Chapter Summaries

Huangquan forced Jiang Buyi to surrender his Three-Calamity Eyes, but Jiang Buyi revealed a hidden Three Aversions Eye and drove Five Declines of Heaven and Man under its control. Jiang Buyi then unleashed an Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation, threatening to bury everyone with him.

• Huangquan collected Yu Lingdi’s golden Subdimensional Door droplet and handed Yu Lingdi’s body and bronze cauldron to Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• Mei Suren warned Xu Xiaoshou that Jiang Buyi might still have hidden defenses and urged him to flee when the chance came.
• Huangquan demanded Jiang Buyi’s Three-Calamity Eyes, and Mei Suren released Jiang Buyi’s consciousness so he could condense a physical body.
• Jiang Buyi surrendered three genuine Three-Calamity Eyes, but then revealed a hidden Three Aversions Eye and forced Five Declines of Heaven and Man to meet its gaze.
• Jiang Buyi began a massive tribulation, declaring that everyone would die with him as four layers of lightning gathered above the group.

A fourfold Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation descended as Jiang Buyi tried to escape his enemies and survive by exploiting the chaos. Huangquan, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and Xu Xiaoshou maneuvered around his desperate plan, and the chapter ended with Five Declines of Heaven and Man ordering Jiang Buyi to release control and condense his Half-Saint Godhood.

• Bai Lian and Mu Lin saw the Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation gather above Void Island, then decided to keep soaking in magma while other cultivators panicked.
• Ba Zunan left Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion to observe the tribulation, and Kong Yuhen later chose to follow.
• Huangquan sent Five Declines of Heaven and Man after Jiang Buyi, who was struck by the tribulation and lashed out with cloud-type power.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Jiang Buyi might use the Subdimensional Door to escape the tribulation, while Huangquan shielded the Falling Petals Realm from Jiang Buyi’s attack.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man used Night Owl’s Soul-Stripping Scythe, but Huangquan ordered him to withdraw it before it could help Jiang Buyi free Number Two.
• Huangquan struck Jiang Buyi with time power, and Five Declines of Heaven and Man used Fallen Guidance to make him release control and condense his Half-Saint Godhood.

Jiang Buyi lost the Three Aversions Eye and Half-Saint Godhood as Huangquan, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and Number Two fought amid the Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation. Yan Wuse arrived, destroyed the mutated tribulation, and illuminated the First Hall of Sin as the trapped fighters faced his fury.

• Huangquan plucked Jiang Buyi's Three Aversions Eye, and Jiang Buyi unleashed City-Descending Cloud as the Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation struck the Falling Petals Realm.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man tried to seize Jiang Buyi's Half-Saint Godhood, but Number Two entered Liberation State and attacked three Saints before Huangquan used time techniques to restore them and summon a Half-Saint incarnation.
• Huangquan's intervention disrupted the tribulation, and Number Two's strike caused it to mutate; Jiang Buyi possessed Huangquan briefly, stole the bronze cauldron, and fled with Yu Lingdi.
• Jiang Buyi revived Yu Lingdi and demanded that he summon the Subdimensional Door, but Yu Lingdi admitted he had given the real one to Huangquan, and Jiang Buyi found the First Hall of Sin sealed.
• Yan Wuse arrived beneath the tribulation, destroyed it with a strike, and lit the First Hall of Sin with the Sun of Justice before angrily confronting everyone.

Yan Wuse entered the First Hall of Sin and trapped the battlefield in his Light-Energy World, while Number Two reported the situation and Yan Wuse refused to save Jiang Buyi. Jiang Buyi faced the Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulations and fell, but as the next wave arrived, Huangquan moved first.

• Yan Wuse entered the First Hall of Sin and used his Light-Energy World to stop everyone and slice apart the Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulations.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s telepathic messages drew Yan Wuse’s attention, and the light repeatedly sliced his eye and head.
• Number Two escaped Huangquan’s Time Nation, crossed the Light-Energy World, and briefed Yan Wuse on the battlefield and its fighters.
• Yan Wuse revived Yu Lingdi but told Jiang Buyi he could not save him from the Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulations.
• Yan Wuse removed the light rays connecting Jiang Buyi to the tribulations, and Jiang Buyi charged into them and died, causing a Saint to fall.
• As another wave of tribulations arrived, Huangquan was the first to move.

Huangquan and Five Declines of Heaven and Man breached Yan Wuse’s Light-Energy World and tried to escape through a Spacetime Rift, but Yan Wuse pursued them and trapped Five Declines of Heaven and Man. Elsewhere, Mei Suren and Xu Xiaoshou fled using sword techniques, leaving Frost Lord to escape alone.

• Five Declines of Heaven and Man used the Bloodworld Pearl and the Realm of Descent to tear open Yan Wuse’s Light-Energy World, and Huangquan widened the breach with the Profound Wound Sword.
• Huangquan and Five Declines of Heaven and Man entered a Spacetime Rift to escape Void Island, but Yan Wuse followed them and pierced Five Declines of Heaven and Man’s eyes with the Eye of Sublime Beauty.
• Yan Wuse used Ten Thousand Scenes Dressing to bind himself to Void Island and halt Huangquan’s attempt to rewind time, leaving Huangquan to choose between fighting and abandoning Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• Mei Suren used the No-Sword Technique to escape with Xu Xiaoshou, while Xu Xiaoshou told Frost Lord to flee alone.
• Mei Suren used the Illusion Sword Technique to misdirect Number Two, then grabbed Xu Xiaoshou and activated Spacetime Leap.

Xu Xiaoshou fled with Mei Suren while Yan Wuse pursued them by moving between three fronts at the speed of light. After Xu Xiaoshou’s counterattack missed and Yan Wuse tried to banish him, Mei Suren began a deadly Heart Sword technique to erase Yan Wuse from his own perception.

• Mei Suren used Spacetime Leap to carry Xu Xiaoshou away while Yan Wuse pursued Xu Xiaoshou, Huangquan, and Frost Lord at once with Puppeteering Light Rays.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized a chance to form a Time Dao Disk and considered using Passive Fist and the Illusion Annihilation Finger against Yan Wuse.
• Xu Xiaoshou released the Have-and-Have-Not Sword Flow and punched at Yan Wuse, but Yan Wuse dodged and struck back as Xu Xiaoshou vanished and created a Second True Body.
• Yan Wuse cast Banishment and Solar Wheel Collapse, dragging Mei Suren toward a black hole as the land around them became a Land of Exile.
• Mei Suren invoked the highest profundity of the Heart Sword Technique, preparing to erase Yan Wuse from his own subjective perception with Prajna-Nothingness.

Xu Xiaoshou awakened the Time Dao Disk and used the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff to stop the battlefield, then disguised himself as Kong Yuhen. He arranged to take Mei Suren away while concealing his identity, and Mei Suren realized that the apparent Kong Yuhen was actually Xu Xiaoshou.

• Xu Xiaoshou grasped the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff, awakened the Time Dao Disk, and used its power to reverse the combatants’ recent actions and emerge from Vanishing Art.
• Number Two identified Xu Xiaoshou as Kong Yuhen, and the others learned about Kong Yuhen’s elusive history and the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff.
• Xu Xiaoshou secretly overheard Number Two’s account, then acted like Kong Yuhen and asked him about his forgotten past.
• Xu Xiaoshou said he had come to take Mei Suren away, leaving his Second True Body behind to impersonate him.
• Mei Suren checked Ba Zunan’s Communication Talisman and realized it pointed to the apparent Kong Yuhen, revealing that Xu Xiaoshou had switched places with his double.

Xu Xiaoshou disguised as Kong Yuhen used the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff to rescue Mei Suren, but Yan Wuse pursued them and unleashed the Three Lights Envoys. With his spiritual essence exhausted and Mei Suren in danger, Xu Xiaoshou told his teacher to restrain Yan Wuse as Mei Suren charged into battle.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Time Freeze and spatial power to move Mei Suren to his side and attempt to leave.
• Yan Wuse pursued them, and Xu Xiaoshou used the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff to reverse time across Void Island, allowing Huangquan and Five Declines of Heaven and Man to escape.
• Yan Wuse sent Number Two after Yama and attacked Xu Xiaoshou, then summoned the Sun, Moon, and Star Angels.
• The Sun Angel's Blazing Sun Project scorched Void Island and nearly left Mei Suren a desiccated corpse.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Mei Suren to restrain Yan Wuse, and Mei Suren charged the Moon Angel and Star Angel with the Taicheng Sword.

Xu Xiaoshou used Mei Suren’s distraction, the Three Aversions Eye, and the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff to land a full-force Passive Fist on Yan Wuse. The punch sent Yan Wuse through First Hall of Sin and destroyed his body, leaving Xu Xiaoshou to recover and reflect on his power.

• Mei Suren and Xu Xiaoshou disrupted Yan Wuse with successive Heart Sword techniques while the little white cat’s Three Aversions Eye briefly controlled him.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed himself in place of Kong Yuhen, stopped time with the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff, and struck Yan Wuse with a devastating Passive Fist.
• Yan Wuse was hurled through First Hall of Sin and into the Giant Kingdom, destroying the hall before his body shattered against a Void-Sealing Stele.
• Witnesses across Void Island and the Holy Spirit Continent were stunned when Xu Xiaoshou’s punch sent one of the Three Emperors flying.
• Xu Xiaoshou regenerated with help from the Second True Body and Great Feast, confirmed Yan Wuse’s destruction, and concluded that his punch could bring even a Demi-Saint to his knees.

Xu Xiaoshou crippled Three Emperor Yan Wuse with a single punch, then joined Huangquan and Five Declines of Heaven and Man against the Liberated State Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy, Number Two. After Number Two killed Five Declines of Heaven and Man and unleashed a Divine Kingdom across Void Island, Xu Xiaoshou mounted Frost Lord, transformed into a colossal Black Demon Giant, and prepared a sword attack alongside Huangquan.

• Xu Xiaoshou's punch sent Yan Wuse crashing away and stunned the cultivators watching across Void Island.
• Xu Xiaoshou urged Huangquan and Five Declines of Heaven and Man to attack Number Two, and they returned to intercept the Divine Envoy.
• Number Two created a Divine Kingdom that controlled cultivators across Void Island, then beheaded Five Declines of Heaven and Man with the Sword of Holy Judgment.
• Five Declines of Heaven and Man sacrificed himself to unleash Tainted Rain, which corroded Number Two's Divine Kingdom and endangered everyone on the island.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned Frost Lord, transformed into a colossal Two-Winged Black Demon Berserk Giant, and taunted Huangquan into drawing Profound Wound Sword and Soul Severing.
• Xu Xiaoshou rode Frost Lord toward Number Two, formed a Sword Dao Disk, and began unleashing Red Plum Three Flow, Azure Time Sword.

Xu Xiaoshou shattered Number Two’s Divine Kingdom and used the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff to wound the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy, then Huangquan cut Number Two with the Profound Wound Sword. Realizing how powerful Huangquan’s sword was, Xu Xiaoshou attacked Huangquan and sent him flying, leaving the Profound Wound Sword tumbling through the air.

• Xu Xiaoshou’s Red Plum Three Flow spread across Void Island and his Azure Time Sword shattered Number Two’s Divine Kingdom.
• Number Two isolated Xu Xiaoshou from Frost Lord, but Xu Xiaoshou used the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff and his swords to injure Number Two and kick him toward Huangquan.
• Huangquan used his time-shifting technique to cut off Number Two’s arm and part of his torso with the Profound Wound Sword.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized that the Profound Wound Sword could pierce Number Two’s defenses and coveted the weapon.
• Xu Xiaoshou suddenly struck Huangquan, exploding his body and sending the Profound Wound Sword spinning away.

Xu Xiaoshou discovered that the Moon Angel’s Second Crescent Moon had spread a mutating light across Void Island, throwing its people, creatures, and landscape into chaos. As the battle ground to a halt, Ba Zunan arrived and proposed taking the people away in exchange for returning Void Island to Number Two.

• Xu Xiaoshou traced the aberration that had made him attack Huangquan to the hidden Moon Angel and learned that its Second Crescent Moon transformed the Blazing Sun’s light into a force of mutation.
• Xu Xiaoshou resisted the light’s mental effects, but Huangquan’s demisaint incarnation exploded and devastated the First Hall of Sin and the Giant Kingdom.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Mei Suren discovered bizarre mutations in their bodies, while nearly everyone and everything on Void Island changed or went berserk.
• Xu Xiaoshou saw that Number Two had been left without his severed lower body and recognized that the mutation had made the battle’s outcome spiral out of control.
• Ba Zunan arrived and asked Number Two whether this was what the Holy Spirit Hall wanted, then offered to take the people away if Void Island was returned and the battle ended.

Ba Zunan appeared over Void Island, suppressing the aberrant light and trapping Number Two with the Have-and-Have-Not Sword Flow and Illusion Sword Technique. As the Star Angel revived Yan Wuse and freed Number Two from the illusion, Ba Zunan called on Huangquan to cooperate, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Ba Zunan's Voidless Realm erased the aberrant light around the battlefield, and Mei Suren explained how the sword could erase rules and protect others.
• Ba Zunan confronted Number Two and warned him to put down the Sword of Holy Judgment, whose trembling revealed the force of Ba Zunan's Sword Thought.
• Number Two attacked Ba Zunan, but the Illusion Sword Technique repeatedly made him believe his own strikes had split him apart; Xu Xiaoshou suspected the swordsman might be an impostor.
• The Star Angel unleashed Holy Revival, healing the island's inhabitants and restoring Yan Wuse's body, though his head remained missing.
• Number Two used Rule Adornment to break free of the illusion, while Huangquan and Five Declines of Heaven and Man recovered; Ba Zunan asked Huangquan for one cooperation.

Xu Xiaoshou recognized the supposed Ba Zunan as Xiao Kongtong, who secretly supplied Exile Immunity Orders and helped coordinate the battle against Yan Wuse and Number Two. The group prepared to focus on Number Two while Ba Zunan planned to suppress Yan Wuse with Xu Xiaoshou’s help.

• Xu Xiaoshou concluded that the disguised Ba Zunan was Xiao Kongtong, while Huangquan agreed to cooperate with him and helped hold back Number Two.
• Ba Zunan gave Mei Suren an Exile Immunity Order, then supplied more to Five Declines of Heaven and Man and Huangquan so they could keep fighting without being exiled.
• Xu Xiaoshou refused Ba Zunan’s Death-Exemption Token and claimed his status was above Ba Zunan’s.
• As Yan Wuse regenerated, Ba Zunan advised Mei Suren to save his sword strike for Number Two and said he would suppress Yan Wuse with Xu Xiaoshou’s assistance.
• Ba Zunan asked whether Xu Xiaoshou could manifest Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes in the real world, and Mei Suren recognized that Ba Zunan meant to use his Three Talents Sword.

Xiao Kongtong, disguised as Ba Zunan, used the Three Talents Sword to join forces with Xu Xiaoshou and Mei Suren, suppressing Yan Wuse with three Heart Sword Technique manifestations and Infinite Enumeration. As the distant battle paused to watch, Mei Suren stepped forward and spread a vast Sword Profundity Formation Diagram across Giant Kingdom.

• Ba Zunan demonstrated the Three Talents Sword, and Xu Xiaoshou recognized Xiao Kongtong beneath the disguise while learning the formation technique.
• The Three Talents Sword connected to Xu Xiaoshou, who joined Mei Suren and Xiao Kongtong in forming Gods and Buddhas Under Eyes, All Eyes Are Demons, and a third manifestation.
• Xiao Kongtong activated Infinite Enumeration, shattered Yan Wuse into bound fragments, and halted his recovery beneath the Three Talents Sword.
• Number Two, Huangquan, and Five Declines of Heaven and Man paused their distant battle to look toward the sword formation.
• Mei Suren stepped toward the battlefield and spread a vast Sword Profundity Formation Diagram across Giant Kingdom.

Mei Suren used his Heart Sword Technique to trap Void Island in a Mind Prison Kingdom and demonstrated Prajna-Nothingness against Number Two. The sword left Number Two an empty puppet, while Xu Xiaoshou watched and tried to understand the lesson.

• Mei Suren unveiled a Profundity Formation Diagram and challenged Number Two to face one sword without dodging.
• Mei Suren told Xu Xiaoshou to watch as he recited the Nine Swords of Chaos-Way Cleaving and drew everyone on Void Island into a Mind Prison Kingdom.
• Xu Xiaoshou and the others broke free or were released, but Mei Suren left Number Two trapped in the illusion.
• Mei Suren explained the distinction between self and other, then used Heart Sword Technique, Prajna-Nothingness, to strip Number Two of his soul and will.

Mei Suren erased the liberated Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy with one sword, leaving Void Island stunned as Huangquan suspected the Bloodworld Pearl was guiding deaths and escaped into the Second Space. Xu Xiaoshou asked Ba Zunan what to do next, but a furious voice demanded to know where Huangquan was.

• Mei Suren used Prajna-Nothingness to sever Number Two’s thoughts and will, leaving only the Heavenly Mechanism Puppet’s body.
• Huangquan concluded that Number Two had been erased, feared that the Bloodworld Pearl and Five Declines of Heaven and Man were connected to the deaths, and ordered Five Declines to hide while he escaped through the Second Space.
• Mei Suren asked Xu Xiaoshou what he had learned from the sword strike, and Xu Xiaoshou said he had learned only a little.
• Laughing Big Mouth claimed that dealing with Number Two had not required him to act, drawing renewed attention to the Eighth Sword Immortal.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Ba Zunan what they should do next, but a furious woman’s voice called out to ask where Huangquan was.

Rao Yaoyao arrived on Void Island after being canonized as a Sword Saint and discovered that Mei Suren had sided with Saint Slave. Mei Suren revealed that he had already entered the game when they last met in East Heavenly King City.

• Rao Yaoyao arrived at the ruins and found numerous Demi-Saints gathered, including Mei Suren, Xu Xiaoshou, and a hollow-eyed Number Two.
• Rao Yaoyao questioned Number Two, and Xu Xiaoshou told her that Number Two was dead.
• Rao Yaoyao traced the sword intent that had emptied Number Two and realized Mei Suren had used the Heart Sword Technique, Prajna-Nothingness.
• Mei Suren told Rao Yaoyao that she should not have come, and Rao Yaoyao asked him to reconsider joining the opposing side.
• Mei Suren said he had already entered the game when he and Rao Yaoyao last met in East Heavenly King City, admitting that he had deceived her.

Rao Yaoyao confronted Mei Suren and Ba Zunan, but her attack exposed the Ba Zunan before her as an impostor. The real Xiao Kongtong then appeared, leaving Rao Yaoyao stunned and the fight unresolved.

• Rao Yaoyao accused Mei Suren of manipulating her and challenged him to fight, while Xu Xiaoshou prepared to defend his teacher.
• Xiao Kongtong, disguised as Ba Zunan, stepped between Rao Yaoyao and Mei Suren and deflected her attention with a display of Sword Thought.
• Rao Yaoyao deduced that Ba Zunan was actually Xiao Kongtong and attacked him with the Blue-Kissed Sword Aura and Mortal-Realm · Delusion Breaker.
• Rao Yaoyao wounded the disguised Xiao Kongtong and exposed that he could not match the real Eighth Sword Immortal.
• The real Xiao Kongtong appeared in the distance, and Rao Yaoyao froze in confusion over who she had just fought.

Xu Xiaoshou impersonated Xiao Kongtong to disrupt Rao Yaoyao’s confrontation with the fake Ba Zunan, using a defense of his teacher to sway the crowd and shame Rao Yaoyao. The real Xiao Kongtong recognized the plan and reluctantly played along as Xu Xiaoshou offered to deal with the impostor.

• Xu Xiaoshou appeared disguised as Xiao Kongtong, confusing Rao Yaoyao, the real Xiao Kongtong, and the onlookers on Void Island.
• Xu Xiaoshou congratulated Rao Yaoyao on attaining sainthood, then defended Moon-Joining Immortal City and accused the fake Ba Zunan of tarnishing his teacher’s name.
• Xu Xiaoshou declared that those who taught him were like fathers, moving the crowd and reminding Rao Yaoyao of her own betrayal of her teacher, Mei Suren.
• Mei Suren recognized Xu Xiaoshou through the Communication Talisman and felt gratified by his declaration, while the real Xiao Kongtong acknowledged the effectiveness of Xu Xiaoshou’s scheme.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Rao Yaoyao there was no need to fight the fake Ba Zunan and offered to deal with him himself.