Chapter Summaries

Jinren provoked Wei Feng at the Ran Ming Ruins, then stole the jade slip that kept the saber wielder calm and fled with it. Xu Xiaoshou revealed the Excuse Compendium’s humiliating entries, leaving Wei Feng overwhelmed and unable to pursue him.

• Jinren identified Wei Feng as Slayer God Not Mad and taunted him with Yan Wuse’s death, but Wei Feng stayed calm by remembering Dao Qiongchang’s instructions in the Excuse Compendium.
• Jinren insulted Wei Feng and baited him into attacking, then stole the jade slip from his robes during their clash.
• Wei Feng chased Jinren out of the Ran Ming Ruins, and Jinren used World-Apart Independence to evade Wei Feng’s Immortal-Slaying strike.
• Wei Feng’s blade light burst through Blackwater Ravine and injured Cheng Huan, alarming the White Robes and Red Robes stationed above.
• Xu Xiaoshou read aloud the Excuse Compendium’s entries mocking Wei Feng, causing Wei Feng to collapse as Mo Mo, Feng Yujin, and the White Weasel reacted in shock.

Jinren discovered that Dao Qiongchang’s Excuse Compendium had anticipated the Ran Ming Ruins and branded his palm with a handshake, leaving him convinced he had been targeted by Heavenly Secrets Art. Wei Feng then unleashed a devastating killing intent across the Four Symbols Secret Realm, while Dao Qiongchang calmly directed the Heaven Group and hinted to Ai Cangsheng at a secret revealed by a drop of water.

• Jinren read the Excuse Compendium aloud, driving Wei Feng to the brink and realizing its hundreds of articles anticipated the battle.
• Jinren turned over the jade slip and found a message from Xu Xiaoshou about meeting in the Ran Ming Ruins, then severed and destroyed his right arm after a handshake pattern appeared on his palm.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Jinren to kill himself if he had been tainted, but Jinren argued that Dao Qiongchang might be trying to provoke their deaths.
• Wei Feng rose in a murderous frenzy and unleashed killing intent that drove people across the Four Symbols Secret Realm mad until Wei An shielded them.
• Dao Qiongchang answered reports in the Heaven Group combat channel and instructed Bei Bei to observe Wei Feng while keeping out of danger.
• Dao Qiongchang showed Ai Cangsheng a drop of water that evaporated under accelerated time, then refused to reveal what its disappearance meant.

Jinren realized Dao Qiongchang had used the Excuse Compendium to provoke Wei Feng, who unleashed his Divine Mind Penetration against Mo Mo. After Feng Yujin struggled to contain Wei Feng and Mo Mo was wounded, she gave up control so Feng Yujin could fully transform and fight at his greatest strength.

• Jinren recognized Wei Feng’s blood-red killing intent as Divine Mind Penetration and deduced that Dao Qiongchang had arranged the Excuse Compendium to turn Wei Feng against Xu Xiaoshou.
• Mo Mo called on Feng Yujin, who used the Sealing-Heaven Ghost Hand and Sixfold · Dust-Sealed Gate to stop Wei Feng’s attack.
• Wei Feng shattered Feng Yujin’s sealing gates and unleashed Demon-Slaying, destroying the mural and leveling the surrounding mountains while Mo Mo narrowly avoided a fatal strike.
• Wei Feng’s saber wounded Mo Mo, and Feng Yujin admitted he could no longer confidently defeat him in their current state.
• Mo Mo asked Feng Yujin to merge with her and complete the Ghost Beast transformation, then withdrew into the darkest part of her spiritual world and told him to defeat Wei Feng.

Feng Yujin took complete control of Mo Mo’s body and unveiled his Saint Emperor power against Wei Feng, whose Slayer God Domain threatened Jinren and the others. He used World Taboo to seize the Four Symbols Secret Realm and crush Wei Feng’s resistance, ending with Wei Feng’s Half-Saint Godhood forcibly extracted.

• Feng Yujin fully possessed Mo Mo’s body, explained that she had willingly yielded control, and faced Wei Feng at the Ran Ming Ruins.
• Wei Feng unleashed Slayer God Domain, driving those nearby into murderous frenzy and forcing Jinren to send the rampaging Frostsky Weasel into the Apricot Realm.
• Wei Feng’s Immortal-Slaying attack nearly struck Xu Xiaoshou, but Feng Yujin halted the blade and invoked World Taboo, stopping spiritual power across the Four Symbols Secret Realm and Qilin Realm.
• A vast gray-mist hand seized the entire Four Symbols Secret Realm, and Feng Yujin’s Saint Emperor power overwhelmed Wei Feng and flattened his Slayer God Domain.
• Feng Yujin crushed Wei Feng into the ground and forcibly squeezed the Half-Saint Godhood from above his head, ordering him to stop resisting.

The Gray Mist Hand sealed the Qilin Realm, disrupting Holy Spirit Hall operations and interrupting Cen Qiaofu’s Saint Tribulation. Ai Cangsheng then fired the Evil Sin Bow at Cen Qiaofu as he tried to undergo the tribulation again, and three more arrows reached him after he used the Corner of Divine Prison to swallow the first.

• The Gray Mist Hand sealed the Qilin Realm, crippling spirit cultivators, formations, and communicators across the region.
• Dao Qiongchang celebrated the Sealing-Heaven Saint Emperor’s intervention and left to invite Saint Emperor Wangze, while Ai Cangsheng remained behind.
• Ai Cangsheng fired arrows across the Five Domains, and Yue Gongli dodged them before they entered the Four Symbols Secret Realm.
• The Gray Mist Hand interrupted Cen Qiaofu’s Saint Tribulation, leaving him at Taixu as he approached Blackwater Ravine and prepared to undergo it again.
• Cheng Huan and the Holy Spirit Hall forces formed the Hundred-Star Pure Astral Formation, but Ai Cangsheng’s arrow struck at Cen Qiaofu as his new tribulation began.
• Cen Qiaofu used the Corner of Divine Prison to swallow Ai Cangsheng’s first arrow, then received three more arrows as he waited for his tribulation to strengthen.

Water Ghost returned as a Profound-Meaning Demi-Saint, shattered Ai Cangsheng’s arrows, and sent one back toward Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain. Enraged, Ai Cangsheng drew the Evil Sin Bow and fired an Evil God’s Arrow at Water Ghost, leaving the Four Symbols Secret Realm and Holy Spirit Heaven trembling.

• Water Ghost appeared in the Four Symbols Secret Realm and shattered two of Ai Cangsheng’s Evil Sin Bow arrows with the Source-Sealing Spear.
• Water Ghost used a vast Profound-Meaning Array Diagram to turn aside a third arrow and send it back toward Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain.
• The arrow struck the Holy Mountain’s protective barrier, while observers identified Water Ghost as Yu Mo, the former First Seat of the Spirit Division.
• Ai Cangsheng had the Nine-Sacrifice Osmanthus Spirit Body push his wheelchair outside Holy Firmament Hall and began gathering power for the Evil God’s Arrow.
• Water Ghost sensed Ai Cangsheng’s aim, vanished, then returned and persuaded Wei An to help protect the Four Symbols Secret Realm.
• Ai Cangsheng ignored Wei An’s plea and fired the Evil God’s Arrow, shaking Holy Spirit Heaven.

Feng Yujin discovered that the Godslayer Edict was responding to the power of guidance in the Ran Ming Ruins and fled Blackwater Ravine with Jinren and the sealed Wei Feng. Bei Bei blocked their escape with Emperor Sword: Duzun, leaving Jinren to face her overwhelming sword pressure.

• Feng Yujin stopped fighting Wei Feng when the Godslayer Edict trembled toward the Ran Ming Ruins, then told Jinren and Xu Xiaoshou to retreat because of the power of guidance.
• Feng Yujin used Six Paths: Azure Dragon Seal to seal Wei Feng and carried him away as Jinren fled with him from Blackwater Ravine.
• Feng Yujin explained that they had to defy the power of guidance by leaving, and warned Jinren not to act on any impulse; Jinren then questioned whether defiance itself might be part of the guidance.
• Bei Bei intercepted them above Blackwater Ravine, drew Emperor Sword: Duzun, and commanded everyone to kneel.
• Emperor Sword: Duzun overwhelmed Jinren and Feng Yujin, and Jinren warned that defeating Bei Bei could take at least a day.

Feng Yujin sealed Bei Bei in a God-Sealing Coffin while Jinren tried to leave the Four Symbols Secret Realm, only to learn that every spatial node outside had shattered. As the Godslayer Edicts returned to the Ran Ming Ruins and the Evil God's Arrow tore open the realm, a divine phantom appeared across the Holy Spirit Continent and proclaimed the guidance of Reincarnation.

• Feng Yujin used her Saint Domain to suppress Bei Bei, then sealed her inside a God-Sealing Coffin after the Godslayer Edict drained much of her holy power.
• Jinren tried to teleport out with Feng Yujin and their captives, but discovered that all spatial nodes in the outside world had shattered.
• Yue Gongli realized the Godslayer Edict was guiding events, went to Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain to find Dao Qiongchang, and was struck down when Ai Cangsheng fired the Evil God's Arrow.
• The Evil God's Arrow blasted open the Four Symbols Secret Realm, and the returning Godslayer Edicts flew back into the Ran Ming Ruins.
• A giant phantom appeared above the Holy Spirit Continent, split the Evil God's Arrow with God-Slaying Power, and proclaimed, "Praise my true name, and receive the guidance of Reincarnation" and "Divine Officer Siming, all living beings are equal."

The Astral Scroll appeared throughout the Five Domains and drew many people into a new Reincarnation after they recited Ran Ming, while Dao Qiongchang resisted its pull. At the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda, Xu Xiaoshou approached Yu Zhiwen to contact the Qilin, but she sensed his presence before he vanished.

• The Astral Scroll prompted trial-takers and powerful figures, including Wei An, Water Ghost, Cen Qiaofu, Feng Yujin, Shen Yi, and Sang Qiye, to vanish after reciting Ran Ming or being drawn in by the divine light.
• Dao Qiongchang let the divine light exhaust itself against the Wurao Emperor Realm and refused the God-Slaying Power.
• Xu Xiaoshou waited at the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda and recognized Yu Zhiwen as its guardian while planning to contact the Qilin beneath her feet.
• Xu Xiaoshou used World-Apart Independence to approach Yu Zhiwen, whose star compass detected his presence even as the ability made her overlook its warning.
• Xu Xiaoshou stopped himself from flicking Yu Zhiwen's forehead after noticing her earring, then vanished; Yu Zhiwen sensed that he had just been there.

Xu Xiaoshou used Frost Lord’s soul memories to locate and contact the Saint Emperor Qilin, discovering its true body trapped and drained inside the Four Symbols Secret Realm. After introducing himself as the heir of several Ancestors and asking whether the Qilin wanted to escape, he was ordered to leave immediately.

• Xu Xiaoshou searched underground for the Qilin, using dragon blood to provoke a ripple in the darkness but receiving no answer.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Soul Reading on Frost Lord and followed its memories to the mysterious realm where the Qilin’s true body resided.
• The Qilin noticed Xu Xiaoshou, and its pressure injured Frost Lord before drawing Xu Xiaoshou into the shattered realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the Qilin’s exhaustion and asked whether it had considered leaving the Four Symbols Secret Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou claimed to be the heir of the Heavenly Ancestor, Dragon Ancestor, Art Ancestor, Sword Ancestor, and Time Ancestor, but the Qilin ordered him to leave at once.

Xu Xiaoshou fought the sealed Holy Emperor Qilin, testing his strength with Dragon Ancestor’s Power as their clash shook the Four Symbols Secret Realm. At the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda, Yu Zhiwen sensed an unexplained anomaly but hid her suspicions, and the Dao Hall Master privately questioned her about it.

• Xu Xiaoshou asked the Holy Emperor Qilin what it feared, and the Qilin grew furious when he suggested it feared the Five Great Holy Emperor Clans.
• Xu Xiaoshou used his Dragon Orb to contain excess Heaven Ancestor Power, transformed into a Berserk Giant, and traded blows with the Qilin.
• Xu Xiaoshou ignited Dragon Ancestor’s Power and attacked again, but their collision shattered the Falling Petals Realm and shook the Four Symbols Secret Realm.
• Yu Zhiwen felt that the tremor had come from beneath the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda, but reported no abnormalities over the Heaven Group Battle Channel.
• Yu Zhiwen became distracted while imagining Xu Xiaoshou, then awkwardly denied having anything to do with him when the Dao Hall Master called on her.
• The Dao Hall Master opened a private line and asked Yu Zhiwen what anomaly she had discovered, and she claimed she had only been conducting a routine inspection.

Dao Qiongchang realized that Xu Xiaoshou had likely appeared near Yu Zhiwen and used his Heavenly Secrets Arts to understand how the power of forgetting had hidden the incident. Meanwhile, Xu Xiaoshou tried to recruit the Saint Emperor Qilin, but their shared grief overwhelmed them as a mysterious voice warned that Xu Xiaoshou should have fled.

• Dao Qiongchang questioned Yu Zhiwen about a red glow near the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda, but she could not remember the anomaly.
• Dao Qiongchang used the Great Memory Art and Great Anomaly Art to identify the power of forgetting and conclude that Xu Xiaoshou had likely been involved.
• Dao Qiongchang reviewed old reports about Yu Zhiwen and Xu Xiaoshou, then told Yu Zhiwen to follow her heart and stay safe.
• Xu Xiaoshou stopped his clash with the Saint Emperor Qilin and tried to persuade it to cooperate with the First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• The Qilin began weeping, and Xu Xiaoshou was swept into its despair until a distant voice said he should have run long ago.

Yu Zhiwen and those near the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda were overcome by the Sorrowful Saint Emperor Bei Huai’s power, while Xu Xiaoshou used his Second True Body in the Ran Ming Ruins to keep his main will clear. Bei Huai revealed that he had waited for Xu Xiaoshou to walk into his net, following Dao Qiongchang’s plan.

• Yu Zhiwen recognized that Bei Huai’s sorrowful power had made people and other living things weep and repent, then failed to report his arrival through the Heaven Group Battle Channel.
• Xu Xiaoshou shifted his will to the Ran Ming Ruins, leaving Jinren to sob with Qilin while he considered how to escape Bei Huai.
• Bei Huai appeared as an incarnation and told Xu Xiaoshou that he could remain calm beneath his power because of his special clone.
• Bei Huai explained that he had lost an important test subject and had considered seizing a replacement from the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon, but chose to wait instead.
• Bei Huai showed Xu Xiaoshou a memory of Dao Qiongchang telling him that Xu Xiaoshou would walk into the net when the time came.

Xu Xiaoshou realized Bei Huai was seeking Greed God and connected the Saint Emperor’s research to the Red Robes and their use of Ghost Beast power. Bei Huai found and attacked the Apricot Realm, leaving Long Xing struggling to protect it while Xu Xiaoshou was still occupied with the Saint Emperor Qilin.

• Xu Xiaoshou pieced together that Bei Huai’s words pointed to Greed God, a sacred beast of the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon and a possible replacement in his research.
• Xu Xiaoshou linked Bei Huai’s experiments to the Red Robes, concluding that Shouye and Lu Ke might have unknowingly used Ghost Beast power and that Bei Huai’s lost test subject could have been Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• Long Xing warned Xu Xiaoshou that a Saint Emperor was searching for and trying to invade the Apricot Realm.
• Bei Huai traced Xu Xiaoshou’s boiling soul to the Apricot Realm and attacked it with a divine soul hand.
• Long Xing revealed its World Tree power and called on the Ancestral Dragon Apricot Tree to resist Bei Huai, while their clash caused disasters across the Five Domains.
• Xu Xiaoshou heard Long Xing’s exhausted call but found Jinren still clinging to the Holy Emperor Qilin and crying.

Xu Xiaoshou used the Spirit Dao Disk and Illusion Annihilation Finger to wound Bei Huai’s soul and interrupt his assault on the Apricot Realm, but he could not stop the attack for long. His strike devastated part of the Four Symbols Secret Realm, where his identity was exposed, and he urgently called Aunt Xiang for help.

• Xu Xiaoshou used the Spirit Dao Disk to perceive the soul link between Bei Huai and the Apricot Realm, then realized Bei Huai was using their confrontation to track the realm.
• Bei Huai intensified his assault on the Apricot Realm, while Xu Xiaoshou attacked his soul with the Berserk Giant, the Saint Emperor Qilin, and the Heart Sword Technique, but those efforts failed.
• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed the Illusion Annihilation Finger, piercing Bei Huai’s soul and briefly halting his attack; the blast shattered the Saint Emperor Qilin’s remnant world and shook the Four Symbols Secret Realm.
• Mu Lin contained the explosion with God-Extinguishing Flame and cast its condensed force beyond the Four Symbols Secret Realm, where it detonated above Gongyang Mountain.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to his true body before the shocked trial-takers, and Yu Zhiwen recognized him as the golden giant who had protected her in the White Cavern.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed his identity and called urgently for Aunt Xiang to save him.

Xiang Yaoyao summoned Shen Yi after Xu Xiaoshou urgently called for help, and Shen Yi went to face Bei Huai, a Holy Emperor. As Bei Huai targeted Greed God, Yu Zhiwen chose to defy her allegiance to the Holy Spirit Hall and leaped into the sky to confront him.

• Xiang Yaoyao used her star-diamond earring to receive Xu Xiaoshou’s urgent plea, then wounded herself to awaken Shen Yi through the Summoning Art.
• Shen Yi learned that Bei Huai was Xu Xiaoshou’s enemy and left to protect him, while Xiang Yaoyao urged him to be careful.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Long Xing opened a passage out of the sealed Apricot Realm, allowing Greed God to escape the divine soul hand and appear before Bei Huai.
• Yu Zhiwen realized that Bei Huai wanted Greed God and struggled between her loyalty to the Holy Spirit Hall and her feelings for Xu Xiaoshou.
• Yu Zhiwen chose to follow her heart, leaped from the Vermilion Bird Golden Pagoda, and called out to Bei Huai.

Yu Zhiwen exposed Bei Huai as a Holy Emperor and tried to protect Greed God, defying his attack despite Dao Qiongchang’s order. Bei Huai overwhelmed Yu Zhiwen and the arriving wills of Dao Xuanji and Yu Kunpeng, but a figure wielding an illusory scepter appeared and froze time.

• Yu Zhiwen called out Bei Huai’s name, causing the trial-takers to recall his identity and suffer the effects of his soul body.
• Yu Zhiwen told Bei Huai that Holy Emperors could not act on the Holy Spirit Continent, and Bei Huai accused her of buying time for Xu Xiaoshou.
• Bei Huai reached for Greed God, but Yu Zhiwen shielded the cat with Heavenly Secrets Veil and challenged his authority before being struck down.
• Bei Huai shattered Dao Xuanji’s forming will incarnation and froze Yu Kunpeng’s attack after the Kunpeng’s fin crashed into his defenses.
• As Bei Huai reached for Greed God again, an unknown figure formed a Profound-Meaning Array Diagram, raised an illusory scepter, and declared, “Time, freeze!”

Xu Xiaoshou returned to the Four Symbols Secret Realm, challenged Bei Huai, and kept the Saint Emperor occupied while sealing the realm. He summoned Shen Yi, whose Hungry Ghost Path punch blasted Bei Huai into the soul gate.

• Xu Xiaoshou escaped the Apricot Realm, reached the Four Symbols Secret Realm, and found Yu Zhiwen injured after she had confronted Bei Huai to protect Greed God.
• Xu Xiaoshou froze time and publicly rebuked Bei Huai for attacking Yu Zhiwen and condemning Ghost Beasts.
• Bei Huai overwhelmed the realm with his soul power, but Xu Xiaoshou used time, space, and soul techniques to frustrate and control him.
• Xu Xiaoshou allowed Bei Huai to seal the Four Symbols Secret Realm with Soul-Seizing Realm, then waited on a golden throne and told him to close the door and release Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi emerged from concealment and struck Bei Huai with Yincao's Wrath, Nine Nether Fist, blasting him into the soul gate.

Xu Xiaoshou watched Shen Yi strike Saint Emperor Bei Huai with the Path of Hungry Ghosts, then supplied Shen Yi with Sacred Soul Medicines so he could keep fighting. The chapter left Shen Yi empowered by the medicines while the Dragon Apricot Spirit angrily warned Xu Xiaoshou against making it his next meal.

• Shen Yi emerged from Ghost Gate as a hungry ghost and punched Bei Huai’s soul body, sending the Saint Emperor crashing into the barrier.
• Xu Xiaoshou taunted Bei Huai from his golden throne, while Yu Zhiwen laughed at his performance and then grew flustered when she thought he was looking at her.
• Shen Yi explained that the Path of Hungry Ghosts consumed soul-strengthening medicine and that he could not keep it open without more supplies.
• Xu Xiaoshou produced Sacred Soul Medicines and promised Shen Yi enough for eleven punches, impressing Shen Yi with his generosity.
• Xu Xiaoshou joked about Shen Yi swallowing the ancestral tree, prompting the Dragon Apricot Spirit to threaten to detonate the Apricot Realm.

Xiangxiang left Yan'er after warning her not to reveal her suspicions, while Shen Yi battled Bei Huai's divine soul body at the Vermilion Bird Vein. Shen Yi shattered Bei Huai's Three-Lifetime Prison Realm and devoured his soul body, but revealed that it was only a weak thought-incarnation and warned Xu Xiaoshou that big trouble was coming.

• Xiangxiang departed, and Yan'er told the arriving White Robes that they had come too late to find her.
• Shen Yi and Xu Xiaoshou exchanged holy medicine while Bei Huai watched and wondered why Shen Yi had appeared.
• Bei Huai used the Three-Lifetime Prison Realm, but Shen Yi's Hungry Ghost incarnation tore through and devoured its three worlds.
• Shen Yi struck Bei Huai's soul body out of the Four Symbols Secret Realm and tore it apart before the watching cultivators.
• Shen Yi emerged from the Ghost Gate beside Xu Xiaoshou and said Bei Huai's soul body was too weak to be the true body, then warned that big trouble was coming.