Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou faced Rong Dahao and his twenty-eight Masters, stopping their charge with a precise sword strike before dueling Rong Dahao. After piercing Rong Dahao through the chest, Xu Xiaoshou revealed he had read the flaws in the young heir’s spatial techniques.

• Xu Xiaoshou halted Rong Dahao’s twenty-eight Masters with one sword strike, leaving them stunned and afraid to attack again.
• Rong Dahao refused to surrender and challenged Xu Xiaoshou alone, summoning the Profound-Weight Ancient Gate to crush him with immense gravity.
• Xu Xiaoshou endured the gravity without slowing and cut apart a distant mountain with his sword, while Rong Dahao used the Glazed Ancient Gate to evade the slash.
• Rong Dahao summoned the God-Suppressing Ancient Gate, but Xu Xiaoshou dodged it and stabbed him through the chest from behind.
• Xu Xiaoshou explained that Rong Dahao’s spatial gates had a flaw: opening one gate required the other to close.

Xu Xiaoshou pressured Rong Dahao to join him before leaving to hunt the Cloud Beast atop Falling Cloud Peak. After enduring its devastating soundwave attacks, Xu Xiaoshou used Illusion Annihilation Finger to destroy it, leaving Rong Dahao and the others terrified by his power.

• Xu Xiaoshou offered Rong Dahao healing medicine and demanded that he surrender, threatening to kill his followers if he refused.
• Xu Xiaoshou left Rong Dahao with an incense stick to decide and flew alone toward Falling Cloud Peak to attack the Cloud Beast.
• The Cloud Beast's soundwaves badly injured Xu Xiaoshou and caused Rong Dahao and the others to retreat, while Xu Xiaoshou discovered that the attacks charged his Illusion Annihilation Finger.
• Xu Xiaoshou provoked the Cloud Beast into another roar, then used Illusion Annihilation Finger to destroy it.
• Rong Dahao realized that Xu Xiaoshou's finger could have annihilated him instead of merely ending his trial.

Xu Xiaoshou killed a Cloud Beast, discovered that Origin-Granting Essence let him perceive every attribute, and began comprehending space while his followers guarded him. Outside the Cloud Realm World, Rao Yaoyao mistook him for Young Master Xu and ordered an investigation into Liu Changqing’s concealed identity and possible connection to Ancestor Wuji.

• Xu Xiaoshou examined the power of his Illusion Annihilation Finger and decided to charge it further by fighting more Cloud Beasts.
• Xu Xiaoshou checked the leaderboard, found himself in twelfth place, and resolved to plunder points instead of recruiting participants.
• Liu Changqing identified the Cloud Beast’s remains as Origin-Granting Essence, which Xu Xiaoshou consumed and used to comprehend the Great Dao of space.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s followers gathered around him as he meditated, while Rao Yaoyao and an ethereal voice discussed his abilities and mistook him for Young Master Xu.
• Rao Yaoyao revealed that Liu Changqing had concealed his identity and practiced the Heavenly Secrets Art, then connected his appearance to Ancestor Wuji’s emergence from Void Island.
• The ethereal voice agreed to investigate Liu Changqing without harming Young Master Xu’s impression of the Holy Spirit Hall.

Ba Zunan and Storyteller entered Void Island, prompting Yu Zhiwen to alert Chu Lisheng while she continued monitoring the island and Xu Xiaoshou. In the Yunlun Mountain Range, Xu Xiaoshou comprehended spatial rules, gained Rong Dahao’s allegiance, and formed a sixth squad whose captain was still on the way.

• Ba Zunan used the Purple Extremity Eight-Character Order to open a passage into Void Island, bringing Storyteller with him.
• Yu Zhiwen recognized Ba Zunan and Storyteller in the Heavenly Secrets Formation and alerted Chu Lisheng, who went to find Sword Immortal Rao.
• Yu Zhiwen watched the battles around Sky City and secretly monitored Xu Xiaoshou, noticing that he seemed to have grown taller.
• Xu Xiaoshou emerged from Dao comprehension having learned to use spatial rules to move faster, then accepted Rong Dahao’s submission.
• Xu Xiaoshou established a sixth squad for the Masters and named Rong Dahao its acting captain, saying the true captain was still on the way.

Xu Xiaoshou rallied the Xu Gang by promising its members most of the points they earned while collecting a ten-thousand-point fee from each. On the third day of the Royal City Trial, the first participant reached the inner region, triggering a reward of Law Source Stones and a million points for Chong Yuan, while Xu Xiaoshou resolved to obtain a Space Source Stone.

• Xu Xiaoshou let the Xu Gang compete for the Sixth Squad captaincy and told Rong Dahao and the Five Tiger Generals to organize the six squads.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered the Xu Gang to collect points and promised to take ten thousand from each member, motivating them to hunt Cloud Beasts and seek Cloud Orbs.
• Xu Xiaoshou explained to Xin Gugu that his plan could earn him nine million points without spending anything, leaving Xin Gugu stunned by the supposed value of the points.
• On the third day, trial participants received notice that Law Source Stones had appeared in the inner region after Chong Yuan entered it first.
• Liu Changqing explained that Law Source Stones enabled deep comprehension of the Great Dao, and Xu Xiaoshou decided to pursue a Space Source Stone.
• The Trial Jade Pendant announced that source stones revealed their bearers' locations and awarded Chong Yuan a fire-element source stone and one million points.

Chong Yuan hid the fire-element Source Stone and chose to keep farming points, while Xu Xiaoshou led the two Guardians toward it and left the Xu Gang under Rong Dahao’s command. After the Xu Gang attacked Mu Zixi by mistake, she subdued them and declared them part of her command.

• Chong Yuan buried the fire-element Source Stone after deciding it was not worth abandoning his points lead, then continued toward the Nine Dragon Veins.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned Chong Yuan had likely given up the mismatched Source Stone and set out with the two Guardians, leaving Rong Dahao in charge of the Xu Gang.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to warn the Xu Gang not to fight members of First Pavilion Under Heaven, then departed again.
• Rong Dahao led the Xu Gang in questioning and robbing other trial participants, but the group attacked Mu Zixi after she confirmed she belonged to First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Mu Zixi subdued the Xu Gang with her forest powers, learned they served Xu Xiaoshou, and announced that they would now follow her.

Xu Xiaoshou and his companions raced toward the Fire Source Stone, but Yu Lingdi intercepted them and demanded that Liu Changqing be handed over as a suspected Ghost Beast Host. Xu Xiaoshou refused to yield, and the chapter ended with him challenging Yu Lingdi to get past his sword.

• Xu Xiaoshou, Xin Gugu, and Liu Changqing hurried toward the shifting Fire Source Stone coordinates in the Yunlun Mountain Range.
• Yu Lingdi appeared and revealed that he had come to take Liu Changqing because he suspected him of being a Ghost Beast Host.
• Xu Xiaoshou demanded evidence and rejected Yu Lingdi’s claim that Liu Changqing’s use of the Heavenly Secrets Art was enough to justify an arrest.
• Yu Lingdi exerted overwhelming pressure, injuring Xin Gugu and forcing Liu Changqing to endure the aura, while Xu Xiaoshou stood his ground.
• Xu Xiaoshou challenged Yu Lingdi to take Liu Changqing only if he could first get past Xu Xiaoshou’s sword.

Xu Xiaoshou faced Yu Lingdi’s deadly test until Hua Xiang intervened and stopped the confrontation. Xu Xiaoshou then revealed his own Heavenly Secrets Art, dispelling Yu Lingdi’s suspicion and leaving the two men reconciled, if embarrassed.

• Xu Xiaoshou ordered Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing to stand down as Yu Lingdi gathered water-elemental energy to attack him.
• Hua Xiang arrived with Ash-Illuminating White Flame, stopped Yu Lingdi, and claimed Xu Xiaoshou as someone the Holy Palace wanted to recruit.
• Xu Xiaoshou offered Yu Lingdi a way to back down and challenged his suspicion that Liu Changqing’s Heavenly Secrets Art proved wrongdoing.
• Xu Xiaoshou formed a Heavenly Secrets Formation and transformed his face into Yu Lingdi’s, revealing that he had developed the technique himself and called it “Weaving.”
• Yu Lingdi accepted that the Demi-Saint Xu Clan could have access to Heavenly Secrets Art and realized he had wrongly suspected Xu Xiaoshou.

Xu Xiaoshou evaded Yu Lingdi’s suspicions and continued toward the fire-element Origin Stone, while Yu Lingdi and Rao Yaoyao concluded that he was nothing like Saint Slave Xu Xiaoshou. Rao Yaoyao then sent Yu Lingdi to Void Island to watch Ba Zunan and Storyteller, as she monitored the Three Swordsmen of the Burial Sword Tomb and another mysterious intruder with a spatial attribute.

• Xu Xiaoshou declined Hua Xiang’s offer to escort him, warned Liu Changqing and Xin Gugu to keep his use of the Heavenly Secrets Art secret, and led them toward the fire-element Origin Stone.
• Yu Lingdi returned to Rao Yaoyao and described Young Master Xu as far more capable than Saint Slave Xu Xiaoshou, convincing them that the two were different people.
• Rao Yaoyao recounted how Yu Lingdi had been reborn and perfectly severed his path after Sang Qiye struck him with the Ash-Illuminating White Flame.
• Rao Yaoyao gave Yu Lingdi a Void Token and ordered him to locate and watch Ba Zunan and Storyteller on Void Island without confronting them.
• Rao Yaoyao shifted her attention to the Three Swordsmen of the Burial Sword Tomb and noticed a white-haired intruder with a spatial attribute wandering the Yunlun Mountain Range.

Xiao Jing used the Fire Source Stone to break through to the Star Rite Realm, then emerged from the lava and attacked the Grandmasters hunting him. Xu Xiaoshou trapped the gathered fighters in an array and intervened when Xiao Jing’s attack threatened a group, leaving Xiao Jing badly injured after he grabbed Xu Xiaoshou’s fist.

• Xiao Jing broke through to the Star Rite Realm while cultivating in underground lava with the Fire Source Stone.
• More than two hundred Grandmasters found the concealed underground lava and blasted their way toward Xiao Jing as Xu Xiaoshou, Xin Gugu, and Liu Changqing arrived nearby.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed Xiao Jing and the Fire Source Stone, then secretly began setting up an array to trap the Grandmasters.
• Xiao Jing emerged from the lava, killed Zhang Hao with a halberd strike and Flame Burst, and then charged a group of Grandmasters under their ranged barrage.
• Xiao Jing swept his halberd at a dozen Grandmasters and tried to trigger Flame Burst, but Xu Xiaoshou appeared and caught his fist, causing the force of Xu Xiaoshou’s hand to blow Xiao Jing’s fingers away.

Xu Xiaoshou crippled Xiao Jing by accident, took his Fire Source Stone, and subdued a crowd of Masters trapped inside his formation. After plundering their Trial Jade Pendants, Xu Xiaoshou surged into the leaderboard’s top three.

• Xu Xiaoshou accidentally destroyed Xiao Jing’s hand when Xiao Jing grabbed him, then threatened him until he surrendered the Fire Source Stone.
• Xu Xiaoshou used his speed to wound dozens of Masters who charged him, then left them and Xiao Jing under guard while he flew away.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed that a formation blocked the fleeing Masters and ordered them to return and hand over their points.
• Xu Xiaoshou killed eighteen Masters who tried to break through the formation, prompting the rest to line up and submit to plunder.
• Xu Xiaoshou drained points from the Masters’ Trial Jade Pendants, sending his ranking into the top three.

Xu Xiaoshou turned the Grandmasters he had plundered into the first members of an elite Little Xu Gang, with Xiao Jing as captain. He announced that the group would monopolize the Yunlun Mountain Range’s Law Source Stones and let members pay points to safely comprehend them.

• Xu Xiaoshou saw his points rise above 880,000 after plundering more than two hundred Grandmasters, and learned that Tang Zheng had reached second place by attacking trial takers near the Fire Source Stone.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to keep the Fire Source Stone as bait and told the Grandmasters that his 900-member Xu Gang was full, while warning them that other groups would likely plunder them later.
• Xu Xiaoshou offered to establish a Grandmaster-only Little Xu Gang and appointed Xiao Jing as its captain.
• Xu Xiaoshou gave Xiao Jing a superior-grade Lesser Body-Restoring Pill, which restored his severed hand and persuaded the surrounding Grandmasters of Xu Xiaoshou’s alchemy skill.
• Xu Xiaoshou announced that the Little Xu Gang would pursue every Law Source Stone in the Yunlun Mountain Range and allow members to comprehend them for 10,000 points per day under the gang’s protection.

Xu Xiaoshou organized more than two hundred Grandmasters into the Little Xu Gang and turned the Fire Source Stone into a shared cultivation ground that would earn him points. Meanwhile, Ye Xiaotian acted on Sang Qiye’s final letter, resigned as headmaster, and entered the Yunlun Mountain Range to find a Saint Source Crystal.

• Xu Xiaoshou had 216 Grandmasters swear loyalty to the Little Xu Gang and let Fire-element members cultivate together with the Fire Source Stone.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent the other Grandmasters out in groups to earn points, warning them to check whether their opponents belonged to the First Pavilion Under Heaven or the Xu Gang.
• Xu Xiaoshou prepared to remove the array’s camouflage and draw more potential gang members to the Fire Source Stone.
• Ye Xiaotian revealed that Luo Leilei had delivered Sang Qiye’s sealed letter and that he had resigned as headmaster, with Xiao set to replace him.
• Ye Xiaotian arranged with Qiao Qianzhi to obtain an item, then destroyed Sang Qiye’s letter, which had directed him to the Saint Source Crystal in the Yunlun Mountain Range.

Xu Xiaoshou upgraded his Breathing Method to Throne level, triggering a massive surge of spiritual energy that forced him to break through into the Master Celestial Phenomenon realm. He left the hill embarrassed after the gathered trialists mistook his chaotic breakthrough for something indecent.

• Xu Xiaoshou upgraded Countershock, Transformation, Resilience, and Breathing Method to Throne level using his stockpiled Passive Value.
• The upgraded Breathing Method drew the surrounding spiritual energy into Xu Xiaoshou and made him writhe across the mountain rock as Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing watched in alarm.
• The spiritual energy pushed Xu Xiaoshou through his suppressed cultivation, breaking him into the Master Celestial Phenomenon realm in front of the gathered trialists.
• Xu Xiaoshou regained control of the energy and found hundreds of trialists staring at him, prompting them to joke about his strange-looking breakthrough.
• Xu Xiaoshou threatened a gang member who tried to share an idea, while the trialists laughed and returned to cultivation.

Xu Xiaoshou spent a million Passive Value evolving Illusion Annihilation Finger, making it able to break mental control as soon as its charge value fluctuated. He then used most of his remaining reserves trying to awaken Perception, finally obtaining Soul Reading.

• Xu Xiaoshou reviewed his Throne-level cultivation and spent 400,000 Passive Value upgrading his passive skills before choosing to evolve Illusion Annihilation Finger.
• Xu Xiaoshou bought Evolution Water for one million Passive Value and successfully evolved Illusion Annihilation Finger, allowing Mental Awakening whenever its charge value began to fluctuate.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that a second evolution would cost ten million Passive Value and set that amount as his new goal.
• Xu Xiaoshou chose Perception for awakening, spent 390,000 Passive Value after thirteen attempts, and successfully awakened Soul Reading.

Xu Xiaoshou tested his newly awakened Soul Reading on a dead giant bear and discovered it could reveal the creature’s memories and Dao comprehension while damaging its soul and draining his spiritual essence. He realized the skill could help him rapidly comprehend the Heavenly Dao, and the chapter ended with him recognizing Soul Reading as an exceptionally powerful cultivation ability.

• Xu Xiaoshou speculated that Soul Reading could control enemies and read their memories, then decided to test it on a dead spirit beast rather than a living person.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered the Little Xu Gang to gather before the Nine Dragon Veins opened so they could seize the second-round trial resources.
• Xu Xiaoshou took the giant bear corpse to the hilltop and used Soul Reading while Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing watched.
• Xu Xiaoshou experienced the bear’s fragmented life and memories, but the flood of information nearly exhausted his spiritual essence.
• Xu Xiaoshou concluded that Soul Reading could reveal memories, damage souls, and let him learn a portion of another being’s Dao comprehension.

Xu Xiaoshou recognized a newly opened rift above the Yunlun Mountain Range as the Void Island Rift, while Rao Yaoyao mobilized trial officers to investigate participants who reacted to it. As the trial drew near its next stage, Nangong Jiner found a Lightning Source Stone, and Xu Xiaoshou received a notification for a Space Source Stone.

• Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing alerted Xu Xiaoshou to a void rift, which he identified as the Void Island Rift after the White Pearl in his Purple Mansion began resonating.
• Liu Changqing and Xin Gugu realized the rift was connected to Void Island, and Xu Xiaoshou told them to keep their knowledge secret.
• Rao Yaoyao ordered trial officers to probe participants who reacted excitedly to the rift, then told them not to investigate coordinate 032.
• Rao Yaoyao accelerated the trial and wondered who the unknown space-attribute cultivator in the Yunlun Mountain Range might be.
• Nangong Jiner found a Lightning Source Stone, received one hundred thousand points, and fled as other participants closed in on her location.
• The Trial Jade Pendant announced that Young Master Xu, save me! had found a Space Source Stone and earned one hundred thousand points.

The Space Source Stone appeared in Xiao Wanfeng’s hand, drawing trial participants toward him as Su Qianqian vowed to protect him and confronted the crowd. As the attackers charged, Su Qianqian recalled her grandfather’s final battle with the Eighth Sword Immortal and the inheritance he left her.

• Trial participants learned that Xiao Wanfeng had found the Space Source Stone, while Nangong Jiner and the Fire Source Stone holder headed toward its location.
• Ye Xiaotian suspected Sword Immortal Rao had used the Space Source Stone as a test of his spatial abilities, then decided to go there.
• Xiao Wanfeng handed the Space Source Stone to Su Qianqian, who stepped forward to shield him as a crowd of Innates and Grandmasters approached.
• Su Qianqian raised the Space Source Stone and declared that it was in her hands, provoking the trial participants to charge at her.
• Su Qianqian slowed time and space with her greatsword as she remembered how her grandfather died standing after facing the Eighth Sword Immortal and left her the Spacetime Leap inheritance.

Su Qianqian used her grandfather’s sword to unleash a powerful Illusion Sword Technique, sending dozens of trial participants away and leaving herself exhausted. As Jiang Xian, Duo’er, and Tang Zheng arrived to claim the Space Source Stone, Xiao Wanfeng stood by her, and Tang Zheng demanded a fight.

• Su Qianqian’s Returning Snow strike used sorrowful snow and crushing sword force to make more than thirty trial participants’ jade pendants teleport them away, while Xiao Wanfeng realized she had mastered the Illusion Sword Technique.
• Su Qianqian collapsed from the technique’s strain as more trial participants surrounded her and speculated that she had inherited ancient swordsmanship.
• Xiao Wanfeng drew his wooden sword and offered to protect Su Qianqian, while a white-haired young man watched from the distant mountains.
• Jiang Xian arrived with hundreds of people, offered to let Su Qianqian keep the Space Source Stone if she followed him, and had an underling threaten her.
• Duo’er appeared, criticized Xiao Wanfeng for backing down, and offered to protect him if he brought her the Space Source Stone.
• Tang Zheng arrived, demanded half the crowd’s points, and told Su Qianqian to give him the Space Source Stone and fight him with the Illusion Sword Technique.

Su Qianqian unleashed a devastating sword strike against nearly a thousand trial participants, then Xiao Wanfeng carried her and Returning Snow as the surviving experts prepared to attack again. Reinforcements arrived just as the pair faced another charge, with an enraged voice demanding to know who had harmed his junior sister.

• Jiang Xian and the gathered trial participants moved to seize the Space Source Stone, and Su Qianqian challenged them to attack together.
• Su Qianqian used Shock Dao: Force Collapses Mountains and Rivers, blasting the attackers apart and leaving herself badly injured.
• Xiao Wanfeng refused to abandon Su Qianqian, lifted Returning Snow despite its resistance, and started to flee with her.
• Xiao Wanfeng sensed that reinforcements had arrived as the surviving masters prepared to attack again.
• A furious voice rang down from the sky, demanding to know who had dared lay a hand on his junior sister.