognized one another as Ghost Beast hosts when Liu Changqing entered Private Room 209.
• Liu Changqing handed Xu Xiaoshou the Blood Tree Yin Branch, and Xu Xiaoshou said he would pay after selling the three Void Tokens.
• Liu Changqing isolated their conversation with his domain and asked how he could free himself from the Ghost Beast.
• Xin Gugu identified Liu Changqing as a newly parasitized Dao-Cutting host, and the Gray Mist Man inferred that he had entered Void Island, taken a Blood Tree Yin Branch, and escaped with the parasite.
• The Gray Mist Man said escaping Void Island was extraordinarily difficult because the chance of a Saint falling was nearly one hundred percent, leaving Liu Changqing shaken.

Xu Xiaoshou used Ba Zunan’s token to make Ancestor Wuji explain how he had escaped Void Island in Liu Changqing’s body. The chapter ended with Ancestor Wuji identifying the powerful fire user as Ancestor Jinzhao, one of the White Lineage’s three ancestors.

• Xu Xiaoshou explained the two kinds of Ghost Beasts, and the Gray Mist Man sealed Liu Changqing’s will as the Ghost Beast inside him began to surface.
• The Gray Mist Man recognized the Ghost Beast as Xuan Wuji, who recognized the Gray Mist Man as Feng Yujin and argued with him about the White Lineage’s ancestors.
• Xu Xiaoshou showed Xuan Wuji Ba Zunan’s purple token and used it to intimidate him into answering questions.
• Xuan Wuji explained that the three ancestors had sent him out through a spacetime passage, using Liu Changqing as a host, and described Void Island’s barriers and divine punishment.
• Xu Xiaoshou showed Xuan Wuji his Blazing White Flame and asked about the chained fire user; Xuan Wuji identified him as Ancestor Jinzhao, the ancestor of all ancestors.

Xu Xiaoshou convinced Ancestor Wuji and Liu Changqing to pursue peaceful coexistence by promising Liu the Heavenly Secrets Art and offering to mediate between them. The chapter left Liu ready to follow Xu Xiaoshou and test whether he could receive the art, beginning with a spatial teleportation array scroll.

• Xu Xiaoshou let Ancestor Wuji believe he was aligned with Ancestor Jinzhao and persuaded him to withdraw his will so Liu Changqing could regain control of his body.
• Xu Xiaoshou convinced Ancestor Wuji to teach Liu Changqing the Heavenly Secrets Art as a way to encourage peaceful coexistence.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Liu Changqing that the Ghost Beast will had agreed to coexist and could grant him the Heavenly Secrets Art and powerful abilities.
• Liu Changqing tested the Ghost Beast will and found that it no longer resisted him, then asked Xu Xiaoshou what he would have to give in return.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Liu Changqing to follow him as an intermediary and handed him a scroll for crafting a small spatial teleportation array disk.

Liu Changqing joined First Pavilion Under Heaven as a Ghost Beast Host, and Xu Xiaoshou worried the Holy Spirit Hall would discover the faction’s secret. Meanwhile, Cheng Ji prepared to have every trade fair attendee interrogated that night, hoping the Night Cats would reveal something before the Royal City Trial.

• Liu Changqing accepted Xu Xiaoshou’s invitation, received the Enlightenment Inheritance, and showed him his nine-story Xu-Suppressing Object.
• Xu Xiaoshou introduced Liu Changqing to Xin Gugu, while Mu Zixi’s blunt remarks led Liu Changqing to remove his beast mask and assure her he was gentle.
• Liu Changqing pledged himself to First Pavilion Under Heaven, and Xu Xiaoshou told him to study the scroll before leaving with the group.
• Xu Xiaoshou feared the Holy Spirit Hall would investigate Liu Changqing’s auction inquiries and First Pavilion Under Heaven’s dealings with Ghost Beasts, so he considered creating a larger diversion.
• Cheng Ji learned that Holy Spirit Hall reinforcements had arrived and ordered White Robes and Red Robes to cross-examine every trade fair member who left that night.

Other Shore Flower offered the remains of a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet at the trading fair, forcing the Holy Spirit Hall to buy them while Xu Xiaoshou realized Yama was using the spectacle as a diversion. Xu Xiaoshou decided to stir up the coming chaos himself and prepared to sell Iron Fan Princess's Plantain Fan.

• Other Shore Flower revealed the intact remains of the Heavenly Mechanism Puppet Tiangeng, and Cheng Ji verified that it had belonged to the Void Lei family before ordering the Holy Spirit Hall to secure it.
• Cheng Ji bid one hundred billion for the remains, and Other Shore Flower sold them to the Holy Spirit Hall without opposition.
• Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Yama's public sale was meant to distract the gathered factions while its members targeted a valuable eye elsewhere.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to exploit the chaos and told Liu Lu to arrange the sale of Iron Fan Princess's Plantain Fan.

Xu Xiaoshou auctioned a second genuine Void Token, explaining that he had dug it up and insisting he wanted only money. His aggressive bidding drove Returning Sound Pavilion and the Great String Celestial Sect into a public contest, which remained unresolved as he urged Room No. 7 to raise its bid.

• Xu Xiaoshou revealed a second Void Token, stirring the venue and startling the Holy Spirit Hall, the Great String Celestial Sect, and other factions.
• When Room No. 1 questioned the token's origin, Xu Xiaoshou claimed he had dug it up, easing the Holy Spirit Hall's suspicions.
• Xu Xiaoshou set the Void Token's starting price at six billion and refused to lower it, provoking disbelief among the attendees.
• Returning Sound Pavilion in Room No. 7 bid seven billion, and Leng Qi of the Great String Celestial Sect in Room No. 13 raised the offer to eight billion.
• Room No. 7 raised the bid to nine billion, and Leng Qi answered with ten billion as Xu Xiaoshou loudly urged Room No. 7 to challenge him again.