Chapter Summaries

Five Declines of Heaven and Man revived in the First Hall of Sin, killed Heavenly Spirit Granny, and resisted the Bloodworld Pearl’s push toward Yu Lingdi. He used a forbidden ritual to seek Jiang Buyi and awoke after his soul died, declaring that he had found him.

• Heavenly Spirit Granny found Five Declines of Heaven and Man wedged in a maze wall, approached him despite her foreboding, and was overwhelmed by his Five Declines and Three Aversions Eye.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man regained his memories, recalled how he reclaimed the Undying Body from Night Owl, and questioned the dying Heavenly Spirit Granny before erasing her existence.
• The Bloodworld Pearl urged Five Declines of Heaven and Man toward Yu Lingdi, but he recognized its guidance as a path toward death and chose to seek Jiang Buyi instead.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man subdued a Void Attendant and used it as a sacrifice to cast the Corpse-Banning God-Seeking Dao for Jiang Buyi.
• After the ritual killed his soul and his body lay motionless, Five Declines of Heaven and Man revived and said he had found Jiang Buyi.

Xu Xiaoshou used Unity of Heaven and Man and the Formation Dao Disk to master Heavenly Secrets Art, create a Trace-Seeking Disk, and locate the Subdimensional Door. He set out for First Hall of Sin with Feng Xiaose and the others while Li Fugui stayed behind, warning him to take care.

• Xu Xiaoshou invited Feng Xiaose to join him in searching for the Subdimensional Door, then used the Formation Dao Disk and Unity of Heaven and Man to enter a state of rapid comprehension.
• Xu Xiaoshou recreated the knowledge he had read in Situ Yongen’s jade slips and crafted a Throne-grade Trace-Seeking Disk on his first attempt.
• Xu Xiaoshou painted a black rooster that made another Heavenly Secrets array disk, then revealed that Xuan Wuji, or Ancestor Wuji, had joined the First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Trace-Seeking Disk to locate the Subdimensional Door in First Hall of Sin and prepared to pursue it with Feng Xiaose, Mu Zixi, Frost Lord, and Zhu Yike.
• Li Fugui declined to join them, warned Xu Xiaoshou to take care, and watched the group depart as storm clouds gathered over Void Island.

Yu Lingdi returned to the True Radiance Hall ruins with the Subdimensional Door and Void General Sin, while Xu Xiaoshou pieced together the situation from a Void General’s roar and the overlapping Saint Tribulations. Realizing Yu Lingdi was isolated and waiting for reinforcements, Xu Xiaoshou decided to strike and teleported his group toward True Radiance Hall.

• Jiang Buyi begged Yu Lingdi to lend him the Subdimensional Door, but Yu Lingdi refused and left him to face his Saint Tribulation alone.
• Yu Lingdi hid in the True Radiance Hall ruins beside Void General Sin, using the Subdimensional Door to command the guardian and summon Void Attendants while he waited for Holy Spirit Hall reinforcements.
• After hearing a Void General’s roar, Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Yu Lingdi still held the Subdimensional Door, had summoned Void Attendants, and was likely facing danger in True Radiance Hall.
• Mu Zixi, speaking with Lei Xier’s insight, explained how Jiang Buyi’s Three-Calamity Eyes caused the overlapping tribulations and how Yu Lingdi may have severed his own tribulation with the Subdimensional Door.
• Xu Xiaoshou concluded that Yu Lingdi was isolated while others underwent tribulations, called it a heaven-sent opportunity, and used Heaven and Earth Shift to teleport his group toward True Radiance Hall.

Xu Xiaoshou confronted Yu Lingdi at the ruins of True Radiance Hall, where Yu Lingdi used the Crystal Palace to trap the group. Zhu Yike broke through the palace’s attack and used a talisman to seize the treasure, leaving its fate in question.

• A new Spatial Upanishad appeared in the ruins, and Yu Lingdi recognized its power as Xu Xiaoshou and his companions arrived.
• Xu Xiaoshou taunted Yu Lingdi and built pressure against him, prompting the Void General to awaken and clash with his Half-Saint-level aura.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s group attacked Yu Lingdi, but the apparent target was a water clone, and Yu Lingdi summoned the Crystal Palace within a vast sea.
• Zhu Yike used Parting Rivers and Rending Seas to split Yu Lingdi’s water dragons and break through the Crystal Palace’s sea.
• Zhu Yike transformed Mu Zixi’s pebble into a starlit talisman and used Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping to claim the Crystal Palace.

Zhu Yike used his strange Golden Gate Thieving Art to turn Yu Lingdi’s Crystal Palace into gold and store it on a page, astonishing Xu Xiaoshou and the others. After Zhu Yike shut himself down to recover, Yu Lingdi abandoned the fight and rushed toward the Saint Tribulation to save Old Ginger.

• Zhu Yike used Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping to move Yu Lingdi’s Crystal Palace in front of Xu Xiaoshou, and Xu Xiaoshou demanded that Zhu seize it for First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Yu Lingdi reclaimed control of the Crystal Palace and expanded it, blasting Xu Xiaoshou’s group and injuring Zhu Yike and Mu Zixi.
• Zhu Yike used Turning Stone into Gold on Bixi and the Crystal Palace, then stored the golden palace inside a page with Vivid on the Page and gave it to Xu Xiaoshou.
• Zhu Yike turned himself into an apparently lifeless golden statue to recover, and Feng Xiaose tied him to his back.
• Yu Lingdi realized Xu Xiaoshou’s group posed a serious threat, withdrew from the fight, and rushed toward the Saint Tribulation to save Old Ginger.

Xu Xiaoshou intercepted Yu Lingdi as he fled toward Jiang Buyi’s Saint Tribulation and defeated him with fire, sword techniques, and overwhelming combat awareness. He ended Yu Lingdi’s escape by hurling Yousi Sword through his skull, then mourned Elder Sang.

• Xu Xiaoshou used the Space Dao Disk to intercept Yu Lingdi and revealed his Throne Dao Realm cultivation and spatial profound meaning.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Fire Dao Disk and Emberglow Primordial Seed burned away Yu Lingdi’s water form, while Dragon-Fusion Realm trapped his remaining true body.
• Xu Xiaoshou dodged Yu Lingdi’s bloodwater attack with a spiritual-energy clone, then used All Eyes Are Demons to disrupt Yu Lingdi’s escape technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou pierced Yu Lingdi’s heart with Wuxiu’s Scarlet-Scorching Hand and kicked him into the Dragon-Fusion Realm’s white flames.
• Xu Xiaoshou hurled Yousi Sword through the Dragon-Fusion Realm, impaled Yu Lingdi’s skull, and remembered Elder Sang.

Jiang Buyi survived his Saint Tribulation when Yu Lingdi’s hidden Subdimensional Door swallowed it, but he rushed to rescue Yu Lingdi after Xu Xiaoshou pinned him with the Yousi Sword. Xu Xiaoshou froze Jiang Buyi’s attack and shoved a volatile fire seed into him, but Yu Lingdi summoned Void General Sin and blasted Xu Xiaoshou away just as the seed threatened to explode.

• Jiang Buyi’s Three-Calamity Eyes emerged as he faced the Saint Tribulation, but a golden droplet released the Subdimensional Door and swallowed the lightning.
• Xu Xiaoshou kept the badly injured Yu Lingdi pinned with the Yousi Sword and questioned him about the Subdimensional Door while threatening to hold him hostage.
• Jiang Buyi attacked the group with Saint-Slaying Cloud Light, and Xu Xiaoshou froze space before swallowing the attack with Great Feast.
• Xu Xiaoshou combined five power seeds and forced them down Jiang Buyi’s throat, then tried to teleport everyone away before the explosion.
• Yu Lingdi summoned Void General Sin, whose halberd struck Xu Xiaoshou and disrupted his escape; Xu Xiaoshou warned everyone to take cover as the fire seed began to detonate.

Leng Qi and Xiu Mingyue were caught in the First Hall of Sin’s violent counterattack after Leng Qi pushed open its gates, while Xiao Kongtong was swept out of the hall by the same storm. Xiao Kongtong rescued the pair and warned them away as the ruined hall continued to erupt.

• Leng Qi and Xiu Mingyue approached the First Hall of Sin, and Leng Qi pushed open its gates despite Xiu Mingyue’s warning.
• The hall unleashed multiple Saint-level powers, freezing and injuring Leng Qi and Xiu Mingyue as explosions tore through the palace.
• At the Absolute Ashen Fire Domain, Bai Lian wanted to investigate the eruption, but Mu Lin dismissed the danger and persuaded him to stay in the lava.
• The blast struck Xiao Kongtong inside the First Hall of Sin and forced him to flee using the No-Sword Technique and Spacetime Leap.
• Xiao Kongtong healed Leng Qi and Xiu Mingyue with his Illusion Sword Technique, then warned them to stay away from the hall.

Xu Xiaoshou’s explosive attack destroyed Jiang Buyi’s true body and left the battlefield in ruins, but Jiang Buyi fled with Yu Lingdi and Void General Sin. Xu Xiaoshou recovered, killed Yu Lingdi and Jiang Buyi, and stood over their remains as Frost Lord awoke.

• Xu Xiaoshou’s Explosive Saint Seed blasted Jiang Buyi’s true body apart and knocked out the fighters around the golden Berserk Giant.
• Jiang Buyi discovered that Xu Xiaoshou had attacked him, then rescued Yu Lingdi and Void General Sin and fled with the Yousi Sword.
• Jiang Buyi turned back after sensing danger ahead, only to find Xu Xiaoshou awake and the golden Berserk Giant rapidly healing.
• Void General Red joined the battle, while Xu Xiaoshou kicked Yu Lingdi’s cauldron and killed Yu Lingdi.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew Jiang Buyi’s arm toward him and crushed Jiang Buyi between his palms as Frost Lord regained consciousness.

Xu Xiaoshou realized that Five Declines of Heaven and Man had manipulated the battle to obtain Jiang Buyi’s Half-Saint Godhood, while Mu Zixi and Frost Lord helped him assess the danger. As Xu Xiaoshou tried to escape an approaching Half-Saint, Void Island named him a sinner and ordered him to accept the Heavenly Ancestor’s Inheritance.

• Little Red gained the upper hand against the weakened Void General Sin while Xu Xiaoshou noticed that Five Declines of Heaven and Man was watching him.
• Frost Lord reported a growing influence that stirred misfortune and battle-lust, and Lei Xier identified it as power resembling the Bloodworld Pearl.
• Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Five Declines of Heaven and Man had fused with Night Owl’s Undying Body and demi-saint power, and had manipulated the fight to target Jiang Buyi’s Half-Saint Godhood.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered Frost Lord to recover Zhu Yike and Feng Xiaose, then collected the cauldron containing Yu Lingdi’s recovering remains and searched for the Subdimensional Door.
• Frost Lord sensed an approaching Half-Saint, and Xu Xiaoshou began to flee before Void Island declared him a sinner with a ten-day death countdown and commanded him to accept the Heavenly Ancestor’s Inheritance.

Xu Xiaoshou’s main body became trapped while reading the Heavenly Ancestor’s inheritance, leaving his companions to flee from an approaching Half-Saint. Frost Lord’s escape art and Zhu Yike’s dream technique were both stopped, and the group prepared to fight as a mysterious hemp-clad giant appeared and declared their judgment was death.

• Xu Xiaose, Zhu Yike, and the others recovered from the explosion as Xu Xiaoshou’s Second True Body arrived and explained that the main body could not move.
• The Second True Body tried to relocate everyone, but the approaching Half-Saint sealed the surrounding space, so Frost Lord carried the group and attempted Transcendent Saint Escape.
• Frost Lord’s escape failed because the Saintly Path had been sealed, and Zhu Yike used Dream-Seeking the Three Thousand Worlds to try to get everyone away.
• The unknown enemy severed the Great Dao of Dreams, leaving Zhu Yike aged and the group stranded at True Radiance Hall.
• Mu Zixi and the others gathered to defend Xu Xiaoshou’s main body, and a three-zhang hemp-clad giant appeared and announced, “Judgment bears one name: death.”

Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy Number Two attacked the group in First Hall of Sin and incapacitated Frost Lord with a single kick. He then identified Lei Xier’s rare abilities as she stood between him and Xu Xiaoshou, and prepared to reclaim her God-Devil Pupils.

• Feng Xiaose identified Number Two as a Holy Spirit Hall Divine Envoy and warned that he was the Dao Hall Master's greatest Heavenly Mechanism Puppet.
• Number Two analyzed Frost Lord, pierced the Ice God Mirror with a physical attack, and kicked Frost Lord ten thousand zhang into the ground.
• Zhu Yike and Feng Xiaose realized how overwhelming Number Two was as the sky above First Hall of Sin darkened.
• Number Two recognized Lei Xier's Supreme Life Demon Body and learned that she was officially listed as deceased.
• Lei Xier recalled Mu Zixi and guarded the wooden sphere, then unleashed her God-Devil Pupils despite knowing she could not defeat Number Two.
• Number Two identified Lei Xier's God-Devil Pupils and said they could and needed to be reclaimed.

Number Two effortlessly overpowered Lei Xier and killed Zhu Yike, then turned his lethal attacks on Feng Xiaose. Feng Xiaose’s evasive techniques failed to protect him, and Number Two left him mangled by black threads.

• Number Two suppressed Lei Xier’s God-Devil Pupils and Supreme Life Demon Body, leaving her powerless and desperate for Xu Xiaoshou to escape.
• Zhu Yike taunted Number Two to draw his attention away from Lei Xier, but Number Two killed him with a precise black energy beam.
• Feng Xiaose began his Ghost Beast transformation and cursed Number Two, who fired a black beam at him.
• Feng Xiaose used the Illusion Sword Technique to evade the beam, but Number Two’s black threads pierced his skull, shoulders, and knees.
• Number Two clenched his hand, crossing the threads and tearing Feng Xiaose’s body into mangled flesh and blood.

Zhu Yike used Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping to send Feng Xiaose, Lei Xier, and the others into spatial turbulence, but Number Two pursued and overwhelmed them. Void General Red arrived to defend them, yet Number Two wounded it and deployed a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet controlled by Situ Yongen to seal their escape.

• Zhu Yike revived Feng Xiaose by transferring injuries with the Golden Gate Arts, then used Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping to swap Lei Xier and the others with a pebble and send them into spatial turbulence.
• Number Two followed the group into the spatial turbulence, shattered Frost Lord's Frost World, and scattered the fleeing allies with spatial storms and attacks.
• Xu Xiaoshou's Second True Body, hidden in his vanished state, contacted Void General Red and waited for it to arrive while Number Two attacked Feng Xiaose and Lei Xier.
• Void General Red blocked Number Two's beams and struck him with its greatsword, but Number Two enlarged himself, knocked the sword aside, and pierced Red's spirit body with black beams.
• Number Two sent a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet into the spatial turbulence and used Heavenly Secrets Lockdown to seal the escape routes.
• Lei Xier recognized Situ Yongen's voice from the puppet, and Situ Yongen told Number Two to leave the fleeing people to him while Number Two handled Void General Red.

The Second True Body deduced that the person enduring the three layers of Saint Calamity was Mr. Siren and sent a transformed severed arm to find him. Mei Suren drew the Taicheng Sword and began using it to break through the tribulation and attain sainthood.

• Number Two severed the Second True Body's finger in battle, and the Second True Body watched from hiding as he searched for a way to save the others.
• The Second True Body analyzed the lingering traces in True Radiance Hall and concluded that Mr. Siren was the tribulator in the north, so he sent a transformed arm to seek his help.
• Mei Suren endured the three layers of Saint Calamity, but Bai Xi shattered under the lightning.
• Mei Suren halted the tribulation, drew the Taicheng Sword that You Tu had entrusted to him, and split the Saint Tribulation into six streams.
• The transformed arm of the Second True Body reached Mei Suren as he fused with his Half-Saint Godhood and charged into the lightning, declaring that Taicheng would help him become a Saint.

Xu Xiaoshou was trapped in a forced reading state while the Spirit of Void Island explained the Heavenly Ancestor's Inheritance, leaving his Second True Body to face the battle. After Mr. Siren's Saint Ascension sword cry stirred him, Xu Xiaoshou broke free and returned to the battlefield, where his allies were badly wounded and Number Two still threatened them.

• The Spirit of Void Island forced Xu Xiaoshou into a reading state and explained the Heavenly Ancestor's Inheritance while the battle continued outside.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned that the inheritance required him to obtain the Heavenly Ancestor's Blessing, save the Void race, and gain the former Spirit of Void Island's recognition.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that the Spirit of Void Island could remove his death countdown when he framed his request around saving the Void race, but it would not release him from the reading state.
• Mr. Siren's Saint Ascension sword cry stirred Xu Xiaoshou's emotions, and Xu Xiaoshou used the Heart Sword Technique to break free from the reading state.
• Xu Xiaoshou emerged from the wooden ball as a thousand-zhang giant and saw Zhu Yike unconscious, Lei Xier and Feng Xiaose wounded, and Void General Red gravely injured.
• The Second True Body knelt in the air and tearfully pleaded with Xu Xiaoshou to kill him.

Xu Xiaoshou arrived in the form of a thousand-zhang Berserk Giant and tore Situ Yongen’s Heavenly Mechanism Puppet apart before confronting Number Two. After countering Number Two’s black beam and redirecting his kick, Xu Xiaoshou seized him and launched a point-blank attack.

• Xu Xiaoshou apologized for arriving late and promised to take over the fight as he emerged as a thousand-zhang Berserk Giant.
• Xu Xiaoshou seized Situ Yongen’s Heavenly Mechanism Puppet and ripped it in two, leaving Situ Yongen exposed.
• Xu Xiaoshou swallowed Number Two’s Silent Extinction Black Beam with the Taotie Beast Head behind him.
• Number Two attacked with a sweeping kick, but Xu Xiaoshou met it with his elbow and redirected the blow, exposing Number Two’s abdomen.
• Xu Xiaoshou grabbed Number Two by the shoulders, drove a knee into his ribs and abdomen, and detonated five compressed energy source seeds.

Xu Xiaoshou used an explosive attack and Vanishing Art to escape Number Two’s trap, then exploited Number Two’s focus on protecting Situ Yongen to strike with Yousi Sword. Number Two saved Situ Yongen by sacrificing an arm, leaving the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Envoy wounded as Feng Xiaose praised Xu Xiaoshou.

• Xu Xiaoshou struck Number Two with five compressed energy source seeds, but Number Two caught them and forced them into the Berserk Giant’s body.
• Xu Xiaoshou embraced Number Two to keep him close, then used Vanishing Art before the source seeds exploded and destroyed the giant form.
• Number Two contained the explosion with an Energy-Binding Woven Net and rescued Situ Yongen, believing the danger had passed.
• Xu Xiaoshou reappeared as a Two-Winged Black Demon Berserk Giant and attacked Situ Yongen with Yousi Sword, targeting Number Two’s concern for his safety.
• Number Two launched Situ Yongen away but lost an arm to Yousi Sword, while Feng Xiaose celebrated Xu Xiaoshou’s strike.

Xu Xiaoshou used his Second True Body and a chain of layered schemes to break Number Two’s defenses and split the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Envoy in two. The battle remained unresolved as Zhu Yike unleashed the sealed Vivid on the Page, manifesting a vast Crystal Palace.

• Number Two recognized that Xu Xiaoshou had manipulated him into sacrificing an arm to save Situ Yongen, while Xu Xiaoshou pressed his attack.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Second True Body swallowed an explosive source seed and compressed itself into a bomb, forcing Number Two to kick it into spatial turbulence.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s true body ambushed Number Two with Yanmang, broke through his defenses with Penetrating Dao, and used the Body Dao Disk to drive the sword through him, splitting him in two.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Reverse Sword-Flight Technique to send Yousi Sword through Number Two’s two halves and into his own chest, while keeping the page Zhu Yike had given him.
• Feng Xiaose woke Zhu Yike, who recognized the page in Xu Xiaoshou’s hand and unleashed Vivid on the Page, summoning a Crystal Palace spanning a thousand miles.

Xu Xiaoshou crushed Number Two’s apparent body and tried to escape, but a severed finger revealed that the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy was not finished. Lei Xier drove the finger away with her Great World Buddha Hand and discovered a hidden drop of holy blood inside the bronze cauldron.

• Five Declines of Heaven and Man praised Xu Xiaoshou’s victory and warned him that he had only cut flesh from Number Two.
• Feng Xiaose urged Xu Xiaoshou to run, and Xu Xiaoshou prepared to teleport away with the people and treasures he could recover.
• Number Two’s severed finger emerged from a spatial crack and clung to the wooden sphere in Lei Xier’s hand, stopping Xu Xiaoshou’s escape.
• Lei Xier summoned her Great World Buddha Hand and shoved the wooden sphere and finger away, then pulled the bronze cauldron free.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Lei Xier to throw away the cauldron, and she spotted a concealed drop of holy blood among Yu Lingdi’s flesh.