Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou auctioned a second and then a third Void Token, repeatedly provoking the Great String Celestial Sect into bidding against other factions. The chapter ended with Xu revealing that he had dug up three tokens in total, while Leng Qi collapsed after buying the supposedly last one.

• Xu Xiaoshou pushed Leng Qi to bid 12 billion for the second Void Token, then sold it to the Great String Celestial Sect.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed another Void Token and claimed he planned to sell all the tokens he had dug up.
• Leng Qi bid against Returning Sound Pavilion and several other factions, eventually securing the third token for 18 billion.
• Xiu Mingyue stopped bidding, while Mo Qing warned that the Holy Spirit Hall might investigate Xu Xiaoshou for possessing three tokens.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed a third Void Token and said he had dug up three of them, causing Leng Qi to spit blood and collapse.

Xu Xiaoshou sold his third Void Token for twenty-two billion Spirit Crystals, then celebrated with his companions and repaid Liu Changqing for the Blood Tree Yin Branch. As they prepared to leave the trade fair, Liu Lu told them that the Holy Spirit Hall had forbidden anyone from leaving early.

• Xu Xiaoshou defended his claim that he had found three Void Tokens in one pit and started the bidding for the third at eighteen billion.
• Leng Qi refused to bid further, while private room No. 7 and private room No. 66 competed until Xiu Mingyue’s group won the token for twenty-two billion.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to private room No. 209, where Mu Zixi, Xin Gugu, Xiao Wanfeng, and Mo Mo celebrated the forty billion Spirit Crystals earned from the three tokens.
• Xu Xiaoshou repaid Liu Changqing twenty billion for the Blood Tree Yin Branch and told his companions to prepare to leave early.
• Liu Lu informed Xu Xiaoshou that the Holy Spirit Hall had prohibited everyone from leaving the trade fair early, while assuring him their safety was guaranteed.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that the Holy Spirit Hall planned a thorough investigation of the trade fair and tested whether Night Cats would help First Pavilion Under Heaven escape. Night Cats offered a way out, but Xu Xiaoshou refused it, leaving Yuan Haisheng and Nangong Yin to wonder how he planned to withstand the investigation.

• Liu Lu told Xu Xiaoshou that the Holy Spirit Hall would investigate the trade fair, potentially bringing in the White Robes and Red Robes.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Yuan Haisheng whether Night Cats had kept their transaction confidential and whether it could help First Pavilion Under Heaven leave early.
• Yuan Haisheng and Nangong Yin agreed to help Xu Xiaoshou escape by revealing weaknesses in the venue's array and arranging Spatial Teleportation Array Disks.
• Xu Xiaoshou declined the escape plan, saying he did not wish to leave and that Night Cats had become his friends.
• Nangong Yin and Yuan Haisheng realized Xu Xiaoshou had been testing whether Night Cats had betrayed him and wondered how he would handle the investigation.

Xu Xiaoshou prepared his companions for a possible clash at the trade fair, then used Xu Xiaoji to impersonate him while he made his own move. As the fair ended, a man emerged from private room No. 1.

• Xu Xiaoshou set up a secure voice channel and told his companions that the Jiang Clan might be Yama's target and that chaos could draw the Holy Spirit Hall's forces away from the trade fair.
• Xu Xiaoshou instructed the group to adapt to events, follow Mo Mo's command, and seek Hua Xiang, President Dong Ling, or Shi Ti if necessary.
• Xu Xiaoshou announced that he was entering a state of profound enlightenment and told everyone to direct any questions to Mo Mo.
• Xu Xiaoji left the Origin Mansion impersonating Xu Xiaoshou, while Mo Mo took charge and told Liu Lu to inform Yuan Haisheng that she would handle matters concerning Young Master Xu.
• As the trade fair ended, the door to private room No. 1 opened and a man walked out.

Cheng Ji announced that the White Robes and Red Robes would search the auction venue for dark factions and Ghost Beast Hosts, prompting Leng Qi and other faction leaders to resist. Cheng Ji reframed their objections as defiance of the search order and demanded that anyone else who opposed it step forward.

• Cheng Ji revealed himself as Hall Master and said the Holy Spirit Hall had taken over the venue to help the White Robes and Red Robes investigate dark factions and Ghost Beast Hosts.
• Huangquan reassured Other Shore Flower and Nine Nether Ghost Infant that the search was unlikely to expose them.
• Leng Qi confronted Cheng Ji, and leaders from several major factions emerged to support his resistance.
• Liu Changqing, Mo Mo, Mu Zixi, Xin Gugu, and Xiao Wanfeng watched from Private Room No. 209 as events unfolded, while Liu Changqing worried about being investigated.
• Cheng Ji lifted Leng Qi into the air, then released him and asked who else would defy the White Robes' and Red Robes' search order.

Cheng Ji’s attempt to force the trade fair’s factions into an investigation nearly collapsed when they rallied to leave, but Shouye’s arrival from Red Robes restored order. As Cheng Ji began processing attendees, Xu Xiaoshou reached the street outside under Vanishing Art and froze at what he saw.

• Xiu Mingyue challenged Cheng Ji’s handling of the meeting and persuaded the factions to demand their release, sparking a chaotic attempt to break through the spirit array.
• Mo Mo stopped Xin Gugu, Mu Zixi, and Liu Changqing from fleeing by invoking Xu Xiaoji’s authority and holding him up as they prepared to leave.
• Shouye entered the hall with a blood-soaked aura, silenced the crowd, and then yielded control of the scene to Cheng Ji.
• Cheng Ji ordered attendees to leave one by one through the main doors, while Liu Changqing and the others sat down in private room No. 209.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Vanishing Art to leave the Origin Mansion, cross the trade fair’s perimeter, and arrive on the street, where he froze at the sight before him.

Xu Xiaoshou infiltrated the Royal City and discovered that White Robes and Red Robes had surrounded the trade fair to investigate a possible Ghost Beast presence. A casual conversation led Shouye to realize Xu Xiaoshou was inside First Pavilion Under Heaven, and he rushed to intervene.

• Xu Xiaoshou sensed numerous powerful cultivators across the Southern District and approached a teahouse to investigate.
• Xu Xiaoshou overheard Lan Ling, Xin, Black Nether, and Shouye discussing their cautious plan to investigate the trade fair without causing a disturbance.
• Shouye asked Chu Lisheng about absurd incidents in the Royal City, and Chu Lisheng described First Pavilion Under Heaven and its heir from the Taixiang Xu Clan.
• As Chu Lisheng listed the heir's traits and the pavilion's activities, Shouye recognized Xu Xiaoshou as the person inside the trade fair.
• Shouye set off to reach Xu Xiaoshou, but Lan Ling stopped him.

Xu Xiaoshou rejected Shouye’s offer to guide him, then contacted Storyteller and Ba Zunan to discuss exploiting the Holy Spirit Hall’s deployment around the Royal City. The conversation ended with Xu Xiaoshou suggesting the Saint Slave take advantage of the weakened defenses at the Yunlun Mountain Range.

• Shouye tried to stop Xu Xiaoshou from straying onto the wrong path, but Xu Xiaoshou bowed and left without accepting his offer.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Ba Zunan’s communication pearl and discovered that Storyteller answered before Ba Zunan joined the call.
• Ba Zunan guessed that Xu Xiaoshou had escaped the trading meet and asked how much help he needed.
• Xu Xiaoshou described the Holy Spirit Hall’s forces surrounding the trading meet and Yama’s plan to target Jiang Xian’s Three Aversions Eye.
• Xu Xiaoshou proposed using the likely diversion of Holy Spirit Hall forces to strike at their defenses and exploit the opening at the Yunlun Mountain Range.

Xu Xiaoshou asked Ba Zunan for help against the Holy Spirit Hall’s preparations and learned that Elder Sang was still alive but had suffered greatly in captivity. After their call ended, Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as an old man and set off to pursue his own plans amid the night’s schemes.

• Xu Xiaoshou asked Ba Zunan about Void Island, and Ba Zunan explained that its destination was uncertain and he had no plan beyond waiting for its descent.
• Ba Zunan agreed to create the impression that he could summon Void Island near the Yunlun Mountain Range and promised reinforcements for the auction site.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Ba Zunan that Yama had attacked him over the Lei Clan Eye, and Ba Zunan identified Huangquan as Yama’s leader and told him to use the Eight-Character Order to deter them.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked about Elder Sang, and Ba Zunan said he was not dead but had endured everything else before ending the call.
• Xu Xiaoshou recalled his time with Elder Sang, put on a straw hat, transformed his appearance into that of a haggard old man, and headed out to handle his own business.

A slovenly swordsman arrived at the Yao Residence and revealed himself as the real Ba Zunan by killing its guards with True Ten-Stage. Meanwhile, Jiang Xian pursued a figure into Heaven-Prayer Woods, believing it possessed the Flower Immortal Eye, and he and his companions were swallowed by a dividing spirit array.

• A ragged man carrying a clanging sack approached the Yao Residence and demanded that Yao Ye present his famous sword.
• The guards mocked the man as another Ba Zunan impersonator, but he killed them with a sword-finger technique and they recognized his True Ten-Stage attack as they died.
• Outside Heaven-Prayer Woods, Jiang Xian pursued a figure whose presence had stirred his Three Aversions Eye, despite Jiang Qi and Jiang Si warning him that the woods might conceal a trap.
• Jiang Xian concluded that the figure possessed the Flower Immortal Eye and entered the woods, disappearing into a spirit array.
• Jiang Si followed Jiang Xian into the array, and the forest boundary then spread beneath Jiang Qi and pulled her in as well.

Xu Xiaoshou followed the Heaven-Knowing Eye to the Heaven-Prayer Woods and discovered Yama impostors fighting Jiang Xian. As Jiang Xian tried to use his clan’s Half-Saint blood, the fake Lei Shuangxing annihilated it with a strange ocular power.

• Storyteller and Lei Shuangxing revealed themselves to Jiang Xian as they demanded his Three Aversions Eye.
• Xu Xiaoshou followed the Heaven-Knowing Eye north after sensing its strong reaction near the Heaven-Prayer Woods.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the woods under Vanishing Art and found Jiang Si and Jiang Qi helplessly trapped by an illusion.
• Xu Xiaoshou spotted fake versions of Storyteller and Lei Shuangxing confronting a bloodied Jiang Xian.
• Jiang Xian produced Half-Saint blood, but the fake Lei Shuangxing used his strange eye technique to annihilate it.

Xu Xiaoshou watched two masked Saint Slave fighters battle Jiang Xian, whose Saint Image overwhelmed them when it began to emerge. A second Fake Storyteller then appeared behind Jiang Xian, twisted his neck, and reached into his eyes as Jiang Xian screamed.

• Xu Xiaoshou realized the blue-robed masked man’s Cross-Shaped Heterochromatic Eye could annihilate Holy Power and prevent Jiang Xian from using his treasures.
• Jiang Xian tried to call for help, but the blue-robed masked man erased his tongue and destroyed his defensive spirit artifacts.
• The red-skirted masked man attacked Jiang Xian with beams of white light, but Jiang Xian used the Mind-Turning Pupil to control him through his Flower Immortal Eye.
• The blue-robed masked man struck Jiang Xian, prompting Jiang Xian’s Saint Image to emerge in white mist that crushed both masked fighters and pressured Xu Xiaoshou.
• A second Fake Storyteller appeared behind Jiang Xian, twisted his neck, and plunged his hands and white beams into Jiang Xian’s eye sockets.

Xu Xiaoshou intervened as Yama tried to take Jiang Xian’s Three Aversions Eye, but Yincao used Flower Immortal Eye to survive a Demi-Saint bloodline mark and make it vanish. Xu Xiaoshou realized Flower Immortal Eye’s ultimate power could make illusions real, leaving Yincao alive and the bloodline mark gone.

• Visitor from the Underworld held Jiang Xian in place while Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade used God's Blessing and Cross-Shaped Heterochromatic Eye to shatter the forming holy image.
• Xu Xiaoshou rushed to intercept Three Aversions Eye as Visitor from the Underworld pulled it from Jiang Xian, but withdrew when a Demi-Saint bloodline mark appeared on the eye.
• The bloodline mark entered Yincao, who destroyed his body, then reappeared elsewhere as Visitor from the Underworld while Flower Immortal Eye dispelled the surrounding illusion.
• Yincao used Flower Immortal Eye and a drop of saint blood to confuse and erase the pursuing bloodline mark, though the backlash blasted his body apart.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Flower Immortal Eye could make the void real, explaining how Yincao escaped Three Aversions Eye’s control and survived the bloodline mark.

Xu Xiaoshou tried to seize a Three Aversions Eye from the injured Yincao, but was exposed and trapped in Yincao’s domain. After escaping by impersonating Sang Qiye, he was identified as Xu Xiaoshou and invited to join Yama on Huangquan’s behalf.

• Xu Xiaoshou rushed to take a Three Aversions Eye while Yincao was wounded, but Yincao caught his hand and used the Flower Immortal Eye to delude him.
• Xu Xiaoshou stabilized his Transformation and impersonated Sang Qiye, startling Yincao long enough to escape with one Three Aversions Eye.
• Yincao realized he had been tricked, took the remaining Three Aversions Eye, and identified the vanished Xu Xiaoshou by name.
• Yincao told Xu Xiaoshou that Yama had studied his abilities and that a Cutting Path expert’s Heavenly Dao Exile could restrain him.
• Yincao treated Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade and invited Xu Xiaoshou to join Yama, then played Huangquan’s recorded invitation.

Xu Xiaoshou rejected Yama’s offer to recruit him and demanded they release him, but Jiang Clan guard Jiang Chaotian arrived after the Three Aversions Eye was taken. A mysterious figure sealed the area, trapping the two Yama members and Jiang Chaotian, while Xu Xiaoshou recognized the power as the Storyteller’s.

• Yincao and Hundred Ghosts invited Xu Xiaoshou to join Yama and offered him the Three Aversions Eye and other treasures, but he refused.
• Xu Xiaoshou accused the pair of impersonating the Saint Slave and demanded the other Three Aversions Eye in exchange for keeping their identities secret.
• Jiang Chaotian arrived with Jiang Qi and Jiang Si, discovered that Jiang Xian’s Three Aversions Eye was gone, and confronted Yincao and Hundred Ghosts.
• Yincao and Hundred Ghosts found that an unknown force had sealed the space and prevented them from escaping.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the sealed space as the Storyteller’s work, and a woman’s voice from the void mocked the impostors.

Storyteller trapped Xu Xiaoshou, Jiang Chaotian, Yincao, and Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade inside a replicated world, where Jiang Chaotian fought to reclaim the Three Aversions Eye and prepared to use Sacred Blood. Xu Xiaoshou intervened in disguise, stole the Sacred Blood, and left everyone wondering whether he was the Eighth Sword Immortal.

• Storyteller appeared in his replicated Heaven-Prayer Woods and denied involvement in the theft, directing Jiang Chaotian's suspicion toward Yincao and Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade.
• Jiang Chaotian split open Storyteller's space and attacked Yincao with Cloudfall, but Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade used his Cross-Shaped Heterochromatic Eye to annihilate the cloud pillar and suffered backlash.
• Jiang Chaotian evaded Yincao's Flower Immortal Eye, appeared behind him, and prepared to swallow Golden Radiant Sacred Blood.
• Xu Xiaoshou suddenly revealed himself in disguise, snatched the Sacred Blood, and struck Jiang Chaotian with a sword finger that left a bloody wound.
• Jiang Chaotian recognized the attack as Sword Thought, while Jiang Qi and Jiang Si suspected the masked figure was the Eighth Sword Immortal.
• Storyteller realized the masked figure was Xu Xiaoshou and pretended to accept his rebuke while inwardly reacting with shock.

Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Ba Zunan, tried to leave Heaven-Prayer Woods with Storyteller after taking the Holy Blood, but a second man claiming to be Ba Zunan broke into Storyteller’s world. The two confronted each other and both revealed Sword Thought, leaving everyone unsure which one was genuine.

• Xu Xiaoshou claimed he had no interest in the Three Aversions Eye, told Jiang Chaotian and the others to settle their disputes, and prepared to leave with Storyteller.
• Storyteller struggled against someone breaking into his small world, and a disheveled man entered Heaven-Prayer Woods dragging a sack and calling himself Ba Zunan.
• The newcomer recognized Xu Xiaoshou’s Ba Zunan disguise, while Storyteller and the Jiang Clan, Yama, and Xu Xiaoshou were stunned by the apparent presence of two Ba Zunans.
• Xu Xiaoshou challenged the newcomer to prove his identity, and the newcomer revealed Sword Thought before Xu Xiaoshou revealed that he had it too.

Xu Xiaoshou and a scruffy uncle both claimed to be Ba Zunan, but they recognized each other through their Sword Thought and traded information about Yama’s leader, Huangquan, and his divine weapons. As Yama tried to escape under an illusion, the uncle struck Yincao and stopped Hundred Ghosts from taking the Holy Blood, though Yincao realized the attack was not illusion arts.

• Xu Xiaoshou and the scruffy uncle discussed how they had learned Sword Thought and kept up their competing claims to be Ba Zunan.
• The uncle questioned Yincao about Huangquan’s Profound Wound Sword, and Xu Xiaoshou revealed that Huangquan also possessed Soul Severing.
• Storyteller warned that the White Robes were approaching, giving the uncle only about the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Yincao used the Flower Immortal Eye to create an illusion while Hundred Ghosts swallowed Holy Blood, but the uncle’s illusion concealed his attack.
• The uncle seized the Holy Blood and pierced Yincao’s throat; as Yincao spat blood and felt pain, he realized the attack was not illusion arts.

Ba Zunan’s Illusion Sword Technique overwhelmed Yincao and Hundred Ghosts, but the Yama members escaped through space-time power before he could learn Huangquan’s location. Xu Xiaoshou freed the Jiang Clan, and Jiang Qi suspected the loss of the Three Aversions Eye might be part of a plan by the clan’s Demi-Saint as Jiang Xian began to wake.

• A slovenly uncle revealed that his Illusion Sword Technique had stolen Hundred Ghosts’ Sacred Blood and made Yincao and Hundred Ghosts believe they had been killed.
• The uncle confirmed he was Ba Zunan and questioned Yincao about Huangquan, but Yincao and Hundred Ghosts called for help and escaped through a space-time rift.
• The uncle sensed that Huangquan wielded both time and spatial power, while Xu Xiaoshou hinted to Jiang Qi that the Jiang Clan should investigate Yama and then asked Storyteller to release the Jiang Clan members.
• Jiang Qi reasoned that the Three Aversions Eye’s loss might have been arranged by the clan’s Demi-Saint, and Jiang Chaotian noticed that Jiang Xian was waking.

White Robes commanders learned that Ba Zunan had killed Yao Ye and suspected he was pursuing the Twenty-One Famous Swords while the Spirit Palace Trading Fair drew their attention. Yu Zhiwen and Situ Yongen arrived to reinforce them and opened a spatial passage, from which Wang Big Hammer emerged before another voice challenged him.

• Chu Lisheng reported that Ba Zunan had killed Yao Ye of the Yao Clan, a Void-level swordsman who wielded the famous sword Great Unity Gives Birth to Water Sword.
• Shouye, Lan Ling, and the White Robes commanders suspected that Ba Zunan was the Eighth Sword Immortal and had targeted Yao Ye to pursue the Twenty-One Famous Swords.
• Yu Zhiwen and Situ Yongen arrived through a spatial passage, and Yu Zhiwen introduced Situ Yongen as her senior brother and the first-ranked disciple on the Dao Department Heaven Rankings.
• Yu Zhiwen and Situ Yongen strengthened the Heavenly Secrets Formation and expanded the passage to bring reinforcements through.
• Wang Big Hammer bounced out of the passage and boasted that he would smash their enemies, but another voice mocked his hunchback and challenged his strength.