Chapter Summaries

Water Ghost taught Xu Xiaoshou how to bind the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale to his own blood, and Xu Xiaoshou used its guidance to torment Water Ghost with a chain of contrived mishaps. After Water Ghost attacked him and threatened to abandon their cooperation, Xu Xiaoshou stayed vanished and sent a portrait incarnation to test him, only for Water Ghost to destroy it.

• Water Ghost explained that the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale could guide its bearer away from danger and returned it to Xu Xiaoshou after removing his own blood.
• Xu Xiaoshou added his blood to the scale and tried to use its guidance to make Water Ghost release the Sea-Taming Divine Trident, but the trident returned to Water Ghost after the Forbidden Law Barrier was triggered.
• Xu Xiaoshou guided further mishaps that made Water Ghost's trousers fall and rip, then vanished to evade his furious attack.
• Water Ghost tried to coax Xu Xiaoshou out by offering to resume their cooperation and warning that the Half-Saint Jiang Clan would act against Xu Xiaoshou's girlfriend.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent out a portrait incarnation to speak with Water Ghost, who immediately pierced it with a water bullet.

Water Ghost recruited Xu Xiaoshou to lure the Jiang Clan’s Demi-Saint into the deep sea, revealing that the Void Gate led to Void Island. Xu Xiaoshou accepted a protective jade pendant for Lei Xier, then fled after Water Ghost ambushed him as payback.

• Water Ghost told Xu Xiaoshou to disguise himself as Yama, use the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale and Lei Clan Eye to lure the Jiang Clan’s Demi-Saint into the deep sea, and escape into the Void Gate if danger struck.
• Water Ghost revealed that the Void Gate led to Void Island and claimed he could deal with the Demi-Saint if he entered the water.
• Xu Xiaoshou persuaded Water Ghost to give Lei Xier a jade pendant that could preserve her life once against attacks below the Demi-Saint realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou approached Water Ghost in his Berserk Giant form to take the pendant, while Water Ghost evaded the giant’s Inch-Realm Force Field.
• After Xu Xiaoshou took the pendant, Water Ghost struck him from behind with the Sea-Taming Divine Trident, and Xu Xiaoshou fled after thanking him.

Water Ghost warned Feng Tang Meng Po and Huangquan that a Jiang Clan demi-saint was targeting Yama and sought their cooperation against him. Xu Xiaoshou escaped to the Origin Mansion, gave Lei Xier a protective jade pendant, and left her asking why he was staring at her.

• Water Ghost contacted Feng Tang Meng Po, warned her of the Jiang Clan demi-saint's threat, and asked her to locate Yama's members and contact Huangquan.
• Water Ghost told Huangquan about the demi-saint's plans and revealed that he was Saint Slave's Fifth Seat before proposing cooperation.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale and Vanishing Art to escape into the Origin Mansion.
• Xu Xiaoshou found Lei Xier tending medicinal herbs and gave her a jade pendant he said could block a demi-saint's attack.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked about Lei Xier's recovery, then fell silent while staring at her, prompting her to ask why.

Xu Xiaoshou took Greed God out to handle a dangerous scheme while leaving Lei Xier in the Origin Mansion. In East Heavenly King City, Sky City emerged rapidly from the spatial torrent, raining rubble onto the city as the Black Tortoise Gate appeared and a wandering bard explained the gates and the sacrificial Void Gate.

• Xu Xiaoshou fed Greed God honey and made it activate the Three Aversions Eye before taking it through a spatial passage, while promising Lei Xier an outing later.
• A falling stone narrowly missed a woman and her daughter in East Heavenly King City, and the crowd saw Sky City emerge most of the way from the spatial torrent.
• As rubble penetrated the city-protecting barrier and struck the streets, the wandering bard explained that Sky City's immense pressure twisted space and sent stones through spatial nodes.
• The crowd spotted the words “Black Tortoise Gate” on Sky City's ancient gate, and the wandering bard said entry normally required a Void Token.
• The wandering bard described the lost Qilin Gate, or Void Gate, as a way into Sky City through a sacrificial ritual, and the angry crowd chased him for his explanation.

Kong Yuhen questioned the wandering poet about the Qilin Gate and the Space-Time Gate, then left after revealing his name. Meanwhile, Gu Qingyi found himself on Void Island and recognized the names of legendary swordsmen carved into a stone stele.

• Kong Yuhen saved the wandering poet from a falling rock and listened as he described his hardship and claimed to have written the ballad of the Ten Seat Holders.
• Kong Yuhen asked about Sky City's Qilin Gate and ways to reach Void Island, and the wandering poet told him about Void Tokens and the Space-Time Gate.
• The wandering poet mistook Kong Yuhen's crude wooden pendant for an imitation of the Space-Time Gate, and Kong Yuhen left after giving his name.
• The wandering poet realized that his benefactor was the famous Kong Yuhen after composing a verse about him.
• Gu Qingyi struggled through a ruined city under crushing gravity and confirmed that he had arrived on Void Island.
• Gu Qingyi found names of legendary swordsmen, including Hua Weiyang, Cheng Xue, Xiao Hei, and Feng Wuhen, carved into the back of the stone stele.

Gu Qingyi entered Void Island’s Sky City, where a stone stele labeled him a criminal and warned him to obey its unknown rules. Following a cry for help to a colossal totem in the city’s plaza, he found a bloodied man chained to it and asked who he was.

• Gu Qingyi studied the names on the stone stele, added his own, and learned that Void Island registered him as criminal number 746392.
• After a lightning strike flashed in the ancient city, Gu Qingyi followed it through immense streets to a vast plaza centered on a cloud-piercing totem.
• Gu Qingyi discovered that the plaza contained dense water-element power and a materialized Arcane Diagram.
• Hearing a repeated plea for help, Gu Qingyi unleashed Yuelian, cleaving a deep ravine through the plaza while the totem remained unharmed.
• Gu Qingyi entered the Rainwater Sac’s domain and found a battered man chained to the totem, then asked who he was.

Gu Qingyi discovered that the prisoner bound to a totem on Void Island was Yu Lingdi, head of the Spirit Division. Meanwhile, Feng Tang Meng Po and Five Declines of Heaven and Man began Yama’s search for the Lei Clan Eye and prepared to act as bait in a plan to lure a Demi-Saint; they spotted a woman carrying the Small Copper Furnace from their portrait.

• Gu Qingyi learned that the young man bound to the totem was Yu Lingdi, head of the Spirit Division.
• Feng Tang Meng Po accompanied Five Declines of Heaven and Man, whose misfortune ability was already leaving signs on her body.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man told Feng Tang Meng Po that they would help lure a Demi-Saint to Solitary Sound Cliff as bait for a Saint-slaughtering operation.
• Feng Tang Meng Po and Five Declines of Heaven and Man searched portraits for the Lei Clan Eye and discussed targeting Mu Xiaogong and Small Copper Furnace.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man spotted a woman approaching with a Small Copper Furnace matching the portrait.

Mo Mo ignored Feng Yujin’s warnings and continued toward Solitary Sound Cliff to help Xu Xiaoshou, despite their argument over the Recording Pearl and her safety. She encountered Five Declines of Heaven and Man and Feng Tang Meng Po, who trapped them in a Spacetime Otherworld as Feng Yujin began explaining how to escape.

• Mo Mo continued toward Solitary Sound Cliff, determined to keep her promise to protect Xu Xiaoshou, while Feng Yujin tried to persuade her to turn back.
• Feng Yujin took control of Mo Mo’s body and nearly crushed the Recording Pearl, but backed down when she warned him not to; Mo Mo then fell silent and hurried onward.
• Feng Yujin spotted two hidden Void-level experts near a black boulder, and Mo Mo turned to face them.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man recognized Mo Mo as a member of First Pavilion Under Heaven and asked whether she knew Mu Xiaogong; Feng Yujin warned Mo Mo that his Decaying Body could bring misfortune upon those nearby.
• Feng Tang Meng Po used a talisman to draw Mo Mo, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and herself into a Spacetime Otherworld, and Feng Yujin began instructing Mo Mo on how to escape.

Mo Mo allowed Feng Yujin to take control so he could protect her from Five Declines of Heaven and Man and Feng Tang Meng Po. Feng Yujin revealed overwhelming sealing power, defeated Feng Tang Meng Po, and turned toward the remaining masked enemy.

• Five Declines of Heaven and Man demanded Mu Xiaogong's whereabouts, but Mo Mo refused and decided not to flee despite Feng Yujin's warnings.
• Mo Mo told Feng Yujin that he wanted to kill her, then agreed to relinquish control so he could handle the attackers without killing them.
• Feng Yujin took over Mo Mo's body, overwhelmed the two Yama members with his aura, and warned them to leave.
• Feng Tang Meng Po used her Memory-Releasing Fish Realm and Wet Prison against Feng Yujin, but his sealing power nullified both techniques.
• Feng Yujin destroyed Feng Tang Meng Po's Domain, sealed her abilities, and struck through her chest before knocking off her mask and incapacitating her.
• Feng Yujin declared Feng Tang Meng Po the first of his opponents and turned his attention to the other masked figure.

Feng Yujin and Five Declines of Heaven and Man fought to a stalemate, each suffering from the other's power, before Five Declines proposed a truce. Mo Mo refused to retreat because Five Declines was pursuing Mu Zixi, and Feng Yujin erupted in demonic energy after she threatened never to speak to him again.

• Feng Yujin revealed himself as the Sealing-Heaven Saint Emperor and attacked Five Declines of Heaven and Man, who countered with Filth Nightmare and Degeneration.
• Their palm clash weakened both fighters, but Feng Yujin sealed away seventy percent of Five Declines' Sovereign Void energy before breaking away.
• Five Declines offered to end the fight and retreat, while Feng Yujin urged Mo Mo to leave and recover from the Five Declines' effects.
• Mo Mo refused to abandon the fight because Five Declines had come for Mu Zixi, and she confronted Feng Yujin over his promises and claims about his strength.
• As Five Declines quietly tried to take the unconscious Feng Tang Meng Po and escape, Mo Mo warned Feng Yujin that she would never speak to him if he left.
• Feng Yujin laughed hysterically, unleashed black-gray demonic energy, and declared that he would cut off Five Declines' head.

Feng Yujin used the God-Sealing Coffin to capture Five Declines of Heaven and Man and Feng Tang Meng Po, then fell asleep after exhausting his power. Mo Mo accepted her bond with Feng Yujin and handed the captives to Water Ghost, who left without answering her question about Xu Xiaoshou.

• Feng Yujin swallowed Saint blood, pursued Five Declines of Heaven and Man through the spatial torrent, and sealed him and Feng Tang Meng Po inside the God-Sealing Coffin.
• Feng Yujin used Heavenly Dao Dust-Sealing, carried the coffin back, and fell asleep after warning Mo Mo to keep their sealing power hidden and wait for help.
• Mo Mo reflected on her resistance to being a Ghost Beast Host and accepted that Feng Yujin was a living person who had protected her.
• Water Ghost arrived to collect the coffin, and Mo Mo opened it to reveal the immobilized Feng Tang Meng Po and Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• Water Ghost took the captives, and when Mo Mo asked where Xu Xiaoshou was, he said he did not know.

Xu Xiaoshou and Greed God descended toward the Void Gate, where Rao Yaoyao and the others deduced that the deep-sea ritual was connected to Sky City. Rao Yaoyao decided they would enter through the gate and ordered Heavenly Spirit Granny to open it.

• Xu Xiaoshou transformed into Yama Huangquan, brought Greed God into the deep sea, and set out to find Xiao Kongtong before luring a Demi-Saint into the water.
• Xu Xiaoshou approached the Void Gate and found Rao Yaoyao, Teng Shanhai, Night Owl, Mu Lin, Bai Lian, and Heavenly Spirit Granny gathered there instead of Xiao Kongtong.
• Teng Shanhai and Bai Lian deduced that the deep-sea pressure, water spheres, and failed tribulations had formed a sacrificial ritual to open the Void Gate to Sky City, likely arranged by Saint Slave.
• Rao Yaoyao and the others debated whether Yama had manipulated events, while Xu Xiaoshou secretly listened and worried that Bai Lian would expose too much.
• Bai Lian asked Rao Yaoyao to rescue his disciple, but Rao Yaoyao refused and decided the group should enter the Void Gate to seize Sky City's opportunity.
• Rao Yaoyao turned to Heavenly Spirit Granny and ordered her to push the door.

Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Ba Zunan, interrupted the Holy Spirit Hall’s attempt to enter the Void Gate and warned them it was a trap. He then claimed Water Ghost and the Puxuan Jiang Clan’s demi-saint were conspiring over the Lei Clan Eye and would soon arrive at Solitary Sound Cliff.

• Heavenly Spirit Granny reluctantly pushed the Void Gate and vanished as it swallowed her, leaving Rao Yaoyao and the others unsure whether she had died or entered Void Island.
• Rao Yaoyao chose Teng Shanhai to test the gate and gave him the Void Token so he could return through Sky City.
• Xu Xiaoshou transformed into Ba Zunan’s appearance and approached the group as Teng Shanhai prepared to enter the gate.
• Rao Yaoyao and the others recognized the gaunt newcomer as the true Ba Zunan, and he told them the Void Gate was a trap.
• Xu Xiaoshou displayed Elder Sang’s cauldron and claimed Mu Lin’s granddisciple was in his custody as leverage, while promising not to harm her.
• Xu Xiaoshou presented himself as a concerned citizen and reported that Water Ghost and the Puxuan Jiang Clan’s demi-saint were plotting over the Lei Clan Eye and a massacre at Solitary Sound Cliff.

Xu Xiaoshou, posing as Ba Zunan, blamed Yama and the Jiang Clan's demi-Saint for the crisis, throwing Rao Yaoyao into doubt before vanishing. As Rao Yaoyao waited for Jiang Buyi's arrival to verify the claims, Water Ghost brought Feng Tang Meng Po and Five Declines of Heaven and Man to the ruins of Solitary Sound Cliff and woke Feng Tang Meng Po.

• Rao Yaoyao reconsidered the possibility that Yama and the Jiang Clan were behind the Void Gate scheme, while Mu Lin and Bai Lian declined to decide for the Holy Spirit Hall.
• Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Ba Zunan, accused Yama and Water Ghost of manipulating events and said he wanted to keep Saint Slave from taking all the blame.
• Xu Xiaoshou vanished, leaving Rao Yaoyao and Teng Shanhai uncertain whether the Void Gate was safe to use.
• Bai Lian suggested waiting for Jiang Buyi to arrive, and Rao Yaoyao wondered why the demi-Saint had acted without informing the Holy Spirit Hall.
• Water Ghost returned to Solitary Sound Cliff carrying unconscious Five Declines of Heaven and Man and Feng Tang Meng Po, then threw Five Declines into the deep sea and woke Feng Tang Meng Po.

Water Ghost protected Feng Tang Meng Po while drawing information from her about Yama’s Lei Clan Eyes and arranging for a mysterious friend to come to Solitary Sound Cliff. He then warned that danger was about to break out and let Meng Po contact Lord Huangquan for help.

• Feng Tang Meng Po learned that Water Ghost had rescued her but had not seen Senior Five Declines of Heaven and Man, who remained missing.
• Water Ghost contacted a friend, said he had obtained two targets, and invited the friend to Solitary Sound Cliff.
• Water Ghost questioned Feng Tang Meng Po about Yama’s Lei Clan Eyes, and she revealed that Senior Five Declines of Heaven and Man had recently received a Three Aversions Eye but could not yet use it.
• Water Ghost privately considered the information he had gathered and suspected that the coming plan might require sacrificing Feng Tang Meng Po.
• Water Ghost told Feng Tang Meng Po that danger would soon break out and handed her his communication pearl so she could contact Lord Huangquan.

Water Ghost set up Sea Mirage Pearl illusions to deceive both the Jiang Clan Demi-Saint and Yama, then staged his apparent defeat and vanished into the sea of clouds. Jiang Buyi reconstructed the scene, believed Huangquan had entered the deep sea, and followed him there; later, Huangquan arrived at Solitary Sound Cliff and realized Water Ghost had been endangered by the Half-Saint.

• Water Ghost knocked Feng Tang Meng Po unconscious, threw her into the sea of clouds, and discarded the eavesdropping experts who had been hiding nearby.
• Water Ghost created Sea Mirage Pearl illusions showing Huangquan fighting him, rescuing Feng Tang Meng Po, and entering the deep sea, then destroyed Solitary Sound Cliff and made himself appear to be defeated.
• Jiang Buyi reconstructed the recent events and concluded that Huangquan had entered the deep sea, so he leaped into it himself.
• Huangquan arrived at Solitary Sound Cliff after Jiang Buyi left and realized that Water Ghost had likely fallen into danger during their interrupted communication.

Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Huangquan, used the Forbidden Law Barrier to hunt survivors and came across Situ Yongen trapped in a water sphere. After confirming Situ Yongen mistook him for Huangquan, Xu Xiaoshou used Greed God’s Three Aversions Eye to seize the pills Situ Yongen had brought, then asked whether he had any holy blood.

• Huangquan used Spacetime Reversal to watch the Jiang Clan Demi-Saint attack Water Ghost and pursue him into the Forbidden Law Barrier, then concluded the Demi-Saint might be vulnerable underwater.
• Xu Xiaoshou practiced time-and-space abilities beneath the deep sea with Greed God, avoided Shouye’s lightning tribulation, and searched for surviving intruders.
• Xu Xiaoshou found Situ Yongen struggling inside a water sphere and revealed himself in his Huangquan disguise.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Greed God’s Three Aversions Eye to control Situ Yongen and confirmed that Situ Yongen believed he was Huangquan.
• Xu Xiaoshou took Situ Yongen’s many pills and asked whether he also had holy blood.

Xu Xiaoshou stripped Situ Yongen of his treasures, then persuaded him to cooperate by revealing that the Jiang Clan Half-Saint was pursuing the Lei Clan Eye. As a Demi-Saint arrived, Xu Xiaoshou realized the danger was near and announced it to Situ Yongen.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Greed God to force Situ Yongen to hand over six drops of Holy Blood and surrender his spatial necklace, then destroyed his defensive artifacts.
• Xu Xiaoshou released Situ Yongen from control and kept him safe from the deep-sea pressure, prompting Situ Yongen to plead for his life and agree to cooperate.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Situ Yongen that the Jiang Clan Half-Saint was secretly interfering in the reopening of the Lei Family Tragedy to obtain the Lei Clan Eye.
• Situ Yongen recognized the intelligence as a major merit and believed reporting it to his master could advance his standing in the Holy Spirit Hall.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale's heartbeat and realized a Demi-Saint had arrived, then announced, “They're here.”

Xu Xiaoshou manipulated Situ Yongen into joining him and planned to use the Holy Spirit Hall to destroy the Puxuan Jiang Clan by making Situ witness the Jiang Clan Demi-Saint’s schemes. The Demi-Saint, Jiang Buyi, arrived in his true form, leaving Xu Xiaoshou and Situ Yongen paralyzed by his pressure.

• Xu Xiaoshou pretended to prepare to leave, prompting Situ Yongen to beg to come along and agree that they were now bound together.
• Xu Xiaoshou warned Situ Yongen that Jiang Buyi would kill him for knowing the clan’s plan, then persuaded him to help expose the Demi-Saint to the Holy Spirit Hall.
• Xu Xiaoshou waited so Situ Yongen could personally recognize Jiang Buyi and lend credibility to the accusations Xu Xiaoshou had planted.
• Jiang Buyi emerged from the parted water, and his Demi-Saint presence stopped Xu Xiaoshou’s and Situ Yongen’s hearts and left them unable to move.
• Situ Yongen identified Jiang Buyi and silently urged Xu Xiaoshou to escape, but Xu Xiaoshou could not move under the Demi-Saint’s pressure.

Xu Xiaoshou escaped Demi-Saint Jiang Buyi with Situ Yongen, while Jiang Buyi deduced that Water Ghost had leaked his operation and used the Dao-Seeking Saint Bead to track multiple spatial users and Lei Clan Eyes. Jiang Buyi sent his Half-Saint Incarnation after Huangquan’s clone and pursued the other traces, where he found a Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Vanishing Art and a spatial vortex to teleport Situ Yongen away, calling his name so Jiang Buyi would hesitate to stop the escape.
• Situ Yongen accused Xu Xiaoshou of exposing him, but Xu Xiaoshou claimed the distraction had enabled their escape, and Situ Yongen thanked him under pressure.
• Jiang Buyi inferred that Water Ghost had informed Huangquan about his operation and decided to eliminate Huangquan, Situ Yongen, and Water Ghost before the Holy Spirit Hall learned more.
• Jiang Buyi activated the Dao-Seeking Saint Bead and found two spatial-user traces and two Lei Clan Eye traces, which he interpreted as Huangquan and multiple Yama members.
• Jiang Buyi sent his Half-Saint Incarnation to capture Huangquan’s clone and followed the other traces toward a Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation.